When the action of a state agent results in the deprivation of the federal rights of any “person” within the jurisdiction of the United States, that person may bring a civil action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held that...

All have thus far considered the Constitutional Convention’s record on intellectual property puzzling and uninformatively short. This Article revisits that conventional wisdom. Using various methods of analysis, including a statistical hypotheses...

In this Comment, I analyze how the current economic crisis has exposed many of the vulnerabilities of the conventional business model for law firms. After years of unprecedented but unsustainable growth, large law firms are stagnating, shrinking, or...

This Comment challenges Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, which precludes Indian tribal courts from criminally prosecuting non-Indians. Given that non-Indians often comprise the majority of reservation populations, and that the current upswing in...

Farmers throughout the industrialized world grow hemp legally as a source for a diverse range of products including foods, fabrics, plastic, cosmetics, and building materials. Although hemp was once widely grown in the United States, modern efforts...

Access to public education is undeniably important, particularly in the context of the juvenile justice system. It is especially difficult for juvenile wards to receive an adequate education in California, which currently has one of the worst...