Autocratic Judging
Abstract Autocratic regimes, now governing 70 percent of the world’s population, often come into power by democratic means but then use their authority to undermine the very institutions that sustain democracies, including representation and...
UCLA Law Review 2026 Symposium
Constitutional Resistance: Self-Defense Against Unlawful Federal Force under 18 U.S.C. § 111
Abstract The federal government is increasingly weaponizing 18 U.S.C. § 111, originally enacted to protect federal officers from assault, in order to punish speech, protest, and dissent. But § 111 cannot be read to criminalize all resistance to...
Organizing for Enforcement
Abstract As policy proposals for tenant protections are debated nationwide and often struck down, tenants continue to live in dangerous conditions that our legal system is ill equipped to redress. Code enforcement is ineffective, and depending on...
Abolishing Carceral Data
Abstract American prisons are a black box: remote, austere, and cruel. Although basic demographic data about the people confined in prisons are common—that is, data on the number of people incarcerated, their age, or their race—there is little...