Central to critical race theory (CRT) is the notion that law is constitutive (and not merely reflective) of race. This Comment operates within the CRT tradition to point to the development of the courtroom as white space and the construction of...
The practical application of international humanitarian law to a potential non- international armed conflict is unclear in case law and other literature. This Comment fills this lacuna by clarifying existing legal standards, reconciling the...
In this episode, we interview author Nick Warshaw, whose comment Forget Congress: Reforming Campaign Finance Through Mutually Assured Destruction is published in issue 63.1 of the UCLA Law Review. Tune in to hear us ask Nick about American...
Over the last six years, courts have struggled with the challenge of calculating criminal restitution in child pornography cases. At the heart of this struggle has been the statute mandating restitution, 18 U.S.C. § 2259, which requires courts to...
Conventional accounts of federalism and administrative law generally assume that the federal government is highly centralized in Washington, D.C. Judges, politicians, and academic commentators often speak of “bureaucrats in Washington,” and they...
Since 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) defined marriage for federal purposes as the union between a man and a woman. As same-sex marriage became legal across the United States, DOMA created a situation in which same-sex married couples could...