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Everyone believes that immigration law has been exceptional since its late nineteenth-century birth—insulated from judicial review by the Court’s creation of the “plenary power doctrine.” But early immigration law was actually ordinary public law. Recovering this reality has profound ...
YLJ - About the Yale Law Journal
Mission. For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and sitting judges and Justices.. The Journal strives to shape discussion of the most important and relevant legal issues through a rigorous scholarship selection and editing …
Welcome to The Yale Law Journal Online
The Yale Law Journal is pleased to present its new online platform, The Yale Law Journal Online. YLJ Online will continue the Journal's mission of providing accessible and substantive scholarship through the online medium. It offers original essays on timely and novel legal developments and responses to articles in the print Journal, as well as adapted lectures and …
Yale Law Journal - Time and Punishment
The legal system’s ability to control people’s time is a form of dominion that exacerbates the structural disadvantages that marginalized families already face. Constriction, stretching, and indeterminacy are important aspects of temporal marginalization in the family regulation system. Considering the experience of time is one step towards understanding its impacts.
Tort Law Inside Out - Yale Law Journal
Oct 7, 2017 · For more than a century, scholars have been looking at tort law from the outside in. Theorists committed to external goals like efficient allocation of resources or moral justice have treated tort as a mere vehicle for the achievement of their policy preferences, rather than as a body of law with a discernible internal purpose. It is time to revisit tort on its own terms. This …
Yale Law Journal - Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies
Introduction. Almost as much as ever, the law is bound up with domination and oppression. As usual, mainstream legal thought remains “one more variant of the perennial effort to restate power and preconception as right.” 1 Indeed, neoformalist theory in both public and private law has been ascendant in recent decades, which would make legal realists—let alone those legal radicals …
The Yale Law Journal - Essay
This Essay seeks to recover the deeply rooted connection between U.S. banking law and antitrust. It reconceptualizes banking law as a sector-specific antimonopoly regime that imposes multiple structural constraints on publicly subsidized banks’ ability to abuse their power over the supply and alloca…
Yale Law Journal Public Interest Fellowship Essays
Nov 21, 2023 · This Essay draws from on-the-ground interviews and procedural-justice theory to analyze judging practices in debt-collection courts. Current practices undermine courts’ fairness and legitimacy.
Yale Law Journal - At Will as Taking
This Essay proposes a constitutional challenge to at-will employment in the United States under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause. This claim not only questions the legality of at-will employment but also promotes a property-friendly, progressive vision for labor rights, challenging \prevailing narratives that employers are the sole property owners in the workplace.
The Yale Law Journal - Review
The "CSI effect" is a term that legal authorities and the mass media have coined to describe a supposed influence that watching the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation has on juror behavior.Some have claimed that jurors who see the high-quality forensic evidence presented on …