Featuring Tom Ginsburg, this article details the warning signs of a failing constitutional democracy and explains how leadership can prevent this backsliding.
Our social norms and moral values shape our beliefs about the propriety of different types of market exchanges. Janice Nadler considers social and moral influences on beliefs about property and the consequences of these beliefs for the legal regulation of property.
Ronit Dinovitzer analyzes the financial benefits that contribute to the prestige and desirability of elite status in the legal profession.
Although the wisdom of mass incarceration is now widely questioned, incarceration rates have fallen far less than what would be predicted on the basis of crime trends. Informed by institutional studies of path dependence, sociolegal scholarship on legal discretion, and research suggesting that “late mass incarceration” is characterized by a moderated response to nonviolent crime but even stronger penalties for violent offenses, this article analyzes recent sentencing-related reforms and case processing outcomes.
Elizabeth Mertz and Katherine Barnes investigate why post-tenure law professors of color and women professors are dissatisfied with their work lives in this article.
This article featuring ABF’s Reuben J. Miller delineates the features of carceral citizenship and the state’s role in the lives of criminalized individuals.
This article, with Bryant Garth, presents insights from fifteen years of qualitative interviews on diversity, hierarchy, and fit in legal careers.
This article examines how individuals’ attitudes toward discrimination affect their perceptions of discrimination in the workplace and the likelihood of engaging in legal mobilization.
This research study, featuring Reuben Miller, analyzes the mediating effects of discrimination on incarceration and psychological distress among Black men.
Ajay K. Mehrotra explains the role of taxation in modern liberal states, discussing its significance, function, and impact on social and economic systems.
Bryant Garth and Elizabeth Mertz commemorate ten years of research under New Legal Realism.
