Content Posted in 2025
24 Groups to Secretary Austin: Make Amends for Civilian Harm in Somalia, Airwars, Amnesty International USA, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (USA), Caddalaad Doon, Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC), Coalition of Somali Human Rights Defenders (CSHRD), Human Rights Institute, Hiraan Women Development and Family Care (HRDFC), Human Rights Watch, Juba Aid for Peace and Development Organisation (JAPDO), Jubaland Youth Leaders (JYL), Kalkal Human Rights Development Organization (KAHRDO), Marginalized Community Advocacy Network (MCAN), PAX, People's Aspiration and Human Rights Organization (PASHRO), Reprieve US, Resilience Hope Foundation (RHF), Somali Awareness and Social Development Organzation (SASDO), Somali Legal Action Network (SOLAN), Victim Advocates International (VAI), Waamo, Women and Child Support Organization (WOCSO), Youth Initiative and Human Rights Advocacy (YIHA), and Zomia Center
A Conversation About Stare Decisis, Debra A. Livingston and John Q. Barrett
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts, Xiaohan Wu, Margaret Roberts, Rachel E. Stern, Benjamin L. Liebman, Amarnath Gupta, and Luke Sanford
Administrative Law and the Pandemic, Gillian E. Metzger
After Notice and Choice: Reinvigorating “Unfairness” to Rein In Data Abuses, Lina M. Khan, Samuel A.A. Levine, and Stephanie T. Nguyen
AI Companions and the Lessons of Family Law, Clare Huntington
AI Input Data and Fair Use: A View from the U.S., Jane C. Ginsburg
A New View of Formal Equality and a Case for Predistribution, Alex Raskolnikov
Annual Review of SEQRA Cases and Developments, Michael B. Gerrard
Applicable Law and the Civil and Common Law Divide, George A. Bermann
Before Equal Protection: The Fall of Cross-Dressing Bans and the Transgender Legal Movement, Kate Redburn
Beyond Issuers: The Future of Private Securities Litigation, Joshua Mitts
Beyond Unprecedented S4 Ep4: Trump 2.0: Anticipating the Future of the SEC, Eric L. Talley, Dorothy S. Lund, and Mary Jo White
Black English for Lawyers: A Primer, L. Alexander Walker III
Bound: The Imaginative Surplus of Contractual Intent, Elizabeth F. Emens
Can Section 11 Be Saved?: "Tracing" a Path to Its Survival, John C. Coffee Jr. and Joshua Mitts
Caste Formalism: The Law and Politics of Equality in India, Madhav Khosla and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Climate Change Litigation in New York, Michael B. Gerrard
Climate Litigation Report 2025 — Climate Change in the Courtroom: Trends, Impacts and Emerging Lessons, Maria Antonia Tigre and Margaret Barry
Common Ownership and the Merger Guidelines, Merritt B. Fox and Manesh S. Patel
Comparing Agency Costs in Contract Production: Private Equity M&A Versus Corporate and Sovereign Bonds, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Robert E. Scott
Comparison of International Arbitration Rules, Robert H. Smit, Peter C. Thomas, Tyler B. Robinson, and Emma Lindsay
Competence-Competence, Delegation, and the AAA/ICDR Rules, Christopher R. Drahozal, George A. Bermann, Jack J. Coe Jr., and Catherine A. Rogers
Completing ICWA’s History, Joshua Gupta-Kagan
Conference Report: Attribution Science and Climate Law, Jessica A. Wentz
Constitutional and Administrative Innovation Through State Labor Law, Kate Andrias
Constraining the Family Regulation System: The Contribution of the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, Clare Huntington
Contract Hazards: Lawyers and Their Landmines, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, and Robert E. Scott
Corporate Political Spending and the Size Effect, Reilly S. Steel
Cost Awards in International Commercial Arbitration: Proposed Guidelines for Promoting Time and Cost Efficiency, Robert H. Smit and Tyler B. Robinson
Cross-Examination in International Arbitration: A Clash Among Common Law Traditions, Robert H. Smit
Custom and Adjudication in International Law through the Civil Law Tradition in Colombia, Juan Felipe Silva Bustamante
Debt Textualism and Creditor-on-Creditor Violence: A Modest Plea to Keep the Faith, Eric L. Talley and Sneha Pandya
Decommissioning Offshore Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Report of Proceedings, May 2, 2025 Offshore Decommissioning Workshop, Martin Lockman, Ashwin Murthy, and Romany M. Webb
Deepfakes Can Ruin Lives and Livelihoods – Would Owning the ‘Rights’ to Our Own Faces and Voices Help?, Graeme W. Austin and Jane C. Ginsburg
Deepfakes in Domestic and International Perspective, Jane C. Ginsburg and Graeme W. Austin
Defending Rule-of-Law Minimalism, Ashraf Ahmed
(De)Funding Family Separations, Joshua Gupta-Kagan
Democracy and Decolonization: How India Was Made, Madhav Khosla
Designing Contracts for a Modern Classroom: The ABCs of CBAs, Elizabeth Chu, Molly Gurny, Tong Koh, Evan Stone, Chiara Grabill, and Jill McLaughlin
Digital Privacy for Reproductive Choice in the Post-Roe Era, Aziz Z. Huq and Rebecca Wexler
Disqualification, Immunity, and the Presidency, Gillian E. Metzger
Distinguishing Among Climate Change-Related Risks, Lisa E. Sachs, Denise Hearn, Matt Goldklang, and Perrine Toledano
E-Disclosure in International Arbitration, Robert H. Smit and Tyler B. Robinson
Election 2020 Sees Record $11 Billion in Campaign Spending, Mostly From a Handful of Super-Rich Donors, Richard Briffault
Loper Bright and the Great Writ, Anthony G. Amsterdam and James S. Liebman
Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny, Kate Redburn
Equality in Asia, Kate O'Regan and Madhav Khosla
Existential Threats and Deterrence: Japan’s Legal Pathway to Enhanced Collective Security in Asia, Nobuhisa Ishizuka
Exorcising Hobbes's Ghost: A Future for Constitutional and International Law, Monica Hakimi
Fixing a 100-Year-Old Mistake, Michael J. Graetz
Fixing MFW: Fairness and Vision in Controller Self-Dealing, Zohar Goshen, Assaf Hamdani, and Dorothy S. Lund
Foreword, Madhav Khosla and Jedediah Britton-Purdy
For Whose Benefit Is the Freedom of Speech?, Vincent A. Blasi
Framing Indian Federalism, Madhav Khosla
From Promise to Performance: Reforming Blended Finance for Scale, Perrine Toledano, Ana M. Camelo Vega, and Tucker Wilke
Fund Kinship Caregivers to Help Keep Families Together, Not Separate Them, Joshua Gupta-Kagan
Gags as Guidance: Expanding Notice of National Security Letter Investigations to Targets and the Public, Rebecca Wexler
Gellhorn and Byse's Administrative Law: Cases and Comments, Todd D. Rakoff, Gillian E. Metzger, David Barron, Anne Joseph O'Connell, and Eloise Pasachoff
Getting to Court is the Hard Part, Michael B. Gerrard and Jessica A. Wentz
Giving the Treaty a Purpose: Comparing the Durability of Treaties and Executive Agreements, Julian Nyarko
Government Counterspeech, Jamal Greene
How Domestic Institutions Shape the Global Tech War, Anu Bradford, Eileen Li, and Matthew C. Waxman
How the European Union Should Respond to Trump's Tariffs, Ignacio García Bercero, Petros C. Mavroidis, and André Sapir
Humanist Copyright, Jane C. Ginsburg
Igniting Action to Reduce Gas Flaring: Real Opportunities. Real Projects. Real Results., Andrew Bernstein, Mark Davis, Thomas Mitro, and Perrine Toledano
Individualized Service Provision in the New Welfare State: Lessons from Special Education in Finland, Charles F. Sabel, AnnaLee Saxenian, Reijo Miettinen, Peer Hull Kristensen, and Jarkko Hautamäki
In Search of a State, Maeve Glass
Interactional Ordering: Reconstructing Lon Fuller's Theory of Private Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
International Legal Guidelines for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance under the London Convention and London Protocol, Korey Silverman-Roati and Romany M. Webb
Introducing a New Corpus of Definitive M&A Agreements, 2000-2020, Peter Adelson, Matthew Jennejohn, Julian Nyarko, and Eric L. Talley
It Takes a Movement: Lawyers, Litigation, and Legal Theory in the Attack on Campaign Finance Reform, Richard Briffault
Jurisdiction: Courts Versus Arbitrators, George A. Bermann
“Kindred to Treason”: Conspiracy Laws in the United States, Sarah Seo
Land Banking for Large-scale Land-based Investment: A Responsible Investment Perspective, Anna Bulman, Thierry Berger, Esther Akwii, and Grace Brennan
Law and Historical Materialism, Jeremy K. Kessler
Law Enforcement Privilege, Rebecca Wexler
Law for the Rich, Alex Raskolnikov
Leaving Delaware? The Essential Role of Specialized Corporate Courts, Zohar Goshen and Tomer S. Stein
Legacy Liabilities for Oil and Gas Wells under the Mineral Leasing Act, Martin Lockman, Ashwin Murthy, and Romany M. Webb
Legal Models for Public-Private City Greening Partnerships, Daniel J. Metzger
Legitimate Objectives in Antitrust Analysis: The FIFA Regulation of Agents and the Right to Regulate Football in Europe, Petros C. Mavroidis and Damien J. Neven
Liability Considerations for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects in U.S. Waters, Korey Silverman-Roati, Martin Lockman, and Romany M. Webb
Life, Liberty, and Data Privacy: The Global CLOUD, the Criminally Accused, and Executive versus Judicial Compulsory Process Powers, Rebecca Wexler
Life, Liberty, and Trade Secrets: Intellectual Property in the Criminal Justice System, Rebecca Wexler
Litigating National Security in the WTO Era, Petros C. Mavroidis
Looking for the Public in Public Law, Nikhil Menezes and David E. Pozen
Mainstreaming Parafamily, Elizabeth F. Emens
Managing the Trade-Climate Policy Interface Through Open Plurilateral Agreements: Learning from the EU Deforestation Regulation Experience, Bernard M. Hoekman and Charles F. Sabel
Methane Removal Under the Paris Agreement, Romany M. Webb
Most-Favored-Nation's False Promises, George A. Bermann
New Approaches and Challenges Regarding Trade, Climate Action, and the WTO, Sunayana Sasmal
New York Environmental Legislation in 2024, Michael B. Gerrard
Opening Dialogue, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
Operationalizing the Search for Less Discriminatory Alternatives in Fair Lending, Talia B. Gillis, Vitaly Meursault, and Berk Ustun
Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States: June 2025 Edition, Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Ivonne Norman, Rebecca Coombs, Chadol Kim, Rex Koenig, Suzan Michalski, Eric Quiroz, Josepi Scariano, Ava Teasdale, Victor Tong, and Annabel Williams
Out from the Shadows: Party Documents in Chinese Courts, Benjamin L. Liebman, Eva Gao, Xiaohan Wu, Rachel E. Stern, and Margaret Roberts
Performing Legality: When and Why Chinese Government Leaders Show Up in Court, Rachel E. Stern, Jieun Kim, and Benjamin L. Liebman
Perspectives on The Constitution of the War on Drugs: A Collection of Posts from the Balkinization Blog, Douglas A. Berman, Rachel Barkow, Louis Michael Seidman, Kimani Paul-Emile, Jennifer D. Oliva, Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Katherine Shaw, Paul Butler, and David E. Pozen
Political Threads in Legal Tapestry: A Computational Analysis of Executive Branch Legal Interpretation, 1934–2022, Reilly S. Steel
Pot for Profit: Cannabis Legalization, Racial Capitalism, and the Expansion of the Carceral State, David E. Pozen
Presidential Supremacy Over Administrative Agencies, Gary Gensler and Lev Menand
"Price Discrimination" Discrimination, Talia B. Gillis
Privacy as Privilege: The Stored Communications Act and Internet Evidence, Rebecca Wexler
Privacy Asymmetries: Access to Data in Criminal Defense Investigations, Rebecca Wexler
Proportionality: An Assault on Human Rights: A Reply, Madhav Khosla
Proxy Access and Optimal Standardization in Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis, Reilly S. Steel
Questionable Arbitrator Habits, Robert H. Smit
Race, Affirmative Action, Antidiscrimination, and the Roberts Court, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
'Reciprocal' Tariffs: What's in a Word, Petros C. Mavroidis
Redefining Law in China, Zeming Liu and Benjamin L. Liebman
Regionalism and the Federal Reserve Banks, Kathryn Judge and Lev Menand
Regulation of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement in Washington State, Ashwin Murthy, Korey Silverman-Roati, and Romany M. Webb
Regulation of Sargassum Removal and Sinking in Florida, Ashwin Murthy, Korey Silverman-Roati, and Romany M. Webb
Religion and Public Reasons: Making Laws and Evaluating Candidates, Kent Greenawalt
Restating the Law of Children and Youth: The Evolution of Reform, Elizabeth S. Scott
Restoration: The Role Stakeholder Governance Must Play in Recreating a Fair and Sustainable American Economy – A Reply to Professor Rock, Leo E. Strine Jr.
Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Annual Report 2024-2025, Tiffany Challe
Search and Seizure – Police Searches on Public School Campuses in New Mexico – State v. Tywayne H., Michael W. Doyle
Seaweed Cultivation and Sinking for Carbon Dioxide Removal in Alaska, Ashwin Murthy, Korey Silverman-Roati, and Romany M. Webb
Separability and Competence-Competence in International Arbitration: Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit? Can Something Indeed Come From Nothing?, Robert H. Smit
Separation and Interpretation, Philip A. Hamburger
Sex & Startups, Jens Frankenreiter, Talia B. Gillis, and Eric L. Talley
Should I Call Child Protection? — Guidelines for Clinicians, Mical Raz, Joshua Gupta-Kagan, and Andrea G. Asnes
“Small” Voices, Big Wins: Analyzing Remedies in Children’s Climate Cases, Maria Antonia Tigre
Social Media Participation and Scholarly Success in Law, Julian Nyarko and David E. Pozen
Sovereignty, Sins, and the Reassertion of Primary Taxing Rights by the United States, Michael J. Graetz
Speaking Collectively: The First Amendment, The Public Sector, and the Right to Bargain and Strike, Kate Andrias
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Saudi Arabia, Mwatana for Human Rights and Smith Family Human Rights Clinic
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Yemen, Mwatana for Human Rights and Smith Family Human Rights Clinic
Supreme Court Case Law on Arbitration through a Restatement Lens, George A. Bermann
Tax Avoidance Through Corporate Accounting: Insights for Corporate Tax Bases, Michael Love, Eric Heiser, and Jacob Mortenson
Taxes and Tournaments, Alex Raskolnikov
Teaching About Religion in Public Schools, Kent Greenawalt
Thailand v. Katanyu Muenkhamruang “Pan”, Andrew Khoo and Human Rights Institute
THC Ingestions and Child Protective Services: Guidelines for Practitioners, Mical Raz, Joshua Gupta-Kagan, and Andrea G. Asnes
The 100-Year Life and the New Family Law, Naomi Cahn, Clare Huntington, and Elizabeth S. Scott
The Administrative State's Second Face, Emily R. Chertoff and Jessica Bulman-Pozen
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity, Tim Wu
The Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration, George A. Bermann
The Authoritarian Argument, Madhav Khosla
The Behavioral Effects of Corporate GHG Emissions Disclosures, Cynthia Hanawalt and Andy Fitch
The Bugbear of Indigenous Commercial Fishing Rights on the Eastern Frontiers of Australia and the United States, Teresa Singh
The Chain and the Rope, Maeve Glass
The Changing Architecture of Trust, Kathryn Judge
The Common Law of Constitutional Conventions, David E. Pozen
The Cost of Capital: Lowering the Cost of Capital for Climate and SDG Finance in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs), Jeffrey D. Sachs, Lisa E. Sachs, Ana M. Camelo Vega, and Bradford M. Willis
The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law, Monica Hakimi and Jacob Katz Cogan
The Equal Right to Exclude: Religious Speech and the Road to 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Kate Redburn
The Financial Sector and Global Dollar System, Gary Gensler, Lev Menand, and Joshua Younger
The Judicial Method in Copyright, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It, Katharina Pistor
The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford, Adam S. Chilton, and Katerina Linos
The Need to Explore the Potential of Marine CDR with a One-Earth Strategy: A Guide for Policy-makers, Philip W. Boyd, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Minhan Dai, Louis Legendre, Terre Satterfield, and Romany M. Webb
The Newly Revised CPR Rules for Non-Administered Arbitration of International Disputes, Robert H. Smit
The Origins of "The Rule of Law", Jeremy K. Kessler
The Past, Present, and Future of Proxy Voting Choice, Dorothy S. Lund
The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001–2022, Reilly S. Steel
The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America, Michael J. Graetz
The Private Life of DRM: Lessons on Privacy from the Copyright Enforcement Debates, Rebecca Wexler
The Restatement of Children and the Law: Modern Regulation in a Developmental Framework, Elizabeth S. Scott
The Right to Grow Old, Jamal Greene
The Role of Advisory Opinions in International Law in the Context of the Climate Crisis, Maria Antonia Tigre and Armando Rocha
The Role of Marine CO2 Removal in Combating Climate Change, Sarah Vican, Meghan Gavin, Wil Burns, Douglas Edwards, and Romany M. Webb
The Trump Administration Reverses U.S. Position on UNRWA Immunities, Lori Fisler Damrosch
The TWAIL Discourse: The Emergence of a New Phase, Madhav Khosla
The Underground Rulification of the Ordinary Business Operations Exclusion, Reilly S. Steel
The Visibility Trap, Kate Redburn
Thoughts on Arbitrator Selection: Why My Father Was (Usually) a Good Choice, Robert H. Smit
Time for States to Flex Their Legal Muscles, Michael B. Gerrard
Too Many Mergers? The Golden Parachute as a Driver of M&A Activity in the 21st Century, Jeffrey N. Gordon
Tort Law Heterodoxy in China, Benjamin L. Liebman, Rachel E. Stern, Eva Wenwa Gao, and Xiaohan Wu
Toward a Dynamic View of Corporate Purpose, Dorothy S. Lund
Toward Fair Gainsharing and a Quality Workplace for Employees: How a Reconceived Compensation Committee Might Help Make Corporations More Responsible Employers and Restore Faith in American Capitalism, Leo E. Strine Jr. and Kirby M. Smith
Towards Effective Discrimination Testing for Generative AI, Thomas Zollo, Nikita Rajaneesh, Richard Zemel, Talia B. Gillis, and Emily Black
Trade Integration, Petros C. Mavroidis
Transforming the World with Reparations?, Ingrid Brunk and Monica Hakimi
Trump Attacks on Climate Science May Violate Numerous Federal Laws, Michael B. Gerrard
Trump EPA’s Proposed Revocation of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Raises Tangle of Legal Issues, Michael B. Gerrard
Trump’s Multi-Pronged Attack on Renewable Energy, Michael B. Gerrard
Trump’s Political Action Committee Wants a $60 Million Refund on Paying His Legal Fees – 3 Key Things to Know About PACs, Richard Briffault
Understanding Processes that Produce Racial Disparities in California Death Sentences: A Review of the Literature, Catherine M. Grosso, Michael Laurence, and Jeffrey A. Fagan
Unstable Constitutionalism, Mark Tushnet and Madhav Khosla
U.S. Climate Litigation During the Biden Years, Margaret Barry
Varied Legal Parameters Shape Fiduciaries’ Ability to Act on Climate Risk, Cynthia Hanawalt and Andy Fitch
Verification Dilemmas in Law and the Promise of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Kenneth A. Bamberger, Ron Canetti, Shafi Goldwasser, and Evan J. Zimmerman
Vouchers and Steering, Vincent A. Blasi
Warrant Canaries and Disclosure by Design: The Real Threat to National Security Letter Gag Orders, Rebecca Wexler
Wealth Taxes Under the Constitution: An Originalist Analysis, David M. Schizer and Steven G. Calabresi
What is at Stake if Antitrust Regulation Fails?, Anu Bradford
What is ‘Dark Money’? 5 Questions Answered, Richard Briffault
What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions, Susan P. Sturm
When Presidential Campaigns End, What Happens to the Leftover Money?, Richard Briffault
Who Benefits from Partner Flexibility?, Michael Love
Wildfire Smoke and U.S. Law, Michael B. Gerrard
Will Systematic Stewardship Save the Planet?, Zohar Goshen and Assaf Hamdani
Working to Death: Labor Law in the 100 Year Life, Kate Andrias
Yes, Trump’s PACs Really Can Pay His Legal Fees, Richard Briffault
Zoned Out: How Zoning Law Undermines Family Law’s Functional Turn, Kate Redburn