After serving as a law clerk first for Skelly Wright and then—with the assistance of Judge Wright I am sure—for Justice Thurgood Marshall, I worked for four years as a public defender before joining the legal academy. In ...

This article addresses the unmapped linkage of mass incarceration and encagement as responses to climate change and the coronavirus. I coin the phrase, climate cages, to highlight how public policy responses to atmospheric ...

In an effort to eliminate the practice of gerrymandering congressional electoral districts, Arizona voters established an independent redistricting commission in 2000 and granted it autonomous congressional redistricting ...

Imagine a world where private organizations controlling state legislatures had the power to change the United States Constitution without any input from Congress whatsoever. There is no need to imagine, as powerful private ...

Contagion is most commonly defined as a “contagious disease” or “the transmission of a disease by direct or indirect contact.” However, the word contagion also describes phenomena of human behavior such as a “contagious ...

Louisiana courts have become increasingly overprotective of its citizens. Although usually seen in the context of juvenile court, parens patriae refers to the idea that the state holds the inherent power and authority ...