May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Woodrow Hartzog & Jessica Silbey Volume 77, Issue 4, 727-770 Civic institutions—like the rule of law, higher education, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies encourage cooperation and...
May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Rebecca Bratspies Volume 77, Issue 4, 771-820 How come I can’t breathe at home and y’all get to breathe at home? The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life. Setting environmental...
May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Shu-Yi Oei & Diane M. Ring Volume 77, Issue 4, 821-878 Major global players—most prominently the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Union—have recently begun advocating that countries “declutter” their tax systems to tidy up,...
May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Dana Bazelon Volume 77, Issue 4, 879-938 One of the persistent questions of criminal law is how prosecutorial authority is allocated among different sovereign entities: Courts and scholars have wrestled time and again with questions of how criminal enforcement power...
May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Julia Hunter Volume 77, Issue 4, 939-980 Just as it seems strange to lawyers in 1990 that in the early part of the twentieth century the federal Bill of Rights did not extend to protection of individuals against state government, future generations may look back and...
May 1, 2026 | Volume 77, Issue 4
Saamia Aziz Volume 77, Issue 4, 981-1004 The United States offers immigration pathways based on economic contribution, yet this principle is applied inconsistently across employment-based (EB) visa preference categories. While the EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3 visas require...
