This essay is part of a collection The <I>Insular Cases</I> in Light of <I>Aurelius</I> Over 120 years after YLJ published its first piece on the Insular Cases, these cases appeared again before the ...

114 Yale L.J. 1759 (2005) This Note finds that the gender composition of the bench affected federal appellate court outcomes in Title VII sexual harassment and ...

abstract. This Note presents a study of judicial decisions that have engaged with executive orders. The study was designed to elucidate the contexts in which courts have considered executive orders; ...

abstract. The access-to-justice gap is growing, affecting individuals with both civil and criminal needs in the United States. Though these challenges are multifaceted, procedural barriers in the U.S.

abstract. Over the past generation, conflicting trends have reshaped the ownership of corporate equity on the one hand and corporate debt on the other. In equity, the two great trends have been the ...

“The Law of the Territories” is an emerging academic heading for legal scholarship on the status of U.S. territories. This Essay argues that the current momentum of this narrow “emerging field” ...

abstract. America has an access-to-justice crisis. At a time when law is more prominent in every facet of American life and commerce than ever before, most of our people and small businesses have no ...

121 Yale L.J. 534 (2011). State implementation of federal law is commonplace, but has been largely ignored by the interpretive doctrines of legislation and ...

abstract. In March 2022, President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (Ending Forced Arbitration Act). The Act voids predispute arbitration clauses ...

121 Yale. L.J. 1528. The United States is the only country in the world where voters elect prosecutors. But the American prosecutor did not start as an ...

122 Yale L.J. 574 (2012). One of the most promising regulatory currents consists of “targeted” disclosure: mandating simplified information ...

abstract. The United States has criminalized the manufacture, distribution, use, and possession of cannabis and its psychoactive components at the federal level since 1970. The states began to push ...