Volume 111 / Issue 2

Interpretive Lawmaking

For nearly 100 years, prevailing American legal thought has rejected the idea that there can be unwritten bodies of law that judges ascertain and apply just as they do written law. Instead, the story goes, the only preexisting sets of legal rules …

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Volume 111 / Issue 2

Shamed

Victims of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse have long had to contend with victim blaming and victim shaming. While legal scholars have had fruitful and theoretically engaging debates regarding the validity and merits of shaming sanctions and …

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Volume 111 / Issue 2

Partisan Emergencies

Executive emergency powers are tantalizingly effective. They allow presidents to bypass congressional gridlock, do away with procedural safeguards, and act decisively with minimal oversight. But there is a risk that these exceptional powers may …

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Volume 111

Judicial Review of Emergency Powers in Banking and Financial Regulation

Banking and finance are arcane industries that often elude popular understanding, so courts, Congress, and the American public have largely delegated their regulation to federal agencies with considerable decision-making autonomy, affecting …

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Volume 111

Victory: How a Lawyer, a Minister, and Twenty Professional Football Players Helped End Segregation in Virginia and Professional Sports

As Chapman Law Dean Matthew Parlow has noted, “[a]thletes in professional sports have long sought to use their platforms as celebrities to bring greater societal awareness to issues of social justice and racial inequality.” One of the clearest …

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Judicial Review of Emergency Powers in Banking and Financial Regulation

Banking and finance are arcane industries that often elude popular understanding, so courts, Congress, and the American public have largely delegated their regulation to federal agencies with considerable decision-making autonomy, affecting …

By Samer R. Saffarini
111 Va. L. Rev. Online 134

Victory: How a Lawyer, a Minister, and Twenty Professional Football Players Helped End Segregation in Virginia and Professional Sports

As Chapman Law Dean Matthew Parlow has noted, “[a]thletes in professional sports have long sought to use their platforms as celebrities to bring greater societal awareness to issues of social justice and racial inequality.” One of the clearest …

By Alex B. Long
111 Va. L. Rev. Online 109

Medicaid Act Protections for Gender-Affirming Care

As of June 2024, ten states explicitly and categorically exclude coverage of gender-affirming care (“GAC”) for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries of all ages. Another two states exclude coverage for transgender minor beneficiaries but presumably …

By Katherine Wood
111 Va. L. Rev. Online 82
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