Volume 110 / Issue 7

The Case for City Reparations

Once a political boogeyman, calls for Black reparations as a means to advance racial justice in the United States have become increasingly earnest, particularly in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. But among those who view reparations as morally …

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Volume 110 / Issue 7

History and the School Prayer Cases

In a series of two decisions known as the School Prayer Cases, the Supreme Court famously held that the Establishment Clause forbids state-sponsored prayer in public schools—even where the government provides opt-outs for dissenters. Yet subsequent …

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Volume 110 / Issue 7

Adapting Conservation Governance Under Climate Change: Lessons from Indian Country

Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly causing disruptions to ecological communities upon which Natives have relied for millennia. These disruptions raise existential threats not only to ecosystems but to Native communities. Yet no analysis …

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Volume 110 / Issue 6

Disrupting Election Day: Reconsidering the Purcell Principle as a Federalism Doctrine

The Purcell Principle—the doctrine that courts should refrain from changing election rules during the period of time close to an election—has long been misconstrued. Where the Principle operates, it creates a near-categorical bar to federal judicial …

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Volume 110 / Issue 6

Police Vigilantism

This Article uncovers a critical yet unexplored dimension of policing: the strategic oscillation of police officers between their roles as state actors and private individuals, and its significant implications for police accountability frameworks. …

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ONLINE EDITION

Reconstructing Citizenship

In our republican democracy, voting is a central right of citizenship. Yet millions of voters are routinely disenfranchised as a result of convictions or because their carceral status creates barriers to voting. In the past decade, academic …

By Jenny Carroll & James Jeter
110 Va. L. Rev. Online 341

Youth Participatory Law Scholarship

This Essay joins a formally trained legal scholar-practitioner with a grassroots youth activist and advocate to introduce the emerging subgenre of Youth Participatory Law Scholarship (“YPLS”). YPLS expands on the movement for Participatory Law …

By Sarah Medina Camiscoli & Sa'Real McRae
110 Va. L. Rev. Online 313

Participatory Law Scholarship as Demosprudence

Through participatory law scholarship (“PLS”)—legal scholarship written in collaboration with those without formal legal training but expertise in law’s injustice through lived experience—Kempis Songster and Rachel López seek to dismantle the walls …

By Kempis Songster, Rachel López & Gerald Torres
110 Va. L. Rev. Online 298
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