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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Volume 110 / Issue 6

Indiscriminate Data Surveillance

Working hand-in-hand with the private sector, largely in a regulatory vacuum, policing agencies at the federal, state, and local levels are acquiring and using vast reservoirs of personal data. They are doing so indiscriminately, which is to say …

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Volume 110

In Tribute: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

On the occasion of Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s fortieth year on the bench, these Essays honor his contributions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to American law, and to the lives of his clerks and colleagues..

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Volume 110 / Issue 5

The “New” Drug War

American policymakers have long waged a costly, punitive, racist, and ineffective drug war that casts certain drug use as immoral and those who engage in it as deviant criminals. The War on Drugs has been defined by a myopic focus on controlling the …

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In Tribute: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III

On the occasion of Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson’s fortieth year on the bench, these Essays honor his contributions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to American law, and to the lives of his clerks and colleagues..

110 Va. L. Rev. Online 248

Consent and Compensation: Resolving Generative AI’s Copyright Crisis

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to augment and democratize creativity. However, it is undermining the knowledge ecosystem that now sustains it. Generative AI may unfairly compete with authors, journalists, and other …

By Frank Pasquale and Haochen Sun
110 Va. L. Rev. Online 207

How to Think About the Removal Power

In an earlier article titled The Executive Power of Removal, we contended that Article II gives the President a constitutional power to remove executive officers, at least those who are presidentially appointed. In this Essay, we expand on, and …

By Aditya Bamzai and Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
110 Va. L. Rev. Online 159
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