Kelsey Nicholas Kelsey Nicholas will graduate from the University of Mississippi School of Law in in 2019. She would like to thank Prof. Larry J. Pittman for his guidance and encouragement throughout the writing of this Article. She would also like to thank Prof. Matthew R. Hall for his dedication and support to the Mississippi […]
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Racism in the Legal Profession: A Racist Lawyer is an Incompetent Lawyer
Jana DiCosmo Jana R. DiCosmo, Esq. dedicates this article to her family for their support and encouragement throughout this and many other endeavors. She also expresses special thanks to Professors Serena Williams and Patrick Johnston of Widener University Delaware Law School, and to Jessica Miller, Esq., for their insightful feedback on this article. Ms. DiCosmo […]
The Ejusdem Generis of A-B-: Ongoing Asylum Advocacy for Domestic Violence Survivors
Linda Kelly Linda Kelly is the M. Dale Palmer Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, where she is also Director of the Law & Immigration Clinic. On June 11, 2018, Attorney General Sessions published his opinion in Matter of A-B- 1 and overruled Matter of A-R-C-G-.2 In […]
Editor’s Preface: Summer 2018
Editor’s Preface By Nathan Goetting The bigotries, phobias, and moral crimes of the Trump administration are too legion for any law review to examine completely, even in a special jumbo edition. The best we can do is expose and seek to correct them one obnoxious offense at a time. In “The Ejusdem Generis of A-B-: […]
Brief of National Lawyers Guild, Et Al. As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner In Ulbricht V. United States
Zachary Wolfe & Heidi Boghosian Zachary Wolfe is an assistant professor of Writing at George Washington University in Washington DC, and a longtime member and former national vice-president of the National Lawyers Guild. Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute in New York, NY. She is a former executive director […]
How The Supreme Court Diminished the Right to Vote and What Congress Can Do About It
Henry Rose Henry Rose is a Curt and Linda Rodin Professor of Law and Social Justice at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Introduction The right to vote in the United States has always been steeped in discrimination. For most of United States history, it was a right that African Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, […]
Trump’s Dismantling of the National Monuments: Sacrificing Native American Interests on the Altar of Business
Amber Penn-Roco Amber Penn-Roco is an attorney specializing in tribal sovereignty issues with Galanda Broadman, a native-owned Indian Country law firm in Seattle, Washington. She also serves as a contributing editor for NLGR. In December of 2017, President Trump demolished the Bears Ears National Monument, shrinking it by 85 percent. That same day, President Trump also […]
How to Argue Liberty Cases in a Post-Kennedy World: It’s Not About Individual Rights, But State Power and the Social Compact
Brendan T. Beery Brendan T. Beery is a professor of law at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The author wishes to thank WMU-Cooley Professor Emeritus Daniel R. Ray for his patient and thorough listening and advice. A new era Justice Anthony Kennedy has left the Supreme Court, gifting his swing-vote seat to […]
Editor’s Preface: 75.1
Editor’s Preface: 75.1 By Nathan Goetting With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court is about to further lapse into right-wing activism. It’s been a reactionary court for the past 13 years, when Kennedy was the swing vote in a few divided cases. But sometimes Kennedy would swing the Court toward genuine progressive […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture: Lining Pockets and Ruining Lives
David O’Connell David O’Connell is a J.D. candidate at University of Missouri School of Law, 2019. He thanks Professor Dennis Crouch for his insight, guidance, and support during the writing of this article, as well as the Missouri Law Review for its help during the editing process. Introduction In 2014, the federal government seized $4.5 […]