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Documents from 2019
The Politicization and Polarization of the US Supreme Court, Neal Devins
The Possible Final Word on Employment Discrimination Relief, Neal Devins
The Rhetoric of Equality, Neal Devins
The Supreme Court and Private Schools: An Update, Neal Devins
The Trouble with Jaycees, Neal Devins
Through the Looking Glass: What Abortion Teaches Us About American Politics, Neal Devins
Tom Delay: Popular Constitutionalist?, Neal Devins
Tribute to John Donaldson, Neal Devins
Unitariness and Independence: Solicitor General Control over Independent Agency Litigation, Neal Devins
What Brown Teaches Us About the Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revival, Neal Devins
What Standards Apply When Freedoms Collide?, Neal Devins
Where's the Politics?: Introduction to Williams, Eastland, Days, and Rabkin, Neal Devins
Who Is Injured when Racially Discriminatory Private Schools are Tax-Exempt?, Neal Devins
Who's to Blame for Judicial Activism?, Neal Devins
Why Congress Did Not Think About the Constitution When Enacting the Affordable Care Act, Neal Devins
Why Congress Does Not Challenge Judicial Supremacy, Neal Devins
Your Money or Your Wife's?: Social Security Changes Considered, Neal Devins
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, Neal Devins
Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court Into a Partisan Court, Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum
The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court, Neal E. Devins and Lawrence Baum
The Supreme Court, Social Psychology, and Group Formation, Neal Devins and William Federspiel
Judicial Exclusivity and Political Instability, Neal Devins and Louis Fisher
The Steel Seizure Case: One of a Kind?, Neal Devins and Louis Fisher
Don't Rush the Court, Neal Devins and Michael A. Fitts
The Triumph of Timing: Raines v. Byrd and the Modern Supreme Court's Attempt to Control Constitutional Confrontations, Neal Devins and Michael A. Fitts
Commentary on Marriage Grants: Article III & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins and Tara Leigh Grove
Commentary on Marriage Grants: Article III & Same-Sex Marriage, Neal Devins and Tara Leigh Grove
Constitutional Dilemmas: Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Neal Devins and Tara Leigh Grove
Constitutional Dilemmas: Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Neal Devins and Tara Leigh Grove
The Injustice of the Death Penalty, Neal Devins and Roy Brasfield Herron
The Battle That Never Was: Congress, the White House, and Agency Litigation Authority, Neal Devins and Michael Herz
The Uneasy Case for Department of Justice Control of Federal Litigation, Neal Devins and Michael Herz
The Vanishing Common Law Judge, Neal Devins and David Klein
Not-So-Independent Agencies: Party Polarization and the Limits of Institutional Design, Neal Devins and David E. Lewis
Public Opinion and State Supreme Courts, Neal Devins and Nicole Mansker
Judicial Review and Nongeneralizable Cases, Neal Devins and Alan J. Meese
Judicial Vigilantism: Inherent Judicial Authority to Appoint Contempt Prosecutors in Young v. United States ex reI Vuitton Et Fils S.A., Neal Devins and Steven J. Mulroy
Fifty States, Fifty Attorneys General, and Fifty Approaches to the Duty To Defend, Neal Devins and Saikrishna B. Prakash
Reverse Advisory Opinions, Neal Devins and Saikrishna B. Prakash
Revolt of the Attorneys General, Neal Devins and Saikrishna B. Prakash
The Indefensible Duty to Defend, Neal Devins and Saikrishna B. Prakash
First Amendment Under Fire: Racial Justice and Hate Speech, Neal Devins, Wornie Reed, Susan Herman, and Alex Tsesis
Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: Moot Court, Neal Devins, Michael Scodro, Andrew Pincus, Joan Biskupic, Garrett Epps, Irving Gornstein, Tara Leigh Grove, Allison Orr Larsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Erin E. Murphy, David Savage, and Richard Wolf
Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: Moot Court, Neal Devins, Michael Scodro, Andrew Pincus, Joan Biskupic, Garrett Epps, Irving Gornstein, Tara Leigh Grove, Allison Orr Larsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Erin E. Murphy, David Savage, and Richard Wolf
Supreme Court Preview 2014-2015: Moot Court, Neal Devins, Michael Scodro, Andrew Pincus, Joan Biskupic, Garrett Epps, Irving Gornstein, Tara Leigh Grove, Allison Orr Larsen, Dahlia Lithwick, Erin E. Murphy, David Savage, and Richard Wolf
New Federalism in Education: The Meaning of the Chicago School Desegregation, Neal Devins and James B. Stedman
Plagiarism at Princeton: An Academic Judgment or a Discplinary Procedure, Neal Devins and Kent M. Weeks
Women in the Boardroom: Has the Time for Quotas Arrived?, Aaron Dhir and Sarah Kaplan
Disclosure as Delaware's New Frontier, Reza Dibadj
Disclosure as Delaware's New Frontier, Reza Dibadj
69. The role of kinship and siblings in young children’s placement preferences., Kelli Dickerson, Thomas D. Lyon, and Jodi A. Quas
A Computational Analysis of Oral Argument in the Supreme Court, Gregory M. Dickinson
Disregarding the Salomon Principle: An Empirical Analysis, 1855-2014, Alan J. Dignam and Peter B. Oh
The Mueller Investigation and Beyond, Michael R. Dimino, Ellen S. Podgor, Katrice Bridges Copeland, Ruthann Robson, Louis J. Virelli III, Andrew M. Wright, and Ellen C. Yaroshefsky
Accountability and Transparency in U.S. Courts, Scott Dodson
Beyond Bias in Diversity Jurisdiction, Scott Dodson
Brief of Scott Dodson as Amicus Curiae Supporting Neither Party, Scott Dodson
Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction and Venue Transfer, Scott Dodson
The Irrelevance of Jurisdictionality in Fort Bend County v. Davis, Scott Dodson
The Irrelevance of Jurisdictionality in Fort Bend County v. Davis, Scott Dodson
Understanding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Samuel A. Donaldson
Appendix: Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis, John J. Donohue
Data and do files for JELS RTC paper, John J. Donohue
Laws Facilitating Gun Carrying and Homicide - Do files -- AJPH_code.do, John J. Donohue
Replication Files for JELS RTC paper, John J. Donohue
Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State-Level Synthetic Control Analysis, John J. Donohue
RTC Laws Increase Violent Crime: Moody and Marvell Have Missed the Target, John J. Donohue , Abhay Aneja, and Kyle D. Weber
Too Much, Too Soon? Obergefell as Applied Equality Practice, James M. Donovan and Alyssa Oakley Milby
Lifting the Veil on Iowa Piercing Jurisprudence and Suggestions for Reform, Matthew G. Dore
Court rulings involving individuals with dementia in Israel: A qualitative perspective, Israel Doron Prof., Benny Spanier Dr., and Werner Perla
A EXECUÇÃO FISCAL E O NOVO CÓDIGO DE PROCESSO CIVIL BRASILEIRO.pdf, Amilton Bispo dos Reis
William & Mary Law School Graduation Awards Ceremony (May 16, 2015), Davison M. Douglas, Patricia E. Roberts, James J. Thomas II, Jeffrey A. Breit, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Stacy E. Kern-Scheerer, Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, Laura A. Heymann, William Richardson, Warren M. Billings, Judith M. Barzilay, Christopher A. Abel, Laura R. Killinger, Allison Orr Larsen, Robert E. Kaplan, David Noll, Crystal S. Shin, Blake R. Christopher, and Scott A. Krystiniak
International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Joseph Freedman, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Erica Lyman, Stephen J. Porter, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith, and Hong Tang
International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Joseph Dellapenna, Khouane Dittahovong, Joseph Freedman, Royal C. Gardner, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Thomas Parker Redick, David M. Gravallese, Jeffrey M. Klein, and Erica Thorson
International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Joseph Freedman, Royal Gardner, Emily J. Hildreth, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Peter H. Oppenheimer, Stephen J. Porter, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith, and Erica Thorson
International Environment Law, David R. Downes, Michael Wascom, Charlotte de Fontaubert, Joseph Dellapenna, Khouane Ditthavong, Kristen Genovese, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Thomas Parker Redick, Marianne Tyrrell, William L. Fang, and Robert McKinstry
Sexual Misconduct, Religion, And Culture, Alev Dudek
How the U.S. Supreme Court Deemed the Grand Bargain Adequate Without Defining Adequacy.pdf, Michael C. Duff
2013 National Lawyers Convention: Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property, Free Markets, and Competition Policy, John F. Duffy, Richard A. Epstein, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Joshua D. Wright, and Douglas Ginsburg
Emotional Appraisals in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, Olympia Duhart
Adopted Couple v. Baby Girl: Erasing the Last Vestigates of Human Property, James G. Dwyer
Amicus Brief: Commonwealth v. Nixon, James G. Dwyer
Book Review of The Best Interests of the Child in Healthcare, James G. Dwyer
Book Review of The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children, James G. Dwyer
Children’s Welfare and the State’s Fiduciary Responsibility, James G. Dwyer
Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, and the Rights of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer
Equality Between Adults and Children: Its Meaning, Implications, and Opposition, James G. Dwyer
First Parents: Reconceptualizing Newborn Adoption, James G. Dwyer
Funding Religion in a Post-Zelman World, James G. Dwyer
Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer
Inter-country Adoption and the Special Rights Fallacy, James G. Dwyer
Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer
Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions in Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer
No Accounting for School Vouchers, James G. Dwyer
Parents' Religion and Children's Welfare: Debunking the Doctrine of Parents' Rights, James G. Dwyer
Parents' Self-Determination and Children's Custody: A New Analytical Framework for State Structuring of Children's Family Life, James G. Dwyer
Promising Protection: 911 Call Records as Foundation for Family Violence Intervention, James G. Dwyer