Articles and publications by in the Yale Law Journal.

This Essay argues that the legal system has allocated power over abortion and gender-affirming care decisions for minors in ways that may jeopardize rather than protect children’s well-being. The law ...

122 Yale L.J. 2176 (2013). A low income person is more likely to be prosecuted and imprisoned post-Gideon than pre-Gideon. Poor people lose in American ...

122 Yale L.J. 1444 (2013). This Essay puts forward the conceptual and normative underpinnings of a principle of abuse of property right. Owners abuse their ...

111 Yale L.J. 761 (2001) ...

Today, most Americans accept that the jury is supposed to be a fair cross-section of the community. But where did that idea come from? This Article ...

Tort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the ...

Critics argue that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prevents charitable giving based on race. This Feature defends these charitable contributions as ...

Tort law’s famous Hand Formula does not align with how laypeople judge whether conduct is reasonable. Five original experiments demonstrate that the Hand Formula fails to capture the outsized, Kantian ...

Today, most Americans accept that the jury is supposed to be a fair cross-section of the community. But where did that idea come from? This Article recovers the forgotten stories of the radical ...

Critics argue that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prevents charitable giving based on race. This Feature defends these charitable contributions as consistent with both the 1866 Act and tax-exemption law ...

Many prominent calls for compromise between Russia and Ukraine neglect a binding rule of international law: a treaty by which an aggressor extracts ...