Feb 19, 2025 · Tens of thousands of students in K-12 schools suffer sexual harassment each year. While presidential administrations and Congress have proposed reforms to Title IX to tackle this problem, the potential of Section 1983 Equal Protection Clause claims to protect students from and remedy their sexual harassment has gone overlooked.

May 14, 2024 · The statute governing obstruction of an official proceeding—one of the charges brought against January 6 defendants and then-President Trump—faces a moment of reckoning. This Essay by Stanford J.D. candidate Jennifer L. Portis identifies a novel interpretation: § 1512(c)(2) reaches only direct ...

The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948.Warren Christopher, the Law Review’s first President, opened Volume 1 with a description of the Law Review’s aims:. A dual goal is set for the Review: to publish a journal of worth to lawyers and to provide an educational experience of value to students.Fortunately, these goals are complementary. ...

Prof. Kim Forde-Mazrui of the University of Virginia responds to Sonja Starr’s print Article, The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindnes

While standing doctrine has traditionally been rooted in Article III’s Case or Controversy requirement, there is growing support for the view that limits on plaintiffs’ standing stem instead from the President’s Article II duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

While the standing doctrine is one of the most widely theorized and criticized doctrines in U.S. law, its origins remain controversial. One revisionist view argues that New Deal progressive Justices purposely invented the standing doctrine to …

Apr 29, 2022 · An election undoubtedly requires some rules to ensure that it is ‘free and fair,’ but at what point do these rules diminish the equal opportunity

The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Shinn v.Ramirez, 142 S. Ct. 1718 (2022), diminished the role of federal courts in protecting defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel by limiting when a defendant can raise an ineffective-assistance-of-counsel (IAC) claim in federal court.Defendants in states like Arizona and Texas—which bar …

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v.Wade and Planned Parenthood v.Casey, the movement for abortion rights and access finds itself in uncharted territory, and the stakes could not be higher.For abortion rights defenders, this new, post-Roe playing field means adapting their strategy and mindset to confront a new environment without a …

Nov 7, 2014 · Introduction. In Burwell v.Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court extended the protections of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to Hobby Lobby, Mardel, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, three closely held corporations, and held that the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act substantially burdened their religious exercise. 1 Open this footnote Close this footnote 1 134 ...