The Yale Law Journal is thrilled to announce Volume 134’s Emerging Scholar of the Year: Kate Redburn. The Yale Law Journal’s Emerging Scholar of the Year Award celebrates the achievements of ...

The Yale Law Journal is excited to announce its ninth annual Student Essay Competition. The Journal’s Student Essay Competition challenges the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to ...

This Collection analyzes legal, social, and political dimensions of drug decriminalization in the context of current debates. The Essays explore issues related to state drug-policy reform, federal ...

This Collection examines the relationship between procedure and fairness. The Essays analyze rural criminal defense challenges, administrative rulemaking responsibilities, and the role of technology ...

Judicial reasoning about police expertise has toggled between two distinct conceptions of expertise itself: as a professional virtue or a professional technology. Taking stock of both views offers new ...

Introduction. On civil court dockets, police officers are common and constant defendants.1 The injuries police inflict on the citizenry each year create a continuous deluge of claims: victims of ...

This Collection explores how to better protect workers against the harms of an expanding gig economy and an increasingly automated workplace. It offers three distinct and interconnected perspectives ...

In this Exchange, Daniel S. Harawa and Michael R. Ulrich examine the implications of United States v.Rahimi for the future of Second Amendment rights. Together, these pieces reveal how Rahimi exposes ...

The Yale Law Journal is excited to announce its eighth annual Student Essay Competition. The Journal’s Student Essay Competition challenges the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to ...

This Essay advocates for a “legal construction of technology” approach to AI speech, challenging the notion that technology disrupts law and emphasizing how law shapes technology based on societal ...

The First Amendment’s religious-freedom provisions are best understood as protecting “freedom for religion”—religious liberty for the benefit of religion, for generous protection of its free exercise ...

Family law is failing older adults, offering neither the family forms older adults want nor the support of family care older adults need. Racial and economic inequities, accumulated across lifetimes, ...