Francis Joseph Mootz (University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law) & Meghan Shiner have posted Cannabis and the California Workplace (University of San Francisco Law
Review, Vol. 54, No. 2, 2019) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The state-legal cannabis industry has emerged rapidly despite continuing federal illegality, raising [...]
Edward W. De Barbieri (Albany Law School) has posted Opportunism Zones on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2017, Congress adopted the Opportunity Zone, an unheralded yet
powerful place-based economic development tool, as part of tax re-form. Place-based economic development tools provide incentives to at-tract jobs and capital to [...]
Jelena Gligorijevicn (ANU College of Law; Trinity College, Cambridge) has posted Children’s Privacy: The Role of Parental Control and Consent (19(2) Human Rights Law Review
201-229, 2019) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Protecting children’s informational privacy has never been more difficult. [...]
Daniel Maggen (Yale University, Law School) has posted When You're a Star: The Unnamed Wrong of Sexual Degradation (Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is
the abstract: The #MeToo movement is often criticized for its conflation of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and offensive but not legally actionable behavior. [...]
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law) has posted Spousal Contracts and Choice Theory (European Contract Law and Theory, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here
is the abstract: Contract is one of the key tools liberal law employs in the service of its core mission of enhancing people’s autonomy, and choice theory conceptualizes [...]
Joshua B. Fischman (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Politics and Authority in the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell Law Review, Vol. 104, 2019) on SSRN. Here
is the abstract: Public discourse on the Supreme Court often focuses on the divide between the liberal and conservative Justices. [...]
Michael Greve (George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty; American Enterprise Institute (AEI)) has posted Why We Need Federal Administrative Courts on SSRN.
Here is the abstract: Apart from criminal proceedings and a small enclave of constitutional right, virtually all disputes between citizens and federal agencies are [...]
Introduction "It takes a theory to beat a theory"--this is surely one of the top ten all-time comments uttered by law professors to one another in those ritual interactions
that are called "faculty workshops" or "colloquia." The first instance of the comment that I can find in the legal literature appears in an article by Richard Epstein [...]
The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin. Here is a description: Policing The Womb brings
to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive [...]
The Download of the Week is Law and the Cognitive Science of Ordinary Concepts by Kevin P. Tobia. Here is the abstract: This chapter introduces the “folk law thesis,”
the claim that ordinary concepts are at the heart of central legal concepts. It presents recent empirical work suggesting that a number of subtle and surprising features [...]
