2009 Issue

by Noa Ben-Asher Read the Full Text In the years that followed the events of September 11, 2001, a debate crystallized between those who think that “legal grey and black holes”—which I call simply “legal holes”—are necessary and integral to U.S. law and those who think that they are dan- gerous and should be abolished.  Read More >

By Maneesha Deckha Read the Full Text The Assisted Human Reproduction Act is an anxious statute.  As far as statutes go, this is not too unusual.  Many statutes are enacted to address an actual or looming problem of social disorder.  Law is often invoked at these moments to cabin real and imagined effects, and the Read More >

by Michelle A. McKinley Read the Full Text It’s not just that increasingly many people have no roots, It’s also that they have no soil. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit Southeastern Louisiana with devastating force.  Those most affected within the city of New Orleans, the majority of whom were poor, elderly, and African-American, Read More >