The Legal Workshop
The site aggregates the work of its member law reviews—which so far are the Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review—by featuring distilled "op-ed" versions of upcoming articles from member law reviews that are written for a more general audience by those articles' authors.
Author: This site was started and is operated by current and former student editors of the law reviews. Michael Montaño is a law student at Stanford University and senior production editor of the Stanford Law Review; Matthew J.B. Lawrence is a New York University law student and managing editor of the New York University Law Review. Articles are written by the numerous law review article authors.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Professors • Legal Theory • Cornell Law School • Duke University • Georgetown University • New York University • Northwestern University • Stanford University • University of Chicago • Law Professor • Law Student
Recent Posts from The Legal Workshop
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Internal Poison Pills: Managing the Governance Tension Between Majority and Minority Shareholders with a Novel Financial Instrument
Large corporations harbor dark corners, and these shadows shelter a daunting collection of governance concerns. There are at least three internal governance problems. First, lazy or dishonest managers might use their control of a firm’s…
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Happiness and Punishment
New findings in hedonic psychology have implications for punishment theory. Specifically, these findings suggest that criminals adapt surprisingly well to fines and even to incarceration, but that incarceration negatively affects post-prison life in ways that…
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Myth of Mess? International Choice of Law in Action
Can choice of law productively contribute to global governance? A growing body of research by law and economics scholars suggests that the answer is yes. According to this research, well designed choice-of-law rules can both…
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A Relational Approach to Schools’ Regulation of Youth Online Speech
In 2006, Aaron Wisniewski, a middle school student at Weedsport Middle School in upstate New York, logged onto his home computer after school hours and sent his friends instant messages featuring a buddy icon depicting…
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Originalism Is Bunk
“Originalism Is Bunk.” The title seems to promise a polemic. I hope, however, that most readers will find the Article shorter on polemic and longer on analysis than they might have anticipated. My ambition in…
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Toward Constitutional Minority Recruitment and Retention Programs: A Narrowly Tailored Approach
The Supreme Court’s 2003 affirmative action decisions, Gratz v. Bollinger1 and Grutter v. Bollinger,2 were widely heralded as victories for proponents of affirmative action. However, these opinions dealt with the use of race only in…
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Contract Design and the Structure of Contractual Intent
Modern contract law is governed by a two-stage adjudicative regime—an inheritance of the centuries-old conflict between law and equity. Under this regime, formal contract terms are treated as prima facie provisions that courts can override…
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The Structural Case for Vertical Maximalism
Many prominent jurists and scholars—including those with outlooks as diverse as Chief Justice John Roberts and Cass Sunstein—have recently urged the Supreme Court to adopt a “minimalist” approach to opinion writing: issuing narrow, fact-bound opinions…
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Reforming the State Secrets Privilege
This Editorial summarizes a forthcoming Note that investigates the problems associated with the state secrets privilege, describes the inherent problems in currently proposed reforms, and suggests a new direction for effective reform of the doctrine.…
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The Case for Limiting Federal Preemption of State Environmental Regulations
States have exhibited leadership in environmental policy, addressing issues of national and global scope. But this leadership is threatened by federal ceiling preemption—federal laws that prevent states from adopting regulations that are stricter than federal…