Volume 113
Issue
5
Date
May. 2025

The New Sexual Deviancy

by Jordan Blair Woods
An unprecedented wave of legislation targeting LGBTQ+ communities has swept across the country in recent years. The scope of this legislation is vast, targeting LGBTQ+ people in key areas such […]

A Faster Way to Yes: Re-Balancing American Asylum Procedures

by Michael Kagan
The United States asylum system, like many other asylum systems, is under immense pressure to process asylum applications faster. The primary response to this pressure is negative, namely to deny […]

The Sheriff’s Constitution

by Farhang Heydari
The county sheriff is unique among our nation’s law enforcers, with an ancient pedigree, elected status, and special protections as a state constitutional officer. But these factors combine to cause […]

Renters’ Tax Credits

by Michelle D. Layser
America is facing an affordable housing crisis that current policies have failed to mitigate. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, half of American tenants were rent burdened, paying more than one-third […]

Selective Enforcement

by Kristelia García
Private rights holders frequently engage in selective enforcement—that is, they elect to enforce against some wrongdoers, but not against others, under different, or even similar, circumstances. The conventional wisdom assumes […]

“There Are [Disabled] Black People in the Future”: Afrofuturism & Disability Law

by Tinesha C. Zandamela
Afrofuturism celebrates—and encourages—imagination. This Note exists to foster imagination, focusing on Blackness and disability from an Afrofuturist lens and discussing what a “glorious future” could look like for Black disabled […]