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Are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee more likely to vote in favor of Supreme Court nominees who are candid and forthcoming during their confirmation hearings? Based on a line by line [...]

In an era of flourishing transitions from state controlled policies and economies to democratic governance, the United States foreign trade policy, particularly toward emerging market-oriented [...]

The meaning of section 3 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) has been the subject of substantial litigation and uncertainty. Section 3 applies to a suit or proceeding brought in court where [...]

“Mentally retarded persons . . . are individuals whose abilities and behavioral deficits can vary greatly depending on the degree of their retardation, their life experience, and the ameliorative [...]

Corporate law has become unnecessarily complicated. Despite the proliferation of laws, problems fester and scandals erupt. Something is wrong. This Article seeks to delayer corporate law—to strip [...]

Dissatisfaction with the complexity of the income tax is nothing new. Still, recent decades have seen anything but a decrease in the tax law’s complexity. The seemingly inexorable rise in [...]

Due to changing social norms and evolving reproductive technology, the issue of what constitutes a family, and more specifically, what constitutes a legally recognized parent-child relationship, [...]

All of the decision rules for juries in state courts, deciding civil cases, are what may be characterized as “two way” rules. Whatever consensus is required to secure a favorable verdict applies [...]

Aggregative torts rely on nontraditional theories of liability in which collective, rather than individual, interests are paramount. All legal rules are to some extent aggregative in that they [...]

One of the great constitutional struggles in the United States depends on our vision of government. In dealing with that question in connection with the issues of federalism, the prevailing [...]