Each attempt to resolve how (or whether) college student-athletes can be compensated for playing sports has resolved some problems but created new ones. This Essay argues that treating ...

For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and ...

Charles Reich—a beloved law professor, writer, and visionary—passed away on June 15, 2019. This Collection explores his rich life and legacy in the law and shares some of his unfinished, previously ...

Private equity is investing in law firms through management-services organizations, split-entity structures that sidestep nonlawyer-ownership bans. The rules are not ready. This Essay offers the first ...

This Essay explores rental registries as tools for housing justice, focusing on their public-health impact and application in Chicago. Examining registry programs nationwide, it considers how they ...

abstract. Consent-based searches are by far the most ubiquitous form of search undertaken by police. A key legal inquiry in these cases is whether consent was granted voluntarily. This Essay suggests ...

118 Yale L.J. 1256 (2009). This Essay addresses a gap in the federalism literature. Scholars have offered two distinct visions of federal-state ...

abstract. This Feature provides the first full-length treatment of practice-based constitutional theories, which include some of the most important theories advanced in modern scholarship.

abstract. In a famous 1977 article, Justice William Brennan called on state courts to interpret the individual-rights provisions of their state constitutions more expansively than analogous federal ...

Informational capitalism brings new dangers of surveillance and manipulation—but also of accelerating monopoly, inequality, and democratic ...

abstract. We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought.