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The Admissibility of Forensic Reports in the Post–Justice Scalia Supreme Court
Laird Kirkpatrick
Laird Kirkpatrick is the Louis Harkey Mayo Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School, where he has taught evidence and evidence related courses for more than twenty five years.

Forensic reports linking a defendant to a crime—such as drug tests, blood analysis, DNA profiles, and much more—often constitute the most powerful and persuasive evidence that can be offered at a criminal trial.

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Why the NCAA’s No-Transfer Rule Is No Good
Michael A. Carrier
Michael A. Carrier is a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, where he specializes in antitrust and intellectual property law.
Marc Edelman
Marc Edelman is a Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, where he focuses on sports law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and gaming/fantasy sports law.

Earlier this year, after suffering from depression, University of Michigan football lineman James Hudson applied to transfer to the University of Cincinnati.

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Taking Rulemaking Procedures Seriously in Bending the Rules
Rachel Augustine Potter
Rachel Augustine Potter (rapotter@virginia.edu @raugpott) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on American political institutions, bureaucratic politics, and regulation.

Notice-and-comment rulemaking is often thought of as a fixed process: if agency X follows the process then it creates binding regulation Y.

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Unequal State Sovereignty: Considering the Equal State Sovereignty Principle Through Nineteenth-Century Election Laws
Zachary Newkirk
Zachary Newkirk is a law clerk to a federal judge in Florida. JD & MA (History) 2017, Duke University School of Law; BA 2012, Cornell University.

The views expressed here do not reflect the views of any past, current, or future employer. Thank you to Professor Guy Charles for his mentorship. Special gratitude to Meaghan Newkirk for her wonderful editing assistance.

The equal state sovereignty principle may be “our historic tradition,” but it is an ill-defined, unexplored, and ambiguous one.

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The Origins of War Manifestos
Oona A. Hathaway
Oona A. Hathaway is a professor of international law at Yale Law School
William S. Holste
William S. Holste is an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP
Scott J. Shapiro
Scott J. Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School
Jacqueline Van De Velde
Jacqueline Van De Velde, JD, Yale Law School, 2017, is a law clerk.
Lisa Wang Lachowicz
Lisa Wang Lachowicz is an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Our recent article, War Manifestos, was the first work of legal scholarship to examine the documents that set out the legal reasons sovereigns provided for going to war from the late fifteenth century until the mid-twentieth century.

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RadicalxChange: An Academic Agenda
E. Glen Weyl
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Visiting Research Scholar, Julis- Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.

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How Probable is “Plausible”?
Daniel A. Epstein
Attorney at Jenner & Block LLP

My thanks to William H. J. Hubbard, Anthony J. Casey, Vincent S.J. Buccola, Drew H. Bailey, Nora E. Becerra, Huiyi Chen, Eric E. Petry, Vaughn Olson, and Nathaniel K.S. Wackman for comments and criticisms of earlier drafts; to Emily Samra for assistance with research; and to the staff of The University of Chicago Law Review for helping to get this Article into final form.

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What’s Different about Law?
Gillian K. Hadfield
Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto