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Justiciability and Remedies in Administrative Law Challenges
Tyler B. Lindley
Tyler B. Lindley is a J.D. Candidate at The University of Chicago Law School, Class of 2021, and graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.S. in 2018.

For very helpful feedback and discussion on previous drafts, he thanks Jonathan Mitchell, William Baude, Aziz Huq, Tom Ginsburg, Thomas Miles, Ernest Young, Jared Mayer, Micah Quigley, Eric Wessan, and the participants of the Canonical Ideas in American Legal Thought Seminar. He also thanks the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for thoughtful comments and edits. Lastly, he thanks his wife, Katrina Lindley, for her indispensable discussion and support.

The Supreme Court’s changing composition and, relatedly, its increasing skepticism for the current structure and pervasiveness of the administrative state have given rise to increased constitutional challenges to agency actions that seem increasingly likely to be successful.

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Post-Election Litigation and the Paradox of Voting
Peter N. Salib
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School. Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Houston Law Center (Fall 2021).
Guha Krishnamurthi
Assistant Professor, South Texas College of Law.

Economists will tell you that your vote does not matter. Or at least it does not matter if what you care about is who wins a large election.

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The Corpus and the Courts
Kevin Tobia
Assistant Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center.

He thanks the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for excellent editorial assistance.

Ten years ago, Stephen C. Mouritsen published a student note outlining the possibility of a new legal interpretation tool: corpus linguistics.

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Narrowing the Remedial Gap: Damages for Disability Discrimination in Outsourced Federal Programs
Margo Schlanger
Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan. My thanks to Andrew Free, some of whose litigation prompted me to think about this topic, to Seth Galanter, Christine Stoneman, Tim Fox, and (as always) Sam Bagenstos, for their insight and input, and to Colleen Anderson and Hannah Greenhouse for research assistance.

All remaining errors are my responsibility. I wish to acknowledge the generous support of the William W. Cook Endowment of the University of Michigan. Copyright © 2021 Margo Schlanger. This Essay may be copied and distributed for free or at cost, with the author’s name and original publication citation remaining.

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Distributing the Corporation’s Brain: Principal Place of Business Without Physical Presence
Nicholas Hallock
Nicholas Hallock is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School class of 2022. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2017.

Thanks to the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their help with this piece.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses transitioned to remote work for some or all of their employees, relying on videoconference platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams for communication.

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Willfully Blind to the Machinery of Death: The State of Execution Challenges After Barr v. Lee
Jay Clayton
Jay Clayton is a staff member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 2016.

He would like to thank Miriam George for her terrific comments on this piece, and Daniel Loehr for his input and guidance.

The Supreme Court “has never invalidated a [ ] chosen procedure for carrying out a sentence of death as the infliction of cruel and unusual punishment.”

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Federal Grand Juries’ Supremacy Over Foreign Data Privacy Laws
Alexander C. Meade
Alexander C. Meade is a Member of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016.

He would like to thank Meghan Holloway, Matthew D. Reade, Nathan T. Tschepik, and Chloe M. Zagrodzky for their invaluable feedback.

Data privacy has been at the forefront of recent foreign-policy conversations.

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Judge Diane P. Wood: A True Friend
Zachary D. Clopton
Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.

My deepest gratitude to Judge Wood for her boundless mentorship and support. Thank you to Katherine Kinzler, Tejas Narechania, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for their help with this piece.

Bodum USA, Inc. v. La Cafetiere, Inc. is a case about French press, trade dress, and a twenty-year-old contract.

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What Judge Wood Taught Me About Glass Cages
Elizabeth A. Reese
Elizabeth Reese (Yunpoví) is a Bigelow Fellow & Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

When I began my clerkship year with Judge Diane Wood, I was keenly aware that I would be getting to know one of the most powerful people I would ever encounter in my life.

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Judge Wood and the Human Side of Judging
Tejas N. Narechania
Tejas N. Narechania is the Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

I am immensely grateful to Judge Wood for giving me the chance to clerk for her, to Khushali Narechania for being willing to uproot our nascent family so that I could seize that opportunity, and to Scott Hemphill for urging me to apply to Judge Wood’s chambers in the first instance. I also thank Matthew Reade and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review for the invitation to offer my personal recollections, and for their edits and suggestions on this short piece.

It is often said that one should always choose a great boss over a great role.

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Oboe Judging
David Freeman Engstrom
Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, and the Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School.

Judge Diane Wood took a different approach.  She played the oboe.