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The New Legal Liberalism
Emma Kaufman
Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago Law School

For helpful conversations and feedback, I am grateful to Will Baude, Emily Buss, Travis Crum, Justin Driver, William Hubbard, Lucy Kaufman, Brian Leiter, Jonathan Masur, Wendy Moffat, John Rappaport, David Strauss, Laura Weinrib, and the editors of The University of Chicago Law Review.

Over the past three decades, legal academics have mounted a sustained attack on the traditional liberal idea that judges protect minority rights against majority will.

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Taking Data
Michael C. Pollack
Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

I am grateful to Miriam Baer, William Baude, Maureen Brady, Christopher Buccafusco, David Carlson, Nestor Davidson, Myriam Gilles, Ben Grunwald, Daniel Hemel, Michael Herz, Orin Kerr, Timothy Mulvaney, Luke Norris, John Rappaport, Shelley Ross Saxer, Ric Simmons, Edward Stein, James Stern, Stewart Sterk, Lior Strahilevitz, Matthew Tokson, Felix Wu, Stephen Yelderman, and participants in the AALS New Voices in Property Law Workshop, Cardozo Junior Faculty Workshop, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Junior Faculty Forum at the University of Richmond Law School, and Southeastern Association of Law Schools New Scholars Workshop for their guidance, suggestions, comments, and critiques. I thank the Stephen B. Siegel Program in Real Estate Law for research support.

On February 16, 2016, a federal court ordered Apple to “assist law enforcement agents in enabling the search” of an iPhone that had been lawfully seized during the investigation into a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

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An Empirical Analysis of Sexual Orientation Discrimination
J. Shahar Dillbary
Professor of Law at The University of Alabama School of Law. BA in Law, LLB in Economics, Bar-Ilan University; LLM, JSD, The University of Chicago Law School

We would like to thank Yonathan Arbel, Ronen Avraham, David Bernstein, Bill Brewbaker, the Honorable Joseph Colquitt, Mirit Eyal-Cohen, Richard Delgado, Bryan Fair, Ron Krotoszynski, Susan Lyons, Jonathan Nash, Caryn Roseman, Stephen Rushin, Daiquiri Steele, Fred Vars, the participants in the 2017 Midwestern Law and Economics Association Conference, the 2018 American Law and Economics Association Conference and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s combined Workshop on Fair Lending and the Office of Research for their helpful comments; and Shannon McLaughlin, Joshua Polk, Laura Stephenson, and Nic Nivison for their excellent research assistance. We also want to thank an anonymous referee for insightful comments and suggestions. We are indebted to Blake Beals for his help in assembling the municipal database. Authors are ordered alphabetically.

Griffin Edwards
Assistant Professor of Business at The University of Alabama, Birmingham, Collat School of Business. PhD in Economics, Emory University.
Twenty years ago, a gay couple entered their local bank in Arroyo Grande, California to ask for a mortgage loan.

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