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Reading Erwin Chemerinsky
Michele Goodwin
Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, at the University of California, Irvine.

In 2014, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H.

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Guido Calabresi’s “Other Justice Reasons”
Adam Davidson
Harry A. Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

Thank you to John Rappaport, Elizabeth Reese, and Ryan Sakoda for your insightful comments. To the Honorable Guido Calabresi, thank you for your inspiration, your advice, and your community.

The Honorable Guido Calabresi (or Guido, as he requests seemingly everyone he meets personally to call him) is among the most-respected and most-cited legal scholars of all time. The reason for this is obvious: his work has reshaped our fundamental understandings of how the law affects our lives.

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Lessons to be Learned from Peter Yu
John T. Cross
Grosscurth Professor of Law, University of Louisville School of Law.

To those of us who teach and write in intellectual property law, Peter Yu was an obvious choice for this special edition of the University of Chicago Law Review.

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The Most-Cited Legal Scholars Revisited
Fred R. Shapiro
Associate Library Director for Collections and Access, Yale Law School; Editor, Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations; Editor, New Yale Book of Quotations.

I mention, only to help those trying to determine whether any biases underlie my comments about law schools, that I have a J.D. from Harvard Law School. The University of Chicago Law School offered me a very nice scholarship, but I foolishly declined it.
I owe tremendous debts to Yale Law School’s former Law Librarian and Professor of Law Teresa Miguel-Stearns and the Interim Law Library Director, Jason Eiseman, for their extraordinary encouragement and support. In preparing this study, I received excellent advice especially from Akhil Reed Amar and also from Anne Alstott, Lauren Edelman, Harold Hongju Koh, Jonathan Macey, Nicholas Parrillo, Judith Resnik, and Tom Tyler. None of them should be held responsible for any errors or misjudgments that I have made. I was extremely fortunate to have the benefit of the intelligence and productivity of an outstanding research assistant, Sophie Laing.

Citation analysis has been around for a long time in law. Indexes of cases cited by the cases printed in reporter volumes may be found as far back as 1743, when an English reporter, Raymond’s Reports, contained “A Table of the Names of the Cases” in which “The cases printed in Italic are cited cases.”

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The Legal Causes of Labor Market Power in the U.S. Agriculture Sector
Candice Yandam Riviere
J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School; Ph.D. Candidate in economics, Pantheon-Sorbonne University.

Many thanks to Professor Joshua Macey and Professor Eric A. Posner for their guidance and feedback. Thanks to my fellow Law Review editors for their meticulous comments and rigorous edits.

Llacua is one of many shepherds who move to the United States for a few months each year with an H-2A visa to work on a ranch. The H-2A program allows U.S. employers to petition to hire foreign temporary agricultural workers, provided that the employers satisfy specific regulatory requirements.

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The Scope of Evidentiary Review in Constitutional Challenges to Agency Action
Conley K. Hurst
B.A. 2017, Washington and Lee University; M.St. 2018, University of Oxford; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Many thanks to Professors Ryan Doerfler and Jennifer Nou for their helpful feedback during the drafting process.

Presidents have increasingly turned to the administrative state to implement their political agendas.

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In Search of Ordinary Meaning: What Can Be Learned from the Textualist Opinions of Bostock v. Clayton County?
Sam Capparelli
B.S. 2018, The George Washington University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Many thanks to Professor Brian Leiter, Samuel Kane, Crofton Kelly, Tony Leyh, Jennifer Chang, Tony Alessi, Kelly Gregg, George Colligan, and all of the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their comments and advice.

What is the meaning of the phrase “discriminate because of sex”? This was the key question the Supreme Court faced in Bostock v. Clayton County.

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Federal Corporate Law and the Business of Banking
Lev Menand
Lecturer in Law and Academic Fellow, Columbia Law School.

We thank Dan Awrey, Lucian Bebchuk, Ryan Bubb, Jeff Gordon, David Grewal, Bob Hockett, Howell Jackson, Rob Jackson, Lina Khan, Joshua Macey, Gillian Metzger, Saule Omarova, Ganesh Sitaraman, Joe Sommer, Mike Townsley, Art Wilmarth, and the participants in the 22nd Annual Law & Business Conference at Vanderbilt Law School, the Wharton Financial Regulation Workshop, the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Workshop, and the 11th Labex ReFi-NYU-SAFE/LawFin Law & Banking/Finance Conference for their helpful comments and insights.

Morgan Ricks
Professor of Law and Enterprise Scholar, Vanderbilt University Law School.

It is a bedrock (though still controversial) principle of U.S. business law that corporate formation and governance are the province of state, not federal, law.

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Asymmetric Subsidies and the Bail Crisis
John F. Duffy
Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and Paul G. Mahoney Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.
Richard M. Hynes
John Allan Love Professor of Law and Nicholas E. Chimicles Research Professor of Business Law and Regulation, University of Virginia School of Law.

We thank Josh Bowers, Kellen Funk, Sandra Mayson, John Monahan, Megan Stevenson, Stephen Ware and workshop participants at the University of Virginia and at the Scalia Law School of George Mason University for valuable comments. We thank Christian Fitzgerald, Ariel Hayes, Caitlyn Koch, Molly Mueller, and Louis Tiemann for valuable research assistance. We also thank Paul Prestia for responding to our inquiry on a factual matter. All errors remain our own.

The last several years have seen “a truly astounding” and “unprecedented” outpouring of scholarship and commentary decrying the large number of individuals held in pretrial detention, measuring the negative social consequences of such detention, and debating what to do about it.

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The Pigouvian Constitution
Peter N. Salib
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School.

Thank you to William Baude, Omri Ben-Shahar, Joseph Blocher, Joshua Braver, Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Jacob Bronsther, Ryan Copus, Andrew Manuel Crespo, Gregory Elinson, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Jacob E. Gersen, Daniel Hemel, Louis Kaplow, Guha Krishnamurthi, Jonathan S. Masur, Alexander Platt, Blaine G. Saito, Steven Shavell, Matthew C. Stephenson, Lior J. Strahilevitz, Susannah Barton Tobin, Laura Weinrib, Sarah Winsberg, Carleen Zubrzycki, and the participants in the Harvard Law and Economics Workshop for valuable comments and suggestions. Thanks also to Michael Hornzell for excellent research assistance. Finally, thanks to the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their hard work and insightful comments.

Gun deaths are on the rise in the United States, recently reaching levels not seen since the 1970s. Fake news is spreading like wildfire across social media, damaging reputations and confusing voters.