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A Place Worth Protecting: Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis Under FEMA’s Flood-Mitigation Programs
Kelly McGee
B.A. 2017, Harvard University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Many thanks to Professor Lee Anne Fennell, Professor Jennifer Nou, Professor Mark Templeton, Phillip Kash, and the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review for their helpful conversations and insight.

In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey hit Harris County, Texas, causing $125 billion in damages and flooding 150,000 homes.

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Can Procedure Take?: The Judicial Takings Doctrine and Court Procedure
Rebecca Hansen
B.A. 2017, Brown University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Thank you to Alec Mouser, Kelly Gregg, Henry Walter, Sam Sherman, Ryne Cannon, the University of Chicago Law Review editors, and Professors Lee Fennell and Lior Strahilevitz for their help and advice.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several state legislatures and executives limited the circumstances in which landlords could evict their tenants. Predictably, many of these moratoria were met with challenges under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, which prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without just compensation.

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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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Arbitration and Title VII Pattern-or-Practice Claims After Epic Systems
Simon Jacobs
S.B. 2014, The University of Chicago; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Thank you to the editors of the University of Chicago Law Review, especially Sam Kane, Jay Clayton, and Kelly Gregg, and Professors Randall Schmidt and James Whitehead.