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Founded in 1902, MLR is a journal dedicated to sharing legal scholarship edited by @UMichLaw students. Now accepting: Online
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined September 2009
We are excited to announce the members of Volume 124 of the Michigan Law Review! Congratulations to our Associate Editors!
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Victims’ rights are often justified for living victims, yet the movement centers on crime-caused deaths. In “The Victims’ Rights Mismatch,” Professor @lee_kovarsky (@UTexasLaw) proposes a tiered rights regime for victims’ rights. Read the article: https://t.co/9mfLZ5rCA6
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A puzzling mismatch lurks inside victims’ rights law. Victims’ rights are most easily justified when held by living victims, but the cultural movement has triumphed largely as a response to crime-c...
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Does disability law require others to change their behavior to accommodate disabled individuals? In “Third-Party Accommodations,” Professor @DorfmanDoron (@SetonHallLaw) explores this overlooked issue and proposes a new framework. Read more here:
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Does disability rights law impose an obligation on employers, schools, and other places of public accommodation to control the behavior of coworkers, students, or other third parties to accommodate...
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Abolition’s ambiguity lets people with diverse views connect with the idea. In “Reforming Abolition," Professor Daniel Fryer (@UMichLaw) argues this flexibility serves its political mission. “It’s a call to reform abolition.” Read the article here:
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Abolition is an elusive concept, which allows people with various political views to identify with the idea. This Article unpacks some of the conceptual features that lead to its elusiveness. This...
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Issue 2 of Volume 124 is now live on our website! Make sure to read these insightful articles by Daniel Fryer, @DorfmanDoron, and @lee_kovarsky at https://t.co/BSkVa8tx8f. Throughout the week, we will highlight each article in the thread below. Stay tuned for more!
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Former general counsel of the CFPB, Seth Frotman (@sethfrotman), examines how federal government lawyers can help ensure that laws are faithfully administered to address contemporary challenges. Read MLR Online's latest publication here:
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This speech, given by the general counsel of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on January 7, 2025, examines how federal government lawyers can help ensure that laws are faithfully...
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Curious about America’s security state origins? MLR Online’s latest is a book review of Anthony Gregory’s New Deal Law and Order. @StJohnsLaw's Professor Dhaliwal explores how FDR’s “war on crime” shaped criminal justice and state power. Read here:
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New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself...
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I am just thrilled to have my new article Third-Party Accommodations officially out @michlawreview! The MLR editors were a pleasure to work with, and sharing the same volume as @lee_kovarsky & Daniel Fryer is the cherry on top. Read it: https://t.co/ndbIWQCB2y
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Grateful to @thehoya for this generous story on my recent visit to @oneillinstitute & Program in Disability Studies at @Georgetown to talk about my new project Third-Party Accommodations (forthcoming @michlawreview). Check it out 👇
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In a Sept. 25 lecture at Riggs Library, Doron Dorfman, professor of disability law at Seton Hall University School of Law, contended that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) remains too limited…
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@StanfordLaw @nyulaw @hazelrosen21 (4/4) A timely new note from our very own Eleanor Thompson argues that international investment law comes at the cost of state action to protect human rights. Eleanor proposes a solution drawing on the fiduciary theory of statehood. Check it out:
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International investment law provides stability for investors, helps capital flow across the globe, and can be a critical tool for sustainable development. This regime, however, has become increasi...
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@StanfordLaw @nyulaw (3/4) A powerful new note from our very own @hazelrosen21 examines how notice-and-comment rulemaking has become inequitable, inaccessible, and ineffective. Hazel proposes a practical (and statutory!) fix for agency engagement. Check it out:
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Notice and comment is a public participation process, first articulated in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), that was heralded at the time as a critical innovation to engage the general...
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What does the “legal mid-transition” mean for clean energy? Prof. Alison Gocke explores the phenomenon in a new paper. @michlawreview
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In a new paper, University of Virginia School of Law professor Alison Gocke examines how legal frameworks are in flux amid the transition to clean energy.
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@StanfordLaw (2/4) Bankruptcy isn’t just a practical hurdle for tort plaintiffs—it’s a historical and doctrinal force in tort law. A new article by @nyulaw’s Mark Geistfeld explains how the availability of compensation has shaped the basic structure of tort law:
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Large corporations facing extensive tort liabilities have often gone into bankruptcy, forcing tort plaintiffs to accept pennies on the dollar as compensation for their injuries. Bankruptcy painfully...
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(1/4) Courts are overwhelmed by an access-to-justice crisis, but is legal insurance the answer? A new article by @StanfordLaw's Nora Engstrom uncovers the forgotten 1970s experiment—and why we may be repeating old mistakes. Check it out:
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Courts are buckling under the weight of a staggering access-to-justice crisis. In three-quarters of cases, at least one side lacks a lawyer, default judgments are on the rise, and most Americans with...
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Issue 1 of Volume 124 is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these wonderful pieces by Nora Freeman Engstrom, Mark A. Geistfeld, @hazelrosen21, and Eleanor L. Thompson at https://t.co/BSkVa8u4XN. Stay tuned for highlights of each publication in the thread below!
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The final issue of Volume 123, Issue 8, is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these engaging pieces by @RebeccaWexler, @fredosmithjr, and Edward Webre Plaut at https://t.co/BSkVa8tx8f.
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MLR Online Publication: @WFULawSchool’s Samir Parikh explores Arizona's Alternative Business Structure and the threat of a vertically integrated “litigation colossus.” Check out Professor Parikh’s piece:
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In 2021, Arizona created the alternative business structure (ABS), which allows nonattorneys to own a firm that provides legal services and actively participate in firm management. Scholars have...
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The penultimate issue of Volume 123, Issue 7, is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these interesting pieces by Alvin Padilla-Babilonia, Nicholas Holmes, and Eric Walker at https://t.co/BSkVa8tx8f.
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Issue 6 of Volume 123, our Book Review Issue, is now live on our website! Make sure to check out these incredible reviews at https://t.co/wHqntJT3nQ.
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Congratulations to Frank Schulze on winning the @AntitrustInst's Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Writing Award as the Best Antitrust Student Publication of 2024! Check out Frank’s note on our website:
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In New York v. Meta Platforms, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit applied equitable laches to an antitrust lawsuit brought by forty-six state attorneys general, holding...
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Thrilled to have my work on Third-Party Accommodations (forth. @michlawreview) featured on the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast (@podcastingmcs) that amplifies voices of people w Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) & research about the illness. Take a listen: https://t.co/rHa47Gbv7a
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