For more than a century, the United States has restricted Tribal governments’ powers over criminal law. It has diminished Tribal jurisdiction and imposed adversarial approaches on Tribal courts. But recently, some Tribal courts have begun to embrace Indigenous-based restorative justice models. UCLA School of Law Assistant Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde discusses how these these models strengthen both Tribal courts and Tribal jurisdiction more broadly.

Each year, Child Protective Services investigates over one million families. Every investigation includes a room-by-room search of the family home, as well as the threat of the state’s coercive authority to remove children from their families. CUNY School of Law Professor Tarek Z. Ismail discusses how these investigations have evaded traditional Fourth Amendment scrutiny.

Americans have long persevered in the face of the national welfare system's inadequacies. But when a new challenge like climate change emerges, how can the United States adapt its welfare programs to assist its people?

Consumer Law practitioners and scholars have long argued that credit scores perpetuate historical social discrimination along lines of race, class and gender. But what happens when abusers weaponize this financial tool and the structural inequities baked into it and coerce debt from their partners? And what does the new California statute created to rectify such coercion actually do?

As law schools in the United States develop anti racist curricula and expand their experiential learning programs, the debate continues as to whether and how the purpose of legal education converges with societal efforts to reckon with America's legacy of white supremacy.

The Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution has received little attention from federal courts since its ratification. The Amendment’s language is broad and far-ranging, prohibiting conditioning the right to vote on payment of poll taxes or “any other” tax.

When employers commit wage violations against their low wage employees, recovery of those funds through a lawsuit or the administrative process is difficult and time consuming, no matter the outcome of the litigation, the result is a transfer of wealth from the victims of wage theft to the perpetrators. But what if there was a way to ensure employees are paid up front for their lost wages?

In the United States, many recently incarcerated individuals struggle to find housing. The Coronavirus pandemic forced a national conversation about this issue, and highlighted how essential the right to housing is to prison abolition efforts.

All first year law students take contracts, where they learn about offer and acceptance and what makes a legally enforceable agreement. But what can contract theory tell us about police violence against black people in the United States? Welcome to the California Law Review podcast.

In Louisiana, low-income communities and communities of color disproportionately bear the harmful health effects that result from living near the state's countless oil refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas facilities. At the same time, the Louisiana legislature recently passed a disability selective abortion ban, which would prohibit abortions that are sought because the child will be born with a disability.