Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.

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Article, Volume 106, December 2018, Aaron Tang California Law Review Article, Volume 106, December 2018, Aaron Tang California Law Review

Rethinking Political Power in Judicial Review

For decades, scholars have argued that the proper judicial response when democratically enacted laws burden politically powerless minority groups is more aggressive judicial review. This political process approach, however, has fallen on deaf ears at the Supreme Court since the 1970s. Justice Scalia was thus accurate (if not politic) when…

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Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Sean Farhang California Law Review Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Sean Farhang California Law Review

Legislating for Litigation: Delegation, Public Policy, and Democracy

When Congress enacts command-and-control regulation, it chooses between implementation through litigation and courts, through bureaucracy, or through a hybrid regime. Since the late 1960s, the frequency with which Congress has relied on civil litigation for frontline enforcement of statutes grew dramatically, and with it grew rates of federal statutory litigation and the role of courts…

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Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Leah Litman California Law Review Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Leah Litman California Law Review

Remedial Convergence and Collapse

This Article describes and interrogates a phenomenon of spillovers across remedies—how the legal standards governing the availability of remedies in cases regarding executive violations of individuals’ constitutional rights, particularly in the area of policing, have converged around similar ideas that narrow the availability of several different remedies. A similar set of limits restricts the availability…

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Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Sarath Sanga California Law Review Article, Volume 106, October 2018, Sarath Sanga California Law Review

A Theory of Corporate Joint Ventures

In a corporate joint venture, two corporations—often competitors—collaborate on a project. But how can corporations be partners and competitors at the same time? Though it sounds like a contradiction, such collaborations are commonplace. Many of the most familiar products come from corporate joint ventures, from high-technology like solid-state drives for laptops or rocket boosters for…

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