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The Commissioner Goes Too Far: The Best Interests of Baseball Clause And The Astros\u27 High Tech Sign-Stealing Scandal
Get PDFA Coach\u27s Fight to Pray: A Public High School Coach\u27s Case Involving The First Amendment
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Revenge of the Sixth: The Constitutional Reckoning of Pandemic Justice
Get PDFThe Sixth Amendment’s criminal jury right is integral to the United States
criminal justice system. While this right is also implicated by the Due Process
Clause, Equal Protection Clause, and several federal and state statutes,
criminal jury trial rates have been declining for decades, down from
approximately 20% to 2% between 1988 to 2018. This dramatic drop in the
rate of criminal jury trials is an effective measure of the decreased access to
fair and constitutional criminal jury trials
The Burdens of All: Progressive Origins of Accident Cost Socialization in Tort Law, 1870-1920
Get PDFScholars who have studied the Progressive Movement’s contributions to
American law have paid little attention to its impact on tort law. This Article
helps fill the gap by examining the ways in which Progressivism shaped the rise
of employer liability law, workers compensation, and comparative negligence
during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The Article places
these reforms within the broader social history of American tort law—a
gradual, often tortuous transition from free-labor beliefs that the law should
encourage personal responsibility and economic growth above all else to a
realization that injuries are an unavoidable cost of economic modernization,
accompanied by a long-running debate over the extent to which the costs of
accidents should be socialized