Volume 54, Issue 1

Barbara Ann Atwood: A Tribute

On the occasion of Justice Harry Blackmun’s retirement, Justice Souter made the following remark: “I dissent!” On the occasion of Mary Anne Richey Professor Barbara Ann Atwood’s retirement, I likewise…
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Marital Contracts and the Meaning of Marriage

Contracts between spouses that alter the basic default rules of marital property and support are subject to widely varying legal standards across the United States. As with premarital contracts, the…
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Sentencing Proportionality in the States

It seems axiomatic in a “government of laws and not of men” that a sentence ought to be generally proportionate in degree to the underlying criminal offense. Extreme, disproportionate sentences…
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Cleaning Elections

The term “clean elections” refers to systems of full public financing, wherein participating candidates rely entirely on public subsidies to run their campaigns without any private money. Although only a…
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