For over a century, the Yale Law Journal has been at the forefront of legal scholarship, sparking conversation and encouraging reflection among scholars and students, as well as practicing lawyers and ...

Public-procurement laws are integral to government capacity. But two forces limit government’s potential: (1) adversarial legalism and (2) ...

Inequality has reached record levels, and the judiciary has shown increasing willingness to intervene through tax policy. This Feature excavates ...

This Article traces vacatur from English and early American practice to the Supreme Court’s modern uses. Historically used for docket management, ...

Trading Acres reveals how property, corporate, and securities law are fueling a new rural land grab, transforming farmland into an asset traded through ...

Medicaid faces an uncertain future. This Note looks to the Indian Health Service (IHS) for ways to buoy the nation’s largest healthcare program.

122 Yale L.J. 1372 (2013). “Rape-by-deception” is almost universally rejected in American criminal law. But if rape is sex without the ...

abstract. Over the past generation, conflicting trends have reshaped the ownership of corporate equity on the one hand and corporate debt on the other. In equity, the two great trends have been the ...

abstract. The access-to-justice gap is growing, affecting individuals with both civil and criminal needs in the United States. Though these challenges are multifaceted, procedural barriers in the U.S.

abstract. This Note presents a study of judicial decisions that have engaged with executive orders. The study was designed to elucidate the contexts in which courts have considered executive orders; ...

abstract. Common wisdom has it that bureaucrats are unaccountable to the people they regulate and must therefore be closely supervised by elected officials or (perhaps ironically) the federal courts.

This essay is part of a collection The <I>Insular Cases</I> in Light of <I>Aurelius</I> Over 120 years after YLJ published its first piece on the Insular Cases, these cases appeared again before the ...