01/29/2019
We are thrilled to announce the Volume 114 Editorial Board and Associate Editors!
A student-operated journal that publishes six issues of high-quality, general legal scholarship each year.
The Northwestern University Law Review is a student-operated journal that publishes six issues of high-quality, general legal scholarship each year. Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces.
01/29/2019
We are thrilled to announce the Volume 114 Editorial Board and Associate Editors!
01/22/2019
Profs. Dave Fagundes & Jessica Roberts argue that HUD's smoke-free policy is an example of healthism and should be modified to ensure more just implementation. Read more at http://bit.ly/NULR113-4_Fagundes
01/21/2019
Prof. Melissa Murray examines how both and conscience exemptions such as in exemplify private sexual regulation, though in different ways. Read more at http://bit.ly/NULR113-4_Murray
01/18/2019
Prof. Alex Long argues that courts should abandon the special rules in tort law that treat su***de as a superseding cause of a decedent's death and instead follow traditional tort principles. Read more at http://bit.ly/NULR113-4_Long
01/17/2019
Prof. Aziz Huq considers judicial reliance on "gloss" in the context of the Fourth Amendment, arguing that applying current police practice to interpret the scope of Fourth Amendment search and seizure protection is theoretically unjustified. Read at http://bit.ly/NULR113-4_Huq
01/16/2019
Theo A. Lesczynski (JD '18) examines how the Supreme Court's decision last year in Janus (declaring agency fees unconstitutional) could impact First Amendment protections for public employee workplace speech. Read more at http://bit.ly/NULR113-4_Lesczynski
01/15/2019
The Editorial Board is pleased to announce publication of the fourth issue of . Read more at http://bit.ly/NwULRev
01/01/2019
We've got a great New Years' read for you!
In their ESSAY "Housing, Healthism, and the HUD Smoke-Free Policy," Profs. and argue that the HUD smoke-free policy discriminates on the basis of health status.
Read it here: http://ow.ly/rWYD50k4Bn6
12/20/2018
ESSAY: In "Arguing with the Building Inspector," Prof. Jennifer Hendricks argues that the International Building Code should be interpreted to allow for gender-neutral bathrooms. Read it here: http://ow.ly/hPqs50jZIzS
12/07/2018
Anna Karnaze tackles discrimination in the National School Lunch Program in "You Are Where You Eat" . Read on at http://bit.ly/NULR113-3_Karnaze
12/06/2018
In , Josh Cowin proposes a solution to clarify the IDEA's Free Appropriate Public Education standard after Endrew F. – read more at http://bit.ly/NULR113-3_Cowin
12/05/2018
Prof. Jessica Clarke calls for courts to recognize the harms of explicit bias in both statutory and constitutional contexts in -3. Read "Explicit Bias" at http://bit.ly/NULR113-3_Clarke