“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”  Or so it seems, based on the results of this… Read More

A common view holds that, according to prominent scholars of law and economics, such as Ronald Coase or Guido Calabresi… Read More

Insider trading is as common as it is illegal.  The result is many high-profile insider trading cases stemming from government… Read More

Expertise plays a starring role in administrative law.  Congress establishes administrative agencies and often gives them substantial discretion because it lacks… Read More

In Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the United States Supreme Court established a new method of assessing the admissibility… Read More

“[E]very contact leaves a trace.”  The advent of touch DNA testing has stretched this maxim of forensic science to its… Read More

Our society has made remarkable advances in medical science over the past few decades.  A significant portion of these advances… Read More

Seventeen percent of all American adults online use Instagram, a social media platform whose motto is, “Capture and Share the… Read More

Jailhouse snitch testimony is arguably the single most unreliable type of evidence currently used in criminal trials.  Snitches are deeply… Read More

In various areas of procedural doctrine, courts must define the content of an “issue.”  Consider a few examples. The doctrine… Read More

My argument proceeds in four parts.  In Part I, I introduce the history of crimes of migration, unpack their structure,… Read More

Two phantoms haunt our law schools: the phantom theory-practice divide and its fraternal twin, Langdell’s ghost.  As ghosts do, they… Read More