The Fifteenth Amendment is usually an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth Amendment. This oversight is perplexing: the Fifteenth Amendment ushered in a brief period of multiracial democracy and laid the constitutional foundation for the VRA. This Article completes the historical record, providing an unabridged accounting of the Fifteenth Amendment’s adoption.

The Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) model promotes direct services and public policy advocacy by lawyers incorporated into medical teams. Drawing on personal experiences, this Essay proposes that to accomplish policy change, MLP practitioners organize and be organized into community coalitions built and maintained around a robust vision of health justice.

Everyone believes that immigration law has been exceptional since its late nineteenth-century birth—insulated from judicial review by the Court’s creation of the “plenary power doctrine.” But early immigration law was actually ordinary public law. Recovering this reality has profound implications for scholars of immigration and public law alike.

Introduction. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, sovereign debt in developing countries ballooned to unprecedented levels. According to one estimate from 2021, the global pandemic added $24 trillion to global debt, a number that is estimated to be even higher by the time of this Note’s publication. 1 A second estimate suggests that the global debt burden increased by more in 2020 than in ...

This Article excavates the Founding Era approach to expressive freedom, which was grounded in a multifaceted understanding of natural rights that no longer survives in American constitutional thought. This forgotten history undercuts the Supreme Court’s recent insistence that the axioms of modern doctrine inhere in the Speech Clause itself.

the yale law journal 129:1568 2020 1572 of any police officer or flagperson or other person duly empowered to regulate traffic,” yet the statute does not define “lawful order or direction.”17 In 1973, a trial court interpreted the New York provision to allow officers to give com-

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S.R. 3.5: Internal Cross-References In footnotes in which an internal cross-reference is used in a textual sentence, always use “supra” or “infra” immediately preceding the cross-reference (i.e., without a preposition like “in” or “at”).For example:

Forty-four states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government criminalize disobeying the “lawful orders” of police officers. But it is uncertain which orders are lawful. This Comment proposes a model statute that would clarify and limit police authority while informing civilians about the legal risks of disobedience.