Spotlight: Authors Robert Thomas and Ilya Somin Share Their Experiences Publishing with FULJ
Our most recent scholarship, Volume 47.3, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision in Knick v. Township of Scott and its impact on takings jurisprudence and the role of Stare Decisis. Recently, two of our outstanding authors, Robert Thomas and Ilya Somin, blogged further insights about the case, Fordham Urban Law Journal’s symposium, and the publication process […]
Policing in America: On Behalf of the Community
By Eric J. Miller* The development of the institutional approach to policing, and procedure more generally, is one of the most exciting features of criminal procedure over the past decade. More accurately, there are a series of institutional approaches—doctrinal, philosophical, sociological, empirical—that all claim that there is independent value in regulating the police, separate from […]
Policing in America: Rafa Esparza’s Red Summer
Yxta Maya Murray Yxta Maya Murray is a professor at Loyola Law School. She has authored six novels, and also serves as a contributing editor for Artillery Magazine, an arts publication based in Los Angeles. On Saturday, August 13, 2016, from dawn to dusk, performance artist Rafa Esparza carved weapons out of dead trees in […]
Policing in America: American Policing in the Post-Ferguson Era
By Justin Nix* American policing is currently in the midst of a legitimacy crisis, fueled primarily by numerous highly publicized fatal shootings of black citizens over the last two and a half years.[1] Arguably the most consequential was the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. This incident sparked protests throughout the United States […]