Recent Developments

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Recent Articles

Letter from the Editor

72 Am. U. L. Rev. (2022).

By Shahnoor Kamal Khan
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The Insidious Effect of Soundbites: Why Fences Aren’t Punishment

72 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2022).

By Theresa Gabaldon*
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Polluters Paradise: The Dark Canon of the United States Supreme Court in Pollution Control Law

72 Am. U. L. Rev. 61 (2022).

By Oliver A. Houck*
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Judicial Review of Emergency Administration

72 Am. U. L. Rev. 143 (2022).

By Desirée LeClercq*
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Social Justice as Desistance: Rethinking Approaches to Gender Violence

72 Am. U. L. Rev. 215 (2022).

By Deborah M. Weissman*
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Black Lives Matter Protests, the January 6th Insurrection, and Facial Recognition Technology as Admissible Evidence

72 Am. U. L. Rev. 277 (2022).

By Laura C. Powell*
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Unequal Justice: Why Federal Courts Should Adopt the Individualized Approach to Sentencing Defendants Convicted of Drug Conspiracy

72 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 19 (2022).

By Alexis S. Hughes
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Response to Wasserman And Rhodes: The Texas S.B. 8 Litigation and “Our Formalism”

72 Am. U. L. Rev. F. 1 (2022).

By B. Jessie Hill*
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Lawmaking Without Law: How Overreliance on Economics Fails Financial Regulation (and what to Do About It)

71 Am. U. L. Rev. 2111 (2022).

By Steven L. Schwarcz* & Theodore L. Leonhardt**
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Misinformation About Marijuana: Commercialization, Consolidation, and the New First Amendment

71 Am. U. L. Rev. 2157 (2022).

By David Angelatos*
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