Category: Volume 58 Issue 3
Adjudicating Fake News
Filippo Lancieri, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Barbara Marchiori de Assis†
On July 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil and sanctioned a sitting Brazilian Supreme Court Justice, both partially because of Brazil’s online content moderation decisions. This is an extreme, but not an isolated event: worldwide, legislators and regulators struggle to craft public policies that address problems of disinformation…
May 2026
Regulating the Gatekeepers: Constitutional Limits, Institutional Design, and the Crisis of Legal Education in Ghana
Stephen Kwaku Asare† & Theophilus Edwin Coleman††
This Article argues that Ghana’s recurring legal education crisis reflects a deeper constitutional failure in the design of professional regulation. When regulatory, educational, and gatekeeping functions are institutionally conflated, discretionary scarcity emerges that courts can constrain but cannot fix. Using Ghana as a case study, the Article shows why judicial intervention— while effective at limiting…
May 2026
Reforming the International Law and Organization of New Vaccines for the World’s Most Vulnerable People
Sam Halabi,† Nishtha Arora,†† Kashish Aneja,††† Katherine Ginsbach,†††† Alison Durran††††† & Olohikhuae Egbokhare††††††
The global system for developing new vaccines against diseases that disproportionately kill and disable the world’s poorest people has become a victim of its own success. As the pace with which safe and effective vaccines against neglected tropical diseases are developed accelerates, the world is increasingly finding itself moving from a situation typified by low…
May 2026
Constitutional Accountability in the Platform Age: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Algorithmic Governance
Nicola Lucchi
Algorithmic governance increasingly shapes how information circulates, how norms are enforced, and how democratic decisions are made. Yet constitutional theory lacks the tools to conceptualize accountability in this new environment, where private digital platforms exercise public-like powers with limited oversight. This Article develops a new framework for digital constitutional accountability, structured around three dimensions: epistemic…
May 2026