Volume 111, Issue 6
Lejing Lin
J.D., Cornell Law School, 2027; B.A., Binghamton University, 2021.
The Author thanks the editors of the Cornell Law Review for their invaluable assistance in editing this Note.
In some American neighborhoods, a resident can walk three blocks in any direction and find a supermarket stocked with fresh produce, specialty items, and organic alternatives; living in such a “food oasis” is defined by abundance, choice, and competition. In others, a resident must travel miles just to buy basic groceries, navigating convenience stores where…
Trace M. Maddox
Assistant Professor of Law, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University.
I wish to thank the participants in the Lawyering Scholarship Colloquium for their constant support (and occasional commiseration) throughout the legal scholarship process, as well as Ed Cheng, Lissa Griffin, Nathaniel Donahue, and Saurabh Vishnubhakat for their invaluable time and feedback.
Modern American confession law is a ghost of its former self. Under current Due Process doctrine, a confession is admissible at trial only if it is “voluntary”—a rule that the Supreme Court claims to derive from two centuries of Anglo-American common law. But this doctrinal origin story is little more than a fiction. Today’s reductive…
Nathan S.W. Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at UC Irvine School of Law and Ph.D. Candidate, NYU Politics. J.D., NYU Law.
Special thanks to Richard Brooks, Mari Matsuda, Melissa Schwartzberg, Carrie Ann Shirota, and the staff of the Cornell Law Review.
WALTER: Don’t cry, Mama. Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had. It’s important to him and I’m going to help him . . . MAMA: Son—I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers—but ain’t nobody in…
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Guy A. Rub
Vincent J. Marella Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
The doctrine of copyright exhaustion conceals a substantial and underappreciated subsidy at the heart of American copyright law. For more than a century, it has operated as a deliberate congressional scheme transferring billions of dollars in value to cultural institutions, such as libraries, museums, and galleries. This Essay reconceptualizes copyright law as a system of…
Amanda Borwegen & Ajay K. Mehrotra
J.D. 2025, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; B.A. 2019, Washington & Jefferson College. Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law; Affiliated Professor of History, Northwestern University; and Research Professor, American Bar Foundation. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2025 American Association of Law School Conference. We thank the participants at that conference for their useful feedback, and to those colleagues and friends who reviewed and discussed drafts of this essay including Jennifer Bird-Pollan, Ari Glogower, Christopher Hanna, Andy Koppelman, Philip Postlewaite, Samy Abdelsalam, and Maggie Amen. We are grateful to Noah Taran for excellent research assistance, and to Jeena Patel and the staff of the Cornell Law Review for their assistance. All errors, of course, remain our own.
On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). This new law was built on the foundations of its immediate predecessor, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). This Essay examines the historical roots and contemporary implications of these two laws. It argues that both…
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