122 Yale L.J. 2694 (2013).Although it is fitting to celebrate Gideon’s promise of representation for indigent criminal defendants at this landmark anniversary, it is important also to note that part ...

This Essay examines the overlooked long-term costs generated by restricted charitable gifts to the government. It reveals that gift compliance disputes are surprisingly frequent and costly to litigate ...

Freight railroading today is profitable but fails workers, consumers, and communities in serious ways. This Note argues that both the railroad industry’s financial success and its operational ...

118 Yale L.J. 1318 (2009). More than twenty-one years after Robert Bork’s failed Supreme Court nomination and seventeen years after Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the ...

122 Yale L.J. 574 (2012).One of the most promising regulatory currents consists of “targeted” disclosure: mandating simplified information disclosure at the time of decisionmaking to “nudge” parties ...

121 Yale L.J. 678 (2011). As punitive damages have gained greater visibility in Supreme Court jurisprudence, the need for principles explaining punitive damages and guiding their application has grown ...

111 Yale L.J. 443 (2001)The path of international law over the last century has been one of increasing both the breadth and the depth of its coverage. Its breadth has grown through the addition of new ...

111 Yale L.J. 1870 (2002)Do countries comply with the requirements of human rights treaties that they join? Are these treaties effective in chan- ging changing states' behavior for the better? This ...

119 Yale L.J. 458 (2009). The plenary power doctrine sharply limits the judiciary’s power to police immigration regulation—a fact that has preoccupied immigration law scholars for decades. But ...

115 Yale L.J. 680 (2005)The book-tax accounting gap allows corporations to minimize their earnings for tax purposes while maximizing them in reports to investors, all within the letter of the law.

122 Yale L.J. 1826 (2013).A growing body of evidence demonstrates that in some contexts and for identifiable reasons, people make choices that are not in their interest, even when the stakes are high.

114 Yale L.J. 1675 (2005)In Song fa xiaxiang: Zhongguo jiceng sifazhidu yanjiu [Sending Law to the Countryside: Research on China's Basic-Level Judicial System], Dean Zhu Suli of Beijing University ...