Title VII promises to protect employees from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. However, for plaintiffs who assert claims on the basis
of more than one identity, that promise often falls apart in court. This Note argues that the comparator requirement is part of the issue. [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 decision in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson was consequential both for the judicial system and for homeless defendants. The Court's holding that
ordinances punishing sleeping and camping outside were not cruel and unusual punishments under the Eighth Amendment opened the floodgates for municipalities to either [...]
The doctrine of First Amendment overbreadth instructs judges to treat certain statutes as unenforceable even if they have lawful applications. The theory is that if a statute
restricts too much protected speech, it is invalid on its face. The fact that it has some lawful applications will not save it. [...]
In 2025, the Trump administration ended long-standing efforts to determine the extent to which pollution has disproportionate impacts on different communities, including overburdened
and disadvantaged communities. But, at the same time, it reaffirmed its commitment to performing benefit–cost analysis to analyze the consequences of regulations. [...]
Social safety nets are essential to a resilient and adaptive economic system. This study examines their influence on corporate tax avoidance using the staggered implementation
of U.S. state-level paid family leave (PFL) programs, social safety net policies designed to enhance employees' work-life balance, as a quasi-natural experiment. [...]
AbstractThis article considers the issues that arise when powers under a trust are given to anyone other than trustees and why it is a difficult area that has given rise to
a substantial amount of litigation. It summarizes the principal duties that generally apply to different types of powers and why labels such as ‘fiduciary’ or [...]
AbstractThis article examines the legal feasibility and practical utility of bifurcating the proper law of a trust—a structure in which the law governing the substantive
and dispositive provisions differs from the law governing the trustees’ administrative powers and conduct. [...]
AbstractThe legal institution of trusts was introduced to the Hungarian legal system in 2014, following the example of the ‘trust’ known in Anglo-Saxon legal systems. The
Hungarian regulation of trusts established by a testament which is based on the testamentary trust well known in Anglo-Saxon law, raises a number of questions. [...]