The Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 was intended to significantly expand the sentencing powers of tribal courts, raising the maximum sentence for a given offense from one year to three. But the Act requires courts that would take advantage of these new powers to provide significant procedural protections to criminal defendants, while failing to provide the funding most tribal courts would need...
Trayvon Martin & Implicit Bias
The killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and recent verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman has generated intense national debate. Mr. Zimmerman's verdict has not ended the discussion, but instead caused of a firestorm of conversation in the national media. In light of this debate, we offer a 2012 essay published by two UCLA Law alums discussing the concept of implicit bias and its relationship...
"Healthcare for All"?: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality in the Affordable Care Act
The rhetoric of universal healthcare and healthcare for all that pervaded the healthcare debate culminated in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) passage. The ACA, however offers reduced to no healthcare services for certain noncitizen groups, specifically: (1) recently arrived legal permanent residents, (2) nonimmigrants, and (3) undocumented immigrants. This Article explores how the ACA fails to...
Vistas of Finance
Finance is undergoing a fundamental and technological shift. In the years ahead, there will inevitably be new financial characters and new financial cliffhangers. In this reply to the response of Professor Stephen Bainbridge to my article, The New Investor, I offer commentary on one particular new financial character, then on the general trope of cliffhangers as they relate to financial...
Prosecuting the Undead: Federal Criminal Law in a World of Zombies
Adam Chodorow’s recent essay, Death and Taxes and Zombies, has alerted the legal world to the dangers posed by the looming zombie apocalypse. Chodorow successfully demonstrates that existing tax laws are woefully inadequate in a world where the undead outnumber the taxpaying living. In this Essay, I argue that while tax law may be ill suited to address the zombie apocalypse, federal criminal...
Welcome Volume 61 Staff!
The Board of Editors of the UCLA Law Review welcomes the 49 staff members who joined the Law Review over summer 2013!
The list of new staff members for Volume 61, in addition to the Board, is available on our Current Members page.
First Amendment Constraints on Copyright After Golan v. Holder
Each year, the UCLA School of Law hosts the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture. Since 1986, the lecture series has served as a forum for leading scholars in the fields of copyright and First Amendment law. In recent years, the lecture has been presented by many distinguished scholars. The UCLA Law Review has published these lectures and proudly continues that tradition by publishing an...
Intraracial Diversity
Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of affirmative action. Once again, the focus will be on the diversity rationale for the policy. And, once again, the discussion will likely center on whether the admissions regime of a particular school (this time, the University of Texas) can take steps to ensure that it admits a certain number—or to put the point more...