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The Gender of Gideon

ABSTRACT This Article makes a simple claim that has been overlooked for decades and yet has enormous theoretical and practical significance: the constitutional guarantee of counsel adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Gideon v. Wainwright accrues...

The WTO Waiver on COVID-19 Vaccine Patents

Abstract In 2020, India and South Africa proposed a waiver (TRIPS Waiver) to temporarily suspend the protection of COVID-19 related intellectual property rights of countries belonging to the World Trade Organization (WTO).  Disagreements between...

Unfit to Print: Government Speech and the First Amendment

ABSTRACT 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. The UCLA Law Review has regularly...

The Miseducation Of Carceral Reform

ABSTRACT Public education looms large in criminal law reform. As states debate what to invest in—other than criminal law enforcement—to provide safety and security to the public, public schools have emerged as a popular answer. Today, legislatures...