2026
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Shreya Mandal (Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CUNY) has posted Between Recognition and Erasure: Scheduled Caste Jurisprudence, Religious Conversion, and the Intergenerational Afterlife of Caste on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Two recent Supreme Court developments concerning Scheduled Caste (SC) status illuminate a deep contradiction in Indian constitutionalism. In State of Punjab
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Carlissa Carson (Samford University – Cumberland School of Law) has posted Restoring the Balance of War Powers: A Call to Repeal and Replace the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, forthcoming in the San Diego Law Review, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Recently, the House Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing entitled “Reclaiming
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Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon (Lab for the Future of Citizenship) have posted AI Agents in Civil Registration and Migration Management on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) agents have the potential to transform civil registration and migration management, with huge implications for stateless people, migrants, and refugees. Non-agentic AI can already rapidly
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Jenny Breen (Syracuse University — College of Law) has posted Democracy Talk: The Roberts Court on Democratic Ideas and Practice, forthcoming in 78 South Carolina Law Review (Fall 2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article takes a novel approach to questions surrounding democracy and the Supreme Court by training its lens on the
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Marco Basile (Boston College Law School) has posted Old Textualism, New Juristocracy (New York University Law Review, Volume 101, forthcoming 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article traces the emergence of text-centric theories of legal interpretation in the early nineteenth century amid an increasingly writing-based legal culture. While many scholars and judges associate
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Jennifer D. Oliva (Indiana University Maurer School of Law) has posted Government Goes Goop, published in 75 Emory L.J. Online 32 (2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that the appointment of prominent wellness and antivaccine figures to senior federal health positions marks the culmination of a long-running evolution in American health
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Chad Squitieri (Catholic University Columbus School of Law) has posted Congress in the Mouth of a Lawyer, 78 Ala. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: It is common to loosely speak of “Congress” as making federal law—or what the Constitution refers to as the “supreme Law of the Land.” But what,
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Kenneth A. Bamberger and Deirdre K. Mulligan (University of California, Berkeley) have posted Recentering Public Values In AI Governance: Examples From The Biden Administration, published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 40, No. 4, pp. 1135-1183 (2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article situates key Biden-Harris Administration AI initiatives within a “governance-by-design”
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Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki – Faculty of Law) has posted What is Animal Dignity in Law?, Helsinki Legal Studies Research Paper No. 100, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article seeks to understand dignity in the context of primarily European animal law. Its main claim is that the notion of dignity is used
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David Seidman (Capital Rights Lab) has posted Governing The Seat, Not the City: The Constitutional Limits of Plenary Power in the District of Columbia, forthcoming in 95 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Arguendo (2026), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Congress’s authority over the District of Columbia is often described as plenary, but it is not