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Daniel I. Morales (University of Houston Law Center) has posted The (Im)materiality of Immigration Law (forthcoming, 58 Columbia Human Rights Law Review __ (2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Immigration law killed Renée Good, Alex Pretti, and many other noble souls last year, just as it has killed innumerable people on the move over
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Elena Chachko (UC Berkeley School of Law) has posted The New Emergency Law (95 George Washington Law Review, forthcoming 2027) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The last three presidential administrations invoked delegated emergency authority in novel and expansive ways with substantial domestic effect. Key executive actions like the imposition of global tariffs, removal under
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Teng Li (National University of Singapore (NUS) — Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS)) has posted Legitimacy, Pacification, and the Rule of Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In the literature, the Rule of Law (ROL) is mainly explained, and its value justified, by reference to its support for a liberal conception of human
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Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt Law School) and Joel Dodge (Vanderbilt Law School) have posted Public Factories on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The United States is confronting a new era of recurring shortages and risky geopolitical dependencies in essential goods, from medical supplies to semiconductors, revealing vulnerabilities in globalized supply chains and market-driven production. Scholars and
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Larry Catá Backer (Pennsylvania State University — Penn State Dickinson Law) and Daniil Rose (Pennsylvania State University) have posted Blockchain Regulatory Systems—Conceptual and Operational Challenges on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article challenges one of the most common assumptions in contemporary blockchain discourse: that code can be understood as a “rule” analogous to law.
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Amy J. Wildermuth (University of Minnesota Law School & University of Pittsburgh School of Law) has posted The Brave New World of Administrative Law (78 Administrative Law Review, forthcoming 2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Administrative law is in substantial flux. Over the last fifteen years, beginning with its decision in Free Enterprise Fund
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Noam Gur (Queen Mary, University of London) has posted Cognitive Biases and Political Obligation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This chapter approaches the question of political obligation from a functional standpoint, focusing particularly on law’s function as a bias-counteracting device. Following a few preliminary clarifications (section 25.1), the chapter presents an explains law’s bias-counteracting
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Budhaditya Ghosh (West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences) has posted Sacramental Property: Evolving a New Model for Temple Management on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper examines the necessity of evolving a new management model for Hindu temples, arguing that current “secular” state control is a colonial vestige that undermines religious agency. Historically,
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Tobias Vestner (Geneva Centre for Security Policy; Stanford University) and Stuart Maslen (Independent) have posted Human Rights related to AI in Counterterrorism, forthcoming in Claire Finkelstein, Daniel E. Koditschek and Tobias Vestner (eds), “Strategic, Legal, and Ethical Frameworks for AI and Robotics in National Security” (Oxford University Press), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Counterterrorism
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Daniel Del Gobbo (University of Windsor Faculty of Law) and Jennifer Llewellyn (Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University) have posted Restorative Justice and Sexual Harm: A Pathway to Gender Equality and Justice Transformation (forthcoming, 74:4 Criminal Law Quarterly (2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Following in the wake of the “Hockey Canada trial” in