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Jotwell Tax: Charlotte Crane, Good Analysis of a Bad Situation: Federal Tax Administration in the 2020’s, JOTWELL (August 14, 2026) (reviewing Michael L. Schler, The State of the Federal Income Tax System: Poor, Tax Notes, (May 30, 2025)), tax.jotwell.com/good-analysi....
Jotwell adlaw: Wendy Wagner, The State as Fact-Maker: The Fourth Function of the Fourth Branch, JOTWELL (August 13, 2026) (reviewing Haiyun Damon-Feng, Agency Fact-Making, 135 Yale L. J. 2525 (2026)), adlaw.jotwell.com/the-state-as....
Jotwell Corp: George S. Georgiev, Owning the AI Revolution, JOTWELL (August 12, 2026) (reviewing Jeremy Bearer-Friend & Sarah Polcz, Sharing the Algorithm: The Tax Solution to Generative AI, 17 Colum. J. Tax L. 1 (2025)), corp.jotwell.com/owning-the-a....
Jotwell Worklaw: Joseph Seiner, How Far Does Worklaw Truly Reach? Does Anyone Really Know?, JOTWELL (August 11, 2026) (reviewing Ryan H. Nelson, Work Law’s Domain, 47 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 59 (2026)), worklaw.jotwell.com/how-far-does....
Jotwell T&E: Goldburn Maynard, The Myth of American Testamentary Freedom, JOTWELL (August 10, 2026) (reviewing Kevin Bennardo, Natural Objects and Testamentary Freedom, 51 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 993 (2024)), trustest.jotwell.com/the-myth-of-....
Jotwell Torts: Christopher J. Robinette, Gaming the Standard, JOTWELL (August 7, 2026) (reviewing Ani B. Satz & Liza Vertinsky, Customary Corruption, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 693 (2025)), torts.jotwell.com/gaming-the-s....
Jotwell TechLaw: Nicholson Price, Strings Attached: Science Regulation by Science Funders, JOTWELL (August 6, 2026) (reviewing Doni Bloomfield, How Science Grantmakers Govern (Mar. 25, 2026) (unpublished manuscript), available at SSRN (Mar. 13, 2026)), cyber.jotwell.com/strings-atta....
Jotwell Property: Lisa Owens, A Timely Reminder that Power Moves Even in the Mundane, JOTWELL (August 5, 2026) (reviewing K-Sue Park, Property and Sovereignty in America: A History of Title Registries & Jurisdictional Power, 133 Yale L.J. 1487 (2024)), property.jotwell.com/a-timely-rem....
Jotwell Native Peoples Law: Bethany Berger, Native Citizenship through a Different Lens, JOTWELL (August 4, 2026) (reviewing Lila Teeters Knolle, Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota, 44 J. Am. Ethnic History 44 (2025)), lex.jotwell.com/native-citiz....
Jotwell LegalPro: Eli Wald, The End of Legal Scholarship?, JOTWELL (August 3, 2026) (reviewing Andrew Perlman, Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 edition), available at SSRN (June 9, 2026)), legalpro.jotwell.com/the-end-of-l....
Jotwell Int'l: Jaclyn Neo, Responsiveness as a Constitutional Value, JOTWELL (July 31, 2026) (reviewing Rosalind Dixon, The New Responsive Constitutionalism, 87 Mod. L. Rev. 799 (2024)), intl.jotwell.com/responsivene....
Jotwell LegalHist: Reuel Schiller, Voting Rights, Mathematical Expertise, and the Limits of Legal Liberalism, JOTWELL (July 30, 2026), legalhist.jotwell.com/voting-right.... 1/2
Jotwell Jurisprudence: Michael Green, Non-Justificatory Theories of Rights, JOTWELL (July 29, 2026) (reviewing Matthew H. Kramer, Rights and Right-Holding: A Philosophical Investigation (2024)), juris.jotwell.com/non-justific....
Jotwell IP: Christopher J. Buccafusco, Generative Fair Use for All, JOTWELL (July 28, 2026) (reviewing Katrina Geddes, Engineering Semiotic Democracy, __ FIU L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (June 14, 2024)), ip.jotwell.com/generative-f....
Jotwell Health: Zack Buck, Preemption in a Deregulatory Era, JOTWELL (July 27, 2026) (reviewing Lauren R. Roth, Do Nothing Preemption, 78 Admin. L. Rev. 233 (2026)), health.jotwell.com/preemption-i....
Jotwell Family: Rachel Rebouché, Criminal Claiming in Ban-State Abortion Law, JOTWELL (July 24, 2026), 1/2 family.jotwell.com/criminal-cla....
Jotwell T&E: Solangel Maldonado, Trusts in Court: The Public’s Right to Know, JOTWELL (July 23, 2026). 1/2 trustest.jotwell.com/trusts-in-co....
Jotwell Equality: Doron Dorfman, Gay Son of a Gay? That’s Perfectly OK!, JOTWELL (7/22/26) (reviewing Bella Mancini Pori & Edward Stein, Multi-Generation Queer Families: Foregrounding the LGBTQIA+ Children of LGBTQIA+ People, 26 Geo. J. Gender & L. 57 (2024)), equality.jotwell.com/gay-son-of-a....
Jotwell Crim: Sheldon Evans, Crime as Colonization, JOTWELL (July 21, 2026) (reviewing Emmanuel Hiram Arnaud, Colonizing by Contract, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 2239 (2024)), crim.jotwell.com/crime-as-col.... Submit a Comment
Jotwell Courtslaw: Christine Bartholomew, Delineating De Minimus, JOTWELL (July 20, 2026) (reviewing Tom Flesher, Variable Standards: How Many Uninjured Class Members Are Acceptable?, 40 Touro L. Rev. 287 (2025)), courtslaw.jotwell.com/delineating-....
Jotwell Conlaw: Ilya Somin, Federalism, Originalism, and Immigration, JOTWELL (July 17, 2026) (reviewing Anna O. Law, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (2026)), conlaw.jotwell.com/federalism-o....
Jotwell Corporate: Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, When Corporations Govern: Matteo Gatti’s Timely Framework for Understanding Corporate Power, JOTWELL (July 16, 2026) (reviewing Matteo Gatti, Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (2025)), corp.jotwell.com/when-corpora....
Jotwell Contracts: Omri Ben-Shahar, How to Contract for Climate Preparedness?, JOTWELL (July 15, 2026), contracts.jotwell.com/how-to-contr.... 1/2
Jotwell Jurisprudence: Thomas Bustamante, Bentham on the Citizen’s Duty to Hold Political Authorities Accountable, JOTWELL (July 14, 2026), juris.jotwell.com/bentham-on-t.... 1/2
Jotwell Adlaw: Nicholas Parrillo, The Administrative Law of the Civil Service, JOTWELL (July 13, 2026) (reviewing Nicholas Bednar, Presidential Control of the Civil Service, 110 Minn. L. Rev. 2065 (2026)), adlaw.jotwell.com/the-administ....
Jotwell Worklaw: Michael C. Duff, An Honest Look at Police Union Contracts – Beat Them or Join Them?, JOTWELL (July 10, 2026), worklaw.jotwell.com/an-honest-lo....
Jotwell T&E: Reid Weisbord, Empirical Insights into the Rural Estate Planning Crisis, JOTWELL (July 9, 2026), trustest.jotwell.com/empirical-in....
Jotwell Torts: Nora Freeman Engstrom, Immunity Run Amok: Section 230 and the Distortion of Tort Law, JOTWELL (July 8, 2026) (reviewing Dominic Roschival, A Shield for Whom? The Disastrous Hidden Toll of Section 230 on Children, 94 U. Cin. L. Rev. 257 (2025)), torts.jotwell.com/immunity-run....
Jotwell Techlaw: Ari Waldman, How Algorithms Make Exceptions, JOTWELL (July 7, 2026) (reviewing Barbara Kiviat, Sara Sternberg Greene, & Hesu Yoon, Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening, 131 Am. J. Soc. 868 (2026)), cyber.jotwell.com/how-algorith....