• Where’s Robin Hood? 

  Hailer, Madeline (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-01-18)

  The Oregon State Legislature should prioritize restructuring civil legal aid funding. In its current state, the system for delivering legal aid services to qualifying low-income Oregonians is vastly underfunded and dependent ...
• Taxing the Cyborg 

  Davis, Tessa R. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-01-18)

  This Article considers how tax is poised to respond to CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats] and similar emerging medical technologies with both therapeutic and so called enhancement applications. ...
• What Is an Unreasonable Search? 

  Kim, Janine Young (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-01-18)

  Perhaps the greatest puzzle of the Fourth Amendment—and indeed in all American law more broadly—is its definition of reasonableness. The Fourth Amendment guarantees our right to be secure “against unreasonable searches and ...
• Litigation Bias 

  Eckart, Adam M. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-01-18)

  This Article argues that there is pervasive litigation bias in law schools, and that such bias negatively affects the work of lawyers, including how lawyers are regulated, how lawyers practice law, and how lawyers serve ...
• The World’s Largest Dam Removal Project: The Klamath River Dams 

  Blumm, Michael C.; Illowsky, Dara (University of Oregon School of Law, 2023-01-18)

  The Klamath River, draining some twelve thousand square miles in southern Oregon and northern California, was once the third largest salmon stream on the West Coast, the life force of Native Americans. The river runs 263 ...
• A Cure for What Ails You: How Universal Healthcare Can Help Fix Our Tort System 

  Pimentel, David (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  The U.S. tort system has, since the mid-twentieth century, evolved to bring particular policy emphasis to the problem of compensating victims of accidental injury. Much of the focus has shifted from the wrongfulness of the ...
• Reducing Gun Violence with ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology and Community-Based Plans: What Works? 

  Gee, Harvey (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  Reviews of : "BLEEDING OUT: THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF URBAN VIOLENCE—AND A BOLD NEW PLAN FOR PEACE IN THE STREETS" (Thomas Abt. NY: Basic Books, 2019); and "WE SEE IT ALL: LIBERTY AND JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF PERPETUAL ...
• Black Man’s Burden: Race and the Death Penalty in America 

  Ogletree, Charles J., Jr. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  [Reprint of 81 Or. L. Rev. 15 (2002)] Presented at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics Symposium: The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty: Abolition, Moratorium, or Reform? Ogletree was the 2001-02 Wayne Morse ...
• Report of the Oregon Supreme Court Task Force on Racial/Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System 

  Office of the State Court Administrator, Oregon Judicial Department (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  [Reprint of 73 Or. L. Rev. 823 (1994) (Chapter 1)] The Oregon Supreme Court, on February 21, 1992, established the Oregon Supreme Court Task Force on Racial/Ethnic Issues in the Judicial System. This is the report of that ...
• The Ideal Law-Enforcement Officer and the Ideal Law-Enforcement Organization 

  Nathan, Harold (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  [Reprint of 14 Or. L. Rev. 327 (1935)] Transcript of address presented in 1935 by Harold Nathan, Assistant Director of the FBI, regarding law enforcement agencies.
• Batson v. Armstrong: Prosecutorial Bias and the Missing Evidence Problem 

  Brown, Darryl K. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  Batson v. Kentucky prohibits prosecutors’ racially motivated decisions to eliminate a potential juror during jury selection. United States v. Armstrong prohibits prosecutors’ racially motivated decisions to charge a defendant ...
• Criminal Justice Through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency 

  Rubin, Edward L.; Feeley, Malcolm M. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)

  In 1941, responding to a wide-ranging effort to enact legislation that would constrain the operation of New Deal agencies, Franklin Roosevelt commissioned the Attorney General to produce a report on the role and importance ...
• One Hundred Years of Oregon Law Review 

  Oregon Law Review Editorial Board (University of Oregon School of Law, 2022-05-12)
• Stacked Injustice and an Avenue for Relief: The Interplay of “Stacked” 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) Convictions and Expanded Compassionate Release Under the First Step Act 

  Costello, Ryan (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  In Part I, this Comment sets forth the historical context of § 924(c) in terms of legislative background, Supreme Court interpretation, and subsequent congressional adjustment. This explanation of § 924(c) illustrates how ...
• Defining Damage: The “Damage to Commercial Agricultural Products” Exception to Oregon’s Right-to-Farm Law 

  Habekost, Zoë (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  In Part I, this Comment will examine the history of Oregon’s right to-farm law, noting that the Oregon Legislature was concerned about unreasonable lawsuits brought by urbanites moving into Oregon’s agricultural lands ...
• You’ve Got Mail: USPS and the Fundamental Right to Postal Service 

  Fisher, Natalie M. (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  This Comment proceeds in five parts to outline the necessity and practicality of recognizing the fundamental right to postal service. Part I details the importance of equal access to prompt, reliable, and efficient postal ...
• Fighting an Upstream Battle: Fish Recovery in the Federal Columbia River Power System 

  Mikell, Noah (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  Part I of this Comment addresses the legal obligations of the major actors in the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) and explores how these participating federal agencies play their own unique roles in the regional ...
• Are We Still Not Saved? Race, Democracy, and Educational Inequality (Derrick Bell Lecture, University of Oregon, February 12, 2021) 

  Epperson, Lia (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  Thirty-four years ago, in his seminal book, "And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice," Derrick Bell provided a critical view of American history and constitutional jurisprudence to illustrate the challenges ...
• The Committee on Infractions Sets the Standard of Care for College Athletics Administrators Regarding Potential NCAA Rules Violations 

  Lens, Josh (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  The NCAA describes itself as a member-led organization that consists of over a thousand colleges and universities. Through the NCAA’s legislative process, its member universities propose and adopt rules regarding college ...
• Intimate Partner Violence Through the Eyes of the Military “Dependent” Spouse 

  Franklin, Xander; Kuennen, Tamara (University of Oregon School of Law, 2021-12-15)

  Throughout this Article, we will examine the extraordinary challenges faced by partners of military members when their relationships become abusive. Few legal scholars have written about the phenomenon; of them, most focus ...

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