This Article argues that the rise of the modern state was a necessary condition for the rise of the business corporation. Corporate technologies require the support of a powerful state with the ...

One of the most controversial trends in American civil justice is litigation lending: corporations paying plaintiffs a lump sum in return for a stake in a pending lawsuit. Although causes of action ...

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time I see my daughters now, something has changed: a favorite color, a hair style, a shoe size. I am missing everything, and I have no idea when or if ...

most recently completed October Terms 2007 (53.8%) and 2008 (55.5%). I do not doubt that there is some inexactitude at the margins in counting cases and ...

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Reviving the Prophylactic VRA: Section 3, Purcell, and the New Vote Denial Shelby County, 115 Colum. L. Rev. 2143, 2163- 68 (2015) (discussing Section 2 litigation post-Shelby). See Dale E. Ho, ...

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Introduction to the Special Issue on State and Local Governance infrastructures, and very DNA of our state and local governments. It is with this same spirit that the Yale Law Journal proudly presents ...