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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new episode of California Law Review's official podcast, Source Collect, is live!🎙️ Zachary Griggy and Jonah Smith discuss their student note, "Beyond District Lines: Rethinking the California Voting Rights Act’s Promise of Fair Representation." Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A new episode of California Law Review's official podcast, Source Collect, is live!🎙️ Professor Natalie Jacewicz joins CLR's Juliette Draper to discuss her California Law Review article, "Parenting as a Crime." Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Zachary Griggy and Jonah Smith do a deep dive into the data surrounding the California Voting Rights Act, and find that moving to a district based voting structure might not be a one-size-fits-all solution.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Luke Herrine and Jonathan Glater encapsulate what happened during the Student Loan Debt experiments of 2020-2024, and argue that the consequences of those administrative decisions changed student loan law forever.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Benjamin Levin argues that much of the discussion surrounding the criminal legal system focuses too much on defining what is or is not punishment, and suggests a more structural approach.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Alice Abrokwa creates a framework for two different ways civil rights law has interpreted "future disabilities", and then looks at what ways we can better apply the concept.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Jared Mayer discusses an underappreciated solution to corporate distress: the involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Volume 114.4 of the California Law Review is live on the CLR website. Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work! Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Megan Conner uses Colombia as a case study to analyze how gold mining can be more protectively regulated. In particular, Conner looks at mercury mitigation and how legal strategies in mining violation law can protect environmental advocates.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Nicholas Delehanty analyzes a current Circuit Court split when it comes to reverse search warrants using aggregate data. He then proposes a property-based framework as a solution that acknowledges user's possessory interest in their data.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

D. Theodore Rave argues that the current mass tort strategy that depends on bankruptcy is biased towards mass tort defendants. Rave analyzes the many ways that multidistrict litigation might provide a better way forward when a mass tort defendant is financially solvent.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Erin Murphy highlights how technology has created a new kind of search: the closed universe search. Her article analyzes how the current Fourth Amendment frameworks fail to completely understand the risks and vulnerabilities these new invasive technological searches pose.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@mlockman.bsky.social offers the first comprehensive account of this century- old doctrine: the law of environmental repair. But what happens when energy transfer might render companies obligated to repair defunct? Lockman proposes a new system to address this new concern.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@naomicahn.bsky.social, Maxine Eichner, and Mary Ziegler survey the complex history of parental involvement and its tension with child wellbeing. They then propose a new framework for balancing the needs of minors and the rights of parents.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Volume 114.3 of the California Law Review is live on the CLR website. Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work! Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A new episode of California Law Review's official podcast, Source Collect, is live!🎙️ Professors Cynthia Godsoe and Shanta Trivedi join CLR's Juliette Draper to discuss their February California Law Review article, "Parenting as a Crime." Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ortal Issac discusses the double bind that healthcare professionals face when the very same emergency lifesaving care they can give might also make them criminally liable for performing an abortion and what legal ways forward there might be for reproductive activism.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Rebecca Cooley surveys the changing legal landscape when it comes to immigration detention labor, and discusses what forms of legal relief detained immigrants might have.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@chinmayisharma.bsky.social , @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @samadler.bsky.social propose a new system of regulating data brokers when it comes to their impacts on victims of abuse and stalking.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kathleen Claussen and Timothy Meyer investigate the historical role of the executive when it comes to regulating foreign commerce and trade, eventually finding that this power was intended to rest with Congress.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@jeffgordon.bsky.social argues that carbon limits can function similarly to tax shelters, and to avoid this policymakers will need to create a strong legal and regulatory scheme against "carbon shelter" abuse.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Fanna Gamal argues that algorithmic racial proxies have begun to supplant racial proxies used by judges, and that we should consider that racial categories are themselves proxies.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Volume 114.2 of the California Law Review is live! Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work. Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A new episode of California Law Reviews's official podcast, Source Collect, is live!🎙️ Professor Fanna Gamal at UC Los Angeles School of Law joins CLR's Davis Rich to discuss her April California Law Review article, "The Algorithmic Racial Proxy." Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Source Collect
CLR's Official Podcast

The Algorithmic Racial Proxy
With Professor Fanna Gamal, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

As part of CLR Online's Student Series Column, Berkeley Law student Dawson Wilcox analyzes the difference between three global economic blocs (the U.S., the E.U., and China) as tariffs are used as a tool of economic coercion. Read the Column here: www.californialawreview.org/online/tariff-wars.

CLR Column: Student Series
Trump's Tariff Wars and the Fracturing Global Economy by Dawson Wilcox
American Tariff Policy is reshaping global politics, but not every system can respond in kind.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Special congratulations to our honorees of the night: Alumni of the Year, Shana Simmons (Vol. 97); Young Alumni of the Year, David Maxson (Vol. 109); Distinguished Service Award recipient, Max Friend (Vol. 114); and Diversity Award recipient, Shree Mehrotra (Vol. 114).

California Law Review Editor in Chief of Volume 114 Sara DiMagno and awardee Max Friend

California Law Review Editor in Chief of Volume 114 Sara DiMagno and awardee Shree Mehrotra

California Law Review Editor in Chief of Volume 114 Sara DiMagno, Editor in Chief of Volume 115 Deksyos Damtew and awardee David Maxson

California Law Review Editor in Chief of Volume 114 Sara DiMagno, Editor in Chief of Volume 115 Deksyos Damtew and awardee Shana Simmons

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The California Law Review was proud to host our annual alumni banquet, bringing together members, alumni, and distinguished guests for an evening of celebration and reflection. Thank you to everyone who made the night so memorable.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As part of CLR Online's Student Series Column, Berkeley Law student Cole Troutner evaluates how the Supreme Court's decision in Learning Resources v. Trump indicates trouble for the Major Questions Doctrine. Read the Column here: www.californialawreview.org/online/meltd...

CLR Column: Student Series
Berkeley Students Respond to Current Legal Events
Meltdown in the Major Questions Doctrine by Cole Troutner
"Was the Major Questions Doctrine an unintended casualty of the Supreme Court striking down Trump's Tarfiffs?"

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

CLR Online is back with a new piece by Gilad Abiri, "Corporations Constituting Intelligence." Anthropic recently published an updated Constitution for its AI model Claude. But does that same Constitution create risks for a democratic society? Read more: www.californialawreview.org/online/corpo....

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Anthropic recently published an updated Constitution for its AI model Claude. But does that same Constitution create risks for a democratic society?

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A new episode of California Law Review's official podcast, Source Collect, is live!🎙️ Michael Banerjee at the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program of UC Berkeley Law joins CLR to discuss his CLR Online article, "What Harvard's Lawsuit Should Have Said." Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Source Collect Podcast Episode: What Harvard's Lawsuit Should Have Said. With Michael Banerjee, Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley Law

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Devanshi Patel-Martin looks at the jurisprudence that applies Calder v. Jones to online interactions, and argues that a new system of personal jurisdiction is necessary in our interconnected age.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Emad Atiq interrogates some of the philosophical difficulties around the traditional use of the Hand Formula, and argues that a "disaggregated" approach to the Formula is more useful and effective.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nitisha Baronia, Jared Lucky, and Diego Zambrano provide a historically-grounded argument for rejecting the recent "Article II" challenge to private enforcement.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Diana Reddy asks whether there might be a third way to theorize the future of work.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Susan C. Morse argues that the Supreme Court opened the door for a set of administrability problems in its Corner Post decision.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Volume 114.1 of the California Law Review is live! Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work. Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

CLR is now accepting symposium proposals for the Spring 2027 semester until May 1st. We welcome timely, innovative proposals that contribute meaningfully to legal scholarship, challenge the status quo, uplift movements, and amplify diverse perspectives.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Moshe Halbertal asks whether our discussions of judicial review might rely on collapsing two different concepts of judicial review, as well as two different ways that we talk about politics.Two Concepts of Judicial Review and Two Senses of “Political”

CLR Article: Two Concepts of Judicial Review and Two Senses of “Political”

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Amna A. Akbar and Ryan D. Doerfler argue that arguments like Strauss's contain flawed assumptions about the American public in order to cast courts as democracy's last hope, obscuring courts' role in building and maintaining elite power.

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Douglas NeJaime and Reva B. Siegel offer a pro-democracy interpretation of substantial due process doctrine, by analyzing it as a means for courts to protect marginalized minorities (especially sexual minorities) who otherwise have little political power.

CLR Article: Not Lochner!: Substantive Due Process as Democracy-Promoting Judicial Review

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Justin Driver questions whether judicial opinions and their reasoning are as important as lawyers and law scholars imagine, compared to the judicial decisions that those opinions support.

CLR Article: The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

David A. Strauss argues that the Carolene Products jurisprudence creates an untenable situation where all groups argue for their victimization by the law to get redress.

CLR Article: Polarization, Victimization, and Judicial Review

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The 2024 Jorde Symposium Articles for Volume 113 of the California Law Review are live! Thank you to our editors and authors for their hard work. Read it at californialawreview.org/print

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

CLR has a new Artificial Intelligence Author Use and Disclosure Agreement. If you are considering submitting your work for publication by CLR, please review the AI policy on CLR's website at californialawreview.org/ai-author-policy

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Find CLR's full AI author policy at californialawreview.org/ai-author-policy

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

"The Philosophy of Amendment," Jill Lepore's Vol. 112 Jorde Symposium piece, is up on CLR's website! Lepore argues that amendment is the foundational, if forgotten, contribution of American constitutionalism. Check it out at californialawreview.org/print/philosophy-amendment

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Hannah Naylor argues that advocates for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment should instead focus efforts on writing a new amendment aimed at rectifying the Founding Era’s treatment of subordinated groups. californialawreview.org/print/gender-constitutional-equality

CLR Article: “There Were No Founding Mothers”: Reimagining Constitutional Equality

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Jordan Hefcart lays out a policy framework for overcoming the intense industry opposition and political paralysis that has consistently derailed data breach reform efforts over the past decade. californialawreview.org/print/data-breach-law

CLR Article: Economic Justice via Public Insurance: What Data Breach Law Can Learn from Pandemics and Worker Injuries

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Madeleine Gyory addresses how the chaotic Americans with Disabilities Act doctrine will impact the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act's implementation. Gyory proposes a framework for litigants and courts assessing claims under the PWFA. californialawreview.org/print/reasonable-pregnant-worker

CLR Article: The Reasonable Pregnant Worker

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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Matteo Godi demonstrates how the judicial rewriting of Section 1983 has undermined its effectiveness and diverged from the Reconstruction Congress’ intent. Godi argues that Section 1983 should be interpreted as a strict liability statutory tort. californialawreview.org/print/1983-strict-liability

CLR Article: Section 1983: A Strict Liability Statutory Tort

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