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University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online
 

The University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, formerly known as PENNumbra, is pleased to host debates between respected scholars on current controversies, responses to scholarly articles published by the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, short essays, and case notes written by current editors of the Law Review.

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Clarifying Judicial Aggrandizement

Allen Sumrall and Beau J. Baumann

 
 

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Contract Logic

Naveen Thomas

 
 
 
 

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Fiduciary Deadlock

Roberto Tallarita

 
 
 
 

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Probate Lending: Data from San Francisco

David Horton and Reid Kress Weisbord

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Mass Exploitation

Samir D. Parikh

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Muted Justice

Leah Litman

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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“Terroristic Threats” and COVID-19: A Guide for the Perplexed

Chad Flanders, Courtney Federico, Eric Harmon, and Lucas Klein

 
 
 
 
 
 

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What Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Teach Us About Sex and Causes

Robin Dembroff, Issa Kohler-Hausmann, and Elise Sugarman

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Is the Staggered Board Debate Really Settled?

K.J. Martijn Cremers, Simone M. Sepe, and Saura Masconale

 
 

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The Bankruptcy Firm

Vincent S.J. Buccola

 
 

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Judicial Independence Under Attack: A Theory of Necessity

Michael M. Baylson, Elizabeth Coyne, Martha Guarnieri, and Samantha Weiss

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Disparate Impact Canon

Michael T. Morley

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Jurisdiction and Judicial Self‐Defense

S. Cagle Juhan and Greg Rustico

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Forgetting Functionality

Christopher Buccafusco and Jeanne C. Fromer

 
 
 
 
 
 

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The One‐In, Two‐Out Executive Order Is a Zero

Caroline Cecot and Michael A. Livermore

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Abortion Rights and the Largeness of the Fraction ⅙

David S. Cohen and Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Writing About Nonpersons

Andrew Jensen Kerr

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Two Timing the Law

Joshua Getzler

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Officiating Removal

Leah M. Litman

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Applause for the Plausible

Brandon L. Garrett

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Off-Label Drug Promotion and the First Amendment

Stephanie M. Greene and Lars Noah

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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W(h)ither Bivens?

James E. Pfander and David P. Baltmanis

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Contraception Mandate and Religious Freedom

Steven D. Smith and Caroline Mala Corbin

 
 

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The Constitutionality of Stop-and-Frisk in New York City

David Rudovsky and Lawrence Rosenthal

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Justice Kennedy to the Rescue?

Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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It's Not Triage if the Patient Bleeds Out

John Pollock and Michael S. Greco

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Judicial Recusal at the Court

Sherrilyn A. Ifill and Eric J. Segall

 
 
 
 

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America Invents, More or Less?

Jason Rantanen, Lee Petherbridge, and Jay P. Kesan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Fateful Bankers

David Zaring

 
 

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Fees, Incentives, and Deterrence

Linda Sandstrom Simard

 
 
 
 

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Humanity and Law

Michael Serota

 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Role of Judges in Election Law

Daniel P. Tokaji and Allison R. Hayward

 
 
 
 

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The Future of Mass Torts

Sergio J. Campos and Howard M. Erichson

 
 
 
 

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Targeted Killing: The Case of Anwar Al-Aulaqi

John C. Dehn and Kevin Jon Heller

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Alien Tort Statute and Corporate Liability

Susan Farbstein, Tyler Giannini, and Anthony Clark Arend

 
 

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Climate Change and the Courts

Jason Scott Johnston and Heidi M. Hurd

 
 

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Is the Filibuster Constitutional?

Josh Chafetz and Michael J. Gerhardt

 
 
 
 

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Testing the Master Tools

Kimberly West-Faulcon

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Opportunistic Textualism

Lawrence M. Solan

 
 
 
 
 
 

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The Right to Remain Silent

Charles Weisselberg and Stephanos Bibas

 
 

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The Argument for Same-Sex Marriage

Nelson Tebbe, Deborah A. Widiss, and Shannon Gilreath

 
 

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Original Citizenship

Josh Blackman

 
 
 
 

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Plausible Denial: Should Congress Overrule Twombly and Iqbal?

Mark Herrmann, James M. Beck, and Stephen B. Burbank

 
 

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A Healthy Debate: The Constitutionality of an Individual Mandate

David B. Rivkin Jr., Lee A. Casey, and Jack Balkin

 
 
 
 

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Doctrinal Dilemma

Girardeau A. Spann

 
 
 
 

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Psychology, Strategy, and Behavioral Equivalence

Stefanie A. Lindquist and Wendy L. Martinek

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Implicit Race Bias and the 2008 Presidential Election: Much Ado About Nothing?

Gregory S. Parks, Jeffrey J. Rachlinksi, and Richard A. Epstein

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Medicare: Did the Devil Make Us Do It?

David A. Hyman and Jill R. Horwitz

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Setting the Bar Too High

Frank I. Michelman

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Workplace Federalism

Paul M. Secunda and Jeffrey M. Hirsch

 
 

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Collaborative Environmental Law: Pro and Con

Eric W. Orts and Cary Coglianese

 
 

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Voter ID: What’s at Stake?

Bradley A. Smith and Edward B. Foley

 
 

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Can Handguns Be Effectively Regulated?

James B. Jacobs and David Kairys

 
 

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Consumer-Directed Health Care

Kristin Madison and Peter D. Jacobson

 
 
 
 

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Lessons from Outlaws

Laura S. Underkuffler

 
 

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Property In-Laws

Nicole Stelle Garnett

 
 

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Order with Outlaws?

Lee Anne Fennell

 
 
 
 

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Judging Untried Cases

Daniel Richman

 
 

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What's Good About Trials?

Michael M. O'Hear

 
 
 
 

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Just Following Orders

Roderick M. Hills Jr.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Racial Profiling and the War on Terror

David Rudovsky and R. Richard Banks

 
 
 
 

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Hamdan and the Military Commissions Act

Glenn Sulmasy, John Yoo, and Martin S. Flaherty

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Judicial Activism and Its Critics

Kermit Roosevelt III and Richard W. Garnett

 
 

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The Obviousness Requirement in the Patent Law

R. Polk Wagner and Katherine J. Strandburg

 
 

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Is the United Nations Still Relevant?

Wiliam W. Burke-White and Abraham Bell