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Issue 6 of Volume 67!

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27 Apr 2026

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Volume 67

Issue 1 (October 2025)

Masthead

William & Mary Law Review

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Pleasure & Pain in Intellectual Property

Andrew Gilden

Statutory Copy-Pasting in the Law of Sovereign Immunity

Chimène I. Keitner

Not Born a Democracy: Constitutional Preconditions

Martha Minow

Domestic Military Deployments After Trump v. United States

Chris Mirasola

Notes:

Easing the Limits of the Statute of Limitations: A Path to a More Equitable IDEA

Sarah Shepley

Relief and Its Costs: The Need for a Congressional Response to the Aftermath of Harrington v. Purdue Pharma

Emma Skeen

Issue 2 (November 2025)

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Presuming Justice for Temp Workers

Andrew Elmore, Kati L. Griffith, Sachin S. Pandya

The Nuances of Prosecutorial Nonenforcement

Meighan R. Parsh, Carissa Byrne Hessick

Killing Through Their Kids

Dyllan Moreno Taxman

Notes:

Constructing an Effective Whistleblower Statute: Virginia Is Nearly There

Emma D. Guirlinger

Issue 3 (February 2026)

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Abuse of Contract: A Proposal for a New Cause of Action

Miriam A. Cherry

Medical Device Dangers: Choosing Ignorance in the Courts and at the FDA

George Horvath

Skrmetti and the Problem of Incidental Intent

Martin Katz

Property Law for Positive Externalities: Carving New Sticks for the Bundle

J.B. Ruhl & James Salzman

Notes:

Unlached: The Case Against Laches in Actions Brought in Replevin by Foreign Sovereigns for Objects of Cultural Heritage

Peyton M. Kendall

The Undue Degradation of "Undue Degradation": How Loper Bright Threatens to Weaken Environmental Protections for Domestic Lithium Mining Operations

Griffin M. Krawitz

Issue 4 (March 2026)

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Keynote: Going Forward After Grants Pass

Joseph W. Mead

Grants Pass and the Innocence Limit

Gregory Cui, Emily Clark

After Grants Pass: The Case for Recentering the Criminal Legal System and Its Constitutional Constraints

Scout Katovich

Unacceptable in Any Era: The Unusual and Unconstitutional Effort to Criminalize Sleeping While Homeless

Joseph W. Mead, Shelby Calambokidis

Sidewalk Living

Michael C. Pollack

Setting the Stage for Grants Pass (& a Moral Constitutional Reckoning)

Sara K. Rankin

The New Necessity

Ezra Rosser

The Presence and Persistence of Social Rights in U.S. Constitutional Law

Mila Versteeg, Emily Zackin

Issue 5 (April 2026)

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Article III's Constraints on the Legislative Power

Elizabeth Earle Beske

Patients as Stakeholders

Isaac D. Buck

Is It Credit?

Jim Hawkins

Notes:

Salvation from the Purgatory Between Personhood and Property: Disinterring Evidence for Property Rights in Human Remains

Harris J. Burton

Not Just a Castle in the Sky: A Legal Remedy for Race-Based Takings in Virginia

Michaela R. Hill

Issue 6 (May 2026)

Table of Contents

William & Mary Law Review

Articles:

Is Bruen the New Usery?

Tonja Jacobi, Cory Conley

Rethinking the Scope of State Power: Territorial Jurisdiction, Popular Sovereignty, and Extraterritorial Legislation

Jeffrey Schmitt

Unconstitutional Cruelty

Michael R. Ulrich

Notes:

Unrestricted: Why Access to a Special Victims' Counsel Should Not Rest on Victim Credibility

Kate Franco

Too Cruel for School: How Parental Rights Doctrine Can Help Protect Against Book Bans

Tessa K. Wild

Digital Deterrence Through Financial Controls: Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Lawfare, and the PRC Cyber Threat

Owen T. Tremblay