Looking for Your Friends at a Cocktail Party: The Dubious Role of Rejected Legislation and the Overlooked Potential of the Appropriations Process

Greg Dotson [*]  [su_button url="https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2024/06/FINAL-Dotson-1.pdf" target="blank" style="ghost" background="#9e0f0b" color="#9e0f0b" size="3" center="no" icon="icon: download" icon_color="#9e0f0b"]View PDF[/su_button] I. Introduction Justice Antonin Scalia famously argued that looking at…

The Bonfire of the Equities: Judicial Stays of Federal Environmental Regulations

Sean H. Donahue & Megan M. Herzog [*]  [su_button url="https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2024/06/FINALDonahueHerzog.pdf" target="blank" style="ghost" background="#9e0f0b" color="#9e0f0b" size="3" center="no" icon="icon: download" icon_color="#9e0f0b"]View PDF[/su_button] I. Introduction The Supreme Court’s em…

Major Floodgates: The Indeterminate Major Questions Doctrine Inundates Lower Courts

Patrick Jacobi & Jonas Monast [*]  [su_button url="https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2024/06/Jacobi-Monast-Major-Floodgates-1.pdf" target="blank" style="ghost" background="#9e0f0b" color="#9e0f0b" size="3" center="no" icon="icon: download" icon_color="#9e0f0b"]View PDF[/su_button] I. Introduction It has been tw…

Volume 61, Number 2 now available!

We are pleased to announce that our Summer 2024 issue is now available here. JOL is thrilled to be publishing a policy essay by Representative Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-Ga.); articles on tax enforcement, the Byrd rule, and state legislative vetoes; and a student note on the implications of tax policy for the major questions doctine. Thank you to ou…

Interpreting Code

Daniel B. Listwa [*] & Adam Flaherty [**] [su_button url="https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2024/05/ListwaFlaherty_For-PDF_04.03.24.pdf" target="blank" style="ghost" background="#9e0f0b" color="#9e0f0b" size="3" center="no" icon="icon: download" icon_color="#9e0f0b"]View PDF[/su_button] Abstract In recent years,…