Rachel F. Morán
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View article: Futures of Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools: A Dialogue
Futures of Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools: A Dialogue Open
On April 19 and 20, 2023, Professors Bernard Hibbitts and Richard Weisberg convened a conference at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law titled “Disarmed, Distracted, Disconnected, and Distressed: Modern Legal Education and the Unmak…
View article: PTH-16 Life in Lockdown: supported self-management of IBD increases disease control through My IBD Care
PTH-16 Life in Lockdown: supported self-management of IBD increases disease control through My IBD Care Open
Introduction MyIBD Care is a mobile phone application delivering digital therapeutics and remote monitoring for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The app provides a library of self-management content, direct messaging with cl…
View article: Doing Away With Disorderly Conduct
Doing Away With Disorderly Conduct Open
Disorderly conduct laws are weapons the powerful wield against the unpopular. All fifty states and many municipalities have disorderly conduct laws that criminalize speech and conduct ranging from unreasonable noise to opprobrious language…
View article: Persistent Inequalities, the Pandemic, and the Opportunity to Compete
Persistent Inequalities, the Pandemic, and the Opportunity to Compete Open
Even before the recent coronavirus pandemic, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status played a powerful role in allocating opportunity—in the public schools and elsewhere. The pandemic laid bare the dimensions of this inequality with a ne…
View article: School Finance Reform and Professor Stephen D. Sugarman’s Lasting Legacy
School Finance Reform and Professor Stephen D. Sugarman’s Lasting Legacy Open
Once, over lunch, I recall a law professor reflecting on scholarly work’s ephemeral nature. Legal academics, he thought, should consider themselves lucky if their articles sparked a discussion that lasted for even a few years. By that stan…
View article: Dreamers Interrupted: The Case of the Rescission of the Program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Dreamers Interrupted: The Case of the Rescission of the Program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Open
In 1994, California voters went to the polls to pass Proposition 187, a measure designed to deter unauthorized immigration by denying a range of public benefits to the undocumented. Twenty-five years later, undocumented immigration remains…
View article: Citizenship, Personhood, and the Constitution in 2020
Citizenship, Personhood, and the Constitution in 2020 Open
This essay is a retrospective on a conference on “The Future of the Constitution in 2020,” which took place at Yale Law School in 2005. When the conversation began, it became clear that some of the assembled scholars saw citizenship as the…
View article: The Three Ages of Modern American Lawyering and the Current Crisis in the Legal Profession and Legal Education
The Three Ages of Modern American Lawyering and the Current Crisis in the Legal Profession and Legal Education Open
During the first months of 2018, two short pieces on legal education were published. One reported on the results of a survey of college graduates, law school graduates, and holders of other advanced degrees. The study found that today’s la…
View article: Contesting Police Credibility
Contesting Police Credibility Open
Criminal cases often come down to credibility contests between two actors: the complainant, testifying for the government, and the defendant. In theory, the defendant’s opportunity to attack the credibility of government witnesses should b…
View article: City on a Hill: The Democratic Promise of Higher Education
City on a Hill: The Democratic Promise of Higher Education Open
When we think about the democratic promise of higher education, we often think of public universities. Consider, for example, the civic-minded reflections of Gordon Davies, the former Chancellor of the University of Virginia, who concluded…
View article: Ending the Internal Affairs Farce
Ending the Internal Affairs Farce Open
Police misconduct has received a heightened degree of media attention in the last two years, but in reality the problem has been around for decades, and the people who consistently bear the brunt of that misconduct are people of color. Thi…