Law review articles are expected to conclude with a short section, often “Part IV,” that translates analysis into actionable prescriptions. Though well-intentioned, this convention constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor. In a moment of institutional unraveling and authoritarian threat, legal scholars and law review editors should resist the Part IV reflex and make space for bolder analyses, longer horizons, and more collective ways of imagining change.

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the Trump Administration’s radical expansion of mandatory detention. Yet ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month, effectively nullifying judicial oversight through sheer scale.

Edie, James, Eve, and Liz highlight some of their favorite posts from 2025.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Revisit the entries from the past year that readers turned to the most.

At a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism, what emerged was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.

U.S. attacks on alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean have been widely condemned for violating international law. Yet much of this criticism, by focusing narrowly on the Trump administration’s military excesses, risks repeating a familiar mistake: debating how the United States wages war while leaving unquestioned why it wages it at all.