Presenting "Familial DNA and Due Process for Innocents" by Professor Erin Sheley. Read more on how the debate on using genealogical DNA in solving cold cases overlooks due process rights here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/fam…

Presenting "The Default Rule and Due Process: Diverging Interpretations of 'The Charging Document' Requirement in Extradition Treaties" by Jacob M. Karlin. Read more on circuit splits over how to interpret key extradition treaty language here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/the…

Presenting "A Whole-of-Government Approach to Protect Unaccompanied Children from Labor Exploitation" by Charlie Murphy. Read more on how current laws and agency coordination are insufficient to prevent exploitation of migrant children here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/a-w…

Presenting "Criminalization: An Exceptionally American Response to Homelessness" by Jacob Schwessinger. Read more on how America’s uniquely punitive approach to homelessness stems from cultural and legal exceptionalism here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/cri…

This article by Professor Daniel K. Tarullo (Vol. 97, Iss. 1) raises urgent questions about constitutional law and the limits of political influence over monetary policy—questions now at the center of legal and political debate. Read more here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/05/14/the…

The Southern California Law Review is excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2025 cycle via Scholastica. More information about the submission process is available here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/submissions/

Please join us in congratulating our new Vol. 99 2L staffers! We can’t wait to collaborate with this talented group in the year ahead.

Volume 98:5 is up! From the campus speech debate to regulating digital speech platforms, this issue explores a range of topics relating to free speech. Read our Editor's Note to learn more. You can read the full issue here: southerncalifornialawreview.com

Presenting "Respecting Listeners' Autonomy: The Right to be Left Alone," Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat. Read more on how “freedom of speech” protects both sides of the expressive exchange—speakers and listeners alike, here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/res…

Presenting "Listening on Campus: Academic Freedom and Its Audiences" by Professor Joseph Blocher. Read more on his listener-based defense of scholarly speech here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/lis…

Presenting "First Amendment Governance: Social Media, Power, and a Well-Functioning Speech Environment" by Professor Yasmin Dawood (Yasmin Dawood). Read more on how digital platforms complicate democratic speech norms here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/fir…

Presenting “Listeners’ Choices Online" by Professor James Grimmelmann (James Grimmelmann). Read more on how First Amendment treatment of online speech intermediaries should depend on the structural relationships they create between speakers and listeners here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/lis…

Presenting "Islands of Algorithmic Integrity: Imagining a Democratic Digital Public Sphere" by Professor Aziz Z. Huq. Read more on how governance of social media platforms might be reoriented toward democratic ends here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/isl…

Presenting "In the Name of Accountability" by Professor Heidi Kitrosser. Read more on how government speech doctrine and unitary executive theory erode genuine democratic accountability here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/in-…

Presenting “Fear and Free Speech" by Professor Helen Norton. Read more on how fear operates on both sides of First Amendment disputes regarding threats and stalking cases here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/fea…

Presenting "Remarks on Academic Freedom and Free Speech: Reflections on Blocher" by Professor Rebecca Brown. Read more on distinguishing free speech from academic freedom in the university setting here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/rem…

Presenting “Pluralism and Listeners’ Choices Online" by Professor Alan K. Chen. Read more on a First Amendment theory that centers listeners’ choices in contemporary electronic speech media regulation here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/plu…

Presenting “Unchosen Listening" by Professor Erin Miller. Read more on the value of speech we do not choose to hear here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/unc…

Presenting “The First Amendment of Fear" by Professor Nelson Tebbe. Read more on how fear silences speech in today’s polarized climate here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/the…

Presenting “Protecting Listeners from Unwanted One-to-One Speech" by Professor Eugene Volokh. Read more on when and how the government may restrict speech directed at unwilling listeners here: southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/09/25/pro…