Scope of Equal Protection

Print
Comment
Law for the Next Pandemic
Protecting Mixed-Status Families: Equal Protection Analysis of the Dual Social Security Number Requirement
Nena Gallegos
B.S., American University, 2019; J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2022.

Many thanks to Professor Aziz Huq for his invaluable guidance and thoughtful feedback. I would also like to thank the past and present editors of The University of Chicago Legal Forum for their insightful contributions.

This Comment analyzes the equal protection issues raised by the Dual SSN Requirement and argues that it violates the equal protection rights of citizen children and spouses.

Print
Comment
Law for the Next Pandemic
Comity, Coronavirus, and Interstate Travel Restrictions
Timothy Carey
B.A., American University, 2017; J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2022.

Many thanks to the staff of The University of Chicago Legal Forum, and to Professor Alison LaCroix, for generous support throughout the Comment writing process.

That interstate travel within the United States is largely so uncontroversial reflects a simple fact: the right to travel “occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union.” Yet in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, multiple states have restricted interstate travel.

Volumes

  • 2016
    Policing the Police
  • 2015
    Does Election Law Serve the Electorate?
  • 2014
    The Civil Rights Act at 50 Years
  • 2013
    Combating Corruption
  • 2012
    Frontiers of Consumer Protection
  • 2011
    Governance and Power
  • 2010
    Crime, Criminal Law, and the Recession
  • 2009
    Civil Rights Law and the Low-Wage Worker
  • 2008
    Law in a Networked World
  • 2007
    Immigration Law and Policy
  • 2006
    Law and Life: Definitions and Decisionmaking