Cardozo Law Review de•novo
Cardozo Law Review’s online companion journal, de·novo, is designed to promote discourse regarding current legal topics, as well as academic matters, through the publication of shorter (10-25 pages maximum) and more targeted pieces.
Submissions from 2025
The Service’s Overgenerous Tax Treatment of Crowdfunding, Jeffrey H. Kahn
The Federal Maritime Commission’s New Framework for Ocean Carrier Accountability: Analysis of the MCS Industries and OJ Commerce Decisions, Heewan Noh and Jie Shi
Correcting Course: How Congress Can Streamline U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court, Sophia N. Ramcharitar
Submissions from 2024
Meaningful or Meaningless? The Temporal Scope of the Constitutional Right of Access to Courts for Incarcerated Litigants, Alison Aimers
Expanding Homicide Liability for a Parent’s Omission, Monu Bedi
Harnessing Hypocrisy: A Crack in The Supreme Court’s Colorblindness Mask, Zamir Ben-Dan
Against Gap-Filling, Noah C. Chauvin
Corn War: A Trade Fight Between the United States and Mexico, Ernesto Hernández-López
Reforming Informed Consent to Include Comprehension: A Proposal to Promote Equity in Medical Decision-Making, Valerie Gutmann Koch
Professional Norms at a Crossroads: Farhane and Its Implications for Legal Counsel, Hayley Sandoval
Justice over Finality: Compassionate Release as a Mechanism to Correct Sentencing Errors, Eliza Stup
Submissions from 2023
Digital Purgatory and the Rights of the Dead: Protecting Against Digital Disinterment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Greyson Cohen
On the Lawfulness of Awards to Class Representatives, Benjamin Gould
Remotely Relevant: Addressing Employment-Based Immigration Worksite Location Requirements in the Remote Workspace, Rachel Refkin
Zoned In: How Residence Restrictions Lead to the Indefinite and Unconstitutional Detention of New Yorkers Convicted of Sex Crimes, Rebecca Tunis
A Means to an End: A Way To Curb Bias-Based Policing in New York City, Garanique N. Williams
Revisiting the Disability Integration Presumption, Chris Yarrell
Submissions from 2022
HIPPA, Matthew T. Bodie
Something for Nothing: Untangling a Knot of Section 230 Solutions, Nicholas Bradley
Repairing Our System of Constitutional Accountability: Reflections on the 150th Anniversary of Section 1983, David H. Gans
A Taxing Mistake, Jeffrey H. Kahn
Staying in the Takings Lane: The Compensation Issue in Cedar Point Nursery, Mark Kelman
Standardizing State Vote-by-Mail Deadlines in Federal Elections, Jason Nagel
Innate Property: The Danger of Incongruency Between Law and the Biological and Behavioral Roots of Property and Possessiveness, Aaron Schwabach
The Criminal Legal System Doesn’t Care About Your Mental Illness, Fredrick E. Vars
Textualism, Dynamism, and the Meaning of "Sex", Bill Watson
Submissions from 2021
A Tale of Two Interoperabilities; Or, How Google v. Oracle Could Become Social Media Legislation, Charles Duan
The Unconstitutionality of State Bans on Marriage Between First Cousins, Rachel Frommer
W(h)ither Judgment, Elias Leake Quinn
COVID-19 and Digital Contact Tracing: Regulating the Future of Public Health Surveillance, Divya Ramjee, Pollyanna Sanderson, and Imran Malek
Congress and Universal Injunctions, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2020
The Trump Administration’s Social Security Rules Will Harm Innovation in the Assistive Technology Industry and People with Disabilities, Christopher Buccafusco and Mariel Talmage
Survey Says?: U.S. Cities Double Down on Civilian Oversight of Police Despite Challenges and Controversy, Sharon R. Fairley
Lights, Camera, State Action: Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, Graham L. Fisher
The Dangers to the American Rule of Law Will Outlast the Next Election, Paul Gowder
Easy as ABC: Why the ABC Test Should Be Adopted as the Sole Test of Employee–Independent Contractor Status, Eric Markovits
Employers Should Owe a Duty of Loyalty to Their Workers, Andrew Melzer and David Tracey
The New York Prosecutorial Conduct Commission and the Dawn of a New Era of Reform for Prosecutors, Clyde Rastetter
Robo-Bureaucrat and the Administrative Separation of Powers, Matthew Seipel
Child Vehicular Heatstroke Deaths: How the Criminal Legal System Punishes Grieving Parents Over a Neurobiological Response, Amanda Washabaugh
Submissions from 2019
Effective Assistance of Counsel? An Empirical Study of Defense Attorneys’ Decision-Making in False-Confession Cases, Sara C. Appleby and Hadley R. McCartin
Kids Say the Darndest Things: Minors and the Internet, Emily DiRoma
A Cashless Economy: How to Protect the Low-Income, Samuel Erlanger
A Review of The Wrongful Convictions Reader: A Comprehensive Resource for Students, Faculty, and Practitioners, Stephanie Roberts Hartung
First Principles for Forum Provisions, Daniel B. Listwa and Bradley J. Polivka
Reality Check: The Need to Repair the Broken System of Delegating Legislative Power Under the National Emergencies Act, Michael J. Pastrick
Submissions from 2018
What Kind of Judge is Brett Kavanaugh?, Elliott Ash and Daniel L. Chen
Preserving Film Preservation From The Right of Publicity, Christopher Buccafusco, Jared Vasconcellos Grubow, and Ian J. Postman
The Federal Arbitration Act and Independent Contractors, Richard Frankel