Prof. Harpalani examines the First Amendment component to race-conscious admissions policies. He argues that these policies reflect a core First Amendment value: academic freedom. By facilitating the admission of a more diverse student body, race-conscious admissions policies contribute to the “marketplace of ideas” on campus—thus embodying the values inhering from freedom of speech.

This article argues that courts or legislatures should prohibit the execution of people with severe mental illness who were significantly impaired by their illness at the time of their crime in light of recent Supreme Court death penalty interpretation of Atkins.