Richard Pomp
Anne Dailey
Anna VanCleave
Molly Land
Leslie Levin
Peter Lindseth
Richard Wilson
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Richard Pomp publishes The Case Against Excluding Gross Receipts from the Sales Factor, 42 J. STATE TAX’N 29 (2024)
Anne C. Dailey publishes Beyond Home and School, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 567 (2024) (with Laura A. Rosenbury)
Molly Land publishes Technology and Economic and Social Rights, in The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Malcolm Langford & Katharine G. Young eds., 2024) (with Jack J. Barry)
Leslie Levin publishes Mere Words: The Role of Bar Organizations in Maintaining Public Support for the Judiciary, 87 Law & Contemp. Probs. 213 (2024)
Peter Lindseth publishes Administration and Democracy, in Public Administration and Expertise in Democratic Governments: Comparative Public Law in the Twenty-First Century (Susan Rose-Ackerman, ed., 2024)
Richard Wilson publishes Contesting Histories: The Historical Accounts of Transitional Justice Institutions, in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Alex Hinton, Lawrence Douglas & Jens Meierhenrich eds., 2024) (with Vladimir Petrović)
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