Spotlights feature the impactful works of past and present KLJ authors
Essay: Becoming Steve Bright by robert L. Tsai
Robert L. Tsai is a Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Memorial Scholar at Boston University School of Law and a ’24-’25 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His most recent book, Demand the Impossible, outlines Stephen Bright’s career and pursuit of equal justice through the lens of four capital cases that Bright argued in front of the Supreme Court. His essay here, which will also appear in print in Volume 113 of the Kentucky Law Journal, details Bright’s time as an outspoken SGA president at the University of Kentucky during the Vietnam War.
Volume 112 Senior Staff Editor Cited by west virginia court of appeals
Our very own Caleb Childers was cited by the West Virginia Court of Appeals in a May 2024 opinion.
Find Childers cited in footnote 5 of St. Joseph's Hosp. of Buckhannon, Inc. v. Stonewall Jackson Mem'l Hosp. Co. This administrative law case involved a dispute between St. Joseph’s Hospital and the West Virginia Health Care Authority over the proposed relocation of a competitor’s hospital. The Court grappled with the issue of how much deference to give to the Authority in its decision to not require a Certificate of Demand for the relocation.
Discussing Chevron deference, the Court cited Childers’ Note, The Major Question Left for the Roberts Court, Will Chevron Survive? Childers’ Note provides a comprehensive analysis of Chevron deference and its imperiled future in light of the Supreme Court’s recent stonewalling of the doctrine. To read Childers’ Note, click here.