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The Touro Law Review is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 37, Number 1 (2021).

Below is the Table of Contents for the issue, which can be found on the Touro Law Center Digital Commons here.

THE HARMFUL ADDICTION TO THE WAR ON DRUGS
Walter E. Block & Alan G. Futerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

A LESSON IN MORAL HAZARD: WHY WE SHOULD THANK BERNIE
MADOFF
Walter E. Block & Corey Jones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

HOW INCREASED LEGAL REPRESENTATION CAN CLOSE THE GAP IN
SPECIAL EDUCATION DISCREPANCIES
Todd Carney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

MALES NEED NOT APPLY: ASSESSING THE LEGALITY OF AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY BUSINESS LAW REVIEW’S ALL-FEMALE ISSUE
Michael Conklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

RACIAL BIAS STILL EXISTS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM? A REVIEW
OF RECENT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Yu Du . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

MEMORY, MORAL REASONING, AND MADISON V. ALABAMA
Elias Feldman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

THE STATE OF THE STATE ACTION DOCTRINE: A SEARCH FOR
ACCOUNTABILITY
Jordan Goodson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

LEGALLY UNHAPPY: HOW US NEWS AND LAW SCHOOLS HAVE FAILED
AND HOW THIS CAN BE FIXED
Christopher Iacono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

ARE DIGITAL SERVICES TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER COUNTRIES
CREDITABLE UNDER IRC 903? YES. BUT, WHAT IF THE OPPOSITE IS
TRUE?
Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

THE ROBBER WANTS TO BE PUNISHED
Uri Weiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

THE TALMUDIC PRISONER’S DILEMMA
Uri Weiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

(UN)MASKING THE TRUTH – THE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT
OF PRISONERS AMIDST THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Ariel Berkowitz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION ON THE DOCKS AND IN THE CASINOS
Conor Byrnes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375

THE DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE STANDARD: A BROKEN PROMISE TO
PROTECT AND SERVE THE MENTALLY ILL
Katherine R. Carroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

DEPLATFORMED: SOCIAL NETWORK CENSORSHIP, THE FIRST
AMENDMENT, AND THE ARGUMENT TO AMEND SECTION 230 OF THE
COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT
John A. LoNigro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

WHO GETS THE PET IN THE DIVORCE? EXAMINING A STANDARD FOR
THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT
Jared Sanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

FOREWORD: JEWISH LAW IN COMPARATIVE CONTEXT
Samuel J. Levine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 869

INDUCING ACTS IN RABBINIC LAW
Amy Birkan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 873

RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN ISRAEL AND OTHER
NATIONS WITH STATE-SPONSORED RELIGIOUS COURTS: CRAFTING A
MORE EFFICIENT AND BETTER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RABBINICAL
COURTS AND ARBITRATION LAW IN ISRAEL
Michael J. Broyde & Ezra Ives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 901