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Current Issue: Volume 85, Issue 1 (2025)
Front Matter
Article
Symposium
Caste as Practice, Analogy, and Metaphor
Mark A. Graber
Social Murder and the Antisocial Contract
Marissa Jackson Sow
Generality and Abusive Constitutionalism
Ofra Bloch
Caste-ing and Recasting Race in Equal Protection Jurisprudence
Vinay Harpalani and Magdalene Bernier
Caste and American Citizenship in the Trump Era
Carol Nackenoff
Under What Circumstances is “Caste” Likely to Be Useful as an Analytic Concept (and Should We Care)?
Sanford Levinson and Robert L. Tsai
Editorial Board Volume 85, 2025-2026
Editor in Chief
- Zachary Shank
Managing Editor
- Jacquelyn Ellis
Executive Articles Editor
- Corinne Noonan
Executive Notes and Comments Editor
- John Mauro Gloninger
Executive Symposium/Articles Editor
- Danielle Basdekis
Manuscripts Editor
- Megan Friner, Charles Hackett & Christina Melehy
Senior Online Articles Editor
- Rianna Mukherjee
Senior Production Editor
- Natali Banducci
Articles Editors
- Kerry Mullin Cooney
- Roshnie Rupnarain
- Melissa B. Sprin
- Ethan S. Wilt
Notes and Comments Editors
- Elizabeth Harnish-Nisly
- Erika Lewis
- Nikhil Mathur
- Mark Reichart
- Matthew Rubinstein
Associate Editors
- Madeline Block
- David Chy
- Presley Dawson
- Rebecca Hill
- Sara Himelfarb
- Cheyenne Knavel
- Massa Sitta
- Matthew Winson
- Natalie Wren
Staff Editors
- Jenna Bannon
- Matthew Berger
- Kieran Bethke
- Kristen Boudreau
- Phylicia Childs
- Morgan Cole
- Greyson Cox
- Nathaniel Eig
- Renzo Fano
- Alphonse Holowczak
- Erika Kim
- Liat Klopouh
- Kyle Korte
- John Elliot LaGorce
- Marissa Lawson
- Zachary Lucas
- Emma Lyles
- Sean McGinley
- Daniel Milovic
- Sarah Moore
- Finny Riley
- Lindsey Rosenbloom
- Anagha Velamakanni
- Dorey Veron
- Kyra Wisneski
- Nicole Zehner
Faculty Advisors
- William J. Moon
- Natalie Ram
Editorial Assistant
- Amanda Barnes