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New Website for the Michigan Law Review

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The Michigan Law Review has a new and greatly improved website.

First Impressions, the Review’s online companion, now accepts submissions of essays on timely legal topics.

To view the submission guidelines, go here. For questions and comments, please contact Dean Baxtresser, Executive Editor of First Impressions.

  September 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm  Tags: academia, call for submissions, Law School  Posted in: Law Rev (Michigan)   Print This Post   One Comment

Michigan Law Review, Issue 108:1 (October 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009)

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FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW

FOREWORD

Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porat, Fault in American Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1341 (2009)

ARTICLES

Richard A. Posner, Let Us Never Blame a Contract Breaker, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1349 (2009)

Saul Levmore, Stipulated Damages, Super-Strict Liability, and Mitigation in Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1365 (2009)

Robert E. Scott, In (Partial) Defense of Strict Liability in Contract, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1381 (2009)

Ariel Porat, A Comparative Fault Defense in Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1397 (2009)

Melvin Aron Eisenberg, The Role of Fault in Contract Law: Unconscionability, Unexpected Circumstances, Interpretation, Mistake, and Nonperformance, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1413 (2009)

Eric A. Posner, Fault in Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1431 (2009)

George M. Cohen, The Fault That Lies Within Our Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1445 (2009)

Richard A. Epstein, The Many Faces of Fault in Contract Law: Or How to Do Economics Right, Without Really Trying, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1461 (2009)

Oren Bar-Gill & Omri Ben-Shahar, An Information Theory of Willful Breach, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1479 (2009)

Richard Craswell, When Is a Willful Breach “Willful”? The Link Between Definitions and Damages, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1501 (2009)

Steve Thel & Peter Sigelman, Willfulness Versus Expectation: A Promisor-Based Defense of Willful Breach Doctrine, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1517 (2009)

Roy Kreitner, Fault at the Contract-Tort Interface, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1533 (2009)

Seana Shiffrin, Could Breach of Contract Be Immoral?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1551 (2009)

Steven Shavell, Why Breach of Contract May Not Be Immoral Given the Incompleteness of Contracts, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1569 (2009)

Stefan Grundmann, The Fault Principle As the Chameleon of Contract Law: A Market Function Approach, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1583 (2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:7 (May 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:6 (April 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:6 (April 2009)

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2009 Survey of Books Related to the Law

Foreword

Erwin Chemerinsky, Why Write?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 881 (2009)

Classic Revisited

Rodney A. Smolla, Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 895 (2009)

Reviews

Gene R. Nichol, Nussbaum: Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 913 (2009)

Jonathan Weinberg, Spiro: Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 931 (2009)

Orin S. Kerr, Slobogin: Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 951 (2009)

Edward K. Cheng, Ayres: Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 967 (2009)

Antony Page, Greenfield: The Failure of Corporate Law: Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 979 (2009)

Amy L. Wax, Polikoff: Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 999 (2009)

Leonard M. Niehoff, Baker: Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters , 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1019 (2009)

Jeffrey L. Dunoff, McCrudden: Buying Social Justice: Equality, Government Procurement, and Legal Change, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1039 (2009)

William Michael Treanor, Epstein: Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1059 (2009)

Anthony V. Alfieri, Sullivan, Colby, Welsh Wegner, Bond, & Shulman: Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1073 (2009)

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Comparative Equality

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The Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions has published an online symposium on Comparative Equality.

Around the world, there are various legal approaches to equality. For instance, France does not recognize minorities—its theory being that race and ethnicity should not be recognized, and everyone is simply French. However, racial clashes in France have made headlines in recent years. South Africa, on the other hand, built its constitution around a substantive concept of equality. Nations vary on the extent to which they promote social inclusion. Yet substantial equality issues remain. Across the world, differing concepts of equality in the law (i.e. substantive, formal / Aristotelian) may have similar or different outcomes. This symposium addresses how legal approaches to equality affect social justice.

The extended post contains a more complete description of the symposium and links to the essays.

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:5 (March 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:5 (March 2009)

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Articles

Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl, The Supreme Court’s Controversial GVRs—And an Alternative, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 711 (2009)

Nestor M. Davidson, Property and Relative Status, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 757 (2009)

Notes

Katherine Mesenbring Field, Agency, Code, or Contract: Determining Employees’ Authorization Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 819(2009)

Samuel Brenner, “Airbrushed Out of the Constitutional Cannon”: The Evolving Understanding of Giles v. Harris, 1903-1925, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 853(2009)

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Liability for Exercising Personal Belief Exemptions from Vaccination

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The Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions has published an online symposium on Liability for Exercising Personal Belief Exemptions from Vaccination.

Recent outbreaks of diseases such as measles, mumps, and pertussis, which have mostly been eradicated in the United States for decades, have called attention to the increased use of personal belief exemptions (sometimes called philosophical exemptions) to childhood vaccination requirements. Twenty states, including Michigan, allow personal belief exemptions, in addition to the medical exemptions allowed by every state. Since the 1990s, parents have increasingly used these personal belief exemptions, often related to an unproven belief that vaccines are linked to autism and other disorders. An outbreak of the disease can sicken not only children who are unvaccinated, but also children who have received the vaccine. While in the past, unvaccinated children were more likely to be low-income, increasingly more are higher-income and their parents well-educated. With the increased risk that the use of personal belief exemptions will limit the effectiveness of vaccination, this symposium addresses whether parents who refuse to vaccinate their children should be liable in tort to individuals who are infected and injured by the unvaccinated children.

The extended post contains a more complete description of the symposium and links to the essays.

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:4 (February 2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:4 (February 2009)

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Articles

Orin S. Kerr, The Case for the Third-Party Doctrine, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 561 (2009)

Elizabeth Warren & Jay Lawrence Westbrook, The Success of Chapter 11: A Challenge to the Critics, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 603 (2009)

Notes

Daniel P. Rathbun, Irrelevant Oversight: “Presidential Administration” from the Standpoint of Arbitrary and Capricious Review, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2009)

Elizabeth M. Ryan, Causation or Correlation? The Impact of LULAC v. Clements on Section 2 Lawsuits in the Fifth Circuit, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 675 (2009)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:3 (December 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:3 (December 2008)

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Articles

Stephen Gardbaum, The Myth and the Reality of American Constitutional Exceptionalism, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 391 (2008)

Ehud Guttel & Alon Harel, Uncertainty Revisited: Legal Prediction and Legal Postdiction, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 467 (2008)

Notes

Steven T. Collis, A Narrow Path to Diversity: The Constitutionality of Rezoning Plans and Strategic Site Selection of Schools After Parents Involved, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 501 (2008)

Jacob S. Sherkow, A Call for the End of the Doctrine of Realignment, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 525 (2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:2 (November 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:2 (November 2008)

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Articles

Richard A. Primus, When Should Original Meanings Matter?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 165 (2008)

David L. Schwartz, Practice Makes Perfect? An Empirical

Study of Claim Construction Reversal Rates in Patent Cases, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 223 (2008)

Essay

Gideon Parchomovsky & Alex Stein, Torts and Innovation, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 285 (2008)

Notes

David C. Weiss, Nothing Improper? Examining Constitutional Limits, Congressional Action, Partisan Motivation, and Pretextual Justification in the U.S. Attorney Removals, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 317 (2008)

Andrea Y. Loh, Are Artificial Tans the New Cigarette? How Plaintiffs Can Use the Lessons of Tobacco Litigation in Bringing Claims Against the Indoor Tanning Industry, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 365 (2008)

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The Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration

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The Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions this week published an online symposium on The Environmental Agenda for the Next Administration.

The new President in 2009 will follow an administration which has not been seen as proactive in developing environmental policy to address issues of climate change, alternative energy, and sustainability. Environmental organizations, legal and policy academics, and industry officials are beginning to debate the necessary focus of that next administration as it endeavors to develop sustainable environmental policies. As the nation’s major environmental laws were enacted three decades ago, when the country faced very different environmental problems, this symposium proposes a fresh legal and policy approach to climate change, alternative energy, and sustainability for the next presidential administration to follow.

The extended post contains a more complete description of the symposium and links to the essays.

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:1 (October 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:1 (October 2008)

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Articles

James E. Pfander, Judicial Compensation and the Definition of Judicial Power in the Early Republic, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2008)

Matthew C. Stephenson, Optimal Political Control of the Bureaucracy, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 53 (2008)

Notes

Colin P. Watson, Limiting a Constitutional Tort Without Probable Cause: First Amendment Retaliatory Arrest After Hartman, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 111 (2008)

Benedict J. Schweigert, “Now For a Clean Sweep!”: Smiley v. Holm, Partisan Gerrymandering, and At-Large Congressional Elections, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 133 (2008)

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Senator John McCain and Natural Born Citizenship

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The Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions this week published an online symposium on Senator John McCain and Natural Born Citizenship.

Senator John McCain, the current Republican Party nominee for President, was born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. The circumstances of his birth raise the question of whether he is a “natural born citizen” as required by Article II, section 1 of the Constitution. The symposium contributors explore both the substance of this issue and the methods used to resolve it.

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:8 (June 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:8 June 2008)

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SYMPOSIUM

Glucksberg and Quill at Ten: Death, Dying and the Constitution

Foreword

Yale Kamisar, Can Glucksberg survive Lawrence? Another Look at the End of Life and Personal Autonomy, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1453 (2008)

Articles

Randy E. Barnett, Scrutiny Land, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1479 (2008)

Erwin Chemerinsky, Washington v. Glucksberg Was Tragically Wrong, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1501 (2008)

Steven G. Calabresi, Substantive Due Process After Gonzales v. Carhart, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1517 (2008)

Cass R. Sunstein, Due Process Traditionalism, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1543 (2008)

Steven D. Smith, De-Moralized:Glucksberg in the Malaise, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1571 (2008)

Kathryn L. Tucker, In the Laboratory of the States: The Progress of Glucksberg’s Invitation to States to Address End-of-Life Choices,106 Mich. L. Rev. 1593 (2008)

Herbert Hendin & Kathleen Foley, Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon: A Medical Perspective, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1613 (2008)

Marc Spindelman, Death, Dying and Domination, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1641 (2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:7 (May 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:7 (May 2008)

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Articles

Mitchell A. Kane & Edward B. Rock, Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1229(2008)

Stewart W. Sterk, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Uncertainty about Property Rights, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1285(2008)

John Greenman, On Communication, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1337(2008)

Notes

Susanna G. Dyer, Is There a Duty?: Limiting College and University Liability for Student Suicide, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1379(2008)

Michael R. Cedillos, Categorizing Categories: Property of the Estate and Fraudulent Transfers in Bankruptcy, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1405(2008)

Jeffrey T.G. Kelsey, Hacking into International Humanitarian Law: The Principles of Distinction and Neutrality in the Age of Cyber Warfare , 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1427(2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:6 (April 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:6 (April 2008)

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2008 Survey of Books Related to the Law

Foreword

Patricia M. Wald, War Tales and War Trials, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 901 (2008)

Confronting War

Robert J. Delahunty & John C. Yoo, Classic Revisited: Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 923 (2008)

Karen Engle, Classic Revisited: Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 941 (2008)

Stephen Reinhardt, Posner: Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 963 (2008)

Kevin Jon Heller, Drumbl: Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 975 (2008)

The Administrative State

Jill R. Horwitz, Hyman: Medicare Meets Mephistopheles, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1001 (2008)

M. Elizabeth Magill, Croley: Regulation and Public Interests: The Possibility of Good Regulatory Government, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1021 (2008)

Comparative Law

Benjamin L. Liebman, West: Secrets, Sex and Spectacle: The Rules of Scandal in Japan and the United States, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1041 (2008)

Roger P. Alford, Krotoszynski, Jr.: The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1071 (2008)

Corporate Governance

Merrit B. Fox, Coffee, Jr.: Gatekeepers: The Professions and Corporate, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1089 (2008)

Immigration

Cristina M. Rodriguez, Motomura: Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1111 (2008)

International Law

Alex Geisinger & Michael Ashley Stein, Guzman: How International Law Works: A Rational Choice Theory, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1129 (2008)

Yang Wang, Peerenboom: China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1143 (2008)

Legal History

Sam Erman, Allen: Origins of the Dred Scott Case: Jacksonian Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court 1837 – 1857, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1157 (2008)

Payment Systems

Katherine Porter, Mann: Charging Ahead: The Growth and Regulation of Payment Card Markets, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1167 (2008)

Policing and Race

Richard Delgado, Herbert: Citizens, Cops, and Power: Recognizing the Limits of Community; Weitzer & Tuch: Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform; Weisburd & Braga: Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1193 (2008)

Torts

Anthony J. Sebok, Nagareda: Mass Torts in a World of Settlement, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 1213 (2008)

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Agricultural Animals and Animal Law

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The Michigan Law Review’s companion journal First Impressions this week published an online symposium on Agricultural Animals and Animal Law.

The largest meat recall in U.S. history this February catalyzed debate on the treatment of animals in agriculture. Video of agricultural workers forcing “downer” cattle to slaughter at a California meat packing facility prompted criminal sanctions in that case. On the other side of the country, the New Jersey Supreme Court will consider this term whether regulations promulgated pursuant to a law mandating humane treatment of farm animals go far enough. The regulations reportedly do not prohibit castrating male piglets without anesthesia, removing chicken beaks and turkey claws without painkillers, or confining veal calves and pregnant sows in cages small enough to restrict turning around.

In light of these controversies, the symposium contributors debate the extent to which animal protection laws should apply to the agricultural industry.

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:5 (March 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:5 (March 2008)

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Articles

Rebecca J. Scott, Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge , 106 Mich. L. Rev. 777 (2008)

Brian Galle, Federal Fairness to State Taxpayers: Irrationality, Unfunded Mandates, and the “SALT” Deduction , 106 Mich. L. Rev. 805 (2008)

Notes

Theodore Kill, Don’t Cross the Streams: Past and Present Overstatement of Customary International Law in Connection with Conventional Fair and Equitable Treatment Obligations , 106 Mich. L. Rev. 853 (2008)

Joseph Mead, Confidence in the Nonprofit Sector Through Sarbanes-Oxley-Style Reforms , 106 Mich. L. Rev. 881 (2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:4 (February 2008)

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Michigan Law Review, Issue 106:4 (February 2008)

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Articles

Cristina M. Rodríguez, The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 567 (2008)

Mark A. Hall & Carl E. Schneider, Patients as Consumers: Courts, Contracts, and the New Medical Marketplace, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 643 (2008)

Correspondence

James J. White, Bankruptcy Noir, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 691 (2008)

Lynn M. LoPucki & Joseph W. Doherty, Bankruptcy Vérité, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 721 (2008)

Note

John C. Evans, Addressing Default Trends in Patent-Based Section 337 Proceedings in the United States International Trade Commission, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 745 (2008)

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