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May 10, 2008

Cornell Law Review, Volume 93 Number 4 (May 2008)

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Cornell Law Review, Volume 93 Number 4 (May 2008)

Articles


Grand Jury Discretion and Constitutional Design

Roger A. Fairfax, Jr.


Can Law Manage Competitive Energy Markets?

David B. Spence


Notes


Striking a Better Public-Private Balance in Forum Non Conveniens

Emily J. Derr


Restitution and the Lacey Act: New Solutions, Old Remedies
Kenneth B. Meyer


Book Review


The Quantitative Moment and the Qualitative Opportunity: Legal Studies of Judicial Decision Making
Gregory C. Sisk


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May 08, 2008

Southern California Law Review, 81:3 (March 2008)

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Southern California Law Review, 81:3 (March 2008)

Articles

Margaret H. Lemos, The Other Delegate: Judicially Administered Statutes and the Nondelegation Doctrine, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 405 (2008)

David Luban, On the Commander in Chief Power, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 477 (2008)

Notes

Padraic Foran, Unreasonably Wrong: The Supreme Court's Supremacy, the AEDPA Standard, and Carey v. Musladin, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 571 (2008)

Michael Moulton, Effecting the Impossible: An Argument Against Tax Strategy Patents, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 631 (2008)

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May 07, 2008

Boston University Law Review, 88:2 (April 2008)

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Boston University Law Review, 88:2 (April 2008)
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SYMPOSIUM: THE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Contents

Introduction, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 321 (2008)

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash, A Taxonomy of Presidential Powers, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 327 (2008)

Robert D. Sloane, The Scope of Executive Power in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 341 (2008)

Michael D. Ramsey, Presidential Originalism?, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 353 (2008)

Gary Lawson, What Lurks Beneath: NSA Surveillance and Executive Power, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 375 (2008)

Dawn E. Johnsen, What’s a President To Do? Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of Bush Administration Abuses, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 395 (2008)

John Yoo, Jefferson and Executive Power, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 421 (2008)

Neal Devins & David E. Lewis, Not-So Independent Agencies: Party Polarization and the Limits of Institutional Design, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 459 (2008)

Julian E. Zelizer, The Conservative Embrace of Presidential Power, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 499 (2008)

William P. Marshall, Eleven Reasons Why Presidential Power Inevitably Expands and Why It Matters, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 505 (2008)

Harold J. Krent, From a Unitary to a Unilateral Presidency, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 523 (2008)

Daniela Caruso, (Presidential) Powers in the European Union, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 561 (2008)

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April 28, 2008

Fordham Law Review, Issue 76:5 (April 2008)

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Fordham Law Review, Issue 76:5 (April 2008)
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ESSAY

Melissa B. Jacoby, Home Ownership Risk Beyond a Subprime Crisis: The Role of Delinquency Management, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2261 (2008).

ARTICLES

John Bronsteen, Brendan S. Maher & Peter K. Stris, ERISA, Agency Costs, and the Future of Health Care in the United States, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2297 (2008).

Kevin K. Washburn, Restoring the Grand Jury, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2333 (2008).

NOTES

Gregory Apgar, Prudential Standing Limitations on Lanham Act False Advertising Claims, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2389 (2008).

Jennifer A. Gniady, Regulating Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Protecting the Consumer Without Quashing a Medical Revolution, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2429 (2008).

Amanda L. Houle, From T-Shirts to Teaching: May Public Schools Constitutionally Regulate Antihomosexual Speech?, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2477 (2008).

Lauren E. Sasser, Waiting in Immigration Limbo: The Federal Court Split over Suits to Compel Action on Stalled Adjustment of Status Applications, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2511 (2008).

James M. Shea, Jr., Who Is at the Table? Interpreting Disclosure Requirements for Ad Hoc Groups of Institutional Investors Under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 2019, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2561 (2008).

Andrew V. Trask, “Obvious to Try”: A Proper Patentability Standard in the Pharmaceutical Arts?, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2625 (2008).

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Fordham Law Review, Issue 76:4 (March 2008)

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Fordham Law Review, Issue 76:4 (March 2008)
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ESSAY

Judith S. Kaye & Anne C. Reddy, The Progress of Women Lawyers at Big Firms: Steadied or Simply Studied?, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 1941 (2008).

ARTICLES

Robert P. Bartlett III, Taking Finance Seriously: How Debt Financing Distorts Bidding Outcomes in Corporate Takeovers, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 1975 (2008).

Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., Harmless Constitutional Error and the Institutional Significance of the Jury, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2027 (2008).

NOTES

Frank D'Angelo, Turf Wars: Street Gangs and the Outer Limits of RICO's "Affecting Commerce" Requirement, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2075 (2008).

George A. Mocsary, Explaining Away the Obvious: The Infeasibility of Characterizing the Second Amendment as a Nonindividual Right, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2113 (2008).

Amanda Sue Nichols, Alien Tort Statute Accomplice Liability Cases: Should Courts Apply the Plausability Pleading Standard of Bell Atlantic v. Twombly?, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2177 (2008).

Katherine A. Rocco, Rule 26(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: In the Interest of Full Disclosure?, 76 Fordham L. Rev. 2227 (2008).

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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 96.4 (April 2008)

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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 96.4 (April 2008)

Articles

The Continuum of Deference: Supreme Court Treatment of Agency Statutory Interpretations from Chevron to Hamdan
William N. Eskridge & Lauren E. Baer

The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting
Marcel Kahan & Edward Rock

Writing, Cognition, and the Nature of the Judicial Function

Chad M. Oldfather

Notes

When Clarity Means Ambiguity: An Examination of Statutory Interpretation at the Environmental Protection Agency

Susannah Landes Foster

Hearsay at Guantanamo: A "Fundamental Value Determination"

Martin A. Hewett


The dataset for Eskridge & Baer's The Continuum of Deference is available here.

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April 24, 2008

Boston College Law Review, Issue 49:3 (2008)

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Boston College Law Review, Issue 49:3 (May 2008)

Articles
Steven A. Dean, The Incomplete Global Market for Tax Information, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 605 (2008) [PDF]

Jonathan Remy Nash, Economic Efficiency Versus Public Choice: The Case of Property Rights in Road Traffic Management, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 673 (2008) [PDF]

Katherine J. Strandburg, Freedom of Association in a Networked World: First Amendment Regulation of Relational Surveillance, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 741 (2008) [PDF]

Notes
Jonathan K. Geldert, Presidential Advisors and Their Most Unpresidential Activities: Why Executive Privilege Cannot Shield White House Information in the U.S. Attorney Firings Controversy, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 823 (2008) [PDF]

John A. Kupiec, Returning to Principles of "Fairness and Justice": The Role of Investment-Backed Expectations in Total Regulatory Taking Claims, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 865 (2008) [PDF]

Contents of current and past issues are available at our website

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April 22, 2008

Harvard Law Review, 121:6 (April 2008)

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Vol. 121 · April 2008 · No. 6

ARTICLE

LAND ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS

Michael Heller
and Rick Hills

BOOK REVIEW

THE END OF THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE:
A REVIEW ESSAY

Robert Howse

NOTES

Mechanisms of Secrecy
Regulating Eugenics
Leegin's Unexplored "Change in Circumstance":
The Internet and Resale Price Maintenance
Counterinsurgency and Constitutional Design

RECENT CASES

Washington Supreme Court Declines To Apply Professional Rescue Doctrine in Suit by Policeman Against Fellow Officer. — Beaupre v. Pierce County, 166 P.3d 712 (Wash. 2007).
En Banc Ninth Circuit Holds that RICO Enterprise Need Not Have Any Particular Organizational Structure. — Odom v. Microsoft Corp., 486 F.3d 541 (9th Cir. 2007) (en banc), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 464 (2007).
Seventh Circuit Holds that Defendant's Waiver of the Right To Testify Was Valid Despite District Court's Failure To Engage in an On-the-Record Colloquy Regarding the Decision. — United States v. Stark, 507 F.3d 512 (7th Cir. 2007).
Ninth Circuit Considers Community's Racial Tension with Police in Finding Illegal Seizure and Lack of Voluntary Consent. — United States v. Washington, 490 F.3d 765 (9th Cir. 2007).
Ninth Circuit Holds that § 1983 Does Not Provide a Right of Action for Violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. — Cornejo v. County of San Diego, 504 F.3d 853 (9th Cir. 2007), reh’g and reh’g en banc denied, No. 05-56202 (9th Cir. Feb. 4, 2008).
En Banc D.C. Circuit Rejects Fundamental Right to Experimental Medications. — Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs v. von Eschenbach, 495 F.3d 695 (D.C. Cir. 2007) (en banc), cert. denied, 128 S. Ct. 1069 (2008).

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Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 61, Number 2 (March 2008)

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Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 61, Number 2 (March 2008)

ARTICLES

Randall S. Thomas, The Evolving Role of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance and Corporate Litigation, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 299 (2008).

Stephen J. Choi & Jill E. Fisch, On Beyond CalPERS: Survey Evidence on the Developing Role of Public Pension Funds in Corporate Governance, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 315 (2008).

James D. Cox, Randall S. Thomas, Lynn Bai, There Are Plaintiffs and . . . There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 355 (2008).

Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., The Forgotten Derivative Suit, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 387 (2008).

Jesse M. Fried, Hands-Off Options, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 453 (2008).

Jeffrey N. Gordon, Proxy Contests in an Era of Increasing Shareholder Power: Forget Issuer Proxy Access and Focus on E-Proxy, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 475 (2008).

Lyman Johnson, A Fresh Look at Director “Independence”: Mutual Fund Fee Litigation and Gartenberg at Twenty-Five, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 497 (2008).

Elliot J. Weiss, The Lead Plaintiff Provisions of the PSLRA After a Decade, or “Look What’s Happened to My Baby”, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 543 (2008).

NOTES

Leah Bressack, Small Claim Mass Fraud Actions: A Proposal for Aggregate Litigation Under RICO, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 579 (2008).

Sybil Louise Dunlop, Are an Empty Head and a Pure Heart Enough? Mens Rea Standards for Judge-Imposed Rule 11 Sanctions and Their Effects on Attorney Action, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 615 (2008).

Elizabeth C. Minogue, Increasing the Effectiveness of the Security Council’s Chapter VII Authority in the Current Situations Before the International Criminal Court, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 647 (2008).

Uta Oberdörster, Why Ratify? Lessons from Treaty Ratification Campaigns, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 681 (2008).

SYMPOSIUM

Click here for links at our website to listen to audio files from our recent Conference on Judicial Reputation: Neglected Supreme Court Justices!

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April 21, 2008

Illinois Law Review, Issue 2008:3 (May 2008)

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Illinois Law Review, Issue 2008:3 (May 2008)
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Articles
Prediction Markets and the First Amendment
Miriam A. Cherry and Robert L. Rogers

Classified Information Leaks and Free Speech
Heidi Kitrosser

Victorian Tort Liability for Workplace Injuries
Michael Ashley Stein

The Accidental Promise: Remaking the Law of Misrepresented Intent
Aditi Bagchi

Notes

Protecting Privacy in a Shared Castle: The Implications of Georgia v. Randolph for the Third-Party Consent Doctrine

Monique N. Bhargava

The Firearm Owners' Protection Act and the Restoration of Felons' Rights to Possess Firearms: Congressional Intent Versus Notice
Daniel Brenner

Supreme Court Upholds a Mandate of Death when the Jury is in Equipoise: Challenged Under the Apprendi Interpretation of the Sixth Amendment
Benjamin T. Kurtz

Breaking Asbestos Litigation's Chokehold on the American Judiciary
Christopher J. O'Malley

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April 20, 2008

Texas Law Review, Volume 86, Number 5 (April 2008)

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Texas Law Review, Volume 86, Number 5 (April 2008)


ARTICLES
The Role of Precedent in Constitutional Adjudication: An Introspection
David L. Shapiro

The Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship
Neil S. Siegel


BOOK REVIEW
Understanding the New Politics of Judicial Appointments
David R. Stras


NOTES
Forum Non Conveniens: Whose Convenience and Justice?
Finity E. Jernigan

Go Shops: A Ticket to Ride Past a Target Board’s Revlon Duties?
Joseph L. Morrel

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April 19, 2008

Washington University Law Review, Volume 85:4 (2007)

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Washington University Law Review, Volume 85:4 (2007)
ARTICLES

Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine David A. Hoffman, Alan J. Izenman, Jeffrey R. Lidicker
The Class Action As Political Theory Martin H. Redish, Clifford W. Berlow
Retributive Justice in the Real World Michael T. Cahill
Workers, Information, and Corporate Combinations: The Case for Non-Binding Employee Referenda in Transformative Transactions Matthew T. Bodie

NOTES

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies: Spac and Span, or Blank Check Redux? Daniel S. Riemer

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April 16, 2008

Harvard Law Review Forum, 121 (2008)

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Harvard Law Review Forum, 121 (2008)

Governing Health
Jennifer Prah Ruger

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April 11, 2008

UCLA Law Review, Issue 55:3 (February 2008)

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UCLA Law Review, Issue 55:3 (February 2008).

Articles

Stephen M. Bainbridge, The Convergence of Good Faith and Oversight, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 559 (2008).

Kamal Ghali, No Slavery Except as a Punishment for Crime: The Punishment Clause and Sexual Slavery, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 607 (2008).

Caleb E. Mason, An Aesthetic Defense of the Nonprecedential Opinion: The Easy Cases Debate in the Wake of the 2007 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 643 (2008).

Comments

Malinda Lee, Reorienting the Debate on Presidential Signing Statements: The Need for Transparency in the President's Constitutional Objections, Reservations, and Assertions of Power, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 705 (2008).

Nancy Olson, Does Practice Make Perfect? An Examination of Congress's Proposed District Court Patent Pilot Program, 55 UCLA L. Rev. 745 (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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April 10, 2008

Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 83, Issue 2 (January 2008)

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Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 83, Issue 2 (January 2008)

ARTICLES

A Truism WIth Attitudes: The Tenth Amendment in Constitutional Context
Gary Lawson, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 469

Arbitrating Human Rights
Roger P. Alford, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 505

Misguided Fairness? Regulating Arbitration by Statute: Empirical Evidence of Declining Award Finality
Michael H. LeRoy, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 551

Debt and Democracy: Towards a Constitutional Theory of Bankruptcy
Jonathan C. Lipson, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 605

Performance Values
Sara K. Stadler, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 697

ESSAY

Locating Authority in Law, and Avoiding the Authoritarianism of "Textualism"
Patrick McKinley Brennan, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 761

NOTES

A Textual Approach to Harmonizing Sherbert and Smith on Free Exercise
Nicholas J. Nelson, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 801

Your Opinion Really Does Not Matter: How the Use Referenda in Funding Public University Student Groups Violates Constitutional Free Speech Principles
Gregory B. Sanford, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 845

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April 09, 2008

Virginia Law Review 94:1 (March 2008)

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Virginia Law Review 94:1 (March 2008)

ARTICLES

Information and the Market for Union Representation

by Matthew T. Bodie

Overcoming Procedural Boundaries

 by Issachar Rosen-Zvi & Talia Fisher

ESSAY

NOTES

A Doctrine of Full Faith and Credit

by Brian Vines

Finding the Proper Balance: A Look at the Continuing Development of Campus Suicide Policies

by Karin McAnaney

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March 31, 2008

Cornell Law Review, Volume 93 Number 3 (March 2008)

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Cornell Law Review, Volume 93 Number 3 (March 2008)


Articles and Responses

State Courts Unbound
Frederic M. Bloom

Trust Privacy
Frances H. Foster

Notes

Torturous Consequences and the Case of Maher Arar: Can Canadian Solutions "Cure" the Due Process Deficiencies in U.S. Removal Proceedings?
Erin Craddock

The Mangnuson-Moss Warranty Act, the Federal Arbitration Act, and the Future of Consumer Protection

Jonathan D. Grossberg

Book Review

Against Judgment

Katherine Y. Barnes


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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 96.3 (March 2008)

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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 96.3 (March 2008)

Articles

Confronting Evil: Victims' Rights in an Age of Terror
Wayne A. Logan

The Private Enforcement of Immigration Laws
Huyen Pham

Triangulating Testimonial Hearsay: The Constitutional Boundaries of Expert Opinion Testimony

Julie E. Seaman

The New Servitudes
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

Notes

Stitching Together the Patchwork: Burlington Northern's Lessons for State Whistleblower Law
Courtney J. Anderson DaCosta

Burlamaqui, the Constitution, and the Imperfect War on Terror
Kathryn L. Einspanier

Discriminatory Condemnations and the Fair Housing Act

Edward Imperatore

From Georgia v. Tennessee to Massachusetts v. EPA: Parens Patriae Standing for State Global Warming Plaintiffs
Sara Zdeb

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March 27, 2008

Boston College Law Review, Issue 49:2 (March 2008)

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Boston College Law Review, Issue 49:2 (March 2008)

Articles

Jonathan H. Adler, Money or Nothing: The Adverse Environmental Consequences of Uncompensated Land Use Controls, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 301 (2008) [PDF]

Nancy Levit, Megacases, Diversity, and the Elusive Goal of Workplace Reform, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 367 (2008) [PDF]

A. Benjamin Spencer, Plausibility Pleading, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 431 (2008) [PDF]

Notes

Courtney P. Fain, What’s in a Name? The Worrisome Interchange of Juvenile “Adjudications” with Criminal “Convictions”, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 495 (2008) [PDF]

Jessica L. Lambert, Developing a Legal Framework for Resolving Disputes Between “Adoptive Parents” of Frozen Embryos: A Comparison to Resolutions of Divorce Disputes Between Progenitors, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 529 (2008) [PDF]

William Trunk, The Scourge of Contextualism: Ceremonial Deism and the Establishment Clause, 49 B.C. L. Rev. 571 (2008) [PDF]

Contents of current and past issues are available at our website

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March 25, 2008

Harvard Law Review, 121:5 (March 2008)

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Vol. 121 · March 2008 · No. 5


NOTES

Public-Private Partnerships and Insurance Regulation
The Principles for User Generated Content Services: A Middle-Ground Approach to Cyber-Governance
Government Counsel and Their Obligations

BOOK NOTE

Justice Thomas's Inconsistent Originalism

RECENT CASES

Eighth Circuit Holds that the First Amendment Protects Online Fantasy Baseball Providers' Use of Baseball Statistics in the Public Domain. — C.B.C. Distribution & Marketing, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P., 505 F.3d 818 (8th Cir. 2007), reh’g and reh’g en banc denied, Nos. 06-3357 & 06-3358 (8th Cir. Nov. 26, 2007).
Eighth Circuit Holds that Benefits Plans Excluding All Contraceptives Do Not Discriminate Based on Sex. — In re Union Pacific Railroad Employment Practices Litigation, 479 F.3d 936 (8th Cir. 2007), reh’g and reh’g en banc denied, No. 06-1706 (8th Cir. May 23, 2007).
Second Circuit Upholds Perpetual Anti-Bootlegging Protection Against Copyright Clause Challenge. — United States v. Martignon, 492 F.3d 140 (2d Cir. 2007).


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March 23, 2008

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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March 19, 2008

Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 83, Issue 1 (November 2007)

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Notre Dame Law Review, Volume 83, Issue 1 (November 2007)

ARTICLES

"Necessary to the Security of a Free State"
Eugene Volokh, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1

Created Facts and the Flawed Ontology of Copyright Law
Justin Hughes, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 43

Reclaiming McDonnell Douglas
Martin J. Katz, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 109

The Jurisprudence of Colliding First Amendment Interests: From the Dead End of Neutrality to the Open Road of Participation-Enhancing Review
Gregory P. Magarian, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 185

The Commandeerer in Chief
Jason Mazzone, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 265

Contract as Agreement
Lawrence M. Solan, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 353

NOTES

Can Separate Be Equal? Single-Sex Classrooms, the Constitution, and Title IX
Benjamin P. Carr, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 409

Crusading For the Helpless or Biting the Hand That Feeds? Applying Landlord-Tenant Law to Residents in Shelters
Matthew R. Hays, 83 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 443

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March 18, 2008

The Yale Law Journal, Volume 117, Issue 5 (March 2008)

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The Yale Law Journal, Volume 117, Issue 5 (March 2008)

ARTICLES

Race and Democratic Contestation
Michael S. Kang

The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property
Amy Kapczynski

REVIEW

Giving the Constitution to the Courts
Jamal Greene

NOTE

Defending the Faithful: Speaking the Language of Group Harm in Free Exercise Challenges to Counterterrorism Profiling Murad Hussain

COMMENTS

Ledbitter in Congress:The Limits of a Narrow Legislative Override


Seeking More Scienter:The Effect of False Claims Act Interpretations

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March 06, 2008

Boston University Law Review, 88:1 (February 2008)

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Boston University Law Review, 88:1 (February 2008)
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Articles

J.B. Ruhl, Climate Change and the Endangered Species Act: Building Bridges to the No-Analog Future, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 1 (2008)

Scott Baker, Should We Pay Federal Circuit Judges More?, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 63 (2008)

Eric A. Johnson, Causal Relevance in the Law of Search and Seizure, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 113 (2008)

Scott A. Moss & Douglas M. Raines, The Intriguing Federalist Future of Reproductive Rights, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 175 (2008)

Philip G. Peters, Jr., Health Courts?, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 227 (2008)

Note

James R. Gadwood, The Framework Comes Crumbling Down: JuryQuest in a Batson World, 88 B.U. L. Rev. 291 (2008)

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March 05, 2008

Northwestern University Law Review, Issue 102:1 (Winter 2008)

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Northwestern University Law Review, Issue 102:1 (Winter 2008)

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Articles

Nestor M. Davidson, The Problem of Equality in Takings, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1 (2008)

Scott Dodson, In Search of Removal Jurisdiction, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 55 (2008)

Timothy P. Glynn, Delaware's VantagePoint: The Empire Strikes Back in the Post-Post-Enron Era, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 91 (2008)

Andy G. Olree, James Madison and Legislative Chaplains, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 145 (2008)

Essays

Yuval Feldman & Doron Teichman, Are All "Legal Dollars" Created Equal?, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 223 (2008)

Tonja Jacobi & Gwendolyn Carroll, Acknowledging Guilt: Forcing Self-Identification in Post-Conviction DNA Testing, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 263 (2008)

Comments

Sarah E. Agudo, Irregular Passion: The Unconstitutionality and Inefficacy of Sex Offender Residency Laws, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 307 (2008)

Dan Fenske, All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic: Erasing the Distinction Between Foreign and Domestic Intelligence Gathering Under the Fourth Amendment, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 343 (2008)

Sena Ku, The Supreme Court's GVR Power: Drawing a Line Between Deference and Control, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 383 (2008)

Colloquy Essay

David McGowan, What Tool Works Tells Us About Tailoring Patent Misuse Remedies, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 421 (2008)

Special Section: 2006 Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention

Panel I: Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Uneasy Cousins?

A. Raymond Randolph, Spreading Democracy, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 431 (2008)

Kenneth Wollack, Democracy Promotion: Serving U.S. Values and Interests, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 433 (2008)

François-Henri Briard, France and the United States: Not So Far from Each Other, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 437 (2008)

Tom G. Palmer, Democracy and the Contest for Liberty, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 443 (2008)

William Kristol, Limited Government and Spreading Democracy: Two Fronts, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 449 (2008)

Panel III: Are Constitutional Changes Necessary to Limit Government?

David B. Sentelle, Introductory Remarks, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 455 (2008)

William N. Eskridge, Jr., No Easy Constitutional Solution for Big Government, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 457 (2008)

Daniel H. Lowenstein, Term Limits, Initiatives, and Other Gimmickry, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 461 (2008)

Richard D. Parker, Two Concepts of Government, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 465 (2008)

Frank H. Easterbrook, On Constitutional Changes to Limit Government, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 469 (2008)

Panel IV: The Role of Government in Defining Our Culture

Edwin Meese III, Introductory Remarks, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 477 (2008)

Walter E. Dellinger III, Cultural Values and Government, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 479 (2008)

Charles Murray, The (Im)proper Role of Government in Defining Our Culture, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 483 (2008)

Anthony D. Romero, "Limited Government" and the Betrayal of American Values, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 487 (2008)

Phyllis Schlafly, How the Government Influences Our Culture, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 491 (2008)

William N. Eskridge, Jr., How Government Unintentionally Influences Culture (The Case of Same-Sex Marriage), 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 495 (2008)

Hadley P. Arkes, The Role of Government in Shaping Culture, 102 Nw. U. L. Rev. 499 (2008)


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March 04, 2008

Illinois Law Review, Issue 2008:2 (March 2008)

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Illinois Law Review, Issue 2008:2 (March 2008)
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Articles
Unintelligent Design in Contract
Peter A. Alces

Law and Proximity
Adam J. Hirsch and Gregory Mitchell

Reclaiming Egalitariansim in the Political Theory of Campaign Finance Reform
Frank Pasquale

Corporations and the Market for Law
Larry E. Ribstein and Erin Ann O'Hara

Notes

Whacking the Political Money "Mole" Without Whacking Speech: Accounting for Congressional Self-Dealing in Campaign Finance Reform After Wisconsin Right to Life

Robert P. Beard

Watered Down: Are Insurance Companies Getting Hosed in the Wind vs. Water Controversy?
Brendan R. Vaughan


Compositions are Being Sold for a Song: Proposed Legislation and New Licensing Opportunities Demonstrate the Unfairness of Compulsory Licensing to Owners of Musical Compositions

Jeffrey A. Wakolbinger

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February 29, 2008

Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 61, Number 1 (January 2008)

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Vanderbilt Law Review, Volume 61, Number 1 (January 2008)

ARTICLES

Tracey E. George & Albert H. Yoon, Chief Judges: The Limits of Attitudinal Theory and Possible Paradox of Managerial Judging, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 1 (2008).

Alex Stein, Constitutional Evidence Law, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 65 (2008).

Katrina Miriam Wyman, Is There a Moral Justification for Redressing Historical Injustices?, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 127 (2008).

ESSAY

Michael J. Saks & Jonathan J. Koehler, The Individualization Fallacy in Forensic Science Evidence, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 199 (2008).

NOTES

James Aaron George, Offender Profiling and Expert Testimony: Scientifically Valid or Glorified Results?, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 221 (2008).

Christopher D. Tomlinson, Changing the Rules of Establishment Clause Litigation: An Alternative to the Public Expression of Religion Act, 61 Vand. L. Rev. 261 (2008).

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