• Books,  Harvard Law Review,  QP Blog

    HARVARD LAW REVIEW, Dec. ’17, on national injunctions, power of Governors, and norms of precedent

    The contents for this issue (December 2017, Number 2) include: • Article, “Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction,” by Samuel L. Bray • Article, “Gubernatorial Administration,” by Miriam Seifter • Book Review, “Crafting Precedent,” by Paul J. Watford, Richard C. Chen & Marco Basile • Note, “Proving Breach of Former-Client Confidentiality” • Note, “The Harvard Plan That Failed Asian Americans” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, including such subjects as the Establishment Clause and prayer led by County Commissioners; due process for student disciplinary hearings on sexual misconduct in universities under Title IX; armed career criminals and intent for burglary; genocide victims and suit against their…

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    HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s June ’17 issue: Dworkin’s reply to Hart, police expertise, and foreign affairs federalism

    The June 2017 issue, Number 8, features these extensive contents: • Article, “The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise,” by Anna Lvovsky • Essay, “The Debate That Never Was,” by Nicos Stavropoulos • Essay, “Hart’s Posthumous Reply,” by Ronald Dworkin • Book Review, “Cooperative and Uncooperative Foreign Affairs Federalism,” by Jean Galbraith • Note, “Rethinking Actual Causation in Tort Law” • Note, “The Justiciability of Servicemember Suits” • Note, “The Substantive Waiver Doctrine in Employment Arbitration Law” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: requiring proof of administrative feasibility to satisfy class action Rule 23; whether prison gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause; justiciability of suit against the government for military…

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    HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s May ’17 issue: Harmless Error, Vagrancy Laws, and Abolition of the Death Penalty

    The May 2017 issue, Number 7, features these contents: • Article, “A Contextual Approach to Harmless Error Review,” by Justin Murray • Book Review, “Courting Abolition,” by Deborah W. Denno • Book Review, “This Land Is My Land?” by Tracey Meares • Note, “Clarifying Kiobel’s ‘Touch and Concern’ Test” • Note, “If These Walls Could Talk: The Smart Home and the Fourth Amendment Limits of the Third Party Doctrine” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: trademark law and applying the Lanham Act to wholly foreign sales; election law and the test for partisan gerrymandering; civil procedure and whether service of process may be accomplished internationally via Twitter; felon disenfranchisement…

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    New England Law Review‘s 1st issue of Volume 51: Symposium on Behavioral Legal Ethics and Dealing with Mistakes

    The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This first issue of Volume 51 (2017) features an extensive and important Symposium, “Behavioral Legal Ethics,” with contributions by Catherine Gage O’Grady, Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Nancy L. Sachs, Donald C. Langevoort, Tigran W. Eldred, and Wallace J. Mlyniec. The issue also includes an essay by Elizabeth M. Schneider, “Why Feminist Legal Theory Still Needs Mary Joe Frug: Thoughts on Conflicts in Feminism,” in honor of the late Professor Frug. In addition, extensive student research examines Church’s chicken sandwich trademark, whistleblowing from the bench, rethinking student discipline in Massachusetts schools,…

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    HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Apr. ’17 issue: Developments in the Law on “The U.S. Territories”

    The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, linked URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student casenotes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is “The U.S. Territories.” Topics include territorial federalism, federal deference to Guam on its law, Puerto Rico’s place in the UN and the international community, and citizenship in American Samoa. The issue also includes an article by John Rappaport on “How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police.” In addition, student contributions explore Recent Cases on the First Amendment and selfies at…

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    Tables and Updates for Stephen Wasby’s Borrowed Judges

    Stephen L. Wasby’s new study, Borrowed Judges: Visitors in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, was officially released April 12, 2018. To update readers on research or commentary to supplement the book, use this page. For information about the book itself, including blurbs and links to sales sites, go to its main information page. Thank you. Tables found in the 2018 printing (both print editions and eBooks) are also available to be downloaded here: Tables found in original printing of Professor Wasby’s book. Updating of and commentary on the book: Comments of author from Author Meets Critic panel of the Southern Political Science Association, Austin, TX, January 18, 2019.

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    Thorsten Sellin’s Slavery and the Penal System is Digitally Remastered:™ Shows history of using slave labor as criminal sentence, invention of the treadmill

    The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book — despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology — this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes. Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin’s classic book adds a new Foreword by researcher Barry Krisberg at Berkeley, and incorporates changes the author originally planned for a second printing, provided to Quid Pro Books by the Special Collections Library at Penn and authorized by his family. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from…

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    HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Jan. 2017 issue: Obama on criminal justice, Tushnet on trademark

    The January 2017 issue features these notable contents: • Commentary, President Barack Obama, “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform” • Article, Rebecca Tushnet, “Registering Disagreement: Registration in Modern American Trademark Law” • Book Review, Scott Hershovitz, “The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Tort Law” • Note, “Repackaging Zauderer” • Note, “Mending the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Approach to Consideration of Juvenile Status” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: whether mug shots may be exempt from FOIA disclosure; a Ninth Circuit ruling that concealed carry is not protected by the Second Amendment; collective action waivers in employment arbitration agreements under the NLRA; whether warrantless dog sniffs outside…

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    Yale Law Journal, April ’16: Administrative Forbearance, and The New Public

    This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the sixth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue’s contents include: • Article, “Administrative Forbearance,” by Daniel T. Deacon • Essay, “The New Public,” by Sarah A. Seo The student contributions are: • Note, “How To Trim a Christmas Tree: Beyond Severability and Inseverability for Omnibus Statutes,” by Robert L. Nightingale • Note, “Border Checkpoints and Substantive Due Process: Abortion in the Border Zone,” by Kate Huddleston • Comment, “The State’s Right to Property Under International Law,” by Peter Tzeng . . . Available at leading ebook sites: Amazon for Kindle. Barnes & Noble for Nook. Google for Google Play app, as…

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    Yale Law Journal, March ’16: Municipal bankruptcy, professional speech, insider trading, and reproductive rights

    This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the fifth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: • “Governance Reform and the Judicial Role in Municipal Bankruptcy,” by Clayton P. Gillette & David A. Skeel, Jr. • “Professional Speech,” by Claudia E. Haupt • “Casey and the Clinic Closings: When ‘Protecting Health’ Obstructs Choice,” by Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel • “Returning to Common-Law Principles of Insider Trading After United States v. Newman,” by Richard A. Epstein The student contributions are: • Note, “Will Putting Cameras on Police Reduce Polarization?,” by Roseanna Sommers • Note, “Federal Questions…