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    New University of Chicago Law Review, #4, on tax law, insurance risk, constitutions, and contract theory

    The fourth issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: Articles: • The Legal Salience of Taxation, by Andrew T. Hayashi • Tax-Loss Mechanisms, by Jacob Nussim & Avraham Tabbach • Regulating Systemic Risk in Insurance, by Daniel Schwarcz & Steven L. Schwarcz • American Constitutional Exceptionalism Revisited, by Mila Versteeg & Emily Zackin Comments: • Bursting the Speech Bubble: Toward a More Fitting Perceived-Affiliation Standard, by Nicholas A. Caselli • Payments to Not Parent? Noncustodial Parents as the Recipients of Child Support, by Emma J. Cone-Roddy • Too Small to Fail: A New Perspective on Environmental Penalties for…

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    University of Chicago Law Review, #3 of 2014: on precedent, constitutional outliers, and prizes vs. IP law

    The third issue of 2014 features articles from recognized legal scholars. Contents include: Articles: * Following Lower-Court Precedent, by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl * Constitutional Outliers, by Justin Driver * Intellectual Property versus Prizes: Reframing the Debate, by Benjamin N. Roin Book Review: * The Text, the Whole Text, and Nothing but the Text, So Help Me God: Un-Writing Amar’s Unwritten Constitution, by Michael Stokes Paulsen Comments: * Standing on Ceremony: Can Lead Plaintiffs Claim Injury from Securities That They Did Not Purchase?, by Corey K. Brady * FISA’s Fuzzy Line between Domestic and International Terrorism, by Nick Harper * The Perceived Intrusiveness of Searching Electronic Devices at the Border: An…

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    University of Chicago Law Review, #2 of 2014, explores scientific evidence, regulatory agencies, habeas, and disability law

    The second issue of 2014 features articles and essays from recognized scholars. Contents include these articles: • “Group to Individual (G2i) Inference in Scientific Expert Testimony,” David L. Faigman, John Monahan & Christopher Slobogin • “Game Theory and the Structure of Administrative Law,” Yehonatan Givati • “Habeas and the Roberts Court,” Aziz Z. Huq • “Cost-Benefit Analysis and Agency Independence,” Michael A. Livermore • “Accommodating Every Body,” Michael Ashley Stein, Anita Silvers, Bradley A. Areheart & Leslie Pickering Francis In addition, the issue includes a Review Essay by Sharon R. Krause entitled “The Liberalism of Love,” and these student Comments: • “Toward a Uniform Rule: The Collapse of the Civil-Criminal…

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    University of Chicago Law Review Symposium: Revelation Mechanisms and the Law; Plus Article, Comment & Book Review in First 2014 Issue

    The first issue of 2014 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and economics scholars, including an extensive Symposium on “Revelation Mechanisms and the Law.” Topics include voting options and strategies to reveal preferences, corporate governance, regulatory intensity, tort calculations of risk, audits, mandatory disclosure of choices, partitioning interests in land, and shopping for expert witnesses. In addition, Issue 1 includes an article, “Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law,” by Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan S. Masur & Richard H. McAdams. Applications include smoking bans and seat belt laws. Also included is a student Comment, “Too Late to Stipulate: Reconciling Rule 68 with Summary Judgments,” by Channing J. Turner, and…

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    University of Chicago Law Review, Fall 2013, studies bankruptcy, precedent, copyright, and judicial good faith, plus six Comments

    The University of Chicago Law Review‘s 4th and final issue, Fall 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents of Volume 80, Number 4, are: ARTICLES • Bankruptcy Law as a Liquidity Provider, by Kenneth Ayotte & David A. Skeel Jr. • Impeaching Precedent, by Charles L. Barzun • Copyright in Teams, by Anthony J. Casey & Andres Sawicki • Inside or Outside the System?, by Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule REVIEW ESSAY • Francis Lieber and the Modern Law of War, by Paul Finkelman COMMENTS • Having Their Cake and Eating It Too? Post-emancipation…

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    University of Chicago Law Review‘s issue 3 of 2013 explores tortfest, constitutionality, nudges and floodgates

    The University of Chicago Law Review‘s third issue, 2013, features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal scholars, as well as extensive student research in the form of Comments. Contents are: ARTICLES • Tortfest, by J. Shahar Dillbary • Judging the Flood of Litigation, by Marin K. Levy • Unbundling Constitutionality, by Richard Primus • When Nudges Fail: Slippery Defaults, by Lauren E. Willis COMMENTS • The Firearm-Disability Dilemma: Property Insights into Felon Gun Rights • Pleading in Technicolor: When Can Litigants Incorporate Audiovisual Works into Their Complaints? • Fun with Numbers: Gall’s Mixed Message regarding Variance Calculations • The Availability of Discovery Sanctions for Violations of Protective Orders •…

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    University of Chicago Law Review‘s 2nd issue of 2013: conflicting property schemes, scrutiny tiers & constitutional theory, federalism, elections & reapportionment, and advisory opinions to the courts

    The University of Chicago Law Review‘s new issue features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and policy scholars. Contents include: • Article, “Property Lost in Translation,” by Abraham Bell & Gideon Parchomovsky • Article, “Tiers of Scrutiny in Enumerated Powers Jurisprudence,” by Aziz Z. Huq • Article, “State and Federal Models of the Interaction between Statutes and Unwritten Law,” by Caleb Nelson • Article, “Our Electoral Exceptionalism,” by Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos • Essay, “Reverse Advisory Opinions,” by Neal Devins & Saikrishna B. Prakash • Review Essay, “The Inescapability of Constitutional Theory,” by Erwin Chemerinsky (reviewing a new book by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III) • Comment, “Amongst the ‘Waives’:…

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    University of Chicago Law Review‘s Symposium on Immigration Features Leading Scholars in the Field

    This first issue of 2013 features articles from internationally recognized scholars on immigration and emigration, including an extensive Symposium on immigration and its issues of policy, law, administrative process, and institutional design in the United States. Topics include why “family” is special (Kerry Abrams), risks and rewards of economic migration (Anu Bradford), criminal deportees (Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown), policing immigration (Adam Cox & Thomas Miles), detention reform (Alina Das), rights of undocumented aliens (John Eastman), free trade and free immigration (Richard Epstein), screening for solidarity in labor (Stephen Lee), temporary worker programs (Hiroshi Motomura), institutional structure of immigration law (Eric Posner), and international cooperation on migration (Alan Sykes). In addition,…

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    University of Chicago Law Review Fall 2012: statutory interpretation, immigration law, and is religion special?

    A leading law review offers a quality ebook edition. This fourth issue of 2012 features articles from internationally recognized legal scholars, and extensive research in Comments authored by University of Chicago Law School students. Contents for the issue are: • Elected Judges and Statutory Interpretation by Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl & Ethan J. Leib • Delegation in Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox & Eric A. Posner • What If Religion Is Not Special? by Micah Schwartzman COMMENTS: • A Common Law Approach to D&O Insurance “In Fact” Exclusion Disputes • Taming the Hydra: Prosecutorial Discretion under the Acceptance of Responsibility Provision of the US Sentencing Guidelines • Are Railroads Liable…

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    University of Chicago Law Review‘s issue 3 of 2012 now out: internet censorship, spreading pollution, juries nullifying comparative fault

    A leading law review offers a quality ebook edition. This third issue of 2012 features articles from internationally recognized legal scholars, and extensive research in Comments authored by University of Chicago Law School students. Contents for the issue include: ARTICLES: “Orwell’s Armchair,” by Derek E. Bambauer “Jury Nullification in Modified Comparative Negligence Regimes,” by Eli K. Best & John J. Donohue III “Allocating Pollution,” by Arden Rowell COMMENTS: “A State-Centered Approach to Tax Discrimination under 11501(b)(4) of the 4-R Act” “A Felony, I Presume? 21 USC 841(b)’s Mitigating Provision and the Categorical Approach in Immigration Proceedings” “Home Is Where the Court Is: Determining Residence for Child Custody Matters under the…