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  • Books,  Harvard Law Review,  QP Blog

    Harvard Law Review’s June 2018 Issue: Harmless Error; Presidential Norms; and Abstention after Ferguson

    The contents of the June 2018 issue of the Harvard Law Review include: • Article, “Harmless Errors and Substantial Rights,” by Daniel Epps • Article, “Presidential Norms and Article II,” by Daphna Renan • Article, “Abstention in the Time of Ferguson,” by Fred O. Smith, Jr. • Book Review, “Facts, Values, Justification, Democracy,” by Don Herzog • Note, “How Crime Pays: The Unconstitutionality of Modern Civil Asset Forfeiture as a Tool of Criminal Law Enforcement” • Note, “RCRA as a Tool for Environmental Justice Communities and Others to Compel Climate Change Adaptation” • Note, “The Presumption of Regularity in Judicial Review of the Executive Branch” The issue includes In Memoriam…

  • Books,  Books Defying Categories

    Senate Intelligence Committee Issues Report on Russian Election Interference

    Presented in convenient book-size rather than letter-size, two bound and affordable paperback volumes reproduce the Senate report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to high-level Trump campaign officials. It’s a bipartisan report and cannot be dismissed as the mere product of oppositional politics. The chair of the committee, Marco Rubio, is otherwise a firm supporter of the president, but the undisputed facts laid out in this report tell a hair-raising history. You don’t have to read between the lines — or under the redactive black bars — to see a conclusion of campaign collusion if not criminal conspiracy. This is the report issued Aug. 18, 2020 by…

  • Books,  Fiction

    Tony Freyer’s Double Agents Takes a Spy Family to Remote Australia and Mexico

    Espionage comes to the U.S.-Mexico border and Northern Australia, and a family of intense and fiercely loyal Americans get caught up in the intrigue. By 2008, a global cocaine cartel is expanding aggressively. In remote Arnhem Land of northern Australia, ocean vessels, trucks, and vans move the cocaine to urban markets—and the cartel uses hidden tunnels to deliver it across the California-Mexico border. The cartel’s planes, sea vessels, trucks, and drones counter U.S., Mexican, and Australian law enforcement’s own technologies. But the Iraq War has disrupted transnational law-enforcement’s cooperation. In 2009, the new Obama Administration seeks renewed transnational law-enforcement cooperation against the cocaine cartel. Rep. Sarah Donaldson’s congressional intelligence committee…

  • Books,  Books Defying Categories,  Featured

    Louisiana Notary Exam Sample Questions Adds Explained Answers

    Questions and answers in four separate tests—plus detailed explanations for each right and wrong answer, keyed to the page of the official study guide—help coach students for the difficult exam. This unofficial resource at last takes notary prep to the next level by revealing the tricks of questions and formats, tactics for the test, and notary law behind it. Louisiana civil law notaries have unmatched functions, responsibilities, and opportunities—but the exam has a 20% pass rate. Candidates need all the help they can get. The best prep classes and study groups recommend multiple practice questions to understand the format, content, and coverage of the actual exams the Secretary of State…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review,  QP Blog

    Harvard Law Review‘s May 2018 Issue: Music as a Matter of Law?

    The contents of the May 2018 issue (Number 7) of the Harvard Law Review include: • Article, “Music as a Matter of Law,” by Joseph P. Fishman • Article, “The Morality of Administrative Law,” by Cass R. Sunstein & Adrian Vermeule • Book Review, “The Black Police: Policing Our Own,” by Devon W. Carbado & L. Song Richardson • Note, “Section 230 as First Amendment Rule” In addition, the issue features extensive student commentary on Recent Cases, including such subjects as: a recent ruling that bystanders have a First Amendment right to record police but granting qualified immunity to police officers involved; whether a local (Massachusetts) drone ordinance is preempted…

  • Books,  Journeys and Memoirs Series

    Meltsner’s journey as civil rights activist and survivor is recounted in With Passion

    Growing up in a Depression-battered family, one tangled by a mortal secret, With Passion tells the improbable story of an unsung hero of the civil rights movement who thought of himself as a miscast lawyer but ended up defending peaceful protesters, representing Mohammad Ali, suing Robert Moses, counseling Lenny Bruce, bringing the case that integrated hundreds of Southern hospitals and named the principal architect of the death penalty abolition movement in the United States. More than a meditation on often-frustrating legal efforts to fight inequality and racism, Meltsner—also a novelist and playwright—vividly recounts the life of a New York City kid, struggling to make sense of coming of age amidst the…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review‘s April 2018 Issue Includes Developments in the Law on Big Data, Big Problems

    The April 2018 issue, Number 6, is the annual Developments in the Law special issue. The topic of this extensive contribution is “More Data, More Problems,” including specific focus on the role of technology companies in government surveillance; standing, surveillance, and tech companies; the Video Privacy Protection Act as a model intellectual privacy statute; and the dilemma of the “electronic will.” In addition, the issue features these contents: • Article, “Apparent Fault,” by Aziz Z. Huq & Genevieve Lakier • Article, “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech,” by Kate Klonick • Book Review, “Reconstructing the Administrative State in an Era of Economic and Democratic Crisis,”…

  • Books,  Books Defying Categories,  Featured

    The Louisiana Civil Law Notary in Law and Practice: Decoding the Louisiana Exam

    The Louisiana Notary Exam averages less than a 20% pass rate. The Notary Exam has an official Study Guide you use during the exam. But the Study Guide has no index, no big picture, no study strategies, no exam-day tips, not enough cross-references . . . and few of the forms notaries use that they test your understanding of. It’s got the law and notary rules, but it’s missing essentials for any such textbook. This book has all that—and much more that anyone contemplating the Notary Exam should read. It even includes crucial information about notary practice that every newbie notary ought to know. Basically it’s the rest of the…

  • Books,  Tulane PILF Series

    Hot Topics in the Legal Profession – 2017 analyzes changes and challenges in the 2010s

    Current important events in the legal profession and legal ethics, with useful research and analysis of the rules and the profession’s current challenges, are analyzed by Tulane law students who participated spring 2017 in an Advanced Legal Profession Seminar. The contents of the volume include: FOREWORD: Ethics and the Legal Profession in a Decade of Continuing Change and Challenge, by Steven Alan Childress PART I.  APPLICATION OF RULES TO NEW SETTINGS AND IN NEW WAYS 1  •  Duty of Loyalty or Limited Liability: How Close is Too Close for Lawyer Disqualification?, by Joshua Sanchez-Secor 2  •  Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions: A Plague Upon Our Criminal Justice System?, by Jessica…

  • Books,  Harvard Law Review

    Harvard Law Review‘s March 2018 issue on international law and on judges’ statutory interpretation

    The contents for the March 2018 issue (Number 5) include: • Article, “Presidential Control over International Law,” by Curtis A. Bradley & Jack L. Goldsmith • Article, “Statutory Interpretation on the Bench: A Survey of Forty-Two Judges on the Federal Courts of Appeals,” by Abbe R. Gluck & Richard A. Posner • Book Review, “Justice Beyond Dispute,” by Mary Anne Franks • Note, “American Courts and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees: A Need for Harmony in the Face of a Refugee Crisis” • Note, “Eliminating the FEC: The Best Hope for Campaign Finance Regulation?” • Note, “Of Ballot Boxes and Bank Accounts: Rationalizing the Jurisprudence of Political Participation and…