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Harvard Law Review, June 2015: Origins of low-value speech, legal change in the modern Supreme Court, and causation in toxic torts

The Harvard Law Review, June 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include:

• Article, “Active Avoidance: The Modern Supreme Court and Legal Change,” by Neal Kumar Katyal and Thomas P. Schmidt
• Article, “The Invention of Low-Value Speech,” by Genevieve Lakier
• Book Review, “Crown and Constitution,” by Tara Helfman
• Note, “Causation in Environmental Law: Lessons from Toxic Torts”

In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: corporate board of directors’ duties in mergers; the propriety of a Delaware corporation’s bylaws designating a non-Delaware exclusive forum; availability of habeas review for sentencing error as to ‘career offender’ enhancement; whether remand orders can be vacated under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(3); whether housing providers can delay review of reasonable accommodations under fair housing law by requesting extraneous information; and, as to immigration law, analysis of the opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel endorsing President Obama’s Executive Order on deferred action for parental accountability.

Finally, the issue features summaries of Recent Publications, as well as a detailed and cumulative Index for all eight issues of Volume 128.

The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2300 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This issue of the Review is June 2015, the eighth and final issue of academic year 2014-2015 (Volume 128). The digital edition features active Contents, linked notes, active URLs in notes, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting.

Available in leading ebook formats:

Kindle edition, at Amazon.

Nook, at Barnes & Noble.

Apple iBooks and iTunes (directly on iPad and iPhone bookstores; previewed online).

At Google Play and Google Books.

And in universal ePUB at Smashwords; look for it, too, at Kobobooks in ePUB format for the Kobo Reader, as well as other ebook sites such as Oyster and Axis360.

Cataloging: Vol. 128, No. 8 (June 2015):

ISBN 9781610278324 (ebook)
List price: US $3.99
Page count: 243 pp.