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Harvard Law Review, #1 for 2015-2016: The Supreme Court, 2014 Term, Has Case Summaries; Essays by Strauss, Gluck, Goldsmith and Yoshino

The November issue is the special annual review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s previous Term. Each year, the issue is introduced by noteworthy and extensive contributions from recognized scholars. In this issue, for the 2014 Term, articles include:

* Foreword: “Does the Constitution Mean What It Says?,” by David A. Strauss
* Comment: “Imperfect Statutes, Imperfect Courts: Understanding Congress’s Plan in the Era of Unorthodox Lawmaking,” by Abbe R. Gluck
* Comment: “Zivotofsky II as Precedent in the Executive Branch,” by Jack Goldsmith
* Comment: “A New Birth of Freedom?: Obergefell v. Hodges,” by Kenji Yoshino

In addition, the first issue of each new volume provides an extensive summary of the important cases of the previous Supreme Court docket, covering a wide range of legal, political, and constitutional subjects. Student commentary on Leading Cases of the 2014 Term includes recent cases on: private rights of action and Medicaid; government speech under the First Amendment; judicial campaign speech; Fourth Amendment standing; reasonable mistakes of law for searches and seizure; regulatory takings under the Fifth Amendment; preliminary injunctions in death penalty cases; separation of powers in bankruptcy jurisdiction; legislative control of redistricting; racial gerrymandering under the Fourteenth Amendment post-Shelby; dormant commerce clause and personal income tax; changing interpretive rules in administrative law; residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act; cost-benefit analysis under the Clean Air Act; mens rea for violating federal threats law; disparate impact and racial equality in fair housing law; nondelegation doctrine in the context of railroad-passenger law; religious liberty and land use; Sherman Act state action immunity; and destruction of fish evidence under Sarbanes-Oxley.

Complete statistical graphs and tables of the Court’s actions and results during the Term are included; these summaries and statistics, including voting patterns of individual justices, have been considered very useful to scholars of the Court in law and political science. The issue includes a linked Table of Cases and citations for the opinions. Finally, the issue features two summaries of Recent Publications.

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Cataloging for Nov. 2015 Issue:

ISBN: 9781610278263 (ebook)
Page count: 402 pp.
Price: $3.99
Available Nov. 10, 2015