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Harvard Law Review, Mar. ’16, explores adoptions and parenthood after Obergefell, shareholder horizontal equity, and police abuse of poor and minority communities
The Harvard Law Review, March 2016, features these contents: • Article, “Marriage Equality and the New Parenthood,” by Douglas NeJaime • Essay, “Horizontal Shareholding,” by Einer Elhauge • Book Review, “Keeping Track: Surveillance, Control, and the Expansion of the Carceral State,” by Kathryne M. Young and Joan Petersilia • Note, “Constitutional Courts and International Law: Revisiting the Transatlantic Divide” • Note, “Defining the Press Exemption from Campaign Finance Restrictions” • Note, “Let the End Be Legitimate: Questioning the Value of Heightened Scrutiny’s Compelling- and Important-Interest Inquiries” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on state abortion laws and precedent; expectation of privacy in pocket dial; tax deductions for medical marijuana…
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Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2016: Constitutional bad faith, immunization and Ebola-quarantine, and does speech matter?
The February 2016 issue, Number 4, features these contents: * Article, “Constitutional Bad Faith,” by David E. Pozen * Book Review, “No Immunity: Race, Class, and Civil Liberties in Times of Health Crisis,” by Michele Goodwin & Erwin Chemerinsky * Book Review, “How Much Does Speech Matter?,” by Leslie Kendrick * Note, “State Bans on Debtors’ Prisons and Criminal Justice Debt” * Note, “Digital Duplications and the Fourth Amendment” * Note, “Reconciling State Sovereign Immunity with the Fourteenth Amendment” * Note, “Suspended Justice: The Case Against 28 U.S.C. 2255’s Statute of Limitations” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on the exclusionary rule in knock-and-announce violations; FTC regulation of data…
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Harvard Law Review‘s Jan. 2016 issue analyzes Presidential Intelligence and the rise of the administrative state
The January 2016 issue, Number 3, features these contents: • Article, “Presidential Intelligence,” by Samuel J. Rascoff • Book Review, “The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy,” by Jeremy K. Kessler (reviewing Daniel Ernst’s book on the origins of the administrative state) • Note, “Existence-Value Standing” • Note, “Rethinking Closely Regulated Industries” In addition, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on compelled disclosures in commercial speech; due process notice of procedures to challenge a local ordinance; standing after liquidation actions taken under Dodd-Frank; exaction and takings by acquiring equity shares in AIG; religious liberty after Hobby Lobby; bias-intimidation laws and mens rea; and whether document production is the ‘practice of law’ under labor…
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Harvard Law Review, Dec. 2015: On Intra-Agency Conflicts, Selling Body Parts and Milk, Immigrant Detention, and Conflict of Laws
The December 2015 issue, Number 2, features these contents: • Article, “Intra-Agency Coordination,” by Jennifer Nou • Book Review, “Body Banking from the Bench to the Bedside,” by Natalie Ram • Note, “‘A Prison Is a Prison Is a Prison’: Mandatory Immigration Detention and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel” • Note, “Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law” The issue also includes In Memoriam essays honoring the legacy of Professor Daniel J. Meltzer, with contributions by Judge David J. Barron, Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Vicki C. Jackson, Robert S. Taylor, Justice Elena Kagan, David F. Levi, Martha Minow, and Donald B. Verrilli,…
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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…
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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’…
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Harvard Law Review, May ’15, on foreign relations law, changing family law, and bankrupt student loans
The Harvard Law Review, May 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Normalization of Foreign Relations Law,” by Ganesh Sitaraman and Ingrid Wuerth • Book Review, “The Family, in Context,” by Maxine Eichner • Note, “Forgive and Forget: Bankruptcy Reform in the Context of For-Profit Colleges” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: retroactive prosecution of conspiracy to commit war crimes at Guantanamo; holding a legislature in contempt for unconstitutional funding of education; bullying and criminal harassment law; first amendment implications of high school suppression of violent speech; using statistics to prove False Claims Act liability; first amendment problems of a requirement that sex offenders provide internet identifiers to police; BIA ruling that Guatemalan woman fleeing domestic violence meets asylum threshold; and FDA regulation on nutritional information under the Affordable Care Act. Finally, the issue features several summaries of Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive ebook publisher of the Review. … Available in leading formats: Kindle edition, at Amazon. NOOK, at Barnes & Noble. Apple iBooks and iTunes (see it directly on iPad and iPhone bookstores; previewed). At Google Play and Google Books. And in…
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Harvard Law Review, April 2015: Developments in the Law – Policing; plus federalism by consent; anticipatory remedies for takings, and modern China
The Harvard Law Review, April 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include the annual Developments in the Law survey of a particular area of legal concern; this year’s topic is Policing. Other contents include: * Article, “Consent Procedures and American Federalism,” by Bridget Fahey * Essay, “Anticipatory Remedies for Takings,” by Thomas W. Merrill * Book Review, “How a ‘Lawless’ China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism,” by Carol G.S. Tan Specific subjects studied in Developments in the Law – Policing are: Policing and Profit, Policing Students, Policing Immigrant Communities, and Considering Police Body Cameras. In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, including…
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Harvard Law Review, March 2015, on creating around copyright, property as the new privacy, value of illegal immigrants, more
The Harvard Law Review, March 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “Creating Around Copyright,” Joseph P. Fishman • Book Review, “Growing Up Outside the Law,” Stephen Lee • Book Review, “Property Is the New Privacy: The Coming Constitutional Revolution,” Suzanna Sherry • Note, “Working Together for an Independent Expenditure: Candidate Assistance with Super PAC Fundraising” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases and policy positions, including such subjects as: defining ‘government instrumentality’ under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, invalidation of New York soda-portion cap, whether the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lacks jurisdiction over rates for nonconsumption of energy, standard of review for…
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Harvard Law Review, Feb. 2015: changing rate of innocent incarceration, government as business, privileges & immunities, and early voting after Shelby
The Harvard Law Review, February 2015, is offered in a digital edition. Contents include: • Article, “The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice,” Daniel Epps • Book Review, “Running Government Like a Business … Then and Now,” Jon D. Michaels • Note, “International Norms and Politics in the Marshall Court’s Slave Trade Cases” • Note, “Congress’s Power to Define the Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship” • Note, “It’s About Time (Place and Manner): Why and How Congress Must Act to Protect Access to Early Voting” • Note, “The Psychology of Cruelty: Recognizing Grave Mental Harm in American Prisons” In addition, the issue features student commentary on Recent Cases, Legislation, and…
