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    Harvard Law Review‘s new issue 7 (May 2012) features symposium on “the new private law”

    Featured articles and essays in this issue are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including a Symposium on private law. The issue also includes the article “Regulation for the Sake of Appearance,” by Adam Samaha. The Symposium contents are: THE NEW PRIVATE LAW • “Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law,” by John C.P. Goldberg • “The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong of Copying,” by Shyamkrishna Balganesh • “Property as the Law of Things,” by Henry E. Smith • “Duties, Liabilities, and Damages,” by Stephen A. Smith • “Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption,” by Benjamin C. Zipursky The issue includes two student Notes: • “The Perils of…

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    Harvard Law Review‘s March 2012 Issue Analyzes Overlap of Administrative Agencies, Prison Reform, and Recent Cases and Legislation

    Featured articles in this March 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Jody Freeman and Jim Rossi, on the coordination of administrative agencies when they share regulatory space, and James Whitman, reviewing Bernard Harcourt’s new book on the illusion of free markets as to prisons. Student contributions explore the law relating to antitrust and business deception; the failed Google Books settlement; mergers and acquisitions; materiality in securities law; administrative law; patentable subject matter; and paid sick leave. Finally, the issue includes two Book Notes. 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…

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    Harvard Law Review April 2012 Issue Studies “Traditional” Sex Discrimination, the Presidency, and Criminal Process

    Featured articles and essays in the April 2012 issue are from such recognized scholars as Cary Franklin (in an article on inventing the “traditional concept” of sex discrimination), Richard Pildes (on law and the President, in an essay reviewing a book by Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule), and Robert Weisberg (on the tragedy of crime and criminal law, reviewing a book by the late William Stuntz). Student contributions explore the law relating to everlasting software; incarcerating immigration detainees; the First and Fourteenth Amendments; Sixth Amendment implications of napping defense counsel; copyright under the first sale doctrine; war powers in Libya; and eyewitness identification evidence. The Harvard Law Review is a…

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    January 2012 Harvard Law Review: Rebecca Tushnet on Reimagining Copyright Law and Carol Steiker on the Contingency of Capital Punishment

    Produced and available before the print edition is publicly released, the eBook edition of the latest issue of the Harvard Law Review features compelling scholarship and research from Rebecca Tushnet, Carol Steiker, and student members of the journal. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive eBook publisher of Harvard Law Review. Offered in a digital edition for ereaders, it features active Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible images, and proper formatting. Featured articles in this issue are from such recognized scholars as Rebecca Tushnet, therorizing copyright law for images instead of the usual frame of text and words, and Carol Steiker, reviewing David Garland’s new book on capital punishment under the…

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    Harvard Law Review‘s annual issue reviewing Supreme Court Term, and scholarly Foreword, now out in Kindle, Apple, and Nook formats

    Issue number 1 of the academic year 2011-12 is now available, HLR’s November 2011 issue analyzing the 2010 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court. This special issue is read widely for its summaries and analyses of the law in cases involving the U.S. Constitution, federal statutes and jurisdiction, patent law, and many other subjects recently adjudicated by the Justices. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition for ereaders, featuring active Table of Contents, linked footnotes and cross-references, legible tables, and proper ebook formatting. Quid Pro Books is the exclusive ebook publisher of the Review. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to…

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    Harvard Law Review‘s Dec. 2011 Issue as an eBook: Orin Kerr, Jamal Greene and Michael Klarman

    The Harvard Law Review‘s December 2011 Issue (Volume 125, Number 2) is available in quality eBook editions from Quid Pro Books. Articles in this issue are from such recognized scholars as Jamal Greene (writing on notorious or anti-canonical Supreme Court cases like Lochner and Plessy), Orin Kerr (on Fourth Amendment theory), and Michael Klarman (reviewing in depth a new book on the Constitutional Convention). Student contributions feature Notes on the John Dewey model of democracy and administrative agencies, and on breaching international trade law. Case Notes discuss recent decisions on such topics as civil procedure, tort law, patent law, constitutional law (on transgender prisoners and on firing ranges), stem cell…

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    Harvard Law Review‘s June Issue, in ebook formats, now available including memoriam to William Stuntz

    Harvard Law Review: Volume 124, Number 8 – June 2011 is now available, beating the streets, as an ebook in leading formats. It features quality presentation, legible charts, active TOC (including that of the articles), linked notes and URLs, and complete and linked cross-referencing in text and notes. Its contents are: In Memoriam: William J. Stuntz Pamela S. Karlan Michael J. Klarman Martha Minow Daniel C. Richman Robert E. Scott David Skeel Carol Steiker ARTICLES: The Host’s Dilemma: Strategic Forfeiture in Platform Markets for Informational Goods Jonathan M. Barnett Separation of Powers as Ordinary Interpretation John F. Manning NOTES: Interpreting Silence: The Roles of the Courts and the Executive Branch…

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    7th 2011 Issue of Harvard Law Review, May 2011, Available in Ebook Formats

    The Harvard Law Review is now offered in a digital edition for ereaders — featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs in citations, and proper ebook formatting. Available download sites are linked below. 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 2000 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School. Aside from serving as an important academic forum for legal scholarship, the Review has two other goals. First, the journal is designed to be an effective research tool for practicing lawyers and…