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Harvard Law Review Nov. 2016: Annual Supreme Court Review and Essays for Justice Scalia
The November issue is the special annual review of the U.S. Supreme Court’s previous Term. The issue also includes an In Memoriam section honoring the memory of Justice Antonin Scalia. Contributors include Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. and Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, as well as Cass Sunstein, Martha Minow, John Manning, and Rachel Barkow. Each year, the Supreme Court issue is introduced by noteworthy and extensive contributions from recognized scholars. In this issue, for the 2015 Term, articles include: • Foreword: “Looking for Power in Public Law,” by Daryl J. Levinson • Essay: “The Age of Scalia,” by Jamal Greene • Comment: “Fisher‘s Cautionary Tale and the…
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David Crump’s courtroom novel The Judas Lawyer takes Robert Herrick into a sea of corporate greed
The buzzer sounds from inside the jury room to signal a verdict. A sharp, unnatural noise—full of promise and danger. But when the judge reads the verdict, it isn’t what anyone has been expecting. Robert Herrick is the lawyer for William Grant, who is badly injured. But now, Robert’s chances of helping his client seemnonexistent, even though the jury has rewarded two other plaintiffs from the same accident with huge damages. The pain of this impending defeat is overwhelming. But Robert forces himself to keep fighting for William Grant. The lawyer on the other side is Jimmy Coleman, a no-holds-barred former gang member. Jimmy now is head of litigation at…
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New England Law Review‘s recent issues of Volume 50 discuss press freedom after Hulk Hogan/Gawker and the feminist legacy of Mary Joe Frug
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and smartphones. The second issue of Volume 50 (Wint. 2016) features a Book Symposium analyzing Prof. Amy Gajda’s new study The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press. (The next issue, No. 3, is noted below). Contributions include: • “The Present of Newsworthiness,” by Amy Gajda • “Protecting the Public from Itself: Paternalism and Irony in Defining Newsworthiness,” by Clay Calvert • “The Problem with Free Press Absolutism,” by Sonja R. West In addition, Number 2 includes these extensive student contributions: • “Marijuana Side Effects,” by Christine L. Vana (on the…
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Meir Dan-Cohen’s 2nd edition of the recognized study Rights, Persons, and Organizations asks why corporations are legally persons
Corporations have legal rights, and so do many other large-scale organizations. But what does it mean to ascribe rights and “personhood” to such entities, and what is the rationale for doing so? These are central questions for an organizational society such as ours, and yet they have received consistently little attention in modern political and legal thought. The surface metaphor of treating corporations as persons with “rights” carries profound consequences — sometimes even reducing individual freedoms in light of the organization’s status. Especially after such recent Supreme Court decisions as Citizens United, this effect is as acute today as when this book was first written. Now in its Second Edition,…
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Harvard Law Review, June ’16: Institutional memory in criminal process; statutory interpretation; and international law
The June 2016 issue, Number 8, of the Harvard Law Review features these contents: • Article, “Systemic Facts: Toward Institutional Awareness in Criminal Courts,” by Andrew Manuel Crespo • Book Review, “Fixing Statutory Interpretation,” by Brett M. Kavanaugh • Book Review, “Knowledge and Politics in International Law,” by Samuel Moyn • Note, “Major Question Objections” • Note, “Chinese Common Law? Guiding Cases and Judicial Reform” • Note, “OSHA’s Feasibility Policy: The Implications of the ‘Infeasibility’ of Respirators” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on sex-discrimination implications of gender-normed FBI fitness requirements; trademark law and the antidisparagement rule as a constitutional problem; practical elimination of the adverse-interest exception as a defense…
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Messinger’s much-cited Strategies of Control is a Digitally Remastered™ Classic of Law & Society: in print and ebooks
This groundbreaking study of transitions and control in the California prison system has been extensively read, cited, and quoted in unpublished form—and is finally available worldwide. Already a compelling part of the canon of studies in penology, criminology, sociology, and organizational theory, this new edition of STRATEGIES OF CONTROL adds a 2016 foreword by Howard S. Becker and afterword by Jonathan Simon, both contributing substantive and meaningful views of this important work. Considered influential to two generations of scholars worldwide, Messinger’s thesis examining prison systems’ organization and reform—or in some ways, regression—is said to anticipate Erving Goffman’s and Michel Foucault’s writings on “total institutions” by many years, and raised themes that…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel The Late Doctor Savage proves where there’s a will there’s a murder
Frank May practices law in San Mateo, California. Much of his practice deals with estate planning—wills, trusts, and related matters. So dead people are very much on his mind and the mind of his clients. But not, for the most part, unnatural deaths. Yet mysterious deaths, for some odd reason, seem to creep inevitably into his practice. A young woman, Ashley Savage, is Frank’s newest client. Her birth father, whom she never met and who played no role in her upbringing, has suddenly entered her life—though very indirectly. He’s created a trust for her, worth millions of dollars but whose origins are, to say the least, questionable. Dr. Langley Savage,…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 8 discusses OMB control of agencies, parental rights of dads & gay couples, plus civil forfeiture’s constitutionality
This issue of the Yale Law Journal includes: • Article, “The President’s Budget as a Source of Agency Policy Control,” Eloise Pasachoff; • Article, “Foundling Fathers: (Non-)Marriage and Parental Rights in the Age of Equality,” Serena Mayeri; and • Feature, “The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture,” Caleb Nelson. The student research contributions are: • Note, “Founding-Era Jus Ad Bellum and the Domestic Law of Treaty Withdrawal,” Daniel J. Hessel; • Comment, “Reimagining Finality in Parallel Patent Proceedings,” Ben Picozzi; and • Comment, “Ideological Imbalance and the Peremptory Challenge,” Joshua Revesz. This is the 8th and final issue of academic year 2015-2016. Quality formatting includes linked notes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for…
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Yale Law Journal‘s Issue 7 discusses sex discrimination and harassment in universities under Title IX
This issue of the Yale Law Journal include these contents: • Essay, “Fiduciary Political Theory: A Critique,” by Ethan J. Leib and Stephen R. Galoob • Note, “The Modification of Decrees in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court,” by James G. Mandilk In addition, the issue includes an extensive collection of Features by leading scholars, entitled “A Conversation on Title IX,” growing out of an event sponsored by the Journal. Contributors include Michelle J. Anderson, Adele P. Kimmel, Catharine A. MacKinnon, Dana Bolger, Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, and Alyssa Peterson & Olivia Ortiz. Subjects of these essays include institutional liability, costs of liability and schools’ financial obligations, transparency in campus reporting, adjudicative…
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Yale Law Journal, April ’16: Administrative Forbearance, and The New Public
This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the sixth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue’s contents include: • Article, “Administrative Forbearance,” by Daniel T. Deacon • Essay, “The New Public,” by Sarah A. Seo The student contributions are: • Note, “How To Trim a Christmas Tree: Beyond Severability and Inseverability for Omnibus Statutes,” by Robert L. Nightingale • Note, “Border Checkpoints and Substantive Due Process: Abortion in the Border Zone,” by Kate Huddleston • Comment, “The State’s Right to Property Under International Law,” by Peter Tzeng . . . Available at leading ebook sites: Amazon for Kindle. Barnes & Noble for Nook. Google for Google Play app, as…