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Harvard Law Review, May ’16: Searches and the 4th Amendment; Law as Force; and Agency Review of Due Process
The May 2016 issue, Number 7, features these contents: • Article, “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment,” by William Baude and James Y. Stern • Essay, “Deference and Due Process,” by Adrian Vermeule • Book Review, “How to Explain Things with Force,” by Mark Greenberg • Note, “Free Speech Doctrine After Reed v. Town of Gilbert” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on the Affordable Care Act and the origination clause; statutory interpretation and the Video Privacy Protection Act; and commercial speech doctrine and the FDA’s power to prosecute non-misleading statements after modifying text. Other commentary examines South Carolina’s legislative effort to to disqualify companies who support BDS…
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Hirsch relives the academic life, warts and all, in his memoir Office Hours
Even a cursory glance at today’s headlines reveals that higher education is in crisis. Tuition outpaces inflation, states slash budgets, graduation rates decline, and technology threatens to reshape everything. Universities continue to crank out new PhDs, but many will become poorly paid members of a secondary, adjunct labor force teaching most of today’s college courses. Scholars lucky enough to be on the tenure track must publish more and more, while students at large universities sit in ever larger lectures, seldom interacting with professors. Yet every year, thousands of applicants from the world over apply to America’s most prestigious colleges and universities, and students and their families continue to spend huge…
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Yale Law Journal, March ’16: Municipal bankruptcy, professional speech, insider trading, and reproductive rights
This issue of the Yale Law Journal (the fifth issue of academic year 2015-2016) features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: • “Governance Reform and the Judicial Role in Municipal Bankruptcy,” by Clayton P. Gillette & David A. Skeel, Jr. • “Professional Speech,” by Claudia E. Haupt • “Casey and the Clinic Closings: When ‘Protecting Health’ Obstructs Choice,” by Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel • “Returning to Common-Law Principles of Insider Trading After United States v. Newman,” by Richard A. Epstein The student contributions are: • Note, “Will Putting Cameras on Police Reduce Polarization?,” by Roseanna Sommers • Note, “Federal Questions…
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Harvard Law Review, Apr. ’16, is special Developments in the Law issue, on Indian Law
The April 2016 issue is the annual Developments in the Law special issue. The topic of this extensive study is “Indian Law,” including specific focus on tribal executive branches, tribal authority to follow fresh pursuit onto non-tribal (state) land, reconsidering ICRA and rights, securing Native American voting rights, and indigenous people and extractive industries. In addition, the issue features these contents: • Article, “Reconstructivism: The Place of Criminal Law in Ethical Life,” by Joshua Kleinfeld • Essay, “Rule of Law Tropes in National Security,” by Shirin Sinnar • Book Review, “Coming into the Anthropocene,” by Jedediah Purdy Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on excessive force and SWAT raids after…
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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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Yale Law Journal, Feb. 2016: History of patent cases’ explosion, 4th Amendment issues of ‘effects,’ and tributes to Robert A. Burt
The February issue of the Yale Law Journal features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Professor Robert A. Burt, with essays in his honor by Robert Post, Owen Fiss, Monroe Price, Martha Minow, Martin Boehmer, Anthony Kronman, Frank Iacobucci, and Andrew David Burt. In addition, the issue’s contents include: • Article, “The First Patent Litigation Explosion,” Christopher Beauchamp • Article, “The Lost ‘Effects’ of the Fourth Amendment: Giving Personal Property Due Protection,” Maureen E. Brady • Note, “Fifty Shades of Gray: Sentencing Trends in Major White-Collar Cases,” Jillian Hewitt • Note, “Present at Antitrust’s Creation: Consumer Welfare…
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New England Law Review, Vol. 50, No. 1, on military prosecutors and commanders, charging authority, and sexual assault cases
The New England Law Review offers its issues in convenient digital formats for e-reader devices, apps, pads, and phones. This first issue of Volume 50 (Fall 2015) features an extensive and important Symposium entitled “Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military,” presented by leading scholars on the subject. Contents include: “Introduction to ‘Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing Weaknesses in a Special Society,'” by Victor Hansen “Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing Weaknesses in a Special Society,” by Rachel VanLandingham “On Unity: A Commentary on ‘Discipline, Justice, and Command in the U.S. Military: Maximizing Strengths and Minimizing…
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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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Yale Law Journal, Jan. 2016: Dual-class corporate governance, international law by Hobbes, Burger Court federalism, & wolf packs
This January 2016 issue of the Yale Law Journal features articles and essays by notable scholars, as well as extensive student research. Contents include: • Article, “Corporate Control and Idiosyncratic Vision,” by Zohar Goshen & Assaf Hamdani • Essay, “The Domestic Analogy Revisited: Hobbes on International Order,” by David Singh Grewal • Note, “Repairing the Irreparable: Revisiting the Federalism Decisions of the Burger Court,” by David Scott Louk • Note, “Reconciling the Crime of Aggression and Complementarity: Unaddressed Tensions and a Way Forward,” by Julie Veroff • Comment, “Unpacking Wolf Packs,” by Carmen X.W. Lu • Comment, “Jurisdictional Rules and Final Agency Action,” by Sundeep Iyer This is the third…
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Barry Schaller pens new 2016 political-legal-military novel The Ramadi Affair
Connecticut judge David Lawson is a decorated veteran of Iraq, now thrust onto the national stage when the press learns he’s up for an unexpected vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. Despite his successful career and his loyal political team of friends who understand Supreme Court politics, David is haunted by tragedies—from his early life and in combat. Secrets threaten his nomination and call into question his moral judgment—dark secrets pushed to the outer reaches of his mind, two decades after he fought in Ramadi. Now his rampaging platoon sergeant faces trial for murder, threatening to unearth the past. Cornered, David is forced to relive his most painful nightmares and…