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    Stanford Law Review for June 2012 examines shareholder proxy access, DOMA and choice of law for gay marriages, and massive copyright infringement in a digital age

    The June 2012 issue of the Stanford Law Review (the last for this academic year) contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the issue include: • “Beyond DOMA: Choice of State Law in Federal Statutes” William Baude • “Does Shareholder Proxy Access Damage Share Value in Small Publicly Traded Companies?” Thomas Stratmann & J.W. Verret • Book Review, “Infringement Conflation” Peter S. Menell • Note, “Pinching the President’s Prosecutorial Prerogative: Can Congress Use Its Purse Power to Block Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Transfer to the United States?” Nicolas L. Martinez • Note, “The American…

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    Stanford Law Review for May 2012 explores securities class actions, municipal “home rule,” and judicial pay

    Contents for the May 2012 issue include: • The City and the Private Right of Action, by Paul A. Diller • Securities Class Actions Against Foreign Issuers, by Merritt B. Fox • How Much Should Judges Be Paid? An Empirical Study on the Effect of Judicial Pay on the State Bench, by James M. Anderson & Eric Helland • Note: How Congress Could Reduce Job Discrimination by Promoting Anonymous Hiring, by David Hausman

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    Stanford Law Review issue 4 (Apr. 2012) examines economic pricing, interpreting videos, classical Greek democracy, and copyright law

    This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the April 2012 issue include: • The Tragedy of the Carrots: Economics and Politics in the Choice of Price Instruments by Brian Galle • “They Saw a Protest”: Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction by Dan M. Kahan, David A. Hoffman, Donald Braman, Danieli Evans & Jeffrey J. Rachlinski • Constitutional Design in the Ancient World by Adriaan Lanni & Adrian Vermeule • The Copyright-Innovation Tradeoff: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Intentional Infliction of Harm by Dotan Oliar…

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    Stanford Law Review March 2012 issue 3: Prosecuting the exonerated and double jeopardy, feminism and conflict of laws, and fragmentation nodes in finance

    This new issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for the March 2012 issue include: • “Prosecuting the Exonerated: Actual Innocence and the Double Jeopardy Clause” by Jordan M. Barry • “From Multiculturalism to Technique: Feminism, Culture, and the Conflict of Laws Style” by Karen Knop, Ralf Michaels & Annelise Riles • “Fragmentation Nodes: A Study in Financial Innovation, Complexity, and Systemic Risk” by Kathryn Judge • Note: “Insurmountable Obstacles: Structural Errors, Procedural Default, and Ineffective Assistance” by Amy Knight Burns • Comment: “The Gulf Coast Claims Facility…

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    Stanford Law Review‘s Feb. 2012 Issue #2 Explores National Security, Thought Control, and Shareholder Liability

    Contents for this February 2012 issue (Vol. 64, #2) include: • “National Security Federalism in the Age of Terror” By Matthew C. Waxman • “Incriminating Thoughts” By Nita A. Farahany • “Elective Shareholder Liability” By Peter Conti-Brown • Note, “Harrington’s Wake: Unanswered Questions on AEDPA’s Application to Summary Dispositions” By Matthew Seligman • Comment, “Boumediene Applied Badly: The Extraterritorial Constitution After Al Maqaleh v. Gates” By Saurav Ghosh The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which appears in six separate issues between January and July. This volume represents the 2011-2012 academic year. Each issue contains material written by student members of…

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    Stanford Law Review‘s 1st Issue of 2012 Explores Gun Rights, Federalism in Health Care Reform, Establishing Official Islam, and Lobbying

    A leading law journal features a digital edition as part of its worldwide distribution, using quality ebook formatting and active links. In fact,  Stanford Law Review, in January 2011, became the first general-interest law review to release current editions in ebook formats; six previous issues from volume 63 are available in Kindle, Nook and Apple formats. This current issue Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, economics, and social policy by recognized scholars on diverse topics of interest to the academic and professional community. Contents for this issue: • The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms Joseph Blocher • The Ghost That Slayed the Mandate Kevin C. Walsh •…

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    Detailed Stanford Law Review Symposium on Patent Law After Bilski v. Kappos

    This new issue is a special June 2011 Symposium, featuring cutting-edge articles on patent law and other IP issues related to genetic and biotech innovation and "business methods" — after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bilski and beyond: "The Future of Patents." Contributors include such internationally recognized IP scholars as John Duffy, Peter Menell, Mark Lemley, Michael Risch, Polk Wagner, Ted Sichelman, Rochelle Dreyfuss, and Robin Feldman.

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    New Stanford Law Review Issue 5 Is Available in Kindle, Nook, and iTunes Formats

    Now available is Stanford Law Review‘s Issue 5 – May 2011. The Stanford Law Review is published six times a year by students of the Stanford Law School. Each issue contains material written by student members of the Law Review, other Stanford law students, and outside contributors, such as law professors, judges, and practicing lawyers. The current volume is 63, for the academic year 2010-2011, and the present compilation, in ebook form, represents Issue 5, May 2011. Contents for the issue: “The Objects of the Constitution,” by Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz”; “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972,” by David…

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    Stanford Law Review‘s new Issue 4 – April 2011 – features articles by Stephen Gillers, Omri Ben-Shahar and Others

    This current issue of the Stanford Law Review contains studies of law, history, and social policy by acclaimed scholars Stephen Gillers (on the ethics of lawyers who hold real evidence in a case, such as guns, presidential tapes, and drugs), Natalie Ram (on DNA technology in family identifications, and especially its forensic use in criminal cases), and Omri Ben-Shahar (on fixing unfair and imbalanced contracts). This issue also features extensive student work on the history of religious freedom in the early 1800s and on the amicus curiae briefing process of the Supreme Court. The Stanford Law Review was organized in 1948. Each year the Law Review publishes one volume, which…

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    Stanford Law Review‘s March 2011 Issue 3 Hits the Streets Early

    Quid Pro, LLC is the exclusive digital publisher of the Stanford Law Review. The latest issue, Number 3 (March 2011) features cutting-edge articles by recognized scholars on such diverse topics as “preglimony,” derivatives markets in a fiscal crisis, corporate reform in Brazil, land use and zoning, and a student Note on college endowments. It is available as a quality ebook even before the print edition is published. Footnotes, graphs and tables, and cited URLs are all linked, Contents are active (including contents page for each article), and tables are scaled properly. Available in multiple digital editions: Amazon for Kindle.  [And at UK Amazon Kindle store.] Barnes and Noble for Nook.…