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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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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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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Dead in the Park has Frank May tracking down his link to a corpse
Frank May is a private practice lawyer in San Mateo, California, and he doesn’t want to get involved with an unidentified dead body in the park. So why is he involved with an unidentified dead body in the park? The man was found in a neighboring California town with no identification; all the police found was a scrap of paper in the corpse’s pocket with Cynthia Greenhouse’s address and phone number. This would be none of Frank’s business … if only Cynthia wasn’t one of his clients. Here’s where the questions start: Who is this dead man? Why does he have Cynthia’s address? And why on earth does Cynthia have…
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Buddy Ward’s novel Brave West Wind takes Steamer Causey from the Bahamas to Danger
Storms destroy things and leave their marks forever. Captain Steamer Causey–a charter boat captain on one of the finest boats in all the Bahamas–thought he had his life all arranged and had put his past far behind him. He did not look for, and did not see, the signs of the storms building all about him. The storms that would tear him from his complacency, hurl him back into his past, threaten to tear apart everything and everyone he loved, and possibly even end his very existence. Hardcover edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, BooksAMillion.com, YBP Library Services, and Ingram catalog. Paperback edition: available at such booksellers as Amazon.com, our QP…
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Lawrence Friedman’s novel Death of a Schemer pits Frank May against a house full of suspects
Frank May, the lawyer who’s a reluctant detective, takes on the mystery of a house full of characters and and secrets. Frank’s law office is in San Mateo, California, his practice often dealing with wills and estates. Dead clients are an essential part of an estates practice, but these are, for almost everybody, quite natural deaths. Yet somehow, through some quirk of fate, unnatural deaths seem to plague Frank’s clients and those close to them. And he gets drawn into these mysterious affairs. Andrew Wright, a schemer if there ever was one, was not exactly a client. Andrew had befriended a woman well past her mental prime, living in a…
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Walter Murphy’s bestselling novel The Vicar of Christ is Digitally Remastered™ and available again: explores the Supreme Court and Vatican politics
The New York Times Bestseller is now available in modern digital formats, featuring a new Foreword by Justice Samuel Alito, as well as a new paperback and hardcover. This book has universally been considered an unusual, fascinating, and well-written observation of the life of a man who was first a war hero and Medal of Honor winner from the Korean War, then Chief Justice of the United States, later a monk, and finally elected Pope: Pope Francis I. His exciting life is described by three men who ‘knew him well.’ The first narrator is a Marine, telling of their time together in Korea. A constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice,…
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Eliezer Segal’s new collection of fun, informative essays on the Jewish calendar: A Time for Every Purpose
A Time for Every Purpose continues the series of collections of Eliezer Segal’s beloved and witty articles about the Jewish sacred calendar — articles that originally appeared in his From the Sources column in the Calgary Jewish Free Press between 2011 and 2015. As always, the author strives to maintain a balance between accurate scholarship and entertaining readability as he introduces his readers to fascinating aspects of the Jewish festivals and holy days — and how they evolved in ongoing dialogue with historical changes, geographical diversity, and intellectual challenges. The articles are written from a sympathetic but non-dogmatic perspective by a recognized scholarly authority on the academic study of Judaism.…
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Yale Law Journal, Apr. 2015, on constitutional duty to supervise, discrimination by architectural design, and AG nondefense of laws
The contents of the April 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 6) are: • Article, “The Constitutional Duty To Supervise,” by Gillian E. Metzger • Article, “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment,” by Sarah Schindler • Feature, “Fifty Attorneys General, and Fifty Approaches to the Duty To Defend,” by Neal Devins & Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash • Note, “Executive Orders in Court,” by Erica Newland • Comment, “Stare Decisis and Secret Law: On Precedent and Publication in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,” by Jack Boeglin & Julius Taranto The digital edition features active Contents, linked notes, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting. Available in leading formats:…
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Crump’s fictional lawyer Robert Herrick is Back: Suing Terrorists and their Money Machine
The football game is tied. It’s in sudden death overtime. And that’s when three Islamic extremists trigger an explosion that kills over 100 innocent spectators. The men who did it are promptly caught and charged with capital murder, but everyone knows that there are more guilty people behind the act. There are banks, or foundations, or governments who fronted this terrorism. Terrorists need money. Families of the victims ask attorney Robert Herrick—the “Lawyer for the Little Guy”—to bring the financiers to justice. It’s a tough claim, and he declines . . . but eventually he’s persuaded to take the case. Nothing about this lawsuit is easy, from preparing the court…
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I Saw Them Die: historical and occasionally bizarre account from a WWI nurse
Shirley Millard's harrowing and fascinating account of her MASH-like experience in WWI France gives insights she intends and many more that she does not. Reading it is an experience on several levels. One of the most fascinating personal accounts of the Great War from just behind the lines, first published in 1936, and updated by Prof. Elizabeth Townsend Gard.
