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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s special fall 2017 issue commemorates HLS’s bicentennial
The special Bicentennial Issue, Number 9, features these Essays as its contents: • “Marking 200 Years of Legal Education: Traditions of Change, Reasoned Debate, and Finding Differences and Commonalities,” by Martha Minow • “Race Liberalism and the Deradicalization of Racial Reform,” by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw • “The Socratic Method in the Age of Trauma,” by Jeannie Suk Gersen • “Thayer, Holmes, Brandeis: Conceptions of Judicial Review, Factfinding, and Proportionality,” by Vicki C. Jackson • “Without the Pretense of Legislative Intent,” by John F. Manning • “Law’s Boundaries,” by Frederick Schauer • “Bureaucracy and Distrust: Landis, Jaffe, and Kagan on the Administrative State,” by Adrian Vermeule The issue also includes a…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s June ’17 issue: Dworkin’s reply to Hart, police expertise, and foreign affairs federalism
The June 2017 issue, Number 8, features these extensive contents: • Article, “The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise,” by Anna Lvovsky • Essay, “The Debate That Never Was,” by Nicos Stavropoulos • Essay, “Hart’s Posthumous Reply,” by Ronald Dworkin • Book Review, “Cooperative and Uncooperative Foreign Affairs Federalism,” by Jean Galbraith • Note, “Rethinking Actual Causation in Tort Law” • Note, “The Justiciability of Servicemember Suits” • Note, “The Substantive Waiver Doctrine in Employment Arbitration Law” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: requiring proof of administrative feasibility to satisfy class action Rule 23; whether prison gerrymandering violates the Equal Protection Clause; justiciability of suit against the government for military…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s May ’17 issue: Harmless Error, Vagrancy Laws, and Abolition of the Death Penalty
The May 2017 issue, Number 7, features these contents: • Article, “A Contextual Approach to Harmless Error Review,” by Justin Murray • Book Review, “Courting Abolition,” by Deborah W. Denno • Book Review, “This Land Is My Land?” by Tracey Meares • Note, “Clarifying Kiobel’s ‘Touch and Concern’ Test” • Note, “If These Walls Could Talk: The Smart Home and the Fourth Amendment Limits of the Third Party Doctrine” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: trademark law and applying the Lanham Act to wholly foreign sales; election law and the test for partisan gerrymandering; civil procedure and whether service of process may be accomplished internationally via Twitter; felon disenfranchisement…
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Crump pens new courtroom novel of suing the operator of a Gulf oil platform
The offshore oil platform known as the Emerald Rose is an explosion waiting to happen. And just as surely, it’s a blizzard of lawsuits waiting to happen. Robert Herrick is “the lawyer for the little guy.” Against his better judgment, he finds himself drawn into representing more than 100 plaintiffs suing the Emerald Petroleum Company. Careless managers have killed dozens of innocent victims by taking risks like replacing drilling fluids with sea water. But the other side is represented by a former street fighter named Jimmy Coleman. He’s the head of litigation at the mega-firm of Booker & Bayne, where he commands an army of associates who can find arguments…
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New England Law Review‘s 1st issue of Volume 51: Symposium on Behavioral Legal Ethics and Dealing with Mistakes
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 51 (2017) features an extensive and important Symposium, “Behavioral Legal Ethics,” with contributions by Catherine Gage O’Grady, Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Nancy L. Sachs, Donald C. Langevoort, Tigran W. Eldred, and Wallace J. Mlyniec. The issue also includes an essay by Elizabeth M. Schneider, “Why Feminist Legal Theory Still Needs Mary Joe Frug: Thoughts on Conflicts in Feminism,” in honor of the late Professor Frug. In addition, extensive student research examines Church’s chicken sandwich trademark, whistleblowing from the bench, rethinking student discipline in Massachusetts schools,…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Apr. ’17 issue: Developments in the Law on “The U.S. Territories”
The Harvard Law Review is offered in a digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked notes, linked URLs in notes, and proper ebook formatting. The contents of Issue 6 include scholarly articles and student casenotes, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This year’s subject is “The U.S. Territories.” Topics include territorial federalism, federal deference to Guam on its law, Puerto Rico’s place in the UN and the international community, and citizenship in American Samoa. The issue also includes an article by John Rappaport on “How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police.” In addition, student contributions explore Recent Cases on the First Amendment and selfies at…
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Tables and Updates for Stephen Wasby’s Borrowed Judges
Stephen L. Wasby’s new study, Borrowed Judges: Visitors in the U.S. Courts of Appeals, was officially released April 12, 2018. To update readers on research or commentary to supplement the book, use this page. For information about the book itself, including blurbs and links to sales sites, go to its main information page. Thank you. Tables found in the 2018 printing (both print editions and eBooks) are also available to be downloaded here: Tables found in original printing of Professor Wasby’s book. Updating of and commentary on the book: Comments of author from Author Meets Critic panel of the Southern Political Science Association, Austin, TX, January 18, 2019.
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s March ’17 issue: defining market power; housing and poverty; and minimal education rights
Harvard Law Review‘s March 2017 issue, Number 5, features these contents: • Article, “On the Relevance of Market Power,” by Louis Kaplow • Book Review, “Spiraling: Evictions and Other Causes and Consequences of Housing Instability,” by Vicki Been and Leila Bozorg (reviewing Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City) • Note, “Rights in Flux: Nonconsequentialism, Consequentialism, and the Judicial Role” • Note, “The Misguided Appeal of a Minimally Adequate Education” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: separation of powers and the appointments clause; personal jurisdiction in anti-terrorism act cases arising on foreign soil; deference to agency interpretations in conflict with circuit precedent; judicial review of zoning in…
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HARVARD LAW REVIEW‘s Feb. 2017 issue: statutory interpretation, the meaning of money, grand juries, and Chevron
The February 2017 issue, Number 4, features these contents: • Article, William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, “The Law of Interpretation” • Book Review, Kathryn Judge, “The Importance of ‘Money'” • Note, “Cashing Out a Special Relationship?: Trends Toward Reconciliation Between Financial Regulation and Administrative Law” • Note, “Restoring Legitimacy: The Grand Jury as the Prosecutor’s Administrative Agency” • Note, “The Rise of Purposivism and Fall of Chevron: Major Statutory Cases in the Supreme Court” Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on: abstaining from adjudicating habeas petition of Guantanamo detainee tried by military commission; a Second Circuit ruling that the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, but not the FSIA, allows recovery…
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Thorsten Sellin’s Slavery and the Penal System is Digitally Remastered:™ Shows history of using slave labor as criminal sentence, invention of the treadmill
The classic and groundbreaking study of penal slavery throughout the ages is finally available again. Previously a rare book — despite the fact that it is widely quoted and cited by scholars in the field of sociology, penology, and criminology — this book can now be accessed easily worldwide and be assigned again to classes. Now in its fortieth anniversary edition, Sellin’s classic book adds a new Foreword by researcher Barry Krisberg at Berkeley, and incorporates changes the author originally planned for a second printing, provided to Quid Pro Books by the Special Collections Library at Penn and authorized by his family. Part of the Classics of Law & Society Series from…
