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VOLUME 94, ISSUE 4 (APRIL 2006)

Articles

A Capital Lock-In Theory of the Corporate Income Tax, by Steven A. Bank

Congressional Power and State Court Jurisdiction, by Anthony J. Bellia Jr.

Public Rights, Private Rights, and Statutory Retroactivity, by Ann Woolhandler

Essays

Congestion Externalities and Extended Copyright Protection, by Dennis S. Karjala

The Information Privacy Law Project, by Neil M. Richards

Review Essay

Is Forum Shopping Corrupting America’s Bankruptcy Courts?, by Todd J. Zywicki

Book Review

Icarus on Steroids, by Cynthia A. Williams

Note

"Drowned in Advertising Chatter": The Case for Regulating Ad Time on Television, by Matt Getz

 

VOLUME 94, ISSUE 3 (MARCH 2006)

Articles

Congressional Descent: The Demise of Deliberative Democracy in Environmental Lawx, by Richard J. Lazarus

CComparative Law Without Leaving Home: What Civil Procedure Can Teach CriminalProcedure, and Vice Versa , by David A. Sklansky and Stephen C. Yeazell

Exchange: Meta-Blackmail

Meta-Blackmail, by Russell L. Christopher

Reply

Meta-Blackmail and the Evidentiary Theory: Still Taking Motives Seriously, by Mitchell N. Berman

Surreply

The Trilemma of Meta-Blackmail: Is Conditionally Threatening Blackmail Worse, theSame, or Better than Blackmail Itself?, by Russell L. Christopher

Book review

The Accidental Environmentalist: Judge Posner on Catastrophic Thinking(reviewing Catastrophe: Risk and Response), Reviewed by Lisa Heinzerling

Note

The United States Senate and the Problem of Equal State Suffrage, by Misha Tseytlin

 

VOLUME 94, ISSUE 2 (JANUARY 2006)

Articles

Legal Realism and the Failure of the “Effects” Test for Discrimination , by Charles F. Abernathy

“Dear Sister Antillico . . . ”: The Story of Kirksey v. Kirksey, by William R. Casto and Val D. Ricks

The Sympathetic Discriminator: Mental Illness, Hedonic Costs, and the ADA , by Elizabeth F. Emens

The Fundamental Incoherence of Title VII: Making Sense of Causation in Disparate Treatment Law , by Martin J. Katz

Essay

Peace and Justice: Notes on the Evolution and Purposes of Legal Processes , by Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Note

A Multidimensional Framework for the Analysis of Testimonial Hearsay Under Crawford v. Washington, by Ariana J. Torchin

 

VOLUME 94, ISSUE 1 (NOVEMBER 2005)

Articles

Civil and Criminal Sanctions in the Constitution and Courts , by Aaron Xavier Fellmeth

Trusting Trustees: Fiduciary Duties and the Limits of Default Rules , by Melanie B. Leslie

Defining Judicial Inactivism: Models of Adjudication and the Duty To Decide , by Chad M. Oldfather

Essay

Originalism and Formalism in Criminal Procedure: The Triumph of Justice Scalia, the Unlikely Friend of Criminal Defendants? , by Stephanos Bibas

Notes

Patented Embryonic Stem Cells: The Quintessential “Essential Facility”? , by Amy Rachel Davis

Devising a Constitutional National Security Letter Process in Light of Doe v. Ashcroft , by Zachary D. Shankman

 

VOLUME 93, ISSUE 6 (AUGUST 2005)

Articles

Overenforcement , by Richard A. Bierschbach and Alex Stein

Strike Season: Protecting Labor-Management Conflict in the Age of Terror , by Ross E. Davies

Corporate Heroin: A Defense of Perks, Executive Loans, and Conspicuous Consumption , by M. Todd Henderson and James C. Spindler

The Death of Good Faith in Treaty Jurisprudence and a Call for Resurrection , by Michael P. Van Alstine

Exchange: The Doctrine of Equivalents

Invention, Refinement and Patent Claim Scope: A New Perspective on the Doctrine of Equivalents , by Michael J. Meurer and Craig Allen Nard

Substitutes for the Doctrine of Equivalents: A Response to Meurer and Nard , by Doug Lichtman

Patent Policy Adrift in a Sea of Anecdote: A Reply to Lichtman , by Michael J. Meurer and Craig Allen Nard

Book Review

Life and Limb: Pain, Capitalism, and Citizenship in Industrializing America (Review of The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law, by John Fabian Witt), by Christopher Capozzola

Notes

A Plan Revised: How the Congressional Power To Abrogate State Sovereign Immunity Has Expanded Since the Eleventh Amendment , by David Krinsky

Into the Impetuous Vortex: The Mansfield Amendment, Political Accountability, and the Separation of Powers , by Scott Meisler

VOLUME 93, NUMBER 5 (JUNE 2005)

Articles

Law and Trust, by Frank B. Cross

An Exercise in Line-Drawing: Deriving and Measuring Fairness in Redistricting, by Jeanne C. Fromer

Essay

Section Two of the Sherman Act: The Search for Standards, by Thomas E. Kauper

Review Essay

A Prescription for Perilous Times, by Neil S. Siegel

Book Reviews

Where Is FDR When We Need Him? by Peter Edelman

The Scopes Trope, by Jay D. Wexler

Note

Merger & Acquisition Fairness Opinions: A Critical Look at Judicial Extensions of Liability to Investment Banks, by John S. Rubenstein

VOLUME 93, NUMBER 4 (APRIL 2005)

Articles

Ideology in the Elite Legal Academy: A Preliminary Investigation, by John O. McGinnis, Matthew A. Schwartz, and Benjamin Tisdell

Torturing Executive Power, by Michael D. Ramsey

Essays: Fifty Years After Bolling v. Sharpe

Bolling, Equal Protection, Due Process, and Lochnerphobia, by David E. Bernstein

The Secret History of School Choice: How Progressives Got There First, by James Forman, Jr.

A National Issue: Segregation in the District of Columbia and the Civil Rights Movement at Mid-Century, by Wendell E. Pritchett

Exchange: Obesity Policy Choices

Obesity and the Struggle Within Ourselves, by M. Gregg Bloche

What (Not) To Do About Obesity: A Moderate Aristotelian Answer, by Richard A. Epstein

Notes

Justice for the “Designated”: The Process That Is Due to Alleged U.S. Financiers of Terrorism, by Nicole Nice-Petersen

Killing One Bird with Two Stones: The Effect of Empagran and the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004 on Detecting and Deterring International Cartels, by Daniel J. Bennett

VOLUME 93, NUMBER 3 (MARCH 2005)

Articles

Known Unknowns: The Delusion of Terrorism Insurance, by Michelle E. Boardman

The New Dividend Puzzle, by William W. Bratton

Glory Days: Popular Constitutionalism, Nostalgia, and the True Nature of Constitutional Culture, by Doni Gewirtzman

Desuetude in International Law, by Michael J. Glennon

Book Reviews

Reviewing THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER, by Mark Tushnet

The Libertarian-Lite Constitutional Order and the Rehnquist Court, by Steven G. Calabresi

The Current Generation of Constitutional Law, by David Fontana

Aside

The Under-Theorized Asterisk Footnote, by Charles A. Sullivan

Notes

The Destruction of International Notions of Power and Sovereignty: The Supreme Court’s Misguided Application of Retroactivity Doctrine to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act in Republic of Austria v. Altmann, by Marla Goodman

The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003: Will Preemption of State Credit Reporting Laws Harm Consumers?, by Michael Epshteyn

 

VOLUME 93, NUMBER 2 (JANUARY 2005)

Articles

Booker and Fanfan: The Untimely Death (and Rebirth?) of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, by Craig Green

Private Language, Public Laws: The Central Role of Legislative Intent in Statutory Interpretation, by Lawrence M. Solan

Mediating Norms and Identity: The Role of Transnational Judicial Dialogue in Creating and Enforcing International Law, by Melissa A. Waters

Colored Speech: Cross Burnings, Epistemics, and the Triumph of the Crits?, by Guy-Uriel E. Charles

Essays

Making Sense of Payments Policy in the Information Age, by Ronald J. Mann

The Perfect Crime, by Brian C. Kalt

Book Reviews

Reviewing PRICELESS, by Frank Ackerman & Lisa Heinzerling

Junk Economics, by Joseph P. Tomain

The Decision-Making Machinery Behind Environmental Policy, by David Rind

Notes

Sticky Fingers or Sticky Norms? Unauthorized Music Downloading and Unsettled Social Norms, by Geoffrey Neri

Rescuing Science from the Courts: An Appeal for Amending the Patent Code to Protect Academic Research in the Wake of Madey v. Duke University, by David G. Sewell

 

VOLUME 93, NUMBER 1 (NOVEMBER 2004)

Articles

The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal, by Jon Hanson and David Yosifon

Fire, Metaphor, and Constitutional Myth-Making, by Robert L. Tsai

Overcorrection, by Ehud Guttel

Essays

Resetting the Corporate Thermostat: Lessons from the Recent Financial Scandals About Self-Deception, Deceiving Others, and the Design of Internal Controls, by Donald C. Langevoort

Albert Einstein, Esq., by Steven Goldberg

Notes

Iraq's New Investment Laws and the Standard of Civilization: A Case Study on the Limits of International Law, by Alan K. Audi

The Lessons of Greenberg: Informed Consent and the Protection of Tissue Sources' Research Interests, by Kevin L. Oberdorfer

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 6 (AUGUST 2004)

Articles

Whose Justice? Reconciling Universal Jurisdiction with Democratic Principles, by Diane F. Orentlicher

Pretextual Prosecution, by Harry Litman

Double Jeopardy Protection from Successive Prosecution: A Proposed Approach, by Anne Bowen Poulin

Notes

Medical Treatment for Asian Immigrant Children: Does Mother Know Best? by Susan Hall Dudley

The Duty To Defend: What Is in the Interests of the World’s Most Powerful Client? by Dalena Marcott

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 5 (JUNE 2004)

Article

Other People’s Money: Corporations, Agency Costs, and Campaign Finance Law, by Adam Winkler

Book Reviews

Federal Courts, State Courts and Civil Rights: Judicial Power and Politics (reviewing Gay Rights and American Law, by Daniel R. Pinello), by Nan Hunter

The Increasing Role of Empirical Research in Corporate Law Scholarship (reviewing Political Determinants of Corporate Governance: Political Context, Corporate Impact, by Mark Roe) , by Randall S. Thomas

Notes

An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity, by Katherine Mayer

Catch 98(2): Article 98 Agreements and the Dilemma of Treaty Conflict, by David A. Tallman

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 4 (APRIL 2004)

Symposium

Lincoln, the Declaration, and the “Grisly, Undying Corpse of States' Rights”: History, Memory, and Imagination in the Constitution of a Southern Liberal, by William E. Forbath

Comment: Charles Black and Human Rights, by T. Alexander Aleinikoff

State Action and a New Birth of Freedom, by Gary Peller and Mark Tushnet

Response to State Action and a New Birth of Freedom, by Robin West

Interpretive Holism and the Structural Method, or How Charles Black Might Have Thought About Campaign Finance Reform and Congressional Timidity, by Michael C. Dorf

Charles L. Black: His Heart and Mind, by Jack Greenberg

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 3 (MARCH 2004)

Articles

Valuable Patents, by John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, Kimberly A. Moore and R. Derek Trunkey

The Mobility Paradox, by Todd E. Pettys

Adrift on a Sea of Uncertainty: Preserving Uniformity in Patent Law Post-Vornado Through Deference to the Federal Circuit, by Larry D. Thompson, Jr.

Notes

E-Rated Movies: Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You?, by Sharon Weinberg Nokes

Is All Speech Local? Balancing Conflicting Free Speech Principles on the Internet, by Amy Oberdorfer Nyberg

Gender Effects in the Courts of Appeals Revisited: The Data Since 1994, by Sarah Westergren

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 2 (JANUARY 2004)

Articles

Assessing the Legality of Invading Iraq, by Sean D. Murphy

Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement, and the Right to Vote: Did the Fifteenth Amendment Repeal Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment?, by Gabriel J. Chin

Zone of Interests, by Jonathan R. Siegel

Book Review

Tinkering Through Time: A History of America's Experiment with the Death Penalty (reviewing The Death Penalty: An American History, by Stuart Banner), by Joseph Margulies

Note

Manifest Destiny's New Face: “Soft-Selling” Tribal Heritage Lands for Toxic Waste , by Eric Jonathan Lacey

 

VOLUME 92, NUMBER 1 (NOVEMBER 2003)

Articles

Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised: Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Constitutionalism, by David E. Bernstein

Corporation Law After Enron: The Possibility of a Capitalist Reimagination, by David A. Westbrook

Notes

Who Decides? Genital-Normalizing Surgery on Intersexed Infants, by Alyssa Connell Lareau

Confidentiality vs. Care: Re-evaluating the Duty to Self, Client, and Others, by Rachel Vogelstein

 

VOLUME 91, NUMBER 6 (AUGUST 2003)

Articles

The Interpretive Force of the Constitution's Secret Drafting History, by Vasan Kesavan and Michael Stokes Paulsen

Should the Behavior of Top Management Matter?, by Vikramaditya S. Khanna

Review Essay

Rogue Science, by M. Gregg Bloche

Note

The New Isolationism: Non-Self-Execution Declarations and Treaties as the Supreme Law of the Land, by Elizabeth R. Jungman

 

VOLUME 91, NUMBER 5 (JUNE 2003)

Articles

The Role of Deterrence in the Formulation of Criminal Law Rules: At Its Worst When Doing Its Best, by Paul H. Robinson and John M. Darley

State Constitutional Rights as Resistance to National Power: Toward a Functional Theory of State Constitutions, by James A. Gardner

Notes

Beyond All Doubt, by Elizabeth R. Jungman

Torturing the Fifth Amendment: McKune v. Lile, by Matthew Kilby

 

VOLUME 91, NUMBER 4 (APRIL 2003)

Articles

Mozart and the Red Queen: The Problem of Regulatory Accretion in the Administrative State, by J.B. Ruhl and James Salzman

The New Frontier of Constitutional Confession Law—The International Arena: Exploring the Admissibility of Confessions Taken by U.S. Investigators from Non-Americans Abroad, by Mark A. Godsey

Essay

Lex and the City, by Gil Grantmore

Note

A New Instrument in National Security: The Legislative Attempt to Combat Terrorism via the Safe Drinking Water Act, by Varu Chilakamarri

 

VOLUME 91, NUMBER 3 (MARCH 2003)

Symposium

The New Negligence

Twentieth-Century Tort Theory, by John C.P. Goldberg

Negligence, Compensation, and the Coherence of Tort Law, by Mark Geistfeld

The Jury’s Out: Social Norms’ Misunderstood Role in Negligence Law, by Steven Hetcher

Rehabilitating Tort Compensation, by Ellen S. Pryor

Civil Recourse, Not Corrective Justice, by Benjamin C. Zipursky

 

VOLUME 91, NUMBER 2 (JANUARY 2003)

Articles

The Rise and Demise of the Technology-Specific Approach to the First Amendment, by Christopher S. Yoo

The Problem of Perspective in Internet Law, by Orin S. Kerr

Book Review

Overcoming the Constitution (reviewing Implementing the Constitution, by Richard H. Fallon, Jr.), by Saikrishna B. Prakash

Remarks

Separation Anxiety: Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution, by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Notes

Are States Beating the House?: The Validity of Tribal-State Revenue Sharing Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, by Eric S. Lent

The Scope of Utility in the Twenty-First Century: New Guidance for Gene-Related Patents, by Teresa M. Summers




Currently in production (4/21/2006):

VOLUME 94, ISSUE 5 (JUNE 2006)

Article

The Democratic Prosecutor: Explaining the Constitutional Function of the Federal Grand Jury, by Niki Kuckes

Symposium

International Law and Rehnquist-Era Reversals, by Diane Marie Amann

Criminal Justice After the Conservative Reformation, by Louis D. Bilionis

The Rehnquist Court and the Death Penalty, by Erwin Chemerinsky

The Politics of Criminal Justice: How the New Right Regime Shaped the Rehnquist Court’s Criminal Justice Jurisprudence, by Cornell W. Clayton and J. Mitchell Pickerill

The Liberal Legacy of Bush v. Gore, by David Cole

Politics and the Court: Did the Supreme Court Really Move Left Because of Embarrassment Over Bush v. Gore?, by John C. Eastman

Categorical Requirements in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, by Jeffrey L. Fisher

Cautious Liberalism, by Joseph E. Kennedy

The Court of Pragmatism and Internationalization: A Response to Professors Chemerinsky and Amann, by Kenneth W. Starr

Temporal Adversarialism, Criminal Justice, and the Rehnquist Court: The Sluggish Life of Political Factfinding, by Andrew E. Taslitz

Observations on the New Revolution in Constitutional Criminal Procedure, by Mark Tushnet

Note

Eliminating the Federal Subsidy in Kelo: Restricting the Availability of Tax-Exempt Financing for Redevelopment Projects, by Daniel Knepper

 

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Revised April 21, 2006 (BEM)