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Volume 52

Issue One

(October 2010)

Articles:

• Aya Gruber
  A Distributive Theory of Criminal Law
• Helen Norton
  The Supreme Court's Post-Racial Turn Towards a Zero-Sum Understanding of Equality
• Alan Devlin & Michael Jacobs
  Antitrust Error
• David Gilo & Ariel Porat
  Viewing Unconscionability Through a Market Lens

Notes:

• Brandon Murrill
  The Business of Suing: Determining When a Professional Plaintiff Should Have Standing to Bring a Private Enforcement Action
• Katherine B. O'Keefe
  Protecting the Homeless Under Vulnerable Victim Sentencing Guidelines: An Alternative to Inclusion in Hate Crime Law

Issue Two

(November 2010)

Articles:

• Mark R. Patterson
  Standardization of Standard-Form Contracts: Competition and Contract Implications
• Cecelia Klingele
  Changing the Sentence without Hiding the Truth: Judicial Sentence Modification as a Promising Method of Early Release
• David S. Olson
  First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
• Samuel P. Jordan
  Local Rules and the Limits of Trans-Territorial Procedure

Notes:

• Justin C. Sorrell
  Rehabilitative Employees and the National Labor Relations Act

Issue Three

(December 2010)

Articles:

• Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov
  Lawmakers as Lawbreakers
• Viva R. Moffat
  The Wrong Tool for the Job: The IP Problem with Non-Competition Agreements
• Adam H. Rosenzweig
  Why are There Tax Havens?
• Philip G. Schrag, Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, & James P. Dombach
  Rejecting Refugees: Homeland Security's Administration of the One-Year Bar to Asylum

Notes:

• William R. Leinen
  Preserving Republican Governance: An Essential Government Functions Exception to Direct Democratic Measures

Volume 51

Issue One

(October 2009)

Articles:

• Adam M. Samaha
  Randomization in Adjudication
  
• Elizabeth T. Lear
  Federalism, Forum Shopping, and the Foreign Injury Paradox
  
• Wayne A. Logan
  Contingent Constitutionalism: State and Local Criminal Laws and the Applicability of Federal Constitutional Rights
  
• Scott A. Moss & Peter H. Huang
  How the New Economics Can Improve Employment Discrimination Law, and How Economics Can Survive the Demise of the Rational Actor
  

Notes:

• Anna C. Leist
  Voting withTheir Feet and Dollars: The Role of Investors and the Influence of the Mutual Fund Market in Regulating Fees
  
• Scott J. Upright
  Suspicionless Border Seizures of Electronic Files: The Overextension of the Border Search Exception to the Fourth Amendment
  

Issue Two

(November 2009)

Articles:

• Trotter Hardy
  Introduction
  
• Dan L. Burk & Brett H. McDonnell
  Trademarks and the Boundaries of the Firm
  
• Jason Mazzone
  Administering Fair Use
  
• Pamela Samuelson & Tara Wheatland
  Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform
  
• Rebecca Tushnet
  Economies of Desire: Fair Use and Marketplace Assumptions
  
• Jane Winn & Nicolas Jondet
  A New Deal for End Users? Lessons From a French Innovation in the Regulation of Interoperability
  
• Margo A. Bagley
  The New Invention Creation Activity Boundary in Patent Law
  
• John F. Duffy
  Rules and Standards on the Forefront of Patentability
  
• Mark A. Lemley
  Distinguishing Lost Profits from Reasonable Royalties
  
• Michael J. Meurer
  Patent Examination Priorities
  
• Graeme B. Dinwoodie
  Developing a Private International Intellectual Property Law: The Demise of Territoriality?
  
• Brett Frischmann
  Spillovers Theory and Its Conceptual Boundaries
  
• Laura A. Heymann
  How to Write a Life: Some Thoughts on Fixation and the Copyright/Privacy Divide
  
• Mark P. McKenna
  An Alternate Approach to Channeling?
  

Issue Three

(December 2009)

Articles:

• Alan Devlin & Neel Sukhatme
  Self-Realizing Inventions and the Utilitarian Foundation of Patent Law
  
• David Glazier
  Playing by the Rules: Combating Al Qaeda Within the Law of War
  
• Anita S. Krishnakumar
  The Hidden Legacy of Holy Trinity Church: The Unique National Institution Canon
  
• Mark Moller
  A New Look at the Original Meaning of the Diversity Clause
  

Notes:

• Andrew T. Erwin
  Avoiding Another Eldorado: Balancing Parental Liberty and the Risk of Error with Governmental Interest in the Well-Being of Children in Complex Cases of Child Removal
  
• Christopher G. Wilson
  Embedded Federal Questions, Exclusive Jurisdiction, and Patent-Based Malpractice Claims
  

Issue Four

(March 2010)

Articles:

• Fabio Arcila
  The Death of Suspicion
  
• Derek Black
  Unlocking the Power of State Constitutions with Equal Protection: The First Step Toward Education as a Federally Protected Right
  
• Robert J. Rhee
  Bonding Limited Liability
  
• Jeffrey W. Stempel
  The Insurance Policy as Social Instrument and Social Institution
  

Notes:

• Krysta R. Edwards
  The Vote from Beyond the Grave
  
• Noah A. Kuschel
  Exempting Police from 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)
  

Issue Five

(April 2010)

Articles:

• David S. Law & David Zaring
  Law Versus Ideology: The Supreme Court and the Use of Legislative History
  
• Jessica Erickson
  Corporate Governance in the Courtroom: An Empirical Analysis
  
• Michael B. Kent, Jr.
  Theoretical Tension and Doctrinal Discord: Analyzing Development Impact Fees as Takings
  
• W. Mark C. Weidemaier
  Toward a Theory of Precedent in Arbitration
  

Notes:

• Jessica R. Coulter
  A Sea Change To Change the Sea: Stopping the Spread of the Pacific Garbage Patch with Small-Scale Environmental Legislation
  

Issue Six

(May 2010)

Articles:

• Robin J. Effron
  The Plaintiff Neutrality Principle: Pleading Complex Litigation in the Era of Twombly and Iqbal
  
• Grant Hayden & Matthew T. Bodie
  Shareholder Democracy and the Curious Turn Toward Board Primacy
  
• Michael M. O'Hear
  Appellate Review of Sentences: Reconsidering Deference
  
• David S. Rubenstein
  "Relative Checks": Towards Optimal Control of Administrative Power
  

Notes:

• Colin P. McCarthy
  Paging Dr. Google: Personal Health Records and Patient Privacy
  
• Andrew M. Szlagyi
  Blowing Its Cover: How the Intelligence Identities Protection Act Has Masqueraded as an Effective Law and Why It Must Be Amended
  

Volume 50

Issue One

(October 2008)

Articles:

• Larry Alexander & Saikrishna B. Prakash
  Tempest in an Empty Teapot: Why the Constitution Does Not Regulate Gerrymandering
  
• Colleen V. Chien
  Patently Protectionist? An Empirical Analysis of Patent Cases at the International Trade Commission
  
• Michael S. Knoll
  The Taxation of Private Equity Carried Interests: Estimating the Revenue Effects of Taxing Profit Interests as Ordinary Income
  
• Nancy Morawetz
  Rethinking Drug Inadmissibility
  
• Giovanna Shay & Christopher Lasch
  Initiating a New Constitutional Dialogue: The Increased Importance Under AEDPA of Seeking Certiorari from Judgments of State Courts
  

Notes:

• David C. Holman
  Death by a Thousand Cases: After Booker, Rita, and Gall, the Guidelines Still Violate the Sixth Amendment
  


• Meghaan Cecilia McElroy
  Possession is Nine Tenths of the Law: But Who Really Owns a Church's Property in the Wake of a Religious Split Within a Hierarch
  

Issue Two

(November 2008)

Articles:

• Steve P. Calandrillo & Ewa M. Davison
  The Dangers of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act: Much Ado About Nothing?
  
• Brannon P. Denning
  Reconstructing the Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine
  
• Gregory C. Sisk
  The Continuing Drift of Federal Sovereign Immunity Jurisprudence
  
• Andrew J. Wistrich
  Procrastination, Deadlines, and Statutes of Limitation
  

Notes:

• Jennifer Gwynne Case
  How Wide Should the Actual Innocence Gateway Be?: An Attempt to Clarify the Miscarriage of Justice Exception for Federal Habeas Corpus Proceedings
  
• Heather Leigh Stangle
  Murderous Madonna: Femininity, Violence, and The Myth of Postpartum Mental Disorder in Cases of Maternal Infanticide and Filicid
  

Issue Three

(December 2008)

Articles:

• Joseph A. Seiner
  The Failure of Punitive Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases: A Call for Change
  
• Aaron Xavier Fellmeth
  State Regulation of Sexuality in International Human Rights Law and Theory
  
• Clayton P. Gillette
  Can Public Debt Enhance Democracy?
  
• Daralyn J. Durie & Mark A. Lemley
  A Realistic Approach to the Obviousness of Inventions
  
• Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
  Imperial and Imperiled: The Curious State of the Executive
  

Notes:

• Emily Jane Dodds
  I'll Make You a Deal: How Repeat Informants Are Corrupting the Criminal Justice System and What To Do About It
  

Issue Four

(March 2009)

Articles:

• Paul D. Carrington & Roger C. Cramton
  Original Sin and Judicial Independence: Providing Accountability for Justices
  
• Lawrence M. Friedman
  Some Thoughts about Citizen Lawyers
  
• Robert W. Gordon
  The Citizen Lawyer--A Brief History of a Myth with Some Basis in Reality
  
• Bruce A. Green & Russell G. Pearce
  "Public Service Must Begin at Home": The Lawyer as Civics Teacher in Everyday Practice
• Sanford Levinson
  What Should Citizens (As Participants in a Republican Form of Government) Know About the Constitution?
  
• James E. Moliterno
  A Golden Age of Civic Involvement: The Client Centered Disadvantage for Lawyers Acting as Public Officials
  
• W. Taylor Reveley III
  The Citizen Lawyer
  
• Deborah L. Rhode
  Lawyers as Citizens
  
• Edward Rubin
  The Citizen Lawyer and the Administrative State
  
• Mark Tushnet
  Citizen as Lawyer, Lawyer as Citizen
  

Notes:

• Troy L. Gwartney
  Harmonizing the Exclusionary Rights of Patents with Compulsory Licensing
  

Issue Five

(April 2009)

Articles:

• Minna J. Kotkin
  Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias
  
• Alexandra B. Klass
  Tort Experiments in the Laboratories of Democracy
  
• Kurt T. Lash
  Leaving the Chisholm Trail: The Eleventh Amendment and the Background Principle of Strict Construction
  
• David L. Schwartz
  Courting Specialization: An Empirical Study of Claim Construction Comparing Patent Litigation Before Federal District Courts and the International Trade Commission
  

Notes:

• Arpan A. Sura
  An End-Run Around the Takings Clause? The Law and Economics of Bivens Actions for Property Rights Abuse
  
• Angela J. Tang
  Taking Aim at Tiahrt
  

Issue Six

(May 2009)

Articles:

• Andrew Koppelman
  Corruption of Religion and the Establishment Clause
  
• Thomas A. Lambert
  Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance
  
• Robert T. Miller
  The Economics of Deal Risk: Allocating Risk Through MAC Clauses in Business Combination Agreements
  
• Matthew J. Tokson
  The Content/Envelope Distinction in Internet Law
  

Notes:

• Aaron C. Garrett
  New Theories of Guilt on Appeal in Virginia Criminal Cases
  
• David W. Tyler
  Clarifying Departmentalism: How the Framers' Vision of Judicial and Presidential Review Makes the Case for Deductive Judicial Supremacy
  

Volume 49

Issue One

(October 2007)

Articles:

• Ruth Colker
  The Mythic 43 Million Americans with Disabilities
  
• Richard E. Moberly
  Unfulfilled Expectations: An Empirical Analysis of Why Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers Rarely Win
  
• Mark R. Patterson
  Contractual Expansion of the Scope of Patent Infringement Through Field-of-use Licensing
  
• Edward A. Zelinsky
  The New Massachusetts Health Law
  

Notes:

• James J. Bilsborrow
  Sentencing Acquitted Conduct to the Post-Booker Dustbin
  
• Justin H. Rucki
  Looking Forward While Looking Back: Using Debtors' Post-petition Financial Changes to Find Bankruptcy Abuse After BAPCPA
  

Issue Two

(November 2007)

Articles:

• Rhonda Wasserman
  The Curious Complications with Back-end Opt-out Rights
  
• Erica J. Hashimoto
  The Price of Misdemeanor Representation
  
• Peter Siegelman
  Contributory Disparate Impacts in Employment Discrimination Law
  
• Fred C. Zacharias
  The Preemployment Ethical Role of Lawyers: Are Lawyers Really Fiduciaries?
  

Notes:

• Christi Cassel
  Keep Out of MySpace!: Protecting Students from Unconstitutional Suspensions and Expulsions
  
• Frank E. Correll, Jr.
  "You Fall into Scylla in Seeking To Avoid Charybdis": The Second Circuit's Pragmatic Approach to Supervised Release for Sex Offenders
  

Issue Three

(December 2007)

Articles:

• Lawrence A. Cunningham
  Securitizing Audit Failure Risk: An Alternative to Caps on Damages
  
• Marsha Garrison
  The Empire of Illness: Competence and Coercion in Health-care Decision Making
  
• David A. Strauss
  The Common Law Genius of the Warren Court
  
• Dorothy E. Roberts
  Child Welfare’s Paradox
  

Notes:

• Jacqueline Lai Chung
  Drawing Idea from Expression: Creating a Legal Space for Culturally Appropriated Literary Characters
  
• Kathryn B. Codd
  Betting on the Wrong Horse: The Detrimental Effect of Noncompliance in the Internet Gambling Dispute on the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
  
• Andrew W. Scott
  Estop in the Name of Love: A Case for Constructive Marriage in Virginia
  
• Lindsey R. Vaala
  Bias on the Bench: Raising the Bar for U.S. Immigration Judges To Ensure Equality for Asylum Seekers
  

Issue Four

(March 2008)

Articles:

• Angela M. Banks
  Expanding Participation in Constitution Making: Challenges and Opportunities
  
• Paul D. Carrington
  Could and Should America Have Made an Ottoman Republic in 1919?
  
• James Thuo Gathii
  Popular Authorship and Constitution Making: Comparing and Contrasting the DRC and Kenya
  
• Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, & James Melton
  Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul ...: Constitution Making in Occupied States
  
• Ran Hirschl
  The Theocratic Challenge to Constitution Drafting in Post-Conflict States
  
• Donald L. Horowitz
  Conciliatory Institutions and Constitutional Processes in Post-conflict States
  
• Vicki C. Jackson
  What’s in a Name? Reflections on Timing, Naming, and Constitution-making
  
• Inga Markovits
  Constitution Making After National Catastrophes: Germany in 1949 and 1990
  
• Balakrishnan Rajagopal
  Invoking the Rule of Law in Post-conflict Rebuilding: A Critical Examination
  
• Kim Lane Scheppele
  A Constitution Between Past and Future
  
• Karol Edward Soltan
  Constitution Making at the Edges of Constitutional Order
  
• Jane Stromseth
  Post-conflict Rule of Law Building: The Need for a Multi-layered, Synergistic Approach
  
• Mark Tushnet
  Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice
  
• William W. Van Alstyne
  Quintessential Elements of Meaningful Constitutions in Post-conflict States
  
• Jennifer Widner
  Constitution Writing in Post-conflict Settings: An Overview
  

Issue Five

(April 2008)

Articles:

• George D. Brown
  Political Judges and Popular Justice: Conservative Victory or a Conservative Dilemma?
  
• Christopher R. Leslie
  Cartels, Agency Costs, and Finding Virtue in Faithless Agents
  
• Bradford Mank
  Should States Have Greater Standing Rights than Ordinary Citizens?: Massachusetts v. EPA’s New Standing Test for States
  
• Serena Mayeri
  Reconstructing the Race-Sex Analogy
  

Notes:

• Darren Abernethy
  Of State Laboratories and Legislative Alloys: How “Fair Share” Laws Can Be Written To Avoid ERISA Preemption and Influence Private Sector Health Care Reform in America
  
• Adam W. Kersey
  Misdemeanants, Firearms, and Discretion: The Practical Impact of the Debate Over “Physical Force” and 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9)
  

Issue Six

(May 2008)

Articles:

• Owen D. Jones & Sarah F. Brosnan
  Law, Biology, and Property: A New Theory of the Endowment Effect
  
• Stephen A. Saltzburg & Daniel J. Capra
  The Unrecognized Right of Criminal Defendants To Admit Their Own Pretrial Statements
  
• Jim Hawkins
  Renting the Good Life
  
• Timothy R. Holbrook
  Extraterritoriality in U.S. Patent Law
  
• Erwin Chemerinsky
  Why Church and State Should Be Separate
  
• Gerard V. Bradley
  Religion at a Public University
  

Notes:

• Jocelyn Kempema
  Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of ... Infringement?: Guitar Tabs, Fair Use, and the Internet
  
• Bin Wang
  All Bark and No Bite: A Modern Evidentiary Argument for the Retirement of the Age-old Pennsylvania Rule