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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