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14 Aug 2017

Welcoming Our New Staff

The William & Mary Law Review...

01 Aug 2016

Welcoming Our New Staff and William & Mary Law Review Online

The William & Mary Law Review is pleased to announce the new members of our journal as well as our new online companion supplement, the William & Mary Law Review Online. In July 2016, we welcomed forty second-year law students to join our staff. To see our new members...

23 Jul 2015

Welcoming Our New Staff

The William & Mary Law Review is pleased to announce the new members of our journal! In July 2015, we welcomed forty 2Ls to join our staff. Please visit our Current Masthead page to see all members of the Law Review’s staff and board.

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Volume 59

Issue 1 (October 2017)

Articles:

The Nature of Sequential Innovation

Christopher Buccafusco, Stefan Bechtold, & Christopher Jon Sprigman

The Information-Forcing Dilemma in Damages Law

Tun-Jen Chiang

Rethinking Preemption and Constitutional Parameters in Bankruptcy

Michelle M. Harner

Equal Liberty in Proportion

Joshua E. Weishart

Notes:

Pleading Patent Infringement: Res Ipsa Loquitur As A Guide

Andrew L. Milam

Historic Districts: Preserving the Old with the Compatible New

Emma Brandt Vignali

Issue 2 (November 2017)

Articles:

Designed to Fail : The President's Deference to the Department of Justice in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform

Rachel E. Barkow & Mark Osler

Social Value Orientation and the Law

Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff

Administrative Dissents

Sharon B. Jacobs

The Conjunction Problem and the Logic of Jury Findings

David S. Schwartz & Elliott Sober

Notes:

The Last Frontier of Disenfranchisement : A Fundamental Right for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities

Hillary May

iTenant : How the Law Should Treat Rental Relationships in the Sharing Economy

Matthew Rosendahl

Issue 3 (February 2018)

Articles:

Gender Disparity in Law Review Citation Rates

Christopher A. Cotropia & Lee Petherbridge

Why a President Cannot Authorize the Military to Violate (Most of) the Law of War

John C. Dehn

Goldilocks and the Rule 803 Hearsay Exceptions

Liesa L. Richter

Pregnancy as a Normal Condition of Employment: Comparative and Role-Based Accounts of Discrimination

Reva B. Siegel

Untrustworthy: ERISA's Eroded Fiduciary Law

Peter J. Wiedenbeck

Notes:

Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Succeed on the Merits: The EEOC and Rule 12(b)(6)

Perry F. Austin

Worth the Click: Why Greater FTC Enforcement Is Needed to Curtail Deceptive Practices in Influencer Marketing

Laura E. Bladow

Issue 4 (March 2018)

Articles:

The Long Arm of Multidistrict Litigation

Andrew D. Bradt

Being Seen Like a State: How Americans (and Britons) Built the Constitutional Infrastructure of a Developing Nation

Daniel J. Hulsebosch

The Constitution and the Language of the Law

John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport

Jurisdictional Idealism and Positivism

John F. Preis

Notes:

The Early Eight and the Future of Consumer Legal Activism to Fight Modern-Day Slavery in Corporate Supply Chains

Andrew G. Barna

Campbell-Ewaldo Co. v. Gomez: Diminishing the Derivative Sovereign Immunity Doctrine and the Social Costs of Increasing Liability to Government Contractors

W. Logan Lewis

Issue 5 (April 2018)

Articles:

A Reasonable Bias Approach to Gerrymandering: Using Automated Plan Generation to Evaluation Redistricting Proposals

Bruce E. Cain, Wendy K Tam Cho, Yan Y. Liu, & Emily R. Zhang

Race and Representation Revisited: The New Racial Gerrymandering Cases and Section 2 of the VRA

Guy-Uriel E. Charles & Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

From Educational Adequacy to Representational Adequacy: A New Template for Legal Attacks on Partisan Gerrymanders

Christopher S. Elmendorf

Taking Virtual Representation Seriously

Joseph Fishkin

The Gerrymander and the Constitution: Two Avenues of Analysis and the Quest for a Durable Precedent

Edward B. Foley

Redistricting Transparency

Rebecca Green

Race or Party, Race as Party, or Party All the Time: Three Uneasy Approaches to Conjoined Polarization in Redistricting and Voting Cases

Richard L. Hasen

Something Old, Something New, or Something Really Old? Second Generation Racial Gerrymandering Litigation as Intentional Racial Discrimination

Dale E. Ho

Reapportionment, Nonapportionment, and Recovering Lost History of One Person, One Vote

Pamela S. Karlan

Section 2 After Section 5: Voting Rights and the Race to the Bottom

Ellen D. Katz

Intent Is Enough: Invidious Partisanship in Redistricting

Justin Levitt

Prophylactic Redistricting? Congress's Section 5 Power and the New Equal Protection Right to Vote

Michael T. Morley

The Causes and Consequences of Gerrymandering

Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos

Gerrymandering and Association

Daniel P. Tokaji

Election Law "Federalism" and the Limits of the Antidiscrimination Framework

Franita Tolson

Issue 6 (May 2018)

Articles:

Constitutional Injury and Tangibility

Rachel Bayefsky

Accidents and Aggregates

Lee Anne Fennell

Borrowing in the Shadow of Death: Another Look at Probate Lending

David Horton

Whom Should We Punish, and How? Rational Incentives and Criminal Justice Reform

Keith N. Hylton

Notes:

Following Oregon's Trail: Implementing Automatic Voter Registration to Provide for Improved Jury Representation in the United States

Julie A. Cascino

Embracing the Chinese Exclusion Case: An International Law Approach to Racial Exclusions

Lauri Kai