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Volume 60

Issue 1 (October 2018)

Articles:

Can Judges Be Uncivilly Obedient?

Brannon P. Denning

The Faulty Law and Economics of the "Baseball Rule"

Natheniel Grow & Zachary Flagel

Patent Prior Art and Possession

Timothy R. Holbrook

Replacing the Flawed Chevron Standard

Brian G. Slocum

Notes:

Defining "Unduly": Resolving Inherent Textual Ambiguity in the IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention

John R. Bobka

Custom-Edited DNA: Legal Limits on the Patentability of CRISPR-CAS9'S Therapeutic Applications

Noah C. Chauvin

Issue 2 (November 2018)

Articles:

A Voice in the Wilderness: John Paul Stevens, Election Law, and a Theory of Impartial Governance

Cody S. Barnett, Joshua A. Douglas

Democratizing Inerpretation

Anya Bernstein

The Theory and Practice of Contestatory Federalism

James A. Gardner

The Fatal Failure of the Regulatory State

W. Kip Viscusi

Notes:

The Anticompetitive Manipulation of REMS: A New Exception to Antitrust Refusal-to-Deal Doctrine

Tyler A. Garrett

Salary History Should Be Her Story: Upholding Regulations of Salary History Through a Commercial Speech Analysis

Elizabeth Lester-Abdalla

Issue 3 (February 2019)

Articles:

Natural Resources and Natural Law Part I: Prior Appropriation

Robert W. Adler

Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care

Wendy A. Bach

The Value of Insider Control

Benjamin Means

Enforcing Principled Constitutional Limits on Federal Power: A Neo-Federalist Refinement of Justice Cardozo's Jurisprudence

Robert J. Pushaw, Jr.

Interpreting Organizational "Contracts" and the Private Ordering of Public Company Governance

Megan Wischmeier Shaner

Notes:

United States Antiterror Law Is Missing the Mark: Changing the Material Support Statute to Hit the Target

Tessa Beryl Tilton

Taking Shelter Under the Fourth Amendment: The Constitutionality of Policing Methods at State-Sponsored Natural Disaster Shelters

Kyle M. Wood

Issue 4 (March 2019)

Articles:

The (Limited) Constitutional Right to Compete in an Occupation

Rebecca Haw Allensworth

Accommodating Competition: Harmonizing National Economic Commitments

Jonathan B. Baker

Scrutinizing Anticompetitive State Regulations Through Constitutional and Antitrust Lenses

Daniel A. Crane

Antitrust as Speech Control

Hillary Greene, Dennis A. Yao

"Competition Policy in its Broadest Sense": Michael Pertschuk's Chairmanship of the Federal Trade Commission 1977-1981

William E. Kovacic

Wickard Through an Antitrust Lens

Alan J. Meese

Antitrust and the Politics of State Action

Thomas B. Nachbar

The Present New Antitrust Era

Barak Orbach

Parker v. Brown, the Eleventh Amendment, and Anticompetitive State Regulation

William H. Page, John E. Lopatka

Religious Freedom Through Market Freedom: The Sherman Act and the Marketplace for Religion

Barak D. Richman

Reinvigorating Criminal Antitrust?

D. Daniel Sokol

Issue 5 (April 2019)

Articles:

No Arbitrary Power: An Originalist Theory of the Due Process of Law

Randy E. Barnett, Evan D. Bernick

Why Rape Should Be a Federal Crime

Donald A. Dripps

The Haves of Procedure

Ion Meyn

Compensation at the Crossroads: Autonomous Vehicles & Alternative Victim Compensation Schemes

Tracy Hresko Pearl

The Case of the Religious Gay Blood Donor

Brian Soucek

Notes:

An Implied Defense: Self-Disclosure Offers a Defense to the Expanded False Claims Liability After Universal Health Services v. Escobar

Megan E. Italiano

Trusting the Federalism Process Under Unique Circumstances: United States Election Administration and Cybersecurity

Eric S. Lynch

Issue 6 (May 2019)

Articles:

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act at Age 10: GINA’s Controversial Assertion that Data Transparency Protects Privacy and Civil Rights

Barbara J. Evans

Tax Lawyers as Tax Insurance

Heather M. Field

Justice Begins Before Trial: How to Nudge Inaccurate Pretrial Rulings Using Behavioral Law and Economic Theory and Uniform Commercial Laws

Michael Gentithes

The Federal Courts’ Rulemaking Buffer

Jordan M. Singer

Notes:

Creating an Unprecedented Number of Precedents at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims

Natsumi Antweiler

State Regulations Are Failing Our Children: An Analysis of Child Marriage Laws in the United States

Rachel L. Schuman