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USC Gould School of Law

Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1992

Introduction
The Blind Men and the Elephant: An Introduction to Multidisciplinary Legal Analysis
Alexander Morgan Capron

Articles
Telling Fortunes: Challenging the Efficient Markets Hypothesis by Prediction
James Lindren
Liberalism and the Criminal Law
Richard Warner

Notes
Defining Constitutional Parameters: The Forced Drugging of Civilly Committed Mental Patients
Lisa Litwiller
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: An Examination of Workplace Privacy in Electronic Mail
Steven B. Winters

Volume 2, Number 1, Spring 1993

Articles
Law and Public Policy: Map of an Area
William H. Clune
Culpability and Other Minds
Rebecca Dresser
Out From Uncertainty: A Model of the Lawyer-Client Relationship
Reed Elizabeth Loder

Notes
Norplant Use in Conjunction with the Welfare System
Anne-Marie Funk
Privacy Protections of Computerized Information
Mark Fall

Volume 2, Number 2, Spring 1993

Articles
Les Misérables Redux: Law and the Poor
Allan C. Hutchinson
When Law Fails: Ethics, Commerce, and Tales of Value
Robert L. Palmer
HIV-Infected Health Care Professionals and Informed Consent
Thaddeus J. Nodzenski

Forum
Should Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Be Repealed?
Richard A. Epstein
Erwin Chemerinsky

Note
The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act: A Styrofoam Damocles' Sword?
Howard Levkowitz

Recent Developments
Fear of Exposure to HIV as Compensable Injury
Peter V. Lee
Lynn Anne Shapiro

Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 1993

SYMPOSIUM ON DEFAULT RULES AND CONTRACTUAL CONSENT

Article
Preliminary Thoughts on Optimal Tailoring of Contractual Rules
Ian Ayres

Comments
Social Structure, Legal Structure, and Default Rules: A Comment
Todd D. Rakoff
The Futile Search for Principles for Default Rules
W. David Slawson

Article
Relational Contract and Default Rules
Jay M. Feinman

Comments
Social Norms and Default Rules Analysis
Lisa Bernstein
The Relational Move: Some Questions from Law and Economics
Richard Craswell

Article
Default Principles, Legitimacy, and the Authority of a Contract
Steven J. Burton

Comments
Cooperation and Convention in Contractual Defaults
Clayton P. Gillette
Looking for Default Rule Legitimacy in All the Wrong Places: A Critique of the Authority of Contract Model and the Coordination Principle Proposed by Professor Burton
Juliet P. Kostritsky
Coordination by Default: Comment on Steven Burton
Richard Warner

Article
The Pseudo-Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
Dennis Patterson

Comments
Default Rules, Efficiency, and Prudence
Richard Craswell
Comment on Professor Patterson's Pseudo-Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
Steven J. Burton
The Boundaries of Legal Discourse and the Debate Over Default Rules in Contract Law
Lawrence B. Solum

Articles
Default Rules / Mandatory Principles: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Good Faith and the Contract Modification Problem
Jason Scott Johnston
The Default Rule Paradigm and the Limits of Contract Law
Alan Schwartz

Afterword
...and Contractual Consent
Randy E. Barnett

Forum
Should Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Be Repealed? -- Part Two

A False Sense of Social Reality: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky
Richard A. Epstein
Professor Epstein's Strange Sense of Social Reality: Of Course, All Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination Should Not Be Repealed
Erwin Chemerinsky

Note
Canons, Presumptions and Manifest Injustice: Retroactivity of the Civil Rights Act of 1991
Scott M. Pearson

Volume 3, Number 2, Winter 1994

Articles
Moral Reasoning and the Due Process Clause
Edward O. Correia
Legal Problems of Nanotechnology: An Overview
Frederick A. Fiedler
Glenn H. Reynolds

Using Social Science Research in Family Law Analysis and Formation: Problems and Prospects
Sarah H. Ramsey
Robert F. Kelly

Note
Powerful, Unique and Anonymous: The European Court of Justice and Its Continuing Impact on the Formation of the European Community
Kevin A. Swartz

Volume 3, Number 3, Summer 1994

Articles
The American Stay
F.H. Buckley
Regulation vs. Markets in the Development of Standards
Michael I. Krauss
Un-Covering the Tradition of Jewish "Dissimilation": Frankfurter, Bickel, and Cover on Judicial Review
Nomi M. Stolzenberg

Note
Legislative Relief From Toxic Exposure: The Lifeguard Presumption Act
Christopher W. Krueger

Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 1994

Articles
The Interpretation and Distortion of Culture: A Hmong "Marriage by Capture" Case in Fresno, California
Deirdre Evans-Pritchard
Alison Dundes Renteln

Evaluating DNA Evidence for Identification
C.G.G. Aitken
The American Fresh Start
F.H. Buckley

Notes
Extending Batson v. Kentucky to Religion-Based Peremptory Challenges
Melissa Roth Triedman
A Fathers' Rights Perspective on Custody Law in California: Would You Believe It If I Told You That the Law Is Fair to Fathers?
Nancy Ellen Yaffe

Volume 4, Number 2, Winter 1995

Articles
Law and Community in the New Nation: Three Visions for Michigan, 1788-1831
Richard P. Cole
Public Figure Libel: The Premium on Ignorance and the Race to the Bottom
Edward T. Fenno

Forum
Economics as One of the Humanities: An Ecumenical Response to Weisberg, West, and White
Paul J. Heald
Economics as One of the Humanities: A Comment
Andrew Brod

Notes
The New Al Capone Laws and the Double Jeopardy Implications of Taxing Illegal Drugs
Christopher Paul Sorrow
Sexuality, Live Without a Net: Regulating Obscenity and Indecency on the Global Network
Jason Kay
Options, Waste and Agency Costs in the Corporation
Roy F. Price
The Yenaldlooshi in Court and the Killing of a Witch: The Case for an Indian Cultural Defense
Andrew M. Kanter

Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1995

SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL LAW

Articles
A Practitioner's Primer on Natural Law
Schuyler M. Moore
Is Natural Law Theory of Any Use in Constitutional Interpretation?
R. George Wright

Comment
Objectivity, Moral Truth, and Constitutional Doctrine: A Comment on R. George Wright's "Is Natural Law Theory of Any Use in Constitutional Interpretation?"
David M. Adams

Articles
Substance Above All: The Utopian Vision of Modern Natural Law Constitutionalists
Thomas B. McAffee
Natural Law and a Limited Constitution
Charles R. Kesler

Comment
Distinguishing Between Constitutional Art and Morals
Russell Hittinger

Articles
Nonsense and Natural Law
Steven D. Smith
Deposing Finnis
Ronald R. Garet
Copying Constitutional Text: Natural Law, Constitutionalism, Authority
Michael H. Hoffheimer

Comment
The Augustan Constitution and Our Natural Rights Tradition: Is There a Conflict?
Thomas B. McAffee

Forum
Jaffa's Quarrel with Bork: Religious Belief Masquerading as Constitutional Argument
Lino A. Graglia
Graglia's Quarrel with God: Atheism and Nihilism Masquerading as Constitutional Argument
Harry V. Jaffa

Notes
The Need for International Agreements Concerning the Ozone Depleting Effects of Chemical Rocket Propulsion
Lynn Anne Shapiro
Subliminal Speech: Is It Worthy of First Amendment Protection?
Nicole Grattan Pearson

Volume 5, Number 1, Winter 1996

Articles
Suits for Wrongful Life, Counterfactuals, and the Nonexistence Problem
F. Allan Hanson
Gene Patents and the Death of Dualism
Steven Goldberg
Law Teachers and the Educational Continuum
Michael Jordon

Note
Regulating Bomb Recipes on the Internet: Does First Amendment Law Permit the Government to React to the Most Egregious Harms?
Ian A. Kass

Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1997

Articles
Lawyers, Judges and Bioethics
Michael H. Shapiro
Reason or Hermeticism?: A Comment
James Q. Whitman
Rearranging the Family: Diversity, Pluralism, Social Tolerance and Child Custody Disputes
David J. Herring

Note
Hate Speech Debate and Free Expression
Dana Moon Dorset

Volume 5, Number 3, Summer 1997

Articles
Good Catholics Should Be Rawlsian Liberals
Leslie Griffin
Skewing the Results: The Role of Lawyers in Transmitting Legal Rules
Donald C. Langevoort
Robert K. Rasmussen

The Problem of Parochialism in Legal Education
Paul T. Wangerin
Advising Financially Troubled Professional Entities
Thomas H. Vickers

Notes
A Proposed Standard of Common Law Liability for the Public Accounting Profession
Roger J. Buffington
Protection of Foreign Copyrights in China: The Intellectual Property Courts and Alternative Avenues of Protection
Kenyon S. Jenckes

Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 1997

Articles
What Do Jury Experiments Tell Us About How Juries (Should) Make Decisions?
Michael J. Saks
Ruling with the Heart: Emotion-Based Public Policy
D. Don Welch
Growth for the Twenty-First Century: Tales from Bavaria and the Vienna Woods - Comparative Images of Urban Planning in Munich, Salzburg, Vienna, and the United States
James A. Kushner

Note
Can Witnesses Be Prohibited from Selling Their Stories Prior to Trial?: A First Amendment Analysis of California's Statute
Joshua R. Arlow

Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 1998

Articles
Postmodernism's Misguided Place in Legal Scholarship: Chaos Theory, Deconstruction, and Some Insights from Thomas Pynchon's Fiction
Jay P. Moran
Location.Location.Location: Internet Addresses as Evolving Property
Kenton K. Yee
California Code of Civil Procedure Section 580b, Anti-Deficiency Protection Regarding Purchase Money Debts: Arguments for the Inclusion of Refinanced Purchase Money Obligations Within the Anti-Deficiency Protection of Section 580b
Charles B. Sheppard

Note
Facilitated Communication: The Need for a Skeptical Perspective
Joseph A. DiMondi

Volume 6, Number 3, Spring 1998

Articles
Assurance, Reliance, and Expectation
Jay Conison
The Anatomy of Contract Damages and Efficient Breach Theory
David W. Barnes
Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Theory
Francis J. Mootz III
Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgement: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain
Larry Catá Backer

Note
The Human Rights Implications of a "Cultural Defense"
Michaël Fischer

Volume 7, Number 1, Summer 1998

Articles
Political Accommodation and the Ideology of the "Model Minority": Building a Bridge to White Minority Rule in the 21st Century
Chris K. Iijima
Yearning for Lake Wobegon: The Quest for the Best Test at the Expense of the Best Education
Lisa Kelly
Chief Justice Traynor's Contract Jurisprudence and the Free Law Dilemma: Nazism, the Judiciary, and California's Contract Law
Stephen J. Lubben

Notes
Exploring "Unchartered" Territory: An Analysis of Charter Schools and the Applicability of the U.S. Constitution
Justin M. Goldstein
An Examination of the Effectiveness of California's Chemical Castration Bill in Preventing Sex Offenders from Reoffending
Carol Gilchrist
The Supreme Court's Denver Nondecision and the Need for a New Media Speaker Paradigm
David Tobenkin
Treating and Releasing the Mule: The Rational, Non-Discriminatory Provisions of 18 U.S.C. § 3621
Reuven Cohen

Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 1998

Articles
Two Models of Welfare: Private Charity Versus Public Duty
William E. Nelson
Felix Frankfurter, Charles Hamilton Houston and the "N-Word": A Case Study in the Evolution of Judicial Attitudes Towards Race
David M. Siegel
Ensuring the Incalculable Benefits of Railroads: The Origins of Liability for Negligence in Georgia
James L. Hunt

Notes
Sovereignty Under the World Heritage Convention: A Questionable Basis for Limiting Federal Land Designation Pursuant to International Agreements
Daniel L. Gebert
"Capital Adequacy" in Crisis: Towards an Optional Bank Deposit Insurance Regime
James B. Ransom
Permanent Injunctions in Copyright Infringement: Moral and Economic Justifications for Balancing Individual Rights Instead of Following Harsh Rules
James Thompson
Beyond the Bright Line: Consideration of Externalities, the Meaning of Undue Hardship, and the Allocation of the Burden of Proof Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Jason Zarin

Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 1998

Articles
In Search of Legal Scholarship: Strategies for the Integration of Science into the Practice of Law
Carl N. Edwards
The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and the Sentencing of Sexual Predators
Michelle Johnson

SYMPOSIUM ON CLONING
Cloning Position Paper of the IIT Institute for Science, Law and Technology Working Group on Reproductive Technologies
IIT ISLAT Working Group
Human Cloning: Science Fact and Fiction
Michael A. Goldman
Human Cloning: A Jewish Perspective
Elliot N. Dorff
Banning "Human Cloning": A Study in the Difficulties of Defining Science
Henry T. Greely
Human Cloning and the Substantive Due Process Riddle
Stephen A. Newman
The Future of Human Cloning: Prescient Lessons from Medical Ethics Past
Judith F. Daar
First Amendment Protection of Experimentation: A Critical Review and Tentative Synthesis/Reconstruction of the Literature
Roy G. Spece, Jr.
The Constitutional Question of Cloning Humans: Duplication or Procreation?: An Examination of the Constitutional Right to Procreate
Charlene Kalebic

Notes
Uniformity Under the United States Sentencing Guidelines and the D-/L-Methamphetamine Circuit Split
Daniel S. Roberts
Rethinking the Hunter Doctrine
Gregory Ellis

Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 1999

Articles
Harming Future Persons: Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology
Philip G. Peters, Jr.
Picking Positivism Apart: Stanley Fish on Epistemology and Law
Michael Robertson
Of Sovereignty and Contract: Damages for Breach of Contract by Government
Gillian Hadfield
The Counterfeit Buck Stops Here: National Security Issues in the Redesign of U.S. Currency
Nathan K. Cummings
The "Missing Thirteenth Amendment": Constitutional Nonsense and Titles of Nobility
Jol A. Silversmith
Introduction to Classical Legal Rhetoric: A Lost Heritage
Michael Frost

Notes
Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996: Confronting the Challenges of Virtual Reality
Lydia W. Lee
Can You Forgive Her?: Legal Ambivalence Toward Infanticide
Karen Lewicki
The Politics of Law, Language & Morality: Thucydides & the Abortion Debate
Peggy Hau

Volume 9, Number 1, Winter 1999

Article
I Want a Girl (Boy) Just Like the Girl (Boy) that Married Dear Old Dad (Mom): Cloning Lives
Michael H. Shapiro

Notes
Facial Recognition Technology, Video Surveillance, and Privacy
Christopher S. Milligan
Organ Transplantation at the Millennium: Regulatory Framework, Allocation Prerogatives, and Political Interests
Eric F. Galen

Volume 9, Number 2, Spring 2000

Articles
Searching for the Crown of Feathers: An Essay on Psychology, Ethics, and Truth in Constitutional Law
Marie A. Failinger
Reification in Law and Legal Theory
Douglas Litowitz
And So Say Some of Us...What to Do when Jurors Disagree
Edward P. Schwartz
Warren F. Schwartz

Notes
Structured Settlements: The Assignability Problem
Leo Andrada
Commercial Speech in the Street: Regulation of Day Labor Soliciation
Gabriela Garcia Kornzweig

Volume 10, Number 1, Fall 2000

Articles
John Steinbeck and the Law: Literary Cause and Judicial Effect
James N. Gilbert
Narrating Pain: The Problem with Victim Impact Statements
Elizabeth E. Joh
Regulation of Scientific Misconduct in Federally Funded Research
Nisan A. Steinberg

Notes
Children and Mothers at Risk: A System Failing to Alleviate the Devastation of Drug Abuse
Polina Friendland
Narrowing Broadband Choices: AT&T's Monopology Over the Future of the Internet
Glenn T. Inanaga

Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2001

SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY

Introduction
Elyn R. Saks

Articles
Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Responsibility
Elyn R. Saks
The Case of Mr. Woods: Psychological Contributions to the Legal Process in Defendants with Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder
Judith C. Armstrong

Dissociation and Criminal Responsibility: A Developmental Perspective
Glenn Saxe
Am I My Alter's Keeper? Multiple Personality Disorder and Responsibility
Jennifer Radden
A Theory of Command and Control: A Reply to Elyn Saks
Stephen S. Marmer

Multiple Personality Disorder, Accountable Agency, and Criminal Acts
Robert F. Schopp
Multiple Personality Disorder and Criminal Responsibility: A Reply
Elyn R. Saks

Notes
Valid-Where-Consummated: The Intersection of Customary Law Marriages and Formal Adjudication
Lona N. Laymon
Expanding California's Coerced Treatment for the Mentally Ill: Is the Promise of Caring Treatment in the Community a Lost Hope?
David A. Zaheer

Volume 11, Number 1, Winter 2001

Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2002

Volume 12, Number 1, Winter 2002

Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2003

Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2003

Volume 13, Number 2, Spring 2004

Volume 14, Number 1, Fall 2004

Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2005

Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2005

Volume 15, Number 2, Spring 2006

Volume 16, Number 1, Fall 2006

Articles




Volume
16, Number 2, Winter 2007

Volume
16, Number 3, Spring 2007

Volume 17, Number 1, Fall 2007

Volume 17, Number 2, Winter 2008

Volume
17, Number 3, Spring 2008

Volume
18, Number 1, Fall 2008

Volume
18, Number 2, Winter 2009

Articles
When
the Lawyer Knows the Client Is Guilty: Client Confessions
in Legal Ethics, Popular Culture, and Literature

Michael Asimow and Richard Weisberg
How
Embedded Knowledge Structures Affect Judicial Decision
Making: A Rhetorical Analysis of Metaphor, Narrative,
and Imagination in Child Custody Disputes

Linda L. Berger
The First Amendment Implications of Facebook, MySpace,
and Other Online Activity of Students in Public
High Schools

Brandon James Hoover
Securities
Laws in Soap Operas and Telenovelas: Are All My
Children Engaged in Securities Fraud?

Elena Marty-Nelson

Notes

Entertainment
or Exploitation?: Reality Television and the Inadequate
Protection of Child Participants under the Law

Christopher C. Cianci
360°
Deals: An Industry Reaction to the Devaluation of
Recorded Music

Sara Karubian
Title
XI and the "E-mail Survey" Exception:
Missing the Goal

Katherine B. Woliver

Volume 18, Number 3, Spring 2009

Articles

Can State Health Reform Initiatives Achieve Universal Coverage? California's Recent Failed Experiment
Susan A. Channick

From Diploma Mills to For-Profit Colleges and Universities: Business Opportunities, Regulatory Challenges, and Consumer Responsibility in Higher Education
Amanda Harmon Cooley
Aaron Cooley

Finding Another Link in the Chain: International Treaties and Devolution to Local Law Enforcement in the Case of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species
Jonathan Liljeblad

The Modern First Amendment and Copyright Law
Blake Covington Norvell

Closing off the Torture Option
Wayne Sandholtz

Law as Story: A Civic Concept of Law (with Constitutional Illustrations)
Palma Joy Strand

Notes
Unwarranted Skepticism: The Federal Courts' Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome
Margaret H. Shiu
Unjust and Ineffective: A Critical Look at California's STEP Act
Sara Lynn Van Hofwegen

Adapting to Adaptive Reuse: Comments and Concerns about the Impacts of a Growing Phenomenon
Matthew A. Young

Volume 19, Number 1, Fall 2009

Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2010

Volume 19, Number 3, Spring 2010

Volume 20, Number 1, Fall 2010

TAKING OZ SERIOUSLY: A SYMPOSIUM ON LAW & LITERATURE
Introduction
Anthony Paul Farley
Author Biographies

Magic
Home is Where the Law is: A Humbug Reading of the Wizard of Oz
Maria Aristodemou
No Witch is a Bad Witch: A Commentary on the Erasure of Matilda Joslyn Gage
Zanita E. Fenton
Teaching Metaphors
Phyllis Goldfarb
L'Oz
Emily Albrink Hartigan

Capital
Conferring with the Flowers: History and Class Consciousness in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz, A General Theory of Magic and Law
Anthony Paul Farley
Feasts of Oz: Class, Food, and the Rise of Global Capitalism
Bekah Mandell
From Slavery to Prison in Rinkitink in Oz
Josephine Ross
Articles of Ornament and Bric-a-Brac: A Commentary on Diversity Initiatives
Geiza Vargas-Vargas

Difference
"To the Stars Through Difficulties": The Legal Construction of Private Space and The Wizard of Oz
Donna E. Young
Trauma, Creativity, and Unconscious Confessions: The Lost Childhood History Behind L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Reginald Leamon Robinson
Valuing Difference, Exercising Care in Oz: The Shaggy Man's Welcome
Athena D. Mutua

Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 2011

Articles
The Promise and Paradox of Max Weber's Legal Sociology: The "Categories of Legal Thought" as Types of Meaningful Action and the Persistence of the Problem of Judicial Legislation
Faisal Chaudhry
Law in High Heels: Performativity, alterity, and Aesthetics
Monica Lopez Lerma
The Impulsive Subject and the Realist Lens: Law and Consumer Culture in Fritz Lang's Fury
Ticien Marie Sassoubre

Note
Let Them Sell Art: Why a Broader Deaccession Policy Today May Save Museums Tomorrow
Jorja Ackers Cirigliana
Paying for the Graying: How California Can More Effectively Manage Its Growing Elderly Inmate Population
Heather Habes
Groupthink and Corporate Governance Reform: Changing the Formal and Informal Decisionmaking Processes of Corporate Boards
Andrew Howard
What Artworks May Come (To a Museum Near You): The State of Fractional Charitable Giving at the Intersection of Museology and Tax Policy
Catherine A. Karayan

Volume 20, Number 3, Spring 2011

Articles
The World of Deadwood: Property Rights and the Search for Human Identity
Michael B. Kent, Jr.
Lance McMillian
The Pedagogy of Violence
Yxta Maya Murray

Note
Dousing the Flames: The Tang Fu Zhen Self-Immolation Incident and Urban Land Takings Reform in the People's Republic of China
Annie Deng
What Will it Take?: In the Wake of the Outrageous "Balloon Boy" Hoax, a Call to Regulate the Long-Ignored Issue of Parental Exploitation of Children
Ramon Ramirez

Redistricting or Rethinking? Why Proportional Representation May Be a Better Solution than California's Independent Redistricting Commission
Kevin Reyes
Achilles' Heel: Revisiting the Supreme Court's Nude Dancing Cases
Grant Wahlquist
The United States Stands Alone: An International Consensus Against Juvenile Life Without Parole Sentences
Lisa S. Yun

Volume 21, Number 1, Fall 2011

Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2011

Articles
The Theology of Civil Disobedience: The First Amendment, Freedom Riders and Passage of the Voting Rights Act
Jonathan C. Augustine

Free Speech in the Suburban and Exurban Frontier: Shopping Malls, Subdivisions, New Urbanism, and the First Amendment
Wayne Batchis

Notes
Unwarranted! Privacy in a Technological Age: The Fourth Amendment Difficulty in Protecting Against Warrantless GPS Tracking and the Substantive Due Process and First Amendment Boost
Courtney Burten

Lost in Translation: The Failure of the Interstate Divorce System to Adequately Address the Needs of International Divorcing Couples
Alena Geffner-Mihlsten

Protecting the Herd: A Public Health, Economics, and Legal Argument for Taxing Parents Who Opt-Out of Mandatory Childhood Vaccinations
Christine Parkins

Breaching Doctor-Patient Confidentiality: Physician Confusion about Involuntary Disclosure of Genetic Information
Rebecca Suarez

Volume 21, Number 3, Fall 2012

Articles
All Born to Freedom? Comparing the Law and Politics of Race and the Memory of Slavery in the U.S. and France Today
Ariela J. Gross
Soldiers at Sea: The Legal and Policy Implications of Using Military Security Teams
James W. Harlow

Notes
Examining O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, 134 T.C. No. 4 (2010): Sex Reassignment Surgery as a Tax Deductible Medical Expense
Stephanie Chen
The Hijacking of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Groupthink and Presidential Power in the Post-9/11 World
Brandon Kennedy
Fair Circumvention: A Judicial Analysis for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Using the PlayStation 3 as a Case Study
Lewis Stevenson
Pushing the Boundaries?: Equal Protection, Rational Basis, and Rational Decision Making by District Courts in Cases Challenging Legislative Classifications on the Basis of Sexual Orientation
Shoshana Zimmerman

Volume 22, Number 1, Fall 2012

Volume 22, Number 2, Winter 2013

Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2013

Articles

Fringes of Free Expression: Testing the Meaning of "Speech" Amid Shifting Cultural Mores & Changing Technologies
Clay Calvert

A Parent's Child and the State's Future Citizen: Judicial and Legislative Responses to the Tension Over the Right to Direct an Education
Todd A. DeMitchell & Joseph J. Onosko

Proportionality in War: Protecting Soldiers from Enemy Captivity, and Israel's Operation Cast Lead-"The Soldiers are Everyone's Children
Ziv Bohrer and Mark Osiel

Notes
What About Failure to Protect: Why Current Homicide Doctrine Falls Short of Holding Parents Who Fail to Protect Their Children Accountable
Whitney Button

What is all the Fuss About?: The United States Congress May Impose a Tax (It's Called the "Individual Mandate")
Rebecca L. McCullough

"Friending" and "Following" the Government: How the Public Forum and Government Speech Doctrines Discourage the Government's Social Media Presence
Ross Rinehart

Volume 23, Number 1, Fall 2014

Articles

The Disappearance of Labor Unions and the Social Encyclicals of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI
Ken Matheny

Cross Cultural Negotiations and International Intellectual Property Law: Attempts to Work Across Cultural Clashes Between Indigenous Peoples and Majoritarian Cultures
Caroline Joan S. Picart

Authorization Required: Veterans Treatment Courts, the Need for Democratic Legitimacy, and the Separation of Powers Doctrine
Sohil Shah

Notes
"Antithetical to Human Dignity": Secondary Trauma, Evolving Standards of Decency, and the Unconstitutional Consequences of State-Sanctioned Executions
Lauren M. De Lilly

Military Service-Related PTSD and the Criminal Justice System: Treatment as an Alternative to Incarceration
Erinn Gansel

The Invisible Army: Why the Military Needs to Rescind Its Ban on Transgender Service Members
Allison Ross

Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2014

Volume 24, Number 1, Fall 2014

Articles

Law and Politics in the Aftermath of 9/11: Understanding the Interaction of Politics, Power, The Role of the OLC, and the Law during the Bush Administration, through Agency and Political Theory
Arthur H. Garrison

A New Approach to the Ethics of Life: The "Will to Live" in Lieu of Inherent Dignity or Autonomy-Based Approaches
Marvin Lim

Buffering Burnout: Preparing the Online Generation for the Occupational Hazards of the Legal Profession
Brittany Stringfellow Otey

Notes
Comparative Analysis of Trade Secret Law in Practice in High-Tech Industrial Districts: A Link between Trade Secret Protection, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Growth?
Siobhan Coley-Amin

Doubling Down in Non-Market Economies: The Inequitable Application of Trade Remedies against China and the Case for a New WTO Institution
Richard Lockridge

Modern War Crimes by the United States: Do Drone Strikes Violate International Law? Questioning the Legality of U.S. Drone Strikes and Analyzing the United States' Response to International Reproach Based on the Realism Theory of International Relations
Tony Nasser

Volume 24, Number 2, Spring 2015

Articles

Procedural Economy in Pre-Trial Procedure: Developments in Germany and the United States
Shawn Marie Boyne

The "Deeply Toxic" Damage Caused by the Abolition of Mandatory Retirement and it's Collision with Tenure in Higher Education: A Proposal for Statutory Repair
Beverley Earle and Marianne DelPo Kulow

Is it Time for the Court to Accept the O.F.F.E.R.? Applying Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality and Reform to Promote Clarity, Consistency, and Federalism in the World of DeFacto Parenthood
Steven W. Fitschen and Eric A. DeGroff

Notes
Minimizing Subtle Racism in the Workplace
James Anthony Becerra

The State Giveth and the State Taketh Away: Patent Rights under the Bayh-Dole Act
Vanessa Bell

Sexting Education: An Educational Approach to Solving the Media Fueled Sexting Dilemma
Jessica Sabbah-Mani

Volume 24, Number 3, Spring 2015

Volume 25, Number 1, Winter 2015

Articles

Intercultural Legal Sensibility as Transformation
Raquel Aldana

What the Frack? How Weak Industrial Disclosure Rules Prevent Public Understanding of Chemical Practices and Toxic Politics
Benjamin W. Cramer

Postcolonial Constitutionalism in India: Complexities & Contradictions
Vrinda Narain

Bad Math: How Non-Union Employees are Unconstitutionally Compelled to Subsidize Political Speech
Shirley V. Svorny and Melanie Stallings Williams

Notes
Explicit Equality: The Need for Statutory Protection Against Anti-Transgender Employment Discrimination
Ashley Attia

Overcoming the Parental Veto: How Transgender Adolescents Can Access Puberty-Suppressing Hormone Treatment in the Absence of Parental Consent Under the Mature Minor Doctrine
Emily Ikuta

Examining Corporate Religious Beliefs in the Wake of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
Stephen Makino

Volume 25, Number 2, Spring 2016

Articles

Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-Poverty Discourse
Camille Gear Rich

Welfare Queens and White Trash
Lisa R. Pruitt

Soccer Moms, Welfare Queens, Waitress Moms, and Super Moms: Myths of Motherhood in State Media Coverage of Child Care During the "Welfare Reforms" of the 1990's
Laurel Parker West

Black Citizenship Through Marriage? Reflections on the Moynihan Report at Fifty
R.A. Lenhardt

Welfare Queens Redux: Criminalizing Black Mothers in the Age of Neoliberalism
Ann Cammett

Reconsidering Criminal Background Checks: Race, Gender, and Redemption
Kimani Paul-Emile

Notes
Us vs. Them: The Militarization of American Law Enforcement and the Psychological Effect on Police Officers & Civilians
Joseph B. Doherty

The Hyde Amendment: Perpetuating Injustice and Discrimination After Thirty-Nine Years
Alyssa Engstrom

Monsters, Myths, and Mental Illness: A Two-Step Approach to Reducing Gun Violence in the United States
Alyssa Dale O'Donnell

Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2016

Volume 26, Number 1, Fall 2016

Articles

COMPARISON EXCLUDING COMMITMENTS: INCOMMENSURABILITY, ADJUDICATION, AND THE UNNOTICED EXAMPLE OF TRADE DISPUTES
SUNGJOON CHO AND RICHARD WARNER

THE HOUSE STRIKES BACK: THE
OBAMACARE SAGA AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IN THE ERA OF HOUSE V. BURWELL

ALEXANDRA M. FRANCO

CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS HAVE A DUE
PROCESS RIGHT TO AN EXPERT ON EYEWITNESS RELIABILITY: WHY THE COURT WAS WRONG IN PERRY V. NEW HAMPSHIRE (2012)

MARGARET A. HAGEN & SOU HEE (SOPHIE) YANG

RIDE-SHARING-COMPANY DRIVERS: EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS?
CHAD G. KUNSMAN

WHAT'S IN AN AGE? CONSIDER THE
NEUROSCIENCE DIMENSION OF JUVENILE LAW

KHUSHBOO SHAH

THE TALE OF THE SILVER FOX: THE CO-EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS IN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES
LÉCIA VICENTE

Notes
ARE WE DOOMED?: THE CURRENT STATE OF FEDERAL ELECTION REGULATION
REBECCA HOFFMAN

GLOBAL TRADE, CONTROL OF THE SEA, AND THE U.S. & CHINA: THE TENSIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC AND SECURITY POLICIES
JOHN STANLEY

MOVING THE NEEDLE: A CALL TO CHANGE AGE RESTRICTIONS IN AMERICAN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE LAWS
ADAM STILLMAN

Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2017

Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 2017

Articles

STATE OF CONFUSION: A NONPROFIT'S RIGHT TO WITHHOLD DONOR INFORMATION FROM STATE REGULATORS
BENJAMIN W. AKINS

INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION REVISITED: EXPLORING OPEN QUESTIONS WITHIN THE INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION LITERATURE
ELINOR AMIT, JONATHAN KORALNIK, ANN-CHRISTIN POSTEN, MIRIAM
MUETHEL, AND LAWRENCE LESSIG

NUDGING VIRTUE
KIRAN IYER

PICKING AT MORALS: ANALYTICAL JURISPRUDENCE IN THE AGE OF NATURALIZED ETHICS
ALINA NG BOYTE

BITCOIN IN THE DARK WEB: A SHADOW OVER BANKING SECRECY AND A CALL FOR GLOBAL RESPONSE
FIAMMETTA PIAZZA

THE STATE OF WAR & THE LIMITS OF DETENTION
JOSHUA SNUKAL

Notes
UNDOCUMENTED ATTORNEYS AND THE STATE OF THE BAR
CHRISTOPHER CONNELL

WHY GENETICS IS CRISPR THAN IT USED TO BE: HELPING THE NOVICE UNDERSTAND GERM LINE MODIFICATION AND ITS SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS
TEDDY ELLISON

NOVEL ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCREATIVE LIBERTY: EXAMINING IN VITRO GAMETOGENESIS RELATIVE TO CURRENTLY PRACTICED ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES AND
REPRODUCTIVE CLONING

CHARLES THOMAS

Volume 27, Number 1

Volume 28, Number 1

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

ATTAINING OLYMPUS: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUG LAW AND POLICY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
ALEXANDRA M. FRANCO

PRIMARY RIGHTS
CURTIS E.A. KARNOW

SHOW ME THE MONEY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INTEREST GROUP OPPOSITION TO FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEALS NOMINEES
DONALD E. CAMPBELL & MARCUS E. HENDERSHOT

NEXT GENERATION LAW: DATA-DRIVEN GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY-BASED REGULATORY SYSTEMS IN THE WEST, AND SOCIAL CREDIT REGIMES IN CHINA
LARRY CATÁ BACKER

Notes

INFORMED CONSENT AND DECISION-MAKING AFTER LOSS OF COMPETENCY IN DEMENTIA PATIENTS: A NEW MODEL
LAUREN PADAMA

A QUANTITATIVE ACCOUNTING OF THE USE OF INTERNATIONAL SOURCES IN SUPREME COURT CIVIL RIGHTS CASES FROM 2000 TO 2016
JUSTIN MELLO

SB 743 AND NEWHALL RANCH'S NET ZERO EMISSIONS PROJECT: IMPACTS ON THE GHG EMISSIONS THRESHOLD AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GREENFIELD DEVELOPMENT IN LOS ANGELES
TINA KIM

Volume 28, Number 2

Volume 28, Number 3

Volume 29, Number 1

Volume 29, Number 2

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

REINVENTING CREDIT DATA SHARING REGULATION PERSPECTIVE
Leon Yehuda Anidjar & Inbar Mizrahi-Borohovich

TWO CLASSIFICATIONS ENTER, ONE CLASSIFICATION LEAVES: ARE UFC FIGHTERS EMPLOYEES OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS?
Michael Conklin

THE PARALLEL HEAD TAXES OF MARGARET THATCHER AND BARACK OBAMA: ECONOMICS AS MORALITY AND ITS POPULIST REJECTION
Joshua Cutler

ELDERCARING COORDINATION: A DISPUTE RESOLUTION OPTION FOR HIGH CONFLICT ELDER DISPUTES IN CALIFORNIA
Sarah J. Gross

Notes

LAND USE CONTROLS TO MITIGATE ENVIRONMENTAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH HARMS CAUSED BY CONCENTRATED ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS
Nicole Gilliland

ELIMINATING PEER-ON-PEER SEXUAL HARASSMENT: WHY STATE STATUTES ARE NOT THE ANSWER
Teresa Greider

INDENTURE TRUSTEES' DUTIES UNDER THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT IN THE FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CIRCUITS
David Javidzad

Volume 29, Number 3

Volume 29, Number 4

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

FROM BIGOTRY TO BAN: THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND DEVASTATING HARMS OF THE MUSLIM AND AFRICAN BANS
Kristin Garrity & Emily Crnkovich

IS THE SUPREME COURT IRRATIONAL: TRUMP V. HAWAII
Brian L. Owsley

REFLECTING UPON THE IMPACT OF THE UNITED STATES' 2016 ELECTION AND TRAVEL BAN: WHY MIGHT FEWER FOREIGN BUSINESSPEOPLE, TOURISTS, STUDENTS, AND RELATIVES BE VISITING THE UNITED STATES?
Jacob Thomas

Notes

REDEFINING "CEDAW" TO INCLUDE LGBT RIGHTS: INCORPORATING PROHIBITIONS AGAINST THE DISCRIMINATION OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY
Robina Gallagher

"ALTERNATIVE FACTS" AND HATE: REGULATING CONSPIRACY THEORIES THAT TAKE THE FORM OF HATEFUL FALSITY
Samantha Hay

LIMITED SECESSION RIGHTS: ENCOURAGING UNITY AND MINIMIZING HOSTILITIES IN ETHNOFEDERALIST NATIONS
Tyler Prime

Volume 30, Number 1

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

INTERPERSONAL TRUST AND CONTRACT THEORY REDUX
Leon Andijar

TAMING THE PAPER TIGER: DETERRING CHINESE ECONOMIC CYBER ESPIONAGE AND REMEDIATING DAMAGE TO U.S. INTERESTS CAUSED BY SUCH ATTACKS
Grant Frazier & Mark Frazier

ENTREPRENEURIAL RISK: MARIJUANA, COMPLIANCE, AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LAW AND MARKETS
Daniel T. Ostas

RACISM, INCORPORATED: RAMOS V. LOUISIANA AND JOGGING WHILE BLACK
Victor C. Romero

THE BIOETHICS OF PERSONAL INJURY: RETHINKING THE MATRIX OF BODY, DISABILITY, AND GENDER IN THE CASE OF ISRAELI PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS RELATING TO SEX-DEFINING ORGANS
Adi Youcht

Notes

FIXING THE PIG IN THE SNAKE PROBLEM WITH FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICIES
Emily Bratt

GERRYMANDERING AND THE MEANDERING OF OUR DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES: COMBATING PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING AFTER RUCHO
Chris Esposito

PATERNALISM AND THE MORAL JUSTIFICATIONS FOR THE E-CIGARETTE FLAVOR BAN
Steven Friedland

REFRAMING WELFARE IN LIGHT OF ADAM SMITH'S VIEW OF IRREGULAR SENTIMENTS
Chandler Nahigian

Volume 30, Number 2

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

WHAT'S WITH FORMALISM? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF VARIOUS PREDICTORS AND PROFILES OF SUPREME COURT RHETORIC
Michael Alberstein, Limor Gabay-Egozi, and Bryna Bogoch

FRAGILE IMMIGRATION LEGALITY COLLAPSES IN THE TRUMP ERA
Jillian Blake

SOCIAL JUSTICE / CRIMINAL JUSTICE: ASSESING THE LEGITIMACY OF STATE-IMPOSED PUNISHMENT
William C. Heffernan

ORAL ARGUMENT IN THE TIME OF COVID: THE CHIEF PLAYS CALVINBALL
Tonja Jacobi, Timothy R. Johnson, Eve M. Ringsmuth, and Matthew Sag

EPISTEMIC TWILIGHT ZONE OF CONSENT
Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar

THE CASE FOR MORATORIA ON INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
David M. Smolin

Notes

PAY THE PIPER, AND ALSO THE PUNTER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE COLLEGE-ATHLETE COMPENSATION MOVEMENT
Joshua B. Opila

PRIVATE INSURANCE AND UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE: HOW CAN PRIVATE INSURANCE BE UTILIZED WITHIN A UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES?
Michael Supanick

AN EASIER PILL TO SWALLOW: SUBSCRIPTION MODEL AGREEMENTS AS A SOLUTION TO THE GOVERNMENT'S PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICING CRISIS
Bryan Willard

Volume 30, Number 3

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

THE EVOLVING CHARACTER OF PUBLIC DEFENSE: COMPARING CRIMINAL CASE PROCESSING EFFECTIVENESS AND OUTCOMES ACROSS HOLISTIC PUBLIC DEFENSE, TRADITIONAL PUBLIC DEFENSE, AND PRIVATELY RETAINED COUNSEL
Brian J. Ostrom and Jordan Bowman

THE ECONOMICS OF SUBSIDIES TO RURAL NETWORKS: IMPLICATION FOR BROADBAND IN THE UNITED STATES
Steve G. Parson and James Stegman

CRYPTOCURRENCY AND THE STATE: AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
Lee Reiners

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL OBLIGATION
R. George Wright

Notes

PRESCRIBING MEDICATION THROUGH THE PRACTICE OF TELEMEDICINE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FEDERAL AND STATE ONLINE PRESCRIBING POLICIES, AND POLICY CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Ryan K. Gorman

ADJUDICATE OR LEGISLATE: THE GREAT DATA BREACH STANDING CIRCUIT SPLIT
Ioannis Koutsodendris

AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF EXCLUSION: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY BLACK ART AND THE U.S. ART MUSEUM
Tiffany Li

PUTTING CHILD SUPPORT ON ICE: EVALUATING ARIZONA'S NOVEL APPROACH UNDER ARIZONA REVISED STATUTE SECTION 25-318.03
Madeleine Messinger

VACCINATION ALTERCATION: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF MANDATORY INFLUENZA VACCINATION FOR STUDENTS

Miranda Wheeler

Volume 31, Number 1

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS

Articles

IT'S NOT HEADS OR TAILS: SHOULD SCOTUS HAVE AN EVEN OR ODD NUMBER OF JUSTICES?
Michael Miller & Samuel A. Thumma

MAPPING THE DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT-AN ATTITUDE THEORY OF CONTRACT LAW
Ori Katz

JUROR CERTAINTY ABOUT EXPERT FIREARMS IDENTIFICATION EVIDENCE AND THE IMPACT OF CROSS-EXAMINATION
Paraic Scanlon, Boglarka Banyai, Ellis Hart, & Sarah L. Cooper

Notes

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: ANALYZING CALIFORNIA'S INVERSE CONDEMNATION STRICT LIABILITY RULE FOR UTILITY-CAUSED WILDFIRES
Ariel Jacoby

PROPOSITION 22 AND THE FIGHT TO PREVENT PLATORM WORKERS FROM MISCLASSIFICATION AND EXPLOITATION
David Gobel

A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: WHY REQUIRING CORPORATIONS TO ADD WOMEN TO BOARDS IS THE BEST OPTION
Lindsey Sporrer and Robin Kowalski

THE DIFFICULTIES FACING CALIFORNIA'S AND NEW YORK'S WEALTH TAX PROPOSALS
Ari Mandell

Volume 31, Number 2

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Volume 32, Number 2

 

Volume 32, Number 3

Volume 32, Number 2

Volume 33, Number 1