Yale Law Journal: Volume 121, Number 7 - May 2012


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This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Richard Re and Christopher Re, Nathan Chapman and Michael McConnell, Bruce Cain, Christopher Elmendorf and David Schleicher, and Joseph Fishkin. The May issue's complete Contents are: "Voting and Vice: Criminal Disenfranchisement and the Reconstruction Amendments," by Richard M. Re and Christopher M. Re "Due Process as Separation of Powers," by Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell "Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?," by Bruce E. Cain "Districting for a Low-Information Electorate," by Christopher S. Elmendorf and David Schleicher "Weightless Votes," by Joseph Fishkin Note, "Recognizing Character: A New Perspective on Character Evidence," by Barrett J. Anderson Note, "Cross-National Patterns in FCPA Enforcement," by Nicholas M. McLean Comment, "One Person, No Vote: Staggered Elections, Redistricting, and Disenfranchisement," by Margaret B. Weston




Harvard Law Review: Volume 125, Number 7 - May 2012


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Featured articles and essays in this issue are from recognized scholars in law and legal theory, including a Symposium on private law. The issue also includes the article “Regulation for the Sake of Appearance,” by Adam Samaha. The Symposium contents are: THE NEW PRIVATE LAW -- “Introduction: Pragmatism and Private Law,” by John C.P. Goldberg -- “The Obligatory Structure of Copyright Law: Unbundling the Wrong of Copying,” by Shyamkrishna Balganesh -- “Property as the Law of Things,” by Henry E. Smith -- “Duties, Liabilities, and Damages,” by Stephen A. Smith -- “Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption,” by Benjamin C. Zipursky The issue includes two student Notes: “The Perils of Fragmentation and Reckless Innovation,” and “Independence, Congressional Weakness, and the Importance of Appointment: The Impact of Combining Budgetary Autonomy with Removal Protection” In addition, student contributions on Recent Cases and Legislation explore the law relating to tasers as excessive force, free speech rights of teachers, employment discrimination disparate impact, separation of powers in dealing with Guantánamo transfers, and excessive sentencing using an uncharged murder. Finally, there are six Book Notes of Recent Publications.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 121, Number 4 - January 2012


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One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats. Ebook editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, linked cross-references in notes and text, active URLs in notes, and proper digital presentation from the original printed edition. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 4th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Louis Kaplow (on burdens of proof and their justifications), Richard Schragger (on democracy and debt), and Anna Gelpern (on quasi-sovereign bankruptcy). The issue also features student contributions on guilty plea colloquys for immigrants and others, and on voting rights' historical lessons from the school re-segregation cases.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 121, Number 8 - June 2012


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This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 8th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include leading scholars in their fields. Contributions includes articles by Ian Ayers on opt-out provisions and an economic theory of rule-altering and by James Greiner and Cassandra Pattanayak on randomized evaluation in legal assistance, as well as an essay by Joshua Wright on the dichotomy between antitrust policy and consumer protection. Student work explores discovery law after recent changes in pretrial dismissal standards, a proposal for a fair mandatory arbitration scheme, fair notice provisions, and corporate purposes in light of the Craigslist-eBay litigation. This is the final issue for volume 121, the June 2012 issue.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 121, Number 6 - April 2012


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One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats; such editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, linked cross-references in notes and text, active URLs in notes, and proper digital presentation from the original bound edition. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 6th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Daryl Levinson (on votes and rights), Michelle Wilde Anderson (on dissolving cities), and Patricia Bella (on WikiLeaks and national security). The issue also features student contributions on elected prosecutors in legal history and on execution of the mentally retarded as an issue under section 1983 civil rights law.




The Antitrust Paradox


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The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 121, Number 5 - March 2012


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One of the world's leading law journals is available in quality ebook formats; such editions include active Contents for the issue and for individual articles, linked footnotes, linked cross-references in notes and text, active URLs in notes, and proper digital presentation from the original print edition. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 5th issue of Volume 121, academic year 2011-2012) features articles and essays by several notable scholars. Principal contributors include Ruth Mason and Michael Knoll (an article on tax discrimination), and Michael Graetz and Alvin Warren, Jr. (a featured essay also analyzing tax discrimination). Student contributions discuss such issues as the 26th Amendment's enforcement power, the Attestation Clause in history, and software licensing agreements.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 123, Number 7 - May 2014


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The May 2014 issue of The Yale Law Journal features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, "Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation," by Kristin Collins • Article, "Legitimacy and Federal Criminal Enforcement Power," by Lauren M. Ouziel • Feature, "The Age of Consent," by Philip C. Bobbitt • Review, "Judging Justice on Appeal," by Marin K. Levy • Note, "The Growth of Litigation Finance in DOJ Whistleblower Suits: Implications and Recommendations," by Mathew Andrews • Note, "Reducing Inequality on the Cheap: When Legal Rule Design Should Incorporate Equity as Well as Efficiency," by Zachary Liscow • Note, "Domestic Violence Asylum After Matter of L-R-," by Jessica Marsden • Comment, "Beating Blackwater: Using Domestic Legislation to Enforce the International Code of Conduct for Private Military Companies," by Reema Shah This quality ebook edition features linked notes, active Contents, active URLs in notes, and proper Bluebook formatting. This May 2014 issue is Volume 123, Number 7.




Yale Law Journal: Volume 124, Number 7 - May 2015


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The contents of the May 2015 issue (Volume 124, Number 7) are: Articles • Defining and Punishing Offenses Under Treaties, Sarah H. Cleveland & William S. Dodge • Administrative Severability Clauses, Charles W. Tyler & E. Donald Elliott Notes • Class Ascertainability, Geoffrey C. Shaw • The Right To Be Rescued: Disability Justice in an Age of Disaster, Adrien A. Weibgen • Expanding Conscience, Shrinking Care: The Crisis in Access to Reproductive Care and the Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Mandate, Elizabeth B. Deutsch Features • Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics, Douglas NeJaime & Reva B. Siegel • Legal Scholarship for Judges, Diane P. Wood Book Review • The Banality of Racial Inequality, Richard R.W. Brooks Comment • Federal Sentencing Error as Loss of Chance, Kate Huddleston Quality ebook formatting includes fully linked footnotes and an active Table of Contents (including linked Contents for all individual Articles, Notes, and Essays), proper Bluebook formatting, and active URLs in footnotes.




Harvard Law Review: Volume 129, Number 7 - May 2016


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The May 2016 issue, Number 7, features these contents: • Article, "The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment," by William Baude and James Y. Stern • Essay, "Deference and Due Process," by Adrian Vermeule • Book Review, "How to Explain Things with Force," by Mark Greenberg • Note, "Free Speech Doctrine After Reed v. Town of Gilbert" Furthermore, student commentary analyzes Recent Cases on the Affordable Care Act and the origination clause; statutory interpretation and the Video Privacy Protection Act; and commercial speech doctrine and the FDA's power to prosecute non-misleading statements after modifying text. Other commentary examines South Carolina's legislative effort to to disqualify companies who support BDS from receiving state contracts; and the NLRB's adjudicative ruling to classify canvassers as employees, not independent contractors. Finally, the issue includes several brief comments on Recent Publications. The Harvard Law Review is offered in a quality digital edition, featuring active Contents, linked footnotes, active URLs, legible tables, and proper ebook and Bluebook formatting. The Review is a student-run organization whose primary purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship. It comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2500 pages per volume. Student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions. This is the seventh issue of academic year 2015-2016.