By STEPHEN WILLS MURPHY
On June 25, 2009, the Supreme Court handed down the 5-4 decision of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. Justice Scalia’s majority opinion held that a forensic report is “testimonial” under the Confrontation Clause…
by TODD R. CLEAR and JAMES AUSTIN
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States embarked on a three-decade long shift in its penal policies. In these years, state and federal governments tripled the percentage of convicted …
By GOODWIN LIU
The Supreme Court’s recent decision on voluntary school desegregation can be read at many levels. Doctrinally, the Court adopted a stringent view of narrow tailoring that forbids the use of racial classifications to …
by JASON M. SZANYI and KATARINA GUTTMANNOVA
This past term, in Ricci v. DeStefano,[1] the Supreme Court reshaped employment discrimination litigation. In a decision that garnered significant notoriety both for its potential impact on the future …
by JUDGE JAMES S. GWIN
In 2007, a jury found Daniel Sheldon guilty of two child pornography offenses. Little about Sheldon was sympathetic. In his twenties and married, Sheldon spent long hours downloading and viewing pictures and videos showing minor girls, some prepubescent, engaging in sex with adults.
By ANTHONY KAMMER
Richard Posner’s A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression is about a macro-economic crisis. It is also a surprisingly inward-looking book.
By NICHOLAS J. JOHNSON
In McDonald v. City of Chicago, now before the Supreme Court, petitioners claim that Chicago’s decades-old handgun ban is a violation of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
By SERENA VINTER, DARA ALPERT LIEBERMAN, and JEFFREY LEVI
The 2009–2010 H1N1 novel influenza A pandemic revealed serious underlying gaps in our nation’s ability to respond to public health emergenci
By AVI PERRY
While the gravity and prevalence of drunk driving in the United States are well documented, the actual facts are still startling.
By FAZAL R. KHAN
Regardless of whether one agrees that it should have, 9/11 did transform our country.
By LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN
Consider two children—one born in sub-Saharan Africa and the other in the United States. The African child is twenty-five times more likely to die in the first five years of life…
By ELLEN ZENG
Campaign consultants perform a Jekyll and Hyde role in electoral politics.
By JOANNE IRENE GABRYNOWICZ
A hallmark of United States national space law is that it tends to follow the development of space technology and geopolitical events. Technology that develops into applications tends to catalyze law that addresses the commercialization of the technology.
By SAM BERGER and JONATHAN D. MORENO
In the wake of the terrorist strikes on September 11, 2001, the country has taken a hard look at its preparedness in the event of another attack. One potential threat is that terrorists will release a biological agent capable of causing mass sickness or death.
By JUDGE LYNN ADELMAN and JON DIETRICH
The diversity of human thought found on the web includes not just the inspired and the banal, but also the depraved. Due to its speed, global reach, and promise of anonymity, the internet has undoubtedly become a valuable means of communication for those of ill will.
By TOM DASCHLE and TOM INGLESBY
We need to strengthen U.S. biosecurity. The Obama White House’s recent policy document on biosecurity… judged that biological attacks could place at risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and impose costs exceeding one trillion dollars.
