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by IAN FEIN, HEATHER MATSUMOTO, TYLER MCNISH, and JESLYN MILLER†
The Kyoto Protocol—despite its successes[1]—has not put the world on a path toward climate stabilization. Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew four times faster between 2000 …
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 TEJINDER SINGH
John Sexton, President of New York University, astutely describes today’s public sphere as a “coliseum culture that reduces discourse to gladiatorial combat. Viewpoints are caricatured in their most absolute form, with …
by MADELINE MORRIS with FRANCES A. EBERHARD and MICHAEL A. WATSULA
Two days after taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama issued an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo detention facility within one …
by G. BEN COHEN, BIDISH SARMA, and ROBERT J. SMITH
When Charles Apprendi fired two .22 caliber gunshots into the home of the first African-American family to move into a previously all-white New Jersey neighborhood, he …
by GREGORY BRAZEAL
The wide cast of characters whose behavior shapes the creation of federal laws in the United States, from congressional leaders to committee chairs, from lobbyists to constituents, from the President to the media, …
by CARMEL SHACHAR
Increasingly, ethics conflicts in hospitals are adjudicated not through the judicial system but through hospital ethics committees. Ethics committees resolve disagreements over treatment plans, interpretations of do not resuscitate orders, and other medical …
by WILLIAM M. SAGE
Last year, retail medical clinics seemed to be the next wave in American health care. Following the example set by banks and beauticians, dozens of cheap, convenient sites offering basic medical diagnosis …
by DANIEL P. TOKAJI
Posterity will recall 2008 as the year in which the United States of America elected its first African American President. It may also be remembered as heralding a new era in American …
by ADAM J. LEVITIN
The United States is in the midst of the most serious home foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of “one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.” Over …
