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Generation Debt and the American Dream: The Need for Student Loan Reform
Friday, 21 May, 2010 – 18:38 | 4 Comments
Generation Debt and the American Dream: The Need for Student Loan Reform

By JUSTIN R. LA MORT
President Obama was able to pay off his student loans only after authoring two bestselling books and becoming a prominent figure on the national political scene. This is not a strategy that can easily be replicated.

Causing the Sky to Fall: The Legal & Practical Implications of Melendez-Diaz
Monday, 19 Apr, 2010 – 12:11 | No Comment
Causing the Sky to Fall: The Legal & Practical Implications of Melendez-Diaz

By IVANA DEYRUP
On June 25th of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts… Justice Scalia indicated that the practical effects of the decision would be limited, writing, “[T]he sky will not fall.” However, some attorneys reached the opposite conclusion in the days immediately following the ruling…

Rethinking the Faith: "A Failure of Capitalism"
Saturday, 3 Apr, 2010 – 17:29 | No Comment
Rethinking the Faith: "A Failure of Capitalism"

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.

The Judge of the Public Forum: A New Paradigm for Approaching Political Commentary
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 7:30 | No Comment
The Judge of the Public Forum:   A New Paradigm for Approaching Political Commentary

By MICHAEL SEROTA

“Having differences of opinion .  .  .  it’s absolutely essential.  It’s only through the process of disagreement and debate that bad ideas get tossed out, and good ideas get refined and made …

Clean Development Fund: A “Public Option” for Carbon Offsets
Wednesday, 10 Feb, 2010 – 21:55 | No Comment
Clean Development Fund: A “Public Option” for Carbon Offsets

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 …

The Problematic Presidential Pardon: A Proposal for Reforming Federal Clemency
Monday, 9 Nov, 2009 – 9:56 | No Comment
The Problematic Presidential Pardon: A Proposal for Reforming Federal Clemency

by JONATHAN T. MENITOVE
Shortly after 9:30 a.m. on January 15, 2009, Senator Patrick Leahy gaveled the Senate Judiciary Committee to order. Seated before the Committee was Eric Holder, then President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to become …

Against Gridlock: The Viability of Interest-Based Legislative Negotiation
Thursday, 23 Apr, 2009 – 13:20 | No Comment

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, …

Strengthening Clinical Ethics Committees: An Examination of the Jurisprudence and a Call for Reform
Tuesday, 10 Mar, 2009 – 13:25 | No Comment

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 …

Towards a Better State: Fostering Dialogue Between the Supreme Court and the Public Through a Public Comment Period
Monday, 31 Mar, 2008 – 13:36 | No Comment

BY EVA DUGOFF
Since Marbury v. Madison in 1803, the case that “invented” judicial review, the Supreme Court has exercised this power sparingly; that is, until recently. In the 1860s the Supreme Court, exercising its power …

Safeguarding National Environmental Regulation in a Liberalized World: Beyond the Trade Promotion Act of 2002
Tuesday, 1 Jan, 2008 – 13:38 | No Comment

BY NEIL GORMLEY
Is free trade irreconcilable with sustainable development? Some environmental groups, viewing the regime of international trade and investment liberalization as an obstacle to effective environmental protection, suggest so. While many have criticized specific …