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January | February 2004
Indivisible: Lincoln Caplan
SCENES The Queue Crew By Brian Montopoli Waiting in line for a living. Shark Hunt By Dashka Slater Keeping the San Francisco bar honest. The Right to Dry By Dusty Horwitt Laundry on the line. Peruvian Guilty By Jason Felch The first of many trials for Vladimiro Montesinos. PLUS: Spurned spouses who sue, the difference between a rock and an island, and babysitting with Benadryl. THE PRUDENT JURIST By Stephen Gillers Should a defendant be able to go to court dressed as a lobster? TERMS OF ART No Uncertain Terms By Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. Is reasonable doubt a cliché or an important bar against wrongful conviction? ARGUMENT Let Off With a Warning By Richard W. Garnett In Miranda cases, maybe the Supreme Court should exercise its own right to remain silent. |
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FEATURES The Big Kozinski By Emily Bazelon If the Ninth Circuit were a circus—and some say that it is—Judge Alex Kozinski would be its ringmaster. Presenting the most controversial judge on our most controversial court. DELIBERATION DAY Righting the Ship of Democracy By Bruce Ackerman & James Fishkin A radical proposal to help voters make better decisions, and why it would have an immediate benefit. Smooth Sailing By Richard Posner If spending a day talking about the issues were a worthwhile activity, you wouldn't have to pay voters to do it. The Wrong Tack By Arthur Lupia Who's to say that people make better decisions in groups than they do on their own? REVIEWS practice The Trials of John Edwards Why the ace lawyer became a lackluster candidate. By David Greenberg Deep Impact Lawyers bent on reforming child welfare agencies learn to love their inner bureaucrat. By Daphne Eviatar What’s Your Happiness Worth? $3.2 million, says one influential economist. By Brendan I. Koerner academy Elsewhere Living on a judge’s salary, suing your lawyer for malpractice, and other ideas from the nation’s law reviews.
STORIES Mrs. America The business of mail-order marriage. By Nadya Labi A Short History of Sunsets Will the sun ever set on the Patriot Act or the Bush tax cuts? By Chris Mooney Daughters of the Cold War Three women sue the Air Force for covering up the deaths of their fathers. By Michael Freedman EXHIBIT Martha Graham’s Lamentation |
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