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March | April 2005
Letters SCENES An Academic Auction Seat in Con Law with Levinson. Bid Now!!! By David Bitkower Job Fair Diversity, brought to you by DuPont. By Dana Mulhauser The Mobile Law Office It doesn't chase ambulances. Honest. By Margot Sanger-Katz Self-Adhesive Salvation A mailroom with a mission. By Nicholas Hengen Domesticated Disputes Sandy Toye's pet practice. By Dashka Slater the prudent jurist How do you stop frivolous lawsuits? By William H. Simon TERMS OF ART The Perfect Pill A small innovation that transformed corporate takeovers. By Len Costa ARGUMENT The Corporate Tax Is Dying! Time to (carefully) bid it farewell. By Maya MacGuineas The Secret Posse Behind the veil of national security, information warfare is eclipsing the difference between military and domestic affairs. By Geoffrey Klingsporn |
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FEATURES Insult to Injury Servicemen and women disabled in the line of duty trust the government will provide for them. But many return home to find themselves facing a new enemy: the Department of Veterans Affairs. By Reynolds Holding Hail To The Chief? Has William Rehnquist humbly served the law or arrogantly grabbed power for the court? Two former Supreme Court clerks take sides on the chief justice's legacy. By Richard W. Garnett and By Kermit Roosevelt Plus: Mark Tushnet examines 10 years of alliances on the court. The Mine Line Divvying up diamonds in the Canadian Arctic. By Geoffrey Gagnon How The West Was Lost The people of Portland, Oregon were once the country's fiercest anti-sprawl crusaders: How were they convinced to give up the fight? By Daniel Brook Saving The Race In 1940, Thurgood Marshall defended a black chauffeur charged with raping his white mistress—and exposed the racism of the North. By Daniel J. Sharfstein A Crime With A Name Most people think the atrocities in Burma should not be called genocide. Guy Horton is on a quest to prove them wrong. By Nicholas Thompson REVIEWS academy Pop Con Legal academics argue that the people should control the courts. But the people don't want to. By David A. Strauss practice Lawyers, Unite Jennifer Gordon, Esq., fought for immigrants, but she isn't sure lawyers are a force for good. By Scott Cummings & Ingrid Eagly elsewhere Law professors footnote their alpacas—and other happenings in the nation's law reviews. academy America the Mercurial A new theory predicts when countries will honor their international obligations. Guess who doesn't fit the model. By Michael Ignatieff practice Asking for Trouble Why the counterterrorism at Guantánamo Bay has been counterproductive. By Phillip Carter |
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