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March | April 2006
Letters SCENES Finders Keepers? After almost a century, Peru revives the drama of Hiram Bingham, 5,000 artifacts, and Machu Picchu. By Christopher Heaney Shanghaied Mr. Liu keeps film buffs in Fassbinder and Kurosawa. Cheap. By Sasha Issenberg Bigger Is Better How tiny bottles got booted out of South Carolina’s bars. By Paul Wachter Jack of All Plants Bolivians use coca to make shampoo, toothpaste—and a political career. By Daniel Kurtz-Phelan The Vigilante in the Kitchen An Indiana housewife takes down Nigerian con artists. By Josh Rosenblum Roma v. Romania A judgment for the Gypsies gives them little satisfaction. By Doug Merlino Off the Res Montana's marginalized Chippewa Indians have preserved their sense of identity better than officially recognized tribe members. By Ellen Thompson THE PRUDENT JURIST Did the FBI act unethically in using an election as an undercover sting? By William H. Simon ARGUMENTS A Watchdog That Didn’t Bark Jack Abramoff’s guilty plea has made corrupt lobbying a very big story. Where were the media when coverage might have curbed the sleaze? By Norman Ornstein Shareholders Unplugged Power to the investor is the favored cure-all for corporate mismanagement, but it’s bad for public companies and the people who work for them. By Lynn A. Stout Overprivileged The executive branch has turned a shield for guarding secrets into a sword for fighting lawsuits—by citing a misleading precedent. By Francisco Ferreiro |
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FEATURES Money! Power! Ambition Gone Awry! A frank history of the big-time American lawyer. By Robert W. Gordon One Stop Law Shop The land of solicitors and barristers teaches America how a freer market could deliver better legal services. By Richard A. Epstein Vartkes’S List Of the million or more Armenians executed by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago, thousands had insurance from New York Life. A slip-and-fall lawyer uncovered the list of policyholders and, by forcing the company to pay their heirs, gave voice to the victims of genocide. By Michael Bobelian Young Guns Peppered with fear, lust, and awe, the language kids use to describe guns reveals the spell that firearms cast over troubled teens. By Bernard E. Harcourt Crusaders In Wingtips As American courts give more weight to imported precedents, a band of Christian lawyers is going abroad to shape foreign law—before it comes home to hurt their cause. By Rachel Morris Children Of The Church The Catholic rule of celibacy has sown the clergy with hypocrisy—and reaped a fatherless flock. By Bernice Yeung REVIEWS academy The Accidental Abolitionist How a justice infamous for defending slavery came to write his Dred Scott dissent. By Jake Lundberg Elsewhere A jam band jurisprudence and other ideas from the nation’s law reviews. academy A Firebrand Flickers The feminist Catharine MacKinnon spurred the law to protect women, but the next wave is tired of feeling sheltered. By Deborah Dinner practice Lordly Law Britain’s high court ruled that evidence procured through torture is tainted, no matter what. By Louise Arimatsu |
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