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September | October 2003
The IG: Lincoln Caplan SCENES Mock Trial's Big Dance By Brian Montopoli Tennessee tries to repeat as national champions. Pete Rose's Mock Trial By Joshua David Mann ESPN takes baseball's career hit leader to court. Sue Yourself By Dashka Slater How to practice law without a lawyer. To Be Continued By Sam Goodstein Stall tactics for hire in Texas courtrooms. No Boundaries By Tyler Maroney A New Jersey town's Jewish Question. THE PRUDENT JURIST Was it ethical for Richard Jaffe to defend Eric Rudolph on the Today Show? CASES & CONTROVERSIES A no-fly list, ads and addiction, and the treaty of the swan. TERMS OF ART Stock Phrase By Len Costa Wall Street analysts don't fess up to their bad behavior, they "neither admit nor deny" it. ARGUMENT A Viable Solution By Jeffrey Rosen Why it makes sense to permit abortions and punish those who kill fetuses. |
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SEX AND THE LAW The Practitioner By Benjamin Smith Linda Fairstein changed the way rape is prosecuted. But will she be remembered for her pragmatism or her bad publicity? The Real Harm By Gabrielle S. Friedman Sexual harassment law should fight discrimination, not regulate desire. Standard Bearer By Fred Strebeigh Long before she joined the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg challenged it to treat gender like race. PLUS: A BIGGER TENT BY KATHARINE MIESZKOWSKI Profiling's Gender Gap By Daniel Brook If a woman can do anything a man can do, doesn't that include terrorism? PLUS: COMING OUT TO AMERICA BY TYLER MARONEY The Love Charm A Story by Eugene Volokh DISCLOSURES ex offender By Robert J. in defense of prostitution By Heidi Fleiss my gay divorce By Laurie Essig REVIEWS academy Root Causes Turn-of-the-century Chicago had a radical idea: Don't just punish crime, but reform criminals and the society that produced them. By Adam Cohen practice The Quest to Be Called a Tribe The lure of casinos has raised the stakes for federal recognition. By Michael Nelson academy Elsewhere Gun control statistics fall on deaf ears, canine courts, and other ideas from the nation's law reviews. STORIES Marshall's Law Burke Marshall deserves credit for ensuring the passage of Kennedy's Civil Rights Act of 1964, but the reticent antitrust lawyer never took it. By Diane McWhorter Passing Fancy In the Jim Crow South, courts understood that rigidly enforcing the rules against mixed marriage would have been a disaster—for whites. By Daniel J. Sharfstein Cleaning House Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal defied history by going after the victors, not just the losers, in the country's civil war. By Eric Pape EXHIBIT Adam's Rib Back to Top |
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