May 15, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 46
With the election behind us, tax reform looms as the hot-button topic of the day. Based on election results, it is likely that the Obama administration will continue to push for the same types of reforms proposed in the 2013 budget. However, inadvertent consequences...
May 15, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 46
Campaign finance law presents quite a puzzle: It is an area of federal policy closely tied to the interests of incumbents in the political branches, and yet, it is controlled to a great extent by unelected federal court judges. While we tend to assume that First...
May 15, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 46
At the time of writing, the academic discipline of legal writing has just celebrated its twenty-fifth birthday in the United States. This is a significant milestone and the discipline enters its second quarter century in impressively robust health: It has three...
Feb 8, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 46
While the phenomenon of hoarding is not new, the media scrutiny accompanying it has reached heights undreamt of even in 1947, when the living situation of the famous Collyer brothers became front-page news. Along with numerous recent newspaper and magazine accounts...
Feb 8, 2013 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 46
The Supreme Court in Snyder extolled the protected status of hate speech as essential to First Amendment values, even when targeting a private funeral where it caused significant emotional harm to grieving family members. The Court in essence ruled that hate speech,...