Articles
Recent Rulemaking Activity by the Securities and Exchange Commission Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
The SEC has been extremely active lately on the rulemaking front, particularly with regard to...
The Just Demands of Peace and Security: International Law and the Case Against Iraq
In his dramatic speech to the United Nations on September 12, 2002, President Bush declared...
Overtime Collection and Class Actions: The Need for Reform
In years past, when a recently-terminated employee walked into an attorney’s office to discuss possible...
Asbestos: The Next Liability Explosion?
MR. MARK BEHRENS: We have an incredible panel today to address asbestos litigation issues. I...
State Farm v. Campbell: Federalism and the Constitutional Limitations on Punitive Damages
Punitive damages will be back before the United States Supreme Court this fall. The Court...
Killing the Messenger: Pennsylvania's New Child Pornography Statute is Aimed at the Wrong Parties
The “network of networks” that is the Internet has proven an incredibly powerful medium for...
Josiah B. Brownell Reviews: States' Rights and Social Progress: A Review of Contempt of Court: The Turn of the Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of Federalism - By Mark Curriden & Leroy Phillips, Jr.
Contempt of Court: The Turn of the Century Lynching that Launched a Hundred Years of...
Dustin Kenall Reviews: James Madison and the Future of Limited Government - Edited by John Samples
Last year John Samples, director of The Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, invited a...
Deborah J. LaFetra Reviews: Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide - By Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie, John W. Payne, David A. Schkade, and W. Kip Viscusi
Tort reformers look at outrageously large punitive damages as one of the most visible signs...
Aaron Mannes Reviews What When Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response - By Bernard Lewis
Briefly in the 1980s many Americans came to feel that the United States was losing...
Randolph J. May Reviews "The Rule of Law in America" by Ronald A. Cass
It doesn’t take a Lexis/Nexis search to know that over the last half dozen years...
Mark Nance Reviews "Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland" by Anthony H. Cordesman
“Government is naturally obsessed with itself,” writes Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and...
Todd J. Zywicki Reviews "A History of Bankruptcy Law in America" by David A. Skeel, Jr.
As this review was being written, after failures in the past two Congresses, Congress was...
Federal Employment Discrimination
There is an astonishing amount of hiring and promotion discrimination on the basis of race,...
Recent Developments (October 2002) in Civil Rights Law
Supreme Court Upholds School Voucher Program Last term, the United States Supreme Court upheld the...
The "Female-Friendly" Workplace
Shame is a powerful emotion—a “condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute” according to a standard...
Sarbanes-Oxley Hastily Charts New Ground in Federal Corporate Law
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 represents a major shift in securities regulation in the United...
The Facts About the Federal Election Commission's Rules on Soft Money Pursuant to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002
By a 5-1 vote on June 22, 2002, the Federal Election Commission promulgated the first...