Engage Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2012

*Online-Only Issue*

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION

• The Philosopher in Action: A Tribute to the Honorable Edwin Meese III by William J. Haun

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION

• (Mis)Applications of Behavioral Economics to Regulation: The Importance of Public Choice Architecture by Adam C. Smith
• The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers by Robert S. Eitel & Kent D. Talbert

CIVIL RIGHTS

• School Discipline and Disparate Impact by John R. Martin
• Madness, Deinstitutionalization & Murder by Clayton E. Cramer
• Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives by David B. Kopel

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

• Can Someone Please Turn on the Lights? Bringing Transparency to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by Michael B. Mukasey & James C. Dunlop

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Does the Takings Clause Have an Expiration Date? by Michael James Barton & Brandon Simmons
• An Assessment of the June 2012 Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development by Christopher C. Horner
• EPA and U.S. Army Corps Seek to Expand Jurisdiction Under the Clean Water Act by Deidre Duncan & Kerry L. McGrath

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

• Bounty Hunters and the Public Interest - A Study of California Proposition 65 by Anthony T. Caso
• Are the Recent Recess Appointments Constitutional? Charles J. Cooper, Michael B. Rappaport, Peter M. Shane, William R. Yeomans & Dean A. Reuter

FINANCIAL SERVICES & E-COMMERCE

• The Economics and Regulation of Bank Overdraft Protection by Todd J. Zywicki & Nick Tuszynski
• Changing Landscape: Thrift Holding Companies and Their New Regulator by Julius L. Loeser

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• Local Patent Rules - Certainty and Efficiency or a Crazy Quilt of Substantive Law? by Arthur Gollwitzer III

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

• A Retrospective on the 1921 Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by George Papuashvili
• The European Court of Human Rights - A European Constitutional Court? by Jacob Mchangama

LITIGATION

• Losing Confidence in Confidentiality: Do Expanding Exceptions to the Attorney-Client Privilege Gut Its Purpose? by Raymond J. Tittmann

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES

• A Religious Organization's Autonomy in Matters of Self-Governance: Hosanna-Tabor and the First Amendment by Carl H. Esbeck
• The Ohio Constitution of 1803, Jefferson's Danbury Letter, and Religion in Education by David W. Scott

SPECIAL SECTION: SHARIA LAW IN AMERICAN COURTS

• Veiled Meaning: Tolerance and Prohibition of the Hijab in the U.S. and France by Elizabeth K. Dorminey
• Eleventh Annual Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture by Michael B. Mukasey

BOOK REVIEWS

• Forgotten No More. A Review of Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly by John D. Inazu Reviewed by Richard A. Epstein
• The Upside-Down Constitution by Michael S. Greve Reviewed by Robert R. Gasaway