Engage Volume 6, Issue 1, May 2005

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION

• Supreme Court Decision: Regulatory Takings by Louis K. Fisher & Esther Slater McDonald
• OMB Prompt Letters: Are They Promoting (Smarter) Regulation? by Karen R. Harned & Elizabeth A. Gaudio

CIVIL RIGHTS

• Defenders of Freedom Banned from Campus: The Third Circuit Enjoins Enforcement of the Solomon Amendment on First Amendment Grounds by Douglas H. Wood
• Should Ex-Felons Be Allowed to Vote? A Legal Affairs Debate by Roger Clegg & Marc Mauer
  

CORPORATIONS, SECURITIES & ANTITRUST

• Securities Act Reforms Take Flight by Daniel I. Fisher
• The Lawyer’s Role in Preventing Corporate Fraud by Roger C. Cramton

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

• The Unborn Victims of Violence Act and State Legislative Reform by Jack Wade Nowlin
• Legal Problems with Online Gambling by Ronald J. Rychlak
• A Criminal Code for the 18th Century by Joseph Wheatley

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Legal Alchemy: The General Mining Law of 1872 as Privatization Model by Andrew P. Morriss & Roger E. Meiners
• The Heavy Hand of Redevelopment by M. David Stirling

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

• Discrimination, Retaliation, and Implied Private Rights of Action by Kevin Newsom
• Return of the Kings: A Glance at Bush v. Schiavo by Geoffrey W. Hymans

FINANCIAL SERVICES & E-COMMERCE

• The WorldCom and Enron Settlements: Politics Rears its Ugly Head by Peter J. Wallison

FREE SPEECH & ELECTION LAW

• Rethinking Campaign Finance Prohibitions by Allison R. Hayward
• Voting by Military Personnel and Overseas Citizens: The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act by Hans A. von Spakovsky

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• State Sovereign Immunity for Patent Infringement Claims, Five Years After Florida Prepaid by Michael K. Friedland & Lauren J. Keller
• Intellectual Property and “Cheap Exclusion” by John T. Delacourt

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

• Immigration and Identity Fraud by David Morgan Frost
• Does the Right to Arms Impede or Promote Economic Development? by David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW

• “Neutrality Agreements” and the Destruction of Employees’ Section 7 Rights by Glenn M. Taubman
• The High Road to Section 7 Rights: The Law of Voluntary Recognition Agreements by Brent Garren

LITIGATION

• Stopping Asbestos Litigation Abuse by Mark A. Behrens & Phil S. Goldberg
• New York District Court Dismisses Major Rights Suit on Apartheid by Christopher Wang
• A Comment on California’s Proposition 64 by Raymond Tittman

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Reynolds v. Department of Transportation, State of Alabama, et al. by Christopher Weller
• Oath-Breakers by Matthew Stowe

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES

• Human Rights Education, Religion, and Parental Choice in Education by James P. Kelly, III
• It’s Not Just the Test That’s a Lemon, It’s How Some Judges Apply It by Robert D. Alt & Larry J. Obhof

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• “Private Commons” in Radio Spectrum: The FCC Avoids a Tragic Result by William Sayle Carnell

BOOK REVIEWS

• Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College by Tara Ross Reviewed by Bradley A. Smith  
• Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board After Half a Century by David Salisbury and Casey Lartigue Jr. Reviewed by Clint Bolick
• Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything Edited by Gene Healy Reviewed by Paul Rosenzweig
• Bringing Justice to the People: The Story of the Freedom-Based Public Interest Law Movement Edited by Lee Edwards Reviewed by Michael Uhlmann
• The Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations to Staff on a Religious Basis by Carl H. Esbeck, Stanley W. Carlson-Thies & Ronald J. Sider Reviewed by James A. Sonne