Engage Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2008

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION

• Swallows Holding Ltd. v. Commissioner: Limited Progress in Rejecting Tax Exceptionalism in Administrative Law  by Kristin E. Hickman
• "2008 Federalist Society Tax Conference Panel: "How Our Tax Laws Affect How Health Care Is Paid For and Delivered" by Eileen J. O'Connor, Amy Monahan, Robert B. Helms & Michael F. Cannon

CIVIL RIGHTS

• Enhancing Disability Protection Without Abandoning Principle by Senator Orrin G. Hatch
• Super-Tuesday for Equal Rights by Ward Connerly & Jennifer Gratz 

CORPORATIONS, SECURITIES & ANTITRUST

• Sovereign Wealth, Private Equity, and Hedge Funds...Oh My by Jeffrey H. Ballabon   
• The SEC's Inglorious Role in Limiting Small Business's Access to Capital by  Rutherford B. Campbell, Jr. 
• Mercier v. Inter-Tel and the Reformulation of the Blasius Standard  by Andrew Carriker                            

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

• From Apprendi to Booker to Gall and Kimbrough: The Supreme Court Blunders its Way Back to Luck-of-the-Draw Sentencing by William G. Otis
• Forensic Science Needs Checks and Balances by Roger G. Koppl & Radley Balko

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Buying Green: The U.S. Government Steps Up Environmentally Prefereable Purchasing
  by Alec D. Rodgers

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

• A Floor, Not a Ceiling: Federalism and Remedies for Violations of Constitutional Rights in Danforth v. Minnesota by Ilya Somin
• The Fourth Amendment and Federalism: The Supreme Court Tussle Over the Two by Marc M. Harrold & Michael John Gorman

FINANCIAL SERVICES & E-COMMERCE

• Reflections on Credit Card Practices and Legislative Reform Proposals
  by Todd J. Zywicki
• Treasury's Blueprint: Regulatory Efficiency or More Red Tape? by John Shu

FREE SPEECH & ELECTION LAW

• The Uncertain Future of the Presidential Public Financing System by Audrey Perry

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• First Amendment Challenges to Copyright Law: Kahle v. Gonzales and Golan v. Gonzales by David Olson
• When "Exclusive" is not "Exclusive" and "Compulsory" not "Compulsory": eBay v. MercExchange and Paice v. Toyota by David L. Applegate
• Antitrust Implications of Patent Settlements: Balancing Patent Policy, Antitrust Law, and the Practical Limits of Litigation by Michael K. Friedland

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

• Saying What the Law Is: Arguments for an ICJ That Is Less Deferential to Security Council and General Assembly Resolutions by Mark Angher

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW

• The Supreme Court's ADEA Cases: How will the Nine Grapple with a Graying Workforce in the Wake of Ledbetter? by Alan F. Smith
• Wide Latitude for Retroactive Litigation Proposed in the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by Donald R. Livingston
• Other People's Money... by Rob McKenna & Geoffrey William Hymans
• Locke v. Karass: Should the Court Overrule Lehnert's Test Determining Whether Union Expenditures Are Related to Collective Bargaining? by Phineas E. Leahey

LITIGATION

• Stoneridge Investment Partners: The Supreme Court Rejects "Scheme Liability" by Larry Obhof
• Canadian Class Action Law: A Flawed Model for European Class Actions by John Beisner, Karl Thompson & Allison Orr Larsen

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY & LEGAL EDUCATION

• Electing State Judges: Unpleasant, But Not Unconstitutional by Ed Haden & Conrad Anderson, IV 

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES

• Ministers, Minimum Wages, and Church Autonomy by Thomas C. Berg
• The Application of RFRA to Override Employment Non-Discrimination Clauses Embedded in Federal Social Service Programs by Carl H. Esbeck
• Homeschooling Battle in California by Raymond J. Tittmann 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONIC MEDIA

• A La Carte Regulation of Pay TV: Good Intentions vs. Good Economics
  by Jeffery Eisnach & Adam Thierer
• NARUSCA v. FCC: Federalism, Line Item Billing, and the Future of Wireless Consumer Protection by Seth Cooper

Book Reviews

• How Judges Think by Richard Posner & Constitutional Conscience by H. Jefferson Powell
  Reviewed by Paul Horowitz