Engage Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2007

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW & REGULATION

• The Roberts Court Wades into Products Liability Preemption Waters: Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc. by Catherine Sharkey

CIVIL RIGHTS

• No Big Surprise: A Review of the Seattle Schools Case by Harry J.F. Korrell
• Can the Federal Transportation DBE Program Be Narrowly Tailored to Remedy Discrimination? by George R. La Noue
• Point-Counterpoint: Affirmative Action Hiring Practices in the New Court Era
Someone Should Sue

by Roger Clegg

Affirmative Action: Legally Sound and Good for American Business

by Wade Henderson

CORPORATIONS

• The Roberts Court’s Antitrust Jurisprudence: The Chicago School Marches On by Joshua D. Wright
• The End of the Road for Dr. Miles: Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. by Robert T. Miller
• Majority Voting: Acting in the Best Interests of the Stockholders, Or Following the Herd? by Donald R. Moody & J. Ammon Smartt

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

• Minding Moral Responsibility: The Supreme Court’s Recent Mental Health Rulings by Steven K. Erickson
• Genetic Information and Privacy Interests: The DNA Fingerprinting Act by Ronald J. Rychlak
• Sanctuary Cities and the Second Circuit’s Challenge in New York v. U.S. by Marc Harrold
• Making Prisons Compete: Private Prisons and the Demands on the Public System by Geoffrey F. Segal & Alexander McCobin

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Can the Golden State Catch a Greenhouse Waiver? by Jonathan H. Adler
• Do Inclusionary Zoning Laws Violate Nollan, Dolan, And the Doctrine of Unconstitutional Conditions? by James S. Burling

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

• Federal Aid to the States by Chris Edwards

FINANCIAL SERVICES & E-COMMERCE

• Securities and Exchange Commission Issues Guidance on Management’s Evaluation of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting by Daniel Fisher

FREE SPEECH & ELECTION LAW

• Violence ≠ Obscenity by Geoffrey Hymans

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

• How Patents Can Help Those Interested in the Environment and World Health by F. Scott Kieff

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

• Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. Government of Israel: U.S. Military Commissions Through the Lens of the Supreme Court of Israel by Michael Newton

LABOR & EMPLOYMENT LAW

• Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Provisions: A Study in Statutory Construction by Jay P. Lechner

LITIGATION

• New Opportunities for Defendants in Securities Class Actions by Francis J. Menton, Jr.
• West Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Learned Intermediary Rule by James M. Beck & Theodore H. Frank

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Attorneys’ Fees in Class Actions: The Problem Remains by Jack Park

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES

• “Equal Access”? Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v. Glover And the Use of Public Facilities for Religious Worship by Douglas G. Smith

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Will the Federal Communications Commission Broadcast Flag Order Be Resurrected? by Stephen T. Yelverton

BOOK REVIEWS

• David’s Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary by Clint Bolick
  First Review by Timothy Sandefur
  Second Review by Craig S. Lerner
• Silence and Freedom by Louis Michael Seidman Reviewed by Paul Horwitz
• The Constitution’s Text in Foreign Affairs by Michael D. Ramsey Reviewed by Jeremy Rabkin
• Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor, Jr. & K.C. Johnson Reviewed by Michael Madigan
• The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration: Principles and Challenges for America by Edward J. Erler, Thomas G. West & John Marini Reviewed by Margaret Stock