Archive: March 2013
South Carolina’s “Evolutionary Process”
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Ellen D. Katz*
Part of the Columbia Law Review’s 2012-2013 Election Law Sidebar Essay Series
Introduction
When Congress first enacted the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965, public officials in South Carolina led the charge to scrap the new statute. Their brief to ...READ MORE
Beyond “Perfection”: Can the Insights of Perfecting Criminal Markets Be Put to Practical Use?
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Caren Myers Morrison*
Response to: David Michael Jaros, Perfecting Criminal Markets, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1947 (2012), available here.
Introduction
David Jaros’s thought-provoking new Article, Perfecting Criminal Markets,1 sheds light on a heretofore unappreciated effect of our obsession with criminalization: that merely by ...READ MORE
Bargaining in the Shadow of the Debt Ceiling: When Negotiating over Spending and Tax Laws, Congress and the President Should Consider the Debt Ceiling a Dead Letter
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Neil H. Buchanan* and Michael C. Dorf**
If the debt ceiling is inconsistent with existing spending and taxing laws, what must the President do? In earlier work, we argued that when Congress creates a “trilemma”—making it impossible for the President to ...READ MORE
Announcing the Publication of 2L Notes
Please join us in congratulating the following students on their upcoming publication in the Columbia Law Review next year:
David P. Friedman, The Regulator in Robes: Examining the SEC and the Delaware Court of Chancery’s Parallel Disclosure Regimes
Franziska Hertel, Qui Tam for ...READ MORE
Congratulations to the 2013-14 Columbia Law Review Administrative Board!
Congratulations to the 2013-14 Columbia Law Review Administrative Board!
Angela Sun Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Green Executive Articles Editor
Jack Starcher Executive Essay & Review Editor
Erin Parlar Executive Managing Editor
David Friedman Executive Notes Editor
Chris Burke Executive Sidebar Editor
Tim Gray Franziska Hertel Arjun Jaikumar Jessica Lutkenhaus ...READ MORE
In Defense of Big Waiver
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By: David J. Barron & Todd D. Rakoff
Congressional delegation of broad lawmaking power to administrative agencies has defined the modern regulatory state. But a new form of this foundational practice is being implemented with increasing frequency: the delegation to agencies ...READ MORE
Technological Innovation, International Competition, and the Challenges of International Income Taxation
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By: Michael J. Graetz & Rachael Doud
Because of the importance of technological innovation to economic growth, nations strive to stimulate and attract the research and development (“R&D”) that leads to that innovation and to make themselves hospitable environments for the ...READ MORE
What’s It to You? Citizen Challenges to Landmark Preservation Decisions and the Special Damage Requirements
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By: Matt Dulak
The special damage rule—a component of standing doctrine requiring a plaintiff’s alleged injury to differ somehow from that of the general public—has long thwarted citizen challenges to inaction by government regulators, particularly in environmental suits. While courts in ...READ MORE
On the Record: Why the Senate Should Have Access to Treaty Negotiating Documents
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By: John Love
The Treaty Clause of the Constitution describes the mechanism through which the United States enters into treaties with other nations. Though seemingly straightforward, the Clause is unique in that it is an “explicit constitutional mandate to share power.” ...READ MORE
The New Textualism and Normative Canons
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By: William N. Eskridge, Jr.
In Reading Law, Justice Scalia and his coauthor, Professor Bryan Garner, promise that text-based statutory interpretation can be rendered more predictable and constraining if 57 “valid canons” are followed. Admiring the enterprise, this Review maintains that ...READ MORE