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Spring 2008
Ex Ante  

The First Deadwood Report Poll * Baseball and the Law * Measuring Evidence * The Annotated Bobblehead

   
To the Bag  
No Congressional Approval John C. Harrison
Literary References Timothy Sandefur

 

   

Articles

  William Rehnquist's Ode John Q. Barrett
Thurgood Marshall's Bill of Rights Mary L. Dudziak
Anthony Kennedy's Critics Douglas M. Parker
Makeup Calls William T. Pizzi
The Westerly Supreme Court Benjamin C. Zuraw & Robert A. James
   
   

From the Bag

  The Judiciary Fund Ross E. Davies
    The Taney Fund Supreme Court Bar
   
Reviews  
Legal Positivism & The Documentary History of the Supreme Court
William R. Casto
   
Reviewing The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States (Columbia 1986-2007)
 
   
Ex Post  
The Statement of Account Hart Pomerantz
Mr. Dead Bob Rains
 

 
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Winter 2008
Ex Ante  

Our Mistake * A Table Alphabeticall * Fair Warning to Law Schools … * … and an Invitation to 1Ls, 2Ls & 3Ls * Exemplary Legal Writers 2007 * Recommended Reading

   
To the Bag  
Lawmaking & Legislation Peter L. Strauss
AALL’s Efforts on Digital Authentication Mary Alice Baish & Sarah G. Holterhoff

 

   

Articles

  The Lawyer’s Perspective George A. Davidson
Citing Fiction M. Todd Henderson
Wikipedia: The New Consensual Reality Élise Hendrick
Law Blanks & Form Books M.H. Hoeflich
The Golden Hand Formula Samson Vermont
   
   

From the Bag

  Which Is the Constitution? Ross E. Davies
    History of the Printed Archetype of the Constitution of the United States of America Denys P. Myers
   
Reviews  
Doctors Strangelove
Alice Ristroph
   
Reviewing Eric Posner & Adrian Vermeule, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts (Oxford 2007)
 
   
Anti-Antitrust
Jacob A. Stein
   
Reviewing Edwin S. Rockefeller, The Antitrust Religion: How blind faith in antitrust has led to confusing and arbitrary enforcement (Cato Institute 2007)
 
   
Ex Post  
Critters and Blasting and Torts, Oh Dear! Michael I. Krauss & Maeve L. Dion
   
 

 
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Autumn 2007
Ex Ante  

Errata * What Did William O. Douglas Say? * Holiday Shopping Tips * ’Tis U.S. News Survey Season * Doubleteers

   
To the Bag  
Installments Erik M. Jensen
Paper Is Not a Drag Richard Leiter
Yet More on Reading Statutes Toby Dorsey

 

   

Articles

  Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship Paul Edelman & Tracey George
A Tale of Two Justices Linda Greenhouse
How to Read a Legal Opinion: A Guide for New Law Students Orin S. Kerr
Fact & Fiction in the Law of Property John V. Orth
Law Librarians G. Edward White
Will Law Survive the 1960s? J. Harvie Wilkinson III
   

From the Bag

  David Currie Montgomery N. Kosma
    Trail Blazer-at-Law David P. Currie
Ex Post  
Humanities Faculty for Hire! Kerry D. Soper
The Song of the Gatherer & The Annual Digests Paul L. Dunbar & Anonymous
   
 

 
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Summer 2007
Ex Ante  

Errata * Rate Changes * The Annotated Justice Curtis * Garner's Greatest Lists * Going Geothermal

   
To the Bag  
A Bit More on Reading Statutes John Townsend Rich
Minutiae Erik M. Jensen

 

   

Articles

  Turning Sharply to the Right Erwin Chemerinsky
Intelligence Under the Law James B. Comey
Indian Treaties David P. Currie
The Business of the United States District Courts D. Brock Hornby
A Constitutional Conundrum of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report William Van Alstyne
   
   

From the Bag

  David Josiah Brewer Address Yale Law School Richard A. Epstein
    Protection of Private Property from Public Attack David J. Brewer
   
Reviews  
The Odd Couple of American Legal History
Jason H. Silverman
   
Reviewing James F. Simon, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers (Simon & Schuster 2006)
 
   
Flecked with Truth
Jacob A. Stein
   
Reviewing E. Howard Hunt, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond (John Wiley & Sons 2007)
 
   
Ex Post  
Doublets: A Word Puzzle Lewis Carroll
The Song of the Gatherer & The Annual Digests Paul L. Dunbar & Anonymous
   
 

 
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Spring 2007
Ex Ante  

Plagiarism * The Jurist’s March * Ambiguity Clarified *
International Calling Card — The Answer

   
To the Bag  
Almanac Errata Errata Mary Whisner
The Curtis Controversy Avern Cohn, Robert E. Edick, Robert E. Rains

 

   

Articles

  Losing the Law: A Call to Arms Robert C. Berring
Some Reflections on Not Reading the Statutes Tobias A. Dorsey
Drop Coffers Richard W. Garnett & Benjamin P. Carr
Joseph Almeida: Portrait of a Privateer, Pirate & Plaintiff, Part I Jeffrey Orenstein
A Sketch of Australian Constitutional History Jason L. Pierce
The Free Agency Phenomenon: The Baseball Analogy G. Edward White
    The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council John deP. Wright
   

From the Bag

  The Feminist “Horseman” David Bernstein
    Woman Suffrage George Sutherland
   
Reviews  
The Sheep Unsafe
Marc Raeff
   
Reviewing Stephen F. Williams, Liberal Reform in an Illiberal Regime: The Creation of Private Property in Russia, 1906-1915 (Hoover Institution Press 2006)
 
   
Ex Post  
The Squirrel Who Took on the Government Bob Rains
Bobblehead Justice Jonathan R. Siegel
   
 

 
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Winter 2007
Ex Ante  

Fred's Favorites * New Favorites * Exemplary Legal Writers 2006 * International Calling Card - The Question * Clear Snowflakes * A Real Family Practice * The Golden Days of Law School

   

Articles

  Football Most Foul WILLIAM A. BIRDTHISTLE
A Uniquely Distinguished Service MARTIN D. GINSBURG
25 Returns GREGORY F. JACOB
Lawmaking Made Easy JOHN F. MANNING
Reply: Rehnquist's Recusals TUAN SAMAHON
   
   

From the Bag

  B.R. Curtis & G.T. Curtis CURTIS E. GANNON & ROSS E. DAVIES
    The Dred Scott Case As Remembered By Justice Curtis's Family GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS
   
Reviews  
The Si'lailo Redux
D. BRUCE JOHNSEN
   
Reviewing Joseph C. Dupris, Kathleen S. Hill & William H. Rodgers, Jr., The Si’lailo Way: Indians, Salmon & Law on the Columbia River
(Carolina Academic Press 2006)
 
   
Ex Post  
M&M Metals v. Continental Casualty MARK P. PAINTER
Self-Justification ARTHUR E. PAPE
   
 

 
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Autumn 2006
 
Ex Ante  

Redemption Might Be Yours * Readable Law Reviews * Grandpa’s Old Bag * Thirdteenth Amendment * This Just In

   
To the Bag  
Ceramic Symbolism DENNIS J. SMITH
The Kosher Bagel Fish MICHAEL I KRAUSS
   

Articles

  Before & After the Colon JOSHUA DEAHL & BERNARD A. ESKANDARI
On Motion … ALLAN B. ECKER
Ending the Mad Scramble: An Experimental Matching Plan for Federal Clerkships RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
In Defense of Theory: Notes on the Production of Legal Scholarship SAMUEL ESTREICHER
Second Thoughts in the Law of Property JOHN V. ORTH
   

From the Bag

  The Reluctant Recusants: Two Parables of Supreme Judicial Disqualification ROSS E. DAVIES
    NAACP Recusals THURGHOOD MARSHALL et al.
   
Reviews  
Hugo Grotius: A Case of Dubious Paternity
CHARLES J. REID, JR.
   
Reviewing Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (Richard Tuck, ed., Liberty Fund 2005)
 
   
Constitutional Birth Pains
RICHARD A. PASCHAL
   
Reviewing William M. Wiecek, The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953 (Cambridge 2006)
 
   
Ex Post  
Out to Lunch: Physicians Choice v. Miller PENDELTON GAINES
The Gage Is Mort MICHAEL PARISH
The Criminals Who Miscalculated: Ratliff v. State ROBERT E. RAINS
 

 
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Summer 2006
 
Ex Ante  

Bagel Fist * Beloved Teacher * Art & Anecdote * Ignorance is Strength * Big Words, Small Brains * Notflix

   
To the Bag  
Howdy Bozo ERIK M. JENSEN & PARKER B. POTTER, JR.
Explaining Palsgraf WILLIAM H. MANZ & RICHARD A. CAROTHERS
Defending the Heights LAWRENCE A. CUNNINGHAM
   

Articles

  A Book Review Editor Learns on the Job JOSHUA DEAHL & BERNARD A. ESKANDARI
The Kennedy Court: October Term 2005 ERWIN CHIMERINSKY
The Right to Present a Twinkie Defense MICHAEL R. DREEBEN
The Limits of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld SAMUEL ESTREICHER & DIRAMUID O'SCANNLAIN
Accountability, Transparency & Public Confidence in the Administration of Justice EUGENE R. FIDELL
Defining "American"
Birthright Citizenship and the Original Understanding of the 14th Amendment
JAMES C. HO
Constitutional Virtues H. JEFFERSON POWELL
Seven Ways to (Almost) Improve the New York Court of Appeals ALBERT M. ROSENBLATT
Wigs JOHN deP. WRIGHT
   

From the Bag

  The Reluctant Recusants: Two Parables of Supreme Judicial Disqualification ROSS E. DAVIES
    NAACP Recusals THURGHOOD MARSHALL et al.
   
Reviews  
The Death of Innocence
KERMIT ROOSEVELT III
 
Reviewing Wilkie Collins's The Dead Alive: The Novel, The Case, and Wrongful Convictions, Rob Warren, Editor
 
 
Have You Heard the New Lawyer Joke About...
JACOB A. STEIN
 
Reviewing Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture, by Mark Galanter
 
 
Acolytes in Arms
DAVID J. GARROW
 
Reviewing Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of Supreme Court Law Clerks, by Todd C. Peters &
Sorcerers' Apprentices: 100 Years of Law Clerks at the United States Supreme Court, by Artemus Ward & David L. Weiden
 
   
Ex Post  
The Federal Income Tax Consequences of The Bobble Supreme Phenomenon LEANDRA LEDERMAN
 

 
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Spring 2006
Ex Ante  

Correction: Misnominator * Carolina Promotional Press

   
To the Bag  
Judge McGowan's Nomination JODIE MCGOWAN GARDNER AND
JOSEPH C. ZENGERLE
The Reason Why Scalia HAROLD J. SPAETH
A Ghostly Reply THOMAS MCINTYRE COOLEY
Equal Time for Hamantashen MARSHA FERZIGER NAGORSKY
World's Best Hamantashen SANDY FERZIGER GRIMM
The Cleveland School ARTHUR D. AUSTING & ERIK M. JENSEN
   

Articles

  Justice Jackson's Unpublished Opinion JACK GOLDSMITH
Memorandum, Ex parte Quirin ROBERT JACKSON
Lesson 7: Overplaying STEVEN LUBET
Is Constitutional Day Constitutional? NELSON LUND
Fustum Funnidos Tantaraboo RT. HON. SIR ROBERT MEGARRY
Making the Bar Review Fun CHARLES H. WHITEBREAD
   

From the Bag

  More Pebbles From the Paths Behind WARNER W. GARDNER
   
Ex Post  
Rooker Feldman (1923-2006) SAMUEL BRAY
 

 
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Winter 2006
 
 

The Envelope Please ... * Why Scalia? * eReviews * Inamicable

   
 
Two More Errors FRANKLIN W. BOENNING
Our First Valentine ALLISON HAYWARD
Case Closed JAMES M. ROSENBAUM
Where To Now, Mr. Peabody? SUZANNA SHERRY
   

  The Mail Fraud & RICO Racket ALBERT W. ALSCHULER
Using Public Funds for Corporate Welfare PAUL D. CARRINGTON
The Public Use, Public Trust & Public Benefit RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
Friends de jure, Friends du jour GREGORY F. JACOB
The Supreme Court & the Presidency THEODORE B. OLSON
Puppet Law PARKER B. POTTER, JR.
Legal Protections for Literary Titles TERRENCE P. ROSS
Changing of the Chiefs JOSEPH ZENGERLE
   

  The Taft Proposal of 1946 DAVID FREEMON ENGSTROM
   
 
Amy's Potato Latkes AMY DAVIES
Teh Law of the Latke EUGENE KONTOROVICH
The Rights and Wrongs of Latkes GEOFFREY R. STONE
 

 
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Autumn 2005
 
 

Correction * Law & Econ & Latin * Disappearing Act * 108 & Counting * The U.S. News Fig Leaf * Borking * Bobble Cataloging

   
 
A Judicial Appeal JAMES M. ROSENBAUM
An Irrational Market IRA BRAD MATETSKY
   

  Academic Freedom VIKRAM AMAR & ALAN BROWNSTEIN
The Art of Boiling Down BRYAN A. GARNER
It's About Time BOYCE F. MARTIN, JR. &
NATHAN H. SELTZER
Marshall & Enemy Aliens GERALD L. NEUMAN &
CHARLES F. HOBSON
"The Race to the Bottom" JOHN V. ORTH
In Defense of the Sugar Bowl JAMES M. ROSENBAUM
Laugh Track JAY D. WEXLER
   

  The Securities Regulations of 1933 FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
   
  Roe v. Wade Revisited DAVID J. GARROW
   
Balkin's What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said
    The Dictionary and the Man ROY M. MERSKY & JEANNE PRICE
   
Garner's Black's Law Dictionary
   
 
The Great Writ LAURA I APPLEMAN
Tax Policy MICHAEL PARISH
 

 
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Summer 2005
 
 

From: John Morris * More Might Be More, Too * HLR Introduces GB * Not-So-Sorry About That * The Annotated Scalia Bobblehead * Hacked * The Senator's New Vehicle * Sailor Mongering

   
 
Decent Respect DAVID L. FRANKLIN
GB Meets BB IRA BRAD MATETSKY
Advice Authored RORY K. LITTLE
Length Matters BRIAN L. FRYE
   

  The End of an Era ERWIN CHERMERINSKY
Kelo: An American Original RICHARD A. EPSTEIN
Friendship DAVID GOSSETT
Look Who's (Not) Talking JON B. GOULD
Contingent Fees for Waiters ALEX TABARROK
Alger Hiss's Law License G. EDWARD WHITE
   

  Justice in Iceland JUDGE TOMAS MAGNUSSON
   

  Prelude to Armageddon MICHAEL J. GERHARDT
    On Supreme Court Nominations SEPARATION OF POWERS SUBCMTE.
   
  Should God & Caesar Litigate? ELENA A. BAYLIS
   
Drinan's Can God and Caesar Coexist?
   
 
The Appellate Judge's Reply Brief J. MICHAEL EAKIN
 

 
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Spring 2005
 
 

We Need More Faculty Like This Guy * Advice to Lawyers * The Ivey League * Rank Profits * By Definition

   
 
Don't Stay Too Long! ANTHONY LEWIS
But-For Wealth and Power MICHAEL I. KRAUSS
   

  The End of an Era ERWIN CHEMERINKSY
Friendship DAVID GOSSETT
Look Who's (Not) Talking JON B. GOULD
The Problem of Contingent Fees for Waiters ALEX TABARROK
The Reinstatement of Alger Hiss's Law License G. EDWARD WHITE
   

  The Thirteenth Congress MATHEW CAREY
   
  Ticking Bombs & Catastrophes ROSA BROOKS
   
Levinson's Torture: A Collection
    Judge Crater's New York EUGENE R. FIDELL
   
Tofel's Vanishing Point
   
 
Questions MICHAEL PARISH
 

 
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Winter 2005
 
 

Leaky Ethics * Words Portrait * The Graphic Ninth * Law on the Beach * New Words

   
 
Cosmopolitan Justices JOHN Q. BARRETT
BENNETT BOSKEY
Bobblerratum II TREVOR W. MORRISON
The Longest Footnote? JOHN TOWNSEND RICH
   

  The Original Meaning of the 21st Amendment ASHEESH AGARWAL
TODD ZYWICKI
The Constitution of the Republic of Texas, Part 1 DAVID P. CURRIE
Sorry, 71 Fed. Reg. 1 (2006) EUGENE R. FIDELL
The Technology Behind Google's Great Results GOOGLE INC.
The Importance of Being Honest STEVEN LUBET
Laidlaw, Sage, Prosser & Joseph Choate JACOB A. STEIN
Reflections on the Judicial Oath DIANE P. WOOD
   

  Warner Gardner BENNETT BOSKEY
Pebbles From The Paths Behind WARNER W. GARDNER
2004 in Grammar, Usage & Style BRYAN A. GARNER
   
  Hiding from Humanity PETER BROOKS
   
Nussbaum's Disgust, Shame, and the Law
   
 
The Appellate Lawyer's Lament LAURA I APPLEMAN
Evidence MICHAEL PARISH
 

 
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Autumn 2004
 
 

Bobblerratum, etc. * The Geography of Justices * ABA Memorabilia * Green Bag at Harvard

   
 
De Minimis ROBERT A. ANTHONY
Hamilton's Honor ADAM J. WHITE
TIMOTHY SANDEFUR
   

  A Backward Glance BENNETT BOSKEY
Finding the Workers' Law ELLEN DANNIN
Unions & the NLRB JULIUS G. GETMAN
Better Lucky Than Good NEAL DEVINS
Perspectives on Brown DENNIS J. HUTCHINSON
A Lawyer in Baghdad BRETT H. MCGURK
Intention in the Law of Property JOHN V. ORTH
Iraq on the Way to Its New Constitution RONALD D. ROTUNDA
   

  President Polk on Internal Improvements DAVID CURRIE
EMILY E. KADENS
Harbors & Rivers JAMES K. POLK
   
  The Law School Observer BRIAN LEITER
   
  Putting the Second Amendment to Sleep NELSON LUND
   
Ulliver & Merkel's Militia and the Right to Bear Arms
Williams' Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment
   
 
Partnership Agreement MICHAEL PARISH
A Slippery Slope ROBERT E. RAINS
Cell Phones, Socializing & Psychotic Behavior CHARLES J. TEN BRINK
 

 
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Summer 2004
 
ex_ante_p20.gif (1152 bytes) First-Year Fundamentals * First-Year Hash * Green Bag Justice * Proper Chad Usage * The Annotated Bobblehead * Loose Gravel Rocks

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VIKRAM DAVID AMAR
Unanswered Questions
ERWIN CHEMERINSKY
Law Clerks, Law Reviews & Some Modest Proposals
PAUL H. EDELMAN
A Simple Country Judge on the Use of History by Trial Lawyers
ALAN G. GLESS
Federal Appellate Jurisdiction Over Questions of State Law in State Courts
JOHN HARRISON
Penalty!
JON O. NEWMAN

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To the Bag: My Hapless Law Clerk  
From the Bag: Miss Otis Regrets DAVID CURRIE
Rehnquist's Centennial Crisis G. EDWARD WHITE
Von Drehle's Triangle JULIUS G. GETMAN

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A Dialogue on Liberty & Community JAMES C. BRUNBERG &
JAMES L. HUFFMAN
   

 
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Spring 2004
 
ex_ante_p20.gif (1152 bytes) Clerks * Intellectual Expertise * Pronouncing Daubert * Running from the Hill * Holmes's Green Bag * NIMJ II * Granted

articles_p20.gif (1185 bytes) Father's Day Eulogy to William Kelley
PAUL D. CARRINGTON & CHRISTOPHER MACHERA
Taking Grutter to Work
CYNTHIA ESTLUND
The Five-Dollar Solution to U.S. News
JAY M. FEINMAN
Making Peace in the Language Wars
BRYAN A. GARNER
Clarendon County in Black & White
DAVID J. GARROW
Shanghaied: The Story Behind Eisentrager
CHARLES LANE
  Presidential Also-Rans & Running Mates 2000 (Part II)
LESLIE J. SOUTHWICK
 

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To the Bag: "bastard Bratt of a Scotch Pedlar" SUZANNA SHERRY
From the Bag: Irrecusable and Unconfirmable PATRICK LEAHY,
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN,
WILLIAM REHNQUIST,
EDWARD KENNEDY &
JOHN CORNYN
Harry & David's Collected Cookies AL DENTE
Bork's Coercing Virtue, Raskin's Overruling Democracy & Sandler & Schoenbrod's Democracy by Decree ILYA SOMIN

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[F]ight! GARRETT EPPS
True Minds MICHAEL PARISH

 
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Winter 2004
ex_ante_p20.gif (1152 bytes) The Abbreviator * Ununpublished * President Schwarzenegger - Or At Least Hughes? * Tempire * Meet the Winstones * Equus Ipsa Loquitor * The Annotated Bobblehead

articles_p20.gif (1185 bytes) The Peril That Lurks in Even Numbers
ROBERT W. BENNETT
The Evils of Longevity
PAUL D. CARRINGTON
The Bridge-Burners
DAVID P. CURRIE
The Mitior Sensus Doctrine
R.H. HELMHOLZ
Deciding the Fate of Brown
CHARLES A. REICH