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Ed Whelan: “Perhaps most striking, in part because Liu presents his position as so modest, is his law-review article ‘Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights,’ which argues that judges (usually in an ‘interstitial’ role) may legitimately invent constitutional rights to a broad range of social ‘welfare’ goods, including education, shelter, subsistence, and health care.”
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Mr. Meyerowitz includes all 12,000 words of a parody by Henry Beard, another founding editor, of a typically grim law-review article.
Read This Review or . . . Andrew Ferguson 2010
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Without having read the Penn law-review article closely, one flaw that I'd point out is its seemingly heavy emphasis on evaluating judges based on their votes cast in favor of overturning precedents or following stare decisis.
Discourse.net: Chief Justice Roberts Makes Tactical Foray Into Partisan Politics? 2009
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The Penn law-review article referenced therein looks interesting.
Discourse.net: Chief Justice Roberts Makes Tactical Foray Into Partisan Politics? 2009
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Mr. Camara taught law at Northwestern and has published law-review articles on conflicts of law, jurisdiction, and corporate law, including in the Yale Law Journal.
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Job prospects will be the same (yes, law-review members get big-law jobs just as the top half of the class at top 20 law schools does), you'll get less experience editing (an important skill to have as a practitioner), and you may even hurt your chances at getting some other jobs (e.g., clerkships).
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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The Manola case was cited in a famous law-review article written in 1890 by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis that first defined a right of privacy.
Technology Rewrites the Fourth Amendment L. Gordon Crovitz 2011
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If anything, her silence about her political views, about previous Supreme Court decisions and about the culture of the current court, with a vagueness of the sort she argued against in a law-review article, reveals the capability for situational ethics so hated in Mr. Obama by progressives.
Worshippers Looking for a Prophet Marta H. Mossburg 2010
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To the extent that the Roberts court is responding to business concerns, "the change is welcome," Ms. Conrad wrote in a law-review article last year.
Democrats Aim to Tap Populist Anger in High-Court Fight 2010
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All 41 Republican senators united Thursday to write a letter urging Mr. Obama not to appoint Mr. Becker, whose pro-union views expressed in law-review articles and other venues have stirred concern among some business groups.
NLRB Nominee Sparks Partisan Fight Ahead of Recess Melanie Trottman 2010
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