Sander's article a systemic analysis of affirmative action in american law schools. Scotusblog references jason zarrow and william milliken's slr online article retroactivity, the due process clause, and the federal question in montgomery v. the atlantic mentions keith cunningham's article father time: flexible work arrangements and the law firm's failure of the family. Justice scalia cites is capital punishment morally required? acts, omissions, and life life tradeoffs in his concurring opinion in glossip v.

Justice breyer cites uses and abuses of empirical evidence in the death penalty debate in his dissent in glossip v. Justice kagan cites statutory interpretation from the inside in her dissent in yates v. Scotusblog references mark rienzi's slr online article substantive due process as a two way street. the national journal praises substantive due process as a two way street. the green bag lauds toby heytens's article reassignment as an exemplar of good legal writing from 2014. the economist mentions urska velikonja's forthcoming article public compensation for private harm in the cover article of its august 30 issue. the economist writes a column on stephen bainbridge's and todd henderson's article boards r us.

Scotusblog cites eric hansford's volume 63 note measuring the effects of specialization with circuit split resolutions in one of its academic highlight blog posts. the atlantic and the national journal cite jeffrey rosen's slr online article the right to be forgotten. Wsj moneybeat writes a column about urska velikonja's forthcoming article public compensation for private harm. Education law prof blog discusses joshua weishart's article transcending equality versus adequacy.

Exploratory Essay on Child Abuse

Justice scalia cites beyond doma: choice of state law in federal statutes in his dissent in windsor.
by fox butterfield, special to the new york times

published: february 6, 1990
correction appended boston, feb. 5 mdash the harvard law review, generally considered the most prestigious in the country, elected the first black president in its 104 year history today. The new president of the review is barack obama, a 28 year old graduate of columbia university who spent four years heading a community development program for poor blacks on chicago's south side before enrolling in law school.

His late father, barack obama, was a finance minister in kenya and his mother, ann dunham, is an american anthropologist now doing fieldwork in indonesia. ''but it's important that stories like mine aren't used to say that everything is o.k. You have to remember that for every one of me, there are hundreds or thousands of black students with at least equal talent who don't get a chance,'' he said, alluding to poverty or growing up in a drug environment. What a law review does law reviews, which are edited by students, play a double role at law schools, providing a chance for students to improve their legal research and writing, and at the same time offering judges and scholars a forum for new legal arguments. The harvard law review is generally considered the most widely cited of the student law reviews. Obama said: ''i personally am interested in pushing a strong minority perspective. But as president of the law review, i have a limited role as only first among equals.'' therefore, mr.

Obama said, he would concentrate on making the review a ''forum for debate,'' bringing in new writers and pushing for livelier, more accessible writing. A president's future the president of the law review usually goes on to serve as a clerk for a judge on the federal court of appeals for a year, and then as a clerk for an associate justice of the supreme court. Obama said he planned to spend two or three years in private law practice and then return to chicago to re enter community work, either in politics or in local organizing. ''for better or for worse, people will view it as historically significant,'' said prof. ''but i hope it won't overwhelm this individual student's achievement.'' change in selection system mr. Obama was elected after a meeting of the review's 80 editors that convened sunday and lasted until early this morning, a participant said. Until the 1970's the editors were picked on the basis of grades, and the president of the law review was the student with the highest academic rank.

Richardson, the former attorney general, and irwin griswold, a dean of the harvard law school and solicitor general under presidents lyndon b. That system came under attack in the 1970's and was replaced by a program in which about half the editors are chosen for their grades and the other half are chosen by fellow students after a special writing competition. The new system, disputed when it began, was meant to help insure that minority students became editors of the law review.