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January | February 2005
SCENES Identity Crisis To make its players safe, the NFL is tackling schemers and scammers. By Andy Latack Parliament of Dunces The Filipino constitution needs to change so that more competent legislators can be elected. By James B. Goodno The Fall of New Rome Ohio motorists mourn the town that tickets built. By Geoffrey Gagnon The King of Plots Meet Michael Levin, the man who teaches lawyers how to write. By Aaron Dalton NUMBERS Disappearing Act Trials are vanishing from courtrooms as lawsuits increase. THE PRUDENT JURIST Should lawyers ever lie? William H. Simon TERMS OF ART The Goods, the Bads, and the Ugly The Fifth Amendment says that the government can take private property from its owners for public use. Just what that means is a question the Supreme Court is reconsidering. By Thomas W. Merrill ARGUMENT The Appearance of Propriety The judicial canons have got it wrong. The real ethical issues facing judges are hidden from view. By Alex Kozinski Cats With 10 Lives Why we need to regulate the cloning of felines and other animals. By Jay Dixit |
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FEATURES The Gentle People Impressed by their piety, courts have permitted the Amish to live outside the law. But in some places, the group's ethic of forgive and forget has produced a plague of incest—and let many perpetrators go unpunished. By Nadya Labi The Last Lord Chancellor? England is on the verge of stripping its most hallowed legal official of his power to sit as a judge, appoint judges, and be speaker of the House of Lords, but it may let him keep his title. By William Goodhart Man And The Machines It's time to start thinking about how we might grant legal rights to computers. By Benjamin Soskis Suspect Memories Taking into account decades of scientific research, New Jersey is reforming its lineup procedures to reduce the number of false identifications. But it's never easy to pick a criminal out of a crowd. By Jascha Hoffman Common Denominator Using sophisticated mathematical models, a group of four economists has proven that a country's legal history greatly affects its economy. At least they think they've proven it. By Nicholas Thompson Money Talks In a race for the Ohio Supreme Court, one candidate spoke freely about his views and the other filled his war chest. Guess who won. By Andrew Goldstein REVIEWS practice Time Bomb at Mauna Loa Environmental laws fought off hazards for a generation. But what about the challenges of the next? By Bill McKibben academy Pharma Furor Why two high-profile attacks on big drug companies flunk the test of basic economics. By Richard A. Epstein elsewhere The First Amendment protects coarse college cheers—and other happenings in the nation's law reviews. academy Not So Free Speech In perilous times we most need this basic liberty—and libertarians have had to struggle to protect it. By Rod Smolla practice Touting Thomas The truth about America's most maligned justice. By Stephen B. Presser |
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