Address Abraham Lincoln: A Lawyer “For the Ages” By John S. Skilton From the Prairie to the Presidency–And Beyond Article Criminalizing the Denial of Honest Services After Skilling By Elizabeth R. Sheyn This Article analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent and groundbreaking decision in Skilling v. United States, which limited the application of the …
Symposium: Intergenerational Equity and Intellectual Property In Memory of Keith Aoki The Wisconsin Law Review would like to dedicate this issue to Keith Aoki, Professor at the UC-Davis School of Law (King Hall) and author and presenter in our 2011 Symposium, who passed away shortly before the issue was sent to the printer. Professor Aoki …
Articles The Disappearing Opt-Out Right in Punitive-Damages Class Actions By Richard Frankel One of the most pressing issues in punitive-damages law today is how to protect defendants from multiple punitive-damages awards for a single course of conduct, while still ensuring that wronged plaintiffs can recover punitive damages. Numerous commentators have proposed non-optout class actions for …
Articles Breaking Bucks in Money Market Funds By William A. Birdthistle This Article argues that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s first and most significant response to the economic crisis increases rather than decreases the likelihood of future failures in money market funds and the broader capital markets. In newly promulgated regulations addressing the “breaking …
Tribute to Dean Emeritus Kenneth B. Davis, Jr., John A. Kidwell, & R. Alta Charo Articles Justice Stevens, Religion, and Civil Society By Gregory P. Magarian Did Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court last year, harbor a bias against religion? During his thirty-five years on the Court, Justice Stevens showed little …
Articles The Rules and Standards of Patentable Subject Matter By Tun-Jen Chiang The general understanding of the rules-versus-standards debate is that it involves a trade off between administrative costs and error costs. A legal regime governed by a set of bright-line rules will have high error costs because rules tend to be over- and …