Address Thoughts on How the Legal System Treats Jurors By United States Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald The Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture, University of Wisconsin Law School, April 18, 2008. Article Judicial Independence and Nonpartisan Elections …
Volume 2009, No. 2
Symposium: The Continuing Evolution of Securities Class Actions Basic at Twenty: Rethinking Fraud on the Market By Donald C. Langevoort Counterfactual Keys to Causation and Damages in Shareholder Class-Action Lawsuits By Frederick C. …
Volume 2009, No. 3
Articles Resolving the Foreclosure Crisis: Modification of Mortgages in Bankruptcy By Adam J. Levitin This Article empirically tests the economic assumption underlying the policy against bankruptcy modification of home-mortgage debt—that protecting lenders from losses in …
Volume 2009, No. 4
Articles The Puzzling Persistence of the Single-Entity Argument for Sports Leagues: American Needle and the Supreme Court’s Opportunity to Reject a Flawed Defense By Gabriel Feldman Later this term, the Supreme Court will hear American …
Volume 2009, No. 5
Article Institutional Inequality By Catherine Albiston Employment discrimination statutes generally treat inequality as the product of discriminatory animus, but this approach undertheorizes how institutions construct identities and generate inequality. Drawing on neoinstitutionalist theories in sociology, …
Volume 2009, No. 6
Articles Public Access to Information on Private Land Conservation: Tracking Conservation Easements By Amy Wilson Morris & Adena R. Rissman Conservation easements reveal major tensions between the privacy concerns of landowners and the right of …
Volume 2010, No. 1
Articles Bailouts and Credit Cycles: Fannie, Freddie, and the Farm Credit System By Julie Andersen Hill In September 2008, the United States government seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Since that time, the …
Volume 2010, No. 2
Symposium: New Governance and the Transformation of Law Foreword New Governance and Experimentalism: An Introduction Gráinne de Búrca Governance, Accountability, and the New Poverty Agenda Wendy A. Bach The Next Generation …
Volume 2010, No. 3
Articles The Death of Big Law By Larry E. Ribstein Large law firms face unprecedented stress. Many have dissolved, gone bankrupt, or significantly downsized in recent years. This Article provides an economic analysis of the …
Volume 2010, No. 4
Essay Reimagining Criminal Justice By Cecelia Klingele, Michael S. Scott & Walter J. Dickey The criminal justice system needs more than reform. It requires reimagining. In its present state, by every measure that matters, …