Recent Developments
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Recent Articles
NOTE: No Habeas For You! {{Al Maqaleh v. Gates}}, the Bagram Detainees, and the Global Insurgency
By Michael J. Buxton | 60 Am. U. L. Rev 519 (2010) Click here to view this…
Tort Law Is State Law: Why Courts Should Distinguish State and Federal Law in Negligence-Per-Se Litigation
By Barbara Kritchevsky | 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 71 (2010) Click here to view this Article.
COMMENT: Pleading a Loss Cause: Resolving the Pleading Standard for the Element of Loss Causation In a Private Securities Fraud Claim and a Plaintiff’s Heavy Burden Pleading It Under {{Iqbal}}
By Jason N. Haycock | 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 173 (2010) Click here to view this…
No Shortcuts on Human Rights: Bail and the International Criminal Trial
By Caroline L. Davidson | 60 Am. U. L. Rev. 1 (2010) Click here to view this…
COMMENT: When Leviathan Speaks: Reining In the Government-Speech Doctrine Through a New and Restrictive Approach
By Carl G. DeNigris | Am. U. L. Rev. 133 (2010) Click here to view this Comment.
COMMENT: Checks and Balances: Using the Freedom of Information Act to Evaluate the Federal Reserve Banks
By Kara Karlson | 60 Am. U. L. Rev 213 (2010) Click here to view this Comment.
NOTE: Putting the “Convenience” Back in Forum Non Conveniens: {{Gonzalez v. Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.}}
By Lindsay Cronin | 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 205 (2011) Click here to read this Note.
COMMENT: Out of the Strike Zone: Why {{Graham v. Florida}} Makes It Unconstitutional to Use Juvenile-Age Convictions as Strikes to Mandate Life Without Parole Under § 841(b)(1)(A)
By Christopher J. Walsh | 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 165 (2011) Life without parole is an…
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Reconciling {{Brown v. Gardner}}’s Presumption That Interpretive Doubt Be Resolved in Veterans’ Favor with {{Chevron}}
By Linda Jellum | 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 59 (2011) In Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural…
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