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Issue Classing--The Express Checkout Of Class Actions, Shaquille Grant Nov 2019

Issue Classing--The Express Checkout Of Class Actions, Shaquille Grant

SMU Law Review Forum

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Online Threats: The Dire Need For A Reboot In True Threats Jurisprudence, John Sivils Nov 2019

Online Threats: The Dire Need For A Reboot In True Threats Jurisprudence, John Sivils

SMU Law Review Forum

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Developing A Law School Course On Presidential Impeachment, Gregory S. Crespi Oct 2019

Developing A Law School Course On Presidential Impeachment, Gregory S. Crespi

SMU Law Review Forum

This short essay discusses my motivation for and the process that I went through over the past two years developing a law school course on Presidential Impeachment and related topics. I recommend that those law school faculty members who may have only a modest constitutional law background, but who feel as I do that more sustained discussion of the questions that would be presented by an attempt to remove President Trump from office through impeachment are called for, consider also developing and offering such a course.

I found that through reading a few accessible books and supervising a handful of …


Should Good People Be Doctors? A Comment On Paul Butler And Anonymous, Richard Delgado Sep 2019

Should Good People Be Doctors? A Comment On Paul Butler And Anonymous, Richard Delgado

SMU Law Review Forum

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Overwriting And Under-Deciding: Addressing The Roberts Court's Shrinking Docket, Meg Penrose Sep 2019

Overwriting And Under-Deciding: Addressing The Roberts Court's Shrinking Docket, Meg Penrose

SMU Law Review Forum

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The Rise Of The Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle, Lackland H. Bloom Jr. Sep 2019

The Rise Of The Viewpoint-Discrimination Principle, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.

SMU Law Review Forum

The Supreme Court’s freedom-of-speech jurisprudence is complicated. There are few hard and fast rules. One is that judicially-imposed prior restraints on speech are hardly ever permissible. In recent years, another hard and fast rule appears to have developed. It is that the government may never prohibit speech simply on account of its viewpoint. It remains unclear whether this is a per se prohibition or whether such viewpoint-focused regulation must overcome the all but insurmountable burden of serious strict scrutiny. In any event, any governmental rule that attempts to regulate speech based on its point of view will almost certainly be …