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Isaiah And His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis And His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers Jan 2009

Isaiah And His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis And His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers

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It cannot be said that Louis Dembitz Brandeis has suffered from a lack of scholarly attention. Brandeis is considered to be one of the most influential Justices in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and scores of books and law-review articles have been written about Brandeis the lawyer, the political insider, the Zionist, and the Justice. A case can be made, however, that history has not fully recognized the important and lasting contribution that Brandeis made to the development of the institutional rules and norms surrounding the Supreme Court law clerk, an oversight that this essay seeks to rectify.


Response, Frames Of Reference And The "Turn To Remedy" In Facial Challenge Doctrine, Kevin C. Walsh Jan 2009

Response, Frames Of Reference And The "Turn To Remedy" In Facial Challenge Doctrine, Kevin C. Walsh

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This Symposium on Facial Challenges in the Roberts Court provides an opportunity to chart a path toward greater doctrinal coherence in light of the Court's most recent uses of the distinction between facial and as-applied challenges. In his contribution to this Symposium, David Faigman makes two claims that I address in this response. The first of Professor Faigman's claims is descriptive: "the debate over facial versus as-applied challenges is merely a subcategory of the pervasive issue concerning defining the proper frame of reference for empirical questions arising under the Constitution.'"' As Professor Faigman uses the term, a "frame of reference" …