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Evaluating The New Justices In Light Of The Confirmation Ordeal, Marcia Coyle Mar 2012

Evaluating The New Justices In Light Of The Confirmation Ordeal, Marcia Coyle

Pepperdine Law Review

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Evaluating The New Justices In Light Of The Confirmation Ordeal, David G. Savage Mar 2012

Evaluating The New Justices In Light Of The Confirmation Ordeal, David G. Savage

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Political Process, Elizabeth Garrett Mar 2012

The Political Process, Elizabeth Garrett

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Separation Of Powers: Hamdan V. Rumsfeld - The Anti-Roberts, Douglas W. Kmiec Mar 2012

The Separation Of Powers: Hamdan V. Rumsfeld - The Anti-Roberts, Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine Law Review

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Criminal Justice, Akhil Reed Amar Mar 2012

Criminal Justice, Akhil Reed Amar

Pepperdine Law Review

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Civil Rights, Erwin Chemerinsky Mar 2012

Civil Rights, Erwin Chemerinsky

Pepperdine Law Review

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Overview Of The Term: The Rule Of Law & Roberts's Revolution Of Restraint, Douglas W. Kmiec Mar 2012

Overview Of The Term: The Rule Of Law & Roberts's Revolution Of Restraint, Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine Law Review

In this introduction to a symposium on Chief Justice Roberts’ first term, Professor Kmiec begins with a discussion of how the addition of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito to the Supreme Court resulted in a continuation of the center-right tradition of the Rehnquist-O’Connor era, and he addresses the impact of Justice O’Connor’s retirement on Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence. Professor Kmiec also evaluates Rehnquist’s final term, determining that, during this term, Rehnquist lost some of the hard earned constitutional advantages in the areas of religious accommodation, federalism, and the protection of property rights. Professor Kmiec ends his article with a discussion …


"Of A Judiciary Nature": Observations On Chief Justice's First Opinions, Diane S. Sykes Mar 2012

"Of A Judiciary Nature": Observations On Chief Justice's First Opinions, Diane S. Sykes

Pepperdine Law Review

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Loud Rules, David Coale, Wendy Couture Mar 2012

Loud Rules, David Coale, Wendy Couture

Pepperdine Law Review

This article defines a "loud rule" as a court's statement of substantive law accompanied by a warning that future litigants risk sanctions if they relitigate the issue. The authors examine the incidence of loud rules, noting patterns in their use. Then, the authors apply the substantive "necessity" test for distinguishing dicta and holdings, concluding that although the "loud" component of the rule is technically dictum, it does not raise the same policy concerns that underlie the dicta-holding distinction. Further, the authors apply the procedural "necessity" test for the appropriate exercise of a court's inherent power, concluding that many of the …


Does The First Amendment's "Right Of Access" Require Court Proceedings To Be Televised? A Constitutional And Practical Discussion, Audrey Maness Mar 2012

Does The First Amendment's "Right Of Access" Require Court Proceedings To Be Televised? A Constitutional And Practical Discussion, Audrey Maness

Pepperdine Law Review

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Intermittent State Constitutionalism, Justin Long Mar 2012

Intermittent State Constitutionalism, Justin Long

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Roberts Court & The Business Cases, Kenneth W. Starr Mar 2012

The Roberts Court & The Business Cases, Kenneth W. Starr

Pepperdine Law Review

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Roundtable Discussion, Vikram Amar, Joan Biskupic, Douglas W. Kmiec, Jeffrey Rosen, Kenneth W. Starr, Kathleen M. Sullivan Mar 2012

Roundtable Discussion, Vikram Amar, Joan Biskupic, Douglas W. Kmiec, Jeffrey Rosen, Kenneth W. Starr, Kathleen M. Sullivan

Pepperdine Law Review

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Free Speech, Kathleen M. Sullivan Mar 2012

Free Speech, Kathleen M. Sullivan

Pepperdine Law Review

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Criminal Justice, Vikram Amar Mar 2012

Criminal Justice, Vikram Amar

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Roberts Court & Executive Power, Jeffrey Rosen Mar 2012

The Roberts Court & Executive Power, Jeffrey Rosen

Pepperdine Law Review

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Standing Still - Did The Roberts Court Narrow, But Not Overrule, Flast To Allow Time To Re-Think Establishment Clause Jurisprudence?, Douglas W. Kmiec Mar 2012

Standing Still - Did The Roberts Court Narrow, But Not Overrule, Flast To Allow Time To Re-Think Establishment Clause Jurisprudence?, Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Alito/O'Connor Switch, Joan Biskupic Mar 2012

The Alito/O'Connor Switch, Joan Biskupic

Pepperdine Law Review

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Introduction To Symposium: An Enigmatic Court? Examining The Roberts Court As It Begins Year Three, Douglas W. Kmiec, Kenneth W. Starr Mar 2012

Introduction To Symposium: An Enigmatic Court? Examining The Roberts Court As It Begins Year Three, Douglas W. Kmiec, Kenneth W. Starr

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Inaugural William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Look At Supreme Court Advocacy With Justice Samuel Alito, Samuel A. Alito Jr, Douglas W. Kmiec, Carter G. Phillips, Kenneth W. Starr Mar 2012

The Inaugural William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Look At Supreme Court Advocacy With Justice Samuel Alito, Samuel A. Alito Jr, Douglas W. Kmiec, Carter G. Phillips, Kenneth W. Starr

Pepperdine Law Review

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What Federalism & Why? Science Versus Doctrine, Stephen E. Gottlieb Mar 2012

What Federalism & Why? Science Versus Doctrine, Stephen E. Gottlieb

Pepperdine Law Review

The Constitution does not use the words federal or federalism. It gives Congress a set of powers and prohibits the national government, the states or both from doing some things. The Court has inferred principles of federalism from those provisions. The political science community has treated the advantages of federalism as contingent on whether federalism deepens or diffuses conflict or opens competition for power. The United States Supreme Court's approach does neither; it has been trying to clarify and police a very different boundary. Even on its own terms, however, the Court's justifications do not work - a problem made …


The T-Rex Without Teeth: Evolving Strickland V. Washington And The Test For Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Robert R. Rigg Mar 2012

The T-Rex Without Teeth: Evolving Strickland V. Washington And The Test For Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel, Robert R. Rigg

Pepperdine Law Review

In Strickland v. Washington the United States Supreme Court formulated the test for determining whether counsel in a criminal case is ineffective. When the Court decided Strickland it created a doctrine of enormous proportions, but with little impact--a legal tyrannosaurus rex without teeth. In the last decade, by using American Bar Association (“ABA”) standards to evaluate counsel's performance, the Court has given the T-Rex some sizable incisors. The purposes of this article are to: (1) determine how frequently the United States Supreme Court uses ABA standards in its decisions and describe briefly for what purposes the Court uses those standards; …


The Third Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Kenneth W. Starr, Carol A. Chase, Colleen Graffy, Virginia Milstead Feb 2012

The Third Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Connor, Kenneth W. Starr, Carol A. Chase, Colleen Graffy, Virginia Milstead

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Second Conversation With Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: Lawyering And The Craft Of Judicial Opinion Writing, Samuel A. Alito Jr, Michael W. Mcconnell, Kenneth W. Starr, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Douglas W. Kmiec Feb 2012

The Second Conversation With Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.: Lawyering And The Craft Of Judicial Opinion Writing, Samuel A. Alito Jr, Michael W. Mcconnell, Kenneth W. Starr, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Douglas W. Kmiec

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Second Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Justice Clarence Thomas, Clarence Thomas, Kenneth W. Starr, Shelley Saxer, Douglas W. Kmiec, Charles R. Eskridge Feb 2012

The Second Annual William French Smith Memorial Lecture: A Conversation With Justice Clarence Thomas, Clarence Thomas, Kenneth W. Starr, Shelley Saxer, Douglas W. Kmiec, Charles R. Eskridge

Pepperdine Law Review

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Thirty-First Annual Pepperdine University School Of Law Dinner: Keynote Address, John G. Roberts Jr Feb 2012

Thirty-First Annual Pepperdine University School Of Law Dinner: Keynote Address, John G. Roberts Jr

Pepperdine Law Review

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Introduction , J. Matt Williams Feb 2012

Introduction , J. Matt Williams

Pepperdine Law Review

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Congress's Power To Regulate The Federal Judiciary: What The First Congress And The First Federal Courts Can Teach Today's Congress And Courts , Paul Taylor Feb 2012

Congress's Power To Regulate The Federal Judiciary: What The First Congress And The First Federal Courts Can Teach Today's Congress And Courts , Paul Taylor

Pepperdine Law Review

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Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges , Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson Feb 2012

Significant Statistics: The Unwitting Policy Making Of Mathematically Ignorant Judges , Michael I. Meyerson, William Meyerson

Pepperdine Law Review

This article will explore several areas in which judges, hampered by their mathematical ignorance, have permitted numerical analysis to subvert the goals of our legal system. In Part II, I will examine the perversion of the presumption of innocence in paternity cases, where courts make the counter-factual assumption that regardless of the evidence, prior to DNA testing, a suspect has a 50/50 chance of being the father. In Part III, I will explore the unnecessary injection of race into trials involving the statistics of DNA matching, even when race is entirely irrelevant to the particular case. Next, in Part IV, …