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... rebuttal of their original piece. The authors argue that Tate's contention "that under current law, estate tax inclusion would be required regardless of the decedent’s ability to exercise control. . . .[meaning] the estate tax would apply even if the legislation vested those rights in the decedent’s oldest daughter and even if the decedent had no right to alter this outcome" represents an unsupportable...
Joshua Tate revisits an April 2008 essay in The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part by Mitchell Gans, Bridget Crawford, and Jonathan Blattmachr, who argued that recent state legislation recognizing postmortem publicity rights fails to take into account the likely...
The behavior of the Justices during oral argument has always fascinated Supreme Court watchers. Recent studies have confirmed what experienced observers have long known: Justice Breyer talks the most, Justice Thomas says the least, and Justice Scalia gets the...
Back in 2005, we had a thread on the topic of gender and law review placements. The question was, why are so many of the placed articles in top journals...
I'm pleased to welcome October guest-blogger Geoffrey Rapp. Geoff is an Associate Professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where is has taught since 2004. Geoff teaches and writes primarily in the areas of substantive tort law and...
We’re so looking forward to watching the political theater from our couch tomorrow night. We went Web surfing to get in the mood for the VP debate, and because we work where we work, we went surfing for things that were lawyer-related. After all, that’s our bag. Unfortunately, we only succeeded in two out of three cases. But hey, that’d be enough to win us an appeal, so we’re okay with it. JDs -- too...
In an April 2008 essay in the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, Mitchell Gans, Bridget Crawford and Jonathan Blattmachr argue that recent state legislation recognizing postmortem publicity rights fails to take into account the likely estate tax consequences. This response explains that, although Gans, Crawford, and Blattmachr are correct that making publicity rights devisable could have adverse...
You might find this article of interest. KJ "Minorities, Immigrants and Otherwise" Yale Law Journal Pocket Part, Forthcoming UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 148 KEVIN R. Johnson JOHNSON Abstract: Anupam Chander's article Minorities, Shareholders and Otherwise 113 YALE...
"Citing the Transcript of Oral Argument: Which Justices Do It and Why." Frederick Liu has this article online at The Yale Law Journal's "Pocket Part" (via "Concurring Opinions")....
Amanda L. Tyler (George Washington University Law School) has posted "Suspension as an Emergency Power" (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, 2008-2009) on SSRN. From the abstract: As the war on terrorism continues, and along with it a heated debate over...
ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hannah Jacobs Wiseman, who is a new Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Law as part of the Emerging Scholars Program, has been
Amanda L. Tyler (George Washington University Law School) has posted Suspension as an Emergency Power (Yale Law Journal, Vol. 118, 2008-2009) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As the war on terrorism continues, and along with it a heated debate...
