From Ancilla Iuris, Gerhard Struck (Hamburg): Law as “Tohu-Bohu” and as a Dream of Humankind, Or: Is There a Concept of Law? Mary Ziegler (Yale): The Framing of a Right to Choose: Roe v. Wade and the Changing Debate on Abortion Law. From the Department of State's eJournal USA, a special issue on the U.S. Supreme Court: Equal justice under law (and more on jury trials). A review of In Defense of Judicial Elections by Chris Bonneau and Melinda Gann Hall. A review of Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of America’s Most Feared and Loathed Lawyer by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Canno (and more). A review of A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments by Robert H. Bork. Dahlia Lithwick reviews Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire by Paul D. Halliday (and more). Our Fill-in-the-Blank Constitution: Constitutional law is not a mechanical exercise of just “applying the law”. When the law is an ass: A review of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law by Philip K. Howard. Gun Points: History reveals a long-standing local authority to regulate guns — shouldn't that matter? So Many Origins: Sanford Levinson reviews The Citizen's Constitution by Seth Lipsky (and more) and The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence by Jack Rakove. From The Jury Expert, Jessica M. Salerno and Bette L. Bottoms (UIC): Unintended Consequences of Toying with Jurors' Emotions: The Impact of Disturbing Emotional Evidence on Jurors' Verdicts; and the rules don't apply to me: Why do some apologies work and some fail, or even backfire? Hawaii's Probation Experiment: Maverick judge Steven Alm stresses mild but immediate punishment. Truth and consequences: In the Whitewater investigation, the biggest loser was the legal profession.
