Professor Kyndra Rotunda has made the SSRN top 10 PSN: Administrative Controls list with 108 downloads of her paper, “A Comparative Historical Analysis of War Time Procedural Protections and Presidential Powers: From the Civil War to the War on Terror.” The article analyzes and compares procedural rules governing military trials from the American Revolution to
Professor Ronald Rotunda published an article in the Syracuse Law Review titled “Judicial Disqualification in the Aftermath of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.” “What we do know from this case is that laws that require judges to recuse themselves when a party (or a lawyer to a party) contributes more than a certain amount
Professor Rosenthal participated on a “Hot Topics” panel at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on “The Supreme Court’s Increasing Attention to the Law of Lawyering.”
Professor Rosenthal filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in McDonald v. City of Chicago, a case in which the Court will decide whether the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms applies to state and local governments. The brief argues that the
An article in the Press-Enterprise, entitled “Japanese internment trial rerun for newer generation,” reported on Dean John Eastman and Erwin Chemerinsky’s re-enactment of the oral arguments from the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court Japanese internment case Korematsu v. United States. According to the article, the deans ultimately “captured the flavor of the debate over the expulsion
Professor Lawrence Rosenthal, working with the State and Local Legal Center in Washington, D.C., filed a brief in the United States Supreme Court on behalf of the National Association of Counties, the National League of Cities, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the International City/County Management Association, and the International Municipal Law Association in the case
A list of Professor Rosenthal’s recently-filed Supreme Court briefs can be accessed here.
Visiting Professor Tom Campbell was quoted in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled, “Factions lobby over potential Obama court pick.” The article discusses the politics surrounding the president’s potential choice to succeed Justice Souter in the Supreme Court, including his filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and the pressures from various lobbying groups. Campbell
Professor Scott Howe contributed a chapter in the recently released book “Death Penalty Stories” (2009). Professor Howe wrote chapter 11, on the Roper v. Simmons cases.
Visiting Professor John Yoo published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled, “A missed opportunity to put skills above race.” The article discusses the Obama Administration’s support of the city of New Haven in the Ricci v. DeStefano case. Yoo writes, “President Obama and his chief law enforcement officer have missed an opportunity to live