Nov 22, 2011 | Case Comments, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
The United States judiciary will defer to the executive branch on matters of foreign policy and national security when evaluating the need for secrecy. The state secrets doctrine, a common-law evidentiary privilege, permits the government to bar the disclosure of...
Nov 22, 2011 | Case Comments, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
The Fourth Amendment’s proscription against unreasonable searches and seizures effectively limits the federal government’s power to invade an individual’s privacy. Under certain circumstances, however, courts have deemed searches that protect a police officer or...
Nov 22, 2011 | Notes, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
Social host liability law is an area of tort law governing the duties owed by social hosts to both their guests and the general public. It originated as a common-law negligence doctrine, but has been heavily codified by almost every state legislature in recent years....
Nov 22, 2011 | Notes, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
This Note will first discuss the origin and meaning of “price gouging” and the impetus for states to enact anti-gouging legislation. This Note will then discuss the existing types of anti-gouging laws implemented by the states as well as review the positions of...
Nov 22, 2011 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
Today, securities offerings and trading have become, to a remarkable extent, global in the same vein as other economic and business activities. The globalization is taking place mainly through integration of national securities markets. The principal examples of such...
Nov 22, 2011 | Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 44
In the world of international constitutional law, the use of foreign judicial decisions in domestic jurisprudence has long created controversy and confusion for both lawmakers and legal scholars. This once seemed strictly an American problem because of America’s...
