September 17, 2011

The new issue of Engage magazine, the journal of the Federalist Society practice groups (volume 12, issue 2), is now available.

It includes the following articles, many of which are of originalist interest:

Special Edition: Templeton Debates

       The Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Richard A. Epstein & Jesse H. Choper

       Same-Sex Marriage and Conscience Exemptions Robin Fretwell Wilson & Jana Singer

       Healthcare Reform's Impact on Drug Patents Adam Mossoff

       Film Piracy and the Pirate Bay Cases John Malcolm

       Do We Trust Judges Too Much? Did the Framers? David Forte & Bruce Miller

       The Impact of Judicial Activism on the Moral Character of Citizens Ilya Shapiro & Fred Smith

       The Establishment Clause Richard W. Garnett & Kurt T. Lash

       Did the Supreme Court Properly Decide Christian Legal Society v. Martinez? Gregory Baylor & Ronald Chen

CIVIL RIGHTS

       Bullying as a Civil Rights Violation: The U.S. Department of Education's Approach to Harassment by Kenneth L. Marcus

       Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin: Could the Supreme Court Revisit Its Decision in Grutter? by Joshua Thompson

       Pruning the Overgrowth of Government Contracting Preferences by George R. La Noue

       Does the Fourteenth Amendment Protect Unenumerated Rights? Kurt T. Lash & Alan Gura

CORPORATIONS, SECURITIES & ANTITRUST

       Developments in Whistleblower Laws: Advantage Whistleblower? by Larry R. ("Buzz") Wood, Jr. & Richard William Diaz

CRIMINAL LAW & PROCEDURE

       The Evolution of Wiretapping by Paul Rosenzweig

FEDERALISM & SEPARATION OF POWERS

       Ramifications of Repealing the 17th Amendment Todd Zywicki & Ilya Somin

       The Unbearable Rightness of Marbury v. Madison: Its Real Lessons and Irrepressible Myths by William H. Pryor Jr.

       Critique of a Proposal to Allow State Bankruptcy by John S. Baker, Jr.

       Bailouts or Bankruptcy? by Michael S. Greve

FINANCIAL SERVICES & E-COMMERCE

       Is FINRA Constitutional? by Joseph McLaughlin

       Something for (Almost) Everybody in Dodd-Frank: Racial, Gender, and Diversity Considerations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act by Christopher Byrnes

INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL SECURITY LAW

       War Powers Irresolution: The Obama Administration and the Libyan Intervention by Robert J. Delahunty

       Remarks upon Accepting the 2011 James Madison Award by Michael B. Mukasey

RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES

European Court of Human Rights Finds No Right to Abortion Under European Human Rights Convention by William L. Saunders

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