Of Embassy Guards and Rock Stars: Why the Department of State Should Provide Compensation for Torts Committed by Embassy Guards Abroad

Reetuparna Dutta · August 2008 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1279 (2008) Teofil Peter was a bass player for the Romanian band Compact. On December 4, 2004, at approximately 4:30 a.m., Christopher VanGoethem, a Marine embassy guard, collided with Peter’s taxi while driving a sport-utility vehicle in Bucharest, Romania. Peter ultimately died as a result...
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Outsourcing Is Not Our Only Problem

Richard J. Pierce, Jr. · August 2008 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1216 (2008) Paul Verkuil’s new book, Outsourcing Sovereignty, is an important contribution to the debate about the appropriate roles of public agencies and private contractors in governing the nation. Verkuil begins by tracing the modern history of the trend toward privatization of governmental...
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A Problem of Remedy: Responding to Treasury’s (Lack of) Compliance with Administrative Procedure Act Rulemaking Requirements

Kristin E. Hickman · August 2008 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1153 (2008) The Treasury Department (“Treasury”) promulgates hundreds of regulations interpreting the Internal Revenue Code (“I.R.C.”). In a recent article, I outlined and documented empirically why, under general principles of administrative law, a substantial percentage of Treasury regulations interpreting the I.R.C.—more than forty percent...
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A Reply to The Right of Reply

Stephen Gardbaum · June 2008 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1065 (2008) I want to start by thanking Professor Youm for an interesting and instructive account of the right of reply in international and comparative constitutional law. In this brief comment on his article,1 I aim to do three things: (1) clarify how more general...
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Power Withour Responsibility: Intermediaries and the First Amendment

Rebecca Tushnet · June 2008 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 986 (2008) At least since Alexander Meiklejohn wrote that “[w]hat is essential is not that everyone shall speak, but that everything worth saying shall be said,” First Amendment theorists have debated the implications of speaker-focused versus audience-focused theories of free speech. Jerome Barron’s classic article...
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