Integrating the Internet

Professors Bradley Allan Areheart and Michael Ashley Stein 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 449 This Article argues that the paradigmatic right of people with disabilities “to live in the world” naturally encompasses the right “to live in the Internet.” It further argues that the Internet is rightly understood as a place of public accommodation under...
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Madisonian Tectonics: How Form Follows Function in Constitutional and Architectural Interpretation

Professor Jonathan Turley 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 305 This Article is the first interdisciplinary work exploring architectural and constitutional theories of interpretation. This “conarchitectual” perspective is used to explore the concepts of form and function in both disciplines to better understand the meaning of structure. While form and function are often referenced in legal...
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Rethinking Standing in Patent Challenges

Professor Michael J. Burstein 83 Geo Wash. L. Rev. 498 Patents have become a serious business risk. They issue from the Patent and Trademark Office in record-breaking quantity and are aggressively enforced by patent trolls. But many patents are likely to be invalid; and even those which are valid are likely to be narrower than...
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Formalism and Distrust: Foreign Affairs Law in the Roberts Court

Professor Harlan Grant Cohen 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 380 When it comes to foreign relations, the Roberts Court has trust issues. As far as the Court is concerned, everyone—the President, Congress, the lower courts, plaintiffs—has played hard and fast with the rules, taking advantage of the Court’s functionalist approaches to foreign affairs issues. This...
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Bullard v. Blue Hills Savings Bank

Response by Dean Alan B. Morrison Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Docket (Oct. Term 2014) Bullard v. Blue Hills Savings Bank, 575 U.S. ___ (2015). Docket No. 14-116; argued April 1, 2015; decided May 4, 2015 Slip Opinion | Oyez | SCOTUSblog The Supreme Court does not like interlocutory appeals, and it proved it once again in...
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ONEOK v. Learjet

Response by Professor Emily Hammond Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Docket (Oct. Term 2014) ONEOK, Inc. v. Learjet, Inc., 575 U.S. __ (2015) Docket No. 13-271; argued Jan 12, 2015; decided April 21, 2015 Slip Opinion | Oyez | SCOTUSblog Energy Law’s Jurisdictional Boundaries: A Call for Course CorrectionModern energy regulation grew from a jurisdictional hole:...
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Rodriguez v. United States

Response by Professor Stephen A. Saltzburg Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Docket (Oct. Term 2014) Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. ___ (2015) Docket No. 13-9972; argued January 21, 2015; decided Apr 21, 2015 Slip Opinion | NY Times | SCOTUSblog Justice Ginsburg’s April 21, 2015 opinion for a six-Justice majority in Rodriguez v. United States1...
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United States v. Wong

Response by Dean Alan B. Morrison Geo. Wash. L. Rev. Docket (Oct. Term 2014) United States v. Wong, 575 U.S. ___ (2015) Docket No. 13-1074; argued December 10, 2014; decided Apr 22, 2015 Slip Opinion | Oyez | SCOTUSblog Equity Trumps JurisdictionThe question presented in United States v. Wong1 and its companion case,2 also from...
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