GWLR Authors to Defend Child Pornography Victims Before SCOTUS, Jan. 22
GWLR authors Paul Cassell and James R. Marsh represent Amy, the victim of child pornography involved in the pending Supreme Court case (United States v. Paroline) that will address the extent to which she can recover restitution from defendants who are convicted of possessing her images. Professor Cassell, Mr. Marsh, and Jeremy Christiansen address this... Read More
Professor Ryan Calo’s Interview With CBC Radio on “Digital Market Manipulation”
Professor Ryan Calo of the University of Washington School of Law was recently interviewed by CBC Radio—the Canadian analog of National Public Radio (NPR)—about his forthcoming article Digital Market Manipulation to be published by The George Washington Law Review in 2014. In his interview, Professor Calo discusses the future of what he refers to as “digital... Read More
Issue 82:1 Now Available
Volume 82, Number 1 Articles [display-posts category=”82_1b” order=”ASC” orderby=”date” include_excerpt=”true”] Notes [display-posts category=”82_1c” order=”ASC” orderby=”date” include_excerpt=”true”]
Proposition 8 and the Mormon Church: A Case Study in Donor Disclosure
Monica Youn · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 2108 (2013) Disclosure of campaign contributions and other political activities will always involve a tradeoff in which the benefits of disclosure are weighed against its costs to contributors and campaigns. Numerous recent papers have attempted to establish the extent and significance of the costs of... Read More
Separation of Campaign and State
Bradley A. Smith · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 2038 (2013) In a pair of recent decisions, Davis v. FEC and Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, the Supreme Court has struck down on First Amendment grounds laws that would have arguably created more, not less speech. The federal statute... Read More
Election Law Pleading
Joshua A. Douglas · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1966 (2013) This Article provides the first comprehensive look at pleadings in election law cases after the Supreme Court’s jurisprudential shift for pleading in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal. In those cases, the Supreme Court declared that plaintiffs must meet... Read More
Unfinished Business: Protecting Voting Rights in the Twenty-First Century
Gilda R. Daniels · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1928 (2013) While minorities have experienced great progress because of the Voting Rights Act, particularly section 5 of the Act, the work to achieve an electoral process free of discrimination remains unfinished. In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down section 4... Read More
The Year of the Super PAC
Michael S. Kang · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1902 (2013) 2012 was the year of the Super PAC. In the first presidential election cycle since their development, Super PACs raised almost one billion dollars and enabled the very wealthy to channel money into campaigning like never before during the post-Watergate era. However,... Read More
The 2012 Voting Wars, Judicial Backstops, and the Resurrection of Bush v. Gore
Richard L. Hasen · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1865 (2013) Fights over election administration have become the “new normal” in the United States since the disputed presidential election of 2000, which culminated in the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Bush v Gore. During the 2012 elections, the “voting wars” which had ensued... Read More
Voting Rules and Constitutional Law
Edward B. Foley · December 2013 81 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1836 (2013) Anyone concerned that Bush v. Gore may have been unprincipled or at least insufficiently precise in its reasoning should have the same concern about the leading voting law case emanating from the 2012 presidential election, Obama for America v. Husted. That case is just as... Read More