Volunteering to Deceive: Criminalizing Citizen-Group Espionage

Andrew Frohlich · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 668 (2010) The McFate/Sapone saga is not a mere isolated incident, but rather a misstep which has thrust into the public light an industry about which little is publicly known: citizen-group espionage. Corporations—and occasionally rival nonprofit organizations—sometimes seek an unfair advantage in the debate of...
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Holding Corporations Liable in the United States for Aiding and Abetting Human Rights Violations Abroad: A Statutory Solution

Anthony Bernard · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 615 (2010) Imagine that a natural gas pipeline is being constructed in a developing country in Southeast Asia. The country’s military-dominated government has contracted with a foreign multinational corporation to construct the pipeline in order to attract foreign investment and fund the project. The pipeline...
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The Government Contract Decisions of the Federal Circuit

Ralph C. Nash, Jr. · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 586 (2010) The Federal Circuit seems to have slowly drifted away from this view of its role. Perhaps this has occurred because it is no longer exclusively a court hearing claims against the government. The purpose of this Article is to trace a...
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The Federal Circuit: A Model for Reform?

Paul D. Carrington & Paulina Orchard · June 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 575 (2010) Are our federal courts organized suitably to perform their mission of assuring coherent administration of our national law? Maybe not. The senior author of this Essay, along with many others, argued to the contrary forty years ago. Now, experience...
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The Federal Circuit in the Shadow of the Solicitor General

John F. Duffy · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 518 (2010) The Federal Circuit is an innovation. Created by Congress in 1982 as a way to centralize intermediate appellate jurisdiction in patent cases, the court was expected to create a unified body of patent precedents that would be developed by judges having some...
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Keynote Address

The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 513 (2010) With the patent-reform bill working its way through Congress, today’s symposium about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could not have been more timely. As with the creation of the Federal Circuit, I believe streamlining our patent...
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