Pretrial Procedural Reform and Jack Friedenthal

Mary Kay Kane · November 2009 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 30 (2009) What makes an influential procedure scholar? Acute powers of analysis, the ability to see the broader implications of procedural change, and the capacity to articulate clearly and concisely what is at stake are, of course, all critical qualities. But there is an...
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Celebrating Jack H. Friedenthal: The Views of Two Co-authors

Helen Hershkoff & Arthur R. Miller · November 2009 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 9 (2009) The tributes in this volume celebrate Jack’s multifaceted accomplishments in the five decades since his graduation from the Harvard Law School in 1958. Professor Friedenthal’s work as a dean, as a special master settling disputes between the National Football...
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Jack Friedenthal: A Scholar, a Teacher, and a Dean’s Dean

Frederick M. Lawrence · November 2009 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 3 (2009) It is altogether fitting that The George Washington Law Review should mark Professor Jack Friedenthal’s first fifty years in law teaching with a special issue of the Review.  Jack’s impact on the legal academy in general and The George Washington University Law...
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In Celebration of Jack Friedenthal

The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg · November 2009 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1 (2009) In a half century and more of dedication to legal education, Jack Friedenthal has earned the respect, appreciation, and affection of legions of jurists, teachers, and students.  It was my good fortune to encounter him first in days when we...
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Dedication

The George Washington Law Review · November 2009 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. (2009) In 1958, Jack Harlan Friedenthal began teaching at Stanford Law School.  In 1988, he left Stanford for the deanship at The George Washington University Law School.  He served as dean for a decade, stepping down after a decade of achievement.  Since...
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The Aspirational Constitution

Michael C. Dorf · September 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1631 (2009) This Article questions the view that constitutional rights generally entrench deep values against future backsliding. Constitutional rights sometimes work that way, but, in important respects, the American experience has been quite different. Constitutional rights are typically established as the culmination of a...
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To Whom Do We Refer When We Speak of Obligations to “Future Generations”? Reproductive Rights and the Intergenerational Community

Sherry F. Colb · September 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1582 (2009) Ordinarily, consideration of future generations’ interests takes for granted that there will be future generations to have interests. It is, in other words, wrong to despoil the environment or fail to keep the social security system solvent because our children, grandchildren, and...
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Preemption Hard Look Review, Regulatory Interaction, and the Quest for Stewardship and Intergenerational Equity

William W. Buzbee · September 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1521 (2009) Current debates over federalism, especially preemption, center on the merits of legal structures that rely on a sole or preemptive federal regulator versus strategies that retain roles for multiple regulatory actors, especially federal, state, and local actors sharing concurrent and interacting authority....
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Future Generations: A Prioritarian View

Matthew D. Adler · September 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1478 (2009) How should we take account of the interests of future generations? This question has great practical relevance. For example, it is front and center in arguments about global warming policy. Unfortunately, the question is doubly difficult—doubly, because it not merely implicates generic...
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