Iowa Law Review articles from March 2007

Iowa Law Review archives from March 2007

The feminist war on crime.
March 1, 2007... PROLOGUE INTRODUCTION I. THE ORIGINAL IDEOLOGY OF FEMINIST CRIMINAL LAW REFORM II. THE VICTIMS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT A. ORIGINS OF THE VICTIMS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT B. ESSENTIALISM AND OBJECT/AGENT CHARACTERIZATIONS IN THE...

Uber-Middleman: reshaping the broken landscape of music copyright.
March 1, 2007... I.INTRODUCTION II. A PRIMER ON MUSIC COPYRIGHT: MULTIPLE WORKS, MULTIPLE RIGHTS, MULTIPLE INTERMEDIARIES A. MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS B. SOUND RECORDINGS III. THE APPARENT PROBLEM OF OVERLAPPING RIGHTS IN DIGITAL ...

Aliens with guns: equal protection, federal power, and the Second Amendment.
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The nexus between guns and alienage presents a window through which to assess the competing constitutional values embodied in the Equal Protection Clause, the federal foreign-affairs power, and the Second Amendment. This Article...

Punitive damages: from myth to theory.
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: In this Article, I argue that the current problem with punitive damages in the United States is not, as popularly is believed, that they are out of control and threatening the orderly function of the tort system. Punitive damages...

Constitutional interpretation revisited: the effects of a delicate Supreme Court balance on the inclusion of foreign law in American jurisprudence.
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The first of their kind, two recent Supreme Court decisions--Lawrence v. Texas and Roper v. Simmons--extensively cite foreign law while overturning American constitutional precedents. These controversial rulings fuel a debate that has...

Ambiguous standards for partial waiver: dimming "the lamp that shows that freedom lives"?
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The right to trial by jury has been a foundation of American jurisprudence as long as the Constitution itself. It is one of the most fundamental individual liberties that citizens possess because it protects individuals brought into...

Stop in the name of arbitration: should trial in district court continue while the Court of Appeals decides arbitrability?
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The Federal Arbitration Act allows a party in federal court to take an interlocutory appeal from an order denying its motion to compel arbitration rather than waiting until the litigation is finished to do so. But should the trial...

International law, the power of the purse, and speaking with one voice: the legal cacophony created by withholding U.S. dues from the United Nations.
March 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: Throughout the last quarter of a century, the United States has frequently withheld the dues it owes the United Nations. Both Congress and the President have, alternatively, instigated the withholdings. The U.S. government has often...