Iowa Law Review articles from November 2007

Iowa Law Review archives from November 2007

The structure of search engine law.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. SEARCH ENGINE TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS A. TECHNOLOGY 1. Indexing 2. Queries 3. Results 4. Content B. BUSINESS II. THE STRUCTURE OF SEARCH ENGINE LAW A. USERS' INTERESTS ...

Finding international law: rethinking the doctrine of sources.
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The doctrine of sources has served international law well over the past century, providing structure and coherence during a time when international law was expanding rapidly and dramatically. But the doctrine's explanatory power is...

Lady Madonna, children at your feet: the criminal justice system's romanticization of the parent-child relationship.
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: In February 2007, two teenage brothers were each sentenced to ten years in prison for burglary and animal cruelty after they broke into a community center and killed a puppy by baking it to death in the center's gas oven. (1) just one...

Antitrust process and vertical deference: judicial review of state regulatory inaction.
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: Courts struggle with the tension between national competition laws, on the one hand, and state and local regulation, on the other-especially as traditional governmental functions are privatized and as economic regulation advances...

The common-law rule of consistency in modern capital sentencing.
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The common-law rule of consistency prevented a defendant's conviction upon the acquittal of all confederates for a crime requiring multiple parties. Though most federal circuit courts of appeal pronounced the rule dead after a series...

Double denial: how both the DOL and organized labor fail domestic agricultural workers in the face of H-2A. (Dept. of Labor)
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: The Department of Labor ("DOL") is not complying with the spirit of the agency's regulations governing the H-2A temporary agricultural guest-worker program. With the increasing use of the program, the DOL must reform its H-2A...

Scrutinizing foreign investment: how much congressional involvement is too much?
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: Foreign direct investment is vital to the continued growth and vitality of the U.S. economy. Except for transactions affecting national security, foreign investment receives little scrutiny from the U.S. government. This Note...

The Global Online Freedom Act: can U.S. Internet companies scale the great Chinese firewall at the gates of the Chinese century?
November 1, 2007... ABSTRACT: This Note analyzes H.R. 4780, the Global Online Freedom Act of 2006. The Act holds Internet companies accountable for acting in complicity with Internet-restricting governments. The Note presents China as an example of an...