The Burton Awards is national program in association with the Library of Congress. Every year, law school deans and managing partners of the 1,000 largest U.S. law firms nominate authors for the Burton Awards. A committee selects 15 winners in the law school category from schools across the country. Burton Award winners have demonstrated a high standard for clarity and effectiveness in legal writing.

Sean was an Articles Editor of George Mason Law Review from 2011 to 2012. His award-winning comment was published in Volume 18, Issue 4. This marks the third year in a row that a George Mason Law Review alum has received a Burton Award.

Congratulations, Sean!

Featuring several papers presented at the Joint Program of the Property Law & Real Estate Transactions Sections at the American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting in January 2012

• Steven J. Eagle, Rethinking Urban Development, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 629 (2012).
• Daniel B. Rodriguez & David Schleicher, The Location Market, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 637 (2012).
• J. Peter Byrne, Historic Preservation and Its Cultured Despisers: Reflections on the Contemporary Role of Preservation Law in Urban Development, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 665 (2012).
• Peter W. Salsich, Jr., Does America Need Public Housing?, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 689 (2012).
• Julia P. Forrester & Jerome M. Organ, Promising to Be Prudent: A Private Law Approach to Mortgage Loan Regulation in Common-Interest Communities,19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 739 (2012).

COMMENTS

• Carly Humphrey, Keep Recording: Why On-Duty Police Officers Do Not Have a Protected Expectation of Privacy Under Maryland’s State Wiretap Act, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 775 (2012).
• Genevieve Kelly, A Short-Lived Benchmark: How the Supreme Court Debilitated Brown v. Board of Education Long Before Parents Involved, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 813 (2012).

You Are Invited!

Institute for Justice & George Mason Law Review’s Judicial Engagement & the Role of Judges in Enforcing the Constitution

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The courts were meant to play an integral role in keeping legislators and executive branch officials within the proper bounds of their authority, but judges today are often unwilling or feel unable to enforce constitutional limits on government power.

The Institute for Justice and the George Mason Law Review invite you to a symposium that seeks to move beyond the imprecise and unhelpful rhetoric of so-called judicial activism and simply ask whether judges are properly engaged in their role of interpreting and applying the constitution.

Space is limited, to reserve your spot please RSVP now at www.ij.org/CJESymposium.

Symposium Agenda

Breakfast: (8:15-9:00 a.m.)

Introductory Remarks/Welcome: (9:00-9:15 a.m.)
Chip Mellor, Institute for Justice

Keynote Address: (9:15-10:00 a.m.)
Prof. Randy Barnett, Georgetown Law Center

Panel 1:  Judicial Engagement in Enforcing Individual Rights (10:00-11:30 a.m.)
Prof.  David Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law
Prof. Kurt Lash, University of Illinois College of Law
Prof. Eric Claeys, George Mason University School of Law
Moderator: Elizabeth Price Foley, Institute for Justice

Lunch: (11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.)

Panel 2:  Judicial Engagement in Enforcing Limits on Government Power (12:30-2:00 p.m.)
Prof. Stephen Presser, Northwestern University School of Law
Prof. Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
Prof. Douglas Kmiec, Pepperdine University School of Law
Moderator: Prof. Neomi Rao, George Mason University School of Law

Panel 3:  Judicial “Activism” & “Restraint” vs. “Engagement”:  How Judge-Made Doctrines Have Developed and How or Whether Judges Should Become More “Engaged” (2:00-3:30 pm)
Prof. Nelson Lund, George Mason University School of Law
Prof. Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
Clark Neily, Institute for Justice
Moderator: Steve Simpson, Institute for Justice

Closing Remarks: (3:30 pm-3:45 pm)

Please register by Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Judicial Engagement Symposium Flyer

If you have questions concerning the symposium, please email the Institute for Justice at training@ij.org or Katie Brown, Symposium Editor, at gmusymposium@gmail.com.

Editor-in-Chief: Matthew Bowles
Executive Editor: Michael Mortorano
Managing Editor: Abby Uzupis
Production Editor: Andrew Alder
Symposium Editor: Melinda Meade
Senior Articles Editor: Cynthia Thaxton
Articles Editor: Tim Fox
Articles Editor: Lauren Hahn
Articles Editor: Wesley Weeks
Senior Notes Editor: Lisa Madalone
Notes Editor: Matt Brown
Notes Editor: Tashina Harris
Notes Editor: Raven Merlau
Senior Research Editor: Eric Sega
Research Editor: Sarah Collins
Research Editor: Valerie Hill
Research Editor: Ben Owen

Congratulations, and best wishes for a great year!

1. Raven Merlau, The State Giveth and the State Taketh: Constitutional Pension Protections and the Retroactive Removal of Public Pension Tax Exemptions (Adrian S. Fisher Award, Best Student Note or Comment)
2. Wesley E. Weeks, Picking Up the Tab for Your Competitors: Innovator Liability After PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing
3. Lauren Hahn, Juvenile Justice and Piracy: Prosecution of Juvenile Pirates in the United States
4. Mark D. Quist, “Plumbing the Depths” of the CDA: Weighing the Competing Fourth and Seventh Circuit Standards of ISP Immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
5. Lisa P. Goldstein, Janus Capital Group: Why the Supreme Court’s Most Recent Securities Law Opinion Is Likely to Backfire
6. Matthew R. Bowles, Speak Now or Forever Be Overruled: Giving Deference to Political “Judgment” in EPA Rulemakings
7. Sarah Collins, Remember the Fourth Amendment?: Seizing Children in Homes with Drug Use but No Evidence of Neglect
8. Steve Lavender, Extending the Noerr-Pennington Doctrine to Regional Transmission Organization Petitioners on a Case By Case Basis
9. Jack Jarrett, What’s in a Name? Why Judicially-Named Grounds for Vacating Arbitral Awards Should Remain Available in Light of Hall Street
10. Muhammad Elsayed, Contracting into Religious Law: Anti-Sharia Enactments and the Free Exercise Clause

• Sidney A. Shapiro & Richard Murphy, Politicized Judicial Review in Administrative Law: Three Improbable Responses, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 319 (2012).
• Brian R. Gallini, To Serve and Protect? Officers as Expert Witnesses in Federal Drug Prosecutions, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 363 (2012).
• Anthony Johnstone, A Madisonian Case for Disclosure, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 413 (2012).
• Amy L. Landers, Patent Claim Apportionment, Patentee Injury, and Sequential Invention, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 471 (2012).
• Dru Stevenson, The Function of Uncertainty Within Jury Systems, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 513 (2012).

COMMENT

• Matthew R. McGuire, (Mis)Understanding “Undue Discrimination”: FERC’s Misguided Effort to Extend the Boundaries of the Federal Power Act, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 549 (2012).

NOTE

• Mark F. DiGiovanni, Weeding Out a New Theory of Insider Trading Liability and Cultivating an Heirloom Variety: A Proposed Response to SEC v. Dorozhko, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 593 (2012).

 

 

 

 

 

Featuring four distinguished panels of speakers, the symposium, entitled Antitrust in High-Tech Industries, will focus on the proper role of antitrust in high-technology industries, including the extent to which current competition policy is adequate to address dynamic competition concerns that are prevalent in rapidly evolving sectors.

Panel Topics Include:

• Perspectives on High-Tech Antitrust
• Social Media
• Mergers
• Search and Online Advertising

William E. Kovacic, Former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, will offer keynote remarks.

For further information and to register for the Symposium, please click here or contact Katie Brown, Symposium Editor, at gmusymposium@gmail.com or 703-375-9529

• Michael P. Healy, Reconciling Chevron, Mead Corp., and the Review of Agency Discretion: Source of Law and the Standards of Judicial Review of Administrative Action, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 1 (2011).
• Michael Risch, A Surprisingly Useful Requirement, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 57 (2011).
• Vincent R. Johnson, Credit Monitoring Damages in Cybersecurity Tort Litigation, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 113 (2011).
• Michael Helfand, Fighting for the Debtor’s Soul: Regulating Religious Commercial Conduct, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 157 (2011).

BOOK REVIEW

• Thomas A. Bowden, Repairing Lochner‘s Reputation: An Adventure in Historical Revisionism, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 197 (2011).

COMMENTS

• Lora Barnhart Driscoll, Citizens United v. Central Hudson: A Rationale for Simplifying and Clarifying the First Amendment’s Protections for Non-Political Advertisements, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 213 (2011).
• Robyn Burrows, Judicial Confusion and the Digital Drug Dog Sniff: Pragmatic Solutions Permitting Warrantless Hashing of Known Illegal Files, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 255 (2011).
• Paisly Bender, Exposing the Hidden Penalties of Pleading Guilty: A Revision of the Collateral Consequences Rule, 19 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 291 (2011).