Please join us in congratulating the newest candidate members of the George Mason Law Review:

Lora Barnhart
Paisley Bender
Catherine M. Brown
Erik Burggraf
Robyn Burrows
Joshua Chamberlain
Sean Clerget
Mark DiGiovanni
Angela Diveley
Alissa Dutrow
Stephen Foster
Adam C. Fowles
Ashley Fry
Emily Harp
Kalynn Hughes
Carly Humphrey
James Kim
Alysa Kociuruba
Matthew Long
Genevieve McCarthy
Matthew McGuire
Linda America Santiago
Catherine Schmierer
Meredith Schramm-Strosser
Zach Shoup
Chelsea Sizemore
Stacey Sklaver
Mark Smatlak
Raymond B. Sperry

Thank you to all the first-year students who participated in this year’s Write-on Competition and to the other journals for helping the Law Review put together another successful competition.

Congratulations to Clayton E. Cramer, Nicholas J. Johnson, and George A. Mocsary, whose essay, “This Right Is Not Allowed By Governments That Are Afraid Of The People’: The Public Meaning of the Second Amendment When the Fourteenth Amendment Was Ratified,” was recently cited in the U.S. Supreme Court opinion McDonald v. City of Chicago, Ill. Their essay details the public meaning of “the right to keep and bear arms” in the period preceding the enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment.  McDonald has stirred a lot of public debate since it was issued on June 28, and we are excited that the outstanding scholars published in the George Mason Law Review contributed to the Court’s decision.

The 2010 GMU 1L Write-On Competition Packet has been posted. Good luck to all competitors!

• Write-On Competition site

Alyssa DaCunha (Editor-in-Chief 2009-2010) recently had her student casenote cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in City of Ontario v. Quon. Alyssa’s casenote, Txts R Safe 4 2Day: Quon v. Arch Wireless and the Fourth Amendment Applied to Text Messages, 17 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 295 (2009), examined both the statutory and constitutional protections for text messages and argued that the current statutory protections under the Act are both outdated and inadequate. Read the full story here.

Congratulations, Alyssa!

Please take a moment to read our Spring 2010 Newsletter

Congratulations to the 2010-2011 George Mason Law Review Associate Editors!

Bryan Andersen
Mitchell Calhoun
Kieran Carter
Jessica Farace

Congratulations to the 2010-2011 George Mason Law Review Board of Editors!

Editor-in-Chief: Geoffrey Fehling
Executive Editor: Anthony Peluso
Managing Editor: Bret Lee
Production Editor: Michael Manteuffel
Symposium Editor: Isaac Post
Senior Articles Editor: Lindsey Champlin
Articles Editor: Brendan Coffman
Articles Editor: Joshua Cumby
Articles Editor: Tony Tran
Senior Notes Editor: Michael D’Anello
Notes Editor: Mitchell Bashur
Notes Editor: Aaron Brotman
Notes Editor: Kendal Smith
Senior Research Editor: Cattleya Concepcion
Research Editor: Joe Barrier
Research Editor: Nate Chubb
Research Editor: Stephanie Cook

Congratulations to the following ten members whose note or comment was chosen for publication in forthcoming issues of the George Mason Law Review.

1. Peter Cockrell - Subprime Solutions to the Housing Crisis: Constitutional Problems with the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009 (2010 Adrian S. Fisher Award, Best Student Note)
2. Lindsey Champlin - Should the Sherman Act Restrain State Power Under the Twenty-First Amendment? Why Federal Courts Should Abandon the Fourth Circuit’s Balancing Test From TFWS v. Schaefer
3. Jeremy Graboyes - Now, Voyager: Deixis and the Temporal Pragmatics of Legislative Speech Acts
4. Anthony Peluso – A Distinction Without a Difference: How Callahan v. Millard County Drew an Unwarranted Line in the Sand of Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence
5. Ted Brown - Not a Tecom Party: There’s “Very Little Likelihood” Geren v. Tecom Will Promote Sound Government Contracting Practices
6. Cattleya Concepcion - Beyond the Lens of Lenz: Looking to Protect Fair Use During the Safe Harbor Process Under the DMCA
7. Geoff Fehling - Verdugo, Where’d You Go?: Stoot v. City of Everett and Evaluating Fifth Amendment Self-Incrimination Civil Liability Violations
8. Nathan Chubb – Merger Review: How “Serious Questions” in Preliminary Injunctions May Improve Antitrust Law
9. Kendal Smith - Human Trafficking and RICO: A New Prosecutorial Hammer in the War on Modern Day Slavery
10. Joshua Cumby – The Sixth Amendment: Version 1.0 et seq–Commas, Clauses, and the Constitution

The Law Review celebrated the accomplishments of its newly-minted full members and announced which student notes would be published over the course of the next year.

The George Mason Law Review is once again excited to host its annual alumni reception on January 28th, 2010, at Arent Fox LLP. The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. We look forward to seeing all of our distinguished alumni and introducing them to the Law Review’s newest candidate members. Please take a look at the invitation.

Event Photos:

From left: Mark Cowen (ME, 2009-10), David Pettit (SAE, 2009-10), Alyssa DaCunha (EiC, 2009-10), Dylan Brown (AE, 2009-10)

Law Review Alumni enjoying the reception

Dean Polsby selected George Ingham (Sr. Notes Editor, 2009-2010) for the honor based upon demonstrated excellence in the study of law and promise of contributing to the thoughtful study and analysis of the law.  Read the full story here.  Congratulations, George!

Please join us in congratulating the newest transfer members of the George Mason Law Review:

Geoffrey Fehling
Michael Manteuffel

Candidate Member Anthony Peluso is this year’s winner of the Arthur E. Schmalz Award for the best write-on competition entry.  Anthony’s paper earned the highest marks from our Notes Editors out of all of this year’s write-on entries. Congratulations, Anthony!

Law Review alumnus Arthur Schmalz (EiC 1992-93), stands with Schmalz Award winner Anthony Peluso

Please join us in congratulation to the newest candidate members of the George Mason Law Review:

Bryan B. Andersen
Joseph Barrier
Mitchell A. Bashur
Aaron Brotman
Edward R. Brown
Mitchell Calhoun
Kieran Carter
Lindsey Champlin
Teresa Chin
Nathan Chubb
Peter Cockrell
Brendan Coffman
Cattleya Concepcion
Stephanie Cook
Joshua Cumby
Michael D’Anello
Jessica Farace
Benjamin Fleming
Henry Gola
Jeremy Graboyes
Kelly Hollrah
Julie M. Honan
Bret Lee
Zach Olson
Janice Pardue
Anthony Peluso
Kevin Pettrey
Isaac Post
Kendal Smith
Jacob Stewart
Tony Tran

A study in a George Mason Law Review article by David Thompson and Melinda Wachtell is featured in the National Law Journal.  Visit the National Law Journal website to read the article (subscription required) or read the PDF version here.  Read Thompson and Wachtell’s article and full study here.

The George Mason Law Review is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Maher, the 2008 Adrian S. Fisher Award winner and Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review in 2008-2009, is a 2009 Burton Award Law School Winner.

The Burton Awards, established in 1999, is a non-profit program run in association with the Library of Congress. Student awards are given each year to fifteen law school students from across the nation whose articles exemplify effective legal writing in plain and concise language. This is the third year in a row in which a George Mason Law Review student article has received the Burton Award. To learn more about the Burton Awards, please visit http://www.burtonawards.com. Congratulations Elizabeth!