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Volume 114, Number 2, Fall 2009

November 1, 2009

Articles

Blushing Our Way Past Historical Fact and Fiction: A Response to Professor Geoffrey R. Stone’s Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture and Essay

By Seth Barrett Tillman.  114 Penn St. L. Rev. 391.

Legal academics and the public are fascinated by both constitutional text and the processes by which it is interpreted.  The precise role for legal academics in the interpretation of such charters…

Volume 114, Number 1, Summer 2009

August 30, 2009

Articles

Intention, Torture, and the Concept of State Crime

By Aditi Bagchi.  114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1.

Notwithstanding the universal prohibition against torture, and almost universal agreement that in order to qualify as torture, the act in question must be committed intentionally with an illicit purpose, the intentional element of torture remains ambiguous. I make the following claims about how we should interpret…

Volume 113, Number 4. Symposium: Building the Civilization of Arbitration

August 1, 2009

The Penn State Law Review is proud to announce the publication of its symposium: Building the Civilization of Arbitration. In this issue, the Law Review welcomes to its pages a lineup of distinguished arbitration law scholars and practitioners.

The symposium investigates a wide variety of cutting-edge arbitration topics, ranging from recent landmark cases to investment arbitration and including the reform of the Federal…

Volume 113, Number 3, Winter 2008

February 1, 2009

Articles:

From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems

By Larry Catá Backer.  113 Penn St. L. Rev. 671.

Academic and policy engagements with constitutions and constitutionalism have largely been built around unstated frameworks within which legitimated activity can take place. The essay suggests both the disorientation of much of the discussion and proposes an ideological framework that captures the…

Volume 113, Number 2, Fall 2008

October 1, 2008

Articles:

The Outrageous God:  Emotional Distress, Tort Liability, and the Limits of Religious Advocacy

By Jeffrey Shulman.  113 Penn St. L. Rev. 381.

When Matthew Snyder died fighting for his country, his memory was celebrated, and his loss mourned.  The Westboro Baptist Church conducted a celebration of a different kind by picketing near Matthew’s funeral service.   The church held signs that read, “You…

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