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Volume 114, Number 3, Winter 2010

April 17, 2010

Articles The Kurdish Regional Constitution within the Framework of the Iraqi Federal Constitution: A Struggle for Sovereignty, Oil, Ethnic Identity, and the Prospects for a Reverse Supremacy Clause By Michael J. Kelly. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 707 The Kurds have long struggled to control their own destiny. Through centuries of cyclical oppression and autonomy, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]