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Volume 115, Number 1, Summer 2010

March 23, 2011

Articles Conley as a Special Case of Twombly and Iqbal: Exploring the Intersection of Evidence and Procedure and the Nature of Rules By Ronald J. Allen and Alan E. Guy.. 115 Penn St. L. Rev. 1. A pair of Supreme Court cases interpreting the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pleading requirements has caused quite a [...]

Volume 114, Number 4, Spring 2010

March 21, 2011

Symposium Introduction By Justin Houser and Nancy Welsh. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 1143 One of the goals of the 2009-2010 Editorial Board of Penn State Law Review has been fostering a culture in which the law review serves as the catalyst for scholarly discussion among all the stakeholders in the legal community—academics, practitioners, jurists, [...]

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 [...]