The Thomas Jefferson Law Review is a semiannual publication of legal scholarship by students, faculty and practitioners. Membership on the Law Review is among the highest honors available to a law student. Invitations are based on grade point average or a student’s performance in an annual writing competition.
Law Reviews are the academic journals of the legal community. They are unique among scholarly journals because they are managed and staffed exclusively by students rather than professional societies or independent publishers. In this fashion, the Thomas Jefferson Law Review Association, although sponsored in part by the law school, is an independently run organization managed and staffed entirely by Thomas Jefferson students. Being on Law Review opens up many job and networking opportunities. It is one of the best ways to distinguish yourself from all other law students and graduates with whom you will compete for jobs. Moreover, law review members develop invaluable writing, researching, and editing skills unavailable to the majority of law students.
Thomas Jefferson Law Review is pleased to announce the Fall 2008 Editorial Board:
Chief Articles Editors: Geoffrey Hancock and Craig Lambourne
Chief Notes Editors: Jessica Flynn and Kara Shacket
Articles Editors: Christine Hall and Atossa Jackson
Notes Editors: Shima Kalaei, Trisha Lemons, Alexander Pal, Rory Pendergast
Thomas Jefferson Law Review Fall 2007
Articles
- Jeremy Miller, Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy, LEAD ARTICLE
- David Hardy, Standing To Sue in the Absence of Prosecution: Can a Case Be Too Controversial for Case or Controversy?
- Eileen Kaufman & Louise Harmon, Innocents Abroad: Reflections on Summer Abroad Law Programs
- Sarah Seo, A Shattered Dream: The American Law Institute and the Drafting of the International Bill of Rights
- Joshua Sohn, What Can Booker Teach us About Chevron?
Notes
- Rebecca Anderson, The Collateral Source Rule and Medicaid Plaintiffs: Eliminating Windfalls and Double Recovery
- Anne Knight, Striking the Balance Between Anti-Discrimination Laws and First Amendment Freedoms: An Alternative Proposal to Preserve Diversity
- George Miller, Commuters Won't Pay the Only Toll: Why the Foothill-South Extension Violates the Public Trust Doctrine
- Suzanne M. Nicholls, Responding to the Cries of the Innocent: Holding Non-Offending Parents Criminally Responsible for Failing to Protect the Abused Child
Jeremy Miller, Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy, LEAD ARTICLE
Professor Miller was founding Dean of the Chapman University School of Law and presently serves as professor of law. In this, his 25th year as a full-time law academic, he has served in numerous roles. He founded Western State University's Voluntary Pro Bono Program and has taught primarily Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Professional Responsibility, and Jurisprudence. Earning his LL.M., with a thesis in Legal Ethics from the University of Pennsylvania, he has devoted substantial scholarly work to this area, serving on the County's Professionalism & Ethics Committee, and District Attorney Rackauckas' Innocence Project. For about a decade he wrote monthly columns for The Los Angeles Daily Journal on Criminal Justice and Legal Ethics. Professor Miller also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Orange County Lawyer, the official monthly publication of The Orange County Bar Association, for twelve years. Professor Miller is a prolific author of plays, law-related writings, a novel, law books, and traditional law articles. Recently, Professor Miller devoted substantial time to formulating Chapman's innovative LL.M. in Prosecutorial Science and will be the Executive Editor of the Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice, which will be tied to the LL.M. program. Prior to law teaching, Professor Miller served as law clerk for two successive Chief Justices of the Colorado Supreme Court, garnered experience working for the Suffolk County (Boston) District Attorney and worked as a white collar crime analyst in securities law. Professor Miller earned his B.A. from Yale, J.D. from Tulane, and LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania. (bio from Chapman University's website http://www.chapman.edu/law/faculty/miller.asp)
David Hardy, Standing To Sue in the Absence of Prosecution: Can a Case Be Too Controversial for Case or Controversy?
David T. Hardy is an American author and attorney from Tucson, Arizona. His 2001 book, This Is Not an Assault, detailed his groundbreaking investigations into the U.S. Government's mishandling of the raid of the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas in April of 1993 and the ensuing debacle. Hardy's Freedom of Information Act lawsuits played a key role in the reopening of the Waco issue in 1999. The Attorney General announced appointed an Independent Counsel the day after he appeared on Dateline and disclosed that the FBI's version of the facts was inconsistent with its agents' testimony in his FOIA lawsuits. His discoveries were featured in front-page articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Houston Chronicle.
Hardy's follow-up book, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, co-authored with Jason Clarke, was released in June 2004 and spent six weeks on The New York Times Bestseller list for Hardcover Nonfiction. The book is a critical analysis of the career and persona of acclaimed documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore.
In addition, Hardy has authored several law review articles, primarily on the right to arms and gun control, which have been cited by courts up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In seeming contradiction to this notoriety, Hardy practices law as a one-person firm in Tucson, Arizona. As an attorney with the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C., and in his own private practice, he has argued on a wide range of issues covering the Endangered Species Act, hunting on federal lands, first and second amendment rights, government authority, the death penalty and more. (bio excerpted from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_T._Hardy)
Eileen Kaufman & Louise Harmon, Innocents Abroad: Reflections on Summer Abroad Law Programs
Eileen Kaufman, Professor of Law; B.A., with highest honors, 1970, Skidmore College; J.D., 1975, LL.M., 1991, New York University School of Law.
Admitted to the bars of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Kaufman came to teaching after a number of years as managing attorney with Westchester (NY) Legal Services. She is the founder and director of Touro's summer program in India, the only American law school program on the Indian subcontinent. She serves on the board of directors of the Society of American Law Teachers and is the reporter for the Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, which writes the model jury instructions for New York State trial judges. Formerly the Law Center's Vice Dean, Professor Kaufman has published primarily in the area of civil rights law. (bio from Touro Law Center website http://tourolaw.edu/about/services_for_the_community/faculty_media_resource_guide.asp)
Louise Harmon, Professor of Law; B.A., with highest distinction, 1971, Indiana University; J.D., with honors, 1979, University of Texas at Austin; LL.M., 1983, Harvard Law School; Ph.D., 1998, Columbia University.
Admitted to the bar of Illinois. Before beginning her career in legal education, Professor Harmon was in private practice with a large commercial law firm in Chicago. In addition to her regular teaching, she offers courses, respectively, in Indian and Tibetan Law and Philosophy and China's Legal Traditions in Touro's summer programs in India and China. Among her many publications, Professor Harmon is author of Fragments on the Deathwatch (Beacon Press, 1998) and co-author, with Touro Law Center colleague Professor Deborah Post, of Cultivating Intelligence: Power, Law, and the Politics of Teaching (New York University Press, 1996). (bio from Touro Law Center website http://tourolaw.edu/about/services_for_the_community/faculty_media_resource_guide.asp)
Sarah Seo, A Shattered Dream: The American Law Institute and the Drafting of the International Bill of Rights
Law clerk to the Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York;
A.B. Princeton University, 2002; J.D. Columbia Law School, 2007.
Ms. Seo was a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review. Ms. Seo will also publish Battle of the Branches: An Empirical Analysis of Education Lawsuits in the United States (forthcoming in 2007 with Joy Chia), and The Science of the Mind and the Practical Science of the Law (forthcoming in 2008 with Professor John F. Witt of Columbia Law School).
Joshua Sohn, What Can Booker Teach us About Chevron?
Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, San Francisco, CA; A.B., Political Science with Distinction, Stanford University, 2003; J.D., magna cum laude Harvard Law School, 2006
Mr. Sohn previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jerome Farris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Sohn's areas of scholarship include Administrative Law, Criminal Law, and Federal Indian Law. His article "The Double- Edged Sword of Indian Gaming," published in the Tulsa Law Review, won first place in the 2006 National Native American Law Students' Association Writing Competition.
Congratulations to the students listed below who are now Staff Associates on Law Review!
These students will spend the next semester and a half writing a student note of publishable quality to become full members of Law Review.
| Netta Grutman | Kara Shacket |
| Tyler D. Smith | Shima Kalaei |
| Hayley DeAnn Clair | Craig Lambourne |
| Christine Hall | Jessica Flynn |
| Bradley L. Medlin | Donald Glista |
| Alex Pal | Trisha Lemons |
| Rory Pendergast | Stephen Zeller |
| Erin Bello | Michelle Berger |
| Geoffrey Hancock | Andria Eguia |
The Thomas Jefferson Law Review Editorial Board Members for 2007-2008!
Editor-in-Chief: Candice E. Renka
Executive Editor: Rebecca Anderson
Managing Editor: Suzanne Nicholls
Chief Articles Editor: Peter Prestley
Chief Notes Editors: Anne Knight and Megan Johnson
| Articles Editors: Nicholas Cassidy Jason Cristilli Tyler Kerns Kathleen Spero Nicholas Wajda |
Notes Editors: Teresa Cannady Jennifer Dockter Susie Lorden Rachael Lyons George Miller Laura Smith |
Thomas Jefferson Law Review Volume 29 Number 2 is Now Available!
The current issue features the proceedings of the scholarly conference, Taking Reparations Seriously, including Reparations: The Legislative Agenda by Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
The Lead Article is Measures to Protect the Tibetan Antelope Under the CITES Framework by Liang Qinghua & Aaron Schwabach.
Copies are available to students free of charge and may be picked up from the stand in the library lobby, just across from the elevators on the first floor.
Thomas Jefferson students who participate on the Law Review have been recognized for their stellar scholarly work. Several Thomas Jefferson Law Review members in the past few years have had their published articles cited in other scholarly legal publications and even in an opinion by the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. Another student won the prestigious 2006 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for the article she wrote for the Spring 2005 issue of the Thomas Jefferson Law Review. She is one of only 15 law students across America recognized by the Burton Awards Program in 2006 for effective legal writing.