Holding Corporations Liable in the United States for Aiding and Abetting Human Rights Violations Abroad: A Statutory Solution
Anthony Bernard · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 615 (2010) Imagine that a natural gas pipeline is being constructed in a developing country in Southeast Asia. The country’s military-dominated government has contracted with a foreign multinational corporation to construct the pipeline in order to attract foreign investment and fund the project. The pipeline... Read More
The Government Contract Decisions of the Federal Circuit
Ralph C. Nash, Jr. · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 586 (2010) The Federal Circuit seems to have slowly drifted away from this view of its role. Perhaps this has occurred because it is no longer exclusively a court hearing claims against the government. The purpose of this Article is to trace a... Read More
The Federal Circuit: A Model for Reform?
Paul D. Carrington & Paulina Orchard · June 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 575 (2010) Are our federal courts organized suitably to perform their mission of assuring coherent administration of our national law? Maybe not. The senior author of this Essay, along with many others, argued to the contrary forty years ago. Now, experience... Read More
The Federal Circuit and the D.C. Circuit: Comparative Trials of Two Semi-Specialized Courts
John M. Golden · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 553 (2010) A string of reversals by the Supreme Court of the United States has helped create an impression that the patent jurisprudence of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is under siege. But the experience of another semi-specialized court... Read More
The Federal Circuit in the Shadow of the Solicitor General
John F. Duffy · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 518 (2010) The Federal Circuit is an innovation. Created by Congress in 1982 as a way to centralize intermediate appellate jurisdiction in patent cases, the court was expected to create a unified body of patent precedents that would be developed by judges having some... Read More
Keynote Address
The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch · April 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 513 (2010) With the patent-reform bill working its way through Congress, today’s symposium about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit could not have been more timely. As with the creation of the Federal Circuit, I believe streamlining our patent... Read More
Redefining Possessory Interests: Perfect Copies of Information as Fourth Amendment Seizures
Mark Taticchi · February 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 942 (2010) Snap! The agent’s camera takes a picture of your diary entries from November third and fourth. Snap! It captures your bank statement from last September. Snap! A picture of your day planner for April thirtieth. Meanwhile, a technician is busy hooking up her... Read More
Not Registered to Vote? Sign This, Mail It, and Go Hire a Lawyer
Richard F. Shordt · February 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 908 (2010) Elections in the United States are “highly decentralized,” with the vast majority of administrative responsibilities—voter registration, poll-worker training, vote tabulation—performed by state and local election officials. Nonetheless, Congress still has a free hand to influence the administration of federal elections, and in... Read More
Leaving Behind a Good Idea: How No Child Left Behind Fails to Incorporate the Individualized Spirit of the IDEA
Allison S. Owen · February 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 870 (2010) Thomas hates that he cannot understand. As far back as he can remember, he was unable to complete even the so-called simple lessons. Thomas would watch as the other students in his class easily formed the letters of their names on their... Read More
At Writ’s End: Using the Law of Nations to Decide the Extraterritorial Reach of the Suspension Clause
Bruce Corey · February 2010 78 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 846 (2010) In 2001, Congress authorized President Bush to “use all necessary and appropriate force against . . . persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001 . . . .” Acting under this authority, the... Read More