University of Pennsylvania Law Review back issues from January 1999:
The promise of Cooley's city: traces of local constitutionalism.(19th-century Michigan Supreme Court justice Thomas Cooley)
Jan 01, 1999; ... INTRODUCTION We do not think of local governments, such as towns and cities, as important components of the federal constitutional structure. The text of the Constitution does not mention local governments, and black-letter constitutional law formally deems them to be the mere ...
Informational regulation and informational standing: Akins and beyond.(Federal Election Commission v. Akins)
Jan 01, 1999; ... As Government programs and policies become more complex and far reaching, we must be sensitive to the articulation of new rights of action that do not have clear analogs in our common-law tradition .... In my view, Congress has the power to define injuries and articulate chains of causation ...
Sweep around your own front door: examining the argument for legislative African American reparations.
Jan 01, 1999; ... As a world leader emphasizing the need for international relations grounded upon democracy and human rights, the United States has yet to face the dilemma of how to deal with its own past and its most egregious historical injustices, an obvious example being the legacy of slavery.(1) ...
"Give me a break! I couldn't help myself!"? Rejecting volitional impairment as a basis for departure under Federal Sentencing Guidelines Section 5K2.13.
Jan 01, 1999; ... INTRODUCTION Child abusers, compulsive gamblers, kleptomaniacs, pedophiles, and others who know they are breaking the law but are unable to resist their impulses may get a break if they are sentenced in federal court. This is the result of a 1997 Third Circuit decision in which ...