Recently added articles from Vanderbilt Law Review:
The Reviewability of the President's Statutory Powers
May 01, 2009; ... This Article argues that longstanding doctrines that exclude judicial review of the determinations or findings the President makes as conditions for invoking statutory powers should be replaced. These doctrines are inconsistent with the fundamental constitutional commitment to reviewing whether ...
Administering Marriage: Marriage-Based Entitlements, Bureaucracy, and the Legal Construction of the Family
May 01, 2009; ... Today marriage-based entitlements are considered part and parcel of marriage itself. This was not always the case. Mining hundreds of handwritten administrative records, executive branch reports, and federal statutes, this Article traces the origins of public marriage-based entitlements to an ...
What Employees Say, or What Employers Do: How Post-Cleveland Decisions Continue to Obscure Discrimination
May 01, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION The phrase "equal justice" has dubious meaning for persons with disabilities who seek redress of employment discrimination in court. After experiencing job loss and facing relatively slim chances of reemployment, many of these individuals seek judicial recognition that ...
Arrow's Theorem and the Exclusive Shareholder Franchise
May 01, 2009; ... In this Essay, we contest one of the main arguments for restricting corporate board voting to shareholders. In justifying the limitation of the franchise to shareholders, scholars have repeatedly turned to social choice theory-specifically, Arrow's theorem-to justify the exclusive shareholder ...
Reawakening "Privileges or Immunities": An Originalist Blueprint for Invalidating State Felon Disenfranchisement Laws
May 01, 2009; ... I. INTRODUCTION Terrence Johnson, Jim Harris, and Alexander Friedman, all Tennessee residents, have a few things in common. All are convicted felons: Johnson for federal wire fraud, Harris for drug offenses and burglary, and Friedman for assault and aggravated armed robbery.1 All had ...