The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part http://yalelawjournal.org Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:14:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://yalelawjournal.org/content/view/774/14/ Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor was a member of the Yale Law School Class of 1979 and an editor of The Yale Law Journal.  If confirmed by the U.S Senate, she would be the Court's first Hispanic justice and its third woman.  Judge Sotomayor would also join two other Yale Law School graduates currently on the Court--Justice Clarence Thomas '74 and former Journal editor Justice Samuel Alito '75.  While a member of the Journal, Judge Sotomayor published a student Note, Statehood and the Equal Footing Doctrine: The Case for Puerto Rican Seabed Rights. YLJ Online The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part - Supreme Court Wed, 27 May 2009 05:17:56 +0100 http://yalelawjournal.org/content/view/772/14/ The Yale Law Journal is pleased to announce the launch of The Yale Law Journal Online in the Fall of 2009. YLJ Online will integrate the current features of The Pocket Part with additional fora for legal scholarship. The YLJ Online Committee will continue to consider submissions under The Pocket Part's guidelines and submissions system throughout the summer.  The YLJ Online Committee The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part - Scholarship Wed, 13 May 2009 16:46:02 +0100 http://yalelawjournal.org/content/view/764/14/ Owen M. Fiss (http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/OFiss.htm), Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (http://www.law.yale.edu), tackled legal issues involved in the war on terror on March 5, 2009 at the 13th Annual John W. Hager Distinguished Lecture at The University of Tulsa College of Law (http://www.utulsa.edu/law). The Pocket Part is pleased to present an adapted version of Professor Fiss's lecture, The Example of America.  For an audio version of this piece read by the author please access the podcast here. (http://streaming.yale.edu/opa/podcasts/audio/schools/law/fiss_041609.mp3)   On May 12, 2009, Professor Fiss published an article based on this piece in The Huffington Post, which can be accessed here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/owen-fiss/the-example-of-america_b_202659.html). Owen Fiss The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part - Constitutional Law Fri, 01 May 2009 14:42:47 +0100