Yale Law Journal

Forum: Lawrence Meets Libel: Squaring Constitutional Norms with Sexual-Orientation Defamation

Spencer and Eugene Volokh for their thoughtful guidance. He also thanks Lauren Thomas and the staff of The Yale Law Journal Online for a diligent

Forum: EBay’s Second Life: When Should Virtual Earnings Bear Real Taxes?

them directly) and the seller who transfers the funds to a bank account so they can be used offline. There is no sense in which reinvesting defers tax

Forum: Claim Construction or Statutory Construction?: A Response to Chiang & Solum

claims.Third, they conclude that the underlying policy debate in claim construction is a conflict between two distinct theories of claim construction

Forum: Justice “Promptly, and Without Delay”: Court Reform and Judicial Independence

the quotidian business of filing and docketing cases, shepherding them through the court system, and delivering to the litigants final judgments and

Forum: What Litigation of a Climate Nuisance Suit Might Look Like

any plaintiffs successfully make their way through the keyholes that may have been left by the Supreme Court in AEP, they and the courts in which they

Forum: Aligning Immigration and Workplace Law, One Step at a Time

know about this rule get into trouble as they move through the naturalization process. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has studied the various

Forum: To Young People, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Means Don't Enlist

Ask, Don’t Tell” have a cost of their own: they impair the military’s ability to recruit young people, regardless of their sexuality. Those defending

Forum: Learning What From a Nominees Views of Past Court Rulings?

voted in one or another case but what the nominee now thinks about the votes that various justices cast and about the reasoning they advanced in their

Forum: Why Modularity Does Not (and Should Not) Explain Intellectual Property

two hurdles thus question the justification for a theory of modularity. But even if there were a need for the new framework, there would still be

Forum: How “Swingers” Might Save Hollywood from a Federal Pornography Statute

conduct” create and maintain records documenting the age of the performers depicted in those performances. The statute’s purpose is to ensure that the

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