Volume 120 Issue 3

Precontractual Liability
and Preliminary Agreements

• Robert E. Scott
• Alan Schwartz

The Divergence of Contract and Promise

• Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Anglo-American Empire and the Crisis of the Legal Frame (Will the Real British Empire Please Stand Up?)

A review of several recent books on empire

• John Fabian Witt

Federal Funding for Newcomer Schools: A Bipartisan Immigrant Education Initiative

United States v. Rosen

District Court Holds That Recipients of Government Leaks Who Disclose Information "Related to the National Defense" May Be Prosecuted Under the Espionage Act.

Jones v. City of Los Angeles

Ninth Circuit Holds That "Involuntary" Conduct Cannot Be Punished.

People v. West

California Superior Court Holds That the Knock-and-Announce Requirement Is Applicable When an Absent Third Party Has Consented to Search.

State v. All Property & Casualty Insurance Carriers

Louisiana Supreme Court Permits Retroactive Extension of Prescriptive Period in Insurance Contracts.

United States v. Cotto

First Circuit Holds That Trading Drugs for Guns Constitutes "Use" of a Gun for Purposes of 18 U.S.C. § 924(C).

Bancoult v. McNamara

D.C. Circuit Holds Claims of Harms to Native Inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory Caused by the Construction of a U.S. Military Base Nonjusticiable.

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