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Announcements

The New JCL Online

Welcome to the new online portal for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law! The 2012-2013 academic year marks the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Journal of Constitutional Law‘s founding and is set to be one of the most pivotal in the history of JCL. First, the Journal will move into its new offices in the
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Certain areas of the JCL website are not yet fully functional. Please pardon our mess as the Editorial Board continues to build out the new PennJCL.com. The official launch of PennJCL and its supplement, Heightened Scrutiny, is tentatively scheduled for August 2012.
Volume 14, Issue 3 of the Journal is now available in print and on our website. The issue tackles [interesting issues note]. For subscription inquiries, please navigate to the "Contacts" tab and click on "Subscriptions."

Announcements

Supreme Court of Canada Cites to JCL in Internet Defamation Case

The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada on October, 19, 2011 in Crookes v. Newton. In holding that the act of hyperlinking to defamatory material on the Internet is not, in and of itself, defamation, the Court cited to Anjali Dalal’s article, ”Links: Preserving First Amendment Values on the
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Supreme Court of Iowa Cites to JCL in Historic Gay Marriage Ruling

The Supreme Court of Iowa cited to the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law on April 3, 2009 in the case of Varnum v. Brien. In unanimously ruling that an Iowa statute defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman violated the Iowa constitution, the Court noted the Comment of Misha Isaak, Comment Editor for
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Articles

“Wild Political Dreaming: Historical Context, Popular Sovereignty, and Supermajority Rules”

[Summary forthcoming] Title: Wild Political Dreaming: Historical Context, Popular Sovereignty, and Supermajority Rules Author: Brett W. King Published: April 2000 Proper Citation: Brett W. King, Wild Political Dreaming: Historical Context, Popular Sovereignty, and Supermajority Rules, 2 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 609 (2000). Click here for a PDF copy.

“1999 Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture: Diversity”

[Summary forthcoming] Title: 1999 Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture: Diversity Author: Sanford Levinson  Published: April 2000 Proper Citation: Sanford Levinson, 1999 Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture: Diversity, 2 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 573 (2000). Click here for a PDF copy.