Volume 4

ADDRESS

The Current, Subtle–and Not So Subtle–Rejection of an Independent Judiciary
Guido Calabresi

ARTICLES

On the Slippery Slopes of Afghanistan: Military Commissions and the Exercise of Presidential Power
Juan R. Torruella

ESSAY

Racial Mind-Games and Reapportionment: When Can Race Be Considered (Legitimately) in Redistricting?
Ken Gormley

COMMENTS

Unbalance of Powers: The International Criminal Court’s Potential To Upset the Founders’ Checks and Balances
David M. Baronoff

Shame’s Revival: An Unconstitutional Regression
Mark Spatz

Running from the Law: Federal Contractors Escape Bivens Liability
Mariana Claridad Paastore

ARTICLES

Does the Establishment Clause Matter? Non-Establishment Principles in the United States and Canada
Donald L. Beschle

A Study in Contradiction: A Look at the Conflicting Assumptions Underlying Standard Arguments for Speech Codes and the Diversity Rationale
Chi Steve Kwok

BOOK REVIEW

Liberalism and Membership
Eric J. Mitnick

COMMENTS

Due Process Rights and the Termination of Consent Decrees Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act
Anne K. Heidel

Speech in Public Schools: Different Context or Different Rights?
Jonathan Pyle

SYMPOSIUM
EQUAL PROTECTION AFTER THE RATIONAL BASIS ERA:  IS IT TIME TO REASSESS THE CURRENT STANDARDS OF REVIEW

ARTICLES

Standards of Review Under the Equal Protection Clause and Related Constitutional Doctrines Protecting Individual Rights:  The “Base Plus Six” Model and Modern Supreme Court Practice
R. Randell Kelso

Affirmative Action and Compelling Interests:  Equal Protection Jurisprudence at the Crossroads
Ashutoush Bhagwat

Judicial Supremacy and Equal Protection in a Democracy of Rights
Stephen M. Griffin

Rethinking Equal Protection in Dark Times
Mark A. Graber

Tears for Tiers on the Rehnquist Court
Stephen E. Gottlieb

Between the Tiers:  The New(est) Equal Protection and Bush v. Gore
Leslie Friedman Goldstein

Curious Chiasma:  Rising and Falling Protection of Religious Freedom and Gender Equality
Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr.

ARTICLES

Florida v. J.L.–Withdrawing Permission to “Lie with Impunity”:  The Demise of “Truly Anonymous” Informants and the Resurrection of the Aguilar/Spinelli Test for Probable Cause
Peter Erlinder

Coda to William Penn’s Overture:  Safeguarding Religious Liberty Under the Pennsylvania Constitution
Gary S. Gildin

COMMENTS

Igartúa De La Rosa v. United States:  The Right of the United States Citizens of Puerto Rico to Vote for President and the Need To Re-Evaluate America’s Territorial Policy
Eduardo Guzmán

A Test Case for Re-Evaluation of the Dormant Commerce Clause:  The Maine Rx Program
Abigail B. Pancoast