Noteworthy
Jordan M. Singer reflects on the uncertain future of judicial retention elections, in response to Todd E. Pettys's recent article Judicial Retention Elections, the Rule of Law, and the Rhetorical Weaknesses of Consequentialism, 60 Buff. L. Rev. 69 (2012). View this and other recent responses in Buffalo Law Review's online extension: The Docket.
The Buffalo Law Review is proud to honor Jean C. Powers '79, Partner at Jaeckle Fleischmann & Mugel LLP, and David E. Franasiak '78, Principal of Williams & Jensen, at its Twenty-Third Annual Awards Dinner on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, at the Buffalo Club in Buffalo, NY at 6:00pm. Find out more about the Law Review's activities and achievements in the 2012 Alumni Newsletter.
Should NCAA players unionize in an effort to get paid? A forthcoming article in the August issue of the Buffalo Law Review, A Union of Amateurs: A Legal Blueprint to Reshape Big-Time College Athletics, by Nick Fram and Thomas Frampton presents surprising research regarding state-level paths to player unionization and pay. Their cutting edge research is already garnering media attention; a recent article in Salon, "Madness of March: NCAA Gets Paid, Players Don’t," relies heavily on their findings to suggest an avenue to empower student-athletes: "Rather than corrupting 'amateurism,' Fram and Frampton argue, unionization offers a path to preserve its best aspects: protecting the league from legal crisis while providing players a forum to defend their academic pursuits and their physical and emotional health."
Justice Scalia cited Susan Randall's influential article, Judicial Attitudes Toward Arbitration and the Resurgence of Unconscionability, 52 Buff. L. Rev. 185 (2004) in his majority opinion in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion. Professor Randall's article used groundbreaking empirical research to demonstrate increased use of the unconscionability doctrine in courts since the Federal Arbitration Act was passed.
Todd Pettys's article was featured in an editorial, "Judges Need to Learn to Defend Themselves," in the Iowa City Press-Citizen on December 16, 2011. The editors wrote: "Pettys is right that the only real problem with Iowa’s current judicial nominating system is that it all but ties the hands of judges from defending themselves against any organized efforts to unseat them."
Current Issue
Volume 60, Issue 2
April 2012
2011 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture
From Nuremberg to Buffalo: Justice Jackson's Enduring Lessons of Morality and Law in a World at War
Justice Jackson’s 1946 Nuremberg Reflections at Buffalo: An Introduction
60 Buff. L. Rev. 255
Address at the University of Buffalo Centennial Convocation, October 4, 1946
60 Buff. L. Rev. 283
Mitchell Lecture Essays
Bringing Nuremberg Home: Justice Jackson’s Path Back to Buffalo, October 4, 1946
60 Buff. L. Rev. 295
Of Nazis, Americans, and Educating Against Catastrophe
60 Buff. L. Rev. 323
Law, Power, and “Rumors of War”: Robert Jackson Confronts Law and Security After Nuremberg
60 Buff. L. Rev. 367
Articles
60 Buff. L. Rev. 387
Privatization and the Market Frame
60 Buff. L. Rev. 493
Note
60 Buff. L. Rev. 559
Forthcoming Issue
Articles
No State Actor Left Behind: Rethinking Section 1983 Liability in the Context of Disciplinary Alternative Schools and Beyond
Sexing Harris: The Law and Politics of the Movement to Defund Planned Parenthood
Promoting Justice Through Public Interest Advocacy in Class Actions
Essay
The Faculty Workshop
Comment
Pirates, Incorporated?: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. and the Uncertain State of Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations Under the Alien Tort Statute