Commentary: Legal Education\u27s Future; A Broader Horizon or a Narrowing Window?

The curriculum and perspective of law schools today are broader than they have ever been, especially for students who elect to seek a broad legal education. Even broader legal education is not likely because factors both within and outside the universities point toward a narrowing of law school programs. There is at best an uneven case on the merits for further broadening of legal education

The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Justice Kennedy on Speech

Justice Kennedy\u27s basic principles in free speech cases are supporting political freedom, supporting individual autonomy, and protecting freedom to teach, learn, and innovate. Given these principles, his opinions in free speech cases protect free speech from government regulation unless the government can provide strong reasons for any restrictive action and show that the means it has chosen to carry out its purposes are closely tailored to its goals. At a minimum, judicial review is by strict scrutiny for content-based regulations and intermediate review for content-neutral time, place, and manner regulations. In some cases, Justice Kennedy has indicated a preference for a stronger, absolute rule of unconstitutionality for content-based regulations that do not fall into one of the traditional exceptions of free speech doctrine, such as obscenity, defamation, words tantamount to an act otherwise criminal, impairing some other constitutional right, an incitement to lawless action, or speech calculated to bring about imminent harm that the state has substantive power to regulate. Given his entire body of decisions regarding the freedom of speech over his quarter century on the Court, no Justice on the modern Court has been more consistently protective of the First Amendment freedom of speech than Justice Kennedy

Ehrenzweig: Conflict of Laws Part One Jurisdiction and Judgments

A Review of Conflict of Laws Part One Jurisdiction and Judgments. By Albert A. Ehrenzwei

Process of Analyzing Choice of Law Problems

Just as lawyers develop mental check lists for typical matters of significance in personal injury cases, divorces, wills, etc., so should they prepare to spot the most important choice of law problems. This project deserves high priority in any lawyer\u27s list of should do\u27s since the check list could be used in almost every case. One purpose of this Article is to suggest its major components