Volume 56

ISSUE 1

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2004 Albritton Lecture: Women’s Progress at the Bar and on the Bench: Pathmarks in Alabama and Elsewhere in the Nation

Susan Freiwald, Online Surveillance: Remembering the Lessons of the Wiretap Act

Michael Edmund O’Neill and Linda Drazga Maxfield, Judicial Perspectives on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the Goals of Sentencing: Debunking the Myths

Richard M. Hynes, Why (Consumer) Bankruptcy?

Darian M. Ibrahim, Solving the Everyday Problem of Client Identity in the Context of Closely Held Businesses

Susan Pace Hamill, Review, The Book That Could Change Alabama

Emilie Kraft Bindon, Commentary, Entangled Choices: Selecting Chaplains for the United States Armed Forces

Glory McLaughlin, Commentary, A “Mixture of Race and Reform”: The Memory of the Civil War in the Alabama Legal Mind

Rebecca Crawford Eubanks, Commentary, When Should the Statute of Limitations Begin to Run in Tobacco Litigation?

ISSUE 2

Jennifer O’Hare, Preemption Under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act: If It Looks Like a Securities Fraud Claim and Acts Like a Securities Fraud Claim, Is It a Securities Fraud Claim?

Vern R. Walker, Restoring the Individual Plaintiff to Tort Law by Rejecting “Junk Logic” About Specific Causation

Sungjoon Cho, The WTO’s Gemeinschaft

Kenneth Feinberg, LECTURE, University of Alabama School of Law, April 8, 2004

Karyl Davis, Commentary, Unlocking the Door by Giving Her the Key: A Comment on the Adequacy of the U-visa as a Remedy

Michael P. Huff, The Alabama Business Entities Conversion and Merger Act

Joy A. Boyd, Power, Policy, & Practice: Ashcroft’s Plea Bargain Policy as Applied to the Federal Prosecutor’s Power under the United States Sentencing Guidelines

Survey of 2003-2004 Developments in Alabama Caselaw

ISSUE 3

Charles H. Koch, Jr., Policymaking by the Administrative Judiciary

Melissa Hart, Subjective Decisionmaking and Unconscious Discrimination

Michael E. Waterstone, Lane, Fundamental Rights, and Voting

Derrick Bell, How Would Justice Hugo Black Have Written Brown v. Board?

Pratik A. Shah, The Hypothetical Impact of Alabama’s Failed Amendment 2 on Public School Funding

Wesley Bowen Gilchrist, Commentary, Turning Up the Heat: The SEC’s New Temporary Freeze Authority

Angela Boothe Noel, Commentary, The Future of Cash Balance Plans: Inherently Illegal or a Viable Pension Option?

Marcus A. Huff, Commentary, In re World Auxiliary Power Company: A Look at Federal Preemption of State Law in the Perfection of Security Interests in Registered and Unregistered Copyrights

ISSUE 4

Steve Raby, Eulogy for Howell T. Heflin

Bud Cramer, Eulogy for Tom Bevill

Charles W. Gamble and Robert H. Fowlkes, Comprehensive Principles Governing the Interaction Between the Alabama Rules of Evidence and Alabama Statutory Rules of Evidence and Alabama Statutory Rules of Evidence: The Need for Judicial Initiative and Legislative Deference When Both Branches of Government Hold Constitutional Power to Adopt Rules of Evidence

Joseph A. Colquitt, The Alabama Criminal Code – 25 Years and Counting

Christine A. Klein, On Integrity: Some Consideration for Water Law

Robert A. Garda, Jr., The New IDEA: Shifting Educational Paradigms to Achieve Racial Equality in Special Education

Robert H. Fowlkes, Commentary, Check Conversion: The Implication of an Innovative Payment System

Kitty Rogers, Commentary, Integrating the City of the Dead: The Integration of Cemeteries and the Evolution of Property Law, 1900-1969

Leah Moren Green, Commentary, The Erie Canal and the American Imagination: The Erie Canal’s Effects on American Legal Development, 1817-1869

Survey of 2004 Alabama Legislation