The Loyola University Chicago Law Journal is the law school's primary scholarly publication that is distributed throughout the nation's law libraries, judges' chambers, and other various legal organizations. Published continuously since 1970, the Law Journal is committed both to the examination and analysis of current legal issues and problems and to the development of the law. The Law Journal is edited and managed entirely by students and publishes the work of distinguished writers, including academics, practitioners, and judges. The Law Journal also publishes student-written Notes and Comments.

The Law Journal will publish five issues during the 2012-2013 year that will comprise Volume 44. The first issue will cover general legal topics. The second issue will contain articles from the April 2012 Law Journal Conference titled "The Future of Class Actions and Its Alternatives," as well as general legal topics. Next, Issue 3 will contain articles from the September 2012 Northwestern School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law Labor and Employment Law Colloquium, as well as general legal articles. Issue 4 will contain articles addressing timely aspects of Illinois law. Finally, Issue 5 will present articles and speeches from the Loyola University Chicago Institute for Investor Protection’s October 2012 conference on Behavioral Economics and Investor Protection which featured keynote speaker, Nobel Prize-winning Economist Daniel Kahneman.

The Law Journal is pleased to make available articles from Volume 44. All citations are to 44 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. ___.

2013 Law Journal Conference - Patents, Innovation, and Freedom to Use Ideas

VOLUME 44 - ISSUE 2 - Winter 2012

SPEECH

• Is the Class Half-Empty or Half-Full?
  by Kenneth R. Feinberg
  

ARTICLES

• Class Actions and State Authority
  by Samuel Issacharoff
• Legal Process in a Box, or What Class Action Waivers Teach Us about Law-making
  by Rhonda Wasserman
• Class Actions along the Path of Federal Rule Making
  by Vaughn R. Walker
• Hijacked by Statistics, Rescued by Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Probing Commonality and Due Process Concerns in Modern Class Action Litigation
  by Saby Ghoshray
• Advance Consent to Aggregate Settlements: Reflections on Attorneys' Fiduciary Obligations and Professional Responsibility Duties‌
  by Carol A. Needham

ESSAYS

• Reflections on the Future of Class Actions
  by Robert H. Klonoff
• Due Process and the Future of Class Actions
  by Alexandra D. Lahav
• Complex Litigation in New Jersey and Federal Courts: An Overview of the Current State of Affairs and a Glimpse of What Lies Ahead
  by Hon. Brian R. Martinotti, J.S.C.
• Who Will Regulate Class Action Lawers?
  by Nancy J. Moore

Volume 44 - Issue 3 - Spring 2013

Northwestern School of Law and Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Labor and Employment Law Colloquium Articles

• Regretting Roth? Why and How the Supreme Court Could Deprive Tenured Public Teachers of Due Process Rights in Employment
  Karl D. Camillucci
• The Law is a Fractal: The Attempt to Anticipate Everything
  Andrew Morrison Stumpff
• Could the American Psychiatric Association Cause You Headaches? The Dangerous Interaction between the DSM-5 and Employment Law 
  Douglas A. Hass
• Diverging Doctrine, Converging Outcomes: Evaluating Age Discrimination Law in the United Kingdom and the United States
  Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

Non-Colloquium Articles

• Over the Borderline—A Review of Margaret Price’s Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
  Gregory M. Duhl
• Am I My Brother’s Keeper? A Tax Law Perspective on the Challenge of Balancing Gatekeeping Obligations and Zealous Advocacy in the Legal Profession
  Richard Lavoie
• The Individual Mandate’s Due Process Legality: A Kantian Explanation, and Why It Matters
  Peter Brandon Bayer

Non-Colloquium Essay

• Reflections on the NLRB’s Labor Law Jurisprudence after Wilma Liebman
  David L. Gregory, Ian Hayes, and Amanda Jaret

   

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Chicago, IL 60611
312-915-7183
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