Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 34, Issue 3 (Pages 819 - 1143)

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About the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy:

The Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy is the nation’s leading forum for conservative and libertarian legal scholarship, one of the most widely circulated student-edited law reviews, and the first and bestselling law review available for the Kindle. The Journal is published three times annually by the Harvard Society for Law & Public Policy, Inc., an organization of Harvard Law School students.

Dynamic recent authors include Richard Epstein, Robert George, John Ashcroft, Judge Thomas Griffith, and Ron Paul. In the past, we have published pieces by former Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia, and Justice Clarence Thomas.

In this Issue:

From The Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention 2010:

- Direct Democracy: Government of the People, by the People, and for the People?, by Richard A. Epstein

- Elections Matter, by Michael J. Gerhardt

- How To Count to Thirty-four: The Constitutional Case for a Constitutional Convention, by Michael Stokes Paulsen

- Entrenching Good Government Reforms, by Mark V. Tushnet

- The Constitutionality of Proposition 8, by Richard A. Epstein

Three Articles:

- Embodied Equality: Debunking Equal Protection Arguments for Abortion Rights, by Erika Bachiochi

- The Constitutionality of Social Cost, by Josh Blackman

- May Lawyers Be Given the Power To Elect Those Who Choose Our Judges? "Merit Selection" and Constitutional Law, by Nelson Lund

Two Notes:

- What's the Harm? Nontaxpayer Standing To Challenge Religious Symbols

- Why We Cannot Ask Why: Ethical Independence and Voter Intent

And Two Recent Developments:

- The Changing Landscape of Firearm Legislation in the Wake of McDonald v. City of Chicago, 130 S. Ct. 3020

- Machinegunning Reason: Sentencing Factors and Mandatory Minimums in United States v. P'Brien, 130 S. Ct. 2169

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