White Papers
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Index
- A Report on the Political Balance of the Tennessee Plan (April 2009)
- The North Carolina Supreme Court: A Special Issue Report (October 2008)
- Alabama Supreme Court Justice Harold See: His Twelve-Year Legacy -- A Special Issue Report (October 2008)
- The Supreme Court of Texas: A Balanced Court -- A Special Issue Report (October 2008)
- Michigan's Big Four: An Analysis of the Modern Michigan Supreme Court (October 2008)
- Should We Keep this Court? An Economic Examination of Recent Decisions Made by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (October 2008)
- The Modern California Supreme Court: Progressivism and Practical Constraints (October 2008)
- A More Modest Court: The Ohio Supreme Court's Newfound Judicial Restraint (September 2008)
- The Louisiana Supreme Court: Interpreting the Law or Making Policy? (September 2008)
- On the Side of Angels: Updating the Mississippi Supreme Court's View of the Judicial Role, 2004-2008 (August 2008)
- The State of the Washington Supreme Court: A 2008 Update (August 2008)
- Everyone's Business: Emerging Issues in the Wisconsin Supreme Court (March 2008)
- A Report on Reauthorization of the Tennessee Plan (February 2008)
- Judicial Recess Appointments: A Survey of the Arguments -- An Addendum (December 2007)
- Selection to the Kansas Supreme Court (November 2007)
- IGWG: Beyond its Mandate? (October 2007)
- The Consequences of Judicial Selection: A Review of the Supreme Court of Missouri, 1992-2007
- Interstate Comity: Cheers for Texas by Michael Greve (March 2007)
- A Court Unbound? The Recent Jurisprudence of the Wisconsin Supreme Court by Rick Esenberg (March 2007)
- Sordid Business: The Supreme Court Confronts the Constitutionality of Racial Preferences in K-12 Education by Virginia Solicitor General William E. Thro & University of Dayton Professor Charles J. Russo (March 2007)
- Texas-Sized Transformation: The Conservative Counterrevolution on the Texas Supreme Court by Meredith B. Parenti & Susanna Dokupil (February 2007)
- Justice Kennedy's Analysis of Navigable Waters in Rapanos by Virginia S. Albrecht & Deidre G. Duncan (January 2007)
- The Rapanos Decision by M. Reed Hopper & Damien Schiff (January 2007)
- Recalibrating the Definition of "Waters of the United States" after Rapanos by Jeffrey H. Wood (January 2007)
- The Modern Role of State Attorneys General: A Renewed Activism by Robert J. Gaglione (January 2007)
- Marshall v. Marshall and the Probate Exception to Federal Court Jurisdiction by Hon. Ronald A. Cass (January 2007)
- Pension Protection Act of 2006 by Austin Bramwell (January 2007)
- Customary International Law and State Patterns of Cooperation in the Use of Force in Response to Terrorism by Vincent Vitkowsky (December 2006)
- The Florida Supreme Court: Judicial Activism & Judicial Self-Restraint -- Some Examples by Thomas C. Marks, Jr. and Pamela Buha (October 2006)
- The Colorado Supreme Court: Independence or Activism? by Shawn Mitchell (October 2006)
- Staying the Course: An Update on the Alabama Supreme Court by Marc James Ayers (October 2006)
- The Predictable Unpredictability of the Georgia Supreme Court by Robert Barker, Holly A. Pierson, & W. Ryan Teague (October 2006)
- The Washington Supreme Court: A Special Issue Report by David K. DeWolf, Andrew C. Cook, & Seth L. Cooper (October 2006)
- Increasing the Security of Elections: The Effect of Identification Requirements on Turnout of Minority Voters by Hans A. von Spakovsky (September 2006)
- "Eight Ways to Sunday": Which Direction, Kentucky Supreme Court? by John K. Bush and Paul E. Salamanca (September 2006)
- EPA’s New Source Review Enforcement Initiative: Legal and Policy Flaws, by David B. Rivkin, Jr., Lee A. Casey, and Mark W. DeLaquil (July 2006)
- State-Level Protection for Good-Faith Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, by former FDA General Counsel Daniel Troy (March 2006)
- Agency Discretion and Restoring the Reign of Reason to the NSR Program (March 2006)
- The Proliferation of State Statutes Using Racial and Ethnic Classifications (June 2005)
- The Help America Vote Act of 2002: A Statutory Primer (June 2005)
- It's Not Just the Test that's a Lemon, It's How Some Judges Apply It (June 2005)
- Can Bush Supreme Court Appointments Lead to a Rollback of the New Deal?
by William Consovoy, Wendy Keefer, Thomas McCarthy and Seth Wood (May 2005) - Business and the Supreme Court (March 2005)
- Discrimination, Retaliation, and Implied Private Rights of Action (February 2005)
- Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Supreme Court Decision (February 2005)
- Rethinking Campaign Finance Prohibitions by Allison R. Hayward (January 2005)
- Voting by Military Personnel and Overseas Citizens: the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act by Hans A. von Spakovsky (January 2005)
- Breaking the Compact: Separation of Powers, Deference and Fair Notice in New Source Review (December 2004)
- State Supreme Courts 2004: Alabama, Illinois, Ohio, Mississippi
- The Iraqi Special Tribunal: Securing Sovereignty From the Ground Up
by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Newton (October 2004) - Swift Boat Democracy & The New American Campaign Finance Regime
by Lee Goodman of Wiley Rein and Fielding (October 2004) - Born in the U.S.A.? Rethinking Birthright Citizenship in the Wake of 9/11
by Prof. John Eastman of Chapman University School of Law (October 2004) - An Examination of Cheney v. U.S. District Court - A Win for Executive Authority
by Shannen W. Coffin (June 2004) - Supreme Court Review of UTSA II Would Delay the President's Broadband Policy and Prolong Existing Disarray of Telecommunications by Congressman David McIntosh and Julian Gehman (June 2004)
- Explosive Growth of Federal Crime Legislation (May 2004)
- Judicial Recess Appointments: A Survey of the Arguments by Stuart Buck, James C. Ho, Brett H. McGurk, Tara Ross & Kannon Shanmugam (January 2004)
- Gay Marriage and the Federal Judicial Confirmation Process by Brian J. Murray and David S. Petron (February 2004)
- Drafting Buckley v. Valeo: The Court, Liberty, and Politics by Allison R. Hayward (2003)
- Private Securities Litigation Refrom Act: A Post-Enron Analysis
- Can the President Terminate the ABM Treaty?
- The Case for Partisan Judicial Elections
- The Case for Judicial Appointments
- The ABA and Criminal Justice Issues
- White Papers on Terrorism
- International Law & American Sovereignty
- Addressing Enron
- The First Amendment and Securities Laws
- The Grand Finale is Just the Beginning: School Choice and the Coming Battle Over Blaine Amendments
