This research monograph analyses and describes how initiative elites react to the high level of judicial review of their successfully passed ballot measures and why those reactions are failing to decrease the number of judicial nullifications. For the last 30 years, state ballot measures that have passed and been challenged in court have been nullified at the ration of 1 out of 2. As a result of a 50% rate of nullification initiative elites have benefited from institutional learning and have become more sophisticated and politically savvy. However the nullification have hardly plummeted.

This important work is a three part study that includes a legal and historical review of the unique place of law reviews in American legal education as well as the nature and stature of the reviews and the varying careers the top reviews have had in the 20th century. Thirdly Gutterman has written of his own law review career with a mordant and fascinating eye on the extremes of legal opinion (and behavior) a deadline can bring. The author also discusses the effects of the two major writing competitions specifically devoted to law review writing.

Professor Fradella’s new monograph traces the development of defenses of excuse from their English Common Law roots to their various modern formulations under U.S.Law.

A major research work, this study examines one of America’s most distinguished Afro-American jurists from the point of view of his legal and philosophical beliefs as practiced from the bench. This monograph is a product of 31 years of research and investigation and includes material derived from interviews with Justice Marshall and his colleagues on the Supreme Court then and now. Justice Clarence Thomas and his role vis a vis the Marshall legacy is also discussed at length.

The volume will be the second in an ongoing project on the legal regulation of athletics.  It will consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing professional basketball.  The contributors are a distinguished group of academics and practitioners who have long focused their intellectual efforts on the legal governance of professional and amateur athletics. And this is a much needed addition to the law literature both in the United States as well as internationally.