Volume 10, Issue 2 (Fall 2009)

Essay

Ruggero J. Aldisert, Judicial Declaration of Public Policy

Articles

Mark R. Kravitz, Written and Oral Persuasion in the United States Courts: A District Judge’s Perspective on Their History, Function, and Future

Akiva Shapiro, Should the Courts Save Taxpayer Standing? Interpreting Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation through the Lens of Judicial- Branch Spending

Steven Wisotsky, How to Interpret Statutes—Or Not: Plain Meaning and Other Phantoms

Books and Judges: Books for Judges

Robert C. Berring, Suggestions for American Judges: Ten Books that Merit Reading

Rebecca White Berch, The Merchant of Venice

Denise R. Johnson, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation

Kermit V. Lipez, The Ways of a Judge and On Appeal

Mark P. Painter, The Elements of Legal Style

Practice Notes

Peter O. Huang, Recent Supreme Court Patent Decisions: The Trend to Limit the Power of Patent Holders

Book Review

Patrick E. Higginbotham, Narratives Drawn from Rich Experience: Mayer Brown’s Federal Appellate Practice