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Each year, the UCLA School of Law hosts the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture.  Since 1986, the lecture series has served as a forum for leading scholars in the fields of copyright and First Amendment law.  In recent years, the lecture has been presented by many distinguished scholars.  The UCLA Law Review has published these lectures and proudly continues that tradition by publishing an...

Once again, the U.S. Supreme Court will determine the constitutionality of affirmative action.  Once again, the focus will be on the diversity rationale for the policy.  And, once again, the discussion will likely center on whether the admissions regime of a particular school (this time, the University of Texas) can take steps to ensure that it admits a certain number—or to put the point more...

On December 17, 2010, a young Tunisian street vendor protesting an abusive police official set off a wave of democratic uprisings throughout the Arab world.  In rising up against their governments, the peoples of the Arab countries were confronting an age-old problem in political theory: When is it acceptable to rise up against an unjust authority?  This question is not only of great importance...

As banking has evolved over the last three decades, banks have become increasingly interconnected.  This Article draws attention to an effect of this development that has important policy ramifications yet remains largely unexamined—a dramatic rise in interbank discipline.  The Article demonstrates that today’s large, complex banks have financial incentives to monitor risk taking at other banks. ...

The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (Vienna Convention), to which the United States is a party, requires signatories to notify the consulates of and to grant consular officers physical access to foreign criminal defendants.  While the treaty has mostly functioned well for its states parties, the United States has recently encountered substantial problems—and international ill will—for its...