Lawyers, Clients, and the "Third Person in the Room"
A response to Muneer I. Ahmad, Interpreting Communities: Lawyering Across Language Difference, 54 UCLA L. Rev. 999 (2007).
Reflections on Twenty Years of Law Teaching
On April 16, 2008, the author received the UCLA School of Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. This Essay consists of a revised and extended version of the remarks he gave on that occasion. In it, he addresses both his progression from...
The Economic Benefits of Credit Card Merchant Restraints: A Response to Adam Levitin
A response to Priceless? The Economic Costs of Credit Card Merchant Restraints In Priceless?: The Economic Costs of Credit Card Merchant Restraints, Adam Levitin argues that credit card systems violate the U.S. antitrust laws by prohibiting...
Volume 56, Issue 6
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Overcoming Overdisclosure: Toward Tax Shelter Detection
Every year, thousands of taxpayers and their advisors are required to mail special disclosure forms that reveal details of potentially abusive tax strategies to the Office of Tax Shelter Analysis of the Internal Revenue Service in Ogden, Utah. This...
Narrowing the Definition of “Dwelling” Under the Fair Housing Act
The Fair Housing Act was enacted in order to protect certain groups against discrimination in housing. The Act extends this protection to any “dwelling,” but its coverage is not well defined for nontraditional sleeping facilities such as homeless...