Introduction: A Good Idea

Mark L. Movsesian
Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law

With this volume, the editors of the Hofstra Law Review introduce a new section: "Ideas." "Ideas" will serve as the vehicle for short pieces -- from three to 10 pages in length and having a minimal number of footnotes -- on topics of interest to scholars and practitioners. There will be no subject-matter restrictions and no requirement that the pieces relate to one another. "Ideas" will not be a symposium, but a collection of brief observations on important legal questions. . . .

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Ideas

Volume 33, Issue 4 -- Summer 2005

Uncertainty As a Basis for Standing	Daniel A. Farber
Delaware: Home of the World's Most Expensive Raincoat	Jonathan Macey
Alleged Conflicts of Interest Because of the "Appearance of Impropriety"	Ronald D. Rotunda
Liability for Direct Advertising of Drugs to Consumers: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Come	Aaron D. Twerski

Volume 34, Issue2 --Winter 2005

Executive Power, the Commander in Chief, and the Militia Clause	Richard A. Epstein
The Lawlessness of Aggregative Torts	James A. Henderson, Jr.
The Positive and Normative Puzzle of Decision Rules for Juries: The Example of Decision Rules for Civil Litigation in State Courts	Warren F. Schwartz