Issue 1

California Evidence Code – Federal Rules of Evidence 

• VI. Authentication and the Best and Secondary Evidence Rules by Miguel A. Mendez

Comments

• Supplemental Jurisdiction over Permissive Counterclaims in Light of Exxon v. Allapattah by Graham M. Beck
• Legislative Inconsistency: California’s Good Cause Statutory Exceptions as a Step Back in the Effort to Improve Court Access for Non-English Speaking Civil Litigants by Nicholas P. Tsukamaki

Issue 2

Articles

• FDA, CLIA, or a “Reasonable Combination of Both”: Toward Increased Regulatory Oversight of Genetic Testing by Douglas A. Grimm
• Rhetoric of Academe by Curtis E. A. Karnow
• Executive Compensation: Reining in Runaway Abuses-Again by Susan Lorde Martin

Jack Pemberton Lecture Series

• Caregivers in the Courtroom: The Growing Trend of Family Responsibilities Discrimination by Joan C. Williams & Stephanie Bornstein
• Indirect Sex Discrimination-A View from Across the Pond by Joanna Wade

Comments

• Carnero v. Boston Scientific Corporation: Interpreting the Extraterritorial Effect of the Civil Whistleblower Protection Provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act by Caryn R. Nutt
• Process Theory and Emerging Thirteenth Amendment Jurisprudence: The Case of Agricultural Guestworkers by Benjamin P. Quest

Notes

• Illinois Tool Works v. Independent Ink: Inking Out Limits of the Patent Grant by Tyler J. Gee

Issue 3

Articles

• Deceptive Appearances: Judges, Cognitive Bias, and Dress Codes by Marybeth Herald
• Local Gun Bans in California: A Futile Exercise by Don B. Kates & C.D. Michel
• Multilateral Climate Change Mitigation by Elizabeth Burleson
• Power or Prudence: Toward a Better Standard for Evaluating Patent Litigants’ Access to the Declaratory Judgment Remedy by Lisa A. Dolak

Comments

• Can Blogging and Employment Co-Exist? by John S. Hong
• First-to-File: Promoting the Goals of the United States Patent System as Demonstrated Through the Biotechnology Industry by Whitney E. Fraser Tiedemann
• “Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves!” Why the Parental Rights of Registered Domestic Partners Must Trump the Parental Rights of Their Known Sperm Donors in California by Allison J. Stone

Issue 4

Keynote Address

• Companies Caught in the Middle by Albert Gidari, Jr.

Articles

• The Fourth Amendment Status of Stored E-mail: The Law Professors’ Brief in Warshak v. United States by Susan Freiwald & Patricia L. Bellia
• Only the DOJ Knows: The Secret Law of Electronic Surveillance by Kevin S. Bankston
• Companies Positioned in the Middle: Municipal Wireless and Its Impact on Privacy and Free Speech by Nicole A. Ozer

Comments

• Domain Names Triggering Internet Pop- Up Advertisements: A “Use in Commerce” Under the Lanham Act by Joan Obispo Arbolante
• Reexamining the Yahoo! Litigations: Toward an Effects Test for Determining International Cyberspace Jurisdiction by Matthew Chivvis
• Keeping Free Speech Free in the College Marketplace of Ideas: California Legislation as an Imperfect Solution to Censorship by University Administrators by Jennifer Ross