December | 2014 | Arizona Law Review

A Brief History of Software Patents (And Why They’re Valid)

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 65 (2014)

Adam Mossoff Article View PDF

Today, there is a vigorous and sometimes caustic debate over whether computer software is a patentable invention. Unfortunately, these arguments are rife with confusion about both the technology and the…

Beyond the Bluebook: Teaching First-Year Law Students What They Need to Know About Legal Citation

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 81 (2014)

Peter Nemerovski Article View PDF

There are several disadvantages to the traditional, Bluebook-centered approach to teaching legal citation. First, it ignores the reality that many federal and state jurisdictions have adopted other systems of citation,…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Author’s Introduction

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 11 (2014)

Carol M. Rose Article View PDF

Saving the Neighborhood is a book that has been a rather a long time in the making. Rick Brooks and I talked about writing it together for several years after…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Part I

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 19 (2014)

Robert W. Gordon Article View PDF

Saving the Neighborhood is a very fine book. It is a compact, very sinewy book, which is written with great clarity. And it has a kind of spare elegance. It…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Part II

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 29 (2014)

Risa L. Goluboff Article View PDF

Of the many audiences for this book, the one I will talk about today, perhaps unsurprisingly, is the audience of legal historians, and especially historians of race, civil rights, and…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Part III

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 39 (2014)

Price Fishback Article View PDF

My comments are both complimentary and complementary. Let’s start with the complimentary. Saving the Neighborhood is a great book. It is a must-read for anybody who studies segregation, particularly in…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Part IV

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 51 (2014)

Gabriel J. Chin Article View PDF

My initial reaction is that the book is wonderful. It’s a jewel. It tells an important story about an important legal mechanism that ultimately had a lot of effects. It…

Panel Discussion on Saving the Neighborhood: Part V

56 Ariz. L. Rev. Syl. 59 (2014)

Gerald Torres Article View PDF

I want to thank Carol, whom I’ve known for years, and Rick, for writing this book. Although, I did think that the title should be Secured Transactions, I suspect you’d…

A Game Changer for the Political Economy of Economic Development Incentives

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 953 (2014)

Stephen Ellis, Grant Hayden & Cynthia Rogers Article View PDF

State and local governments have embraced their authority to offer economic development incentives for the purpose of attracting, retaining, or enhancing economic activity within their borders. Collectively, these programs represent…

Love Matters

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 977 (2014)

Tamara L. Kuennen Article View PDF

Love matters to women in abusive relationships. Consequently, matters of love should mean something to both the legal regime redressing intimate partner violence (“IPV”) and to feminist legal scholars seeking…

Just Violence

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 1017 (2014)

Alice Ristroph Article View PDF

Ethical reflections on war—and the positive laws these reflections have inspired—have framed their undertaking as the effort to limit and regulate state violence. Ethical reflections on punishment have not been…

The Cure for the Young Prosecutors’ Syndrome

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 1065 (2014)

Ronald F. Wright & Kay L. Levine Article View PDF

Although legal scholars treat prosecutors like interchangeable parts, we argue—based on interviews and surveys of over 200 state prosecutors in eight offices—that scholars should be alert to the differences among…

With San Jose at Bat, Federal Baseball is in the Bottom of the Ninth

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 1129 (2014)

Colleen Ganin Note View PDF

Baseball and antitrust are influential cultural and economic American traditions. They famously intersected in a series of cases whereby the Supreme Court created and reinforced a peculiar exemption for baseball…

So You’ve Been Notified, Now What? The Problem with Current Data-Breach Notification Laws

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 1171 (2014)

Rachael Peters Note View PDF

Data breaches, now a common occurrence throughout the world, are an ever-present threat to both consumers and companies, exposing on average the personal information of 1.1 million people and racking…

Women of Color and Crime: A Critical Race Theory Perspective to Address Disparate Prosecution

56 Ariz. L. Rev. 1203 (2014)

Molly A. Schiffer Note View PDF

This Note seeks to acknowledge, explain, and offer a remedy to the problem of disparate prosecution of women of color. Women of color are disproportionately arrested and prosecuted for felonies…