McGeorge Law Review | Volume 43

Volume 43 – Issue 1

Symposium: The Road to Legitimizing Marijuana: What Benefit at What Cost?

Articles

• Approaches to Assessing the Effects of Marijuana Criminal Law Repeal in California (pdf) — Robert Weisberg
• Marijuana Prohibition and the Shrinking of the Fourth Amendment (pdf) — Susan F. Mandiberg
• Why the Initiative Process Is the Wrong Way to Go: Lessons We Should Have Learned from Proposition 215 (pdf) — Michael Vitiello
• Sorting Through the Science on Marijuana: Facts, Fallacies, and Implications for Legalization (pdf) — Itai Danovitch, M.D.
• Medical Marijuana and Federal Narcotics Enforcement in the Eastern District of California (pdf) — Benjamin B. Wagner and Jared C. Dolan
• Medical Marijuana: A Study of Unintended Consequences (pdf) — Gerald Caplan
• Medical Marijuana in Colorado and the Future of Marijuana Regulation in the United States (pdf) — Sam Kamin

Appendices

• Appendix A (pdf)
• Appendix B (pdf)
• Appendix C (pdf)
• Appendix D (pdf)

Volume 43 – Issue 2

Articles

• Jean Valjean's Nightmare: Rehabilitation and Redemption inLes Misérables (pdf) — Michael H. Hoffheimer
• Finding Superman in Cyberspace (Poisoned Flowers, Part 1): Resolving Focal Point and Trademark Disputes on the Internet and in Cyberspace by Rewriting Code (pdf) — Thomas C. Folsom
• Pitchess v. Brady: The Need for Legislative Reform of California's Confidentiality Protection for Peace-Officer Personnel Information (pdf) — Miguel A. Neri
• The Perfect Storm, the Perfect Culprit: How a Metaphor of Fate Figures in Judicial Opinions (pdf) — Carol McCrehan Parker
• Does It Matter What We Say About Legal Interpretation? (pdf) — Karen Petroski

Comments

• Municipal Economic Boycotts as a Form of Political Opposition: Why Boycotts of Arizona Companies in Response to Arizona SB 1070 Run Afoul of the Dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution (pdf) — Katerina Deaver
• Old Habits Die Hard: Reforming the Learned Intermediary Doctrine in the Era of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (pdf) — Ashley Porter
• Renovating Architectural Copyright: The Case for Protection of Nonhabitable Structures (pdf) — Kirk W. Wilbur
• Divorcing Ideas (pdf) — Allan Woodworth

Volume 43 – Issue 3

Review of Selected 2009 California Legislation

Business and Professions (pdf)

• From Blacked Out to Tapped Out — Suni Li Alexander
• Renegotiating the Role of Athlete Agents — Maryn Oyoung
• Increasing Penalties to Catch California's First Unscrupulous Athlete Agent — Joel M. Smith

Civil (pdf)

• Expanding Freedom of Expression for California Renters? — Suni Li Alexander
• A Twenty-First Century Law for Twenty-First Century Medicine — Andrew Hsieh
• Charging Stations in Common Areas — Laying the Groundwork for California's Electric Car Infrastructure — Joel M. Smith

Civil Procedure (pdf)

• The End to Juror Electronic Communications — Kimberley Chow
• Conservation and Condemnation — Rebecca Tatum

Corporations (pdf)

• Creating a New Corporate Structure for Philanthropic-Minded Businesses — Eric E. Bonnett

Education (pdf)

• Authorizing Unlicensed School Employees to Administer Antiseizure Medication to Students with Epilepsy — Rebecca H. Sem
• The California Dream Act: A Dream (not DREAM) Come True — William Whaley

Elections (pdf)

• Forget College, You're Popular! A Review of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — Ronak Patel

Family (pdf)

• A Clear and Deliberate Step: Chapter 721 Brings Domestic Partnerships Closer to Marriage — Hunter Starr

Fish and Game (pdf)

• The Ecology and Controversy of Shark‑Fin Soup — Rebecca Tatum

Government (pdf)

• Solar-Use Easements — Let the Sunshine In — Sara Arfmann
• Prohibiting Discrimination Based on Genetic Information — Allison L. Cross
• The Bell Tolls for Local Government Corruption — Mark Freeman

Harbors and Navigation (pdf)

• Boaters Beware: Chapter 595 Anchors State Lands Commission's Vessel Removal Power — Colin H. Roberts

Health and Safety (pdf)

• Grandpa's RCFE has a Confession — It's Foreclosed — Mark Freeman

Penal (pdf)

• Revamping Clemency Procedures and Requirements in California — Christina Bucci
• Jailhouse Informants' Testimony Gets Scrutiny Commensurate with its Reliability — Peter P. Handy
• Changing the Process for the Administration of Involuntary Psychotropic Medications to State Inmates — Rebecca Sem
• Pandora's Lock‑Box: Is the Legislature Locking Handguns in a Box, or Unleashing Concealed Weapons? — Hunter Starr

Public Resources (pdf)

• Permitting Nonprofits to Save State Parks — Eric E. Bonnett