Volume 40	Issue Two

Faculty Contributions

Deriving Law from the Biblical Narrative: The Book of Ruth	George Dargo
Nine Questions About Same-Sex Marriage Conflict	Stanley E. Cox
Toxic Torts, Autism, and Bad Science: Why the Courts May be Our Best Defense Against Scientific Relativism	Joelle Anne Moreno
Llewellyn’s Code as a Reflection of Legal Consciousness	Curtis Nyquist
Reckoning with Dissonance: Thoughts on State Constitutional Law and Constitutional Discourse	Lawrence Friedman
Improving Enforcement Mechanisms in the Charitable Sector: Can Increased Disclosure of Information be Utilized Effectively?	Ronald Chester
From the Margins to the Core: Integrating Public Service Legal Work into the Mainstream of Legal Education	Russell Engler
Our Environmental Rebels: An Average American Law Professor’s Perspective on Environmental Advocacy and the Law	Peter Manus
Sovereignty, Identity, and the ‘Apparatus of Death’	Tawia Ansah
Common Law Marriage: A Proposal for the Revival of a Dying Doctrine	Sonya C. Garza
Oath and Affirmation in the Court: Thoughts on the Power of a Sworn Promise	Nadine Farid
Book Review: Many Unhappy Returns: One Man’s Question to Turn Around the Most Unpopular Organization in America	Eric A. Lustig

Comment

Hernandez v. Ashcroft: A Construction of “Extreme Cruelty” Under the Violence Against Women Act and its Potential Impact on Immigration and Domestic Violence Law

Alexandra Blake Flamme

Notes

The Congress Do Us Part: The Marriage Protection Act, Federal Court-Stripping, and Same-Sex Marriage	J. Spencer Jenkins
The Current Fate of the Lobster Fishery and a Proposal for Change	Samantha Renee Smith.