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CITIZEN BEAVER AND “STATESMAN” SLOTH.

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Thomas Nast Harper’s Weekly, May 21, 1881 

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CONTENTS ___________________________________________________________ SECOND SERIES • VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2 • WINTER 2011 ___________________________________________________________

EX ANTE

Our Mistake ........................................................................ 125 In Memoriam: A.W.B. Simpson ......................................... 125 Exemplary Legal Writing 2010 .......................................... 126 Exemplary Legal Writing of Another Sort ......................... 128 Law and Culture, Amended or Bowdlerized ...................... 130

TO THE BAG Jeremy Rabkin .................................................................. 135

Re-reviewing the Lessons of History Simon Stern ....................................................................... 136

“New Yale” or “New-York”? Evan A. Young ................................................................. 137

By Any Other Name Would Judge As Well

ARTICLES James J. Duane .................................................................. 143

The Strange Glitch in the Rhode Island Rules of Evidence

D. Brock Hornby .............................................................. 147 Speaking in Sentences

Erik M. Jensen ................................................................... 163 Prepositions in the Constitution

Contents

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Robert L. Wald et al. ........................................................ 171 Re: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Jay Wexler ......................................................................... 181 Eagle Party

FROM THE BAG Femi Cadmus .................................................................... 193

Things in Common: Challenges of the 19th and 21st Century Librarians

John William Wallace ...................................................... 201 An Address of Welcome

REVIEWS Anonymous ...................................................................... 213

An Absorbing Casebook Kathleen Sullivan and Gerald Gunther, Constitutional Law, Sixteenth Edition (Foundation Press 2007)

EX POST Ross E. Davies, Craig D. Rust, and Adam Aft ............. 217

Justices at Work, or Not: New Supreme Court Statistics and Old Impediments to Making Them Accurate

Acknowledgments, Credits & Featured Books ................... 237