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William S. Stevens, whose slyly humorous law-review note on the relationship between baseball’s infield fly rule and Anglo-American common law became one of the most celebrated and imitated analyses in American legal history, died Monday in Anchorage, where he was working. He was 60 and lived in Narberth, Pa. "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule," 1975 The cause was a heart attack, said T. Dennis Sullivan, his brother-in-law. Mr. Stevens was a law student at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 when he wrote an anonymous note for the university’s law review that drew an ingenious analogy...

This is a call for help. I am a second year student at Ave Maria School of Law. This year I made law review and need to write a note (paper) on a legal topic. I need something that hasn't been beaten to death, yet is deep enough that I can write 40-60 pages about it. DOes anyone have any ideas? I have a fewof my own, but I feel like they are too limited and I will struggle with them. Thanks for any help.

He-e-e's back! Who says Bill Clinton isn't still making history? He's just had an article/essay/speech published in the Arkansas Law Review, the scholarly quarterly put out by the University of Arkansas' law school at Fayetteville. How many other lawyers barred from practicing for five years in their home state -- and also stripped of their license to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States -- have been invited to adorn a law journal? It's the equivalent of a Mafia don writing the lead article in some law enforcement journal. This has got to be some kind of record....