American motion picture studios have a bipolar reputation. There is the glamorized but satisfying notion of Hollywood as being a delightfully messy mixture of high-powered fast-talkers, gonzo auteurs who will do anything for their art, sleazy agents, stylish stars, and the distinct possibility to dreams may very well come true. However, there is also the doleful realization that movie studios are almost all merely one branch of multinational corporations, those unappealing guys who combine all the worst qualities of bureaucracy, economics, and salesmanship. Movie studios are big businesses, and while making movies often involves art, entertainment, and attractive distillations of cool, they also have to keep an eye on profit margins and bottom lines.

Written by:  Adam Gottlieb
Researched by:  Daniel Kwak
Edited by:  Eric Blaine
Managing Editor:  Mary Anne Nash
America is losing the war on drugs.  Over the past 40 years, the United States Government

has spent more than $2.5 trillion dollars fighting the “war on drugs” yet the number of drug users in the United States has risen to a [...]

Written by: Eric Blaine
Researched by: Eric Wasik
Edited by: Casey Sanders
Managing Editor: Mary Anne Nash
It should come as no surprise that political figures can get as excited about sports as the rest of us, college football in particular. With strong regional and state affiliations, enthusiastic alumni, and big-time media alliances, college football games are one of [...]

Written by: Eric Blaine
Researched by: Jeff Hinman
Edited by: Jeff W. Richards
Managing Editor: Brady Iandiorio
LEGO Group, the Danish manufacturer of the beloved building toy, has been riding high lately.  Where other toy companies seemed to be falling victim to age compression (the idea that children are not spending their time playing with toys as much as [...]

Written by: Matthew A. Schroettnig
Researched by: Adam Gottlieb
Edited by: Eric Blaine and Tom Borton
Managing Editor: Brady Iandiorio
Music is like, crazy, man.
It seems every time you check the news, the music industry is once again going broke as a result of some epic catastrophe. In the 1980s that catastrophe was the blank cassette tape; in [...]

Written by: Nick Caleb
Researched by: Casey E. Sanders
Edited by: Stefanie Herrington, Daniel Kwak, and Eric Blaine
Managing Editor: Amy E. Seely
ATTENTION:  The final buzzer may have just sounded on the Wall Street Era.
The global marketplace is in the midst of a serious financial crisis of which the effects are in no way limited to American International [...]

THE LEGALITY ONLINE LAW JOURNAL

Fall 2009 Editorial Board

Editor-In-Chief

Brady Iandiorio

Managing Editors

Articles Editor

Mary Anne Nash

Matthew A. Schroettnig*

Kirk Strohman

Jennifer Hill**

Contributing Editors

Benjamin Albers**
Amanda Husted**
Stephen Robbins**

Eric Blaine
Daniel Kwak
Casey E. Sanders

Moorisha Bey-Taylor**
Jesus Miguel Palomares**
Adam Shelton**

Tracy Frazier

* Indicates a Co-founding member of the Legality.
** Indicates a new member of the Legality.

You can view our old masthead [...]