Editor's Corner

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/ablj.12098
• Published date: 01 June 2017
• Date: 01 June 2017
• Author: Miriam R. Albert

Editor’s Corner

Much has changed since I wrote the “Editor’s Corner” for Volume 54,

Issue 1. First, I am no longer a novice editor in chief. With one issue

completed, I now know how the full publication process works; I have

significant respect for the many folks on our team at Wiley who take

our carefully edited pieces and painstakingly and carefully turn them

into the issue you are now reading. They are amazing!

The world has also changed since our last issue. As I write this,

our new president has been in office just a few days. And the discourse

surrounding his words and actions so far is virtually consuming the con-

versations online, at my children’s schools, in the hallways and class-

rooms at Hofstra, and I’m sure in many other venues. Regardless of

what side we are on in any given issue, as lawyers, teachers, and schol-

ars, we know the significant value of the discourse process—the critically

important role thoughtful and supported discussion plays in law and

society.

And that is what we have for you in this issue. Our four pieces

touch on topics ranging from the scope of jurisdiction in the Federal

Circuit Court, to the embargo in Cuba, to the process of legal design, to

shadow banking in the United States and China. The pieces are

thoughtful and well written, and will educate you on the authors’ view-

points, and most importantly, will make you think.

In our first piece, “Improving Federal Circuit Doctrine Through

Increased Cross-Pollination,” Lynda J. Oswald examines the creation,

objectives, and jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit. She puts forth a prac-

tical and pragmatic proposal to increase cross-pollination of Federal

Circuit doctrine through enhanced sitting-by-designation practices that

she argues would further the development of correct patent doctrine,

thus optimizing all three of Congress’s objectives in creating the Federal

Circuit three decades ago: efficient, uniform, and accurate patent law.

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