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MISSISSIPPI LAW JOURNAL ARTICLES The Supreme CourtRejectsthe New NondelegationDoctrine: Implicationsforthe Administrative State FronaM.Powell r. YAmviLawattheTurnofthe Century DeborahH.Bell NavigatingtheMaze ofEvidenceofCharacterand OtherCrimes, Wrongs orActs MississippiRtilesofEvidence404&405 inCriminalCases TomR.Mason COMMENTS RevealingMississippiYouth Court: The Consequences OFLiftingConfidentialityReqitirementsonJuvenile JusticeinMississippi ASettlementofAyersv.Musgrove:IsMississippi MovingTowardsDesegregationinHigherEducationor MerelyaSeparatebut'MoreEqual' System? RECENTDECISION — — Constit—utionalLaw FifthAmendment Takings Clause MandatoryIOLTAProgramConstitutes PerSeTaking INDEXTOVOLUME71 VOLUME71 SPRING 2002 NUMBERS RECENT DECISIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI SUPREME COURT AND THE MISSISSIPPI COURT OFAPPEALS Keep your office informed with a subscription to the Recent Decisions ofthe Mississippi Supreme Court and Court ofAppeals. 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Whitten ChairofLaw and Government and ProfessorofLaw Maurice Eftink Associate Provost and Interim Dean ofthe Graduate School The Law School Faculty Guthrie T. Abbott, ProfessorEmeritus and Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens and Cannada Lecturer in Law Emeritus Donna D. Adler,Associate ProfessorofLaw Richard L. Barnes, Leonard B. Melvin, Jr. Lecturer in Law and Professor ofLaw Deborah H. Bell, Professor ofLaw and Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association Distinguished Lecturer John R. Bradley, Professor ofLaw Charles Brower, II, CroftAssistant Professor ofInternational Law and Jessie D. Puckett, Jr. Lecturer Larry S. Bush, ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw William M. Champion, ProfessorEmeritus andMississippi Defense LawyersAssociation Distinguished LecturerEmeritus Thomas Clancy, Directorofthe National CenterforJustice and the Rule ofLaw and Visiting Professor ofLaw George C. Cochran, ProfessorofLaw Aaron S. Condon, ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw John Czarnetzky,Associate Professor ofLaw and Mitchell, McNutt, Threadgill, Smith and Sams Lecturer Robert N. Davis, Professor ofLaw Samuel M. Davis, Dean ofthe School ofLaw, Holderofthe Jamie L. Whitten Chair ofLaw and Government andProfessor ofLaw Jason Derrick, Temporary Legal WritingDirector and Temporary ActingAssistantProfessor ofLaw Thomas R. Ethridge, Professor Emeritus ofLaw D. Michael Featherstone, ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw Molly Fergusson, Temporary Legal Writing Specialist andActing Assistant Professor ofLaw Gail Flatow, Temporary Legal Writing Specialist and ActingAssistant Professor ofLaw Don L. Fruge, President-CEO ofthe University ofMississippi Foundation and ProfessorEmeritus ofLaw Joanne Gabrynowicz, Research Professor andDirector ofthe Remote Sensingand Space Law Center ofExcellence Kris Gilliland, Director ofLaw Library andAssistant ProfessorofLaw Karen O. Green, ProfessorofLaw David Howorth, Visiting Professor ofLaw Timothy L. 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