![Media Name: scr_13_cover.jpg](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/serials/covers/scr_13_cover.jpg?itok=MVwPTIov) # 2012–2013 Edited by [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) In this annual review from the Cato Institute, Ilya Shapiro and leading legal scholars analyze the 2012–2013 Supreme Court term, specifically the most important and far-reaching cases of the year, plus cases coming up. Now in its twelfth edition, the *Review* is the first scholarly journal to appear after the term’s end and the only one grounded in the nation’s first principles, liberty, and limited government. ##### Foreword #### [Equal Protection ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/equal-protection) By [Roger Pilon](https://www.cato.org/people/roger-pilon) ##### Introduction #### [Introduction ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/introduction) By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) ##### Annual Kenneth B. Simon Lecture #### [A Constitutional Moment? ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/constitutional-moment) By Hon. Paul Clement ##### Equality Under the Law #### [*Shelby County v. Holder*: The Restoration of Constitutional Order](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/shelby-county-v-holder-restoration-constitutional-order) By William S. Consovoy and Thomas R. McCarthy #### [*Fisher v. University of Texas*: The Court (Belatedly) Attempts to Invoke Reason and Principle](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/fisher-v-university-texas-court-belatedly-attempts-invoke-reason) By Gail Heriot #### [Reading the Opinions — and the Tea Leaves — in *United States v. Windsor*](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/reading-opinions-tea-leaves-united-states-v-windsor) By Elizabeth Wydra #### [Federalism, Liberty, and Equality in *United States v. Windsor*](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/federalism-liberty-equality-united-states-v-windsor) By Ernest A. Young and Erin C. Blondel ##### Frontiers of International Law #### [*Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum*: The Alien Tort Statute’s Jurisdictional Universalism in Retreat](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/kiobel-v-royal-dutch-petroleum-alien-tort-statutes-jurisdictional) By Kenneth Anderson ##### Who Guards the Guardians #### [*Bailey v. United States*: Another Win for that “Doggone Fourth Amendment”](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/bailey-v-united-states-another-win-doggone-fourth-amendment) By Daniel Epps ##### Property Rights New and Old #### [Two Steps Forward for the “Poor Relation” of Constitutional Law: *Koontz*, *Arkansas Game & Fish*, and the Future of the Takings Clause ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/two-steps-forward-poor-relation-constitutional-law-koontz-arkansas) By [Ilya Somin](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-somin) #### [The Beginning of the End? *Horne v. Department of Agriculture* and the Future of *Williamson County*](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/beginning-end-horne-v-department-agriculture-future-williamson) By Joshua D. Hawley ##### The Brave New World of Patent Law #### [Patents at the Supreme Court: It Could’ve Been Worse ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/patents-supreme-court-it-couldve-been-worse) By [Gregory Dolin](https://www.cato.org/people/gregory-dolin) #### [Patent Protection for Genetic Innovation: *Monsanto* and *Myriad*](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/patent-protection-genetic-innovation-monsanto-myriad) By David Olson ##### Class Actions and Other Business Regulations #### [Common Problems for the Common Answers Test: Class Certification in *Amgen* and *Comcast*](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/common-problems-common-answers-test-class-certification-amgen) By [Mark Moller](https://www.cato.org/people/mark-moller) #### [*City of Arlington v. FCC*: Justice Scalia’s Triumph](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/city-arlington-v-fcc-justice-scalias-triumph) By [Andrew M. Grossman](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-grossman) ##### The Term's Lone First Amendment Case #### [Speech, Subsidies, and Traditions: *AID v. AOSI* and the First Amendment ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/speech-subsidies-traditions-aid-v-aosi-first-amendment) By Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes ##### Next Year #### [Looking Ahead: October Term 2013 ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/looking-ahead-october-term-2013) By Howard Bashman ##### Special #### [“The Most Interesting Brief in the World” ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/most-interesting-brief-world) ##### Contributors #### [Contributors ](/supreme-court-review/2012-2013/contributors) ##### Latest Issues [![Cato Supreme Court Review: 2024-2025 cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2025-09/cato-supreme-court-review-cover.png?itok=7_lUd18p)](https://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review/2024-2025) [2024–2025](/supreme-court-review/2024-2025) [![Cato Supreme Court Review 2023-2024 Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2024-09/2023-2024-Supreme-Court-Review-cover.jpg?itok=JTojGUMg)](https://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review/2023-2024) [2023–2024](/supreme-court-review/2023-2024) [![Cato Supreme Court Review - 2022-2023 Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2023-09/supreme-court-review-2022-23-cover.png?itok=C0epFfyc)](https://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review/2022-2023) [2022–2023](/supreme-court-review/2022-2023) [![Cato Supreme Court Review - 2021-2022 - Cover](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/serial_cover_phone/public/2022-09/supreme-court-review-2021-2022-cover.png?itok=9cj5g3Np)](https://www.cato.org/supreme-court-review/2021-2022) [2021–2022](/supreme-court-review/2021-2022)