With this issue, the reader will note two changes in the Washington Law Review. The first is the adoption of a new cover, one which we feel will give a more pleasing first impression of our publication. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Mr. David A. Lauer, Graduate School of Art, who designed it. The second is the creation of Editor\u27s Notes, an informal discussion of matters that have come across the editor\u27s desk, but which have been withheld in the past because they did not lend themselves to formal Review presentation