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Ask The Professor: How Has The Recent U.S. Supreme Court Opinion In Murray V. Ubs Securities Provided Much Needed Protection To Whistleblowers?, Ronald Filler Apr 2024

Ask The Professor: How Has The Recent U.S. Supreme Court Opinion In Murray V. Ubs Securities Provided Much Needed Protection To Whistleblowers?, Ronald Filler

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A New Hope: Perez V. Sturgis Public Schools Opens The Doors To Children With Disabilities, Richard D. Marsico Jan 2024

A New Hope: Perez V. Sturgis Public Schools Opens The Doors To Children With Disabilities, Richard D. Marsico

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In Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools, the United States Supreme Court ruled that parents of children with disabilities who allege that their child’s school discriminated against them because of their disabilities can seek compensatory monetary damages pursuant to federal laws that prohibit such discrimination without exhausting the administrative process of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. This seemingly innocuous decision, based on two obscure procedural provisions of the IDEA, overturned decades of circuit court decisions that ruled otherwise.

Perez has already had a profound effect, opening the courthouse doors for children with disabilities. In all twenty-five post-Perez decisions in which …


I Hope The Final Judgment’S Fair: Alternative Jurisprudences, Legal Decision-Making, And Justice, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2024

I Hope The Final Judgment’S Fair: Alternative Jurisprudences, Legal Decision-Making, And Justice, Michael L. Perlin

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At the core of any legal decision is an assumption that the decision will be “fair,” yet this is an elusive term. A close study of cases involving criminal defendants with mental disabilities shows that many (perhaps most) of the decisions involving this cohort are not “fair” in the contexts of due process and justice. If legal decisions reflect principles such as procedural justice, restorative justice, and therapeutic jurisprudence, the chances of such fairness will be significantly enhanced. This chapter explains why this goal of fairness, in the context of these cases, can never be met absent a consideration of …


Transitional Justice And Human Rights, Ruti G. Teitel, Valeria Vegh Weis Jan 2024

Transitional Justice And Human Rights, Ruti G. Teitel, Valeria Vegh Weis

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Federal Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Idaho’S Bathroom Law, But Refuses To Dismiss Challenge, Arthur S. Leonard Oct 2023

Federal Judge Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Idaho’S Bathroom Law, But Refuses To Dismiss Challenge, Arthur S. Leonard

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Ask The Professor—What Will Be The Impact Of The Recent Fifth Circuit Decision In Clarke V. Cftc On Future Cftc No-Action Letters?, Ronald Filler Oct 2023

Ask The Professor—What Will Be The Impact Of The Recent Fifth Circuit Decision In Clarke V. Cftc On Future Cftc No-Action Letters?, Ronald Filler

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A Fiduciary Theory Of Progressive Prosecution, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe Oct 2023

A Fiduciary Theory Of Progressive Prosecution, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

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Progressive prosecutors differ from their more traditional counterparts primarily in the way in which they make decisions. They tend to bind their discretion by announcing categorical policies rather than making fact-based decisions case by case. This article catalogs the unusual degree of pushback progressive prosecutors have encountered from the public, legislatures, courts, police, and their own subordinate prosecutors. Drawing on fiduciary theory, it explains this reaction as a response to progressive prosecutors’ abdication of their fiduciary role. As a public fiduciary, prosecutors are entrusted with protecting the public’s abstract interest in justice, and an integral part of this role is …


Preface: New Directions In Prosecutorial Reform, Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Justin Murray, Maybell Romero Oct 2023

Preface: New Directions In Prosecutorial Reform, Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Justin Murray, Maybell Romero

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This Preface, which introduces the American Criminal Law Review’s Symposium Issue on Reform-Minded Prosecution, begins by describing the power that prosecutors hold in the criminal legal system, which has historically gone unchecked and unquestioned. As mass incarceration, police violence, and wrong- ful convictions began to permeate the public consciousness, many communities focused their attention on the critical role of their local elected prosecutor and elected leaders who promised to do the job differently. Reform-minded prosecu- tors have enjoyed remarkable electoral successes over the past decade such that close to twenty percent of the U.S. population now resides in a jurisdiction …


Two Killings, One Common Problem: Deaths Of Homeless Men Jordan Neely And Charles Brito Shows They Were Failed, Anna G. Cominsky '05 Jul 2023

Two Killings, One Common Problem: Deaths Of Homeless Men Jordan Neely And Charles Brito Shows They Were Failed, Anna G. Cominsky '05

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Mural Controversy, Richard H. Chused Jul 2023

Mural Controversy, Richard H. Chused

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A Singular Disclosure Requirement Is Necessary For Patent Law, Shahrokh Falati May 2023

A Singular Disclosure Requirement Is Necessary For Patent Law, Shahrokh Falati

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s recent jurisprudence on 35 U.S.C. § 112 has selectively and severely curtailed innovation in the fields of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Specifically, the Federal Circuit’s shifting position on 35 U.S.C. § 112 and their evolving jurisprudence to combine expanding the application and scope of the written description requirement with a separate, heightened standard for enabling claims directed to innovation in a genus of therapeutic antibodies, or a genus of compounds having functional limitations, has caused havoc in the biopharmaceutical industry. Federal Circuit jurisprudence on how to interpret the disclosure requirements of the 35 …


Spendthrift Provision Prevails Over Beneficiaries' Consents To Self-Dealing By A Beneficiary-Trustee, William P. Lapiana May 2023

Spendthrift Provision Prevails Over Beneficiaries' Consents To Self-Dealing By A Beneficiary-Trustee, William P. Lapiana

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Take The Motherless Children Off The Street: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome And The Criminal Justice System, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo Apr 2023

Take The Motherless Children Off The Street: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome And The Criminal Justice System, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo

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Remarkably, there has been minimal academic legal literature about the interplay between fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) and critical aspects of many criminal trials, including issues related to the role of experts, quality of counsel, competency to stand trial, the insanity defense, and sentencing and the death penalty. Nor has there been any literature about the interplay between FASD-related issues and the legal school of thought known as therapeutic jurisprudence.

In this article, the co-authors will first define fetal alcohol syndrome and explain its significance to the criminal justice system. We will then look at the specific role of experts …


Alliance Defending Freedom Asks Scotus To Intervene In West Virginia Trans Sports Case, Arthur S. Leonard Mar 2023

Alliance Defending Freedom Asks Scotus To Intervene In West Virginia Trans Sports Case, Arthur S. Leonard

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New Fiduciary Decisions: Monthly Account Statements Are Sufficient To Begin Running Of Statute Of Limitations, William P. Lapiana Mar 2023

New Fiduciary Decisions: Monthly Account Statements Are Sufficient To Begin Running Of Statute Of Limitations, William P. Lapiana

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Quantum Copyright Law: Schrodinger's Cat, Banksy's Shredder, And Art On The Edge, Richard H. Chused Feb 2023

Quantum Copyright Law: Schrodinger's Cat, Banksy's Shredder, And Art On The Edge, Richard H. Chused

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An object has been assembled by artists I know that presents a fascinating set of conundrums about the relationships between quantum physics, shredders, random surprises, the value of art, and copyright law. Seems fantastical, right? And so it is. The object of concern is a metal box a little under four feet tall, about eighteen inches deep, and a bit less than three feet wide. The box is welded together along all twelve of its edges. It has an opening across one side. And there is a small control panel on top. Before the box was welded shut, a set …


Law Professors’ Conceptualization And Use Of Students’ Prior Knowledge And Experience In Developing Subject-Matter Understanding, Matthew Gewolb Jan 2023

Law Professors’ Conceptualization And Use Of Students’ Prior Knowledge And Experience In Developing Subject-Matter Understanding, Matthew Gewolb

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The Justice Archive: Transitional Justice And Digital Memory, Iavor Rangelov, Ruti G. Teitel Jan 2023

The Justice Archive: Transitional Justice And Digital Memory, Iavor Rangelov, Ruti G. Teitel

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This article introduces the justice archive as a concept and set of practices emerging from recent developments in transitional justice, memory, and digital technology. Drawing on evidence from the Americas and the Balkans, it examines digital archiving and memory activism and considers the role of international law and regulation.


New Fiduciary Decisions: No-Contest Clauses And The Untimely Challenge, William P. Lapiana Jan 2023

New Fiduciary Decisions: No-Contest Clauses And The Untimely Challenge, William P. Lapiana

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In These Times Of Compassion When Conformity’S In Fashion: How Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Root Out Bias, Limit Polarization And Support Vulnerable Persons In The Legal Process, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2023

In These Times Of Compassion When Conformity’S In Fashion: How Therapeutic Jurisprudence Can Root Out Bias, Limit Polarization And Support Vulnerable Persons In The Legal Process, Michael L. Perlin

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In this paper, I consider the extent to which caselaw has – either explicitly or implicitly – incorporated the precepts of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ), a school of legal thought that focuses on the law’s influence on emotional life and psychological well-being, and that asks us to assess the actual impact of the law on people’s lives. Two of the core tenets of TJ in practice are commitments to dignity and to compassion. I conclude ultimately that, with these principles as touchstones, TJ can be an effective tool – perhaps the most effective tool - in rooting out bias, limiting polarization, …


Pass The Salt: Problem Resolution Lawyering Across The 21st Century Law Curriculum, Kris Franklin, F. Peter Phillips Jan 2023

Pass The Salt: Problem Resolution Lawyering Across The 21st Century Law Curriculum, Kris Franklin, F. Peter Phillips

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Legal education can help prepare law graduates to do that work. As an added bonus, doing so would in turn help law students understand and retain the subjects they study.

Law professors who teach alternative dispute resolution, lawyering skills, clinics, and sometimes traditional doctrinal courses, have all called for greater inclusion of dispute resolution in the law school curriculum. Some have urged the introduction of specific courses to prepare contemporary law students to work as problem resolvers. This Article builds on these and other calls for reform, but urges a genuine reconceptualization of the purposes of legal work. Framing lawyers’ …


Randomness, Ai Art, And Copyright, Richard H. Chused Jan 2023

Randomness, Ai Art, And Copyright, Richard H. Chused

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Depoliticizing Federal Prosecution, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2023

Depoliticizing Federal Prosecution, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

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There is broad agreement that federal prosecutors should not use their power to pursue partisan political objectives, but there is stark disagreement about how to prevent them from abusing their power in this way. Geoffrey Berman, a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, recently argued that U.S. Attorneys should have complete autonomy and independence from the Attorney General and administration. Attorney General Bill Barr, in contrast, has insisted that Attorneys General should have full control over prosecutors so the administration can be held politically accountable. Neither view fully addresses the problem. Barr minimizes the significant …


Methodological Gerrymandering, David Simson Jan 2023

Methodological Gerrymandering, David Simson

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The U.S. Supreme Court has come to decide many of the most consequential and contentious aspects of social policy via its interpretations of the U.S. Constitution. Institutional features of the Court create significant pressure on the Justices to justify their decisions as applications of “law” rather than the practice of “politics.” Their perceived failure to do so calls forth criticism sounding in a variety of registers—ranging from allegations of a lack of neutrality, lack of impartiality, or lack of “principle,” to allegations of opportunism, disingenuousness, and hypocrisy. Analyzing the Justices’ choices in relation to interpretational “methodology”—choosing one lens through which …


The Timeless Explosion Of Fantasy's Dream: How State Courts Have Ignored The Supreme Court's Decision In Panetti V. Quarterman, Michael L. Perlin, Talia Roitberg Harmon, Maren Geiger Jan 2023

The Timeless Explosion Of Fantasy's Dream: How State Courts Have Ignored The Supreme Court's Decision In Panetti V. Quarterman, Michael L. Perlin, Talia Roitberg Harmon, Maren Geiger

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Multiple states have enacted statutes to govern procedures when a state seeks to execute a person who may be incompetent to understand why s/he is being so punished, an area of the law that has always been riddled with confusion. The Supreme Court, in Panetti v. Quarterman, sought to clarify matters, ruling that a mentally ill defendant had a constitutional right to make a showing that his mental illness “obstruct[ed] a rational understanding of the State’s reason for his execution.” However, the first empirical studies of howPanetti has been interpreted in federal courts painted a dismal picture. Only a handful …


New Fiduciary Decisions: Attorney-In-Fact Must Be Expressly Authorized To Create A Trust, William P. Lapiana Nov 2022

New Fiduciary Decisions: Attorney-In-Fact Must Be Expressly Authorized To Create A Trust, William P. Lapiana

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Lawyer Training Shouldn't Be One Size Fits All, Heidi K. Brown Nov 2022

Lawyer Training Shouldn't Be One Size Fits All, Heidi K. Brown

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Feminist Legal Theory And #Metoo: Revisiting Tarana Burke's Vision Of Empowerment Through Empathy, Penelope Andrews Oct 2022

Feminist Legal Theory And #Metoo: Revisiting Tarana Burke's Vision Of Empowerment Through Empathy, Penelope Andrews

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It is my purpose to ground this article in ubuntu and the politics of radical love as applied to the goals of #MeToo and its pursuit of redress for victims of sexual harms. Part II explores the convergences and divergences of #MeToo with feminist campaigns of an earlier era. Part III questions whether a renewed quest for gender equality, largely spawned by a Twitter/social media campaign, may lead to sustainable change built on notions of empathy and restorative justice, which influenced Tarana Burke when she founded #MeToo. Part IV examines restorative justice approaches in the South African Truth and Reconciliation …


Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray Sep 2022

Prosecutorial Nonenforcement And Residual Criminalization, Justin Murray

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In recent years a small but influential group of locally elected prosecutors committed to criminal justice reform have openly refused to enforce various criminal laws—laws prohibiting marijuana possession, sentence enhancements, laws authorizing the death penalty, and much more—because they see those laws as unjust and incompatible with core reform objectives. Condemned by many on the political right for allegedly usurping the legislature’s lawmaking role and praised by many on the left for bypassing dysfunctional state legislatures in favor of local solutions, these prosecutorial nonenforcement policies are commonly said to have the same effect as nullifying, or even repealing, the laws …


Reconstructing The Ethics Code To Remedy The Failures Of Strickland V. Washington, Heather Ellis Cucolo Sep 2022

Reconstructing The Ethics Code To Remedy The Failures Of Strickland V. Washington, Heather Ellis Cucolo

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