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Tennessee's For Profit Benefit Corporation Act: Will More Regulation Achieve The Desired Results, Brian Krumm Oct 2017

Tennessee's For Profit Benefit Corporation Act: Will More Regulation Achieve The Desired Results, Brian Krumm

Scholarly Works

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You Are Now Entering The School Zone, Proceed With Caution: Educators, Arbitration, & Children’S Rights, Raquel Muniz Sep 2017

You Are Now Entering The School Zone, Proceed With Caution: Educators, Arbitration, & Children’S Rights, Raquel Muniz

Arbitration Law Review (Penn State University)

This article first provides background information on CBAs and arbitration clauses in public employee labor relations contracts to underscore the evolving relationship between the employer and employees. This background is important to assess the feasibility of the safeguards proposed later. Next, this article will explore arbitration cases in school employer-educator union CBAs, focusing particularly on employee disciplinary matters. Then, this article will explain why primary and secondary public schools should be categorized as a sui generis sphere in which consequences of arbitrable disciplinary matters extend beyond the traditional public employer-employee relation. Finally, this article will propose workable and sustainable safeguards …


Beyond Jurisprudence, Alan Calnan Aug 2017

Beyond Jurisprudence, Alan Calnan

Saint Louis University Law Journal

This article takes a new approach to legal theory. Because it views law as part of a complex natural system, it uses complex systems theory as its central investigative framework. Unlike traditional jurisprudence, which separates human artifacts from nature, complexity theory shows that human and natural systems are interdependent. Such systems cannot be studied in isolation, but require consilience. Consilience unites knowledge from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. By merging consilience with complexity theory, the article moves beyond jurisprudence toward “jurisilience.”

Jurisilience shows that law is a complex cultural system caused by complex social systems of …


Qualitative Diversity: Affirmative Action's New Reframe, Eang L. Ngov Jun 2017

Qualitative Diversity: Affirmative Action's New Reframe, Eang L. Ngov

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The Pre-Furman Juvenile Death Penalty In South Carolina: Young Black Life Was Cheap, Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, Hannah L. Freedman Apr 2017

The Pre-Furman Juvenile Death Penalty In South Carolina: Young Black Life Was Cheap, Sheri Lynn Johnson, John H. Blume, Hannah L. Freedman

South Carolina Law Review

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Giving Guidance To The Guidelines, Jelani Jefferson Exum Apr 2017

Giving Guidance To The Guidelines, Jelani Jefferson Exum

South Carolina Law Review

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If Its Walks Like Systematic Exclusion And Quacks Like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-Up On Removal Of Women And African-Americans In Jury Selection In South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014, Ann M. Eisenberg, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Caisa Elizabeth Royer, John H. Blume Apr 2017

If Its Walks Like Systematic Exclusion And Quacks Like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-Up On Removal Of Women And African-Americans In Jury Selection In South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014, Ann M. Eisenberg, Amelia Courtney Hritz, Caisa Elizabeth Royer, John H. Blume

South Carolina Law Review

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Hunnuh Mus' Tek Cyare Da Root Fa Heal Da Tree: Saving The South Carolina Lowcountry From Overdevelopment Through Judicial Application Of A Modern Public Trust, Derek Tarver Apr 2017

Hunnuh Mus' Tek Cyare Da Root Fa Heal Da Tree: Saving The South Carolina Lowcountry From Overdevelopment Through Judicial Application Of A Modern Public Trust, Derek Tarver

South Carolina Law Review

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Tracing The Roots Of The Criminalization Of Poverty [Reviews], Wendy A. Bach Jan 2017

Tracing The Roots Of The Criminalization Of Poverty [Reviews], Wendy A. Bach

Scholarly Works

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Rock, Paper Scissors…Loot!, Michael A. Mogill Jan 2017

Rock, Paper Scissors…Loot!, Michael A. Mogill

Faculty Scholarly Works

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