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Unique Proposals For Limiting Legal Liability And Encouraging Adherence To Ventilator Allocation Guidelines In An Influenza Pandemic, Valerie Gutmann Koch Jan 2013

Unique Proposals For Limiting Legal Liability And Encouraging Adherence To Ventilator Allocation Guidelines In An Influenza Pandemic, Valerie Gutmann Koch

Valerie Gutmann Koch

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Can The Ceo Learn From The Condemned? The Application Of Capital Mitigation Strategies To White Collar Cases, Todd Haugh Jan 2012

Can The Ceo Learn From The Condemned? The Application Of Capital Mitigation Strategies To White Collar Cases, Todd Haugh

Todd Haugh

Ted Kaczynski and Bernie Madoff share much in common. Both are well-educated, extremely intelligent, charismatic figures. Both rose to the height of their chosen professions—mathematics and finance. And both will die in federal prison, Kaczynski for committing a twenty-year mail-bombing spree that killed three people and seriously injured dozens more, and Madoff for committing the largest Ponzi scheme in history, bilking thousands of people out of almost $65 billion. But that last similarity—Kaczynski’s and Madoff’s plight at sentencing—may not have had to be. While Kaczynski’s attorneys tirelessly investigated and argued every aspect of their client’s personal history, mental state, motivations, …


Accessing Government: How Difficult Is It? Citizen Advocacy Center 2008) (With T. Pastika)., Natalie Brouwer Potts Jan 2008

Accessing Government: How Difficult Is It? Citizen Advocacy Center 2008) (With T. Pastika)., Natalie Brouwer Potts

Natalie Brouwer Potts

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A Separate Crime Of Reckless Sex, Katharine K. Baker Feb 2005

A Separate Crime Of Reckless Sex, Katharine K. Baker

Katharine K. Baker

This article attempts to make progress on both the problems of sexually transmitted disease and acquaintance rape by proposing a new crime of reckless sexual conduct. A defendant would be guilty of reckless sexual conduct if, in a first sexual encounter with another particular person, the defendant had sexual intercourse without using a condom. Consent to unprotected intercourse would be an affirmative defense, to be established by the defendant with a preponderance of the evidence. As an empirical matter, first-encounter unprotected sex greatly increases the epidemiological force of sexually transmitted disease and a substantial proportion of acquaintance rape occurs in …