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Convicting And Unconvicting The Innocent, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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"When justice disappears," Immanuel Kant wrote, "it is no longer worth while for men to live on earth."

Justice disappears where there is injustice, and the most glaring form of injustice is the erroneous conviction of the innocent. Indeed, the greatest injustice that a legal system can perpetrate against the individual is to punish him or her for a crime they didn't commit, while the ne plus ultra of injustices is the wrongful conviction and subsequent execution of an innocent person. Viewed in this light, what is the current state of justice in America? Is the problem of convicting, even …

Endangered Species Protection: A Proposal To Modify The Legislation In Colombia, Adriana Campuzano

LLM Theses and Essays

The Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (“CITES”) is praised as a successful international treaty in protecting and preserving endangered species. However, the effectiveness of CITES is reliant upon member States enforcing and implementing CITES provisions. Colombia has enacted laws implementing CITES but has experienced an increase in the number of endangered species despite these laws. On the other hand, the United States’ implementation of CITES through the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) is viewed as a sophisticated and successful CITES implementation programs. This thesis makes an attempt to offer viable proposals to help improve …

Deference And Disability Discrimination, Rebecca H. White

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In 1999, the question of deference to the EEOC grabbed the spotlight. It surfaced in a case that arose under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the "ADA"), a relatively new, and sweeping, anti-discrimination law that prohibits workplace discrimination against qualified individuals with a disability. A difficult substantive question was presented: Is the determination of whether one has a disability within the meaning of the ADA to be made with or without regard to mitigating measures? Instinctively, either a "yes" or a "no" answer seems problematic. On the one hand, defining disability without regard to the corrective effects of …

Contract On Camelot: New Books Cast More Light On Jfk Assassination, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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It has been 37 years since President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, and books providing additional information or helpful insights regarding the Dallas tragedy continue to appear.

The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 6, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 5, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 4, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 3, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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Dean's Report To Alumni 2000, David E. Shipley

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The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 2, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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The Georgia Scrivener, Vol. 1, No. 1, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law Editorial And Managing Boards 2000-2001, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Materials from All Student Organizations

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Volume 35, Issue 1 (Fall 2000), University Of Georgia School Of Law

Advocate Magazine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Cyberlaw: Entering a New Legal Frontier The law school's curriculum constantly evolves to meet the needs of the profession. An example is the new cyberlaw course created and taught by Professor Bob Brussack (J.D.'76)
• Fifth Generation Earns Law Degree I Elizabeth Dodd Kanne (J.D.'OO) continued a Barrow family tradition when she became its fifth generation to graduate from the University of Georgia School of Law
• Commencement 2000 A photo essay of the crowning moment for the 216 members of the Class of 2000
• Special Insert: 1999-2000 Donor Report Record membership in the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Society and …

Grade Distribution - Fall Semester 2000, Office Of Registrar

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Comparative Constitutional Law For The Americas, University Of Georgia School Of Law

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Georgia's Proposed Dynasty Trust: Giving The Dead Too Much Control?, Verner F. Chaffin

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Georgia should resist the urge to join the parade of states that have overturned the Rule Against Perpetuities. We do not neet the dynasty trust in Georgia. The repeal of perpetuities laws ignores the reasons for the Rule Against Perpetuities and uncritically assumes that preserving family wealth in perpetuity is a desirable social goal. The Rule is still needed to prevent persons long removed from the current scene from tying up wealth without restriction and from unduly influencing the behavior of those living in the present. For background purposes, this Article reviews the legislative history of Georgia's Rule Against Perpetuities …

The Eponymous Mr. Prince, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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An eponym, the dictionary tells us, is a name formed from the name of a person to designate a place, and an eponymous person is someone for whom a place has been named. Prince Avenue, the wide Athens street which stretches west almost exactly two miles from Pulaski Street to the Jefferson Road, is an eponym. Described as “once one of the nation’s finest boulevards” by Frances Taliaferro Thomas in her excellent book A Portrait of Historic Athens and Clarke County (1992), but now dotted with professional buildings, fast food businesses, and parking lots, Prince Avenue was named after a …

Class Schedule - Fall 2000, Office Of Registrar

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A Civil War Lynching In Athens, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.

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Recently, while reading E. Merton Coulter's classic history of antebellum Athens, College Life in the Old South (UGA Press, 1983 reprint), I came across a reference on page 247 to an Athens lynching occurring early in the Civil War. Having checked into the matter, I can now announce that, indeed, there definitely was at least one lynching in Athens prior to 1882. This lynching, possibly but not probably the first lynching in Athens, took place on Wednesday, July 16, 1862.

Brussels Seminar, Twenty-Eighth Annual, Gabriel M. Wilner

Conferences & Lectures

Law & Institutions of the European Communities July 3-20, 2000

Institute of European Studies, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Harmonic Convergence? Constitutional Criminal Procedure In An International Context, Diane Marie Amann

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Throughout the world, a trend toward a shared - a constitutional - criminal procedure may be detected. It is evident in common-law, civil-law, and mixed systems: individual states like China adopt laws promising once-alien concepts like a presumption of innocence, even as supranational bodies like the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia debate how to adapt certain norms to a hybrid structure. Some have suggested that such developments may herald a harmonic convergence of criminal procedure rules. This Article examines the likelihood of such a convergence. It establishes as a keynote around which harmony may develop the model of constitutional …

Spotting Money Launderers: A Better Way To Fight Organized Crime?, Diane Marie Amann

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Money laundering investigations have been much in the news of late. There have been stories that Radil Salinas de Gortari laundered kickbacks from drug traffickers while his brother was President of Mexico. That Ferdinand Marcos stashed nearly half a billion dollars in Swiss banks while he ruled the Philippines. That two of Mexico's largest banks have pleaded guilty to laundering charges stemming from a controversial U.S. sting operation. That the former prime minister of Ukraine pleaded guilty to Swiss charges that he laundered $9 million in stolen funds, even as he faced U.S. charges of laundering $114 million. And, of …

Deconstructing The Debate Over State Taxation Of Electronic Commerce, Walter Hellerstein

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Elsewhere on these pages, the distinguished economist Charles McLure begins his contribution to the debate over taxation of electronic commerce by observing that “America is focusing on the wrong issues in debating the taxation of electronic commerce ....” He proceeds to provide a fundamental critique of the states' existing sales tax regimes and he lays out a roadmap for radical reform of the system that would, in the course of curing the basic defects in the existing state sales tax structure, incidentally resolve many of the issues that currently dominate the debate over taxing electronic commerce. I do not disagree …

The Personal Side Of A Deanship, David E. Shipley

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So why have I been deaning for over 10 years? I do, in fact, enjoy most aspects of the job including the many challenges, the fact that there is nothing routine about the work, and the many public aspects of the position such as receptions, bar meetings, tailgate parties, law review banquets, and bar luncheons. I enjoy students. We would not have these wonderful jobs in law teaching without them. I like faculty and still think of myself as a law professor first. It is fun to do alumni relations and developmental work, and I would love to have more …

Federal And State Cases, Legislation And Regulations, Carol A. Watson

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Upgrading Your Internet Connection, Carol A. Watson

Presentations

You can never be too thin, too rich or have too much Internet access speed! To connect to the Internet, you need a computer, modem, perhaps a phone line or cable connection, communication software and an Internet Service Provider. Any one of these components might slow down your Internet activities, including the age and speed of your PC, your Internet Service Provider's equipment, your software settings, and the quality of your telephone line.

"Available State Remedies" And The Fourteenth Amendment: Comments On Florida Prepaid V. College Savings Bank, Michael L. Wells

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In Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank, decided during the Supreme Court's October 1998 Term, the specific point at issue was the scope of Congress's authority under Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to impose liability for damages on state governments. In the Patent Remedy Act, Congress had abrogated the states' sovereign immunity from claims of patent infringement. College Savings Bank argued for the validity of the statute on the grounds that patents are property; that patent infringements are deprivations of property; and that the statute simply and appropriately provides a remedy for deprivations of …

Gap-Filling And Freedom Of Contract, Shumei Lu

LLM Theses and Essays

When a client asks his lawyer what his duties are under a particular contract, normally the lawyer’s first response is “show me the contract.” Does the contract provide all the contract duties in its expressed form? Definitely not. By now everyone acknowledges that, to some extent, all contracts have some gaps. Even the most carefully drafted document rests on volumes of assumptions that cannot be explicitly expressed.1 The inevitability of gaps reflects both our “relative ignorance of fact” and “our relative indeterminacy of aim.” Generally speaking, there are three types of gaps: first, the parties to a contract have not …

The Application Of Ec Competition Law To Non-European (U.S.) Corporations, Federico Cavicchioli

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The present thesis deals with the application of European Community (EC)1 Competition Law by the competent Communitarian institutions, namely the Commission, the Court of First Instance and the European Court of Justice. Because the discussion will concern its application to non-European legal entities, one explanatory remark is necessary. Dealing with the application of Competition Law with regard to non-European corporations is not meant to suggest that any form of discrimination based on nationality exists. As former Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan commented with regard to one of the early cases involving non-EC companies, “the location of a party’s incorporation or headquarters …

Striking A Balance Between Urban Growth And Rural Preservation, 12th Annual Red Clay Conference, Environmental Law Society

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