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Asperger’S Syndrome And Eligibility Under The Idea: Eliminating The Emerging "Failure First" Requirement To Prevent A Good Idea From Going Bad, Lisa Lukasik

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Deconstructing A Decade Of Charter School Funding Litigation: An Argument For Reform, Lisa Lukasik

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For over a decade, North Carolina's charter schools and traditional public schools have been embroiled in litigation over access to local public funding. This litigation shows no sign of abatement. In fact, disputes between charter schools and traditional public schools over local funds are likely to continue until the North Carolina legislature revisits the state's charter school funding statute and modifies the means by which local funds are transferred to charter schools.

This Article deconstructs the state's charter school funding statute, the decade-long series of appellate decisions interpreting it, and the administrative and legislative responses to each appellate decision. It …

Happiness At The House Of Mouse: How Disney Negotiates To Create The “Happiest Place On Earth”, Lauren A. Newell

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Anti-Evasion Doctrines In Constitutional Law, Michael B. Kent Jr., Brannon P. Denning

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Recent constitutional scholarship has focused on how courts - the Supreme Court in particular - "implement" constitutional meaning through the use of doctrinal constructs that enable judges to decide cases. Judges first fix constitutional meaning, what Mitchell Berman terms the "constitutional operative proposition," but must then design "decision rules" that render the operative proposition suitable to use in the third step, the resolution of the case before the court. These decision rules produce the familiar apparatus of constitutional decision-making - strict scrutiny, rational basis review, and the like. For the most part, writers have adopted a binary view of doctrine. …