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The P.R.C.'S Negotiable Instruments Law: An Instrument For Facilitating Private Economic Activity Or Monetary Control?, Kara Phillips, Amy Sommers
The P.R.C.'S Negotiable Instruments Law: An Instrument For Facilitating Private Economic Activity Or Monetary Control?, Kara Phillips, Amy Sommers
Faculty Articles
This article discusses China’s market reforms, and how negotiable instruments have played an increasingly important role in China’s economy. The Negotiable Instruments Law, which came into effect January 1, 1996, consists of seven chapters, covering General Provisions, Drafts, Promissory Notes, Checks, Applicability of the Law to Foreign Negotiable Instruments, Legal Responsibilities, and Supplementary Provisions. This article illustrates that while the Negotiable Instruments Law constitutes a comprehensive financial statute; its scope is narrow in that it addresses negotiable instruments primarily in the context of banking transactions. This is especially apparent in the case of promissory notes that are regulated solely in …
Introduction, Maja Dagny Chaffe
Introduction, Maja Dagny Chaffe
Seattle University Law Review
Introduction to the annual Casebook Review issue.
Family Matters: Nonwaivable Conflicts Of Interest In Family Law, Steven H. Hobbs
Family Matters: Nonwaivable Conflicts Of Interest In Family Law, Steven H. Hobbs
Seattle University Law Review
The hypotheticals prepared for this special symposium issue ask if a lawyer can provide legal services to a family when one family member yields major decision-making authority to another family member. At stake is the disposition of significant individual and family assets. The traditional model of legal representation would require each family member to have an advocate protecting and promoting his or her individual interests while negotiating a reasonable accommodation of the other family members' interests. The challenge presented by the hypotheticals is whether an attorney can simultaneously represent apparent multiple interests without violating ethical provisions.
Casebooks And Constitutional Competency, David E. Engdahl
Casebooks And Constitutional Competency, David E. Engdahl
Seattle University Law Review
Today's casebooks are far better adapted for fostering constitutional competency among lawyers than were their earlier counterparts. Part 1 of this Article traces the evolution of the constitutional law casebook from James Bradley Thayer's massive compilation of raw data in the Dean Langdell tradition, to the modern style of extensively edited cases with comments and questions to help students identify, anticipate, and assess potential avenues of analysis and development. Part 2 examines some basic concepts of federalism law still afforded too little attention by casebook editors. The classic analysis of enumerated powers (including Congress's power under the necessary and proper …
The Dream That Will Not Die: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Continuing American Revolution, Henry Mcgee
The Dream That Will Not Die: Martin Luther King, Jr., And The Continuing American Revolution, Henry Mcgee
Faculty Articles
Professor Henry W. McGee, Jr. reviews Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, By David J. Garrow. Bearing the Cross depicts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., while neither a lawyer nor a judge, belonged in the pantheon of American constitutional giants. From the Gethsemane of an Alabama jail, Dr. King carried the cross of freedom to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and ultimately to his own crucifixion on the balcony of a Memphis motel. The story of how a black Baptist minister caused the Constitution to be applied to all Americans is one …
Who's Afraid Of Tiger Woods?, Robert S. Chang
Who's Afraid Of Tiger Woods?, Robert S. Chang
Faculty Articles
Responding to media celebrations on the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball that portray America’s battle for racial justice having been won, this article posits putting racially diverse sport stars on a pedestal misleading. This goes on to ask and explain what sports represent in a democratic society and how Tiger Woods forces us to ask the ‘race’ question. Finally, the article discusses multiracialism and LatCrit scholarship.
Standing On The Corner--Trying To Find Our Way, W. H. Knight
Standing On The Corner--Trying To Find Our Way, W. H. Knight
Faculty Articles
In this article, the author outlines academic presentations that have evoked in him a particularly emotional response. The effectiveness and importance of these presentations is judged by their groundedness, as they deal with the topic of law intersecting with the everyday lives of ordinary people. Generally, the author draws attention to a theme of social justice in academia.
What Is Outrageous Government Conduct? The Washington State Supreme Court Knows It When It Sees It: State V. Lively, Matthew V. Honeywell
What Is Outrageous Government Conduct? The Washington State Supreme Court Knows It When It Sees It: State V. Lively, Matthew V. Honeywell
Seattle University Law Review
For the first time ever, the Supreme Court of Washington in State v. Lively overturned a criminal conviction because of outrageous government conduct. This decision employed a rarely-used, and even more infrequently successful, defense to achieve an apparently just result. Indeed, courts and scholars disagree on whether the defense, based on the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution, actually exists and, if it does, how it applies to the facts of a given case. The U.S. Supreme Court has neither expressly and conclusively acknowledged nor disavowed the defense and has never employed it to overturn a criminal conviction. The …
Cases Versus Theory, Richard B. Collins
Cases Versus Theory, Richard B. Collins
Seattle University Law Review
Past reviewers have noted that the large modern market for American constitutional law casebooks was not served by much diversity in approaches to the subject. More recently there has been some divergence, and teachers have more choices. Cohen & Varat’s <em>Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials</em> has changed least in the intervening years and continues to serve its part of the market very well. Case editing is excellent, and selection is good. So if you liked the former standard, it remains a sound choice, and if you did not, you will have moved on. Notable differences among constitutional law casebooks fall …
Theme And Variations, Hugh D. Spitzer, Charles W. Johnson
Theme And Variations, Hugh D. Spitzer, Charles W. Johnson
Seattle University Law Review
State constitutions are worth the attention. They are, and have always been, different from the United States Constitution. Because state constitutions are typically easier to replace or amend than the United States Constitution, they reflect the political movements that have swept the country from time to time. As Professor Tarr has observed, provisions based in Jacksonian Democracy, Populism, and the Progressive movement have caused a "layering" in many state documents, which has affected both substance and interpretation." This makes the study of state constitutions interesting, and important too, because the themes might be similar from state to state, but the …
Volume Index, Seattle University Law Review
Volume Index, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Morality Of Choice: Estate Planning And The Client Who Chooses Not To Choose, Janet L. Dolgin
The Morality Of Choice: Estate Planning And The Client Who Chooses Not To Choose, Janet L. Dolgin
Seattle University Law Review
The Symposium focuses around two hypotheticals. The question posed about each-whether it is ethical for an estate lawyer to represent spouses, one of whom chooses subservience to the interests of the other-provokes discussion of a broad set of concerns about the scope and meaning of the contemporary family, and about the appropriate parameters of legal representation of family members.
Love Among The Ruins: The Ethics Of Counseling Happily Married Couples, Teresa Stanton Collett
Love Among The Ruins: The Ethics Of Counseling Happily Married Couples, Teresa Stanton Collett
Seattle University Law Review
This Article explores the professional tension experienced by lawyers when clients embrace an ideal of marriage as "the two shall become as one," in a legal system that has repudiated this understanding in favor of the "reality" of marriage as an association dedicated to the individual fulfillment of the man and woman involved. Part II describes the three purposes of estate planning that define the parameters of any proposed representation. Estate planning lawyers assist clients in minimizing taxes, directing gifts to particular beneficiaries, and insuring the continuing care of loved ones. The decision to accept or reject proposed representation often …
Overdue Process: Why Denial Of Physician-Prescribed Marijuana To Terminally Ill Patients Violates The United States Constitution, Matthew Segal
Overdue Process: Why Denial Of Physician-Prescribed Marijuana To Terminally Ill Patients Violates The United States Constitution, Matthew Segal
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment will begin with a brief history of the medical use of marijuana in western culture and the United States. It will then examine the existing federal statutory scheme governing the use of marijuana and conclude with a look at current beliefs about the medical value of marijuana. Section III will analyze previous attempts to collaterally attack the scheduling of marijuana through the courts and show why those efforts have generally failed. Section IV will perform a substantive due process analysis of William Cohen's case and submit that Mr. Cohen has a fundamental right to consult with his physician …
E-Law4: Computer Information Systems Law And System Operator Liability, David J. Loundy
E-Law4: Computer Information Systems Law And System Operator Liability, David J. Loundy
Seattle University Law Review
This Article gives a summary of the current regulatory structure in the United States governing a few of the "Empires of Cyberspace," such as bulletin board systems, electronic databases, file servers, networks (such as the Internet) and the like. Different legal analogies that may apply will be illustrated, and some of their strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives will be analyzed. I will begin by looking at different types of computer information systems, and then the major legal issues surrounding computer information systems will be surveyed in brief. Next, the different legal analogies which could be applied to computer information systems will …
Problem Solving And Storytelling In Constitutional Law Courses, William A. Kaplin
Problem Solving And Storytelling In Constitutional Law Courses, William A. Kaplin
Seattle University Law Review
The author’s primary methods to teach Constitutional Law are problem solving and storytelling. He selected Farber, Eskridge, and Frickey’s Constitutional Law: Themes for the Constitution's Third Century and continues to use it in part because it includes both stories and problems. The author also selected this particular casebook because it places the individual rights materials before the materials on federal powers. He wanted to experiment with this reversed order and thus far has been satisfied – largely because the rights materials engage student interest better than the powers materials. They also set a more contemporary and practical tone for the …
The Medical Savings Account Provision Of The Hipaa: Is It Sound Health And Tax Policy?, Danshera Cords
The Medical Savings Account Provision Of The Hipaa: Is It Sound Health And Tax Policy?, Danshera Cords
Seattle University Law Review
This Comment argues that the Medical Savings Account (MSA) provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) fails to meet the goals of either tax policy or health policy. As a result of this failure, the demonstration program should be redesigned to provide valid and reliable information about whether the availability of tax-preferred MSAs will decrease the affordability of health care and its availability to the less healthy.
Politics, Doctrinal Coherence, And The Art Of Treatise Writing, Edward Rubin
Politics, Doctrinal Coherence, And The Art Of Treatise Writing, Edward Rubin
Seattle University Law Review
Writing a treatise on constitutional law is both necessary and impossible. It is necessary because constitutional law, at least in the United States, is a common law subject. To be sure, it possesses a positive law basis, but that basis is very thin and the decisional law that has flowed from it is luxuriant and complex. Treatises organize and summarize bodies of decisional law, creating a coherent structure from the welter of incremental decisions, overlapping doctrines, and particularized holdings and dicta. Yet it is impossible to write a treatise about constitutional law. All treatises depend, for their effectiveness, upon a …
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Free To Choose, Randy E. Barnett
Free To Choose, Randy E. Barnett
Seattle University Law Review
This Essay responds to a casebook review published in the previous annual Casebook Review issue.
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Table Of Contents, Seattle University Law Review
Seattle University Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Practitioner's Perspective On The Tenure Of Chancellor William T. Allen, Jesse A. Finkelstein
A Practitioner's Perspective On The Tenure Of Chancellor William T. Allen, Jesse A. Finkelstein
Seattle University Law Review
This Essay is part of a tribute issue that was compiled in honor of William T. Allen, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, after he announced his intention not to seek reappointment.
". . . Skepticism But Not Cynicism": Chancellor Allen's Scrutiny Of Special Committees, James C. Freund
". . . Skepticism But Not Cynicism": Chancellor Allen's Scrutiny Of Special Committees, James C. Freund
Seattle University Law Review
This Essay is part of a tribute issue that was compiled in honor of William T. Allen, Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, after he announced his intention not to seek reappointment.
Survivability Of Noneconomic Damages For Tortious Death In Washington, Steve Andrews
Survivability Of Noneconomic Damages For Tortious Death In Washington, Steve Andrews
Seattle University Law Review
The focus of this Comment will be the 1993 amendment to Washington's general survival statute. In particular, the goal is to interpret how noneconomic damages for tortious death are to be treated under the new survival statute and to answer the question of what noneconomic damages are available to the victim's survivors. Because of Washington's complex statutory scheme, each of five potentially applicable statutes will be examined for available noneconomic damages, the survivability of these damages, the beneficiaries of the action, and possible duplication of damages. In answering these questions, this comment will also address the issue of survivability of …
Chancellor Allen And The Fundamental Question, D. Gordon Smith
Chancellor Allen And The Fundamental Question, D. Gordon Smith
Seattle University Law Review
In this article, the author explains Chancellor Allen's expansive reputation by examining his ability to speak to what philosopher John Danley calls "the fundamental question": "What is the appropriate role of the modem corporation in a free society?" From the chartering of the first corporations in the United States to the present day, debate over the fundamental question has been rancorous. On one side of the debate stand those who believe that society is best served when corporations strive to maximize profits for the benefit of shareholders; on the other side stand those who believe that corporations should have some …
What Ever Happened To The Appearance Of Fairness Doctrine? Local Land Use Decisions In An Age Of Statutory Process, W.T. Watterson
What Ever Happened To The Appearance Of Fairness Doctrine? Local Land Use Decisions In An Age Of Statutory Process, W.T. Watterson
Seattle University Law Review
All states guarantee constitutional due process and fairness for both judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings. They differ, however, on the legal standard of fairness to apply to quasi-judicial proceedings. Many states rely on due process guarantees, that is, a proceeding which is fair in actual substance and procedure. Washington, however, has adopted more of the judicial standard for quasi-judicial actions, requiring "a hearing not only fair in substance, but fair in appearance as well." This "appearance of fairness doctrine" was originally developed within the context of local land use decisions. Later, it was applied to a broader spectrum of administrative proceedings. …
Sovereign Indignity? Values, Borders And The Internet: A Case Study, Eric B. Easton
Sovereign Indignity? Values, Borders And The Internet: A Case Study, Eric B. Easton
Seattle University Law Review
This Article focuses on the publication ban issued by Justice Kovacs in the Karla Homolka trial and the reaction to it as a case study of the new global communications environment. Part I reconstructs the factual circumstances that provoked the ban, as well as the responses of the media, the legal establishment, and the public. Part II examines the ban itself, the constitutional challenge mounted by the media, and the landmark Dagenais decision. Part III reflects on the meaning of the entire episode for law, journalism, and national sovereignty. The article concludes that the publication ban in this case, by …
Stone, Seidman, Sunstein & Tushnet's Constitutional Law: An Inclusive, Scholarly, And Comprehensive Constitutional Law Casebook, Sharon E. Rush
Stone, Seidman, Sunstein & Tushnet's Constitutional Law: An Inclusive, Scholarly, And Comprehensive Constitutional Law Casebook, Sharon E. Rush
Seattle University Law Review
In reviewing Stone, Seidman, Sunstein, & Tushnet's <em>Constitutional Law</em>, the author focuses on the casebook’s exploration of race to illustrate why she uses the book, and why she finds it valuable. The outstanding qualities of the book, however, are not limited to race. It provides excellent material on just about every possible area of discrimination law, as well as on the basics of separation of powers, federalism, and First Amendment issues. Inevitably, any textbook will be of limited use to a professor who has had time to reflect on the area of the law and who has perhaps written in …
Combining The Best Of Gunther And Sullivan, James Weinstein
Combining The Best Of Gunther And Sullivan, James Weinstein
Seattle University Law Review
In the field of casebooks, there are few classics, but Gerald Gunther's Constitutional Law has long been viewed as one of them. More than twenty years ago it was heralded in the Harvard Law Review as "the Hart and Wechsler of constitutional law." After decades of solo authorship, Gunther is joined on the 13th edition by Kathleen Sullivan, who was primarily responsible for revising (among other sections) the chapters on freedom of expression. This partnership has succeeded in improving what was already perhaps the strongest section of the book. This Review examines the organization of the free expression materials, considers …
A Constitutional Law Casebook For The 21st Century: A Critical Essay On Cohen And Varat, Bryan K. Fair
A Constitutional Law Casebook For The 21st Century: A Critical Essay On Cohen And Varat, Bryan K. Fair
Seattle University Law Review
The purpose of this essay is to review the strengths and weaknesses of the latest edition of Cohen and Varat’s Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials. After teaching from it for seven years, the author of this review states unequivocally that it is a first-rate teaching tool – unquestionably one of the leading, traditional casebooks, enabling thousands of law students throughout the country to gain some insight on a vast array of constitutional questions. Below, rather than simply describe the casebook's broad contents, the author illustrates how he uses it in a class of 65 to 100 students, meeting for …