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Navigating Introvert Hell, Heidi K. Brown Jul 2019

Navigating Introvert Hell, Heidi K. Brown

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You don’t have to be hard-charging to be an impactful legal networker.


Fear And Lawyering, Heidi K. Brown May 2019

Fear And Lawyering, Heidi K. Brown

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Create a work culture of ‘psychological safety’ that encourages taking intellectual and creative risks.


Face Fear—Don’T Fake It, Heidi K. Brown Mar 2019

Face Fear—Don’T Fake It, Heidi K. Brown

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Temptation's Page Flies Out The Door: Navigating Complex Systems Of Disability And The Law From A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective, Michael L. Perlin, Mehgan Gallagher Jan 2019

Temptation's Page Flies Out The Door: Navigating Complex Systems Of Disability And The Law From A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective, Michael L. Perlin, Mehgan Gallagher

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This article considers the difficulties inherent in the navigation of the legal system and the disability system, difficulties made more complicated when these systems intersect. Although this problem is not a new one, remarkably, it has never been the subject of any legal scholarship. We argue here that it is futile to consider either system to be a uniform one, and that to make any sense of the underlying ambiguities, it is necessary to consider both the potential conflicts both between domestic and international law (using fitness to proceed to trial as a case example), and the conflicts between social …


A Man Of Ubuntu: A South African Colleague's Tribute To Stephen Ellmann, Penelope Andrews Jan 2019

A Man Of Ubuntu: A South African Colleague's Tribute To Stephen Ellmann, Penelope Andrews

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In Memoriam: Stephen Ellmann


Are Make Believes Juries As Good For Prosecutors As Real Ones, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2019

Are Make Believes Juries As Good For Prosecutors As Real Ones, Rebecca Roiphe

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Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship In State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs And The Need For Transparency, Lisa Grumet Jan 2019

Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship In State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs And The Need For Transparency, Lisa Grumet

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In all fifty states, the State Attorney General (SAG) — as the state’s chief legal officer — is charged with defending state laws that are challenged in court. If an SAG declines to defend or challenges a state law on the ground that it is unconstitutional — an action scholars describe as “nondefense” — the SAG ordinarily will disclose this decision to the public.

This Essay discusses a hidden form of nondefense that can occur when SAGs file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of their states in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly, some SAGs have joined multistate amicus …


Tribute To Professor Lewis R. Katz: Beloved Mentor, Global Visionary, Entrepreneur, Gerald Korngold Jan 2019

Tribute To Professor Lewis R. Katz: Beloved Mentor, Global Visionary, Entrepreneur, Gerald Korngold

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