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Solving The Congressional Review Act’S Conundrum, Cary Coglianese

All Faculty Scholarship

Congress routinely enacts statutes that require federal agencies to adopt specific regulations. When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in 2010, for example, it mandated that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopt an anti-corruption regulation requiring energy companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments. Although the Dodd-Frank Act specifically required the SEC to adopt this disclosure requirement, the agency’s eventual regulation was also, like other administrative rules, subject to disapproval by Congress under a process outlined in a separate statute known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

After the SEC issued its …

Antiabortion Civil Remedies And Unwed Fatherhood As Genetic Entitlement, Yvonne F. Lindgren

Faculty Works

Antiabortion civil remedy laws in effect in five states grant putative fathers the right to sue abortion providers for wrongful death regardless of their relationship to the gestating parent. While these laws represent an important new development in the movement to restrict the abortion right, they also expand parental recognition of unwed fathers. Constitutional law requires that unwed fathers who seek to assert parental rights must establish that they possess both biological connection and a relationship with their child or the gestating parent—what has come to be known as “biology-plus.” However, antiabortion civil remedy laws vest parental recognition and rights …

Missouri Alot - Dc Experience, Amy Bax

Title III Professional Development Reports

I want to thank Lincoln University for sponsoring this trip. I had access to many high-level people in DC that wanted to hear my story of agriculture. These are people that have the power to create legislative practices and policies that are favorable to the agricultural industry. I had the opportunity to advocate for Lincoln and Lincoln University students.

Antitrust Class Actions In The Wake Of Procedural Reform, Christine P. Bartholomew

Journal Articles

What is the current vitality of antitrust enforcement? Antitrust class actions—the primary mode of competition oversight—has weathered two decades of procedural reform. This Article documents the effects of those reforms. Relying on an original dataset of over 1300 antitrust class action settlements, this Article finds such cases alive but far from well. Certain suits do succeed on an impressive scale, returning billions of dollars to victims. But class action reform has made antitrust enforcement narrower, more time-consuming, and costlier than only a decade ago. And, as this Article’s sources reveal, new battle lines are forming. Across the political spectrum, people …

The 24th Annual Open Government Summit: Your Guide To The Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, Peter F. Neronha, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

We Clerked For Justices Scalia And Stevens. America Is Getting Heller Wrong., Katherine A. Shaw, John Bash

Online Publications

In the summer of 2008, the Supreme Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller, in which the court held for the first time that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to gun ownership. We were law clerks to Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, and Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the lead dissent.

Bridges Of Law, Ideology, And Commitment, Steven L. Winter Walter S. Gibbs Distinguished Professor Of Constitutional Law

Law Faculty Research Publications

Law has a distinctive temporal structure—an ontology—that defines it as a social institution. Law knits together past, present, purpose, and projected future into a demand for action. Robert Cover captures this dynamic in his metaphor of law as a bridge to an imagined future. Law’s orientation to the future necessarily poses the question of commitment or complicity. For law can shape the future only when people act to make it real. Cover’s bridge metaphor provides a lens through which to explore the complexities of law’s ontology and the pathologies that arise from its neglect or misuse. A bridge carries us …

The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations (Ngos) In Improving Human Rights In Iraq, Naser A. Yahya

Department of Political Science: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Iraq has had a long history of human rights violations since its inception as a modern state in 1921. This is true especially under the personalistic dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Under his regime, the Iraqi people suffered a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, including political imprisonment, torture, and summary and arbitrary executions. This regime used a variety of mechanisms to squelch political dissent, including house-to-house searches; arbitrary arrests, often in large numbers; surveillance; harassment and questioning of family members; detention of targeted individuals, such as those returning to Iraq pursuant to amnesties, at unknown locations; …

S22rs Sgr No. 26 (Divestment), Lyric Mandell, Harris Quadir, Cooper Ferguson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request that Louisiana State University divests its stocks, funds, and endowments from companies and institutions that profit from or engage in human rights violations in US prisons, at the US-Mexico Border, in Occupied Palestine, and environmentally

S22rs Sgr No. 25 (Scr 6), Adam Dohrenwend, Lyric Mandell

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request that Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 of the 2022 Regular Session of the Louisiana State Legislature not be enacted

S22rs Sgr No. 17 (Letterman Jacket), Lyric Mandell, Andrew Hardee

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University athletics to award letterman jackets to members of the Golden Band from Tiger Land.

S22rs Sgr No. 15 (Mental Health Professionals), Saachi Chugh

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request Student Health Center to recruit a higher number of diverse Mental Health professionals

S22rs Sgr No. 16 (Group Billing), Angel Puder, Amelie Chadwick, Karrisa Chen, Matthew Delatte, Adam Dohrenwend, Jahi Palmer-Davis, Gigi Powers, Zadian Rolland, Michael Wilcher

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Residential Life to Cease Group Billing for Residents Who are Not at Fault of Suspected Miscellaneous Damages

S22rs Sgr No. 19 (Union Lot), Devin Meche, Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU Parking and Transportation to allow the parking lot behind the Student Union remain a parking lot after 6:00 pm when the Park N Go ends, until construction of the Bus Depot begins

S22rs Sgr No. 1 (Dead Week), Samantha Staggs, Jace Canafax, Hunter Holliday, Lyric Mandell, Miles Mclendon, James Moore, Nicole Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Taren Powell-Brown, Hamood Qureshi, Laliah Williams, Lauren Wise

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To Urge and Request LSU to extend Concentrated Study Period, also known as "Dead Week" from five (5) days to seven (7) days to now begin on Monday instead of Wednesday

S22rs Sgr No. 2 (Gambling), Harris Quadir, Adam Dohrenwend

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU Administration and LSU Athletic Administration to refrain from encouraging LSU students in gambling practices

S22rs Sgr No. 6 (Military Museum), Cooper Ferguson, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request William A. Brookshire LSU Military Museum removes a bust of Troy H. Middleton from display until an additional placard noting his military service and segregationist tenure at LSU is displayed with it.

S22rs Sgr No. 7 (Believing Day), Matthew Delatte, Angel Puder

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request to declare Tuesday, March 8, 2022, as Start by Believing Day

S22rs Sgb No. 2 (Standing Committee), Taylor Perrodin, Trevor Cupit

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Code to require standing committees to be balanced by number.

S22rs Sgr No. 3 (Sarah Temple), Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To thank LSU Sustainability Director, Sarah Temple, for her dedicated service to LSU Campus Sustainability and cooperative with LSU Student Government

S22rs Sgr No. 4 (Asynchronous), Samantha Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU to require all make Saturday Classes to be asynchronous

S22rs Sgb No. 3 (New Business Deadline), Taylor Perrodin

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Student Government Code to change the deadline to submit new business preambles

S22rs Sgr No. 5 (Lsu Military Museum), Cooper Ferguson, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request William A. Brookshire LSU Military Museum removes a placard from display that explicitly honors Confederate cadets until it is amended to strip them of this honor

S22rs Sgr No. 9 (Front Yard Bikes), Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To support the Front Yard Bikes agreement in regard to abandoned bikes and to urge and request LSU Administration to prioritize the completion of the agreement

S22rs Sgr No. 13 (Syllabus Database), Samantha Staggs, Jace Canafax, Hunter Holliday, Lyric Mandell, Nicole Nguyen, Hamood Qureshi

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request LSU to remind and encourage faculty members to upload their syllabus to the syllabus database before the start of the semester to allow students better start

S22rs Sgr No. 23 (Hb 183), Colin Raby, Harris Quadir, Angel Puder

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

in support of Louisiana House Bill No. 183 introduced by the State Legislature, that prohibits "public postsecondary education institutions from withholding certain services due to defaulting on a loan; and to provide for related matters."

S22rs Sgr No. 24 (Carceral Labor), Adam Dohrenwend, Cooper Ferguson, Angel Puder, Harris Quadir, Hamood Qureshi, Colin Raby, Daniela Sestich, Michael Wilcher, Landon Zeringue

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Resolution

To urge and request Louisiana State University to issue an official public statement regarding their plans for carceral labor to not return to the A&M Campus

Washington State Sausage Making: Attempting To Measure The Efficiency Of The Legislature, Jonathon Church

PPPA Paper Prize

This paper explores the validity and justification for using how a bill dies in the Washington State legislative process to better critique and measure government efficiency. The information was gathered through interviews with former and current members of the State Legislature and from first-hand experience while working as an intern during the 2022 legislative session. Part one of the paper utilizes multiple sources to present a detailed description of the various ways in which a bill can fail to make it through the legislative process during the regular session. Part two then expands on how these obstacles in a bill's …

Rwu Law News: The Newsletter Of Roger Williams University School Of Law, Michael M. Bowden, Gregory W. Bowman, Brooklyn Crockton

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Foreword, Stephen Wermiel

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

It is an honor and a pleasure to help the American UniversityLegislationandPolicy Brief carry on its fine tradition of scholarly inquiry into important issues facing the nation, the legislatures and the public policy arena. AULPB is an important forum within WCL for student authors to examine cutting edge, timely issues. It is also a focal point, beyond the bounds of the WCL campus, for authors to consider a broad range of pressing issues that combine law and policy questions.