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Feminist Lawmaking And Historical Consciousness: Bringing The Past Into The Future, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Courage In The Holocaust, Lawrence Raful

Scholarly Works

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Law, Culture, And Harassment, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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Heirs Of Leonardo: Cultural Obstacles To Strict Products Liability In Italy, Anita Bernstein, Paul Fanning

Faculty Scholarship

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A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing: Territorialism In The Guise Of Interest Analysis In Cooney V. Osgood Machinery, Inc, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

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Double Jeopardy All Over Again: Dual Sovereignty, Rodney King, And The Aclu, Susan Herman

Faculty Scholarship

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Virtual Reality, Appropriation, And Property Rights In Art: A Roundtable Discussion: April 12, 1994, Beryl Jones-Woodin

Faculty Scholarship

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Living With U.S. Regulations: Complying With The Rules And Avoiding Litigation, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

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Punitive Damages Awards In Product Liability Litigation: Strong Medicine Or Poison Pill - Introduction, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

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The Research Assistant Pool In The Law Library, Darcy Kirk

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act: An Overview, Deborah M. Mostaghel

Publications

This paper, answering questions raised in an earlier article, first sets out the events and policies that led to the enactment of the federal law and amendments that authorize state-organized regional radioactive waste disposal. After analyzing what the amended statute requires, it examines the states' progress in forming and siting compacts. This article also considers the effects of state challenges to the Act and its Amendments. Finally, the conclusion notes problem areas that should be addressed with regard to nuclear waste disposal.

The Word On Trial, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Milner Ball's extraordinary book, The Word and the Law, begins with a narrative account of "seven practices in law." The seven practitioners Ball brings to life for the reader share two powerful traits: they all, in quite different ways, use law to lessen the multiple sufferings of various communities of poor people, and they all, by doing so, strengthen the communities within which and for which they labor. The reader gains from these accounts not only a sympathetic understanding of the lives of seven lawyers, but a renewed sense of the possibilities their practices present. This can be put any …

Obstacles To The Creation Of A Permanent War Crimes Tribunal, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

Individual liability for war crimes is difficult to enforce and is unlikely to be accepted uniformly by states.

Individual criminal responsibility is the cornerstone of any international war crimes tribunal. Nuremberg Principle I provides that “[a]ny person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment.” Acts by heads of state or other government officials, even if committed in an official capacity, may not constitute an immunity defense to or mitigate criminality. These officials, therefore, could also be held responsible for offenses committed pursuant to their orders. Additionally, liability for criminal …

Reinventing Competition, Nick Allard

Faculty Scholarship

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Prosecuting And Defending Violations Of Genocide And Humanitarian Law: The International Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Christopher L. Blakesley

Scholarly Works

A symposium discussing the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, established by the United Nations Security Council’s . Christopher L. Blakesley discussed the procedural aspects of the War Crimes Tribunal.