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Chasing The Illusory Pot Of Gold At The End Of The Rainbow: Negligence And Strict Liability In Design Defect Litigation, Aaron D. Twerski Oct 2006

Chasing The Illusory Pot Of Gold At The End Of The Rainbow: Negligence And Strict Liability In Design Defect Litigation, Aaron D. Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal And Ethical Implications Of Memory Dampening, Adam Kolber Oct 2006

Therapeutic Forgetting: The Legal And Ethical Implications Of Memory Dampening, Adam Kolber

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


"Deport All The Students": Lessons Learned In An X-Treme Clinic, Stacy Caplow Oct 2006

"Deport All The Students": Lessons Learned In An X-Treme Clinic, Stacy Caplow

Faculty Scholarship

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Absurd Results, Scrivener's Errors, And Statutory Interpretation, Andrew S. Gold Oct 2006

Absurd Results, Scrivener's Errors, And Statutory Interpretation, Andrew S. Gold

Faculty Scholarship

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From The Wrong End Of The Telescope: A Response To Professor David Bernstein, Aaron D. Twerski, Margaret Berger Aug 2006

From The Wrong End Of The Telescope: A Response To Professor David Bernstein, Aaron D. Twerski, Margaret Berger

Faculty Scholarship

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Workplace Privacy, Anita Bernstein Jul 2006

What We Talk About When We Talk About Workplace Privacy, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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The Myth Of The Rational Borrower: Behaviorism, Rationality And The Misguided Reform Of Bankruptcy Law, Edward J. Janger, Susan Block-Lieb May 2006

The Myth Of The Rational Borrower: Behaviorism, Rationality And The Misguided Reform Of Bankruptcy Law, Edward J. Janger, Susan Block-Lieb

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Zeal Shortage, Anita Bernstein Apr 2006

The Zeal Shortage, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Invisible Settlements, Invisible Discrimination, Minna J. Kotkin Mar 2006

Invisible Settlements, Invisible Discrimination, Minna J. Kotkin

Faculty Scholarship

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In The Trenches Of Law Librarianship - Assessing A Special Collection From Ground Zero, Stacy Etheredge Mar 2006

In The Trenches Of Law Librarianship - Assessing A Special Collection From Ground Zero, Stacy Etheredge

Articles

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Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating The Market For Mission, Dana Brakman Reiser Jan 2006

Nonprofit Takeovers: Regulating The Market For Mission, Dana Brakman Reiser

Faculty Scholarship

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Keep It Simple: An Explanation Of The Rule Of No Recovery For Pure Economic Loss, Anita Bernstein Jan 2006

Keep It Simple: An Explanation Of The Rule Of No Recovery For Pure Economic Loss, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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Introduction: The Plaintiff's Bar, Anita Bernstein, Marc Galanter, Tanina Rostain Jan 2006

Introduction: The Plaintiff's Bar, Anita Bernstein, Marc Galanter, Tanina Rostain

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Federal Definition Of Tax Partnership, Bradley T. Borden Jan 2006

The Federal Definition Of Tax Partnership, Bradley T. Borden

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Usa Patriot Act And The Submajoritarian Fourth Amendment, Susan Herman Jan 2006

The Usa Patriot Act And The Submajoritarian Fourth Amendment, Susan Herman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Bartnicki As Lochner: Some Thoughts On First Amendment Lochnerism, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2006

Bartnicki As Lochner: Some Thoughts On First Amendment Lochnerism, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

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2006 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, Office Of The Governor Jan 2006

2006 California Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, Office Of The Governor

California Agencies

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Markets For Markets: Origins And Subjects Of Information Markets, Miriam A. Cherry, Robert L. Rogers Jan 2006

Markets For Markets: Origins And Subjects Of Information Markets, Miriam A. Cherry, Robert L. Rogers

All Faculty Scholarship

This Article focuses on why information markets have covered certain subject areas, sometimes of minor importance, while neglecting other subject areas of greater significance. To put it another way, why do information markets exist to predict the outcome of the papal conclave and the Michael Jackson trial, but no information markets exist to predict government policy conclusions, Supreme Court decisions, or the rulings in Delaware corporate law cases? Arguably, from either a dollar value or a social utility perspective, these areas of law and business would be more important than the outcome of, say, the Jackson trial. Why, then, do …


Financial Moral Panic! Sarbanes-Oxley, Financier Folk Devils, And Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement, Jose M. Gabilondo Jan 2006

Financial Moral Panic! Sarbanes-Oxley, Financier Folk Devils, And Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement, Jose M. Gabilondo

Faculty Publications

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Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Carolyn L. Dessin, Larry T. Garvin, Robyn L. Meadows Jan 2006

Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales, Keith A. Rowley, Carolyn L. Dessin, Larry T. Garvin, Robyn L. Meadows

Scholarly Works

2005 Uniform Commercial Code Survey: Sales


The Often Imitated, But Not Yet Duplicated, Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 1, Keith A. Rowley Jan 2006

The Often Imitated, But Not Yet Duplicated, Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 1, Keith A. Rowley

Scholarly Works

Unlike Revised Uniform Commercial Code Article 9 (1999), which every state and the District of Columbia enacted within roughly two years of its promulgation, states have been slower to warm to Revised UCC Article 1 (2001). Nearly seven years after the American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Law promulgated it, thirty-three states have enacted their own versions of Revised UCC Article 1. None of the thirty-three has enacted the uniform version in its entirety. All thirty-three enacting states have rejected the uniform choice-of-law provision (§ 1-301) in favor of retaining language based on pre-Revised …


Bringing Families In: Recommendations Of The Incarceration, Reentry And Family Roundtables, Ann Cammett, Johnna Christian, Nancy Fisherman, Lori Scott-Pickens Jan 2006

Bringing Families In: Recommendations Of The Incarceration, Reentry And Family Roundtables, Ann Cammett, Johnna Christian, Nancy Fisherman, Lori Scott-Pickens

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Building on the findings of the New Jersey Reentry Roundtable and a growing concern around the state about how to improve outcomes for the more than 70,000 individuals expected to return home from prison over the next five years, the roundtable examined the complex role that families – broadly defined – play in the lives of prisoners during incarceration and after their release. This document presents a set of recommendations emerging directly from roundtable sessions and provides a road map for individual and collaborative efforts accepted by a range of key players in New Jersey, including government officials, community and …


Frontier Justice: Legal Aid And Unhcr Refugee Status Determination In Egypt, Michael Kagan Jan 2006

Frontier Justice: Legal Aid And Unhcr Refugee Status Determination In Egypt, Michael Kagan

Scholarly Works

Where UNHCR conducts refugee status determination (RSD), its reactions to legal aid for asylum-seekers have been mixed. Statistical evidence collected from Egypt in 2002 indicates a correlation between receiving some form of legal aid service and an asylum-seeker's increased chances of gaining refugee protection from UNHCR. Unconventional forms of legal aid, including limited services by supervised non-lawyers (including volunteers from the refugee community) showed a positive impact on first instance cases, while traditional legal aid models showed an impact at the appeal stage. Legal aid should form an essential part of UNHCR's RSD procedures, and NGOs should work to expand …


The Beleaguered Gatekeeper: Protection Challenges Posed By Unhcr Refugee Status Determination, Michael Kagan Jan 2006

The Beleaguered Gatekeeper: Protection Challenges Posed By Unhcr Refugee Status Determination, Michael Kagan

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The number of individual Refugee Status Determination (RSD) applications received by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices worldwide nearly doubled from 1997 to 2001, while UNHCR’s RSD operations have been criticized for failing to implement basic standards of procedural fairness. Yet, although there is some literature critiquing how UNHCR determines refugee status, there is little literature examining whether UNHCR should do so, and if it should, when, where, and under what conditions.

UNHCR performance of RSD poses protection challenges because it is founded on a basic contradiction. On the one hand, government action is essential for effective refugee …


Celebrating Life And Taxes, Francine J. Lipman Jan 2006

Celebrating Life And Taxes, Francine J. Lipman

Scholarly Works

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The Puzzle Of Ivf, Dena S. Davis Jan 2006

The Puzzle Of Ivf, Dena S. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This essay seeks to address a puzzling element of the current political and legal struggles over abortion in the United States: if, as pro-life activists insist, embryos are morally equivalent to born, living persons, then why do these activists not oppose in vitro fertilization (IVF) as aggressively as they oppose abortion? IVF accounts for a significant number of destroyed embryos. Constitutionally, IVF appears to be a much more vulnerable target than abortion. And yet, legislative and political attempts to attack and restrict IVF are few, while attempts to erode women's capability to terminate pregnancies are a constant feature of our …


A Tribute To My Friend, Wendy B. Scott Jan 2006

A Tribute To My Friend, Wendy B. Scott

Journal Articles

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Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse Jan 2006

Standing In Babylon, Looking Toward Zion, Katherine R. Kruse

Scholarly Works

This article defends the triumph of vision at the 2006 UNLV Conference on Representing Children in Families by examining the interrelationship between idealism and realism in the definition of lawyers' roles and the importance of idealized visions to the process of reforming dysfunctional systems. This article suggests that the vision of lawyering for children sketched in the UNLV Recommendations--though based in idealism--is both deeply realistic and ultimately practical. This article thus affirms the choice of the group of idealists who stood together for a few days in modern-day Babylon to keep their eyes trained on the vision of Zion as …


To Err Is Human, Keith A. Rowley Jan 2006

To Err Is Human, Keith A. Rowley

Scholarly Works

This essay reviews Allan Farnsworth's final book, Alleviating Mistakes: Reversal and Forgiveness for Flawed Perceptions (Oxford U. Press 2004). There are many kinds of mistakes. One kind - a rational, well-intended decision or act that results in unanticipated, negative consequences - was the principal subject of Allan Farnsworth's previous foray into the realm of contractual angst: Changing Your Mind: The Law of Regretted Decisions (Yale U. Press 1998). Another kind - the subject of this book - is a mistake caused by an inaccurate, incomplete, or incompetent mental state at the time of an act or decision that results in …


Relief From The Rubble: Tax Assistance For Victims Of The 2005 Hurricane Season, Francine J. Lipman Jan 2006

Relief From The Rubble: Tax Assistance For Victims Of The 2005 Hurricane Season, Francine J. Lipman

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.