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International Law And The Dispute Over The Falkland Islands, Julian Ku

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

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A Tale Of Election Day 2008: Teaching Storytelling Through Repeated Experiences, Stefan H. Krieger, Serge A. Martinez

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article describes the author's experience of supervising students from each of the seven clinical courses offered at Hofstra University Law School on Election Day 2008 in the U.S. It discusses cognitive science research into skills learning and the legal scholarship on teaching storytelling to lawyers. The article proposes a new way of teaching storytelling skills via the creation of learning environment that provides repeated opportunities to tell stories in a short period of time.

Book Review: What's Left? A Review Of International Law On The Left: Re-Examining Marxist Legacies By Susan Marks, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In response to the American invasion of Iraq, a group of prominent European legal scholars convened a symposium to explore the causes of the “material economic woes of international society.” A revised and expanded version of that Symposium, including five new essays, was published by Cambridge, International Law on the Left: Re-examining the Marxist Legacies (Susan Marks, ed. 2008).

In What’s Left? I review the provocative, scholarly, and occasionally electrifying essays in this volume in two parts, each addressing a version of the question, “What’s Left?” Part I asks, “What‘s ‘Left?” That is, is there a coherent Left in international …

When Family Matters, Alafair Burke

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In Privilege or Punish: Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Family Ties, Dan Markel, Jennifer Collins, and Ethan Leib make an important contribution to the growing literature on criminal law and families by documenting the ways that criminal law advantages and burdens actors based on familial status and identifying the potential harms that are unleashed when criminal law recognizes family status. This Feature seeks to complement that contribution by situating the authors’ observations within the context of two considerations beyond Privilege or Punish’s immediate focus: chronological trends and the practical realities that can shape application of formal law. By distinguishing …

An Assessment Of U.S. Responses To Greenwashing And Proposals To Improve Enforcement, Ashley Lorance

Hofstra Law Student Works

Consumers are conscious of their ability to impact the environment through their spending power. As buying “green” has become increasingly mainstream, greenwashing, or the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products as environmentally friendly, has become a problem. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in its Green Guides, takes on the problem of greenwashing. However, its enforcement of violations of the Guides has been minimal. This paper will assess the current U.S. response to greenwashing in general, and specifically, FTC enforcement of the Green Guides. Based on this assessment, the paper will make proposals for the FTC to strengthen enforcement of …