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Full-Text Articles in Law
Doma Statutes And Same-Sex Divorce Litigation, Erica A. Holzer
Doma Statutes And Same-Sex Divorce Litigation, Erica A. Holzer
Student Scholarship
For the purposes of writing a article on same-sex divorce, it became necessary to categorize the various state Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) statutes and constitutional amendments to analyze how each type of DoMA might handle a petition for same-sex divorce. In doing so, I developed six different categories: (1) No DoMA; (2) Definitional DoMAs; (3) DoMAs that void same-sex marriages; (4) DoMAs that explicitly deny benefits of marriage; (5) DoMAs that declare that there is no same-sex marriage to dissolve; and (6) DoMAs that explicitly prohibit same-sex divorce. This document shows which state DoMAs fall into each of these …
Defense Of Marriage Acts: A Fifty State Survey, Erica A. Holzer
Defense Of Marriage Acts: A Fifty State Survey, Erica A. Holzer
Student Scholarship
This document includes every DoMA statute and constitutional amendment in all 50 states in alphabetical order as of January 31, 2012. The text of these laws is provided, as well as a link to the statute or constitutional amendment on Westlaw.
Anonymously Provided Sperm And The Constitution, Mary P. Byrn, Rebecca Ireland
Anonymously Provided Sperm And The Constitution, Mary P. Byrn, Rebecca Ireland
Faculty Scholarship
Obtaining sperm to use in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) is relatively simple. Hospitals, clinics, and sperm banks throughout the United States are in the business of selling sperm from literally thousands of men. Once a man is approved to provide sperm, he contracts with the sperm bank to supply sperm for a specified period of time and designates himself as either an anonymous or open-identity sperm provider. When a man chooses to provide his sperm anonymously, both the sperm provider and intended parents agree to complete anonymity – that is, the sperm provider can never know the parents or any …
Thinking Locally: Law, Aging And Municipal Government: Findings From A National Survey, A. Kimberley Dayton, Israel (Issi) Doron
Thinking Locally: Law, Aging And Municipal Government: Findings From A National Survey, A. Kimberley Dayton, Israel (Issi) Doron
Faculty Scholarship
Municipal law, which has been largely ignored in the body of elder-rights scholarship, often plays a far more important role in the everyday lives of older persons than the principally aspirational concepts of international law. Accordingly, this article examines how well modern cities have fulfilled their potential role in assuring the civil and human rights of older persons. The author concludes, based on the results of a national study, that local law is not currently fulfilling its potential as a means to expand the rights of older citizens. Few cities across the country appear to have taken more than minor …
Finding A Voice Of Challenge: The State Responds To Religious Women And Their Communities, Marie Failinger
Finding A Voice Of Challenge: The State Responds To Religious Women And Their Communities, Marie Failinger
Faculty Scholarship
The appropriate response of Western nation-states to the situation of religious women who are caught between democratic norms of gender equality and the demands of their religious community has been a source of tension in many Western nations, including the U.S. This article attempts to give voice to the complex nature of women’s religious conduct as tied to their identities, and to propose alternative ways that the state might further its norms of gender equality besides intrusive regulation of religious communities.
Minnesota's Inherent Authority Criminal Expungement Law: Two Years After State V. S.L.H., Lindsay W. Davis
Minnesota's Inherent Authority Criminal Expungement Law: Two Years After State V. S.L.H., Lindsay W. Davis
Journal of Law and Practice
No abstract provided.
The Theory And Application Of Equal Protection: Developments In The Right To Counsel, Eric Wolf
The Theory And Application Of Equal Protection: Developments In The Right To Counsel, Eric Wolf
Journal of Law and Practice
No abstract provided.
Imdeminification And Insurance: Who Is To Blame?—Engineering & Construction Innovations, Inc. V. L.H. Bolduc Co., 803 N.W.2d 916 (Minn. Ct. App. 2011), Eric M. Carpenter
Imdeminification And Insurance: Who Is To Blame?—Engineering & Construction Innovations, Inc. V. L.H. Bolduc Co., 803 N.W.2d 916 (Minn. Ct. App. 2011), Eric M. Carpenter
Journal of Law and Practice
No abstract provided.
International Sale Of Goods 2011, Gregory M. Duhl
International Sale Of Goods 2011, Gregory M. Duhl
Faculty Scholarship
In 2011, U.S. courts analyzed the scope, formation, and remedies provisions of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”). Although the number of cases arising under the CISG is relatively small compared with those under the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.), the cases discussed in this survey remind us that U.S. courts are comfortable in applying the CISG. A comprehensive survey setting forth legal developments in the United States during the past nine years involving the CISG follows the Uniform Commercial Code Survey in this issue of The Business Lawyer. That survey illustrates that the …
Responses To The Five Questions, Steven Metz
Responses To The Five Questions, Steven Metz
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To The Five Questions, A. Mark Weisburd
Responses To The Five Questions, A. Mark Weisburd
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To The Five Questions, Jody M. Prescott
Responses To The Five Questions, Jody M. Prescott
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To The Five Questions, Charles J. Dunlop Jr.
Responses To The Five Questions, Charles J. Dunlop Jr.
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judicial Formalism And The State Secrets Privilege, Sudha Setty
Judicial Formalism And The State Secrets Privilege, Sudha Setty
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Targeted Strikes: The Consequences Of Blurring The Armed Conflict And Self-Defense Justifications, Laurie R. Blank
Targeted Strikes: The Consequences Of Blurring The Armed Conflict And Self-Defense Justifications, Laurie R. Blank
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Uneasy Neighbors: Comparative American And Canadian Counter-Terrorism, Kent Roach
Uneasy Neighbors: Comparative American And Canadian Counter-Terrorism, Kent Roach
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Physicians And Safe Harbor Legal Immunity, Thaddeus Pope
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Sandra Johnson has identified what she calls physician’s “bad law” claims. In some circumstances, physicians perceive that there is significant legal risk in doing what they think is clinically appropriate. In response, physicians sometimes take a medically inappropriate course of action, because it appears safer. For example, physicians might feel intimidated by aggressively enforced drug control laws. In response, they may under-treat patients’ pain to avoid perceived (and real) threats of investigation, discipline, or criminal prosecution. In short, well-meaning laws sometimes have the unintended side-effect of incentivizing physicians to do “bad” things.
Johnson identifies three responses to physicians’ “bad …
Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendment In The Public Forum, Marie Failinger
Talking Chalk: Defacing The First Amendment In The Public Forum, Marie Failinger
Faculty Scholarship
This article examines the surprising outcomes of cases challenging arrests of protesters for chalking sidewalks in public forums, and argues that courts have been careless in analyzing these blanket prohibitions under the time, place and manner doctrine.
The Status Of Clinical Faculty In The Legal Academy: Report Of The Task Force On The Status Of Clinicians And The Legal Academy, Kate Kruse, Bryan L. Adamson, Brad Colbert, Kathy Hessler
The Status Of Clinical Faculty In The Legal Academy: Report Of The Task Force On The Status Of Clinicians And The Legal Academy, Kate Kruse, Bryan L. Adamson, Brad Colbert, Kathy Hessler
Faculty Scholarship
In the midst of ongoing debates within the legal academy and the American Bar Association on the need for "practice-ready" law school graduates through enhanced attention to law clinics and externships and on the status of faculty teaching in those courses, this report identifies and evaluates the most appropriate modes for clinical faculty appointments. Drawing on data collected through a survey of clinical program directors and faculty, the report analyzes the five most identifiable clinical faculty models: unitary tenure track; clinical tenure track; long-term contract; short-term contract; and clinical fellowships. It determines that, despite great strides in the growth of …
The Evolution Of Law And Policy For Cia Targeted Killing, Afsheen John Radsan
The Evolution Of Law And Policy For Cia Targeted Killing, Afsheen John Radsan
Faculty Scholarship
Many critiques of the Central Intelligence Agency’s alleged use of killer drones depend on law that does not bind the United States or on contestable applications of uncertain facts to vague law. While acknowledging a blurry line between law and policy, we continue to develop a due process for targeted killing. In the real world, intelligence is sometimes faulty, mistakes occur, and peaceful civilians are at risk. International humanitarian law, which applies during armed conflicts, demands very little in the way of process beyond the admonition to take feasible precautions. Even so, the intelligence-driven nature of targeted killing, and the …
Wedlocked, Mary P. Byrn, Morgan L. Holcomb
Wedlocked, Mary P. Byrn, Morgan L. Holcomb
Faculty Scholarship
For as long as marriage has existed in the United States, divorce has been its necessary opposite. So strong is the need for divorce that the Supreme Court has suggested it is a fundamental right, and every state in the country allows access to no-fault divorce. For opposite-sex couples, legally ending their marriage is possible as a matter of right. For married same-sex couples, however, state DoMAs (Defense of Marriage Acts) have been a stumbling block – preventing access to divorce in some states. Same-sex couples in numerous states are being told by attorneys and judges that they cannot terminate …
Delaware Dissolves The Glue Of Capitalism: Exonerating From Claims Of Incompetence Those Who Manage Other People's Money, Daniel S. Kleinberger
Delaware Dissolves The Glue Of Capitalism: Exonerating From Claims Of Incompetence Those Who Manage Other People's Money, Daniel S. Kleinberger
Faculty Scholarship
Delaware law is the leading source of non-federal law governing U.S. business organizations. Over the past 25 years that law has tilted further and further toward insulating individuals who manage business firms from any liability to the firms’ owners based on claims of misconduct. These developments have occurred both in corporate law and the law of unincorporated organizations.
Although often described as consistent with market principles, these developments actually undercut the proper functioning of a market system. Effective competition among firms does not require a “dog eat dog” mentality within firms. Managerial responsibility is a prerequisite to healthy firms, which …
Equipping Our Lawyers: Mitchell's Outcomes-Based Approach To Legal Education, Gregory M. Duhl
Equipping Our Lawyers: Mitchell's Outcomes-Based Approach To Legal Education, Gregory M. Duhl
Faculty Scholarship
It is timely that the William Mitchell Law Review has decided to dedicate an issue to outcomes in legal education. As a long-time innovator in pedagogy, professional skills education, and experiential learning, William Mitchell has once again emerged as a leader in its outcomes-based approach to course and curricular design. Amid the current climate of uncertainty in legal education and the legal profession, and as a relative newcomer to Mitchell’s history, I believe in Mitchell’s future – tied to the past, but innovative and distinct. In this essay, I share our vision for increasing emphasis on outcomes, expanding experiential learning …
Usefulness Varies By Country: The Utility Requirement Of Patent Law In The United States, Europe And Canada, Jay Erstling, Amy M. Salmela, Justin N. Woo
Usefulness Varies By Country: The Utility Requirement Of Patent Law In The United States, Europe And Canada, Jay Erstling, Amy M. Salmela, Justin N. Woo
Faculty Scholarship
The requirement that an invention have utility is one of the most fundamental of the patent laws. In the United States, for example, the concept of utility is rooted in the Constitution: Article 1, Section 8, gives Congress the power to grant exclusive rights to inventors in order “[t]o promote the progress of Science and useful Arts.” Other jurisdictions recognize utility in the form of inventions that have “industrial applicability” or are “capable of exploitation in industry,” with all of these terms and phrases generally viewed as being synonymous.
Historically, nearly every jurisdiction has excluded some type of invention from …
Islam In The Mind Of American Courts, Marie Failinger
Islam In The Mind Of American Courts, Marie Failinger
Faculty Scholarship
This article surveys references to Islam and Muslims in American court opinions from 1800 to 1960. It argues that American judges as a group portray an ambivalent attitude toward Muslims, some treating Islam disparagingly or as an exotic and fanciful religion, and others emphasizing the religious equality that Muslims deserve
Municipal Elder Law: A Minnesota Perspective, A. Kimberley Dayton, Israel (Issi) Doron
Municipal Elder Law: A Minnesota Perspective, A. Kimberley Dayton, Israel (Issi) Doron
Faculty Scholarship
The field of elder law has developed dramatically over the past several decades and is primarily regarded as a creature of state and federal law. This area of law will be of paramount importance in the coming years as the elderly population continues to increase dramatically. Indeed, nearly every community in the United States will undoubtedly be impacted in some way by the influx of older residents. Notably, however, the effect of an aging society will impact each local community differently. For these reasons, Professors Kimberly Dayton and Israel (Issi) Doron sought to examine the role that municipal elder law …
Garden Of Truth, Sarah Deer
Garden Of Truth, Sarah Deer
Faculty Scholarship
On Oct. 27, 2011, a report entitled “Garden of Truth: The Prostitution and Trafficking of Native Women in Minnesota” was released in St. Paul, Minn. The report was the culmination of a three-year research project conducted in Minnesota by two nonprofit organizations: the Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, a grassroots organization of Native American women that is based in St. Paul and focuses on outreach and awareness for survivors of sexual assault, and Prostitution Research and Education, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco. This unique collaboration between advocates of Native American women and social scientists has produced a …
Responses To The Five Questions, John Hursh
Responses To The Five Questions, John Hursh
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To The Five Questions, Norman Abrams
Responses To The Five Questions, Norman Abrams
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Responses To The Five Questions, Harvey Rishikof, Bernard Horowitz
Responses To The Five Questions, Harvey Rishikof, Bernard Horowitz
William Mitchell Law Review
No abstract provided.