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Punitive Damages, Criminal Punishment, And Proportionality: The Importance Of Legislative Limits, Leo M. Romero
Punitive Damages, Criminal Punishment, And Proportionality: The Importance Of Legislative Limits, Leo M. Romero
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This Article addresses the timely and controversial topic of constitutional limits on punitive damages and brings a criminal punishment theory perspective to the analysis of this issue. The question of how to determine when punishment is unconstitutionally excessive has been and continues to be a subject of intense debate in the courts and scholarly circles. The United States Supreme Court has subjected criminal sanctions, criminal forfeitures, and punitive damages to a proportionality requirement, but the Court uses different approaches to the proportionality analysis depending on the type of punishment. In the criminal context, the Court has retreated in large part …
America's Unknown Constitutional World, Christian G. Fritz
America's Unknown Constitutional World, Christian G. Fritz
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Historical and popular understandings of the American constitutional tradition have adopted the contentions of only one side of this debate and its role in bringing about the 1787 constitution. In doing so, these accounts miss much of that tradition’s actual history.
Protecting Public Health And The Environment By The Stroke Of A Presidential Pen: Seven Executive Orders For The President's First 100 Days, Eileen Gauna
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This white paper recommends a series of seven Executive Orders to the new Administration, all in the areas of health, safety, and the environment. Each of the suggested Executive Orders directs agencies of the government to take specific steps that would make a realworld difference and simultaneously send a signal to the public, Congress, the business community, and others that a new course has been charted and that change has arrived.
Book Review: Lincoln And The Court By Brian Mcginty, Joshua E. Kastenberg
Book Review: Lincoln And The Court By Brian Mcginty, Joshua E. Kastenberg
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This book is unique in its approach and topic. Its quality ranks with other recent works on Lincoln and the Civil War such as Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, despite its minor shortcomings. The real winner in this book is the reader. Anyone interested in the expansion of military law, particularly in the post-9/ 11 world, will find great merit in McGinty's work.
A Sesquicentennial Historic Analysis Of Dynes V. Hoover And The Supreme Court’S Bow To Military Necessity: From Its Relationship To Dred Scott V. Sanford To Its Contemporary Influence, Joshua E. Kastenberg
A Sesquicentennial Historic Analysis Of Dynes V. Hoover And The Supreme Court’S Bow To Military Necessity: From Its Relationship To Dred Scott V. Sanford To Its Contemporary Influence, Joshua E. Kastenberg
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This Article is a legal history of a case cited by the Court thirty-six times in determining issues ranging from military jurisdiction over war crimes to the shaping of how the military punitively governs its own members. That is, this Article analyzes the ideologies of the proponents of Dynes, and what those proponents hoped to achieve, as well as how the case has evolved to influence military law to the present day. Part I provides a synopsis of the pre-Civil War development of military law, as well as the factual background and ultimate decision in Dynes. Part II analyzes the …
El Dia De Los Muertos, The Death And Rebirth Of The Environment Movement, Eileen Gauna
El Dia De Los Muertos, The Death And Rebirth Of The Environment Movement, Eileen Gauna
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In 2004, in response to an article titled Death of Environmentalism, many in the environmental community engaged in a debate about whether the environmental movement was capable of adequately inspiring the public to effectively respond to climate change. This Article examines the strand of this debate that centered upon responses from environmental justice actors to the larger environmental community. Specifically, the ensuing conversations raised questions about who, precisely, is the environmental community, what is its historical legacy, how should the environment be conceptualized to promote more effective climate policy, the role of technocratic solutions, and the need for transformative coalition …
Controversy Reemerges Over Hiring, Review Of Immigration Judges, Gabriel Pacyniak
Controversy Reemerges Over Hiring, Review Of Immigration Judges, Gabriel Pacyniak
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Nearly two years after former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed a slate of reforms to quell growing discontent over the quality of decisions from Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), a series of critical reports this summer thrust the nation's immigration courts back in the national spotlight.
Fritz, Christian G.: American Sovereigns: The People And America's Constitutional Tradition Before The Civil War (Book Review), William E. Kelly
Fritz, Christian G.: American Sovereigns: The People And America's Constitutional Tradition Before The Civil War (Book Review), William E. Kelly
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The Nature Of Legal Education And Its Links To Water Management, Denise D. Fort
The Nature Of Legal Education And Its Links To Water Management, Denise D. Fort
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When water decisions are made, water lawyers are central fi gures, and decisions are made within the framework of the governing institutions. In this essay, I discuss legal education and the training of a water lawyer. Students from other disciplines may seek out legal education, so approaches to their education are considered.
Asr From A Legal Perspective, Denise D. Fort
Asr From A Legal Perspective, Denise D. Fort
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A Few Remodeling Projects Make Major Impact: The University Of New Mexico School Of Law Librarys New Reading Room, Reference Desk, And Classroom Reflect The Library As A Vibrant Activity Hub, Carol A. Parker
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The University of New Mexico School of Law Library in Albuquerque recently undertook several major and minor remodeling projects. These included creating the Governor Bruce King Archives and Reading Room inside the law library, remodeling our 35-year-old reference and access services desk, creating a classroom within the law library, and replacing carpeting and furniture. Thanks to these updates, the law library went from appearing a little drab and run-down to looking like the colorful, vibrant hub of activity it really is. This article is also available at: http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0805/pub_sp0805_Impact.pdf. Additional remodeling photographs are available on pp. 9-11 at: http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0805/pub_sp0805_MoreArch.pdf.
Detecting Lies Using Demeanor, Bias, And Context, Max J. Minzner
Detecting Lies Using Demeanor, Bias, And Context, Max J. Minzner
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This article provides a brief discussion of the divide between judges and academics in their opinion of the accuracy of legal credibility decisions and the role of demeanor evidence in making those determinations. Biases about witness credibility and context play a large role in determining whether deception will be caught. The article then examines decisions about deception by juries and by law enforcement regarding cooperating witnesses and situations where the defendant or a suspect is the witness. In conclusion, this article reflects on decisions about deception within the context of social science.
Paternalism Or Protection?: Federal Review Of Tribal Economic Decisions In Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn, Barry W. Brandon, Philip N. Hogen, Vanya S. Hogen
Paternalism Or Protection?: Federal Review Of Tribal Economic Decisions In Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn, Barry W. Brandon, Philip N. Hogen, Vanya S. Hogen
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In a recent Senate hearing, Senator John McCain and Professor Washburn clashed about the federal role in tribal economic decisions involving Indian gaming. Professor Washburn, who was struck by decades of incompetent federal stewardship of tribal trust funds demonstrated so painfully in the Cobell litigation, questioned the wisdom of the existing gaming regulatory structure in which federal officials at the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) exercise oversight of tribal economic decisions involving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Senator McCain sharply disagreed. Following his investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, McCain was even more certain that tribes needed federal protection …
Testimony On The Department Of The Interior's New Policy On Off-Reservation Acquisitions Of Land In Trust For Indian Gaming, Before The United States House Of Representatives Natural Resources Committee, 110th Congress, Second Session, Kevin Washburn
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The Department of the Interior's New Guidance on Off-Reservation Acquisitions of Land in Trust for Indian Gaming assumes that the principal value of Indian gaming is reservation employment. Although this assumption is mostly incorrect - Indian gaming operations, like state lotteries, are about public revenues, not jobs - off-reservation gaming can dramatically increase the number of public service jobs on Indian reservations. Indian gaming revenues are mostly expended on tribal services to tribal members, creating numerous public service jobs in tribal government. Off-reservation Indian gaming can also provide revenues for restoration of lands on Indian reservation, making up for limited …
Misplaced Jurisdiction, Kevin Washburn
Misplaced Jurisdiction, Kevin Washburn
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Interview discussing felonies and jurisdiction on Tribal land.
Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy (Interviewed By Gene Grant), Christine Zuni Cruz, Margaret Montoya
Narrative Braids: Performing Racial Literacy (Interviewed By Gene Grant), Christine Zuni Cruz, Margaret Montoya
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The performance that is the basis for this joint publication was performed at the Harriet Tubman Theatre at the National Underground Railroad Justice Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The two of us, Christine Zuni Cruz, a Pueblo woman from the Rio Grande Pueblos of Oke Owingeh and lsleta in New Mexico, and Margaret Montoya, a mestiza/Chicana from northern New Mexico, using both our personal voices and our professional voices as legal scholars, enacted the theatrical performance, a conversation between two women of color from different communities with different identities. This performance experiments with both method and content. The method is a …
Race In Ordinary Course: Utilizing The Racial Background In Antitrust And Corporate Law Courses, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
Race In Ordinary Course: Utilizing The Racial Background In Antitrust And Corporate Law Courses, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
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This article is about the discourses in law school classes in which non-white students are in classes with white students. While I stake a position distinct from critical race theorists, I do not analyze critical race theory or the large body of scholarship pertaining thereto in this article. I limit my discussion to my use of race in teaching traditional law school subjects, specifically antitrust and corporate law. I present this article in two parts. In Part I, I describe the challenges of using critical race theory to introduce discussions of race in traditional law school subjects. Race is interjected …
Old Blood, Bad Blood, And Youngblood: Due Process, Lost Evidence, And The Limits Of Bad Faith, Norman C. Bay
Old Blood, Bad Blood, And Youngblood: Due Process, Lost Evidence, And The Limits Of Bad Faith, Norman C. Bay
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Under the law of lost evidence, absent a showing of bad faith, no due process violation occurs when the police lose potentially exculpatory evidence. This is so even though the evidence may be critical to the defense and even though post-conviction DNA testing has exonerated more than 200 individuals. Ironically, the case that developed that rule of law, Arizona v. Youngblood, is founded on the conviction of an innocent man. This Article critically examines Youngblood and provides a conceptual framework for examining the constitutional right of access to evidence. Supreme Court precedent reflects two different, sometimes competing, visions of procedural …
Are Blue And Pink The New Brown? The Permissibility Of Sex-Segregated Education As Affirmative Action, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Are Blue And Pink The New Brown? The Permissibility Of Sex-Segregated Education As Affirmative Action, Dawinder S. Sidhu
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This Article examines segregation and affirmative action in a different context-that of gender. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") l° prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender in education programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. The regulations implementing Title IX, however, explicitly permit recipients of federal funding to offer single-sex schools, classes, and extracurricular activities. The regulations also permit recipients to "take affirmative action to overcome the effects of conditions which resulted in limited participation therein by persons of a particular sex.” This Article discusses whether and to what extent the affirmative action provision …
Brief For Respondent Iqubal As Amicus Curiae, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Brian E. Robinson
Brief For Respondent Iqubal As Amicus Curiae, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Brian E. Robinson
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Whether a conclusory allegation that a cabinet-level officer or other high-ranking official knew of, condoned, or agreed to subject a plaintiff to allegedly unconstitutional acts purportedly committed by subordinate officials is sufficient to state individual-capacity claims against those officials under Bivens.
The Legacy Of Bryan V. Itasca County: How An Erroneous $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion In Indian Gaming Revenue, Kevin Washburn
The Legacy Of Bryan V. Itasca County: How An Erroneous $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion In Indian Gaming Revenue, Kevin Washburn
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This Article places Bryan v. Itasca County in historical context and gives credit where credit is due. From the perspective of three decades, it describes the litigation and its ramifications, and highlights the work of the legal services attorneys who brought Indian tribes this landmark victory. Part I briefly describes the litigation through the state supreme court. Part II discusses, in much greater detail, the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Part III analyzes the unanimous Supreme Court opinion reversing the state courts and describes the breathtaking scope of the opinion, as well as its implications. Part IV briefly describes …
Uniendo Comunidades By Learning Lessons And Mobilizing For Change, Margaret E. Montoya
Uniendo Comunidades By Learning Lessons And Mobilizing For Change, Margaret E. Montoya
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Building community, that is, sustaining our connections to family and our ancestry is often hampered by going to law school. Law schools are highly adept at assimilating you into a profession and a worldview that can be at odds with who you were and how you saw the world before you began law school. Unfortunately, in order to fit in, it can seem advantageous to forget tus ralces, your roots. I began by talking about unigndo comunidades as a progressive objective and have been talking about the second part of your conference theme, learning lessons and mobilizing for change, as …
Dams, Duties, And Discretion: Bureau Of Reclamation Water Project Operations And The Endangered Species Act, Reed D. Benson
Dams, Duties, And Discretion: Bureau Of Reclamation Water Project Operations And The Endangered Species Act, Reed D. Benson
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Nearly thirty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided whether the survival of a relatively small number of three-inch fish among all the countless millions of species extant would require the permanent halting of a virtually completed dam for which Congress has expended more than $100 million.' Stunningly, the fish won, because the language, history, and structure of the Endangered Species Act showed 'beyond doubt that Congress intended endangered species to be afforded the highest of priorities.' The Court acknowledged that this view of the statute would carry substantial economic costs, but was persuaded that '[t]he plain intent of Congress …
Latinas/Os' And The Politics Of Knowledge Production: Latcrit Scholarship And Academic Activism As Social Justice Action, Margaret E. Montoya, Francisco Valdes
Latinas/Os' And The Politics Of Knowledge Production: Latcrit Scholarship And Academic Activism As Social Justice Action, Margaret E. Montoya, Francisco Valdes
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In this article, Professors Montoya and Valdes examine various ways of developing Latina/o legal studies in the United States. As background, they first outline and examine the three main models of knowledge-production established within legal academia during the past century or so: 1) the traditional or imperial model; 2) the safe-space or vanguard model, and; 3) the big-tent or democratic model. Using this historical template to contextualize current efforts in Latina/o legal studies both substantively and methodologically, they next review the record of LatCrit theorists over the past dozen years. With this analytical framework in place, they situate the LatCrit …
Sales Gone Wild: Will The Ftc's Business Opportunity Rule Put An End To Pyramid Marketing Schemes?, Sergio Pareja
Sales Gone Wild: Will The Ftc's Business Opportunity Rule Put An End To Pyramid Marketing Schemes?, Sergio Pareja
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This article analyzes the anticipated effect of the FTC's Business Opportunity Rule on pyramid marketing schemes. Pyramid marketing schemes consistently rank in the top ten lists of consumer complaints received by the FTC and state consumer protection divisions, victimizing 1.5 million Americans a year. One recent class action settlement demonstrated that the victims, who are often relatively poor and uneducated, had an average loss of approximately $8,000 each. The FTC has promulgated a new Business Opportunity Rule in an effort to end these abuses. Promotors of business opportunities will be required to comply with the new rule beginning on July …
Leading Change In Legal Education - Educating Lawyers And Best Practices: Good News For Diversity, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Leading Change In Legal Education - Educating Lawyers And Best Practices: Good News For Diversity, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
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No abstract provided.
Culturally Effective Legal Interviewing And Counseling For The Mexican Immigrant - A Case Study, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Culturally Effective Legal Interviewing And Counseling For The Mexican Immigrant - A Case Study, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
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No abstract provided.
By Education Or Commerce: The Legal Basis For The Federal Regulation Of The Economic Structure Of Intercollegiate Athletics, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
By Education Or Commerce: The Legal Basis For The Federal Regulation Of The Economic Structure Of Intercollegiate Athletics, Alfred Dennis Mathewson
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This article argues that the commercial characterization of intercollegiate athletics is not required to subject the economic structure of intercollegiate athletics to federal regulation. It further contends that the regulation thereof may be based on either jurisdictional nexus, but that the educational character provides a stronger jurisdictional basis for the regulation of the economic structure of intercollegiate athletic competition. Part II of this article examines the argument for using the commercial character of intercollegiate athletics as the jurisdictional basis for federal regulation of the cost and revenue structures of the intercollegiate athletics programs. Part III examines the argument for using …
Shadow War Scholarship, Indigenous Legal Tradition, And Modern Law In Indian Country, Christine Zuni Cruz
Shadow War Scholarship, Indigenous Legal Tradition, And Modern Law In Indian Country, Christine Zuni Cruz
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This article documents the purposes and reasons for the development of the Tribal Law Journal, the University of New Mexico School of Laws electronic journal created to promote scholarship on tribal law and the Indigenous legal tradition. It discusses the use of the internet for the work of the journal and of the need to increase an understanding and awareness of the law of Indigenous peoples. The diversity of indigenous peoples, in and of itself, requires unique approaches to the discussion of tribal law. The article considers how the Zapatista Movement in Chiapas utilized the internet. The Zapatista's engagement of …
Making And Breaking Habits: Teaching (And Learning) Cultural Context, Self-Awareness, And Intercultural Communication Through Case Supervision In A Client-Service Legal Clinic, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
Making And Breaking Habits: Teaching (And Learning) Cultural Context, Self-Awareness, And Intercultural Communication Through Case Supervision In A Client-Service Legal Clinic, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez
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This Article begins by offering teaching objectives that can be used to focus supervision and education on effective representation of clients from different cultures as issues arise in the course of representation. The Article then discusses the context of student supervision and explains how case supervision sessions can be extremely effective moments during which to pursue those teaching goals. The Article next examines vignettes that grew out of cases handled by the University of New Mexico's Clinical Law Program.