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Lucifer's Fiasco: Lawyers, Liars, And L'Affaire Lewinsky, Rob Atkinson Dec 1999

Lucifer's Fiasco: Lawyers, Liars, And L'Affaire Lewinsky, Rob Atkinson

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Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson Dec 1999

Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson

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Professor Atkinson hopes William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust will replace Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as our favorite story of lawyerly virtue. In both stories, a white male lawyer and his protégé try to free a black man falsely accused of a capital crime. But below these superficial similarities, Professor Atkinson finds fundamental differences. To Kill a Mockingbird, with its father-knows-best attorney, Atticus Finch, celebrates lawyerly paternalism; Intruder in the Dust, through its aristocratic black hero, Lucas Beauchamp, and his lay allies, challenges the rule of lawyers, if not law itself. The first urges us to …


Confidentiality, Privilege And Rule 408: The Protection Of Mediation Proceedings In Federal Court, Charles W. Ehrhardt Nov 1999

Confidentiality, Privilege And Rule 408: The Protection Of Mediation Proceedings In Federal Court, Charles W. Ehrhardt

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Lawyering In Law's Republic: William Simon's The Practice Of Justice: A Theory Of Lawyers' Ethics, Rob Atkinson Oct 1999

Lawyering In Law's Republic: William Simon's The Practice Of Justice: A Theory Of Lawyers' Ethics, Rob Atkinson

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When Balance And Fairness Collide: An Argument For Execution Impact Evidence In Capital Trials, Wayne A. Logan Oct 1999

When Balance And Fairness Collide: An Argument For Execution Impact Evidence In Capital Trials, Wayne A. Logan

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A central precept of death penalty jurisprudence is that only the "death worthy" should be condemned, based on a "reasoned moral response" by the sentencing authority. Over the past decade, however, the Supreme Court has distanced itself from its painstaking efforts in the 1970s to calibrate death decision making in the name of fairness. Compelling proof of this shift is manifest in the Court's decisions to permit victim impact evidence in capital trials, and to allow jurors to be instructed that sympathy for capital defendants is not to influence capital decisions. This Article examines a novel strategy now being employed …


Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily On Moral Heroes And Lawyerly Mores, Rob Atkinson Oct 1999

Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily On Moral Heroes And Lawyerly Mores, Rob Atkinson

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Liberty Interests In The Preventive State: Procedural Due Process And Sex Offender Community Notification Laws, Wayne A. Logan Jul 1999

Liberty Interests In The Preventive State: Procedural Due Process And Sex Offender Community Notification Laws, Wayne A. Logan

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Comment On Steve Lubet: Reconstructing Atticus Finch, Rob Atkinson May 1999

Comment On Steve Lubet: Reconstructing Atticus Finch, Rob Atkinson

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Second Generation Of Law And Economics Of Conflict Of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment And Beyond, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, William H. Allen May 1999

Second Generation Of Law And Economics Of Conflict Of Laws: Baxter's Comparative Impairment And Beyond, Erin O'Hara O'Connor, William H. Allen

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In his 1963 article in the Stanford Law Review, “Choice of Law and the Federal System,” Professor William F. Baxter criticized the choice-of-law approach of the First Restatement of the Conflict of Laws. According to the Restatement, courts should apply the law of the state where the last act or event deemed necessary to create a cause of action occurred. In contrast, Baxter advocated a comparative-impairment approach, whereby judges were obligated to apply the law of the state whose public policy would suffer the greatest impairment if its law was not applied. The authors contend that although Baxter’s approach caries …


The Dangers Of Symbolic Legislation: Perceptions And Realities Of The New Burden-Of-Proof Rules, Steve R. Johnson Mar 1999

The Dangers Of Symbolic Legislation: Perceptions And Realities Of The New Burden-Of-Proof Rules, Steve R. Johnson

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There is a growing political science and legal literature on the use of symbolism in the political and legislative process. Tax law is a natural arena for such inquiry as tax law touches virtually every type of human interaction, is heavily value-driven, and is a perennial political battleground. This article examines a recent tax law change-the enactment of new burden-of-proof rules in the summer of 1998 – concluding that it is a pernicious exercise in symbolic legislation.


Bending The Rules: Flexible Regulation And Constraints On Agency, Mark Seidenfeld Jan 1999

Bending The Rules: Flexible Regulation And Constraints On Agency, Mark Seidenfeld

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Through The Past Darkly: A Survey Of The Uses And Abuses Of Victim Impact Evidence In Capital Trials, Wayne A. Logan Jan 1999

Through The Past Darkly: A Survey Of The Uses And Abuses Of Victim Impact Evidence In Capital Trials, Wayne A. Logan

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This Article examines the recent history of victim impact evidence in capital sentencing, as permitted by the United States Supreme Court's landmark 1991 decision in Payne v. Tennessee, which overruled two other recent holdings of the Court squarely prohibiting such evidence.


The Potential And The Pitfalls Of Habitat Conservation Planning Under The Endangered Species Act, Shi-Ling Hsu Jan 1999

The Potential And The Pitfalls Of Habitat Conservation Planning Under The Endangered Species Act, Shi-Ling Hsu

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Editors' Summary: The ESA is simultaneously the most popular and most hated of environmental statutes. Conservationists fervently support the ESA's mission of preventing the extinction of our country's fish, wildlife, and plants, but private landowners subject to ESA restrictions claim that the Act unfairly and illogically restricts the use of their valuable property. As the agency with primary responsibility for the ESA's administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is caught between both sides. This Article examines how the FWS uses habitat conservation plans (HCPs) to balance the demands of conservationists and property owners. The Article begins by discussing …