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Order On Defendants' Motion To Dismiss (Zelby), Elizabeth E. Long

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Taking A Bullet: Are Colleges Exposing Themselves To Tort Liability By Attempting To Save Their Students?, Eric A. Hoffman

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Under John R. Sand & Gravel Co., May Lower Courts Apply Their Own Precedent In Determining Whether A Statute Waiving Sovereign Immunity Is Jurisdictional?, Max Compton

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Salvaging A Capsized Statute: Putting The Public Vessels Act Back On Course, Jefferson A. Holt

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Hovering Too Close: The Ramifications Of Helicopter Parenting In Higher Education, Kathleen Vinson

Georgia State University Law Review

“They are needy, overanxious and sometimes plain pesky—and schools at every level are trying to find ways to deal with them. No, not students. Parents—specifically parents of today’s ‘millennial generation’ who, many educators are discovering, can’t let their kids go.”

Some parents, called “helicopter parents” for constantly hovering over their children, are now making higher institutions their landing pads. They hover from the prospective admissions stage to graduation and the job market beyond—contacting presidents of universities, deans, and professors, disputing their child’s grade; requesting an extension for their child; complaining their child does not receive as much praise as the …

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The Property Platform In Anglo-American Law And The Primacy Of The Property Concept, Donald J. Kochan

Georgia State University Law Review

This Article proposes that the property concept, when reduced to its basic principles, is a foundational element and a useful lens for evaluating and understanding the whole of Anglo-American private law even though the discrete disciplines—property, tort, and contract—have their own separate and distinct existence.

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