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In Re Water Rights Of The City And Cnty. Of Denver V. City Of Englewood, 304 P.3d 1160 (Colo. 2013), Sarah J. Mcgrath

Water Law Review

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Roland V. Davis, 302 P.3d 91 (Mont. 2013), Dane Mueller

Water Law Review

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Vol. 17, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Swimming In, J. Keith Tart

Water Law Review

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You Can Lead Livestock To Water: A Survey Of Exempt Livestock Wells In The West, Tiffany E. Dowell

Water Law Review

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Vermillion Ranch Ltd. P'Ship V. Raftopoulos Bros., 307 P.3d 1056 (Colo. 2013), Allison Robinette

Water Law Review

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Maddock V. Anderson, 830 N.W.2d 627 (N.D. 2013), Sarah J. Mcgrath

Water Law Review

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Agricultural Leadership Forum: So What Exactly Does "Saving Ag" Mean?, Heidi Ruckriegle

Water Law Review

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A Step In The Right Direction: Colorado's First Space Legislation, April Greene Apking

Denver Law Review Forum

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The Ethics Of ‘Responsibility While Protecting’: Brazil, The Responsibility To Protect, And Guidelines For Humanitarian Intervention, James Pattison

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In the aftermath of the NATO intervention in Libya, the responsibility to protect (RtoP) doctrine has received considerable blowback. Various states, most notably some of the ‘BRICS’ states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), claimed that NATO exceeded its mandate given to it by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1973 (by allegedly focusing on regime change rather than on the protection of civilians), was inappropriate in its target selection, violated the arms embargo by transferring arms to rebels, and generally caused too much harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.1 It was also suggested that the UK, US, and …

January Roundtable: Responding To The Syrian Crisis, Introduction, Claudia Fuentes Julio

Human Rights & Human Welfare

An annotation of:

“The World Next Genocide” by Simon Adams. New York Times, November 2012.

and

“Syria is Central to Holding Together the Mideast” by Condoleezza Rice. Washington Post, November 2012.

Syrians Crushed Between Humanitarianism And Realism, Philip Cunliffe

Human Rights & Human Welfare

With the UN High Commissioner for Refugees announcing early this year that the war in Syria may have claimed as many as 60,000 lives, two op-eds published late in 2012 usefully exemplify two contrasting frames that have thus far dominated international responses to the conflict—namely, the humanitarian frame and the geopolitical frame. Yet despite the apparent contrasts between these two frameworks, both reflect a similar contempt for the Syrian people and their right to self-determination. The humanitarian framing of the conflict emphasizes the scale of human suffering and the need to alleviate it, while the geopolitical frame accentuates political interests …

The Outsider Within: The Radical, Not-So-Scary Feminist Jurisprudence Of Ann Scales, Kathryn Abrams

Denver Law Review

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On Surviving Legal De-Education: An Allegory For A Renaissance In Legal Education, Robin Walker Sterling

Denver Law Review

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Finding The Point Of Novelty In Software Patents, Bernard Chao

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The issue of patentable subject matter eligibility is in considerable flux. In 2012, the Supreme Court set forth a confusing new framework for determining patent eligibility. The decision in Mayo v. Prometheus cast serious doubt on the continued viability of many software patents. Indeed, a split quickly emerged in the Federal Circuit. As a result, it was unclear whether adding computer limitations to an otherwise unpatentable concept somehow renders the concept patent-eligible. In an attempt to settle this question, the Federal Circuit granted a petition to rehear the issue en banc. But in CLS Bank Int’l v. Alice Corp., the …

Using Student Evaluation Data To Examine And Improve Your Program, David I.C. Thomson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

At many schools, directing a legal writing program today is quite different than it was even 10 years ago. As LRW faculties mature and the individual faculty members grow in the profession, the need for a “top-down” director is lessening or going away in many programs. However, in many schools there remains a valuable leader/coach sort of role for a director, whether that person rotates, coordinates, or however it works in practice that is best for the school. This new sort of director is ideally someone who is able to encourage and support a culture of programmatic excellence and is …

Facilitating Better Law Teaching – Now, Martin J. Katz

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This Essay is about solutions—real solutions that law schools can deploy right now to improve the education we provide. And it is about how to overcome obstacles to implementing those solutions right now. This is how change happens.

Teaching Professional Identity In Law School, Martin J. Katz

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Law schools are in the business of teaching students legal doctrine. Since the introduction of the case method at Harvard Law School in the late 1800s, law schools regularly have taught students how to find doctrine (research); how to identify doctrine (reading cases and other legal texts); how to understand doctrine (exploring the limits of legal texts, and applying rules from old texts to new facts); and how to critique doctrine (discussing whether a particular rule is a good one, based on the goals the rule might seek to accomplish). In more recent times, law schools’ stakeholders—including clients, firms, judges, …

What Marriage Law Can Learn From Citizenship Law (And Vice Versa), Govind Persad

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Citizenship and marriage are legal statuses that generate numerous privileges and responsibilities. Legal doctrine and argument have analogized these statuses in passing: consider, for example, Ted Olson’s statement in the Hollingsworth v. Perry oral argument that denying the label “marriage” to gay unions “is like you were to say you can vote, you can travel, but you may not be a citizen.” However, the parallel between citizenship and marriage has rarely been investigated in depth. This paper investigates the marriage-citizenship parallel with a particular focus on three questions prompted by recent developments in law and policy: 1) Should we provide …

Race And Income Disparity: An Ideology-Neutral Approach To Reconciling Capitalism And Economic Justice, Robert M. Hardaway

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

Income and wealth disparities along racial lines in the United States constitute a continuing threat to the political and democratic stability upon which the economy and government of the United States fundamentaly depends. The quest or solutions to these economic dijpariies has thus far been frustrated by ideological battles between poliical groups and coalitions. In particular, ideological preconceptions have prevented these groups from listening to the ideas and proposals of opposing groups and working together to find real solutions to the problem of income disparities that actually work. Instead, they have created policies which, while fitting within a preconceived ideological …

E-Legislating, K.K. Duvivier

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

The United States has been plagued with a deadlocked, “do nothing” Congress for the last several years, but today there is a new game in town. Senator Chris Dodd declared, when he first encountered the full force of e-legislating, “It’s a new day [in Washington]... Brace yourselves.” Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship of citizens to their governments. Since e-democracy was first identified in the 1990s, at least four subcategories have emerged. This article debuts the newest member of the e-democracy family: e-legislating — the use of Internet and social media to influence federal legislation. The federal legislative process …

Vol. 16, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Prior Appropriation And Water Quality: The Water Court's Authority To Protect An Appropriator's Right To Clean Water, Ryan Jarvis

Water Law Review

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What's On Our Plate For 2013?, Joseph Norris

Water Law Review

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The Colorado River: Intergovernmental Agreements, William Davis Wert

Water Law Review

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International Water Law: The United States And Mexico, Nathanial Brown

Water Law Review

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Basin Study Overview With Reaction Panel And Q&A, Nathanial Brown

Water Law Review

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Ark. Game & Fish Comm'n V. United States, 133 S. Ct. 511 (2012), Natasha Schissler

Water Law Review

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Town Of Minturn V. Tucker, 293 P.3d 581 (Colo. 2013), Winslow Taylor

Water Law Review

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In Re 'Iao Ground Water Management Are High-Lever Source Water Use Permit Application, 287 P.3d 129 (Haw. 2012), Aubrey Markson

Water Law Review

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