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For Thanassi, Robert Thibeaux
For Thanassi, Robert Thibeaux
Louisiana Law Review
The poem "For Thanassi" by Robert Thibeaux is presented. First Line: Aeschylus found many truths in justice; Last Line: Like the Romans, law's origins, law's odes.
Bond For Deed In Louisiana: 99 Problems But Being A Sale Ain’T One, Endya L. Hash
Bond For Deed In Louisiana: 99 Problems But Being A Sale Ain’T One, Endya L. Hash
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on how parties use bond for deed contracts and treatment of a bond for deed contract as a sale protects the parties, clarifies applicable law, and gives effect to the true nature of this contract in Louisiana.
In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos, Elizabeth R. Carter
In Memoriam: Professor A.N. Yiannopoulos, Elizabeth R. Carter
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Thanassi Yiannopoulos: Reminiscences Of A Life Well Lived, Katherine Shaw Spaht
Thanassi Yiannopoulos: Reminiscences Of A Life Well Lived, Katherine Shaw Spaht
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the work of law professor Thanassi Yiannopoulos such as revision of the Louisiana Civil Code, revision of community property law in 1978 and mentions his intellectual ability.
A Tribute To Thanassi: The Influence Of Justinian On American Common Law Property, Sally Brown Richardson
A Tribute To Thanassi: The Influence Of Justinian On American Common Law Property, Sally Brown Richardson
Louisiana Law Review
In this article, the author discusses the contribution of law professor A.N. Thanassi Yiannopoulos towards property law and mentions civil law's impact on American property law and fluidity of property rights.
What Law Governs Forum Selection Clauses, Symeon C. Symeonides
What Law Governs Forum Selection Clauses, Symeon C. Symeonides
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the laws regarding forum selection clauses present in choice-of-law question and systems require the chosen court to undertake a choice of-law analysis for selecting the state when law of the forum state.
Good Faith In Louisiana Property Law, John A. Lovett
Good Faith In Louisiana Property Law, John A. Lovett
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on role of good faith with a prerequisite to the establishment of a predial servitude benefiting the owner of a building that encroaches on the property of a neighbor and immovable property without a valid title.
Demystifying Enrichment Without Cause, Nikolaos A. Davrados
Demystifying Enrichment Without Cause, Nikolaos A. Davrados
Louisiana Law Review
The article examines the characteristic features, and underlying principles of enrichment without cause as a source of obligations and a special expression of the more general principle of unjustified enrichment and application of enrichment without cause in Louisiana law.
Brainstorming Solutions To Rainstorms: State Liability For Construction In Flood Zones, Derbigny Willis
Brainstorming Solutions To Rainstorms: State Liability For Construction In Flood Zones, Derbigny Willis
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on state and federal roles in flood mapping, flood insurance, and regulations in flood zones and examines the East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council, Louisiana and amended building code in response to the August 2016 flood.
Alexander V. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P.: The Fifth Circuit’S Voyage Away From Reality And The Seamen Renounced In Its Wake, Colton V. Acosta
Alexander V. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P.: The Fifth Circuit’S Voyage Away From Reality And The Seamen Renounced In Its Wake, Colton V. Acosta
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Alexander v. Express Energy Operating Services, L.P. wherein the Court held that the employee work on board a vessel for determining seaman status and exposes employers to greater liability.
Policing Hate: The Problematic Expansion Of Louisiana’S Hate Crime Statute To Include Police Officers, Savannah Walker
Policing Hate: The Problematic Expansion Of Louisiana’S Hate Crime Statute To Include Police Officers, Savannah Walker
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on purpose of hate crime laws of Louisiana through historical context and analyzes the inconsistencies in the Blue Lives Matter amendment, and predicts the consequences the amendment will have on hate crime.
What Are Courts For? Have We Forsaken The Procedural Goldstandard?, Arthur R. Miller
What Are Courts For? Have We Forsaken The Procedural Goldstandard?, Arthur R. Miller
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on procedural gold standard in the civil justice system with stop signs such as personal jurisdiction, class actions and summary judgment and mentions privatization of civil dispute resolution.
Revisiting The “Content-Of-Laws” Enquiry In International Arbitration, Soterios Loizou
Revisiting The “Content-Of-Laws” Enquiry In International Arbitration, Soterios Loizou
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
A New Natural Law Reading Of The Constitution, Santiago Legarre
A New Natural Law Reading Of The Constitution, Santiago Legarre
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on how natural law can factor into constitutional interpretation in subtle but significant ways and mentions natural law has two different levels of presence in constitutional law.
Stranger Than Fiction: How Lawyers Can Accurately Andrealistically Tell A True Story By Using Fiction Writers’Techniques That Make Fiction Seem More Realistic Than Reality, Cathren Page
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on how attorneys can make their true stories actually appear to be so by using some of the same techniques that fiction writers use to make fiction seem real and concept of verisimilitude and outlines some of the traits of the concrete.
Doing Aweigh With Uncertainty: Navigating Jones Act Seamen’Sclaims Against Third Parties, Sara B. Kuebel
Doing Aweigh With Uncertainty: Navigating Jones Act Seamen’Sclaims Against Third Parties, Sara B. Kuebel
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on Jones Act as per which seaman may recover punitive damages from a third-party non-employer and law should afford seamen and non-seafarers the same protections under general maritime law against non-employer and protecting seamen as the wards of admiralty.
“Bring Your Gun To Work” And You’Re Fired: Terminatedemployees’ Potential Rights For Violations Of Parking Lot Laws, Malerie Leigh Bulot
“Bring Your Gun To Work” And You’Re Fired: Terminatedemployees’ Potential Rights For Violations Of Parking Lot Laws, Malerie Leigh Bulot
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on constitutionality of Parking Lot laws and tort of wrongful discharge with public policy and whistleblower and the issues regarding gun-storing employee's right of action against a former employer who violated a state's Parking Lot law.
You Sell Molly, I’Ll Sell Holly: Prosecuting Sex Trafficking In Theunited States, Tiffany Dupree
You Sell Molly, I’Ll Sell Holly: Prosecuting Sex Trafficking In Theunited States, Tiffany Dupree
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on facets of sex trafficking and addresses common misconceptions related to the crime and by making sex trafficking a strict liability crime and implementing innovative prosecution strategies equips the U.S. to abolish sex slavery.
Criminalization Of Cyberbullying: The Constitutionality Of Creatingan Online Neverland For Children Under A Tinker-Bell Analysis, Randall Morgan Briggs
Criminalization Of Cyberbullying: The Constitutionality Of Creatingan Online Neverland For Children Under A Tinker-Bell Analysis, Randall Morgan Briggs
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on criminal cyberbullying statute of Louisiana and significance of the fundamental right of free speech in the U.S. and exceptions to First Amendment protections recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court and changes to constitutional protection for children.
Negating The Cost Of "I Do": Ending The United States Tax Code's Family Penalty Through Permissive Joint Filing, Christine D. Allie
Negating The Cost Of "I Do": Ending The United States Tax Code's Family Penalty Through Permissive Joint Filing, Christine D. Allie
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Stronger Than The Storm: Disaster Law In A Defiant Age, Alexander B. Lemann
Stronger Than The Storm: Disaster Law In A Defiant Age, Alexander B. Lemann
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the laws governing disaster in the U.S., and includes rebuilding after flood; enactment of Disaster Mitigation Act for addressing the same; and Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council court case on the same.
Attacking Tax Shelters: Galloping Toward A Better Step Transactiondoctrine, Jonathan D. Grossberg
Attacking Tax Shelters: Galloping Toward A Better Step Transactiondoctrine, Jonathan D. Grossberg
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Making Cle Voluntary And Pro Bono Mandatory: A Law Faculty Testcase, Rima Sirota
Making Cle Voluntary And Pro Bono Mandatory: A Law Faculty Testcase, Rima Sirota
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on removing mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) hours with pro bono service hours in teh U.S., and includes regulations protecting the legal profession and free legal representation; eliminating obstacles to CLE; and maintenance of client-attorney relationship.
A Vote Against State Nonresident Contribution Limits, Ben Wallace
A Vote Against State Nonresident Contribution Limits, Ben Wallace
Louisiana Law Review
The article discusess history of federal campaign finance law in the U.S., and includes enactment of Federal Election Campaign Act for addressing the same; Buckley v. Valeo court case on the same; and state nonresident contribution limits.
Granting Chevron Deference To Irs Revenue Rulings: The "Charitable" Thing To Do, Kristin E. Oglesby
Granting Chevron Deference To Irs Revenue Rulings: The "Charitable" Thing To Do, Kristin E. Oglesby
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the applicability of the standards of deference provided by the Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. court case to U.S. Internal Revenue Service revenue rulings, and includes problems arising out of United States v. Mead Corp. court case.
Over-Manipulated And Under-Funded: Louisiana's Pension Problem And Its Impact On Public Employees, Alyssa Depew
Over-Manipulated And Under-Funded: Louisiana's Pension Problem And Its Impact On Public Employees, Alyssa Depew
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on challenges surrounding Louisiana's pension system, and its impact on public employees, and includes enactment of Social Security Act and Pension Protection Act for addressing the same; Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System; and offering benifits to public employees.
Ain't No Sunshine When It's Gone: The Future Of The Louisianasolar Initiative After The Demise Of The Solar Energy Income Taxcredit, Michael Seibert
Ain't No Sunshine When It's Gone: The Future Of The Louisianasolar Initiative After The Demise Of The Solar Energy Income Taxcredit, Michael Seibert
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the impact of demise of the solar energy income tax credit in the U.S. on the future of the Louisiana solar initiative, and includes Louisiana's solar panel incentive structure; solar incentive legislation; and Louisiana's contribution to greenhouse gas emission.
The Medical Malpractice Cure: Stitching Together The Coleman Factors, Sarah Nickel
The Medical Malpractice Cure: Stitching Together The Coleman Factors, Sarah Nickel
Louisiana Law Review
The article discusses the enactment of Louisiana Medical Malpractice Act (MMA) and advantages and disadvantages it entails for both health care providers and tort victims and the decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court in the case U.S. Dupny v. NMC Operating Company.
From Hoodies To Kneeling During The National Anthem: The Colin Kaepernick Effect And Its Implications For K-12 Sports, Laura Rene Mcneal
From Hoodies To Kneeling During The National Anthem: The Colin Kaepernick Effect And Its Implications For K-12 Sports, Laura Rene Mcneal
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on prospective path toward safeguarding students' First Amendment free speech rights in K-12 schools and intersection of social activism and sports and the implications of this relationship for public school students and preservation of student freedom of expression rights.
Keeping “I Do” Between Two: A Post-Obergefell Analysis Of A Bigamous Marriage And Its Implications For Louisiana’S Matrimonial Regime, Mclaurine H. Zentner
Keeping “I Do” Between Two: A Post-Obergefell Analysis Of A Bigamous Marriage And Its Implications For Louisiana’S Matrimonial Regime, Mclaurine H. Zentner
Louisiana Law Review
The article focuses on the U.S. expansion of individual rights and liberties and the significant ambiguities surrounding the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment and constitutional analysis of Louisiana's criminal bigamy statute.