Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 30 of 53

Full-Text Articles in Law

Child Obesity, School Food Environments And The Best Interests Of The Child, Benedetta Faedi Duramy Nov 2018

Child Obesity, School Food Environments And The Best Interests Of The Child, Benedetta Faedi Duramy

Publications

This article is about child obesity, school food, and the key role schools can play in creating environments that can enhance children’s eating patterns and lifestyle behaviours and, thus, can support the realization of children’s best interest in relation to food and health. In contrast to the traditional approach that frames the obesity problem as a personal issue or as a matter of parental responsibility, this article argues that the prevention of child obesity should be interpreted as a State obligation under both international and domestic laws. Analysis turns to the example of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, adopted in …


Boyd Briefs - Oct. 5, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Oct 2018

Boyd Briefs - Oct. 5, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Externship Assessment Project: An Empirical Study Of Supervisor Evaluations Of Extern Work Performance, Jodi S. Balsam, Margaret Reuter Oct 2018

Externship Assessment Project: An Empirical Study Of Supervisor Evaluations Of Extern Work Performance, Jodi S. Balsam, Margaret Reuter

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Boyd Briefs - Sep. 28, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Sep 2018

Boyd Briefs - Sep. 28, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Sep. 21, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Sep 2018

Boyd Briefs - Sep. 21, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Sep. 14, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Sep 2018

Boyd Briefs - Sep. 14, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Sep. 7, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Sep 2018

Boyd Briefs - Sep. 7, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Aug. 31, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Aug 2018

Boyd Briefs - Aug. 31, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Guerrina V. State, 134 Nev. Adv. Op. 45 (June 7, 2018), Xheni Ristani Jun 2018

Guerrina V. State, 134 Nev. Adv. Op. 45 (June 7, 2018), Xheni Ristani

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court affirmed Lyons v. State, which gives the courts discretion to reject a defendant’s request for self-representation if the request is untimely. Further, the Court affirmed the Mendoza v. State test, which allows a single incident to sustain convictions for both robbery and kidnapping if any movement or restraint creates a risk to the victim substantially exceeding what is necessarily present in the crime of robbery. Finally, the Court held that the State must satisfy NRS § 193.165 to sustain deadly weapon charges.


2018 Annual Report For Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School Of Law, Janet Fischer May 2018

2018 Annual Report For Digital Commons: The Legal Scholarship Repository @ Golden Gate University School Of Law, Janet Fischer

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Boyd Briefs - May 18, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law May 2018

Boyd Briefs - May 18, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - May 11, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law May 2018

Boyd Briefs - May 11, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - May 4, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law May 2018

Boyd Briefs - May 4, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


A Review Of Various Actions By The Federal Bureau Of Investigation And Department Of Justice In Advance Of The 2016 Election, Office Of The Inspector General, U.S. Department Of Justice May 2018

A Review Of Various Actions By The Federal Bureau Of Investigation And Department Of Justice In Advance Of The 2016 Election, Office Of The Inspector General, U.S. Department Of Justice

United States Department of Justice: Publications and Materials

The Department of Justice (Department) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) undertook this review of various actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department in connection with the investigation into the use of a private email server by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton served as Secretary of State from January 21, 2009, until February 1, 2013, and during that time used private email servers hosting the @clintonemail.com domain to conduct official Department of State (State Department) business. In 2014, in response to a request from the State Department to Clinton for “copies of any Federal records …


Boyd Briefs - Apr. 27, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Apr 2018

Boyd Briefs - Apr. 27, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Apr. 20, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Apr 2018

Boyd Briefs - Apr. 20, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Morton Cohen, Civil Rights Attorney And Law School Professor, Dies, Steve Rubenstein Apr 2018

Morton Cohen, Civil Rights Attorney And Law School Professor, Dies, Steve Rubenstein

Articles About Faculty

Morton Cohen, a civil rights attorney and law school professor whose tireless devotion to the underdog helped improve treatment for mental patients, jail inmates and poor tenants, has died.

Cohen died April 12 of cancer in his Berkeley hills home. He was 82.


Poverty Law Symposium 2018, Michele Benedetto Neitz Apr 2018

Poverty Law Symposium 2018, Michele Benedetto Neitz

Poverty Law Conference & Symposium

Presentations:

Ladie Adriano: “Child Support Enforcement and the Incarcerated Obligor”

Stephanie Huang: “Civil Gideon for Family Law”

Devin Fathi: “Systematic Inequality of the Third Gender”

Gisele Martinez: “California’s Death Penalty and Proposition 66”

Jordan Davis: “Legalize It: Cash Crop or Tool of Economic Oppression”

Harris Emran: “Support Your Local Bondsman; Get Arrested”

Maneesha Birdee: “More Housing Near Public Transit: Relocating the Bay Area’s Poor”

Douglas Blatecky: “Safe Injection Sites in San Francisco”

Minna Fernan: “Criminalization of Homeless People in San Francisco is not the Answer”

John Adams: “When Yesterday’s Choices are Making for Tomorrow’s Bad Decisions: How California may Tackle …


Boyd Briefs - Apr. 13, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Apr 2018

Boyd Briefs - Apr. 13, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Apr. 6, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Apr 2018

Boyd Briefs - Apr. 6, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Supreme Judicial Bullshit, Adam J. Kolber Apr 2018

Supreme Judicial Bullshit, Adam J. Kolber

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Revenge Against Robots, Christina Mulligan Apr 2018

Revenge Against Robots, Christina Mulligan

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Bringing The Science Of Policing To Liability For Third-Party Crime At Shopping Malls, Aaron Twerski, John M. Shane Apr 2018

Bringing The Science Of Policing To Liability For Third-Party Crime At Shopping Malls, Aaron Twerski, John M. Shane

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Techno-Policing, I. Bennett Capers Apr 2018

Techno-Policing, I. Bennett Capers

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Boyd Briefs - Mar. 30, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Mar 2018

Boyd Briefs - Mar. 30, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Mar. 23, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Mar 2018

Boyd Briefs - Mar. 23, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Mar. 16, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Mar 2018

Boyd Briefs - Mar. 16, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Mar. 9, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Mar 2018

Boyd Briefs - Mar. 9, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Mar. 2, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Mar 2018

Boyd Briefs - Mar. 2, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.


Boyd Briefs - Feb. 23, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law Feb 2018

Boyd Briefs - Feb. 23, 2018, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Boyd Briefs provides weekly information regarding the activities and accomplishments of the faculty, students, and alumni of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.