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Using The Pervasive Method Of Teaching Legal Ethics In A Property Course, Thomas L. Shaffer
Using The Pervasive Method Of Teaching Legal Ethics In A Property Course, Thomas L. Shaffer
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The first-year introductory course in property law is about all that is left of the traditional black-box curriculum. It is where beginning law students cope with and despair of the arcana of English common law; where, with more detachment than, say, in the torts course, analysis of appellate opinions is what "thinking like a lawyer" means, with no more than peripheral and begrudging attention to modem legislation and administrative law; where legal reasoning is a stretching exercise and initiatory discipline. And, incidentally, surviving bravely the rude invasion of teachers of public law, it is where a teaching lawyer can point …
Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey
Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey
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In any society, the government's ability to interfere with life, liberty or property is always open for full discussion. In this conversation, Professor Blakey discusses property in the context of organized and white-collar crime, in addition to criminal forfeiture, and frames his discussion around his work with Senator John McClellan on drafting the Organized Crime Control Act.