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F07rs Sgb No. 18 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Peterson), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 19 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Payne), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 22 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Cooper), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 20 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Cazayoux), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 21 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Collura), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 23 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Fowler), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 25 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Mayhall), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 26 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Mcallister), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 24 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Harang), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 27 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Mcluer), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 28 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Mims), Prestridge

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F07rs Sgb No. 31 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Woodard), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 32 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Weiner), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 30 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Skinner), Prestridge

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

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F07rs Sgb No. 29 (Iowa Pres Caucuses - Schott), Prestridge

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The Press As An Interest Group: Mainstream Media In The United States Supreme Court, Eric Easton

All Faculty Scholarship

There can be little doubt that the institutional press is an interest group to be reckoned with in the Supreme Court, its aversion to such a designation notwithstanding. Over the past century, and especially since 1964, the press has secured for itself the greatest legal protection available anywhere in the world. While some of that protection has come from Congress, by far the greatest share has come from the Supreme Court's expansive interpretation of the First Amendment's Press Clause. Although the role of the press in American politics has been studied extensively for nearly two centuries, the role of the …

News Media As Mediators, Carol Pauli

Faculty Scholarship

Journalism thrives on conflict, a classic "news value," which can make a story newsworthy. As a result, the normal routines of reporters and editors tend to emphasize extreme voices and combative themes, triggering the criticism that news coverage of an event is "more likely to escalate a conflict than to pacify it."

Even so, journalism has made some legendary journeys into conflict resolution. In 1977, for example, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite conducted separate interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which led directly to Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem. In 1985, Ted Koppel, in …

Dispatches From The Tort Wars, Anthony J. Sebok

Articles

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that, as a political matter, the modern tort reform movement has been very successful. This essay reviews three books that either rebut the tort reform movement's central theses or analyze the strategies that allowed the movement to prevail. I discuss Tom Baker's The Medical Malpractice Myth, Herbert Kritzer's Risks, Reputations, and Rewards: Contingency Fee Legal Practice in the United States, and William Haltom & Michael McCann's Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis. Although each book has a very different focus from the other two, I argue that a common theme …

Some Learning Opportunities From The Imus Affair, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

The author discusses the broader issues of free speech under the surface of the Don Imus affair, where that commentator made a gratuitous slur about the Rutgers women's basketball team. He balances this gaff against the good deeds of the same personality, comparing this with similar provocative remarks made by other well-known public figures. The media is cited for an overreaction to the Imus incident, and all these components are discussed in light of what free speech means.

News Media As Mediators (Cardozo J. Conflict Resol.), Carol Pauli

Faculty Scholarship

This paper explores journalism as a potential method of conflict resolution. Part I compares the norms and practices of journalism to those of facilitative mediation. Part II draws additional parallels between some aspects of journalism and two other forms of dispute resolution: transformative mediation and adjudication. Part III suggests some areas for encouragement and some areas for caution as peace journalists import conflict resolution techniques into news reporting and writing.

News Reporting And Its Impact On Conflict, Richard C. Reuben

Faculty Publications

This symposium seeks to bridge this important gap in our social understanding of conflict by stimulating a sustained discussion among scholars about its contours. The task is important and timely, worthy of effort on both the media and the conflict sides of the equation.

The Media And National Security, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

In our discussion of the media and national security, we begin with the First Amendment, not only with its legal doctrines and principles, but also with the values of the First Amendment and its function in a free and democratic society. We will first discuss how the First Amendment protects the media with respect to its disclosure of information purportedly affecting national security. We will then discuss the process by which the media voluntarily refuses to publish information on the ground that the disclosure of the information will seriously harm the national security. We will finally discuss the relationship between …

University Of Michigan Law School Faculty, 07/08, University Of Michigan Law School

Miscellaneous Law School History & Publications

Biographies of the University of Michigan Law School faculty.

Inchoate Liability And The Espionage Act: The Statutory Framework And The Freedom Of The Press, Stephen I. Vladeck

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

The debate over the proper balance between national security and freedom of the press has increasingly focused on the media's potential criminal liability for publishing sensitive information, as was threatened after the New York Times and the Washington Post disclosed the U.S. government's secret and warrantless wiretapping of domestic phone calls. With the issue of press liability for the publication of national security information, however, comes a bevy of difficult questions concerning the scope of the protections afforded to the press under the First Amendment.

This essay attempts to survey these questions in light of the absence of an overarching …

Sensational Reports: The Ethical Duty Of Cause Lawyers To Be Competent In Public Advocacy, Deborah J. Cantrell

Publications

This article argues that cause lawyers - those lawyers whose primary focus is on social change rather than on for-profit client-based work - have an ethical responsibility to be competent in public advocacy. That responsibility stems from a cause lawyer's commitment to the principles embodied in the particular social movement in which the lawyer is acting. It is reinforced by the requirement of competency under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. To illustrate the contours of a competent public advocacy strategy, the article highlights two cause lawyering organizations, Legal Momentum and the Institute for Justice, and considers how each organization …

Televising The Court: A Category Mistake (Symposium On Televising The Supreme Court), Christina B. Whitman

Articles

The idea of televising Supreme Court oral arguments is undeniably appealing. Consequently, it is not surprising that reporters and politicians have been pressuring the Court to take this step. The other branches have been media-friendly for years, and Supreme Court arguments are already open to the public. Why should those of us who neither reside in Washington, D.C. nor have the time to attend Court proceedings be asked to depend on reporters for descriptions of the event? Even lower courts permit cameras. There is an understandable hunger for anything that will help us understand these nine individuals who have so …

Narrative And Media: Helen Fulton With Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet And Anne Dunn, Melbourne, 2005., Helen Caple

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Book review

Narrative and Media Helen Fulton, with Rosemary Huisman, Julian Murphet, and Anne Dunn, Melbourne, 2005.

The book Narrative and Media should be of great interest to students and scholars of Media Studies alike. Coming from a post-structuralist perspective, the book interrogates the ideological implications of narrative strategies across the major forms of the media, and offers a clear and cogent explanation of how readers are positioned as consumers of the media. With the commodification of the media becoming more and more prevalent, media scholars need to develop a reliable set of theoretical tools rigorous enough to unpack how …