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High-Tech Trial Lawyers And The Court: Responsibilities, Problems, And Opportunities, Fredric I. Lederer Aug 2005

High-Tech Trial Lawyers And The Court: Responsibilities, Problems, And Opportunities, Fredric I. Lederer

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Georgia's New Battleground: Five Georgia Law Professors Examine The State's New Tort Legislation, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., Ronald L. Carlson, Thomas A. Eaton, C. Ronald Ellington, Michael L. Wells Aug 2005

Georgia's New Battleground: Five Georgia Law Professors Examine The State's New Tort Legislation, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr., Ronald L. Carlson, Thomas A. Eaton, C. Ronald Ellington, Michael L. Wells

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In February, after several years of debate, the Georgia General Assembly enacted a comprehensive set of tort reform provisions. This fairly complex body of legislation contains 16 separate sections dealing with procedure, evidence and substantive tort issues. Shortly after it was signed into law, five Georgia Law professors sat down with alumni and students to describe parts of the new legislation, to identify some issues that are likely to arise as the new laws go into effect and to speculate about what they think the likely impact will be on litigation.


Are They Swaying Judges? Oh, Please. Free's Environmental Seminars Offer Intellectual Value, Not Indoctrination, J.B. Ruhl, Peter A. Appel Aug 2005

Are They Swaying Judges? Oh, Please. Free's Environmental Seminars Offer Intellectual Value, Not Indoctrination, J.B. Ruhl, Peter A. Appel

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While it is beyond our expertise to opine on what is or is not within the bounds of judicial ethics, we can attest to what transpires at FREE [Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment] seminars. The Community Rights Counsel's description of them is, simply said, devoid of any connection to reality. The fuss the CRC has raise is, we suspect, more about its disagreement with FREE's philosophy than any genuine concern that federal judges are being brainwashed into making anti-environmental decisions.


Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson Jul 2005

Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson

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The use of foreign law and unratified international treaty law by U.S. courts in U.S. constitutional adjudication has emerged as a major debate among justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for a majority approving the practice in the March 2005 decision of Roper v. Simmons, and Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer undertaking an unusual public discussion of the practice in January 2005 at American University law school. This article examines the arguments made by Justices Kennedy, Scalia, and Breyer for and against the practice, setting them in the broader context of constitutional theory. It …


An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson Jun 2005

An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson

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This 2005 article from the Weekly Standard criticizes the 2005 Amnesty International report and associated press releases and press conferences referring to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as an American gulag. It more broadly criticizes the human rights movement for wanting it both ways - on the one hand, using extraordinarily inflammatory rhetoric such as raising the spectre of Soviet death camps, while on the other hand, calling for that very same, apparently deeply criminal regime, the Bush administration, to perform the tasks of human rights enforcement that the human rights movement would like to see performed elsewhere in the …


Courtside, Paul M. Smith, Katherine A. Fallow, Daniel Mach, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl Apr 2005

Courtside, Paul M. Smith, Katherine A. Fallow, Daniel Mach, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

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A Good Rule Assailed, David E. Boelzner Apr 2005

A Good Rule Assailed, David E. Boelzner

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Protecting The Environment During Wartime, Daniel M. Bodansky Feb 2005

Protecting The Environment During Wartime, Daniel M. Bodansky

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Woodruff Chair Daniel M. Bodansky explores the impact of war on the environment and what can be done to protect precious resources during times of conflict. This article is drawn from a study completed in 2003 for the German Environment Agency, “Legal Regulation of the Effects of Military Activity on the Environment” (Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003).