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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Second Amendment Is Not Absolute, Sonja R. West
The Second Amendment Is Not Absolute, Sonja R. West
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This article written at Slate.com on December 7, 2015 explains that like many other constitutional rights, the right to possess firearms in the 2nd Amendment, may be regulated by Congress.
Schools Fail To Get It Right On Rap Music, Andrea L. Dennis
Schools Fail To Get It Right On Rap Music, Andrea L. Dennis
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School officials treat rap music as a serious threat to the school environment. Fear and misunderstanding of, as well as bias against, this highly popular and lucrative musical art form negatively shape their perspectives on this vital aspect of youth culture.
As a result, students who express themselves through rap music in a way that challenges the schoolhouse setting risk the possibility of suspension, permanent exclusion and referral to the criminal justice system.
The ongoing case of Taylor Bell is the latest and most complex battleground on which this issue is playing out.
Methodology And Misdirection: Custom And The Icj, Harlan G. Cohen
Methodology And Misdirection: Custom And The Icj, Harlan G. Cohen
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Associate Professor Harlan G. Cohen published "Methodology and Misdirection: Custom and the ICJ" on the European Journal of International Law's blog EILJ: Talk! on December 1, 2015.
It's Time For A Public Option In Banking, Mehrsa Baradaran
It's Time For A Public Option In Banking, Mehrsa Baradaran
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Associate Professor Mehrsa Baradaran published this article in The Harvard Law Record on November 16, 2015. It discusses how post offices can provide ordinary citizens with banking services.
Due Process Vs. Administrative Law, Kent H. Barnett
Due Process Vs. Administrative Law, Kent H. Barnett
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This article by Professor Kent Barnett was published in the Wall Street Journal on November 16, 2015. It discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission recently coming under fire for pressuring its in-house administrative-law judges to rule in its favor during agency enforcement proceedings.
How The Us Post Office Can Save America—And Itself, Matt Phillips
How The Us Post Office Can Save America—And Itself, Matt Phillips
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Professor Mehrsa Baradaran is interviewed by Quartz on her thoughts about postal banking.
On Regulatory Discord And Procedure, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
On Regulatory Discord And Procedure, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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Businesses are increasingly global. But domestic courts’ jurisdiction remains largely provincial; both public and private regulators have overlapping, mismatched authority. Regulatory discord is readily apparent in consumer protection cases. When the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act empowered state regulators while simultaneously creating an encompassing federal regulator—the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau—it further contributed to overlap between federal agencies, states, and private litigation.
Whether this regulatory magnetism is optimal in terms of fundamental goals like compensation and deterrence is a hotly debated normative and empirical question. Yet, one need not wade too far into the substantive debate to appreciate …
Constructing Issue Classes, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Constructing Issue Classes, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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As government budgets shrink each year, enforcement responsibilities in products liability, consumer protection, and employment discrimination fall increasingly to private attorneys. But defendants have successfully layered new objections about noncohesive classes and unascertainable members atop legislative and judicial reforms to cripple plaintiffs’ attorneys’ chief weapon — the class action. The result? Courts deny class certification and defendants escape enforcement by highlighting the differences among those affected by their misconduct. At the other end of the regulatory spectrum lies the opposite problem. Some defendants’ actions are so egregious that hordes of public and private regulators can’t help but get involved — …
Enforcing Immigration Equity, Jason A. Cade
Enforcing Immigration Equity, Jason A. Cade
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Congressional amendments to the immigration code in the 1990s significantly broadened grounds for removal while nearly eradicating opportunities for discretionary relief. The result has been a radical transformation of immigration law. In particular, the constriction of equitable discretion as an adjudicative tool has vested a new and critical responsibility in enforcement officials to implement rigid immigration rules in a normatively defensible way, primarily through the use of prosecutorial discretion. This Article contextualizes recent executive enforcement actions within this scheme and argues that the Obama Administration’s targeted use of limited enforcement resources and implementation of initiatives such as Deferred Action for …
How America Tolerates Racism In Jury Selection, Larry D. Thompson
How America Tolerates Racism In Jury Selection, Larry D. Thompson
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This Op-ed by Professor Larry Thompson appeared in the New York Times on October 30, 2015. Professor Thompson discusses the case, Foster v. Chatman, which will be heard by the Supreme Court on November 2, 2015. In this case, the Court will decide whether the exclusion of jurors intended to unconstitutionally influence the jury’s racial make-up in a capital murder case in Georgia.
If The U.S. Government Treated Poor People As Well As It Treats Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran
If The U.S. Government Treated Poor People As Well As It Treats Banks, Mehrsa Baradaran
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One of the great ironies in modern America is that the less money you have, the more you pay to use it. The country’s “unbanked” must pay high fees to fringe banks to turn their paychecks into cash, pay their monthly bills, or send money to a spouse or a child. The unbanked pay much of their income—up to 10 percent—just to use their money. For these families, the total price of simple financial services each month is more than they spend on food. Indeed, it is very expensive to be poor. This article makes a proposal, transform underused post …
Judging Multidistrict Litigation, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
Judging Multidistrict Litigation, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch
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Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch presented "Judging Multidistrict Litigation" at Duke University School of Law's Mass-Tort MDL Program for Judicial Conference Committees on October 8, 2015.
Postal Banking: A Lifesaver For America's Poor, Mehrsa Baradaran
Postal Banking: A Lifesaver For America's Poor, Mehrsa Baradaran
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If banks are not providing credit to the poor, the state should provide it directly.The existing post office framework represents the most promising path toward effectuating such a public option. American banks long ago deserted their most impoverished communities, but post offices, even two centuries later, have remained — still rooted in an egalitarian mission. There have never been barriers to entry at post offices, and their services have been available to all, regardless of income.
Cms’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration Of Medical Judgment, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Cms’ Proposed Changes To The Two-Midnight Rule: Partial Restoration Of Medical Judgment, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
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On July 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced proposed changes to the controversial Two-Midnight Rule. This payment rule clarifies the circumstances under which Medicare will consider a given hospital stay to be an inpatient service (and therefore reimbursable at a higher rate under Medicare Part A), versus an outpatient service (and therefore reimbursable at a lower rate under Part B). From the Health Affairs Blog, September 1, 2015.
Electroshock Injustice In Athens-Clarke County, Part 4, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Electroshock Injustice In Athens-Clarke County, Part 4, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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This article, part 4 in a series, reviews the Athens Clarke County Police Department's (ACCPD) decision to purchase tasers and looks at comments from ACCPD's new police chief.
Zivotofsky Ii's Two Visions For Foreign Relations Law, Harlan G. Cohen
Zivotofsky Ii's Two Visions For Foreign Relations Law, Harlan G. Cohen
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The five opinions in Zivotofsky v. Kerry – four by the Supreme Court’s Republican-nominated Justices – exposed fault-lines over foreign relations law that have remained hidden in many of the Court’s other cases. This short essay, part of an AJIL Unbound Agora on the case, explores the most notable of these fissures – that between Justice Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, and Chief Justice Roberts, who dissented. Their disagreement in this case highlights the two Justices’ very different visions of U.S. foreign relations law and reveals the dynamic that has defined the direction of the Court over the last …
Police Fatally Tase Another Georgian, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Police Fatally Tase Another Georgian, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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This article looks at the most recent taser fatality in Georgia.
On Health Status, Choice, And Immunity, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
On Health Status, Choice, And Immunity, Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
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This article by Professor Elizabeth Weeks Leonard in JOTWELL on July 22, 2015, discusses discrimination on health status.
The Lyon Declaration On Access To Information And Development, Anne Burnett
The Lyon Declaration On Access To Information And Development, Anne Burnett
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A large format infographic presenting key facts about the Lyon Declaration and providing details about IFLA.
Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West
Guerrilla Warfare And The Constitution, Sonja R. West
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Earlier this week, the United States Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-4 vote, the states’ ability to execute death row inmates with a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that critics argue causes excruciating pain. The Court reasoned that states should be allowed to use the drug in question, despite its involvement in several botched executions, in part because states can no longer attain more effective alternatives. In the majority opinion, the justices spin an erroneous tale about “anti-death-penalty advocates” pressuring pharmaceutical companies into refusing to supply other, more humane drugs to the states for use in capital punishment. This alleged radical …
The Price Of Corruption, Usha Rodrigues
The Price Of Corruption, Usha Rodrigues
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The Supreme Court recently held that campaign contributions under $5200 do not create a “cognizable risk of corruption.” It was wrong. This Essay describes a nexus of timely contributions and special-interest legislation. In the most noteworthy case, a CEO made a first-time $1000 donation to a member of Congress. The next day that representative introduced a securities bill tailored to the interests of the CEO’s firm.
Armed with this real-world account of how small-dollar campaign contributions coincided with favorable legislative action, the Essay reads McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission with a critical eye. In McCutcheon the Supreme Court assumed that …
Environmental Law, Eleventh Circuit Survey, Travis M. Trimble
Environmental Law, Eleventh Circuit Survey, Travis M. Trimble
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In 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, addressing an issue of first impression, rejected the district court's use of a Lone Pine case-management order as a means of testing the sufficiency of the plaintiffs' pleadings in a state law environmental torts case. The court also interpreted Florida law to mean that plaintiffs are not required to allege that groundwater contamination exceeded regulatory maximum contaminant levels for drinking water to maintain their claims and that they could recover "stigma" damages to their property without alleging actual contamination. The United States District Court for the Middle District …
Deciphering The Supreme Court's Opinion In Wynne, Walter Hellerstein
Deciphering The Supreme Court's Opinion In Wynne, Walter Hellerstein
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In Wynne, the Supreme Court held that Maryland's personal income tax regime violated the dormant Commerce Clause because It taxed income on a residence and source basis without giving a credit to residents for in· come taxed on a source basis by other states. The Court suggested, how· ever, that a state may tax residents on all their Income without providing a credit for taxes paid by other states if the state did not tax nonresidents on income from sources within the state, even though such a taxing regime might result in double taxation of interstate commerce.
Tasers Kill: Electroshock Injustice In Athens-Clarke County, Part 3, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Tasers Kill: Electroshock Injustice In Athens-Clarke County, Part 3, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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The Athens-Clarke County Police Department’s campaign to popularize its decision to begin using taser electroshock weapons on the local citizenry must be recognized for what it is—a public-relations crusade based on clever misrepresentations and shifty evasions, as well as outright denials of fact. This articles reviews the the concerns about implementing tasers in Athens.
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
The Open Access Advantage For American Law Reviews, Carol Watson, James M. Donovan, Caroline Osborne
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Open access within legal academia provides a case study for the effective use of digital formats to promote scholarship. The presenters review the background historical developments in this field, and consider the benefits and rationales for providing open access to legal scholarship, including the special faculty concerns arising from SSRN and its relationship to the institutional repository. Results from the presenters’ recent empirical study of the citation advantage for open access scholarship in American law reviews will be discussed and placed in broader context of the benefits of open access scholarship.
Electroshock Injustice Coming To Athens-Clarke County Part 2: More On The "Benefits" Of Police Tasering, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Electroshock Injustice Coming To Athens-Clarke County Part 2: More On The "Benefits" Of Police Tasering, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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This article reviews the Athens-Clarke County police department's arguments in implementing tasers and argues against using them in police enforcement.
Protecting The Constitutional Right To Counsel For Indigents Charged With Misdemeanors - Testimony Of Erica J. Hashimoto Before The U.S. Senate, Erica J. Hashimoto
Protecting The Constitutional Right To Counsel For Indigents Charged With Misdemeanors - Testimony Of Erica J. Hashimoto Before The U.S. Senate, Erica J. Hashimoto
Presentations and Speeches
Testimony of Professor Erica J. Hashimoto before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on May 13, 2015 about the denial of the right to counsel in criminal misdemeanor cases. Professor Hashimoto's testimony begins at the 56:10 mark.
News @ Georgia Law, May 2015, Office Of Communications And Public Relations
News @ Georgia Law, May 2015, Office Of Communications And Public Relations
News @ UGA School of Law
Yates confirmed as U.S. deputy attorney general; U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones to deliver Georgia Law commencement speech; Burch receives American Law Institute's Young Scholars Medal; Hashimoto named Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and associate dean for clinical programs and experiential learning; Moser to lead advancement office; Hunnicutt, Loudermilk and White receive DSS Awards; Brown, Ringhand and Turner recognized by students, other Awards Day honors; Eaton and Wood appointed to law school's Board of Visitors; Notable faculty scholarship; Students recorded strong finishes in advocacy and negotiation competitions; White and Blanchard receive awards from UGA Alumni Association; Six Georgia Law …
Formalism And Distrust: Foreign Affairs Law In The Roberts Court, Harlan G. Cohen
Formalism And Distrust: Foreign Affairs Law In The Roberts Court, Harlan G. Cohen
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When it comes to foreign relations, the Roberts Court has trust issues. As far as the Court is concerned, everyone — the President, Congress, the lower courts, plaintiffs — has played hard and fast with the rules, taking advantage of the Court’s functionalist approaches to foreign affairs issues. This seems to be the message of the RobertsCourt foreign affairs law jurisprudence.
The Roberts Court has been active in foreign affairs law, deciding cases on the detention and trial of enemy combatants, foreign sovereign immunity, the domestic effect of treaties, the extraterritorial reach of federal statutes, the preemption of state laws, …
A Constitutional Challenge To Nyc's Ban On Dancing, Sonja R. West
A Constitutional Challenge To Nyc's Ban On Dancing, Sonja R. West
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It's a familiar story: A handsome stranger moves to town. He's been working so hard, punching his card. And he's got this feeling that he needs to tear up this town. So, of course, he wants to cut loose.
But, unfortunately, it's not quite that easy. Because if the town our stranger just moved to is New York City, and the place he's kicking off his Sunday shoes isn't one of the fewer than 120 licensed "cabarets" or "dance halls" in the city, his dancing could be against the law.