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An Introduction To Intragroup Dissent And Its Legal Implications, Holning S. Lau Jan 2014

An Introduction To Intragroup Dissent And Its Legal Implications, Holning S. Lau

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Remaking Mexico: Law Reform As Public Policy, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2014

Remaking Mexico: Law Reform As Public Policy, Deborah M. Weissman

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Potential Innocence: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller Jan 2013

Potential Innocence: Making The Most Of A Bleak Environment For Public Support Of Indigent Defense, Robert P. Mosteller

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Law, Social Movements, And The Political Economy Of Domestic Violence, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2013

Law, Social Movements, And The Political Economy Of Domestic Violence, Deborah M. Weissman

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Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh M. Rathod, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2013

Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh M. Rathod, Deborah M. Weissman

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Of Nazis, Americans, And Educating Against Catastrophe, Eric L. Muller Jan 2012

Of Nazis, Americans, And Educating Against Catastrophe, Eric L. Muller

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The Family And The Market -- Redux, Maxine Eichner Jan 2012

The Family And The Market -- Redux, Maxine Eichner

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Wait! That's Not What We Meant By Civil Society!: Questioning The Ngo Orthodoxy In West Africa, Thomas A. Kelley Iii Jan 2011

Wait! That's Not What We Meant By Civil Society!: Questioning The Ngo Orthodoxy In West Africa, Thomas A. Kelley Iii

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Trumping Politics: The Roberts Court And "Judicial Review", Gene Nichol Jan 2011

Trumping Politics: The Roberts Court And "Judicial Review", Gene Nichol

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Identity Scripts & Democratic Deliberation, Holning S. Lau Jan 2010

Identity Scripts & Democratic Deliberation, Holning S. Lau

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Justices As Economic Fixers: A Response To A Macrotheory Of The Court, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall Jan 2009

Justices As Economic Fixers: A Response To A Macrotheory Of The Court, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall

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Dangers Of Deference To Form Arbitration Provisions, Amy J. Schmitz Jul 2007

Dangers Of Deference To Form Arbitration Provisions, Amy J. Schmitz

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This Article is part of my larger project exploring what I call "contracting culture," which borrows from legal realism and relational contract theory by considering contextual factors such as negotiators' relations, understandings, and values. As part of this project, I am pursuing various threads, including empirical studies of how contracting realities impact arbitration. In this Article, however, I focus on how these realities in business to consumer contracts combine with the Federal Arbitration Act and formulaic contract law to foster dangerous deference to form arbitration provisions. The Article then invites procedural reforms and offers suggestions for regulations aimed to temper …


The Personal Is Political--And Economic: Rethinking Domestic Violence, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2007

The Personal Is Political--And Economic: Rethinking Domestic Violence, Deborah M. Weissman

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Gloria’S Story And Guatemala’S Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, And Religion, M C. Mirow Jan 2006

Gloria’S Story And Guatemala’S Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, And Religion, M C. Mirow

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John Wertheimer, the author of “Gloria’s Story,” has produced a complex and absorbing text that skillfully guides the reader through the microhistory of Gloria’s concubinage to an enhanced appreciation of the greater legal, social, and institutional forces at play in mid-twentieth century Guatemala. Using Gloria’s story to shift into more general observations about law and society in Guatemala, Wertheimer states that laws can “affect behavior by establishing incentives and disincentives for different types of action and by reinforcing or undermining different values.”1 Wertheimer reads the legal records involving Gloria and her family to write her story from the dominant critical …


More Disagreement Over Human Dignity: The Federal Constitutional Court's Most Recent Benetton Advertising Decision, Craig T. Smith Jan 2003

More Disagreement Over Human Dignity: The Federal Constitutional Court's Most Recent Benetton Advertising Decision, Craig T. Smith

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