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Nova Law Review-Volume 29-2004-2005, Krista S. Kovalcin, David A. Ray, Katherine H. Miller, Suzen M. Grieshop Corrada, Jeffrey M. Berman, Michele R. Forte, Douglas P. Gerber, Michael B. Murphey, Ivan J. Tarasuk, David M. Blank, Jennifer C. Erdelyi, Leanne M. Innet, Laura Pearce, Nicole Zimmerman Oct 2004

Nova Law Review-Volume 29-2004-2005, Krista S. Kovalcin, David A. Ray, Katherine H. Miller, Suzen M. Grieshop Corrada, Jeffrey M. Berman, Michele R. Forte, Douglas P. Gerber, Michael B. Murphey, Ivan J. Tarasuk, David M. Blank, Jennifer C. Erdelyi, Leanne M. Innet, Laura Pearce, Nicole Zimmerman

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Ilsa Journal Of International And Comparative Law-Volume 11-2004-2005, Trey Miller, Michele Bloom, Raquel James, Richard Blystone, Estelle Lesleigh Varner, John Andrew Atkinson, Matthew Schwartz, Nirjari Desai, Sandra Murguia, Juliana Pinzon, Aisha Jack Oct 2004

Ilsa Journal Of International And Comparative Law-Volume 11-2004-2005, Trey Miller, Michele Bloom, Raquel James, Richard Blystone, Estelle Lesleigh Varner, John Andrew Atkinson, Matthew Schwartz, Nirjari Desai, Sandra Murguia, Juliana Pinzon, Aisha Jack

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Lessons From La Morenita Del Tepeyac, Ana M. Novoa Jan 2004

Lessons From La Morenita Del Tepeyac, Ana M. Novoa

Faculty Articles

The concept that the powerful and wealthy have the absolute obligation to offer political, financial, and social liberation to those at the margins of society should have special importance to those who are lawyers and professionals of color. People spend considerable time working through, working in, and centered in the dominant, or caucasian European culture. The legal system regularly fails to see, accept, realize, or believe when truth is presented at the margins. Nonetheless, it is at the margins that true legal and personal reform take place. Even in a friendly environment, where people are encouraged to step outside the …


Changing The Channel: What To Do With The Critical Abilities Of Law Students As Viewers?, Cassandra Sharp Jan 2004

Changing The Channel: What To Do With The Critical Abilities Of Law Students As Viewers?, Cassandra Sharp

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

It is now generally acknowledged within the cultural studies tradition that media can actually be consumed in a mediated sense - that is, oppositionally and not hegemonically. The viewer is no longer seen as powerless and 'vulnerable to the agencies of commerce and ideology', but rather as both selective and active. Law students, as viewers, are constantly interpreting, transforming and producing meaning in relation to the images of law presented to them. They are utilising this process to not only make sense of the law, but also to analyse and reflect on their personal ideas and values in light of …


Dangerous Games: Student Hazing And Negligent Supervision, Daniel B. Weddle Jan 2004

Dangerous Games: Student Hazing And Negligent Supervision, Daniel B. Weddle

Faculty Works

For years, some state courts have been willing to hold schools accountable for hazing injuries under a theory of negligent supervision. Outside the hazing context, a claim of negligent supervision will seldom help a plaintiff who has been injured by another student because courts hesitate to hold school officials liable for unanticipated tortuous acts of third parties. With regard to hazing, however, some courts are more willing to view such injuries as foreseeable and preventable, particularly if there has been a history of hazing in groups connected to the school. Where there is knowledge of hazing activities, the power to …