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Work, Caregiving, And Masculinities, Ann C. Mcginley
Work, Caregiving, And Masculinities, Ann C. Mcginley
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In her book Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, Joan Williams demonstrates the vulnerability of parent workers in working class America. In Chapter 2, "One Sick Child Away from Being Fired," she examines the records of ninety-nine union arbitrations to analyze the problems of working class parents who struggle to juggle their working and parenting responsibilities. Because this chapter is a tour de force in an overall excellent book, and because it suggests an area that Professor McGinley's research has focused on over the past number of years, in this Essay, Professor McGinley limits her discussion almost exclusively to this chapter. …
Dean's Column: Kay Kindred, A Nevada "First", Rachel J. Anderson
Dean's Column: Kay Kindred, A Nevada "First", Rachel J. Anderson
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This article documents selected aspects of the life of Professor Kay Kindred, the first female African-American law professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
We Live In A Country Of Unhcr: The Un Surrogate State And Refugee Policy In The Middle East, Michael Kagan
We Live In A Country Of Unhcr: The Un Surrogate State And Refugee Policy In The Middle East, Michael Kagan
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Many gaps in the protection of refugees can be connected to a de facto transfer of responsibility for managing refugee policy from sovereign states to United Nations agencies. This phenomenon can be seen in dozens of countries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, where the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) or the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) manage refugee camps, register newly arrived asylum-seekers, carry out refugee status determination, and administer education, health, livelihood and other social welfare programs.
In carrying out these functions, the UN acts to a great …
Document Design For Lawyers: The End Of The Typewriter Era, Linda L. Berger
Document Design For Lawyers: The End Of The Typewriter Era, Linda L. Berger
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This article discusses simple design rules that you can follow in documents that need not comply with court rules and some that you may use even in documents that must comply.
When Foreigners Infringe Patents: An Empirical Look At The Involvement Of Foreign Defendants In Patent Litigation In The U.S., Marketa Trimble
When Foreigners Infringe Patents: An Empirical Look At The Involvement Of Foreign Defendants In Patent Litigation In The U.S., Marketa Trimble
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This paper presents results from a multiple-year project concerned with the involvement of foreign (non-U.S.) entities in U.S. patent litigation. A comparison of data from 2004 and 2009 that cover 5,407 patent cases filed in U.S. federal district courts in those two years evidences an increase in the number of cases involving foreign defendants, and thus an increasing potential for cross-border enforcement problems. With this basic finding the research supports the proposition advanced by a number of intellectual property scholars in the U.S. and abroad that rules need to be established to facilitate a smooth process for recognition and enforcement …
When Courts Collide: Integrated Domestic Violence Courts And Court Pluralism, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
When Courts Collide: Integrated Domestic Violence Courts And Court Pluralism, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
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This Article proposes court pluralism as a new theory for analyzing the role of the justice system in addressing domestic violence. It argues that a systemic view of the justice system is essential to developing coherent reform strategies, and lays out the foundation for taking into account the unique functions of civil and criminal justice in domestic violence cases. In doing so, the Article challenges the one-dimensional characterization of a fragmented court system as bad for victims of domestic violence that dominates legal scholarship, and shows that court fragmentation can be an opportunity and potential source of protection from systemic …
Engaged Client-Centered Representation And The Moral Foundations Of The Lawyer-Client Relationship, Katherine R. Kruse
Engaged Client-Centered Representation And The Moral Foundations Of The Lawyer-Client Relationship, Katherine R. Kruse
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The field of legal ethics, as we know it today, has grown out of thoughtful, systematic grounding of lawyers’ duties in a comprehensive understanding of lawyers’ roles and the situating of lawyers’ roles in underlying theories of law, morality, and justice. Unfortunately, in the process, the field of theoretical legal ethics has mostly lost track of the thing that Freedman insisted was at the heart of a lawyers’ role: the integrity of the lawyer-client relationship. As I will discuss, the field of theoretical legal ethics has developed in ways that are deeply lawyer-centered rather than fundamentally client-centered. I am going …
Sacrifice And Sacred Honor: Why The Constitution Is A "Suicide Pact", Peter Brandon Bayer
Sacrifice And Sacred Honor: Why The Constitution Is A "Suicide Pact", Peter Brandon Bayer
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Most legal scholars and elected officials embrace the popular clich6 that "the Constitution is not a suicide pact." Typically, those commentators extol the "Constitution of necessity," the supposition that Government, essentially the Executive, may take any action-may abridge or deny any fundamental right-to alleviate a sufficiently serious national security threat. The "Constitution of necessity" is wrong. This Article explains that strict devotion to the "fundamental fairness" principles of the Constitution's Due Process Clauses is America's utmost legal and moral duty, surpassing all other considerations, even safety, security and survival.
The analysis begins with the most basic premises: the definition of …
Using Payroll Deduction To Shelter Individual Health Insurance From Income Tax, David Orentlicher
Using Payroll Deduction To Shelter Individual Health Insurance From Income Tax, David Orentlicher
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In this article, Professor Orentlicher and his colleagues assess the impact of state laws requiring or encouraging employers to establish ‘‘section 125’’ cafeteria plans that shelter employees’ premium contributions from tax.
Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse
Getting Real About Legal Realism, New Legal Realism And Clinical Legal Education, Katherine R. Kruse
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Jerome Frank’s call for a “clinical lawyer-school” is cited so frequently in clinical scholarship that it borders on the canonical. Like many calls for reform in legal education, Frank’s plea for clinical lawyer-schools was based on a critique of the appellate case method of legal instruction. However, unlike most critiques, the legal realist critique was embedded within a jurisprudential challenge to the meaning of law itself, arising from American Legal Realism. Running through legal realist jurisprudence was a distinction between the “law in books” and the “law in action,” with the idea that law is not found primarily in statutes …
Constitutionalizing Immigration Law On Its Own Path, Anne R. Traum
Constitutionalizing Immigration Law On Its Own Path, Anne R. Traum
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Courts should insist on heightened procedural protections in immigration adjudication. They should do so under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause rather than by importing Sixth Amendment protections from the criminal context. Traditional judicial oversight and the Due Process Clause provide a better basis than the Sixth Amendment to interpose heightened procedural protections in immigration proceedings, especially those involving removal for a serious criminal conviction. The Supreme Court’s immigration jurisprudence in recent years lends support for this approach. The Court has guarded the availability of judicial review of immigration decisions. It has affirmed that courts are the arbiters of constitutional …
The Promise Of Mancari: Indian Political Rights As Racial Remedy, Addie C. Rolnick
The Promise Of Mancari: Indian Political Rights As Racial Remedy, Addie C. Rolnick
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In 1974, the Supreme Court declared that an Indian employment preference was based on a "political rather than racial" classification. The Court's framing of Indianness as a political matter and its positioning of "political" and "racial" as opposing concepts has defined the trajectory of federal Indian law and influenced common sense ideas about what it means to be Indian ever since. This oppositional framing has had specific practical consequences, including obscuring the continuing significance of racialization for Indians and concealing the mutually constitutive relationship between Indian racialization and Indian political status. This Article explores the legal roots of the political …
Smith And Women's Equality, Leslie C. Griffin
Mapping The Human Right To Water On The Colorado River, Bret C. Birdsong
Mapping The Human Right To Water On The Colorado River, Bret C. Birdsong
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Colorado River systems-both ecological and legal-are facing a coming crisis. The river snakes its way from the Rocky Mountain crest to the Gulf of California, draining 245,000 square miles encompassing parts of seven of the United States ("U.S.") and two Mexican states. The river and its tributaries provide drinking water for growing population of thirty million in an even larger area because some of its water is diverted to serve out-of-basin demands in both the U.S. and Mexico. Aside from bringing life-sustaining water to people for personal use, it provides irrigation water for some of the most valuable agricultural lands …
The "Illegal" Tax, Francine J. Lipman
Implicit Bias And Immigration Courts, Fatma Marouf
Implicit Bias And Immigration Courts, Fatma Marouf
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This Article highlights the importance of implicit bias in immigration adjudication. After tracing the evolution of prejudice in our immigration laws from explicit "old-fashioned" prejudice to more subtle forms of "modem" and "aversive" prejudice, the Article argues that the specific conditions under which immigration judges decide cases render them especially prone to the influence of implicit bias. Specifically, it examines how factors such as immigration judges' lack of independence, limited opportunity for deliberate thinking, low motivation, and the low risk of judicial review all allow implicit bias to drive decisionmaking. The Article then recommends certain reforms, both simple and complex, …
Just A Matter Of Fairness: Tax Consequences Of The Service’S Revised Community Property Treatment Of California Registered Domestic Partners (Rdps), Francine J. Lipman
Just A Matter Of Fairness: Tax Consequences Of The Service’S Revised Community Property Treatment Of California Registered Domestic Partners (Rdps), Francine J. Lipman
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Law School Gifts Keep Giving - Clinical Programs Train Students While Serving The Legal Needs Of Ordinary Nevadans, Mary Berkheiser
Law School Gifts Keep Giving - Clinical Programs Train Students While Serving The Legal Needs Of Ordinary Nevadans, Mary Berkheiser
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Providing Effective Feedback, Jennifer Carr
Providing Effective Feedback, Jennifer Carr
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This article discusses the process of giving effective feedback in an academic context. Effective feedback gives students a clear explanation of what they should do, concrete steps for doing it, and the ability to ascertain whether those steps have adequately addressed the problem. The author discusses five steps that go into providing effective feedback to students.
Extraterritorial Intellectual Property Enforcement In The European Union, Marketa Trimble
Extraterritorial Intellectual Property Enforcement In The European Union, Marketa Trimble
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This paper was prepared for the 2011 ABILA International Law Weekend – West volume of the Southwestern Journal of International Law. It addresses extraterritorial enforcement of intellectual property rights in the European Union. The maximum length of the paper was set by the Journal.
The problems associated with extraterritorial enforcement of intellectual property rights in the European Union (the “EU”) may be divided into three categories: enforcement of unitary EU-wide rights, enforcement of multiple national rights, and enforcement of rights based on one national law with extraterritorial effects on activities in other countries. Although these are three distinct categories of …
The Family Justice Clinic: Increasing Access To Justice For Nevada Families In Need, Ann Cammett, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
The Family Justice Clinic: Increasing Access To Justice For Nevada Families In Need, Ann Cammett, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
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Constitutional Rights And Judicial Independence: Lessons From Iowa, Ian C. Bartrum
Constitutional Rights And Judicial Independence: Lessons From Iowa, Ian C. Bartrum
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Iowa held its 2010 judicial retention elections in the shadow of Varnum v. Brien, the 2009 Supreme Court opinion recognizing same sex marriage. As the result of highly politicized campaign, three talented jurists lost their seats on the Court.
This commentary examines that election and offers a structural solution that might better protect constitutional rights against majoritarian intimidation.
Nonpublic Reasons And Political Paradigm Change, Ian C. Bartrum
Nonpublic Reasons And Political Paradigm Change, Ian C. Bartrum
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John Rawls famously argued that citizens in a just democracy have a moral duty to ensure that "the principles and policies they advocate and vote for can be supported by the political values of public reason." This so-called "duty of civility" obligates us to cast our votes on "constitutional questions and matters of basic justice" for reasons that we can explain in terms of the public good and the "ideals and principles expressed by society's conception of political justice." Rawls contrasts these public reasons with "nonpublic reasons" - such as "comprehensive religious and philosophical doctrines" - which he claims cannot …
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Promise And Contract, Ian C. Bartrum
Thoughts On The Divergence Of Promise And Contract, Ian C. Bartrum
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This essay offers some brief thoughts on Seana Shiffrin‘s recent work regarding the divergence of contractual and promissory norms. The author conclude that Shiffrin does not do enough to separate and account for the different consequentalist and deontological justifications underlying each institution, and does not do enough to explain how promises give rise to the “moral” duties she posits. The author suggest, instead, that the divergence between contract and promise is justified by the different roles each institution plays in our lives, and that, in fact, keeping strictly promissory duties outside the scope of state coercion actually facilitates a strong …
Salazar V. Buono: Sacred Symbolism And The Secular State, Ian C. Bartrum
Salazar V. Buono: Sacred Symbolism And The Secular State, Ian C. Bartrum
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This Colloquy piece comments on some doctrinal and theoretical implications of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Salazar v. Buono.
Ricci V. Destefano: Diluting Disparate Impact And Redefining Disparate Treatment, Ann C. Mcginley
Ricci V. Destefano: Diluting Disparate Impact And Redefining Disparate Treatment, Ann C. Mcginley
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits plaintiffs to bring discrimination cases under two different theories: disparate treatment, which requires a showing of the employer’s discriminatory intent, and disparate impact, which holds the employer liable absent intent to discriminate if it uses neutral employment policies or practices that have a disparate impact on a protected group. Ricci v. DeStefano significantly affects the interpretation of both of these theories of discrimination.
Ricci adopts a restrictive interpretation of the disparate impact theory that is inconsistent with Congressional intent and purpose, and signals that intentional discrimination is more important than …
Social Security Spouse And Survivor Benefits 101: Practical Primer Part Ii (Or Another Reason To Put A Ring On It), Francine J. Lipman
Social Security Spouse And Survivor Benefits 101: Practical Primer Part Ii (Or Another Reason To Put A Ring On It), Francine J. Lipman
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Controlling Health Care Costs Through Public, Transparent Processes: The Conflict Between The Morally Right And The Socially Feasible, David Orentlicher
Controlling Health Care Costs Through Public, Transparent Processes: The Conflict Between The Morally Right And The Socially Feasible, David Orentlicher
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Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli? And Why It Doesn’T Matter, David Orentlicher
Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli? And Why It Doesn’T Matter, David Orentlicher
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The Commerical Speech Doctrine In Health Regulation: The Clash Between The Public Interest In A Robust First Amendment And The Public Interest In Effective Protection From Harm, David Orentlicher
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