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Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2002, Issue 4, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Erwin Chemerinksy, Unfortunate History is Repeating Itself, at 1.

Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Co-Presidents' Column, at 1.

Devon Carbado, Teaching tot he Whole Class, at 2.

Board Approves Nomination of Maguigan and Juarez as Co-Presidents-Elect, at 3.

Jane Dolkart, SALT's Statement of the LSAT, at 3.

Frank Valdez, Help Spread the Word Among Students About the "Critical Global Classroom" and the "Student Scholar Program," at 4.

SALT Submits Statement on the Bush Administration's Proposed War on Iraq, at 5.

Bill Quigley, Reflection on Trip to Iraq, at …

The Black And White Of Profiling: Sniping On The Sniper Case, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article analyzes the construct of profiling in the aftermath of the arrest of two suspects in the recent sniper attacks perpetrated in the greater Washington, D.C. area.

Trends. Predecisional Distortion: An Example Of Psychology Distorting Justice?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This Trends article discusses the concept of ‘Predecisional Distortion’ in the context of how juries make decisions.

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2002, Issue 3, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Nancy Ehrenreich & Deborah Waire Post, SALT Teaching Conference Addresses War, Peace & Pedagogy, at 1.

Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Co-Presidents's Column, at 1.

Holly Maguigan, November Elections for Co-Presidents and Board of Governors, at 2.

Mac Poirier, SALT Solomon Amendment Committee, at 2.

David Halperin, The American Constitution Society, at 3.

First Monday Civil Liberties in a New America, at 3.

Affirmative Action in Legal Education: The Grutter Litigation, at 4.

Bob Dinerstein, Judicial Selection Committee, at 6.

Michael Rooke-Ley, Extremist Nominees Don't Belong on …

Salt Equalizer, Vol. 2002, Issue 2, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

SALT Celebrates 30 Years with Gala Banquet, at 1.

Paula C. Johnson & Michael Rooke-Ley, Presidents' Column, at 1.

Margaret Montoya, An Update on Grutter, the Michigan Law School Affirmative Action Case, at 2.

New Teachers Workshop, at 3.

SALT Extends Condolences to Appalachian School of Law, at 5.

Public Interest Retreats, at 6.

SALT Committee Reports, at 8.

Special Pull-Out Section: SALT Committees 2002-03, at 12.

SALT Opposes Pickering Nomination, at 20.

Professors Protest Justice Thomas Visit: SALT Writes in Support, at 22.

To Swear . . . Or Not To Swear Document Signers: The Default Of Notaries Public And A Proposal To Abolish Oral Notarial Oaths, Michael L. Closen

Buffalo Law Review

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Counting Guns In Early America, James Lindgren, Justin L. Heather

William & Mary Law Review

Probate inventories, though perhaps the best prevailing source for determining ownership patterns in early America, are incomplete and fallible. In this Article, the authors suggest that inferences about who owned guns can be improved by using multivariate techniques and control variables of other common objects. To determine gun ownership from probate inventories, the authors examine three databases in detail-Alice Hanson Jones's national sample of 919 inventories (1774), 149 inventories from Providence, Rhode Island (1679-1726), and Gunston Hall Plantation's sample of 325 inventories from Maryland and Virginia (1740-1810). Also discussed are a sample of 59 probate inventories from Essex County, Massachusetts …

Digital Handshakes In Cyberspace Under E-Sign: "There's A New Sheriff In Town!", Michael H. Dessent

University of Richmond Law Review

Without doubt, electronic commerce has increased the efficiency of businesses and consumers seeking to purchase goods, services, or intangibles by placing these objects just a keystroke away. If you already enjoy buying lingerie and foie gras over the Internet, you will love the new Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act ("E-SIGN") Want to borrow $10,000 at four in the morning over the Internet to buy a car? E-SIGN allows it. Or how about entering a "cybersigning chat room," extending a "digital handshake," and then buying that cherished wedding gown? E-SIGN allows this to happen. In this era of …

(En)Raged Or (En)Gaged: The Implications Of Racial Context To The Canadian Provocation Defense, Camille A. Nelson

University of Richmond Law Review

Ice hockey is Canada's national pastime, much like baseball is for many Americans. This fact makes the case of Regina v. Smithers all the more interesting.

The Incalculable Risk: How The World Trade Center Disaster Accelerated The Evolution Of Insurance Terrorism Exclusions, Jane Kendall

University of Richmond Law Review

"The deliberate and deadly attacks, which were carried out yesterday against our country, were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war."

- President George W. Bush, September 12, 2001.

The Puffery Of Lawyers, Rodney A. Smolla

University of Richmond Law Review

Lawyers advertise to attract clients. Politicians advertise to attract voters. Businesses advertise to attract customers. All of these advertisers advertise with a common subtext: choose me, because I'm better than the rest. Hire me, vote for me, buy my product, and good things will happen. The message may be blunt, explicit, direct, linear. But often it is not. The bludgeon is not the tool of choice in modem mass advertising. The message, more commonly, is presented with subtlety, often merely suggested, often presented with indirection, irony, camp, or comedy. Information as such is not the point. The stuff of modern …

Casebooks Are Toast, Robert Laurence

Seattle University Law Review

Into the fine spinach salad that is this Symposium on commercial law casebooks comes a grain of sand. An annoying defect in the total presentation. A distracting flaw that should not take away from the value of the remainder of the mix, but somehow does. For I am the one whose job it is to say that casebooks as a genre are dying, soon, I think, to become extinct. "Dinosaurs," a prior generation would have called them; "toast" in modern parlance. The future of law school teaching materials lies on the Web.

Remarks By The Honorable Judith S. Kaye: Access To Justice Conference, September 11, 2001, The Honorable Judith S. Kaye

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Remarks at the Access to Justice Conference: September 11, 2001

Unbundled Legal Services: Untying The Bundle In New York State, Justice Fern Fisher-Brandveen, Rochelle Klempner

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article addresses the practice of unbundled legal services as a solution to lack of access to legal aid by the poor. Unbundled legal services is a process by which the client and lawyer agree that the lawyer will provide some, but not all, of the work involved in traditional full service representation. The Article discusses and and evaluates the pros, such as increasing access to justice and efficiency in the courtroom with cons, such as malpractice and ethical concerns.

In Defense Of Ghostwriting, Jona Goldschmidt

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article analyzes the legal community's resistance to ghostwriting for pro se litigants. It examines the nature, extent and benefits of ghostwriting. It analyzes objections to ghostwriting raised in case law and ethics opinions. It describes recent ghostwriting recommendations and regulatory developments. The Article discusses the relevance of the duty of confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege to ghostwriting. It analyzes the legal community's resistance to ghostwriting. The Article concludes that ghostwriting serves a growing segment of the pro se population and that it doesn't violate the court rules or ethical principles.

Don't Confuse Metatags With Initial Interest Confusion, Yelena Dunaevsky

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Comment focuses on whether the legal doctrine of "initial interest confusion" should be applied in metatag related trademark infringement cases. The Comment agues that because "initial interest confusion" does not improve or clarify the existing process of legal inquiry in a trademark infringement litigation, the doctrine is a superfluous legal tool and may even be harmful from a public policy perspective.

Remarks By The Honorable Jonathan Lippman, Jonathan Lippman

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Remarks by the Honorable Jonathan Lippman at the Access to Justice Conference

Equal Protection Denied In New York To Some Family Law Litigants In Supreme Court: An Assigned Counsel Dilemma For The Courts, Robert M. Elardo

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article addresses the concerns over the differences in the right to counsel in family law cases depending on the venue. In New York, persons in family court proceedings have a constitutional right to counsel. Yet the same matter, if heard in the New York Supreme Court, does not afford such a right. This Article advocates the correction of this perceived oversight in the law so that all parties in these important proceedings can receive fair representation.