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Regulating Polygamy: Intimacy, Default Rules, And Bargaining For Equality, Adrienne D. Davis
Regulating Polygamy: Intimacy, Default Rules, And Bargaining For Equality, Adrienne D. Davis
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Most legal scholarship about polygamy has approached it in one of two ways. Some have framed it as a question of how far constitutional protection for religious freedom and privacy rights extends, including what we might think of as "intimacy liberty," particularly in light of Lawrence v. Texas. Others have debated decriminalization, based on the contested effects of polygamy on matters ranging from women’s subordination to fraudulent behavior to democracy. This Essay shifts attention from the constitutionality and decriminalization debates to a new set of questions: whether and how polygamy might be effectively recognized and regulated, consistent with contemporary social …
An Empirical Examination Of Access To Chapter 7 Relief By Pro Se Debtors, Rafael I. Pardo
An Empirical Examination Of Access To Chapter 7 Relief By Pro Se Debtors, Rafael I. Pardo
Scholarship@WashULaw
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) represents the most significant overhaul of federal bankruptcy law since the Bankruptcy Code’s enactment in 1978. The legislation expanded the grounds on which a debtor’s Chapter 7 case may be dismissed. Moreover, it increased the administrative requirements imposed upon debtors who file for bankruptcy (e.g., increased financial disclosures), which in turn has had the effect of increasing the direct costs of filing for bankruptcy (e.g., filing fees and attorneys’ fees). With this increased complexity in accessing Chapter 7 relief, the question arises whether BAPCPA has had a disproportionate impact …
Failing To Answer Whether Bankruptcy Reform Failed: A Critique Of The First Report From The 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project, Rafael I. Pardo
Failing To Answer Whether Bankruptcy Reform Failed: A Critique Of The First Report From The 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project, Rafael I. Pardo
Scholarship@WashULaw
Over the past quarter century, our knowledge of individuals who seek relief through the consumer bankruptcy system has been derived largely from the information that has been collected and analyzed by the Consumer Bankruptcy Project. The most recent iteration of the Consumer Bankruptcy Project, the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project (the 2007 CBP), extends well beyond prior iterations by drawing a nationwide random sample of bankruptcy filings. The first report published in connection with the 2007 CBP (the First Report or Report) seeks to evaluate the success of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) in sorting …
Lawyering In The Academy: The Intersection Of Academic Freedom And Professional Responsibility, Peter A. Joy
Lawyering In The Academy: The Intersection Of Academic Freedom And Professional Responsibility, Peter A. Joy
Scholarship@WashULaw
The legal academy has given little thought to how practicing law within law schools affects professional responsibilities and is different from representing clients in a traditional law firm or how notions of academic freedom affect lawyering in law schools. Yet repeated attempts to interfere with law clinic representation starkly illustrate how lawyering in the academy might be different, under notions of professional responsibility and academic freedom, from other lawyering or typical law teaching.
Scholarship on interference in clinical programs has focused primarily on the impropriety of interference on the institutional autonomy of law schools by those outside the university, such …
The C.A.P. Effect: Racial Profiling In The Ice Criminal Alien Program, Trevor George Gardner, Aarti Kohli
The C.A.P. Effect: Racial Profiling In The Ice Criminal Alien Program, Trevor George Gardner, Aarti Kohli
Scholarship@WashULaw
The goal of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is to improve safety by promoting federal-local partnerships to target serious criminal offenders for deportation. Indeed, the U.S. Congress has made clear that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “should have no greater immigration enforcement priority than to remove deportable aliens with serious criminal histories from the United States…” The Warren Institute’s analysis of arrest data pursuant to an ICE-local partnership in Irving, Texas demonstrates that ICE is not following Congress’ mandate to focus resources on the deportation of immigrants with serious criminal histories.
This study also shows that immediately after Irving, Texas …
The Real Student-Loan Scandal: Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation, Rafael I. Pardo, Michelle R. Lacey
The Real Student-Loan Scandal: Undue Hardship Discharge Litigation, Rafael I. Pardo, Michelle R. Lacey
Scholarship@WashULaw
For a debtor to obtain a discharge of educational debt in bankruptcy, an adversary proceeding between the debtor and the creditor must be initiated, and the debtor must establish that repayment of the debt would impose an undue hardship. This empirical study documents and analyzes trial-level outcomes of such proceedings. An original data set has been compiled of all terminated undue hardship discharge proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington that were commenced during the five-year period beginning on January 1, 2002 and ending on December 31, 2006. The study seeks to provide an account …
Setting The Record Straight: A Sur-Reply To Professors Lawless Et Al, Rafael I. Pardo
Setting The Record Straight: A Sur-Reply To Professors Lawless Et Al, Rafael I. Pardo
Scholarship@WashULaw
I have recently engaged in a scholarly exchange with Professors Robert M. Lawless, Angela K. Littwin, Katherine M. Porter, John A. E. Pottow, Deborah K. Thorne, and Elizabeth Warren that debates the conclusions they have drawn in their first report from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project (the First Report). Unfortunately, the reply of Professors Lawless et al. to my critique mischaracterizes, misinterprets, and does not fully engage with the constructive commentary that I suggested. This sur-reply clarifies the misperceptions and mischaracterizations of my commentary by Professors Lawless et al. and demonstrates that my arguments not only are grounded in a …