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Federalizing Medicaid, Nicole Huberfeld Dec 2011

Federalizing Medicaid, Nicole Huberfeld

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article is one of only a small number of proposals over the past forty-six years for federalizing Medicaid. None of these proposals has grappled directly with the reasons that Medicaid does not satisfy federalism goals, and thus a key reason for modernizing Medicaid’s structure has been ignored. Despite being an area of “traditional state concern,” healthcare should no longer be left to the economic and political whims of the states, as Medicaid is not an effective Brandeisian “laboratory of the states.” Admittedly, some would oppose centralization on the ideological grounds that more federal government power is bad, and more …


Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson Nov 2011

Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

James M. Donovan

Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests by adopting open access principles. Readers of every kind will have more efficient access to the materials they need to pursue their intellectual and informational goals; authors will see their works read and cited by a broader audience; and law reviews and journals can raise their own profiles without injuring their revenue streams from fee-based sources. Open access works for everyone, and is the future of information creation and distribution.


Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson Nov 2011

Open Access: Good For Readers, Authors, And Journals, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Readers, authors, and even law journal publishers will all achieve their different but related interests by adopting open access principles. Readers of every kind will have more efficient access to the materials they need to pursue their intellectual and informational goals; authors will see their works read and cited by a broader audience; and law reviews and journals can raise their own profiles without injuring their revenue streams from fee-based sources. Open access works for everyone, and is the future of information creation and distribution.


Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson Oct 2011

Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship—which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties—can expect to receive fifty-eight percent more citations than non–open access writings of similar age from the same venue.


Risky Business: Liability Of Product Sellers Who Offer Safety Devices As Optional Equipment, Richard C. Ausness Jul 2011

Risky Business: Liability Of Product Sellers Who Offer Safety Devices As Optional Equipment, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article examines the question of whether (or when) product sellers should be allowed to offer optional safety equipment without fear of being held strictly liable for selling a defectively designed product. Part II of this Article examines several approaches to risk-bearing. At one end of the spectrum, the principle of personal autonomy dictates that consumers should decide how much risk they wish to accept. On the other hand, products liability law assumes that if consumers are allowed to subject themselves to greater risk, producers will be quick to take advantage of their inability to make rational decisions about what …


Wigfall V. Mobley Et Al.: Heirs Property Rights In Family And In Law, Brian Grabbatin, Jennie L. Stephens Apr 2011

Wigfall V. Mobley Et Al.: Heirs Property Rights In Family And In Law, Brian Grabbatin, Jennie L. Stephens

disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory

No abstract provided.


Cheap Meat: How Factory Farming Is Harming Our Health, The Environment, And The Economy, R. Jason Richards, Erica L. Richards Jan 2011

Cheap Meat: How Factory Farming Is Harming Our Health, The Environment, And The Economy, R. Jason Richards, Erica L. Richards

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Down The Stretch: Reining In State Approaches Toward A Universal Medication Rule For Racehorses, Laurel Benson Jan 2011

Down The Stretch: Reining In State Approaches Toward A Universal Medication Rule For Racehorses, Laurel Benson

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Seeds Of Compromise: A Proposal And Justification For The Partial Deregulation Of Genetically Modified Alfalfa And Sugar Beets, Whitney J. Waters Jan 2011

Seeds Of Compromise: A Proposal And Justification For The Partial Deregulation Of Genetically Modified Alfalfa And Sugar Beets, Whitney J. Waters

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson Jan 2011

Citation Advantage Of Open Access Legal Scholarship, James M. Donovan, Carol A. Watson

James M. Donovan

In this study focusing on the impact of open access on legal scholarship, the authors examine open access articles from three journals at the University of Georgia School of Law and confirm that legal scholarship freely available via open access improves an article’s research impact. Open access legal scholarship—which today appears to account for almost half of the output of law faculties—can expect to receive fifty-eight percent more citations than non–open access writings of similar age from the same venue.


The Constitutional Imperative Of Equitably Distributing The Proceeds Of Mineral Resource Extraction From China's Ethnic Minority Autonomous Areas, Lin Feng, Jason Buhi Jan 2011

The Constitutional Imperative Of Equitably Distributing The Proceeds Of Mineral Resource Extraction From China's Ethnic Minority Autonomous Areas, Lin Feng, Jason Buhi

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Conditioning Democratization: Eu Membership Conditionality And Domestic Politics In Balkan Institutional Reforms, Ridvan Peshkopia Jan 2011

Conditioning Democratization: Eu Membership Conditionality And Domestic Politics In Balkan Institutional Reforms, Ridvan Peshkopia

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

The uneven effects of EU membership conditionality on Eastern European reforms continue to puzzle the research community. Sometimes, the research focus has been too large, considering EU membership conditionality as a policy implemented uniformly across policy areas. Other efforts take a too narrow approach by trying to explain the effects of EU membership conditionality in single sectors. I suggest studying this phenomenon through a set of mid-level theories in a cross-country, cross-sectorial approach. I argue that both the intensity of EU membership conditionality and reform outcomes are contingent upon the policy sector context; hence, we should take a sectorial contextual …


The Food Safety Modernization Act: Keeping Dinner Safe And Farmers In The Fields, Sarah K. Baker Jan 2011

The Food Safety Modernization Act: Keeping Dinner Safe And Farmers In The Fields, Sarah K. Baker

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


Did The U.S. Supreme Court Recognize An Elusive Or Illusive Judicial Taking In Stop The Beach Renourishment?, Derek Leslie Jan 2011

Did The U.S. Supreme Court Recognize An Elusive Or Illusive Judicial Taking In Stop The Beach Renourishment?, Derek Leslie

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


From Kyoto To Quito: Reassessing Oil Moratorium As An Effective Climate Change Policy From A Property-Based Approach, Patrick Wieland Jan 2011

From Kyoto To Quito: Reassessing Oil Moratorium As An Effective Climate Change Policy From A Property-Based Approach, Patrick Wieland

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


The Sophistic Method?: Dialectic And Eristic In Legal Pedagogy, Thomas Cothran Jan 2011

The Sophistic Method?: Dialectic And Eristic In Legal Pedagogy, Thomas Cothran

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Excessive Corporate Prerogative, John A. Powell, Stephen Menendian Jan 2011

Beyond Public/Private: Understanding Excessive Corporate Prerogative, John A. Powell, Stephen Menendian

Kentucky Law Journal

This article makes the case against excessive corporate prerogative by revealing ways in which the exercise of corporate power to protect and relentlessly pursue corporate interests subverts our democracy with harmful consequences for democratic accountability, civil rights, human rights, the economy, the environment, privacy, individual freedom and the nation's welfare.


Material Witness Detentions After Al-Kidd, Wesley Macneil Oliver Jan 2011

Material Witness Detentions After Al-Kidd, Wesley Macneil Oliver

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Structural Racism And The Law In America Today: An Introduction, William M. Wiecek Jan 2011

Structural Racism And The Law In America Today: An Introduction, William M. Wiecek

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Cell Phone Searches Incident To Arrest: A New Standard Based On Arizona V. Gant, Ben E. Stewart Jan 2011

Cell Phone Searches Incident To Arrest: A New Standard Based On Arizona V. Gant, Ben E. Stewart

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Spare The Rod, Spoil The Litigator? The Varying Degrees Of Culpability Required For An Adverse Inference Sanction Regarding Spoliation Of Electronic Discovery, Lauren R. Nichols Jan 2011

Spare The Rod, Spoil The Litigator? The Varying Degrees Of Culpability Required For An Adverse Inference Sanction Regarding Spoliation Of Electronic Discovery, Lauren R. Nichols

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Uk Law Notes, 2011, University Of Kentucky College Of Law Jan 2011

Uk Law Notes, 2011, University Of Kentucky College Of Law

Annual Magazines

No abstract provided.


Cause And Effect: Surface Mine Reclamation And Flood Litigation In Appalachia, Bethany N. Baxter Jan 2011

Cause And Effect: Surface Mine Reclamation And Flood Litigation In Appalachia, Bethany N. Baxter

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


The Federalization Of Nonprofit Regulation And Its Discontents, James J. Fishman Jan 2011

The Federalization Of Nonprofit Regulation And Its Discontents, James J. Fishman

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Explanatory Synthesis And Rule Synthesis: A Comparative Civil Law And Common Law Analysis, Michael D. Murray Jan 2011

Explanatory Synthesis And Rule Synthesis: A Comparative Civil Law And Common Law Analysis, Michael D. Murray

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In comparative study of common law and civilian legal analysis, many scholars have noted a convergence in the two systems' use of precedent cases. Although common law legal theory historically has started from a position that judges are fully competent to create law and change the law through their adjudication of cases and the judicial opinions they write, and civilian theory historically has started from a position that judges are not empowered to create and change the law enacted by the legislature but rather are to read and apply the existing law to new cases, the practice of tribunals within …


Rule Synthesis And Explanatory Synthesis: A Socratic Dialogue Between Ireac And Treat, Michael D. Murray Jan 2011

Rule Synthesis And Explanatory Synthesis: A Socratic Dialogue Between Ireac And Treat, Michael D. Murray

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article explores the theory and process of explanatory synthesis in comparison to rule synthesis and case-to-case analogical reasoning as a method of demonstrative legal reasoning and analysis and legal rhetoric. The Article takes the form of a Socratic dialogue to discuss the analytical and rhetorical advantages of explanatory synthesis. Explanatory synthesis provides an important option for inductive reasoning and argumentation within the deductive paradigm of legal analysis, and has rhetorical advantages over other forms of analogical reasoning when examined using the tools of modern argument theory and the rhetorical canons of law and economics.


Property In Law: Government Rights In Legal Innovations, Stephen Clowney Jan 2011

Property In Law: Government Rights In Legal Innovations, Stephen Clowney

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

One of the most enduring themes in American political thought is that competition between states encourages legal innovation. Despite the prominence of this story in the national ideology, there is growing anxiety that state and local governments innovate at a socially suboptimal rate. Academics have recently expressed alarm that the pace of legal experimentation has become "extraordinarily slow," "inefficient," and "less than ideal." Ordinary citizens, too, seem concerned that government has been leeched of imagination and the dynamic spirit of experimentation; both talk radio programs and newspapers remain jammed with complaints about legislative gridlock and do-nothing politicians who cannot, or …


State Constitutions And Individual Rights: Conceptual Convergence In School Finance Litigation, Scott R. Bauries Jan 2011

State Constitutions And Individual Rights: Conceptual Convergence In School Finance Litigation, Scott R. Bauries

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

This Article begins by reviewing Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld's “fundamental conceptions” and expanding his theory to the arena of state constitutional rights, building on recent work by other scholars. From this foundation, it moves to a discussion of the sources of rights to education. The Article then examines the text of relevant state constitutional provisions, as well as the ever-changing landscape of school finance litigation, the principal vehicle through which litigants assert constitutional claims based on ostensible education rights. Next, it systematically analyzes the population of reported cases from the highest state courts to identify Hohfeldian conceptions of education rights held …


In Pari Delicto And Crop Gene Patents: An Equitable Defense For Innocently Infringing Farmers, David Costa Jan 2011

In Pari Delicto And Crop Gene Patents: An Equitable Defense For Innocently Infringing Farmers, David Costa

Kentucky Journal of Equine, Agriculture, & Natural Resources Law

No abstract provided.


"Courting" Time: Assessing The Policy And Planning Issues Related To Adoption Of Case Processing Standards In The Kentucky Judicial System, John B. Dobson Jan 2011

"Courting" Time: Assessing The Policy And Planning Issues Related To Adoption Of Case Processing Standards In The Kentucky Judicial System, John B. Dobson

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

No executive summary.