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"Inherently Expressive": Bds Organizing For Palestinian Liberation At Cuny School Of Law And Beyond, Students For Justice In Palestine (Sjp), Jewish Law Students Association (Jlsa), City University Of New York (Cuny) School Of Law

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Footnote Forum’S Moderated Conversation With The Authors Of The Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act And Criminalized Immigrant Survivors, Assia Serrano And Nathan Yaffe, Assia Serrano, Nathan Yaffe

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Private Sanctions, Public Harm?, Jon J. Lee

Faculty Articles

The legal profession has a secret. In response to widespread public distrust in the profession’s ability to regulate itself, state disciplinary authorities have undertaken modest efforts over the last several decades to make their activities more transparent. They have opened up their formal proceedings, publicized the identities of sanctioned attorneys, and shared information about their work online. But at the same time, most have quietly continued to resolve cases of ostensibly “minor” and “isolated” misconduct through the use of private sanctions, keeping the identities of disciplined attorneys—and their misconduct—hidden from view. This Article provides the first comprehensive scholarly contribution on …

The Undemocratic Class Action, Nicholas Almendares

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Class actions can have profound effects. But theorists, policymakers, and judges have long worried that attorneys can use them for their own advantage, reaping generous rewards for themselves while class members receive next to nothing. Unlike citizens or shareholders, members of a class cannot exercise democratic control over the attorney that nominally works on their behalf. I label this the democratic critique of class actions, and it has been the dominant framework for understanding class actions, shaping both case law and reform proposals.

The democratic critique is based on a false premise, though, because it does not take into account …

Right Of Association For Platform Workers In Thailand (A Case Study Of Food Delivery Platform Workers), Kanut Thamromdee

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Platform work has become the prominent form of employment in the last decade due to its unique features which are seemingly beneficial to workers, whether it is flexibility, autonomy, diverse job opportunities or ease of entry resulting in many people choosing to be platform workers working with platform providers on platforms. During the last decade, platform work has rapidly grown thanks to the advanced technology and innovative business models; however, it seems that Thai labour law focusing on traditional employment has not been adequately developed to catch up the growth of platform work in Thailand. Platform providers have classified platform …

Reasonable Accommodation Requests: Fair Evaluation And The Role Of Decision Makers, Mona Hawkins

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine fair evaluations and the role of the decision-makers in the reasonable accommodation process. In many instances, fair evaluations in the reasonable accommodation process which disabled employees experienced, were challenging and looked upon as perceived discrimination in decision-making process. A review of the literature identified further clarification and insight into educating decision-makers about the disability laws, and then altering their behavior in granting reasonable accommodations. The literature progressed with discussions surrounding why every qualified disabled employee should be accommodated as long as the reasonable accommodation is not an undue hardship to the …

The Power Of Influence: Standardizing The Influencer Marketing Industry Through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Michele Lehat

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

Opening The Virtual Window: How On-Line Processes Could Increase Access To Justice In The Criminal Legal System, Cynthia Alkon, Amy Schmitz

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

No abstract provided.

Beyond Legal Deserts: Access To Counsel For Immigrants Facing Removal, Emily Ryo, Reed Humphrey

Faculty Scholarship

Removal proceedings are high-stakes adversarial proceedings in which immigration judges must decide whether to allow immigrants who allegedly have violated U.S. immigration laws to stay in the United States or to order them deported to their countries of origin. In these proceedings, the government trial attorneys prosecute noncitizens who often lack English fluency, economic resources, and familiarity with our legal system. Yet, most immigrants in removal proceedings do not have legal representation, as removal is considered to be a civil matter and courts have not recognized a right to government­appointed counsel for immigrants facing removal. Advocates, policymakers, and scholars have …

Are Lawyers’ Case Selection Decisions Biased? A Field Experiment On Access To Justice, Jens Frankenreiter, Michael A. Livermore

Scholarship@WashULaw

The attorney-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how demographic information (encoded in potential clients’ names) affects how attorneys respond to initial inquiries in private injury cases. On the basis of prior literature, we hypothesize that race is a significant factor, but we also explore race and gender interactions. We find that ostensibly Black or Hispanic inquirers receive fewer responses than ostensibly White inquirers, a result largely driven by preferential treatment of White female inquirers. The racial disparities are larger than those previously documented in contexts such as …

Natural Language Processing In Legal Tech, Jens Frankenreiter, Julian Nyarko

Scholarship@WashULaw

Natural language processing techniques promise to automate an activity that lies at the core of many tasks performed by lawyers, namely the extraction and processing of information from unstructured text. The relevant methods are thought to be a key ingredient for both current and future legal tech applications. This chapter provides a non-technical overview of the current state of NLP techniques, focusing on their promise and potential pitfalls in the context of legal tech applications. It argues that, while NLP-powered legal tech can be expected to outperform humans in specific categories of tasks that play to the strengths of current …

An Empirical Analysis Of Clinical Legal Education At Middle Age, Robert R. Kuehn

Scholarship@WashULaw

This article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of clinical legal education’s development and growth over the past fifty years. By analyzing dozens of surveys and reports on aspects of clinical legal education, including unique data developed by the authors, and comparing the results over time, this article presents a factual picture of clinical legal education’s progression from early adulthood to today’s middle age.

This article seeks to inform the present and help legal educators shape the future role of law clinic and field placement courses in the preparation of law students for the practice of law. It provides an …

The Immigration Shadow Docket, Faiza Sayed

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Designing A Fulfilling Life In The Law, Bridgette Carr, Vivek Sankaran, Taylor J. Wilson

Articles

There is a mental health crisis in the legal profession. This isn’t news; in 2017, the National Task Force on Lawyering Well-Being acknowledged that the profession has failed to give adequate regard to the well-being of lawyers. High rates of chronic stress, depression, and substance use suggest that “the current state of lawyers’ health cannot support a profession dedicated to client service and dependent on the public trust.”

Bottom-Rung Appeals, Merritt E. Mcalister

Fordham Law Review

There are “haves” and “have-nots” in the federal appellate courts, and the “haves” get more attention. For decades, the courts have used a triage regime under which they distribute judicial attention selectively: some appeals receive a lot of judicial attention, and some appeals receive barely any. What this Article reveals is that this triage system produces demonstrably unequal results, depending on the circuit handling the appeal and whether the appellant has counsel or not. Together, these two factors produce significant disparities: in one circuit, for example, an unrepresented appellant receives, on average, a decision less than a tenth the length …

The Crisis Of Unrepresented Immigrants: Vastly Increasing The Number Of Accredited Representatives Offers The Best Hope For Resolving It, Michele R. Pistone

Fordham Law Review

The U.S. immigration system is exceedingly complex, and access to legal representation is the primary determinant in obtaining a just immigration outcome. Immigrants must navigate a byzantine, burdensome, and high stakes legal process, conducted in a language they often do not speak. They often must do so without any legal representation. Unlike criminal defendants, immigrants are not entitled to government-funded lawyers. Legal services organizations, such as Legal Services Corporation, that receive any federal funding are prohibited from providing legal representation to most immigrants. Faith-based and charitable legal services organizations provide some legal representation to immigrants through attorneys, staff members, and …

Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide For The Modern Lawyer, Dyane O'Leary

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Plenty of people talk about technology changing the practice of law but what does it all mean for a lawyer’s everyday skills? The answers lie in Legal Innovation & Technology: A Practical Skills Guide for the Modern Lawyer. This book is the first student-centered coursebook of its kind. It is a comprehensive instructional source combining background explanation of changes to the legal industry with practical guidance on topics such as electronically stored information, document proficiency, advanced research analytics, cybersecurity, automation, client-centered law practice management technology, and remote lawyering.

Geared toward readers at the early stage of their careers, Legal …

Tribute To Professor James Moliterno, Patricia Roberts, Soledad Atienza, Eleanor Myers, James S. Heller, Gary Tamsitt, Neal Devins, Peter Čuroš, Veronika Tomoszek, Maxim Tomoszek, Paul Žilinčík, Rongjie Lan, José M. De Areilza, Irina Lortkipanidze, Ján Mazúr, Javier Guillen, Lucia Berdisová, James Étienne Viator

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Lived Experiences Of Technology-Based Legal Resources, Michael Ray Stanley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractLack of access to United States civil courts by individuals who cannot afford or are otherwise unable to retain legal counsel has attracted the interest of policy makers and members of the legal community in recent years. The literature revealed a wide range of efforts and public and private resources that have been employed to address the problem. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the experiences, perceptions, and insights of individuals in a medium-size Michigan city who had utilized services that deliver legal resources by technology-based platforms. Social construction of targeted populations and the technology acceptance model …

This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Military Justice System: The 2022 And 2023 National Defense Authorization Acts, David A. Schlueter, Lisa M. Schenck

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

For the past decade there have been numerous and significant changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), the statutory basis for the military justice system. Although the Military Justice Act of 2016 made major changes to the UCMJ, the calls for change continued. One of the most-often heard calls for reform over the last decade has suggested removing commanders from the military justice system. In the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress amended the UCMJ to dramatically reduce the commander’s role in what Congress specified as “covered offenses" such as sexual assault and provided that those listed offenses …

A Behaviorial Economics Analysis Of Will Making Preferences: When To Begin And Who Should Have The Most Input?, Tina Cockburn, Kelly Purser, Ho Fai Chan, Bridget J. Crawford, Stephen Whyte, Uwe Dulleck

Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols. 28:2 onward (2019-present)

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Built For Business: The Commercial Need For Aggregate Litigation, Jack Zarin-Rosenfeld

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Commercial actors long have argued that class actions are bad for business. But for even longer, business groups have supported other types of aggregate litigation that closely resemble class actions, such as expansive federal bankruptcy. While critics have successfully limited national aggregation via class actions, they have not even attempted to criticize aggregation via bankruptcy.

Why have business groups attacked aggregate litigation in some cases and supported it in others? This Article provides an answer by examining aggregation's origins and development, and what emerges, it turns out, is very much the opposite of what aggregation's pro-business critics would have us …

Contingency Fee Conflicts: Attorneys Push For Quick-Kill Settlements When Their Clients Would Be Better Off Going To Trial, Steve Calandrillo, Chryssa V. Deliganis, Neela Brocato

Articles

Despite the checkered history of contingency fees in the practice of law, attorneys often claim that such fee arrangements perfectly align the interests of lawyer and client. After all, contingency fee lawyers proclaim in TV ad after TV ad, "we don’t get paid unless you win." That superficial logic does not withstand economic scrutiny. Utilizing a behavioral economics lens, this Article demonstrates that contingency fee arrangements give attorneys excessive incentives to settle cases that their clients would be better off taking all the way through trial. In addition to highlighting this undertheorized problem in law, we offer normative recommendations to …

Mdl For The People, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch

Scholarly Works

By the terms of its own statute and the limits of its constitutional authority, multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) is designed to transfer and coordinate individual lawsuits then return plaintiffs back to their chosen fora for case-specific discovery and trial. Because each plaintiff is present and has her own lawyer, there is no need for the judge to police conflicts of interest or attorney loyalty as in the MDL’s kin, the class action.

But these assumptions do not match the empirical reality. Remand is rare. MDL judges resolve ninety-nine percent of the cases before them. And to some attorneys, the people of …

Changemakers: From The Classroom To The Courtroom: Miguel Garcia, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Changemakers: Elevating Conversations Around Indigenous Peoples' Rights, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

แนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคกรณีติดตั้งแผงโซลาร์เซลล์เพื่อผลิตไฟฟ้าจากพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัย, อารียา พยัคฆาภรณ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านได้รับความนิยมเพิ่มขึ้นเป็นอย่างมากในปัจจุบัน และมีแนวโน้มจะมากขึ้นอีกในอนาคต อย่างไรก็ดี ด้วยลักษณะเฉพาะแผงโซลาร์เซลล์ ซึ่งเป็นสินค้าที่ผู้บริโภคต้องมีความรู้ ความเข้าใจในตัวสินค้า และเป็นการลงทุนระยะยาวที่ใช้เวลาการคืนทุนค่อนข้างนาน จึงมีความจำเป็นที่ผู้บริโภคจะต้องได้รับสัญญาที่มีข้อกำหนดระบุถึงสาระสำคัญของสินค้า ตลอดจนสิทธิหน้าที่ของผู้บริโภคและผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ ประกอบกับปัจจุบันประเทศไทยยังไม่ได้มีกฎหมายว่าด้วยการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคกรณีของการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัยเป็นการเฉพาะจากการศึกษาแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคด้านสัญญากรณีติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัยของต่างประเทศ ได้แก่ รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย สหรัฐอเมริกา เครือรัฐออสเตรเลีย ประเทศญี่ปุ่น และประเทศมาเลเซีย พบว่ามีแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคด้านสัญญาที่แตกต่างกัน โดยแบ่งรูปแบบการบังคับใช้กับผู้ประกอบธุรกิจได้เป็น 2 รูปแบบ คือ บังคับใช้โดยกฎหมาย และ อาศัยความสมัครใจของผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ เมื่อผู้วิจัยวิเคราะห์และเปรียบเทียบกับบริบทของประเทศไทยแล้ว พบว่าแต่ละรูปแบบการบังคับใช้มีความเหมาะสมกับประเทศไทยในสถานการณ์ที่แตกต่างกัน กล่าวคือ ในช่วงระยะเริ่มต้นที่ผู้บริโภคเริ่มสนใจการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์ และยังไม่ได้ปรากฏข้อร้องเรียนเกี่ยวกับการเอารัดเอาเปรียบผู้บริโภคจากผู้ประกอบธุรกิจ การบังคับใช้เป็นกฎหมายจึงยังไม่อาจกระทำได้ เพราะตามแนวปฏิบัติในการออกประกาศของคณะกรรมการว่าด้วยสัญญาให้เป็นธุรกิจควบคุมสัญญาจะต้องปรากฏสถิติข้อร้องเรียนก่อน ผู้วิจัยจึงเสนอให้มีการเผยแพร่แบบสัญญามาตรฐานสำหรับการติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์ภาคครัวเรือนบนเว็บไซต์ของกรมพัฒนาพลังงานทดแทนและอนุรักษ์พลังงาน อันเป็นแนวทางการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภครูปแบบสมัครใจในระยะเริ่มต้นก่อน แต่หากในอนาคตปรากฏข้อร้องเรียนเช่นว่านั้น ผู้วิจัยเสนอให้นำรูปแบบการบังคับใช้เป็นกฎหมาย หรือ รูปแบบที่อาศัยความสมัครใจของผู้ประกอบธุรกิจมาปรับใช้ตามความเหมาะสมต่อไปในประเด็นเรื่องหน่วยงานกำกับดูแล ผู้วิจัยเสนอให้สำนักงานคณะกรรมการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภค (สคบ.) เป็นหน่วยงานผู้มีหน้าที่มีอำนาจกำกับดูแลธุรกิจติดตั้งโซลาร์เซลล์บนหลังคาบ้านพักอาศัย ด้วย สคบ. มีบุคลากรที่มีความเชี่ยวชาญในด้านการคุ้มครองผู้บริโภคมากกว่าสำนักงานคณะกรรมการกำกับกิจการพลังงาน (สำนักงาน กกพ.)

Easing The Burden Of Survivors Of Domestic Violence Through The "One Family, One Judge" Court Model: Why Integrated Domestic Violence ("Idv") Courts Should Be Instituted Throughout The United States, Elka B. Blonder

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note advocates for the implementation of Integrated Domestic Violence (IDV) Courts nationwide, arguing that these courts provide a more efficient and supportive system for survivors of domestic violence by consolidating criminal, civil, and family cases under a single judge. This "one family, one judge" model aims to reduce the fragmentation and trauma survivors face in traditional court systems, offering a holistic approach that enhances survivor safety and offender accountability.

Outsourcing Self-Regulation, Marsha Griggs

All Faculty Scholarship

Answerable only to the courts that have the sole authority to grant or withhold the right to practice law, lawyers operate under a system of self-regulation. The self-regulated legal profession staunchly resists external interference from the legislative and administrative branches of government. Yet, with the same fervor that the legal profession defies non-judicial oversight, it has subordinated itself to the controlling influence of a private corporate interest. By outsourcing the mechanisms that control admission to the bar, the legal profession has all but surrendered the most crucial component of its gatekeeping function to an industry that profits at the expense …

Due Process Deportations, Angelica Chazaro

Articles

Should pro-immigrant advocates pursue federally funded counsel for all immigrants facing deportation? For most pro-immigrant advocates and scholars, the answer is self-evident: More lawyers for immigrants would mean more justice for immigrants, and thus, the federal government should fund such lawyers. Moreover, the argument goes, federally funded counsel for immigrants would improve due process and fairness, as well as make immigration enforcement more efficient. This Article argues the opposite: Federally funded counsel is the wrong goal. The majority of expulsions of immigrants now happen outside immigration courts— and thus are impervious to immigration lawyering. Even for those who make it …