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The Uniform Consumer Credit Code: Consumer's Code – Or Lender's Code?, Lynn M. Lopucki

Florida Law Review

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What's A Nice Couple Like You Doing In Welfare Law Anyway?, Elizabeth Du Fresne, William Du Fresne

Florida Law Review

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Trial Court And Prison Perspectives On The Collateral Post Conviction Relief Process In Florida, Hugh Macmillan Jr.

Florida Law Review

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Misdemeanant's Right To Counsel: Imprisonment Standard, Edna L. Caruso

Florida Law Review

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Access Of Visitors To Labor Camps On Privately Owned Property, Kent Spriggs

Florida Law Review

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Bail Or Jail: Toward An Alternative, J. Richard Smith

Florida Law Review

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Expanded Criminal Defense Lawyering, Jenny Roberts, Ronald Wright

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This review collects and critiques the academic literature on criminal defense lawyering, with an emphasis on empirical work. Research on criminal defense attorneys in the United States has traditionally emphasized scarcity of resources: too many people facing criminal charges who are “too poor to pay” for counsel and not enough funding to pay for the constitutionally mandated lawyers. Scholars have focused on the capacity of different delivery systems, such as public defender offices, to change the ultimate outcomes in criminal cases within their tight budgetary constraints. Over the decades, however, theoretical understandings of the defense attorney’s work have expanded to …

Fringe Inheriting: Probate Avoidance At Both Ends Of The Wealth Spectrum, Allison Tait

ACTEC Law Journal

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Bottom-Rung Appeals, Merritt E. Mcalister

UF Law Faculty Publications

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 where they distribute judicial attention selectively: some appeals receive a lot of judicial attention, some appeals receive barely any. What this work unearths 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 dramatic disparities: in one circuit, for example, an unrepresented appellant receives, on average, a decision less than a tenth the length of a …

Teaching Cultural Competence In Law School Curricula: An Essential Step To Facilitate Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion In The Legal Profession, Phyllis Taite, Nicola "Nicky" Boothe

Utah Law Review

Law schools must recognize and seek to remove the barriers to teaching cultural competence and DEI and provide appropriate training and workshops for law professors. Providing law professors with the tools to integrate cultural competency into existing curricula is a first and crucial step to ensure that law professors are well-versed in both their own cultural competency, and in the ability to provide cultural competency training to their students. The culturally competent student will become a culturally competent lawyer with the skillset to make impactful contributions towards DEI in and beyond the practice of law.

J Mich Dent Assoc September 2022

The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association

Monthly, The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association brings news, information, and feature articles to our state's oral health community and the MDA's 6,200+ members. No publication reaches more Michigan dentists! In this issue, the reader will find the following original content:

• Annual reports to our readers from each of our state dental schools.
• A 10-Minute EBD column on the use of Articaine local anesthetic.
• News you need, an Editorial and regular department articles, Dentistry and the Law, Staff Matters, Advocacy, Headquarters Report and component news.

This issue also includes one article reprinted with permission.

• Student A by ADA Trustee …

The T Visa Process And The Identification Of Victims Of Human Trafficking, Mandalena Prelashi

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) is a contemporary effort to combat human trafficking. In 2000, the Congress enacted the T Nonimmigrant Status (or T visa) in the effort to protect victims of trafficking and to enhance law enforcement’s ability to investigate and prevent these crimes in the U.S. This thesis explores from a legal and social point of view the obstacles, hurdles, and challenges that victims of human trafficking face, when applying for a T visa. I find that (1) victims assess their exploitation as wrong and immoral but not amounting to human trafficking, thus they are …

The Influence Of Landmark Judgments And Statutory Changes On The Family Litigation Explosion: A Citation Network Analysis, Joseph Hickey, Lyndsay Campbell, Jörn Davidsen

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Family law in many countries has changed radically since the 1960s. However, despite family law’s central importance, few detailed quantitative analyses of the relationship between legal developments (landmark judgments and statutory changes) and the amount and subject of family litigation have been made. We examine this relationship using a unique dataset of citations among Canadian family law judgments from all levels of the court hierarchy. The network analysis draws attention to significant changes in law and legal practice over time. Not only did litigation increase overall, but the number of judgments involving multiple legal issues grew dramatically in the mid-1990s, …

Eviction Court Displacement Rates, Nicole Summers

Northwestern University Law Review

This Essay introduces the concept of eviction court displacement rates, defined as the percentage of eviction filings that result in tenant displacement. The Essay argues that a jurisdiction’s eviction court displacement rate provides crucial insight into the role of its legal system in driving substantive eviction outcomes. The Essay then compiles existing data on court displacement rates and compares those rates across jurisdictions. This comparison reveals massive variation in court displacement rates nationwide. In some jurisdictions, a tenant’s likelihood of displacement upon receiving an eviction filing is approximately one in twenty. In other jurisdictions, it is higher than one in …

Franco I Loved: Reconciling The Two Halves Of The Nation’S Only Government-Funded Public Defender Program For Immigrants, Amelia Wilson

Washington Law Review Online

Detained noncitizens experiencing serious intellectual and mental health disabilities are among the most vulnerable immigrant populations in the United States. The Executive Office for Immigration Review’s (EOIR) creation of the National Qualified Representative Program (NQRP) following a class action lawsuit was an important step in finally bringing meaningful protections to this population. The EOIR pledged to ensure government-paid counsel for those facing removal who had been adjudicated “incompetent” by an immigration judge, as well as other protections for those who had been identified as having a “serious mental disorder” but who had not yet been found incompetent. The NQRP is …

Law School News: 'A Very Clear Mission' 08-18-2022, Michael M. Bowden

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Surrogacy Law Reformed: Bringing New York Into The Twenty-First Century, Natalie Burke

Pace Law Review

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Alternative Legal Professionals And Access To Justice: Failure, Success, And The Evolving Influence Of The Washington State Lllt Program (The Genie Is Out Of The Bottle), Stephen Daniels, James Bowers

DePaul Law Review

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Illegal Homeless Encampments In California: Using The Com-B Framework To Transform A Public Health Nuisance Into A New Housing Development Model, Desiree E. Orozco

Master's Projects and Capstones

California has the highest homeless population, with over 161,000 people experiencing homelessness. Despite approving a billion dollars in grants for the 2018-2019 budget, The 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress revealed California had an increase of over 3,500 individuals staying in shelters between 2020-2021. The multi-faceted and multi-dimensional issues of homelessness and policies make it difficult to prevent individuals experiencing homelessness from living in illegal encampments. Therefore, the author proposes a multi-prong approach to homelessness in California grounded in theories of the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM) and COM-B model and informed by housing first and permanent supportive housing practices. …

Some Realism About Federal Procedural Reform, Carl Tobias

Florida Law Review

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Excessive Criminal Justice Caseloads: Challenging The Conventional Wisdom, Jerold H. Israel

Florida Law Review

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A Commercialist Manifesto: Entrepreneurs, Academics, And Purity Of The Heart And Soul, Richard A. Matasar

Florida Law Review

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Pro Bono Work And Access To Justice For The Poor: Real Change Or Imagined Change?, Michelle S. Jacobs

Florida Law Review

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Let Me Show You How: Pro Se Divorce Courses And Client Power, Elizabeth Mcculloch

Florida Law Review

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(Oxymoron?) Ethical Decisionmaking By Attorneys: An Empirical Study, Susan Daicoff

Florida Law Review

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Attorneys' Fees: Florida Supreme Court Chooses The "Lodestar", Rina Lyubkin

Florida Law Review

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Liberating Commercial Speech: Product Labeling Controls And The First Amendment, Lars Noah, Barbara A. Noah

Florida Law Review

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Legal Malpractice: No Lawyer Or Client Is Safe, Manuel R. Ramos

Florida Law Review

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When Patience Is A Virtue: Weighing The Commercial Speech Value Of Attorney Direct-Mail Solicitation Against The Potential Client's Right To Privacy, Jason C. Meek

Florida Law Review

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Condescending Contradictions: Richard Posner's Pragmatism And Pregnancy Discrimination, Ann C. Mcginley, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Florida Law Review

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