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The Botched Hanging Of William Williams: How Too Much Rope And Minnesota’S Newspapers Brought An End To The Death Penalty In Minnesota, John Bessler

All Faculty Scholarship

This article describes Minnesota's last state-sanctioned execution: that of William Williams, who was hanged in 1906 in the basement of the Ramsey County Jail. Convicted of killing a teenage boy, Williams was tried on murder charges in 1905 and was put to death in February of the following year. Because the county sheriff miscalculated the length of the rope, the hanging was botched, with Williams hitting the floor when the trap door was opened. Three deputies, standing on the scaffold, thereafter seized the rope and forcibly pulled it up until Williams - fourteen and half minutes later - died by …

The Health Care Safety Net In South Carolina: A Test Of Tenacity, Jennifer Ryan, Randy Desonia

National Health Policy Forum

This site visit to the state of South Carolina provided an opportunity to experience and understand the unique makeup of the health care safety net in a southern state. Site visitors had the opportunity to interact with health care providers, state officials, faith-based organizations and leaders of provider-driven volunteer initiatives. They also learned about the challenges of access to care in rural areas and among diverse population groups. The group visited the Sea Island Medical Center and Our Lady of Mercy Community Outreach and Wellness House; a migrant farm worker camp on Johns Island; and a “medical home” site, Medical …

Foster Care Placement: Reducing The Risk Of Sibling Incest, David J. Herring

ExpressO

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Dialogue Magazine, Winter 2004

Dialogue, the magazine of the DePaul University College of Law

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Four Decades Of The Duquesne Law Review Volumes 1-40 (1963-2002): A History [Commemoration], Joel Fishman

Duquesne Law Review

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Symposium Introduction: Women's Work Is Never Done: Employment, Family, And Activism, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This article frames the issues in the Supreme Court case, Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, and introduces the articles making up the inaugural symposium of the Law and Women's Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati. Hibbs involved a husband who was trying to get leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in order to take care of his severely injured wife. The case presents an opportunity to rethink issues of work and family, the legal subordination of women, and the law as an agent for social change, and it was therefore an ideal focus for …

The Constitutionality Of School Corporal Punishment Of Children As A Betrayal Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Susan H. Bitensky

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

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Larry Kalevitch, Man For All Seasons: Differences In Professional School Student Cohorts - Law, Medicine, Business, Nursing, And Education, Allen E. Shoenberger

Nova Law Review

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The Uses Of The Social Transformation Of American Medicine: The Case Of Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Scholarly Articles

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Spotlight: Response To Violence Against Women At The University Of Missouri At Columbia, Mary M. Beck

Faculty Publications

The University of Missouri (“MU”) sits in the picturesque college town of Columbia on the largest and oldest campus of the Missouri University system. MU is a land grant institution created with funds and land appropriated by the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. The University “honors [that public trust] and accepts the associated accountability” by acquiring, creating, transmitting, and preserving knowledge. “MU's primary mission in research and doctoral education . . . provides the basis for service to the people of [Missouri] via outreach programs.” Domestic violence impacts MU's land grant influenced service mission. Its organizational departments, educational units, …

This One's For The Children: The Time Has Come To Hold Guardians Ad Litem Responsible For Negligent Injury And Death To Their Charges, Inga Laurent

Cleveland State Law Review

Absolute immunity has historic justifications but it also represents one of the major failures of the modem child welfare system. Attorneys who act as guardians are granted absolute immunity, which serves as a shield that excuses them from being accountable for the consequences of their actions. Without presentation of a defense, all the parties involved are left to speculate as to whether the guardian adequately performed the necessary duties to protect the child. Immunity also perpetuates maintenance of the status quo rather than moving toward improved systems of care and accountability. Section II of this note provides an overview of …

Consumer Banktuptcy As Part Of The Social Safety Net: Fresh Start Or Treadmill, Jean Bracher

Santa Clara Law Review

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Breaking Out Of The Prison Hierarchy: Transgender Prisoners, Rape, And The Eighth Amendment, Christine Peek

Santa Clara Law Review

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Varieties Of Youth Justice, Anthony Doob, Michael Tonry

Articles

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Lisa Schechtman On Social Work And Human Rights: A Foundation For Policy And Practice By Elisabeth Reichert. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 295pp., Lisa Schechtman

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Social Work and Human Rights: A Foundation for Policy and Practice by Elisabeth Reichert. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 295pp.

The Right To Health, Sarah Friedmann

Human Rights & Human Welfare

In the human rights discourse and practice the right to health has been and continues to be a contentious arena. Primarily located within legal frameworks that focus on civil and political rights, the right to health is more frequently being used to challenge abuses of health by invoking social and economic rights, even though this places the right to health on slippery terrain that is not as internationally accepted as civil and political rights.

2004 Cardozo Life (Winter), Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Life Magazine

Table of Contents:

Around Campus, page 3

Faculty Briefs, page 14

An Interview with Yeshiva University President Richard M. Joel, page 22

It’s Not Your Father’s Legal Writing Program, page 27

Altruism, Ingenuity, Practicality: Traits Shared by Family Law Specialists, page 29

Alumni News & Notes, page 37

Monrad Paulsen: A Last Word, page 52

Lawyers Should Be Lawyers, But What Does That Mean?: A Response To Aiken & Wizner And Smith, Katherine R. Kruse

Scholarly Works

Lawyers should be more like social workers. That is the message of Law as Social Work, the provocative essay by Jane Aiken and Stephen Wizner (Aiken & Wizner) in the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy volume, which preceded the conference on Promoting Justice Through Interdisciplinary Teaching, Practice, and Scholarship, hosted by Washington University School of Law in March 2003. Almost as if in reply, Abbe Smith's contribution to the same pre-conference volume reasserts the importance of lawyers as zealous and partisan advocates, using the realities of the criminal defense context to argue for the value of the lawyer's …

A Tribute To Larry Kalevitch, Man For All Seasons, Differences In Professional School Cohorts In Law, Medicine, Business, Nursing And Education, Allen E. Shoenberger

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Spotlight: Response To Violence Against Women At The University Of Missouri At Columbia, Mary Beck

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

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Teaching Professionalism In Context: Insights From Students, Clients, Adversaries, And Judges, Melissa Lyn Breger, Gina M. Calabrese, Theresa A. Hughes

South Carolina Law Review

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Disposable Mothers, Deployable Children, Annette R. Appell

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Review of Interracial IntimaciesL Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption by Randall Kennedy

Salt Lake City Corp. V. Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLEE This is the brief of appellee in an appeal by the city from a final order of the Salt Lake City Civil Service Commission.

Foreword, Helen Meyer

William Mitchell Law Review

The William Mitchell Law Review has decided once again to dedicate one issue of this annual volume to Recent Decisions of the Minnesota Supreme Court. This issue reviews some of the court’s more important decisions from the 2003-04 term. If tradition is honored, the articles and notes you find in these pages will be thorough, well-written, and thoughtful in their analysis of each decision. This annual review is a tradition that gives our legal community a wonderful opportunity to publicly comment on the work of the court. This public testing of the court’s work is a healthy part of the …

A Tale Of Three Northern Manhattan Communities: Case Studies Of Political Empowerment In The Planning And Developing Process, Richard C. Bass, Cuz Potter

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article reviews three development proposals in Northern Manhattan communities, how community boards responded to those proposals, and how the responses affected the outcome of each development. The article begins with a broad overview of the history of community boards' role in urban planning in New York City. It finds that boards have become increasingly influential in new development plans, empowering the communities they represent. The Article goes on to analyze three recent proposals in turn (an expansion of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, a residential development in Central Harlem, and a comprehensive rezoning of East Harlem) according to "zoning," …

Leaders, Followers, And Free Riders: The Community Lawyer's Dilemma When Representing Non-Democratic Client Organizations, Michael Diamond, Aaron O'Toole

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article explores various aspects of the dissonance between the democratic ideal and the reality of groups in disenfranchised and disempowered communities. The authors discuss the intersection of democracy and community action by examining the sociology of groups and the social psychology of leaders and followers. They also examine the role of, and choices presented to, an attorney working in a community and for a local community group.

Interdisciplinary Teaching And Collaboration In Higher Education: A Concept Whose Time Has Come, Carol Harding, Anita Weinberg

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Lingering Questions Of A Supreme Court Decision: The Confines Of The Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege, Jennifer L. Odrobina

Cleveland State Law Review

The United States Supreme Court "in light of [its] reason and experience"' has recognized a psychotherapist-patient privilege. The Court has, however, left lingering questions for the lower courts to determine regarding possible exceptions to the privilege. The lower courts have used their own reason and experience to develop exceptions to the privilege. Such exceptions include the crime-fraud exception, waiver exception, and the dangerous-patient exception. Inevitably other exceptions will follow. The Supreme Court should recognize a dangerous patient exception to the psychotherapist-patient privilege to allow a psychotherapist to testify in court when there is "a serious threat of harm to the …

Annotated Legal Bibliography On Gender

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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Supreme Court Narratives On Equality And Gender Discrimination In Employment: 1971-2002, Vicki Lens

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article examines the Supreme Court's evolving approach to gender discrimination in the workplace, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, as it grappled with the intersection of formal and substantive equality. The Court's decisions reflected the influence of the feminist movement and broader societal shifts, addressing issues such as pregnancy-related discrimination, sexual harassment, and workplace stereotypes. While the Court often invalidated discriminatory practices, its rulings also revealed tensions in balancing equal treatment with competing interests, such as military preparedness or employer liability. The analysis highlights how the Court's narrative on gender equality was shaped by legal doctrines, cultural values, and …