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Agenda: Water And Growth In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, The William And Flora Hewlett Foundation

Water and Growth in the West (Summer Conference, June 7-9)

1 v. (various pagings) : ill., maps ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) + supplement (207 p. ; 29 x 24 cm.)

"Conference co-sponsor The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation."

Conference moderators included University of Colorado School of Law professors Gary C. Bryner, James N. Corbridge, Jr., David H. Getches, Douglas S. Kenney, Kathryn M. Mutz, Peter D. Nichols and Charles F. Wilkinson.

Accompanied by: CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) and supplement (xiv, 140, [49] p.)

Includes bibliographical references

The event will cover a breadth of issues, including demographics and water-use trends, improved planning and efficient use, implementation …

Land Use, Science, And Spirituality: The Search For A True And Lasting Relationship With The Land, Charles Wilkinson

Public Land & Resources Law Review

No abstract provided.

Are National Park Resources For Sale?: Edmonds Institute V. Babbitt, Mike Wood

Public Land & Resources Law Review

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents - Issue 3, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Foreword: Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, Anita Bernstein

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

What Is To Be Done, Kate Millett

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Since its existence, the feminist movement has fought for equal rights for women, and, in so doing, it has challenged the oldest and most fundamental social scheme in history-patriarchy. Patriarchy is the rule of males over females in all departments of human life, and it is based on custom, belief, law, and ultimately on force. Although the American feminist movement made significant progress in its early years, it has struggled in recent years to accomplish many of its goals. Millett notes that the American feminist movement now stands stalemated, on the defensive, and trying desperately to hold on to the …

Biology For Feminists, Katharine K. Baker

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Feminists and sociobiologists have more in common than many people realize. In this Essay, Baker argues that feminists can use insights from sociobiology to validate feminist theories about patriarchy and to bolster claims for a greater legal commitment to feminist normative agendas. Paying particular attention to the laws regarding rape, marriage, and parenthood, Baker shows how biology helps confirm what feminists have long argued about the law's inadequate protection of women. Moreover, she shows how biology helps demonstrate the keen need for feminist social norms that help alleviate the harms caused by nature's inequities.

Feminist Law And Film: Imagining Judges And Justice, Orit Kamir

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Essay offers a model for systematic application of "feminist law and film" methodology to investigating the imagery of law and justice; to reexamining the relationship between feminist theory that focuses on an ethics of care and feminist theory that focuses on dominance, oppression, and resistance; and to reviewing the relationship between legal feminism and postmodernity. More specifically, employing interdisciplinary methodology, the Essay explores the imagery of a newly developing legal feminist concept, "caring justice," by focusing on popular cultural images of the judiciary as presented by the film industry. Offering a close reading of a contemporary film, Pedro Almodovar's …

Constructing Families In A Democracy: Courts, Legislatures And Second-Parent Adoption, Jane S. Schacter

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this Essay, Schacter examines recent judicial decisions on so-called "second parent adoption," in which one partner in a gay or lesbian relationship seeks to adopt the other partner's child without terminating that partner's legal relationship with the child. With the recent boom of lesbian families in particular, the availability of such adoptions has been litigated in several states. Although the results have been uneven, this has been an area of significant progress for same-sex families, with courts in at least twenty-one states having authorized such adoptions. The appellate rulings in this area have been decisions involving statutory interpretation and …

Drag = Blackface, Kelly Kleiman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Performance in drag is indistinguishable conceptually from performance in blackface, yet the former is embraced while the latter is shunned. This Essay argues that the analogy is powerful enough to justify making drag performance anathema. It outlines the parallel features of the two modes of performance and then rebuts the com- mon defenses of drag performance-that drag subverts gender stereotypes, that it is a matter of private sexual compulsion, that it is a privileged activity of gay men, and that it's just a joke.

Pretrial Mediation Of Complex Scientific Cases: A Proposal To Reduce Jury And Judicial Confusion, Susan E. Cowell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Note proposes pretrial mediation using scientist-mediators for complex scientific disputes. Complex scientific disputes reflect the inherent tension between law and science. This tension results in dissatisfaction among judges, juries, and scientists because of the uncertainties embraced by science, but eschewed by law. Pretrial mediation would address some of these uncertainties before they are introduced into the courtroom. In short, the proposed pretrial mediation should reduce jury confusion and provide judges with guidance to assess the admissibility of scientific evidence and expert opinions by eliminating and clarifying scientific issues.

Before It's Too Late: Neuropsychological Consequences Of Child Neglect And Their Implications For Law And Social Policy, Janet Weinstein, Ricardo Weinstein

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Recent developments in the neurosciences have led to dramatic breakthroughs in the area of brain development and the understanding of consequences of neglect. Because this process was heretofore not understood, legislators have been wary of drafting child protection statutes that afforded the possibility for arbitrary interference with families. Strict statutory standards have been adopted that allow coercive intervention only in cases where the child is at substantial risk of imminent physical harm, or after some of the most severe consequences of neglect have been identified. These laws do not consider developmental harm because it does not present an imminent danger …

Points Against Postmodernism, Catharine A. Mackinnon

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this Essay, MacKinnon pointedly contends with a central tropism in much postmodernism to "de-realize" reality, contrasting it with feminism's epistemic and legal accomplishments and potential in remaking the world for women.

Banishing Ipse Dixit: The Impact Of Kumho Tire On Forensic Identification Science, Michael J. Saks

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Doubts About Daubert: Psychiatric Anecdata As A Case Study, Christopher Slobogin

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Judges' Bench Memorandum: Twelfth Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Brief For The Appellant State Of New Union: Twelfth Annual Pace National Environmental Moot Court Competition, Matthew Chivers, Elisha Peterson, Sean Tomko

Pace Environmental Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Guidelines For New And Existing Piggeries, A Latto, John Noonan, R. J. Taylor

Bulletins 4000 -

These guidelines apply to the management of Western Australia piggeries in Western Australia, including intensive Growing pigs under intensive conditions where the and extensive operations, straw-based housing and animals spend their entire life cycle indoors, is an combinations of these (otherwise referred to as semi- important part of the Western Australian and intensive housing).

Democracy, Science, And Free Trade: Risk Regulation On Trial At The World Trade Organization, Robert Howse

Michigan Law Review

Among the most common critiques of globalization is that it increasingly constrains the ability of democratic communities to make unfettered choices about policies that affect the fundamental welfare of their citizens, including those of health and safety, the environment, and consumer protection. Traditionally, free trade rules were about constraining border measures such as tariffs and quantitative restrictions on imports. Increasingly, however, such rules include requirements and constraints addressed directly to domestic regulation. For example, a country's policies with respect to intellectual property rights or its regulatory approach to network industries, such as telecommunications, may now be fundamentally shaped by rules …

Nonparent Visitation Rights V. Family Autonomy: An Abridgment Of Parents' Constitutional Rights?, Elizabeth Weiss

Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Regulating Research With Decisionally Impaired Individuals: Are We Making Progress?, Diane E. Hoffmann, Jack Schwartz, Evan G. Derenzo

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Index (Volume 74)

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Pharmaceutical Marketplace Dynamics, Robin J. Strongin

National Health Policy Forum

This issue brief provides a profile of the pharmaceutical industry and explores topics such as competition, generics, intellectual property, research and development, pricing, and distribution. It also discusses government programs such as the Department of Veterans' Affairs federal supply schedule and Medicaid rebates.

Environmental Damage Resulting From The Nato Military Action Against Yugoslavia, Aaron Schwabach

Law Faculty Scholarship

During the 1999 war between NATO and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO targeted and destroyed chemical plants and storage facilities at Pancevo, Kragujevac, and elsewhere. A United Nations inspection team found that the NATO attacks had caused measurable, but not catastrophic, environmental damage wityin the territory of Yugoslavia. This article explores the historical evolution and current status of the body of law regarding protection of the environment during wartime, as well as the legality of NATO's actions. It concludes that NATO probably did not violate international law as it currently stands. However, the postwar reactions of states, including the …

Berner-Kadish V. Minister Of Interior, Dalia Dorner, Dorit Beinisch, Abdel Rahman Zuabi

Translated Opinions

The First and Second Petitioners (hereinafter: the Petitioners,) two women who have been life partners for seven years, are Israeli citizens. Their permanent residence is in the State of California, in the United States. On January 12, 1996 the Second Petitioner (hereinafter: the mother) gave birth to the Third Petitioner (hereinafter: the son,) after having become pregnant via sperm donation. The son was adopted by the First Petitioner (hereinafter: the adoptive mother,) with the mother’s consent, according to an adoption decree granted by a California court – where the son was born and where the three Petitioners reside. The adoptive …

155th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

155th University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program including Law School awards

How Children And Adolescents Relate To Nature, Patricia Nevers

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Paper presented at the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, September 21,1999.

Computer Code Vs. Legal Code: Setting The Rules In Cyberspace, Mark S. Nadel

Federal Communications Law Journal

Book Review: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig, Basic Books, 1999, 230 pages.

The Wto Panel Decision On Australia's Salmon Import Guidelines: Evidence That The Sps Agreement Can Effectively Protect Human Health Interests, Matthew D. Taylor

Washington International Law Journal

On July 19, 1999, Australia lifted its ban on salmon imports and announced new salmon import guidelines. The new guidelines were promulgated in response to a World Trade Organization ("WTO") Appellate Body determination that the import ban violated the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ("SPS Agreement"). Canada challenged Australia's new import guidelines, alleging that the new guidelines also violate the SPS Agreement. The WTO dispute settlement panel held that, with the exception of only one provision, Australia's new salmon import guidelines are based on appropriate scientific risk analyses and are now in line with comparable import …

Punishment And Preventing Pollution In Japan: Is American-Style Criminal Enforcement The Solution?, Robert G. Kondrat

Washington International Law Journal

Both Japan and the United States face the ongoing threat of intentional and preventable pollution. From 1970 until the mid-1980s, Japan utilized its environmental crime laws to punish and prevent intentional and preventable acts of pollution. After this period, however, the number of environmental crime arrests and prosecutions in Japan declined. In contrast, since the 1980s, the United States has continued to expand the number of prosecutors and investigators dedicated to the enforcement of environmental crime laws. These divergent trends can be explained by the different pollution histories, enforcement personnel structures, regulatory strategies, and case law of the two countries. …