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A Lost Culture Of Touch And Sound: The Contribution Of Visually Impaired Musicians To The Evolution Of The Spanish Guitar, Marco Ramelli Nov 2025

A Lost Culture Of Touch And Sound: The Contribution Of Visually Impaired Musicians To The Evolution Of The Spanish Guitar, Marco Ramelli

Soundboard Scholar

In the story of music-making, blind musicians have played an intrinsic role, helping to drive the development not only of musical styles but also of instruments, instruction, and aesthetics. Many musical practices were cultivated first within blind communities and adopted only later by sighted musicians, often with a gradual erasure of their original context. The history of the Spanish guitar offers a compelling case study of this progression, demonstrating how the contribution of blind musicians could be both wide-reaching and yet, over time, forgotten. The history of this contribution is challenging to recover, for in Spain as elsewhere, blind musicians …


Soundscapes, Pioneers, And Practices: Laying The Foundations Of The Russian Guitar, Wojciech Gurgul Oct 2025

Soundscapes, Pioneers, And Practices: Laying The Foundations Of The Russian Guitar, Wojciech Gurgul

Soundboard Scholar

A review of The Seven-String Guitar in Russia: Its Origins, Repertoire, and Performance Practice, 1800–50, by Oleg Timofeyev (Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2023), Worldcat, publisher's website


Vol. 103, No.1: Table Of Contents, Denver Law Review Oct 2025

Vol. 103, No.1: Table Of Contents, Denver Law Review

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Misconceived Personal-Benefit Requirement Of Insider Trading Law: About The Insecurities Markets, Kenneth R. Davis Oct 2025

The Misconceived Personal-Benefit Requirement Of Insider Trading Law: About The Insecurities Markets, Kenneth R. Davis

Denver Law Review

In Dirks v. SEC and Salman v. United States, the Supreme Court held that, under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act, tipper/tippee liability arises only if the tippee confers a benefit on the tipper. The ostensible justification for this rule arises from a mistaken premise. The error is rooted in the so-called classical theory of insider trading. When a corporate insider trades on material, nonpublic corporate information, the Supreme Court has held that the insider faces liability because that person profited from the trade. Building on this mistaken premise, the Court has held that when a tipper receives a …


Vol. 103, No.1: Full Issue, Denver Law Review Oct 2025

Vol. 103, No.1: Full Issue, Denver Law Review

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Dead Zones: Problematic Trends For Seizures Of Cell Phones Connected To The Recording Of Protests And Police Activity, Zachary R. Cormier Oct 2025

Constitutional Dead Zones: Problematic Trends For Seizures Of Cell Phones Connected To The Recording Of Protests And Police Activity, Zachary R. Cormier

Denver Law Review

Cell phones are free speech machines. They have been particularly important in recent social movements because they allow an individual to record protests or police activity and share such experiences with a world-wide audience on social media. In these circumstances, the Fourth Amendment’s protection of an individual’s unfettered property right to possess their cell phone overlaps with their First Amendment right to engage in these core free speech activities. Both rights are put to the test when there is conflict with police in connection with the recording. My survey of recent case law provides numerous examples where an individual’s cell …


"Fixing" The Classical Legal Tradition, Jamie G. Mcwilliam Oct 2025

"Fixing" The Classical Legal Tradition, Jamie G. Mcwilliam

Denver Law Review

A “moral turn” in jurisprudence—in which scholars and judges are making overt appeals to the classical legal tradition and its natural law principles—has been gaining steam. Originalism, with its focus on posited law, is increasingly viewed as a morally empty jurisprudence. But positive law is a necessary, though not sufficient, component of the classical tradition, providing the means for a society to advance the common good. With that in mind, this Article explains how certain core originalist theses provide a deeper understanding of the mechanics of how positive law fulfills its moral role. It, therefore, argues that these concepts should …


The Paradox Of Federal Oversight In Police Misconduct Investigations, Ilana M. Friedman Oct 2025

The Paradox Of Federal Oversight In Police Misconduct Investigations, Ilana M. Friedman

Denver Law Review

This Article examines the relationship between state prosecutors, federal prosecutors, and the Civil Rights Division inside the United States Department of Justice in conducting police misconduct investigations and prosecutions. While previous literature documents prosecutors’ enormous concentration of power, they remain an understudied population in the criminal legal system, particularly in how they investigate and prosecute police officers accused of crimes. To remedy this gap, I conducted over fifty interviews with prosecutors, civilian investigators, and other legal professionals working in the domain of police misconduct investigations and prosecutions in multiple field sites around the United States. This Article is one of …


The Protection Illusion: Sexual Harassment Policies And Low-Wage Workers, Sherley Cruz Oct 2025

The Protection Illusion: Sexual Harassment Policies And Low-Wage Workers, Sherley Cruz

Denver Law Review

“To be heard as complaining is not to be heard. To hear someone as complaining is an effective way of dismissing someone. You do not have to listen to the content of what she is saying if she is just complaining . . . .” –Sara Ahmed, Complaint! This Article reveals how workplace sexual harassment policies may appear legally compliant but actually create significant barriers to reporting. The non-reporting of harassment eviscerates the protections the policies are supposed to provide employees by creating a loophole for employers to escape liability. A critical review of these policies under procedural and testimonial …


Legends, Lies, & Rewritten Lives: After The Little Bighorn: Forgotten Struggles Of Those Who Walked Away, Thomas B. Davidson Sep 2025

Legends, Lies, & Rewritten Lives: After The Little Bighorn: Forgotten Struggles Of Those Who Walked Away, Thomas B. Davidson

DU Textbooks

This Narrative is about an event that occurred on June 25, 1876, on the banks of the Little Bighorn River in what is now the state of Montana. Seen from a 21st century perch, it tells a story of a contest between the armed representatives of two different civilizations, each of which fought in the manner of its society. The narrative will attempt to balance the truth of what happened while also relating an engaging story, but without drifting into sensationalism. The narrative will go beyond a focus on the meeting of the soldiers from either group to explore the …


From The Right To Choose To The Virtuous Victims? Advocating For Reproductive Justice In The United States After Dobbs, Carole J. Petersen Sep 2025

From The Right To Choose To The Virtuous Victims? Advocating For Reproductive Justice In The United States After Dobbs, Carole J. Petersen

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

Since Dobbs, advocacy for reproductive justice in the United States has increasingly focused on the “virtuous victims” of state abortion bans—women who wanted to give birth but suddenly required emergency abortion care to preserve their lives or health. These cases now play a prominent role in strategic litigation but may inadvertently promote stereotypical views of women’s role in society. The political fallout may also lead Republicans to propose compromise legislation, with a wider range of compassionate exceptions but increased restrictions on abortion pills. This could have devastating impacts on women who are currently obtaining abortion pills for self-managed abortions. The …


Advancing Reproductive Equality Through Anti-Discrimination Law, Rebecca J. Cook Sep 2025

Advancing Reproductive Equality Through Anti-Discrimination Law, Rebecca J. Cook

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

This article explores various understandings of anti-discrimination law and how different national apex courts, regional human rights tribunals and international human rights treaty bodies have applied them in abortion decisions, particularly in the Global South. Recent jurisprudential and theoretical innovations in anti-discrimination law range from direct discriminatory treatment against individuals to indirect discrimination resulting in disparate impact on groups to systemic forms of discrimination that address underlying gender hierarchies and prejudicial constructions of women, girls and pregnant persons. Whatever form of anti-discrimination law is applied, they all have a role in improving access to essential abortion services and improving the …


Synthesis Theorization, Gauri Pillai Sep 2025

Synthesis Theorization, Gauri Pillai

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

Finding a space for reproductive rights within constitutions that are silent on them has been a perennial challenge. Most common responses fall into one of three categories. First, reading them into the right to privacy (or liberty). Second, and more recently, eschewing privacy and turning to the right to equality. And third, and most comprehensively, adding or combining privacy and equality. I argue that while rights addition avoids the need to choose between privacy and equality in framing reproductive rights, it falls short of capturing the intertwined lived reality of rights infringement. I source from within Indian constitutional law a …


Inter-American Reproductive Autonomy, Rosa Celorio Sep 2025

Inter-American Reproductive Autonomy, Rosa Celorio

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (“Inter-American Court” or “Court”) has become known for its prolific jurisprudence on women’s rights issues. Even though it took the Court decades to rule its first comprehensive women’s rights judgment in 2009 in González et al. (“Cotton Field”) v. Mexico, it has developed a remarkable body of case law emphasizing five areas in particular: (i) violence, due diligence, and access to justice; (ii) gender-based and intersectional discrimination; (iii) sexual and reproductive rights; (iv) economic, social, and cultural rights; and (v) women who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (“LGBTIQ+”). The Court’s …


Vol. 54, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver Journal Of International Law & Policy Sep 2025

Vol. 54, No. 1: Full Issue, Denver Journal Of International Law & Policy

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Vol. 28, No. 2: Masthead, Water Law Review Sep 2025

Vol. 28, No. 2: Masthead, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Arizona V. Navajo Nation: A Persistent Legacy Of Broken Promises, Holly Barrass Sep 2025

Arizona V. Navajo Nation: A Persistent Legacy Of Broken Promises, Holly Barrass

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Climate Change, Covid-19, Contracts, And The Colorado River Compact: Discharging The Upper Division's Delivery Of Non-Depletion Obligations Under Article Iii, Tim Duane Sep 2025

Climate Change, Covid-19, Contracts, And The Colorado River Compact: Discharging The Upper Division's Delivery Of Non-Depletion Obligations Under Article Iii, Tim Duane

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Vol. 28, No. 2: Full Issue, Water Law Review Sep 2025

Vol. 28, No. 2: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Uncertain Future: How Conditional Water Rights Have Created Unintended Consequences In Colorado, Andrew Teegarden Sep 2025

Uncertain Future: How Conditional Water Rights Have Created Unintended Consequences In Colorado, Andrew Teegarden

Water Law Review

Conditional water rights within Colorado can create uncertainty for other water users within the prior appropriation system. These issues stem from recent treatment of conditional rights as akin to a vested property right, rather than a placeholder pursuant to which an applicant hopes to be awarded a vested right. Conditional water rights provide a degree of water security for a specifically identified future use by authorizing an applicant to reserve a place in line within Colorado's priority system for a water right to apply to such use. However, to protect the integrity of the priority system, an applicant's right to …


Colorado, Mary Ekstrom Sep 2025

Colorado, Mary Ekstrom

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


California, Noah Weiser Sep 2025

California, Noah Weiser

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Arizona, Tess Foels Sep 2025

Arizona, Tess Foels

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Oregon, Marisa Wesker Sep 2025

Oregon, Marisa Wesker

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.


Introduction To The Djilp Special Issues On Human Rights And Reproductive Justice: International And Comparative Perspectives, Louise Seiler, Kelley Loper Sep 2025

Introduction To The Djilp Special Issues On Human Rights And Reproductive Justice: International And Comparative Perspectives, Louise Seiler, Kelley Loper

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Manjón, Llobet, And Barrios In Chile: Concerts And Reception In The Newspaper Record, Pablo Soto Hurtado Aug 2025

Manjón, Llobet, And Barrios In Chile: Concerts And Reception In The Newspaper Record, Pablo Soto Hurtado

Soundboard Scholar

Based on an investigation of newspaper articles, this article presents a first look at the activities of Antonio Jiménez Manjón, Miguel Llobet, and Agustín Barrios in Chile between 1893 and 1918. Manjón’s concerts were well received, clashing with some of the discourse in the local media, which considered the guitar vulgar and expressionless. Llobet introduced the Tárrega school in Chile in 1912, which is in itself a milestone in the study of Tárrega’s pedagogical philosophy in that country. Furthermore, his technique was praised and, like Manjón’s, led to the challenging of prejudices against the guitar. The case of Agustín Barrios, …


Paid To Play - The Canadian Hockey League Players Class Action Litigation, Kennith Wm. Thornicroft Aug 2025

Paid To Play - The Canadian Hockey League Players Class Action Litigation, Kennith Wm. Thornicroft

Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal

In 2014, the National Labor Relations Board’s Regional Director ruled that scholarship football players at Northwestern University were “employees”. Subsequently, in 2015, the full board, and without deciding the players’ status, declined to assert jurisdiction effectively ending the dispute. There are parallels between this dispute and lawsuits currently before the Canadian courts involving the Canadian Hockey League (“CHL”). The CHL is nominally an “amateur” league and is the principal development league for players hoping to pursue a career as a professional hockey player. The players claim they are “employees” under provincial employment standards statutes. The CHL maintains that the players …


The Tendency To See Propensity: How Admitting Defendant-Authored Rap Lyrics As Evidence Of Motive Or Intent Can Look Like Inadmissible Character Evidence, Joseph Noreña Aug 2025

The Tendency To See Propensity: How Admitting Defendant-Authored Rap Lyrics As Evidence Of Motive Or Intent Can Look Like Inadmissible Character Evidence, Joseph Noreña

Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal

Defendant-authored rap lyrics admitted as evidence present unique evidentiary issues. In particular, when such lyrics are admitted to prove the motive or intent of the defendant-author, the lyrics can look like character evidence and be unduly prejudicial. Nevertheless, sometimes those lyrics valuably provide specific admissions of the defendant-author’s motive or intent. As a balance, this article argues that courts should be careful to admit defendant-authored rap lyrics where they are only generally related to a defendant’s motive or intent because of the prejudice a jury might have when seeing or hearing defendant-authored rap lyrics.


Ventura V. Kyle And American Sniper: The Anatomy Of A Public Figure's Lawsuit, Mike Steenson Aug 2025

Ventura V. Kyle And American Sniper: The Anatomy Of A Public Figure's Lawsuit, Mike Steenson

Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal

Chris Kyle’s book, American Sniper, detailed his exploits as a prolific Navy SEAL sniper. In a book subchapter Kyle detailed an encounter with a “Mr. Scruff Face” in a San Diego Bar. The book states that Ventura made certain statements that were demeaning of the United States and the Navy SEALS.” Scruff Face was subsequently identified by Chris Kyle as Jesse Ventura, former governor of Minnesota. Ventura sued Chris Kyle for defamation, appropriation, and unjust enrichment. Relying on trial court documents, briefs, and the opinions in the case, this article probes those theories of recovery with an emphasis on the …


U.S. V. Gatto: An Old Case Provides A New Look At College Basketball's Latest Scandal, Andrew Janson, Grant Shibao Aug 2025

U.S. V. Gatto: An Old Case Provides A New Look At College Basketball's Latest Scandal, Andrew Janson, Grant Shibao

Denver Sports & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.