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Collected Papers Vol. Iii, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

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Foreword For The Smu 2000 Annual Survey Of Texas Law, Rick Perry

SMU Law Review

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Appellate Practice And Procedure, Alan Wright, Ladawn H. Conway, Debra J. Mccomas, Heather D. Bailey

SMU Law Review

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Commercial Transactions, John Krahmer

SMU Law Review

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Environmental Law, Scott D. Deatherage, Matthew J. Knifton, Scott F. Wendorf

SMU Law Review

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Health Care Law, Thomas Wm. Mayo

SMU Law Review

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Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act, A. Michael Ferrill, Leslie Sara Hyman

SMU Law Review

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Interpretation And Standardization In Electronic Sales Contracts, Clayton P. Gillette

SMU Law Review

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Trash, Thermal Imagers, And The Fourth Amendment: The New Search And Seizure, Jennifer Murphy

SMU Law Review

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Duty, Sufficiency, And Underlying Rhythms In Law, Joseph Sanders

SMU Law Review

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Secured Transactions History: The Northern Struggle To Defeat The Judgment Lien In The Pre-Chattel Mortgage Act Era, George Lee Flint Jr

Faculty Articles

Nonpossessory secured transactions evolved as a competitor to collusive judgments as a means to protect creditors from the loss of their investments in colonial America. A collusive judgment involved the debtor recognizing his debt before the court, while the creditor held equitable title to the debtor’s personalty as collateral while the debtor retained possession. The 1677 Statute of Frauds destroyed the priority of the collusive judgment presenting opportunities for other parties to seek the debtor’s collateral. The chattel mortgage, predecessor of the secured transaction, developed from the standard shipping practices during colonial times. The shipping industries extended lines of credit …

The Virtues And Limits Of Codes In Legal Ethics, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

In the absence of codified standards of ethics, the ethical quality of law practice would degenerate into inconsistency and unpredictability. The presence of an ethics code can unduly burden and limit the practice of law. However, ethics codes should not be thought of as tools to ensure the law is practiced humanely. Instead, they should be viewed as attempts to ameliorate the impediments to a humane practice and to call lawyers to that goal.

Tom Schaffer, a scholar and professor of Ethics at Notre Dame, lamented the fact that the codification of standards of attorney conduct could induce lawyers to …

Interstate Establishment, Enforcement, And Modification Of Child Support Orders, Patricia W. Moore

Faculty Articles

Intended to improve the collection of child support across state lines, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act has now been in effect in all fifty states for approximately three years. This Article examines the history and operation of this statute and its companion federal statute, the Full Faith and Credit For Child Support Orders Act. Following UIFSA's structure, the Article details the provisions governing the establishment, enforcement, and modification of child support orders in the interstate context and explains which federally-promulgated forms to use in each situation. Analyzing the abundant case law already decided under these statutes, the article concludes …

Out-Lawing God The Daughter, Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

The traditionally forbidding visage of law mimics the constructed face of the “God of our Fathers.” The punitive ‘Father God’ and the harsh letter of the law are connected in both their errors and their promises for transformation. Both the ‘Father’ and ‘His Law’ primarily impose their wills through “authority” and “force.”

Jewish feminist theologian Judith Plaskow questions whether the law is a female form. Plaskow contrasts the law’s constrictions and abstraction with traditional femeie characteristics of openness and fluidity. Plaskow hopes to redeem her tradition through a God of relationship and love, affirming both law and a new feminine …

Arrests In Texas’S “Suspicious Places”: A Rule In Search Of Reason, Gerald S. Reamey

Faculty Articles

When article 14.03(a)(1) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure first appeared in Texas law, landmark decisions like Terry v. Ohio and Miranda v. Arizona were more than a century in the future. Nevertheless, a current exception to Texas's arrest warrant requirement can be traced directly to a virtually identical statute from those pre-Civil War days.

It is a small wonder that today's courts find this statute confusing; and confusion, whether advertent or inadvertent, invites result-oriented, illogical, or unpersuasive judicial decisions. Courts' attempts to make sense of article 14.03(a)(1) arguably have failed in each of these ways over the statute's …

Unemployment Compensation And Older Workers, Christopher J. O'Leary, Stephen A. Wandner

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Unemployment compensation in the United States is provided through a federal-state system of unemployment insurance (UI). UI provides temporary partial wage replacement to active job seekers who are involuntarily out of work. For older workers, UI is an important source of income security and a potential influence on work incentives. For many, the transition from full-time work in a career job to retirement is voluntary and orderly. For others, job displacement greatly disrupts plans. The transition often involves many intermediate steps. The chain of transitions may include full- or part-time work on another job which most often is not in …

Patient Satisfaction With Childbirth : A Comparison Study Between Primary Care Providers, Marilyn Ek

Theses and Dissertations

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Health Risk Factors And Health Promoting Behaviors Of Nurse Practitioners In North Dakota, Lori A. Park Brownshield

Theses and Dissertations

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Removal Of Zinc And Nickel By Cladophora Parriaudii, Charles K. Adou

Theses and Dissertations

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The Relationship Between Equality And Access In Law School Admissions, Angela M. Banks

Faculty Publications

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Spiritual Treatment Exemptions To Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think, James G. Dwyer

Faculty Publications

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Informed Consent For Neonatal Circumcision: An Ethical And Legal Conundrum, J. Steven Svoboda, Robert S. Van Howe, James G. Dwyer

Faculty Publications

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The Dark Side Of Efficiency: Johnson V. M'Intosh And The Expropriation Of Amerindian Lands, Eric Kades

Faculty Publications

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Correcting Deadly Confusion: Responding To Jury Inquiries In Capital Cases, Stephen P. Garvey, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Paul Marcus

Faculty Publications

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The Appointment Of General Yaron: Continuing Impunity For The Sabra And Shatilla Massacres, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

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A Populist Political Perspective Of The Business Tax Entities Universe: Hey The Stars Might Lie, But The Numbers Never Do, John W. Lee

Faculty Publications

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"Out Of Zion Shall Go Forth The Law", Nathan B. Oman

Faculty Publications

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Improved Resolution Backscatter Measurements With The Seawinds Pencil-Beam Scatterometer, David G. Long, Michael W. Spencer, Chialin T. Wu

Faculty Publications

The SeaWinds scatterometer was launched on the NASA QuikSCAT spacecraft in June 1999 and is planned for the Japanese ADEOS-II mission in 2000. In addition to generating a global Ku-band backscatter data set useful for a variety of climate studies, these flights will provide ocean-surface wind estimates for use in operational weather forecasting. SeaWinds employs a compact "pencil-beam" design rather than the "fan-beam" approach previously used with SASS on Seasat, NSCAT on ADEOS-I, and the AMI scatterometer on ERS-1, 2. As originally envisioned and reported, the resolution of the SeaWinds backscatter measurements were to be antenna-beamwidth limited. In order to …

The Eagle, The Turtle, The Shrimp, And The Wto: Implications For The Future Of Environmental Trade Measures, Jennifer A. Bernazani

Connecticut Journal of International Law

In addition to being a versatile ingredient, shrimp have become the main course in an international trade debate. The controversy over the pint-sized crustaceans stems from Section 609 of Public Law 101-162, a United States measure which utilizes a shrimp embargo as a means of obtaining compliance with a program to decrease incidental capture of endangered sea turtles. While the measure's ultimate objective of protecting turtles has been praised, its compliance mechanisms have drawn harsh criticism from those seeking to promote multilateral agreements and from foreign nations seeking to export to the United States. But perhaps the most crushing criticism …

The White Rose: Judges And Justice In The Third Reich, Matthew Lippman

Connecticut Journal of International Law

In recent years there has been an increased interest in the Holocaust.' One concern has been to explain the willingness of ordinary Germans2 and highly educated medical professionals' to conform to the draconian dictates of the Third Reich.4 This scholarly effort largely has ignored the complicity of lawyers and judges in the Nazi's depredations.5 The lack of academic concern may be based on the belief that the Reich was a "lawless" regime in which legal professionals performed a limited role. Most studies accordingly have centered on the extra-judicial and summary exterminations carried out by the Nazi government. 6 However, the …