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Unavailable And Unaccountable: A Free Ride For Foreign Manufacturers Of Defective Consumer Goods, Andrew F. Popper

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

In the last six months millions of foreign manufactured goods sold in the United States have been found to be defective, dangerous, and deadly. This requires consideration of both the jurisdictional issues involved in holding non-U.S. entities liable and an assessment of why these products made their way into the U.S. market. Part of the blames lies directly with so-called tort reform. Tort reform has suppressed vital market pressure and limited the corrective force of our civil justice system. With limited or no punitive damages, with no joint and several liability, with future litigation risk minimized, what else would one …

Clinical Legal Education And The Public Interest In Intellectual Property Law, Christine Haight Farley, Peter Jaszi, Victoria Phillips, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Ann Shalleck

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Clinical legal education provides a powerful methodology for students to learn about the relationships among intellectual property law theories, policies and practices; to encounter the experiences of persons who seek protection or who feel the legal regimes of intellectual property impinging on their ability to engage in educational, creative, innovative and culturally significant work; and to develop as lawyers. We describe in this article our motivations for forming an intellectual property law clinic at the American University Washington College of Law, the goals that we seek to achieve, and the tripartite pedagogical structure that we adopted - (1) a seminar …

Occasional Publications Of The Bounds Law Library, Number Six: A Journey In Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard And The Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society, David I. Durham, Paul M. Pruitt Jr.

Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library

Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library, Number Six contains essays from the editors and a collection of edited and introduced documents relating to Henry Washington Hilliard’s experience in Brazil. Hilliard was a former United States congressman from Alabama, as well as a diplomat, lawyer, professor, and author. He traveled to Brazil as an appointee of Rutherford Hayes’ administration to facilitate trade between the United States and Brazil. A Journey in Brazil: Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society explores the nature of one American’s experience in the late-nineteenth century as it relates to Brazilians’ attempt to eliminate …

Religion And American Politics: Three Views Of The Cathedral Section Ii: Other Works, Paul Horwitz

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Irrelevant Wasteland: An Exploration Of Why Red Lion Doesn't Matter (Much) In 2008, The Crucial Importance Of The Information Revolution, And The Continuing Relevance Of The Public Interest Standard In Regulating Access To Spectrum, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.

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Editorial-Transitional Justice Globalized, Ruti G. Teitel

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Interest in transitional justice has surged in legal scholarship, in the human rights field generally and most notably in the domain of politics. ‘Transitional justice’ is an expression I coined in 1991 at the time of the Soviet collapse and on the heels of the late 1980’s Latin American transitions to democracy. In proposing this terminology, my aim was to account for the self-conscious construction of a distinctive conception of justice associated with periods of radical political change following past oppressive rule. Today we see that an entire field of inquiry, analysis and practice has ensued that reflects scholarly interest; …

Lost In Translation: Some Brief Notes On Writing About Law For The Layperson, Brandt Goldstein

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See Erie: Critical Study Of Legal Authority, Kris Franklin

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Breaking The Logjam: Environmental Reform For The New Congress And Administration, Carol Cassaza Herman, David Schoenbrod, Richard Stewart, Katrina Wyman

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The Class Action Fairness Act In Perspective: The Old And The New In Federal Jurisdictional Reform, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA) was the product of an extended and well-organized political campaign. In Congress, its passage required a grinding eight-year effort, several modifications to the original proposal, numerous committee hearings, multiple reports by both Houses, political compromises that drew some Democratic support, two unsuccessful attempts to terminate debate in the Senate by imposing cloture, and strenuous efforts to amend in both the House and Senate when the bill came to the floor for a final vote. Passage also required Republican control of both Houses of Congress and the presidency as well.

Baby, Look Inside Your Mirror: The Legal Profession's Willful And Sanist Blindness To Lawyers With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin

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The legal profession has notoriously ignored the reality that a significant number of its members exhibit signs of serious mental illness (and become addicted or habituated to drugs or alcohol at levels that are statistically significantly elevated from levels of the public at large). This is no longer news. What has not been explored is why so much of the bar has remained willfully ignorant of these realities, and why it refuses to confront the depths of this problem.

The roots of this puzzle are found in the social attitude of sanism, an irrational prejudice of the same quality and …

The Road Not Considered: Revising New Jersey's Death Penalty Statute, Robert Blecker

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Constitutional Overview Of Post-9/11 Barriers To Free Speech And A Free Press, Nadine Strossen

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I Might Need A Good Lawyer, Could Be Your Funeral, My Trial: Global Clinical Legal Education And The Right To Counsel In Civil Commitment Cases, Michael L. Perlin

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The quality of counsel assigned to represent individuals facing involuntary civil commitment to psychiatric hospitals is, in most American jurisdictions, mediocre or worse. In many other nations, it is non-existent, or so minimal as to offer only the illusion of legal safeguards. (Perhaps) remarkably, there has been virtually no mention of this latter scandal in the legal literature. Also, there has been little attention paid to this development by the clinical education movement (domestically and globally).

A variety of interrelated factors, however, may shed some light on this scandal, and may, encouragingly, lead to social change in the future:

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Everybody Is Making Love/Or Else Expecting Rain: Considering The Sexual Autonomy Rights Of Persons Institutionalized Because Of Mental Disability In Forensic Hospitals And In Asia, Michael L. Perlin

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One of the most controversial policy questions in all of institutional mental disability law is the extent to which patients in psychiatric hospitals have a right to voluntary sexual interaction. The resolution of this matter involves the resolution of difficult and sensitive questions of law, social policy, clinical judgment, politics, religion, and family structures.

As difficult as these questions are in cases involving civil hospitals, the difficulties are exacerbated when the topic is the application of the right in forensic hospitals. Such facilities typically house individuals involved in the criminal justice system (either those who may be incompetent to stand …

Disney Examined; A Case Study In Corporate Governance And Ceo Succession, Lawrence Lederman

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Through The Wild Cathedral Evening: Barrier, Attitudes, Participatory Democracy, Professor Tenbroek, And The Rights Of Persons With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin

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This article is a commentary on Michael Ashley Stein & Janet Lord, Jacobus TenBroek, Participatory Justice, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, - Tex. J. Civ Lib. & Civ. Rts. - (2008) (in press). In it, I seek to expand their analysis of the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in an effort to invigorate an area of institutionalized patients rights law that is now nearly forgotten: the rights of such persons to exercise civil rights while institutionalized. I also argue that Prof. Stein and Ms. Lord's paper should lead us …

Simplify You, Classify You: Stigma, Stereotypes And Civil Rights In Disability Classification Systems, Michael L. Perlin

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In this paper I consider the question of the extent to which sanism and pretextuality - the factors that contaminate all of mental disability law - do or do not equally contaminate the special education process, and the decision to label certain children as learning disabled. The thesis of this paper is that the process of labeling of children with intellectual disabilities implicates at least five conflicts and clusters of policy issues:

* The need to insure that all children receive adequate education

* The need to insure that the cure is not worse than the illness (that is, that …

Innovation And Corporate Governance: The Impact Of Sarbanes-Oxley, Houman B. Shadab

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Through The Wild Cathedral Evening: Barriers, Attitudes, Participatory Democracy, Professor Tenbroek, And The Rights Of Persons With Mental Disabilities, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

This article is a commentary on Michael Ashley Stein & Janet Lord, Jacobus TenBroek, Participatory Justice, and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, - Tex. J. Civ Lib. & Civ. Rts. - (2008) (in press). In it, I seek to expand their analysis of the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons withDisabilities in an effort to invigorate an area of institutionalized patients rights law that is now nearly forgotten: the rights of such persons to exercise civil rights while institutionalized. I also argue that Prof. Stein and Ms. Lord's paper should lead us to …

Fending For Themselves: Creating A U.S. Hedge Fund Market For Retail Investors, Houman B. Shadab

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Foreword, Corporate Governance Five Years After Sarbanes-Oxley: Is There Real Change, Faith Stevelman

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Terrorism’S Toll On Civil Liberties, Nadine Strossen

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The Courts, Federalism And The Federal Constitution, 1920-2000, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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2008-08-29 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Correspondence, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Correspondence

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2008-10-29 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Correspondence, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Correspondence

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2008-09-12 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Correspondence, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Correspondence

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2008-10-03 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Correspondence, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Correspondence

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2008-12-05 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Correspondence, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Correspondence

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2008-11-06 No. 2 H. Thomas Wells, Jr. Aba Presidential Speech, H. Thomas Wells Jr., University Of Alabama School Of Law

H. Thomas Wells, Jr. ABA President (2008-2009) Collection Speeches

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