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Can Law Students Disrupt The Market For High-Priced Textbooks?, Jane K. Winn

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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance legal education through technological innovation and collaboration. With its eLangdell Press project, CALI publishes American law school textbooks in open access, royalty-free form, offering faculty authors compensation equivalent to what most law school textbook authors would earn in royalties from a traditional full-price publisher.

I am writing a new sales textbook and “agreements supplement” based on contemporary business practice that I will publish in open access form with CALI’s eLangdell Press. Relatively few other American legal academics publish in open access form, however, suggesting …

Reforming Copyright Interpretation, Zahr K. Said

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This Article describes two dimensions of largely unacknowledged and unconstrained realms of interpretive complexity that judges face. First, judges make decisions about sources of interpretive authority somewhere on an axis, one end of which would vest interpretive authority entirely in the text and the other entirely in the context, around or beyond the text. This Article terms this spectrum of judicial decision-making the Text/Context axis. Second, judges must decide what interpretive mode to use in approaching the text, and here they make decisions somewhere along an axis where one end represents analysis or exegesis of the works and the other …

Creators, Innovators, And Appropriation Mechanisms, Sean M. O'Connor

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Now that Congress’s House Judiciary Committee has undertaken a review of current copyright law, and the Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, has called for the “Next Great Copyright Act,” sides are being drawn by various interest groups. Perhaps following the pitting of information technology firms against bio-chem and pharma firms in the patent reform battles leading to the America Invents Act, some interest groups want to divide the copyright reform debates into “innovators” and “creators.” Much of this seems driven by large tech firms such as Google, along with advocacy groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) who are …

The Overlooked French Influence On The Intellectual Property Clause, Sean M. O'Connor

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The Intellectual Property Clause (“IP Clause”) of the US Constitution has long been a puzzle for courts and commentators. It authorizes Congress to secure exclusive property rights for authors and inventors, but it does not use the terms “patent” or “copyright,” and its objects of “Science” and “useful Arts” do not cleanly map onto the subject matter of current patent and copyright systems.

As the Supreme Court has noted, under popular usage of the terms “arts” and “science,” one would expect patents to promote science and copyrights to promote arts, yet we know from the historical record that exactly the …

Frenemies Of The Court: The Many Faces Of Amicus Curiae, Helen A. Anderson

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Ask any lawyer what an "amicus curiae" is, and you will be told that the term means "friend of the court." The term has positive, even warm, connotations. Amicus briefs provide additional information or perspectives to assist courts in deciding issues of public importance. Interest groups, law professors, and politically engaged lawyers are happy to participate in important cases through such briefs. Amicus curiae participation is defended as democratic input into what is otherwise not a democratic branch of government.

Yet, amici curiae—nonparties who are nevertheless advocates, who are not bound by rules of standing and justiciability, or even rules …

The Eva Jessye Choir And Resident String Quartet, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

Eva Jessye was the conducted the Eva Jessye Choir during a joint performance with Pittsburg State University's Resident String Quartet, Paul Carlson, Violin; James T. Poulous, Violin; Mary Elliot James, Viola; and CarolAnn Martin, Cello. Gene DeGruson served as commentator.

The Eva Jessye Artist Choir Performance, N.D., Portland Business And Professional Women's Club

Eva Jessye Programs

The Portland Business and Professional Women's Club presented Eva Jessye and her Artist Choir who performed The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg and a program of songs. Conducted by Eva Jessye

Palms Of Victory, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

Draft of a 2 page program for the Palms of Victory with hand written notes in red pencil. No date, expect for "March 30" written in pencil. Eva Jessye was the conductor for the Maryland State Heritage Choir in this performance with Edward Hutchinson as the accompanist and Dr. Elizabeth S. Bell and Rev. A. Addison Cash as narrators.

A New Year's Gift, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

A New Year's Gift from the Sumter Public Library. A program featuring "The Book of Life" and "The Old Ship of Zion" performed by the Santee River Singers and the Children's Choir, directed by Eva Jessye.

Western Star: A Panorama Of American Music, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

4 page program for Western Star, suggested by the works of Stephen Vincent Benét, directed by Eva Jessye.

What A Country, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

1 page program for What a Country, a bicentennial salute sponsored by Project Pride and conceived and directed by Eva Jessye. Possibly a draft of the program for what would become Western Star, the Bicentennial Tribute.

Western Star, Bicentennial Tribute, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

1 page program for the Bicentennial Tribute production of Western Star, suggested by the works of Stephen Vincent Benét and conceived and directed by Eva Jessye

Title Page, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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Chronicle Of Job, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

Document for the Chronicle of Job (premiere), libretto and vocal music by Eva Jessye, piano score by Reginald Beane. It appears to be a brief description of the hour and a half long show and what is required for it--staging, costumes, number of performers, and sound effects.

Negro Music Of Three Centuries, N.D., Eva Jessye

Eva Jessye Programs

1 page program. Eva Jessye conducted the Dixie Jubilee Singers in this performance which included four of her songs. "Song of Farewell," "His Troubles was Hard," "Who is Dat Yondah?" and "Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho."

Masthead, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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Joint Dedication To Justice John K. Konenkamp & Professor Jo Pasqualucci, David Gilbertson, Steven Zinter, Robert A. Miller, Janine M. Kern, Barry R. Vickrey, Chris Hutton, Michael Snyder, Frank Pommersheim

South Dakota Law Review

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Where There's A Will There's A Way: An Examination Of In Re Estate Of Kesling And The South Dakota Supreme Court's Application Of The Plain Meaning Rule, Jarell A. Dillman

South Dakota Law Review

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The Cohabitation Aggravation: Third-Party Consent And The Fourth Amendment Following Fernandez V. California, Alexis A. Yackley

South Dakota Law Review

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Testamentary Incapacity, Undue Influence, And Insane Delusions, Thomas E. Simmons

South Dakota Law Review

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University And Law School Personnel, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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Masthead, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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Presumed Drunk Until Proven Sober: The Dangers And Implications Of Anonymous Tips Following Navarette V. California, Christopher D. Sommers

South Dakota Law Review

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Introduction, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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The Federal Courts And Marriage Equality: Who Decides, Susan Gluck Mezey

South Dakota Law Review

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Masthead, South Dakota Law Review

South Dakota Law Review

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United States V. Windsor And Interstate Marriage Recognition, Mark Strasser

South Dakota Law Review

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Du05, Center For Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Michael D. Harris, Phd, Kevin Shelburne, Phd

Natural Knee Data

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Du04, Center For Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Michael D. Harris, Phd, Kevin Shelburne, Phd

Natural Knee Data

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Du03, Center For Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Michael D. Harris, Phd, Kevin Shelburne, Phd

Natural Knee Data

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