Digital Commons Network^™

From Out To In: The Opportunity And Need For Clinical Law Programs To Effectively Serve Low-Income Lgbt Individuals, Sarah Steadman

Faculty Scholarship

Although the recent legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. is heartening for lesbians and gays, the resulting discriminatory legislative backlash against the LGBT population shows that this community continues to be marginalized and at risk. Over two hundred anti-LGBT bills have been introduced in state legislatures since January 2016. North Carolina recently passed anti-LGBT legislation that eliminated and prohibits LGBT anti-discrimination protections, and bars transgender individuals from using gender congruent public bathrooms. One result of recent and historical discrimination is LGBT individual's newfound and pre-existing fears of encountering anti-LGBT bias when seeking legal services, even as recent developments have …

An Ngo Response To The Periodic Report Of The United States Of America To The Un Committee On The Rights Of The Child Concerning The Optional Protocol To The Convention On The Rights Of The Child On The Sale Of Children, Child Prostitution And Child Pornography, Katherine Kaufka Walts Jd, Maria Woltjen Jd, Kelly Albinak Kribs

Center for the Human Rights of Children

No abstract provided.

Uc Hastings (Spring 2016), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

No abstract provided.

Professional Integrity And Professional Regulation: Nonlawyer Practice And Nonlawyer Investment In Law Firms, Deborah L. Rhode

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges And Solutions, Morris A. Ratner

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Capturing The Insights: Commonalities And Differences, Naomi Roht-Arriaza

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Why Female Lawyers Get Less - Multiple Glass Ceiling For Japanese Female Lawyers, Kyoko Ishida

UC Law SF International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Worse Than Pirates Or Prussian Chancellors: A State's Authority To Opt-Out Of The Quid Pro Quo, Michael C. Duff

Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review

Privatization of public law dispute resolution in workplaces has been under intense scrutiny in the context of arbitration. Another kind of workplace dispute privatization is presently underway, or under serious consideration, in several states. In connection with state workers’ compensation statutes, one state has implemented, and others are considering, a dispute resolution model in which employers are explicitly authorized to “opt out” of coverage. “Alternative benefit plans,” created under such statutes, permit employers to, among other things, unilaterally and without limitation designate private fact-finders, whose conclusions are subject to highly deferential judicial review. This model is arbitration on steroids. While …

Statutory Review Of The Construction Contracts Act 2004 (Wa), Phillip Evans

The University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review

The Construction Contracts Act 2004 provides for security of payment in the construction industry through the use of rapid adjudication processes to determine payment disputes. It further prohibits or modifies certain “unfair” provisions in construction contracts and implies provisions in construction contracts about certain matters if there are no written provisions about these matters in the contract. In 2015 the Minster for Commerce commissioned a review of the Act to determine whether iy is meeting the needs of industry and whether amendment was required. This paper provides a background to the construction industry in Western Australia and the essential provisions …

Disrupting The Path From Childhood Trauma To Juvenile Justice: An Upstream Health And Justice Approach, Yael Cannon, Dr. Andrew Hsi

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Streamlining Justice: How Online Courts Can Resolve The Challenges Of Pro Se Litigation, Ayelet Sela

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Assessing Climate Change And Health Vulnerability At The Local Level: Travis County, Texas, Natasha Prudent, Adele Houghton, George Luber

United States Public Health Resources

We created a measure to help comprehend population vulnerability to potential flooding and excessive heat events using health, built environment and social factors. Through principal component analysis (PCA), we created non-weighted sum index scores of literature-reviewed social and built environment characteristics. We created baseline poor health measures using 1999–2005 ageadjusted cardiovascular and combined diabetes and hypertension mortality rates to correspond with social–built environment indices. We mapped US Census block groups by linked ageadjusted mortality and a PCA-created social–built environment index. The goal was to measure flooding and excessive heat event vulnerability as proxies for population vulnerability to climate change for …

Suffolk Alumni Magazine, Fall 2016, Suffolk University

Suffolk University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Evaluating International State Constitutionalism, Johanna Kalb

Washington Law Review Online

This Essay is part of the Symposium on State Constitutional Law in Honor of the late Washington State Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Utter that was held on October 23, 2015.

The Town Of Meredith, New Hampshire 2015 Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2015., Meredith Town Representatives

Meredith, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

"Sense Of Access To Justice" As A Framework For Civil Procedure Justice Reform: An Empirical Assessment Of Judicial Settlement Conferences In Quebec (Canada), Jean-François Roberge

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

An emerging worldwide civil procedure justice reform trend takes the user's point of view into account in order to promote access-tojustice and support for the rule of law. In the Canadian context, the Quebec civil law province has taken the lead to renew its legal culture towards a participatory justice, rooted in fair-minded processes that encourage the persons involved to play an active role. In an effort to monitor such ambitions, carried by the civil procedure code reforms of 2003 and 2014, our paper offers an empirical evaluation through the lens of litigant's "Sense of Access to Justice" ("SA"). We …

The Pragmatic Limits Of Access To Justice, Hart Schwartz, Anthony Robert Sangiuliano

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

The Supreme Court of Canada’s Charter jurisprudence often resembles a seesaw. The Court will tilt toward a robust approach that favours individual rights and freedoms only to adjust a short time later when the broader social or economic costs of its expansive jurisprudence become evident. Expansion is followed by contraction. Whether this pattern is best described in terms of “trimming its sails”, taking corrective measures, or simply clarifying doctrinal scope, the Court has teetered to one side and tottered back again on a number of occasions.

The concept of “access to justice” is one example. In 2014 it had been …

The Alleged Victim's Right To Mandamus In Military Courts-Martial, Leila Mullican

Criminal Law Practitioner

No abstract provided.

Concerning Implementation Of Recommendations Of The Committee On Legal Services In Connection With Legislative Review Of Rules And Regulations Of State Agencies., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Addressing Intimate Partner Violence And Power In Relationships In Hiv Testing Services: Results Of An Intervention Piloted In Nairobi, Kenya, Nicole Haberland, Charity Ndwiga, Katharine Mccarthy, Margaret Makanyengo, Rose Kosgei, Cecilia Choi, Julie Pulerwitz, Sam Kalibala

HIV and AIDS

The overarching goal of this study was to pilot an approach to HIV testing services (HTS) that addresses intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual relationship power (SRP) inequalities, and explores the intervention’s potential for improving uptake and retention of antiretroviral therapy and prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. The project was implemented in Kenyatta National Hospital’s (KNH) antenatal care (ANC) clinic, and examined intermediate indicators of effect, as well as operational issues around incorporating attention to IPV in hospital procedures, especially in high-volume, high-need settings like KNH’s. The findings from this study suggest that providing some minimal IPV/SRP counseling to all …

Concerning A Prohibition Against Nonattorneys Providing Legal Services Related To Immigration Matters., Colorado General Assembly

Session Laws 2001-Present

No abstract provided.

Lessons And Liabilities In Litigating Solitary Confinement Symposium Essays, Keramet Reiter

Connecticut Law Review

This Essay reviews the recent deluge of legal attention solitary confinement has received in the United States, focusing in particular on three legal cases: Davis v. Ayala (a U.S. Supreme Court case), Coleman v. Taylor (a case filed and recently dismissed in a federal district court in Illinois), and Ashker v. Brown (a settled case filed in a federal district court in California). A close analysis of the reasoning in each of these cases provides a framework for examining the changing landscape of prison reform litigation in what many are heralding as a new era of reform. Together, these cases …

A Solution In Search Of A Problem: Kelo Reform Over Ten Years Commentary Essays, Wendell E. Pritchett

Connecticut Law Review

Kelo is NOT Dred Scott. Kelo is not only NOT Dred Scott, it was, as this Essay will argue, the right decision given the facts of the cases and the current state of legal jurisprudence. As an academic who has detailed the historic exploitation of eminent domain to uproot persons of color in this country, I find it interesting, and somewhat troubling, that the case has received so much criticism, much more criticism, I would argue, than other Supreme Court decisions that deserve condemnation. Certainly, eminent domain, like any other government power, must be regulated carefully. But upending the principles …

Upsteam Advocacy: Addressing Cancer Survivors' Employment Problems Through Medical-Legal Partnerships, Barbara Hoffman

Washington Law Review Online

This is a response to Ann C. Hodges, Working with Cancer: How the Law Can Help Survivors Maintain Employment, 90 Wash L. Rev. 1039.

¿Donde Esta La Biblioteca? It’S A Damn Same: Outdated, Inadequate, And Nonexistent Law Libraries In Immigrant Detention Facilities, Sarah Dunaway

Borgeson Paper Archive

No abstract provided.

Town Of Brentwood Annual And School District Reports For The Year Ending December 31, 2015., Brentwood Town Representatives

Brentwood, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report 2015 Deering, New Hampshire., Deering Town Representatives

Deering, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Family Law- Letting Go And Stopping The Continuous Cycle Of Litigation: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial And Limited Non-Binding Parent Coordinator Authority In Custody Cases Of Minor Children - Bower V. Bournay-Bower 15 N.E.3d 745 (Mass. 2014), Kimberly T. Aquino

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

The Battle Against Geo-Blocking: The Consumer Strikes Back, Sabrina Earle

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

The first part of this article will focus on the background of copyright law and its expansion in the digital age. The development of copyright law in the United States will be discussed along with a focus on current case law that has applied copyright law to the Internet and advancing technologies. Part I will also look into the expansion of copyright protection to an international level, including the creation of WIPO and the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Finally, Part I will discuss the popular trend of how consumers use the Internet to access digital copyrightable material. The second part of …

Annual Report, State Fiscal Year July 2015 - June 2016, Tennessee. Department Of Children's Services

Annual Reports

This annual report records the progress made by the Department of Children's Services during the fiscal year.