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The Law Of Unintended Results: The Independent Counsel Law, Warren B. Rudman

Maine Law Review

The Seventh Annual Frank M. Coffin Lecture on Law and Public Service was held on October 1, 1998. Warren B. Rudman, former United States Senator from New Hampshire, presented "The Law of Unintended Results: The Independent Counsel Law."

Centering Women In Prisoners' Rights Litigation, Amber Baylor

Faculty Scholarship

This Article consciously employs both a dignity rights-based framing and methodology. Dignity rights are those rights that are based on the Kantian assertion of “inalienable human worth." This framework for defining rights spans across a number of disciplines, including medicine and human rights law.30 Disciplinary sanctions like solitary confinement or forced medication might be described as anathema to human dignity because of their degrading effect on an individual’s emotional and social well-being.

This Article relies on first-person oral histories where possible. Bioethics scholar Claire Hooker argues that including narratives in work on dignity rights “is both a moral and an …

Teaching Bioethics: The Role Of Empathy & Humility In The Teaching And Practice Of Law, Barbara A. Noah

Faculty Scholarship

This essay considers the role of empathy and humility in the professional practices of physicians and lawyers and in those who prepare students for these professions. Beginning with an overview of the goals and methods of legal education, it compares similar goals in medical education and the value of practicing law (and medicine) with empathy and humility. The essay then describes exercises used in the law school classroom designed both to teach law students about end-of-life law and also to allow them to practice counseling clients. Through these exercises, law students can experience firsthand the challenges of advising a client …

Women Of Color And Health: Issues And Solutions, June Cross, Nia Weeks, Kristen Underhill, Chloe Bootstaylor

Faculty Scholarship

Chloe Bootstaylor: Welcome to our second panel. This panel focuses on women of color in health, issues, and solutions. The session is inspired by Professor June Cross of the Columbia School of Journalism and her recent film, Wilhemina’s War, which follows the story of Wilhemina Dixon and depicts the obstacles that Americans with HIV/AIDS face in accessing not only adequate healthcare but also financial, infrastructural, and social support in their communities.

This panel will consist of Professor Underhill and Nia Weeks. June Cross will join us a little later on. We will start with a clip from her film, …

Caring For Humanity: Non-Profit Elderly Law, Sierra Samp

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This Capstone was an internship that focused on care in Humanity at Legal Services for Seniors. There is a journal that includes the observations of care in the law office. I focus on how attorneys care for each clients humanness while they are working on their cases. Attorneys may be doing work that can be quite intimidating, but the care they give is quite extraordinary.

The Lawyer: Fall 2017, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•Between Two Deans
•Educating Tech-Savvy Lawyers
•Working in the Iconic Northwest

Reflections On Tom Regan And The Animal Rights Movement That Once Was, Gary L. Francione

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

The Future Of The Practice Of Law: Can Alternative Business Structures For The Legal Profession Improve Access To Legal Services?, James M. Mccauley

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Telling A Story, Changing The World: California Rural Legal Assistance, Jonathan J. Chavez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This capstone project attempts to provide an in-depth view of how stories influence change in our lives as well as in the field of law.

The Power Of Narrative In The Legal Profession, Christian Wick

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

A look into how narrative can be a valuable tool within the legal world. Uses first hand experience from participation in a legal internship to show readers the correlations between narrative and memory, empathy, and persuasion.

Lawyer: Spring 2017, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•Fighting Slurs at SCOTUS: The Korematsu Center works to oppose federal registration of disparaging trademarks in a case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
•Safeguarding Democracy Under Trump: Law school faculty offer their thoughts on how lawyers can protect the rule of law under President Donald Trump.
•To Serve With Honor: Law school alumni are working to serve veterans with legal needs and advocate on their behalf in Olympia.
•Clinic Aims To Protect Workers' Rights: A new clinic allows students to help workers fight wage theft and discrimination.

Evicted: The Socio-Legal Case For The Right To Housing, Lisa T. Alexander

Faculty Scholarship

Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a triumphant work that provides the missing socio-legal data needed to prove why America should recognize housing as a human right. Desmond's masterful study of the effect of evictions on Milwaukee's urban poor in the wake of the 2008 U.S. housing crisis humanizes the evicted, and their landlords, through rich and detailed ethnographies. His intimate portrayals teach Evicted's readers about the agonizingly difficult choices that low-income, unsubsidized tenants must make in the private rental market. Evicted also reveals the contradictions between "law on the books" and "law-in-action." Its most …

Weak Law V Strong Ties: An Empirical Study Of Business Investment, Law And Political Connections In China, Wei Zhang, Ji Li

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Based on a large-scale survey of Chinese entrepreneurs, our study explores how institutions (formal and informal) influence investment decisions made by private companies. The study finds that, consistent with the conventional view, a more effective legal system is correlated with short-term general investment, and that the judiciary is important mainly because of its restraint over the state. The role of effective courts, however, diminishes when private entrepreneurs consider making long-term investment. We find a positive association between the entrepreneurs’ political backgrounds and their R&D investment, suggesting that Chinese courts, in spite of decades of reform, are not yet viewed as …

Prospective Student Information Booklet (2016-17), Florida State Univeristy College Of Law

Prospective Student Information Booklets

Booklet containing curriculum and course information for future law students.

Inside Professionalism: How In-House Counsel Can Give Practical Effect To The Ethical Responsibility To Society At Large When Reviewing Items For Form And Legal Sufficiency In A Manner That Supports The Integrity Of The Representative Form Of Governance Of Public Corporations And Local Governments, R A. Cuevas, Jr.

St. Thomas Law Review

Messrs. Heineman, Jr., Lee, and Wilkins of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School have written on the need for lawyers to recognize that, as professionals and citizens, they owe ethical responsibilities to the rule of law, society at large, and the clients and institutions they represent. This Essay identifies a situation where a routine task performed by lawyers in the legal departments of public corporations and local governments can implicate this ethical responsibility owed to society at large. The lawyers' task is the review of documents and other items relating to their clients' operations for form …

Freeing The Law, Khelani Clay

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.

Tsai Today (2017), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law, Tsai Center For Law, Science And Innovation

Tsai Today

No abstract provided.

Crime Shouldn't Pay: How California Should Expand And Restructure Its Human Trafficking Asset Forfeiture Laws, Benjamin T. Greer

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Section I of this article will provide updated statistical data on human trafficking in California, demonstrating increased consciousness, heightened awareness and the ongoing search for effective tools. Sections II and III will highlight the important psychological and practical economic impact asset forfeiture laws have on crime. These sections will also provide a comprehensive review how forfeiture is currently implemented in the fight against human trafficking. Sections IV and V will argue why human trafficking crimes must be subjected to California's civil asset forfeiture laws: how civil forfeiture reduces both the supply-side and demand-side of trafficked victims. It will also provide …

Classified Websites, Sex Trafficking, And The Law: Problem And Proposal, Marianne Lourdes Asencion

Intercultural Human Rights Law Review

Since the beginning of the 1600s, slavery was a known issue in the United States (U.S.). Although slavery was abolished in 1863 as a result of the Civil War, slavery persists in the present day. Modem day slavery is human trafficking. Although there is a misconception that human trafficking is only an international issue, victims need not cross international borders to be trafficked. Even though trafficking suggests movement or travel, there is no requirement that victims must be transported in order for trafficking to take place. Annually, approximately 700,000 victims are trafficked within U.S. borders. In the U.S. alone, there …

The Future Of Law As A Profession, Nancy J. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

For far too many years, lawyers and commentators have debated whether law is a profession or merely a business. The so-called business-profession dichotomy is somewhat of a misnomer. For many, maybe most lawyers, law is clearly a business in the sense that these lawyers seek to maximize their individual wealth as much (or as little) as other business persons. More importantly perhaps, lawyers in private practice widely acknowledge that adopting improved business practices is critical to providing competent legal services. The question remains however, whether, unlike some other commercial occupations, law is also a profession and if so, what is …

Law School News Guiding Startups Through Legal Pickles: Law Students Launch Artisan Pickler And Other Businesses To Success 11/09/2016, Jill Rodriques

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Lawyer: Fall 2016, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•A Capital Idea: The law school launches a Semester in Olympia Program for students interested in government and public policy.
•Civil Rights on Trial: Student Katie Loberstein '16 takes a prisoner's civil rights case to the Ninth Circuit... and wins.
•From Counsel to Candidate: Elected office allows alumni to put their problem-solving skills to work for their communities.
•Homelessness Myths: Law students use research and data to fight common myths about people experiencing homelessness.

Video: Unbundled Legal Representation In Family Law: Ethically Managing The Challenges, Hilary A. Creary Esq., Sheena Benjamin-Wise Esq.

NSU Law Seminar Series

• Understand a lawyer's duty under Fla. Fam. L.R.P. 12.040 "limited appearance"
• Learn how to manage clients when delivering unbundled legal services in a limited representation matter
• How to handle limited representation in various contexts: mediation, domestic violence, and court hearings
• Avoiding ethical violations

Shepard Broad College Of Law Commencement Ceremony, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Law, Universities, And The Challenge Of Moving A Graveyard, Wendy Collins Perdue

University of Richmond Law Review

Review:

Rethinking the Law School: Education, Research, Outreach and Governance

By Carol Stolker. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 454 pp. $125.00

Lawyer: Spring 2016, Seattle University School Of Law

Lawyer

•Korematsu's Living Legacy: $1 million gift allows Korematsu Center to carry on the civil rights work of its namesake
•Advanced Law Degrees: LLM and MLS degrees starting this fall
•Bringing Law School to Alaska: Students are attending a year of law school in Alaska
•There's an App for That: Lawyers and law students teamed up with developers to solve problems of access to legal services

Newsroom: Reeves Urges: 'Be Citizen Soldiers', Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Work: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Automation And Androids, David R. Barnhizer

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The analysis offered here is not a Neo-Luddite rage against “the machine.” As with the oft-stated reproach about paranoia, there sometimes really are situations in which people are “out to get you.” In our current situation the threat is not from people but from the convergence of a set of technological innovations that are and will increasingly have an enormous impact on the nature of work, economic and social inequality and the existence of the middle classes that are so vital to the durability of Western democracy. The fact is that developed nations’ economies such as found in Western Europe …

Fresh Approaches To Teaching Transactional Drafting, Joan Macleod Heminway, Richard K. Neumann Jr., Katherine M. Koops

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Veterans Treatment Courts: Pure Pretextualism Or A Venue For Veterans' Needs?, John William Erickson Jr.

School of Criminal Justice Theses and Dissertations

The intended goals of Veterans Treatment Courts (VTCs) are consistent with what drove the establishment of Drug Courts and Mental Health Courts in the ‘90s. That is, a recognition that the traditional criminal justice system is geared toward punitive court dispositions; not the unique characteristics of addicts and/or mental health defendants (G. Lerner-Wren, personal communication, January 12, 2015). For example, In Dade County, Florida, a former U.S. Attorney, then the Dade County State Attorney, recognized that reform was necessary to avoid the criminalization of drug addiction; given the high prevalence of cocaine abuse. Today, U.S. Military Veterans returning from Iraq …