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John Brown Went Off To War: Considering Veterans’ Courts As Problem-Solving Courts, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2013

John Brown Went Off To War: Considering Veterans’ Courts As Problem-Solving Courts, Michael L. Perlin

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In this paper, I seek to contextualize veterans courts in light of the therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) movement, the turn to problem-solving courts of all sorts (especially focusing on mental health courts), and the societal ambivalence that we have shown to veterans in the four decades since the Vietnam war.

I argue that TJ’s focuses on how law actually impacts people’s lives, on the law’s influence on emotional life and psychological well-being and on the need for law to value psychological health and avoid the imposition of anti-therapeutic consequences whenever possible can serve as a template for a veterans courts model …


A Tale Of Three Hoaxes: When Literature Offends The Law, Molly Guptill Manning Jan 2013

A Tale Of Three Hoaxes: When Literature Offends The Law, Molly Guptill Manning

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The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely Jan 2013

The Future Of Gene Patents And The Implications For Medicine, Jacob S. Sherkow, Henry Greely

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The Supreme Court decision in Myriad Genetics struck down the patenting of human genomic DNA. What will this mean for genetic testing and medicine, more broadly?


Supreme Court Nixes Requirement For Anti-Prostitution Pledge, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2013

Supreme Court Nixes Requirement For Anti-Prostitution Pledge, Arthur S. Leonard

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High Court To Consider Global Aids Funding Restrictions, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 2013

High Court To Consider Global Aids Funding Restrictions, Arthur S. Leonard

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