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"Stunt Journalism," Professional Norms, And Public Mistrust Of The Media, David A. Logan Jan 1998

"Stunt Journalism," Professional Norms, And Public Mistrust Of The Media, David A. Logan

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Responsibility In The Media, Hugh Stevens Jan 1998

Responsibility In The Media, Hugh Stevens

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Journalism, Rational Subjectivity, And Democracy, Elliot D. Cohen Jan 1998

Journalism, Rational Subjectivity, And Democracy, Elliot D. Cohen

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Freedom Of The Press: An Inalienable Right Or A Privilege To Be Earned?, Jane E. Kirtley Jan 1998

Freedom Of The Press: An Inalienable Right Or A Privilege To Be Earned?, Jane E. Kirtley

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Governmental Immunity And Taxation In Florida, David M. Hudson Jan 1998

Governmental Immunity And Taxation In Florida, David M. Hudson

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Marriage And Divorce: Degrees Of "I Do," And Analysis Of The Every-Changing Paradigm Of Divorce, Nicole D. Lindsey Jan 1998

Marriage And Divorce: Degrees Of "I Do," And Analysis Of The Every-Changing Paradigm Of Divorce, Nicole D. Lindsey

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Reno V. Aclu: Establishing A First Amendment Level Of Protection For The Internet, Rebecca Jakubcin Jan 1998

Reno V. Aclu: Establishing A First Amendment Level Of Protection For The Internet, Rebecca Jakubcin

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


The Creation Of A Cause Of Action For Negligent Stillbirth, Tanner V. Hartog, 696 So. 2d 705 (Fla. 1997)), Shelly Kohler Jan 1998

The Creation Of A Cause Of Action For Negligent Stillbirth, Tanner V. Hartog, 696 So. 2d 705 (Fla. 1997)), Shelly Kohler

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Killing Kids Who Kill: Desecrating The Sanctuary Of Childhood Symposium: Thoughts On Death Penalty Issues 25 Years After Furman V. Georgia., Richard Burr, Mandy Welch Jan 1998

Killing Kids Who Kill: Desecrating The Sanctuary Of Childhood Symposium: Thoughts On Death Penalty Issues 25 Years After Furman V. Georgia., Richard Burr, Mandy Welch

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.


Juries Under Siege., Phil Hardberger Jan 1998

Juries Under Siege., Phil Hardberger

St. Mary's Law Journal

Beginning in the late 1980s, the Texas Supreme Court saw a slew of conservative judges elected to the bench. With this new Court, previous expansions of the law were stopped. Jury verdicts became highly suspect and were frequently overturned for a variety of reasons. Damages too did not go unnoticed. Juries’ assessments were wiped out by increasingly harsher standards. The ripple effect of the Court’s conservative philosophy on the judicial process was substantial. Jury verdicts, few as they may be, are not subject to harsh scrutiny by conscientious appellate judges sworn to follow the Texas Supreme Court’s precedent. And the …


Dangers Of Monetary Commensurability: A Psychological Game Model Of Contagion, Peter H. Huang Jan 1998

Dangers Of Monetary Commensurability: A Psychological Game Model Of Contagion, Peter H. Huang

Publications

No abstract provided.


Dangerous Crossing: State Brownfields Recycling And Federal Enterprise Zoning, Michael Allan Wolf Jan 1998

Dangerous Crossing: State Brownfields Recycling And Federal Enterprise Zoning, Michael Allan Wolf

Law Faculty Publications

Urban policymakers over the past two decades have engineered a curious and potentially dangerous intersection of late 20th Century policies designed to foster the rebirth of America's distressed urban regions. First, we find widespread enthusiasm about the potential for reusing brownfields 1 (typically contaminated urban sites), which has stimulated an impressive range of initiatives at all levels of government. 2 Second, after more than a decade of sitting on the sidelines and watching the states battle over the ideal range of incentives that will most effectively drive inner-city redevelopment, the federal government finally entered the fray in the 1990s with …


Standing On The Corner--Trying To Find Our Way, W. H. Knight Jan 1998

Standing On The Corner--Trying To Find Our Way, W. H. Knight

Faculty Articles

In this article, the author outlines academic presentations that have evoked in him a particularly emotional response. The effectiveness and importance of these presentations is judged by their groundedness, as they deal with the topic of law intersecting with the everyday lives of ordinary people. Generally, the author draws attention to a theme of social justice in academia.


Guide To Law And Literature For Teachers, Students, And Researchers, Paul J. Heald Jan 1998

Guide To Law And Literature For Teachers, Students, And Researchers, Paul J. Heald

Scholarly Works

Companion text to Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse


Deconstructing Homo[Genous] Americanus: The White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative And Its Exclusionary Effect, Sylvia R. Lazos Jan 1998

Deconstructing Homo[Genous] Americanus: The White Ethnic Immigrant Narrative And Its Exclusionary Effect, Sylvia R. Lazos

Scholarly Works

This Article examines why the assumption of sameness is so pervasive in our society, and why the very idea of diversity is so resisted. The assumption and the corollary mandate to be the same are embedded in American cultural ideology, in how Americans think of themselves, in the stories that we tell regarding who we are and where we come from, in how we construct our values and norms, and in how Americans make sense of our chaotic social world. The assumption and mandate of sameness not only influence American culture, they also guide judges' thinking and decision-making in key …


Immanence And Identity: Understanding Poverty Through Law And Society Research, Frank W. Munger Jan 1998

Immanence And Identity: Understanding Poverty Through Law And Society Research, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.


Sexual Dis-Orientation: Transgendered People And Same-Sex Marriage, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1998

Sexual Dis-Orientation: Transgendered People And Same-Sex Marriage, Mary I. Coombs

Articles

In this Article, Professor Coombs argues that the debate about same-sex marriage has wrongfully ignored transgendered people and their relationships. She provides an overview of arguments made by opponents of same-sex marriage, such as tradition, procreation, child-rearing, and family values. She then examines cases involving transsexual marriages and uses this analysis to deconstruct the same-sex marriage debate. Professor Coombs argues that an honest consideration of transgendered people and their relationships forces a re-evaluation of arguments against same-sex marriage and disrupts the gendered patriarchy on which traditional marriage rests. Marriage should be seen as a relationship between two people, regardless of …


Establishing Deliberative Democracy: Moving From Misery To Poverty With Dignity, Irwin P. Stotzky Jan 1998

Establishing Deliberative Democracy: Moving From Misery To Poverty With Dignity, Irwin P. Stotzky

Articles

No abstract provided.


Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race And Class In Coalitional Theory: A Critical And Self-Critical Analysis Of Latcrit Social Justice Agendas, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Francisco Valdes Jan 1998

Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race And Class In Coalitional Theory: A Critical And Self-Critical Analysis Of Latcrit Social Justice Agendas, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Francisco Valdes

Articles

No abstract provided.


Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1998

Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

No abstract provided.


Toward Humanistic Theories Of Legal Justice, Robin West Jan 1998

Toward Humanistic Theories Of Legal Justice, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In an oft-quoted aside, Justice Holmes once remarked that when lawyers in his courtroom make appeal to justice, he stops listening: such appeals do nothing but signal that the lawyer has neither the facts nor law on his side, or worse, that he is ignorant of whatever law might be relevant.' Holmes's remark has not gone unheeded. Holmes's legacy, in part, is precisely this lapse: we don't have, or teach, a guiding theory of legal justice, nor do we have, or teach, a family of competing theories of legal justice, that might inform our work in law, at least as …


Three Positivisms, Robin West Jan 1998

Three Positivisms, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this article, I accept and hope to expand upon the conventional consensus view that The Path of the Law is a brief for an Americanized version of Austinian legal positivism and for the "separation" of law and morality that is at its core. I also want to show, however, that the distinctive accomplishment of this Essay is its literary ambiguity: Both its explicit arguments for the positivist separation of law and morality, and the three enduring metaphors Holmes uses to make the case -- (1) the "bad man" from whose perspective we can clearly view the law; (2) the …


The Joke In Critical Race Theory: De Gustibus Disputandum Est?, Dan Subotnik Jan 1998

The Joke In Critical Race Theory: De Gustibus Disputandum Est?, Dan Subotnik

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


What’S Wrong With Critical Race Theory?: Reopening The Case For Middle Class Values, Dan Subotnik Jan 1998

What’S Wrong With Critical Race Theory?: Reopening The Case For Middle Class Values, Dan Subotnik

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Regarding Rights: An Essay Honoring The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Introduction: Locating Culture, Identity, And Human Rights Symposium In Celebration Of The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Tracy E. Higgins Jan 1998

Regarding Rights: An Essay Honoring The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Introduction: Locating Culture, Identity, And Human Rights Symposium In Celebration Of The Fiftieth Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Tracy E. Higgins

Faculty Scholarship

The half-century since the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights' has been famously heralded as the "Age of Rights" and the concept of human rights described as "the only political-moral idea that has gained universal acceptance." During the same period, however, both terms defining the subject-human and rights-have become increasingly contested. Informed by the emergence of identity-based political movements, critics have attacked the category human has as bearing the baggage of Western Enlightenment assumptions about personhood and community, inherently racist, sexist, and classist. Theorists across the political spectrum have criticized the concept of rights as indeterminate, destructive of …


Learning From The Unpleasant Truths Of Interfaith Conversations: William Stringfellow's Lessons For The Jewish Lawyer, Russell G. Pearce Jan 1998

Learning From The Unpleasant Truths Of Interfaith Conversations: William Stringfellow's Lessons For The Jewish Lawyer, Russell G. Pearce

Faculty Scholarship

As the religious lawyering movement expands, so too will the opportunities for interfaith conversations about lawyering. At the level of superficial pleasantries, these conversations will probably add warm feelings of camraderie but little else. When they advance to deeper levels of intellectual and emotional connection, they offer the potential for developing close friendships, learning significant new insights, and discovering hurtful differences. Only by risking the pain of such conversations can we gain the full benefit of interfaith conversation for enriching our "zest for spiritual living." This essay will employ the writings of William Stringfellow, a Christian lawyer and theologian, to …


Deconstructing The Distinction Between Bias And Merit, Daria Roithmayr Jan 1998

Deconstructing The Distinction Between Bias And Merit, Daria Roithmayr

Publications

In this article Professor Roithmayr attempts to develop in the context of law school admissions a theoretical argument from deconstruction to support the radical critique of merit. The radical critique, espoused primarily by Critical Race Theorists and radical feminists, argues that merit standards disproportionately exclude white women and people of color because merit standards were developed by dominant social groups, in ways that have disproportionately benefited their descendants. Using a critical history of law school admission standards, as well as a deconstructive reading of a defense of merit offered by Professors Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry, Professor Roithmayr deconstructs the …


Putting Sex To Work, Katherine M. Franke Jan 1998

Putting Sex To Work, Katherine M. Franke

Faculty Scholarship

When I was living in New Haven a number of years ago, a miracle happened that drew people by the thousands to witness evidence of the Divine. A crucifix had been found to appear in the body of an oak tree in the middle of Worchester Square. I went – after all, how often do you get to see that kind of thing? Not surprisingly, at first I couldn't see anything but the usual trunk and limbs of a tree. Yet a believer took the time to show me what was really there, something that my untrained eye could not …


Guns, Youth Violence, And Social Identity In Inner Cities, Jeffrey Fagan, Deanna L. Wilkinson Jan 1998

Guns, Youth Violence, And Social Identity In Inner Cities, Jeffrey Fagan, Deanna L. Wilkinson

Faculty Scholarship

While youth violence has always been a critical part of delinquency, the modern epidemic is marked by high rates of gun violence. Adolescents in cities possess and carry guns on a large scale, guns are often at the scene of youth violence, and guns often are used. Guns play a central role in initiating, sustaining, and elevating the epidemic of youth violence. The demand for guns among youth was fueled by an "ecology of danger," comprising street gangs, expanding drug markets with high intrinsic levels of violence, high rates of adult violence and fatalities, and cultural styles of gun possession …


News Media Coverage Of The United States Supreme Court, Stephen Wermiel Jan 1998

News Media Coverage Of The United States Supreme Court, Stephen Wermiel

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.