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Ethical Issues For Transactional Attorneys Here And Abroad, Carol Goforth, Carol Morgan, Usha Rodriquez, Carolyn Plump

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

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Technology In The Classroom: Clickers, Videos, And Other Media, Matthew Lyon, Seletha R. Butler

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

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The Empire Strikes Back: The District Of Columbia's Post-Heller Firearm Registration System, Stephen P. Halbrook

Tennessee Law Review

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The New Ada Backlash, Nicole Buonocore Porter

Tennessee Law Review

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Book Review: Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy And Rights For Displaced People., Frances Ansley

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

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The Politics Of Protecting Children: Litigation For Change, Dean Rivkin, Jacqueline Dixon, Robert Schwartz

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

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Truancy Lawyering In Status Offense Cases: An Access To Justice Challenge, Dean Rivkin, Brenda Mcgee

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

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Urban Food Corridors: Cultivating Sustainable Cities, Becky Jacobs

College of Law Faculty Scholarship

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How Congress Killed Investment Crowdfunding: A Tale Of Political Pressure, Hasty Decisions, And Inexpert Judgments That Begs For A Happy Ending, Joan Macleod Heminway

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In April 2012, President Obama signed into law the Capital Raising Online While Deterring Fraud and Unethical Non-Disclosure Act (the “CROWDFUND Act”) as Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) was compelled to promulgate enabling regulation to effectuate the CROWDFUND Act. That rulemaking has been slow in coming.

During this period of delay, commentators have routinely denounced the postponement and expressed fear that the SEC’s rulemaking would unduly limit investment crowdfunding. This Article demonstrates, however, that it is principally the U.S. Congress that has limited the capacity of the CROWDFUND Act …

Teaching Transactional Skills Using Real Clients From Clinic To Classroom, Brian Krumm, Shelley Dunck

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The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty And Support, Wendy A. Bach

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Vulnerability and dependency theory offers a rich and promising vision for those who seek to conceptualize and build a more responsive state. In theorizing a road to a supportive state, however, what would it mean to take up the challenge of intersectionality? What would it mean to center the analysis around key aspects of the relationship between legal institutions and the poor, disproportionately women and families of color who have no choice but to avail themselves of what remains of a shredded social safety net? The Hyperregulatory State argues that, for women who have no choice but to avail themselves …

Business Lawyering In The Crowdfunding Era, Joan Macleod Heminway

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Crowdfunding is all the rage in conversations about small business finance. Yet, as with many other rapidly developing business innovations, practicing lawyers were, perhaps, secondary players in the development of business models for crowdfunding. The advent of crowdfunding (and crowdfund investing, in particular) has exposed fault lines in business lawyering. This short Article defines the crowdfunding era, highlights a few examples of observed lawyering lapses, and, in concluding, offers a brief, preliminary assessment of possible sources of these dislocations and best practices. The conclusion also expresses a related cautionary note about the need for lawyers to redouble their efforts at …

Securitization Of Aberrant Contract Receivables, Thomas E. Plank

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Originators of traditional receivables, such as automobile loans, use securitization and structured finance debt transactions to obtain financing at lower net costs than traditional secured financing. The typical securitization or structured finance debt transaction combines (i) a sale of receivables to a separate, bankruptcy remote, special purpose legal entity (an “SPE”) and (ii) a loan to the SPE secured by the receivables. This combination produces lower net financing costs because the SPE’s lender can obtain repayment of its loan from the receivables while avoiding the costs that the Bankruptcy Code imposes on direct secured lenders to originators that could become …

Indie Lawyering: A New Model For Solo And Small Firm Practice, Lucille A. Jewel

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Indie lawyering is a new style of lawyering that uses technology to connect the individual practitioner with individual clients and collaboratively solve legal problems in a community-centered way.

How Can Competition Agencies Use Behavioral Economics?, Maurice Stucke

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The Lawyer's Monopoly — What Goes And What Stays, Benjamin H. Barton

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We live in a time of unprecedented changes for American lawyers, probably the greatest changes since the Great Depression. That period saw the creation of the lawyer’s monopoly through a series of regulatory modifications. Will we see the same following the Great Recession? Formally, no. This Article predicts that formal lawyer regulation in 2023 will look remarkably similar to lawyer regulation in 2013. This is because lawyer regulators will not want to rock the boat in the profession or in law schools during a time of roil.

Informally, yes! We are already seeing a combination of computerization, outsourcing, and nonlawyer …

The Doctrine Of Legal Writing - Book Review Of Linda H. Edwards's Readings In Persuasion: Briefs That Changed The World, Lucille A. Jewel

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In legal education, the word “doctrinal” is most often used to refer to courses such as Contracts, Torts, Property, and Criminal Procedure. Doctrinal has long been used as a descriptive adjective, but also as a word of exclusion. We often hear that legal writing courses are not substantive and not as significant as doctrinal courses. Linda Edwards’s new book, Readings in Persuasion: Briefs that Changed the World, persuasively challenges this view.

This paper evaluates what we mean when we use the term doctrinal in a legal education context and considers six powerful descriptors for the doctrine of legal writing, all …