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Sixteen And Pregnant: Minors' Consent In Abortion And Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore
Sixteen And Pregnant: Minors' Consent In Abortion And Adoption, Malinda L. Seymore
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A minor girl’s decision about how to handle an unplanned pregnancy is a highly contested issue. Especially contentious is the minor’s ability to consent to an abortion independently of an adult such as her parents or a judge. That issue has received substantial attention from policy makers, scholars, judges, and legislators. Almost no attention has been paid, however, to the decision of a pregnant minor to continue her pregnancy, relinquish her constitutionally protected parental rights, and place a child for adoption. In 37 states, a minor’s abortion decision is regulated differently than an adult’s, while in only 15 states is …
Paternalism And Psychic Taxes: The Government's Use Of Negative Emotions To Save Us From Ourselves, Gary M. Lucas Jr
Paternalism And Psychic Taxes: The Government's Use Of Negative Emotions To Save Us From Ourselves, Gary M. Lucas Jr
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Paternalism has become increasingly popular among policymakers. Governments at all levels are seriously considering or have recently adopted many paternalistic proposals. For example, the Obama Administration has increased cigarette taxes and adopted a tax on indoor tanning. Similarly, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a ban on the sale of soda and other sugary drinks in containers larger than sixteen ounces. All of these policies are motivated to some degree by a desire to save people from themselves.
This Article analyzes whether the government should use "psychic taxes" as a tool for achieving paternalistic goals. A psychic tax …
Reclaiming Copyright From The Outside In: What The Downfall Hitler Meme Means For Transformative Works, Fair Use, And Parody, Aaron Schwabach
Reclaiming Copyright From The Outside In: What The Downfall Hitler Meme Means For Transformative Works, Fair Use, And Parody, Aaron Schwabach
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¶Continuing advances in consumer information technology have made video editing, once difficult, into a relatively simple matter. The average consumer can easily create and edit videos, and post them online. Inevitably many of these posted videos incorporate existing copyrighted content, raising questions of infringement, derivative versus transformative use, fair use, and parody.¶ ¶This article looks at several such works, with its main focus on one category of examples: the Downfall Hitler meme. Downfall Hitler videos take as their starting point a particular sequence - Hitler's breakdown rant - from the 2004 German film Der Untergang [Downfall in the US]. The …
Stopping Mtic -- With A 3rd Invoicing Directive, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
Stopping Mtic -- With A 3rd Invoicing Directive, Richard Thompson Ainsworth
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A Third Invoicing Directive for the EU VAT seems to be a foregone conclusion. Corrections are needed in the Second Invoicing Directive. The hallmark of the next Directive will be its application of digital invoice technology. The Commission’s proposals will include adoption of tax-technology advances in invoice-control that are currently in use outside the EU. The next Invoicing Directive will require comprehensive e-invoicing, invoices that are digitally signed, and invoices that are fed into a system of relational databases that match transaction data across the Single Market. There will be real-time EU sales/purchases lists, and remote/real-time audit functionality.
This will …
Lessons On Terrorism And "Mistaken Identity" From Oak Creek, With A Coda On The Boston Marathon Bombings, Dawinder S. Sidhu
Lessons On Terrorism And "Mistaken Identity" From Oak Creek, With A Coda On The Boston Marathon Bombings, Dawinder S. Sidhu
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Dirt Lawyers And Dirty Remics, Bradley T. Borden, David J. Reiss
Dirt Lawyers And Dirty Remics, Bradley T. Borden, David J. Reiss
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A Happiness Approach To Cost-Benefit Analysis, Andrew K. Jennings, Andrew T. Foglia
A Happiness Approach To Cost-Benefit Analysis, Andrew K. Jennings, Andrew T. Foglia
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No abstract provided.
Israel’S Rosit The Riveter: Between Secular Law And Jewish Law, Pnina Lahav
Israel’S Rosit The Riveter: Between Secular Law And Jewish Law, Pnina Lahav
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In the world of Judaism, the “end of men” is not in sight. Surely, tectonic plates are sliding and shifting, and a great deal of change is unfolding, but men are fighting hard to keep patriarchy alive. Deep inside, the Orthodox patriarchal man may be motivated by the sheer impulse to maintain his power, but outwardly he projects a profound commitment to his religious law, the law of God. He believes that his fight is a noble one ordained by divine will and that God is on his side. The problem is global; it appears in every Jewish community around …
Bullying Prevention And Boyhood, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Bullying Prevention And Boyhood, Katharine B. Silbaugh
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A desire to reduce bullying in schools and to create safer and healthier school cultures has driven an anti-bullying movement characterized by significant reform in school programs and practices, as well as legislative reform and policy articulation in every state. A desire to improve school outcomes for boys has generated a number of programmatic proposals and responses in public and private education. Most notably, single-sex programming in public schools has been facilitated by the 2006 change to Title IX regulations setting out the criteria for permissible single-sex public school programs. These two recent movements in K-12 schooling spring from new …
Ethical Issues In Mass Tort Plaintiffs' Representation: Beyond The Aggregate Settlement Rule, Nancy J. Moore
Ethical Issues In Mass Tort Plaintiffs' Representation: Beyond The Aggregate Settlement Rule, Nancy J. Moore
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Those who have addressed ethics issues for plaintiffs’ lawyers in mass tort litigation have focused on possible reform of the aggregate settlement rule to facilitate global settlements. This Article addresses a broader range of ethical issues, including (1) application of the general conflicts of interest rule to both client-client and client-lawyer conflicts; (2) unresolved issues concerning the interpretation of the current aggregate settlement rule, including the need to disclose client names and the applicability of the rule to court-approved settlements and formula or matrix allocations; and (3) the ability of lawyers to voluntarily withdraw from representing plaintiffs who reject an …
Limiting “Sugary Drinks” To Reduce Obesity — Who Decides?, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas
Limiting “Sugary Drinks” To Reduce Obesity — Who Decides?, Wendy K. Mariner, George J. Annas
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When a judge struck down the New York City Board of Health's partial ban on selling “sugary drinks” in containers of more than 16 fluid ounces, the reaction was swift. The Portion Cap Rule was widely viewed as a signature accomplishment of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's third term as the “public health mayor,” and he vowed to appeal, saying, “I've got to defend my children, and yours, and do what's right to save lives. Obesity kills.” But the question before the judge was not about the health risks posed by obesity or even the relationship between obesity and access to large …
The Other Marriage Equality Problem, Linda C. Mcclain
The Other Marriage Equality Problem, Linda C. Mcclain
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This article introduces the term “the other marriage equality problem” to invite attention to a marriage equality issue distinct from gay men's and lesbians’ access to the institution of civil marriage. That problem is captured in warnings about the growing class-based marriage divide and the “diverging destinies” of children that flow from these emerging patterns of family life, sometimes referred to as “the reproduction of inequalities.” Growing family inequality warrants attention for many reasons, including the crucial role that families, along with other institutions of civil society, play in sustaining the American experiment in “ordered liberty.” Strikingly, such warnings coexist …
The Federal Circuit As A Federal Court, Paul Gugliuzza
The Federal Circuit As A Federal Court, Paul Gugliuzza
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals and, as a consequence, the last word on many legal issues important to innovation policy. This Article shows how the Federal Circuit augments its already significant power by impeding other government institutions from influencing the patent system. Specifically, the Federal Circuit has shaped patent-law doctrine, along with rules of jurisdiction, procedure, and administrative law, to preserve and expand the court’s power in four interinstitutional relationships: the court’s federalism relationship with state courts, its separation of powers relationship with the executive and legislative branches, its vertical …
The Hastie Fellowship Program At Forty: Still Creating Minority Law Professors, Thomas W. Mitchell
The Hastie Fellowship Program At Forty: Still Creating Minority Law Professors, Thomas W. Mitchell
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This article provides a history of and information about the structure of the William H. Hastie Fellowship Program at the University of Wisconsin Law School. This article is part of a series of articles published by the Wisconsin Law Review commemorating Professor James E. Jones Jr., emeritus professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and the founder of the Hastie Fellowship Program. Forty years after this pioneering program was established, the Hastie Fellowship Program continues to represent the preeminent pipeline program that has enabled more than 30 minority lawyers to become tenure-track law professors at law schools …
Resistance Is Not Futile: Harnessing The Power Of Counter-Offensive Tactics In Legal Persuasion, Peter Reilly
Resistance Is Not Futile: Harnessing The Power Of Counter-Offensive Tactics In Legal Persuasion, Peter Reilly
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A core competency for people working in law or business is the ability to influence and persuade: People need to become expert at getting others to agree, to go along, and to give in. The potential “targets” of one’s influence throughout a given workday are seemingly endless and include clients and customers, co-counsel, opposing counsel, supervisors, direct reports, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, secretaries, judges, juries, witnesses, police officers, court personnel, and others. Moreover, that influence is largely exerted through words spoken and behaviors exhibited within the context of a negotiation. And yet, leading academics have argued that the vast majority of …
Negligence, Causation, And Incentives For Care, Keith N. Hylton, Haizhen Lin
Negligence, Causation, And Incentives For Care, Keith N. Hylton, Haizhen Lin
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We present a new model of negligence and causation and examine the influence of the negligence test, in the presence of intervening causation, on the level of care. In this model, the injurer's decision to take care reduces the likelihood of an accident only in the event that some nondeterministic intervention occurs. The effects of the negligence test depend on the information available to the court, and the manner in which the test is implemented. The key effect of the negligence test, in the presence of intervening causation, is to induce actors to take into account the distribution of the …
Five Oft-Repeated Questions About China's Recent Rise As A Patent Power, Peter K. Yu
Five Oft-Repeated Questions About China's Recent Rise As A Patent Power, Peter K. Yu
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Policymakers, industries, commentators and the media have widely criticized China for its failure to adequately protect intellectual property rights. In recent years, however, the discourse on intellectual property developments in China has slowly begun to change. Such a change is the most notable in the patent area. Today, China is already among the top five countries filing patent applications through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In 2011, the number of PCT applications increased by 33.4% to 16,406, earning China the fourth spot, behind only the United States, Japan and Germany. Among all the applicants, ZTE Corp. and Huawei Technologies had …
Junior Seau, Head Trauma, And The Nfl's Concussion Problem, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Junior Seau, Head Trauma, And The Nfl's Concussion Problem, André Douglas Pond Cummings
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By all accounts, Tiaina “Junior” Seau was an extraordinary professional athlete. Seau’s career in the National Football League (“NFL”) spanned two decades as he battled furiously as a linebacker for the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, and the New England Patriots. His performance on the field of play was exceptional; he was selected to the Pro Bowl twelve times and will most certainly be voted into the NFL Hall of Fame when he becomes eligible in 2015. Despite Seau’s unparalleled career, athletic accomplishments, and financial rewards, he committed suicide on May 2, 2012, at the age of 43, just two …
The Uncertain Impact Of Wal-Mart V. Dukes, Michael Harper
The Uncertain Impact Of Wal-Mart V. Dukes, Michael Harper
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It has been less than two years since the Supreme Court’s controversial decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 131 S.Ct. 2541 (2011). During this short period the Court’s opinion has been interpreted by numerous lower courts. It also, not surprisingly, has been the subject of a substantial amount of commentary in law reviews and numerous proposals for legislative reform to restore a promise of class action challenges to employment discrimination that the Dukes decision allegedly shattered. Drawing from this commentary, I would choose these two very different articles as useful guides for tracking the impact of Dukes on employment discrimination class …
E-Verify Can Stop Refund Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Andrew Shact
E-Verify Can Stop Refund Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth, Andrew Shact
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Two issues in the current Washington debates need to be linked. E-Verify, the Internet-based database that allows employers to verify an employee’s work eligibility that is at the center of the immigration debate, is the ideal tool for stopping tax refund fraud. All that is needed is a digital signature of the E-Verify result, and the mandatory inscription of this signature on tax documents to make them self-authenticating.
The central features of this proposal have been made before. The technology it requires is tried and proven. The processes and procedure it advocates are in place and effectively deployed in foreign …
A Global Approach To Legal Writing And Legal Research: An Evolutionary Process, Diane Edelman
A Global Approach To Legal Writing And Legal Research: An Evolutionary Process, Diane Edelman
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Removing Removal's Unanimity Rule, Jayne Ressler
Removing Removal's Unanimity Rule, Jayne Ressler
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Are People Probabilistically Challenged?, Alex Stein
Are People Probabilistically Challenged?, Alex Stein
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No abstract provided.
2012 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
2012 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
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No abstract provided.
Green Leasing - It's Not Just About Capital Expenditures, Richard J. Sobelsohn
Green Leasing - It's Not Just About Capital Expenditures, Richard J. Sobelsohn
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Life In The Balance: Judicial Review Of Abortion Regulations, Khiara Bridges
Life In The Balance: Judicial Review Of Abortion Regulations, Khiara Bridges
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Since the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, scholars have been preoccupied with the test that ought to be applied to abortion regulations. Debate has swirled around the question of whether laws that burden the abortion right should be reviewed with strict scrutiny, rational basis review, or some other multi-factor or categorical test and at what point during pregnancy these tests are appropriate. Moreover, since Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in which the Court replaced Roe’s trimester framework with the undue burden standard, commentators have questioned the propriety of this new test. This Article argues that the most important change …
Global Legal Responses To Prenatal Gender Identification And Sex Selection, Seema Mohapatra
Global Legal Responses To Prenatal Gender Identification And Sex Selection, Seema Mohapatra
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Over one hundred million women in the world are estimated to be “missing” from the world’s population due to some form of gendercide. Gendercide exists on almost every continent and affects every class of people. Gendercide has traditionally taken the form of sex-selective abortion, infanticide, or death caused by neglect. Sex-selective abortions occur when a pregnancy is terminated due to the sex of the fetus. In the last few decades, technological advances have allowed potential parents to identify the gender of their baby early in the first trimester. Recently, with the advent of newer technology that allows one to choose …
"Rethinking" Embryo Disposition Upon Divorce, Michael T. Flannery
"Rethinking" Embryo Disposition Upon Divorce, Michael T. Flannery
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Some Thoughts On The First Amendment's Religion Clauses And Abner Greene's Against Obligation, With Reference To Patton Oswalt's Character 'Paul From Staten Island' In The Film Big Fan, Jay D. Wexler
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In this short contribution to a symposium held at Boston University in the fall of 2012, I review Abner Greene's recent book Against Obligation by considering whether Greene's broad theory of freedom from state obligations under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment would protect the maniacal New York Giants fan "Paul from Staten Island," portrayed by the ridiculously talented Patton Oswalt in Robert Siegel's hilarious film "Big Fan." I also explain how I use the film in my Law and Religion class to teach the Free Exercise Clause and the deeply perplexing question of how the word "religion" …
From Romer V. Evans To United States V. Windsor: Law As A Vehicle For Moral Disapproval In Amendment 2 And The Defense Of Marriage Act, Linda C. Mcclain
From Romer V. Evans To United States V. Windsor: Law As A Vehicle For Moral Disapproval In Amendment 2 And The Defense Of Marriage Act, Linda C. Mcclain
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This article considers the intertwined fates of Romer v. Evans and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which both date back to 1996. In United States v. Windsor, Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, struck down Section 3 of DOMA, using Romer as a template. This article reflects on Romer as it bears on the use of law as a vehicle to express morality, in particular, “moral disapproval of homosexuality” and moral approval -- and the defense and nurture -- of “traditional, heterosexual marriage.” Proponents of Amendment 2 (struck down in Romer, in an opinion written by Justice Kennedy) and …