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Professor Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. September 22, 1937 - December 11, 2008, Hon. Walter S. Felton Jr.
Professor Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. September 22, 1937 - December 11, 2008, Hon. Walter S. Felton Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Professor Robert E. Shepherd, Jr.: Tending To His Flock To Improve Its Lot, John P. Cunningham
Professor Robert E. Shepherd, Jr.: Tending To His Flock To Improve Its Lot, John P. Cunningham
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
First Annual Climate And Energy Law Symposium: Federal Preemption Or State Prerogative: California In The Face Of National Climate Policy: An Introduction, Richard J. Lazarus
First Annual Climate And Energy Law Symposium: Federal Preemption Or State Prerogative: California In The Face Of National Climate Policy: An Introduction, Richard J. Lazarus
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
The University of San Diego School of Law's decision to create a new scholarly law journal dedicated to climate and energy issues could hardly come at a better time. ...
... The resulting debate and discussion, reflected in the following papers that the speakers produced, should be required reading for those lawmakers both in Washington, DC and in state capitals such as Sacramento, as they craft federal and state laws that seek to address this "most pressing environmental challenge."
The History Of State Action In The Environmental Realm: A Presumption Against Preemption In Climate Change Law?, Victor B. Flatt
The History Of State Action In The Environmental Realm: A Presumption Against Preemption In Climate Change Law?, Victor B. Flatt
San Diego Journal of Climate & Energy Law
As we move toward an almost certain comprehensive federal law to address climate change, increasing attention is being paid to what will happen to state and local climate change and climate change-related programs that have arisen in this country in the law few years. As the symposium demonstrated, California has a particular concern that federal law might block its environmental and climate change policies. ...
... In most areas, almost 40 years of environmental federalism has allowed states to regulate beyond the federal government for the protection of their citizens, and we can examine this history empirically in order to …
Irreconcilable Differences? The Troubled Marriage Of Science And Law, Susan Haack
Irreconcilable Differences? The Troubled Marriage Of Science And Law, Susan Haack
Law and Contemporary Problems
There haven't always been scientific witnesses: in fact, there haven't always been witnesses. In early medieval times, courts relied on tests by oath, ordeal, and sometimes by combat. Here, Haack provides a brief historical background to the use of scientific experts in law and then proceeds to discuss in greater detail the values underlying scientific inquiry, the uncertainty in the quest of knowledge and understanding, and the methods by which consensus is reached, even if that consensus is always tentative. She then contrasts scientific inquiry with the law's quest for "truth" in the courtroom and, particularly, the normative and temporal …
Nobody Reads Your Privacy Policy Or Online Contract? Lessons Learned And Questions Raised By The Ftc's Action Against Sears, Susan E. Gindin
Nobody Reads Your Privacy Policy Or Online Contract? Lessons Learned And Questions Raised By The Ftc's Action Against Sears, Susan E. Gindin
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Informal Homeownership In The United States And The Law, Heather K. Way
Informal Homeownership In The United States And The Law, Heather K. Way
Saint Louis University Public Law Review
No abstract provided.
How Does Science Come To Speak In The Courts? Citations Intertexts, Expert Witnesses, Consequential Facts, And Reasoning, Charles Bazerman
How Does Science Come To Speak In The Courts? Citations Intertexts, Expert Witnesses, Consequential Facts, And Reasoning, Charles Bazerman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Citations, in their highly conventionalized forms, visibly indicate each texts explicit use of the prior literature that embodies the knowledge and contentions of its field. This relation to prior texts has been called intertextuality in literary and literacy studies. Here, Bazerman discusses the citation practices and intertextuality in science and the law in theoretical and historical perspective, and considers the intersection of science and law by identifying the judicial rules that limit and shape the role of scientific literature in court proceedings. He emphasizes that from the historical and theoretical analysis, it is clear that, in the US, judicial reasoning …
Custom As A Source Of Law: Argentinean And Comparative Legal Systems, German Savastano
Custom As A Source Of Law: Argentinean And Comparative Legal Systems, German Savastano
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
The purpose of this article is to reflect on custom as a source of law in the Argentinean and comparative legal systems.
Cicero's Beloved Republic: The Insufficiency Of Expanded Humanistic Rhetoric In The Service Of Comparative Law, Richard O. Brooks
Cicero's Beloved Republic: The Insufficiency Of Expanded Humanistic Rhetoric In The Service Of Comparative Law, Richard O. Brooks
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
We are now at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The United States, like Republican Rome two millennia earlier, teeters between becoming an expanded empire, a declining republic, or paradoxically, both.
Universal Jurisdiction And The Case Of Belgium: A Critucal Assessment, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker
Universal Jurisdiction And The Case Of Belgium: A Critucal Assessment, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Praised in some quarters as a useful tool for bringing criminal perpetrators to justice, criticized by others as a threat to state sovereignty, universal jurisdiction has certainly emerged as a heated topic within international criminal law.
Rethinking Visitation: From A Parental To A Relational Right, Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
Rethinking Visitation: From A Parental To A Relational Right, Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
[...] visitation rights are considered to arise from the very fact of parenthood, so that parents are entitled to this right simply by being legally recognized as parents. [...] visitation rights are subject to the general rule of parental exclusivity: only a child's legal parents have rights considered parental, and non-parents cannot acquire them.
In The Wake Of Ledbetter V. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company: Applying The Discovery Rule To Determine The Start Of The Limitations Period For Pay Discrimination Claims, Nancy Zisk
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
"14 These laws include Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,15 Section 1981 of the Civil War Reconstruction statutes,16 the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA),17 the Equal Pay Act (EPA),18 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).19 While the statutes define different types of discrimination, each addresses discrimination in employment and defines a limitations period in which an employee can bring a claim.20 With Title VII defining the "paradigm," the first step in determining whether a claim is timely under any statute is determining when the discriminatory act takes place.21 To do that, …
Forty Years Of Welfare Policy Experimentation: No Acres, No Mule, No Politics, No Rights, Julie A. Nice
Forty Years Of Welfare Policy Experimentation: No Acres, No Mule, No Politics, No Rights, Julie A. Nice
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This introductory essay questions putting nearly all effort into social policywhich has failed to reduce povertyand calls instead for reinvigorating other tactics and re-imagining the unfinished dream of economic justice. Indeed, what Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned was an actual war on poverty, not merely the abbreviated, under-funded, and ultimately unsuccessful effort of the 1960s, nor the imposter war on welfare that has dominated our social policy effort since. But our social policy has not only failed to reduce poverty, it failed to focus long-needed attention on poverty and inequality. Nor has social policy facilitated the political mobilization of poor …
Some Suggestions For The Uafa: A Bill For Same-Sex Binational Couples, Timothy R. Carraher
Some Suggestions For The Uafa: A Bill For Same-Sex Binational Couples, Timothy R. Carraher
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
The Water Excise Tax: Preserving A Necessary Resource, Thomas Lee
The Water Excise Tax: Preserving A Necessary Resource, Thomas Lee
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This Comment will first examine the history and current state of laws regulating water use in the United States, and the commercial uses that are the target of the proposed Water Excise Tax. The next step will be to discuss the tax itself from several perspectives: First, its constitutionality, structure, and application in the framework of existing water law; second, its advantages and disadvantages based on its regulatory nature and scope; and finally, the normative benefits of indirect regulation. The theses underlying all of these sections are that public drinking water will become scarce in the very near future, that …
Revisiting Beccaria's Vision: The Enlightenment, America's Death Penalty, And The Abolition Movement, John D. Bessler
Revisiting Beccaria's Vision: The Enlightenment, America's Death Penalty, And The Abolition Movement, John D. Bessler
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
In 1764, Cesare Beccaria, a 26-year-old Italian, penned . The treatise argued that state-sanctioned executions and torture violate natural law. As we near the 250th anniversary of its publication, author John D. Bessler provides a comprehensive review of the abolition movement, from before Beccaria's time to the present. Bessler reviews Beccaria's influence on Enlightenment thinkers and more importantly, on America's Founding Fathers. The Article also provides an extensive review of Eighth Amendment jurisprudence and then contrasts it with the trend in International Law towards the abolition of the death penalty. It then discusses the current state of the death penalty …
Unwilling Warriors: An Examination Of The Power To Conscript In Peacetime, Jason Britt
Unwilling Warriors: An Examination Of The Power To Conscript In Peacetime, Jason Britt
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
As military involvement overseas persists, pressure to increase the size of the armed services will continue. While higher bonuses and lower recruiting standards relieve this pressure, these measures may not be enough and an active military draft is an attractive alternative. Indeed, although the military draft has been inactive for nearly thirty years, current U.S. involvement overseas has aroused discussion for reactivation of the military draft. In light of this call to reactive the draft, this Student Comment proposes a framework for analyzing the constitutionality of an active military draft under the Thirteenth Amendment. Specifically, this Comment argues that courts …
Eliminating The Secondary Earner Bias: Lessons From Malaysia, The United Kingdom, And Ireland, Tonya Major Gauff
Eliminating The Secondary Earner Bias: Lessons From Malaysia, The United Kingdom, And Ireland, Tonya Major Gauff
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This Student Comment explores the long-standing gender bias inherent in the United States Internal Revenue Code ("IRC"). Specifically, this Comment discusses the bias of the taxing code against secondary earners in dual-income families. Under the IRC, primary earners in a dual-income household are taxed at a much lower rate than secondary earners in the household. As women have historically suffered from lower wages and income than their husbands, the effect of the IRC is to tax married women at much higher rates than married men. Indeed, the average working married woman loses over two-thirds of her pay to income taxes. …
Van Duyn V. Baker School District: A "Material" Improvement In Evaluating A School District's Failure To Implement Individualized Education Programs, David G. King
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
This Case Note of explores the standards courts use when evaluating a school district's failure to implement a student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In , the Ninth Circuit held that only "material" failures to implement constitute a deprivation of Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Note first begins with a discussion of the right to FAPE under the IDEA and how the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of FAPE in . It then examines the many different standards federal courts have used to evaluate implementation failures, including requiring the failure to involve …
Speaking For The Modern Prometheus: The Significance Of Animal Suffering To The Abolition Movement, Elizabeth L. Decoux
Speaking For The Modern Prometheus: The Significance Of Animal Suffering To The Abolition Movement, Elizabeth L. Decoux
Animal Law Review
There is a great divide in animal advocacy between Abolition and Welfare. Abolitionists seek to end the property status of animals. Welfarists, while acquiescing in the categorization of animals as property, seek to improve the conditions in which those animals live and die. Abolitionists have worked toward their goal for decades, and Welfarists toward theirs for centuries, but animals continue to suffer and die in ever-increasing numbers. This Article reviews the theories and methods of Abolitionists and Welfarists and suggests one reason that they have failed to relieve animal suffering and death: Welfarists use the right tool in the service …
Not-So-Informed Consent: Using The Doctor-Patient Relationship To Promote State-Supported Outcomes, Amanda Mcmurray Roe
Not-So-Informed Consent: Using The Doctor-Patient Relationship To Promote State-Supported Outcomes, Amanda Mcmurray Roe
Case Western Reserve Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Tensions Between Various Conceptions Of The Lawyer's Role, Rethinking The Legal Reform Agenda: Will Raising The Standards For Bar Admission Promote Or Undermine Democracy, Human Rights, And Rule Of Law?, Samuel J. Levine, Russell G. Pearce
The Lawyer's Role In A Contemporary Democracy, Tensions Between Various Conceptions Of The Lawyer's Role, Rethinking The Legal Reform Agenda: Will Raising The Standards For Bar Admission Promote Or Undermine Democracy, Human Rights, And Rule Of Law?, Samuel J. Levine, Russell G. Pearce
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Notes On A Geography Of Knowledge, Michael J. Madison
Notes On A Geography Of Knowledge, Michael J. Madison
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Who's Your Daddy? A Psychoanalytic Exegesis Of The Supreme Court's Recent Patent Jurisprudence, Gretchen S. Sween
Who's Your Daddy? A Psychoanalytic Exegesis Of The Supreme Court's Recent Patent Jurisprudence, Gretchen S. Sween
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Discussion Of Employer Assignment Agreements After Ddb Technologies V. Mlb Advanced Media, Mike Baniak, Todd Dawson
Discussion Of Employer Assignment Agreements After Ddb Technologies V. Mlb Advanced Media, Mike Baniak, Todd Dawson
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Scary Patents, Stephen Mcjohn
Scary Patents, Stephen Mcjohn
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Egyptian Goddess V. Swisa: What Is The 'Point'?, A.C. Dike
Egyptian Goddess V. Swisa: What Is The 'Point'?, A.C. Dike
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Protection And Enforcement Of Well-Known Mark Rights In China: History, Theory And Future, Jing "Brad" Luo, Shubha Ghosh
Protection And Enforcement Of Well-Known Mark Rights In China: History, Theory And Future, Jing "Brad" Luo, Shubha Ghosh
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Betting On Prohibition: The Federal Government's Approach To Internet Gambling, Kraig P. Grahmann
Betting On Prohibition: The Federal Government's Approach To Internet Gambling, Kraig P. Grahmann
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.