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In Pittsburgh, Freedom Abridged, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2005-Winter 2006

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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The Hidden Costs Of Contracting: Barriers To Justice In The Law Of Contracts, Teri Dobbins Baxter

Scholarly Works

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Introduction: Assessing The Future Of The Legal Profession Symposium, Alex B. Long

Scholarly Works

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Make >Em Fess Up, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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The Feminist Pervasion: How Gender-Based Scholarship Informs Law And Law Teaching, Joan Macleod Heminway, Ann Bartow, F. Carolyn Graglia, Deseriee A. Kennedy

Scholarly Works

This is an edited, annotated transcript of a conference panel discussion on feminism, sex, and gender in law, legal education, and legal scholarship. The transcript reflects widely divergent views of the place of feminism, sex, and gender in the law and legal scholarship. Moreover, the panelists differ as to the role feminism has played in the lives of women as law students and practicing attorneys. In the latter part of the transcript, the panelists' remarks focus in on hotly debated issues surrounding possible gender (or sex) and racial bias in LSAT testing and the innate abilities of women and men …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2005

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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International Space Law In Transformation: Some Observations, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Scholarly Works

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Affiliated And Related Corporations, Don Leatherman

Scholarly Works

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The End Of American Democracy?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2005

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

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Covenants Not To Compete: Time For Legislative And Judicial Reform In Tennessee, Brian Krumm

Scholarly Works

The employment relationship has gone through dramatic changes in the last fifty years, and, with few exceptions, the notion of company loyalty and life long employment is a thing of the past.' As a consequence, many employers have adopted the use of covenants not to compete in employment contracts as a mechanism called upon to enforce, reform, or void such agreements, particularly when employees subject to such restrictive covenants leave their employment for better opportunities in the same or similar 6 industry or field. Despite common misperceptions, courts generally uphold covenants not to compete-if the covenants comply with reasonable standards. …

Book Review: A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law And Resistance During The Pittston Coal Strike Of 1989 - 1990, Fran Ansley

Scholarly Works

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Losing Faith: Extracting The Implied Covenant Of Good Faith From (Some) Contracts, Teri Dobbins Baxter

Scholarly Works

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Live Long - And Prosper?, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Scholarly Works

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Environmental Justice: A Universal Discourse, Dean Rivkin

Scholarly Works

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Evaluating The Risks Of Increased Price Transparency, Maurice Stucke

Scholarly Works

Courts and antitrust enforcers continue to grapple with the issue of when increased price transparency is good or bad for consumers. The state of the law on this antitrust issue has not been clear given several difficult issues, which the article briefly addresses. To help the courts and antitrust bar assess the antitrust risks of information exchanges, the article outlines two focal points: (1) the information's value in promoting efficiency in the marketplace, and (2) the likelihood that disseminating the information would facilitate tacit collusion. Using these two points, the article outlines three categories of antitrust risks: green light (low …

Jerry Phillips' Product Line Continuity And Successor Corporation Liability: Where Are We Twenty Years Later, George Kuney

Scholarly Works

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Early Land Use Cases, Continued Uncertainty - The Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act, Gregory M. Stein

Scholarly Works

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Visionary Thinker And Wordsmith Par Excellence, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

I was part of a small cohort of Native students, thrilled at the possibility of studying with a man we affectionately, and with some trepidation, referred to as "the Godfather" of Indian politics, policy and law. We called ourselves "Vine's Disciples," not because he was a religious figure, but because we sensed that in having the privilege and opportunity studying with the individual we all considered the most gifted of our time, that we would receive profound lessons in what was required of us as we sought to become active and informed defenders of indigenous nationhood.

What an influence he …

Blurring The Boundaries Between Immigration And Crime Control After Sept. 11th, Teresa A. Miller

Journal Articles

Although the escalating criminalization of immigration law has been examined at length, the social control dimension of this phenomenon has gone relatively understudied. This Article attempts to remedy this deficiency by tracing the relationship between criminal punishment and immigration law, demonstrating that the War on Terror has further blurred these distinctions and exposing the social control function that pervades immigration law enforcement after September 11th prioritized counterterrorism. In doing so, the author draws upon the work of Daniel Kanstroom, Michael Welch, Jonathan Simon and Malcolm Feeley.

Up Against The Wall Of Separation: The Question Of Religious Democracy, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Book Review To In Harm's Way: The Sinking Of The Uss Indianapolis And The Extraordinary Story Of Its Survivors, Eric R. Carpenter

Faculty Publications

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African Americans And Aboriginal Peoples: Similarities And Differences In Historical Experiences, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

In August of 2003, Harvard University hosted a major conference, organized by the Civil Rights Project, titled Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future. The conference was appropriately subtitled the Color Lines Conference, in reference to W.E.B. Du Bois's classic 1903 study The Souls of Black Folk. This sprawling conference brought together some of the more significant actors in the Civil Rights arena—including Gary Orfield, Julian Bond, Antonia Hernandez, Glenn Loury, William Julius Wilson, and Gerald Torres—to reflect on the dynamics of residential segregation, racial identity, institutional barriers to racial integration, inequalities in higher education, and, or …

Beyond Territoriality: The Case Of Transnational Human Rights Litigation, Peer Zumbansen

All Papers

Cases for civil damages that have been brought before Western courts by victims of torture and persecution against states officials or corporations, challenge the principles of state sovereignty and jurisdictional competence. While national courts can in cases of serious crimes hear cases that grow out of acts committed in another country, the same is not true for cases for civil compensation. A persisting and rising number of private law cases that attempts to empower disenfranchised victims of crime and abuse, points to the necessity of reconsidering the prevailing procedural and substantial obstacles that govern the so-far unsuccessful civil law suits. …

Between Dependency And Liberty: The Conundrum Of Children’S Rights In The Gilded Age, David S. Tanenhaus

Scholarly Works

Although legal scholars often assume that the history of children's rights in the United States did not begin until the mid twentieth century, this essay argues that a sophisticated conception of children's rights existed a century earlier, and analyzes how lawmakers articulated it through their attempts to define the rights of dependent children. How to handle their cases raised fundamental questions about whether children were autonomous beings or the property of either their parents and/or the state. And, if the latter, what were the limits of parental authority and/or the power of the state acting as a parent? By investigating …

Unspeakably Cruel: Torture, Medical Ethics, And The Law, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

Torture is a particularly horrible crime, and any participation of physicians in torture has always been difficult to comprehend. As General Telford Taylor explained to the American judges at the trial of the Nazi doctors in Nuremberg, Germany (called the “Doctors' Trial”), “To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law . . . yet these [physician] defendants, all of whom were fully able to comprehend the nature of their acts . . . are responsible for wholesale murder and unspeakably cruel tortures.” Taylor told the judges that it was the obligation of the …

Of Looks, Laws And Lawns: How Human Aesthetic Preferences Influence Landscape Management, Public Policies And Urban Ecosystems, Loren B. Byrne

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

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The Present And Future Of Federalism, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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“Culture Of Life” Politics At The Bedside: The Case Of Terri Schiavo, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

For the first time in the history of the United States, Congress met in a special emergency session on Sunday, March 20, to pass legislation aimed at the medical care of one patient — Terri Schiavo. President George W. Bush encouraged the legislation and flew back to Washington, D.C., from his vacation in Crawford, Texas, so that he could be on hand to sign it immediately. In a statement issued three days earlier, he said: “The case of Terri Schiavo raises complex issues. . . . Those who live at the mercy of others deserve our special care and concern. …