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Shelby County V. Holder Impacting Voting Rights In Arizona, Tracy Sanders
Shelby County V. Holder Impacting Voting Rights In Arizona, Tracy Sanders
Tracy Sanders
No abstract provided.
Defendants Guilty Of Being Innocent; Prosecutors Guilty Of Being Human, Keith Swisher
Defendants Guilty Of Being Innocent; Prosecutors Guilty Of Being Human, Keith Swisher
Keith Swisher
A published debate between Professor Keith Swisher and the Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery (Phoenix) over prosecutorial ethics in the face of wrongful convictions. The debate focuses on whether the state should adopt ethical rules requiring post-conviction disclosure of expulatory evidence.
Book Review: Climate Change Policy In The European Union: Confronting The Dilemmas Of Mitigation And Adaptation?, Glenys Spence
Book Review: Climate Change Policy In The European Union: Confronting The Dilemmas Of Mitigation And Adaptation?, Glenys Spence
Glenys Spence
No abstract provided.
The Short History Of Arizona Legal Ethics, Keith Swisher
The Short History Of Arizona Legal Ethics, Keith Swisher
Keith Swisher
This Essay provides a history of Arizona legal ethics: its substance and procedure. A hundred years ago, legal ethics barely existed in Arizona. Fortunately, a century permits significant progress, as captured in this work. Following the lead of the ABA (among others), Arizona slowly but surely adopted a modernized system of ethical regulation. And today, Arizona shows increasing signs of autonomy in legal ethics. These signs can be seen in Arizona’s independent approach to lawyer screening, prosecutorial ethics, and inadvertent disclosure — to focus on just a few of many examples in this “short history.” In Part I of this …
Immoral Waiver: Judicial Review Of Intra-Military Sexual Assault Claims, Francine Banner
Immoral Waiver: Judicial Review Of Intra-Military Sexual Assault Claims, Francine Banner
Francine Banner
This essay critiques the application of the Feres doctrine and the policy of judicial deference to military affairs in the context of recent class actions against government and military officials for constitutional violations stemming from sexual assaults in the U.S. military. The Pentagon estimates that 19,000 military sexual assaults occur each year. Yet, in 2011, fewer than two hundred persons were convicted of crimes of sexual violence. In the face of such pervasive and longstanding constitutional violations, this essay argues that the balance of harms weighs heavily in favor of judicial intervention. The piece discusses why, from both legal and …
Singing Songs In A Strange Land: The Plight Of Haitian Children In The Space Of International Adoption, Glenys Spence
Singing Songs In A Strange Land: The Plight Of Haitian Children In The Space Of International Adoption, Glenys Spence
Glenys Spence
No abstract provided.
Pregnant Pause: The Interplay Of Gendered Expectations And Pregnancy In Legal Education, Ilya Iussa
Pregnant Pause: The Interplay Of Gendered Expectations And Pregnancy In Legal Education, Ilya Iussa
Ilya Iussa
PREGNANT PAUSE: THE INTERPLAY OF GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND PREGNANCY IN LEGAL EDUCATION
Abstract
Is the law student biased against pregnant women? No systematic empirical study exists that can confirm whether law or university students in fact evidence bias towards visibly pregnant professors. This article, thus, reviews scholarship in the social sciences that identifies the occurrence, pervasiveness, cause and effects of student bias towards professors that do not exemplify the “normal professor body.”
This article reflects upon my interactions with law students as their professor during the course of my recent pregnancy and posits that certain perceptions held by my students …