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Creac In The Real World, Diane B. Kraft
Creac In The Real World, Diane B. Kraft
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This article will examine the extent to which common legal writing paradigms such as CREAC are used by attorneys in the "real world" of practice when writing on the kinds of issues law students may encounter in the first-year legal writing classroom. To that end, it will focus on the analysis of two factor-based criminal law issues: whether a defendant was in custody and whether a defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy. In focusing on "first-year" issues, the article seeks not to examine whether organizational paradigms are used at all in legal analysis, but to discover whether and how …
Dios Mio: The Kiss Principle Of The Ethical Approach To Copyright And Right Of Publicity Law, Michael D. Murray
Dios Mio: The Kiss Principle Of The Ethical Approach To Copyright And Right Of Publicity Law, Michael D. Murray
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
To copy or not to copy, to exploit the famous celebrity image or not to exploit it; these are the questions. The message of the modern legal world communicated through multiple voices in the academy is that copying often is perfectly acceptable and even laudable. An artist or designer might conclude that it is both legal and ethical to use whatever you can, use whatever you can get away with, and use it until you get sued for using it. Yet plagiarism in the arts and sciences is nearly universally condemned. This Article proposes an ethical approach to the use …