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Superpoked And Served: Service Of Process Via Social Networking Sites, Andriana L. Shultz

University of Richmond Law Review

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Detaining Suspected Terrorists: Past, Present, And Future, Stephen Vladeck, Benjamin Priester, Tung Yin, Nathan Sales, Kyndra Rotunda, Kristine Huskey

University of Richmond Law Review Symposium

“The Role of the Judiciary and Proposals for Reform,” lecture given by Stephen Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law, and Benjamin Priester, Florida Coastal School of Law.

“Lawfare and the Supreme Court,” lecture given by Tung Yin, University of Iowa College of Law, with commentary by Nathan Sales, George Mason University School of Law.

“Detention for the Search of Laptops - Balancing Security and Privacy,” lecture given by Nathan Sales, George Mason University School of Law, with commentary by Tung Yin, University of Iowa College of Law.

“Guantánamo Bay and Detainee Rights, Past and Future,” lecture given by Kyndra …

One Person's Junk, Another Person's Treasures: Dissolving A Small Law Book Collection, Gail F. Zwirner

Law Faculty Publications

Decisions to eliminate a book collection occur for various reasons, including retirement, downsizing a home library, or a sweet deal from an online vendor. Law librarians regularly receive inquiries about the purchase or donation of used law books. Many times these calls originate in a law school’s development office after an attorney school seeks his or her law school’s advice on eliminating a significant career investment. An attorney may turn to a law firm librarian for advice as well.

The Future Of Detainees In The Global War On Terror: A U.S. Policy Perspective, Saxby Chamblis

University of Richmond Law Review

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The Long War, The Federal Courts, And The Necessity/Legality Paradox, Stephen I. Vladeck

University of Richmond Law Review

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Combatants And The Combat Zone, Mary Ellen O'Connell

University of Richmond Law Review

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Terrorist Detention: Directions For Reform, Benjamin J. Priester

University of Richmond Law Review

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Run For The Border: Laptop Searches And The Fourth Amendment, Nathan Alexander Sales

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Museletter: March 2009, Suzanne Corriell

Museletter

This Issue:

Be Prepared for Employment this Summer by Joyce Manna Janto

Obtaining Access to PACER: A Brief How-To by Suzanne B. Corriell

From the Suggestion Box

Trading Spaces: Spring Carrel Swap

"Worlds Connect @ Your Library" National Library Week, April 12-18, 2009

New Faces at the Law Library

Summer Hours

Boumediene And Lawfare, Tung Yin

University of Richmond Law Review

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Institutional Legitimacy And Counterterrorism Trials, Gregory S. Mcneal

University of Richmond Law Review

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Extraordinary Rendition: A Wrong Without A Right, Robert Johnson

University of Richmond Law Review

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The Detention Of Suspected Terrorists In Northern Ireland And Great Britain, Brice Dickson

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Applying Geneva Convention Principles To Guantánamo Bay, Kyndra Rotunda

University of Richmond Law Review

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Recent Developments In Absentee Voting, James Alcorn

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

With the votes cast and counted, the political signs down, and the final dollars tallied, most people were glad to have election season behind them. For the election community, however, the groundwork for future decisions was beginning anew. The 2009 session of the Virginia General Assembly again saw a large number of bills related to election administration.1 Included in those were a large number of absentee voting bills.2 For the last fifteen years, legislators have introduced numerous bills related to absentee voting, and roughly half of these bills have succeeded. 3 While the rest of the country considers large election …

Bipartisan Redistricting, Senator R. Creigh Deeds

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

The redistricting of legislative lines, whether for the houses of the General Assembly or Virginia's congressional delegation, is currently riddled with partisan politics. It appears, however, that different political parties will control the two houses of the legislature during the next redistricting process for the first time in our Commonwealth's history. Whether this is to be the case for the redistricting of 2011 will be decided by future events, but currently Democrats control the State Senate and Republicans have a majority of the House of the Delegates. The next Governor will also play a significant role in redistricting. With no …

Rethinking The Relationship Between The Wto And International Human Rights, Gao Pengcheng

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Taking Aim At The Virginia Triggerman Rule: A Commentary On House Bill 2358, Anisa Mohanty

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

This Comment will examine the legislative history of the triggerman rule in Virginia in Part I. Part II will explore the justifications and criticisms of an expansion to the triggerman rule. Part III will present a short study of American jurisprudence with respect to the death penalty and non-triggermen. Finally, Part IV will discuss the future implications for Virginia's criminal justice system if the expansion to the triggerman rule eventually becomes law.

Gun Show Loophole Bills: A Study Of Legislative Misdirection In 2009, Philip Van Cleave

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, which left thirty-two students and faculty dead at the hands of a student armed with two handguns, gun-control organizations saw an opportunity to press their legislative agenda items forward with vigor. A host of gun-control bills were introduced in the 2008 and, to a lesser extent, the 2009 General Assembly sessions. For pro-gun groups, Virginia Tech's policy of not allowing any guns on campus was more proof that gun control only disarms good people. These groups argued that criminals, by definition, ignore the law and will simply get their guns …

"You Think He Got Shot - Did You Maybe Shoot Him By Accident?": Linguistic Manipulation Of The Communicatively Immature During Police Interrogations, Kathryn C. Donoghue

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

It is undeniable that "punishment of the innocent makes a mockery of the law." Police who linguistically coerce false confessions from communicatively immature suspects mock the criminal justice system by evading accountability and convicting the vulnerable. This paper documents how common linguistic strategies directed at certain vulnerable groups have the potential to elicit false confessions. Part II reviews linguistic strategies routinely employed by trained interrogators. Part III then explores how mentally challenged and juvenile suspects, otherwise known as communicatively immature groups, are more susceptible to deceptive linguistic strategies. Part IV discusses how interrogators learn to extract confessions, while Part V …

An Empirical Examination Of The Adequate Alternative Forum In The Doctrine Of Forum Non Conveniens, Michael T. Lii

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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The Crescent And The Corporation: Analysis And Resolution Of Conflicting Positions Between The Western Corporation And The Islamic Legal System, Craig C. Briess

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Binding Non-Signatories To International Arbitration Agreements: Raising Fundamental Concerns In The United States And Abroad, Tae Courtney

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Medellín V. Texas: The Treaties That Bind, Mary D. Hallerman

University of Richmond Law Review

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Did The Court Kill The Treason Charge?: Reassessing Cramer V. United States And Its Significance, Paul T. Crane

Law Faculty Publications

This Article has two main objectives. First, I will analyze the Court's decision in Cramer v. United States. Based on internal court documents, such as draft opinions and private memoranda, it is clear that the Justices had more on their minds than the specific legal question at hand. Second, I will reassess the relationship between Cramer and the lack of treason charges after 1954 and offer an explanation for the disappearance of treason prosecutions until the indictment of Gadahn in 2006. Specifically, I will highlight the significance of a traditionally underappreciated portion of the Cramer decision: the Court's statement that …

Unmasking Judicial Extremism, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Review of Cass R. Sunstein, Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America (2005)

Using Ip To Suppress Innovation (On Purpose), James Gibson

Law Faculty Publications

In this “IP Viewpoints” post, I hope to combine two Uncontroversial Premises to reach a Counterintuitive Conclusion about the role that intellectual property can play in the regulation of innovation.

First Uncontroversial Premise: IP is a useful tool for creating incentives to innovate, but too much IP protection is counterproductive.

Giving innovators exclusive control over certain uses of their innovations allows them to commercialize their inventiveness and creativity, and thus helps ensure a return of the resources they invest in their craft. But IP protection also brings with it certain costs – and when IP rights reach a certain level …

Recent Developments In Patent Law, Kristen Jakobsen Osenga

Law Faculty Publications

In the last year, the landscape of patent law was altered by court opinions from the Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as in opinions rendered by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (hereafter BP AI) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, patent reform legislation was introduced that could have shaken up patent practice even further. Although none of the reform proposals were passed, revised versions of these legislative initiatives have already been introduced in 2009. This brief write-up summarizes many (but by no means all) of the …

Greening Demand: Energy Consumption And U.S. Climate Policy, Noah M. Sachs

Law Faculty Publications

The search for greener, less polluting energy supplies has dominated discussions of u.s. climate change strategy, but we often overlook cheaper and faster greenhouse gas emissions reductions achievable through energy efficiency and conservation. In this article, I outline a decade-long "greening demand" agenda to reduce the amount of energy consumed in the United States. The federal government should aim to reduce U.S. energy consumption by fifteen percent by 2016 and twenty percent by 2020 to achieve needed reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

While the United States has achieved notable efficiency gains since the 1970s, several market failures and other barriers …

Jumping The Pond: Transnational Law And The Future Of Chemical Regulation, Noah M. Sachs

Law Faculty Publications

Just as domestic pollution can cause transnational externalities, domestic environmental regulation can create transnational ripple effects in other jurisdictions. In this Article, I show how chemical regulation-long a weak link in the network of U.S. environmental laws-is about to be reshaped and reformed through the extraterritorial ripple effects of new European Union legislation. Contributing to both international law and environmental law scholarship, this Article shows how transnational information flows can be harnessed to end the longstanding drought of data on chemical toxicity in the United States. ·

Part I of this Article critiques the U.S. chemical regulatory regime, arguing that …