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Smolla Argues Before The Highest Court: Cross-Burning Case Explores Free-Speech Controversy, John G. Douglass

Law Faculty Publications

A First Amendment advocate's greatest burden can be his own client. Those clients range from the offbeat to the dangerous, from pornographers to neo-Nazis. Yet in standing up for the disreputable client, the free speech advocate stands for one of more cherished freedoms: "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, 414 (1989). As one of the nation's leading First Amendment advocates, Allen Professor Rodney Smolla understands that burden …

Unmasking Federalism, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Judge John Noonan has astutely chronicled law and society over a half century. He was a professor for twenty-five years, authoring such classics as Persons and Masks of the Law, and has rendered distinguished service since 1985 on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.Thus, the publication of Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States ("Narrowing') would be important, even if the monograph were only a venerated scholar's reflections on his long, rich experience. This book, however, is a provocative critique that meticulously and incisively exposes the Court's new federalism and separation of …

Detentions, Military Commissions, Terrorism And Domestic Case Precedent, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Laura Dickinson's recent article in this journal substantially improves appreciation of how the United States has detained suspects and instituted military commissions as well as of the roles played by the controversial procedure and tribunals when fighting terrorism. She meticulously traces how detentions and the commissions evolved, trenchantly criticizes them, and persuasively shows international tribunals' comparative advantage. Dickinson accords relevant domestic case precedent a somewhat laconic analysis, however. For example, she briefly mentions separation-of-powers concerns and Supreme Court opinions that detentions and military commissions implicate while rather tersely assessing Ex parte Quirin, the Second World War decision on which …

Justice Byron White And The Importance Of Process, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Justice Byron White exhibited acute sensitivity to process during his exceptional career on the Supreme Court. This essay affords several illustrations of that characteristic. One was his perceptive account of the Court's responsibility for amending the rules which mainly govern federal district court practice. The second was careful stewardship of a federal appellate court study authorized by Congress after the jurist had resigned. Another was his persistent dissents from denials of petitions for Supreme Court review. These examples relate to the three levels in the federal judicial hierarchy, and demonstrate Justice White's abiding concern for each constituent and the whole …

From A Cattle Ranch To The Supreme Court, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Review of Sandra Day O'Connor, Lazy B: Growing Up On A Cattle Ranch In The American Southwest (2002).

Where Were The Counselors - Reflections On Advice Not Given And The Role Of Attorneys In The Accounting Crisis, William O. Fisher

Law Faculty Publications

Today's reports of corporate villainy invite these questions: Restricting ourselves to what the profession knew in the last days of the late 1990s soaring stock market, what advice might attorneys have given-about the temptations of deceptive accounting and the defenses to erect against it-to young executives who were taking their companies public then? And, if attorneys did not always give that counsel in fulsome form, why was that so? What forces worked on lawyers to deter that advice? What does all this suggest for counseling today? To help us answer these questions, we begin with two scenes. We return to …

Contractual Choice Of Law And The Prudential Foundations Of Appellate Review, David Frisch

Law Faculty Publications

What are the advantages and disadvantages of appellate review of trial court rulings on issues of foreign law? What exactly does judicial review of unsettled questions of foreign law accomplish? What is its price? These questions are of considerable theoretical interest and immense practical importance. Their resolution calls for inquiries into the allocation of judicial authority and in its production of outcomes in the real world. The discussion proceeds first by briefly describing in Part II some of the causes and effects of the steadily increasing caseloads in appellate courts. After demonstrating that these caseloads may soon become unmanageable, Part …

Protecting Children From Pornography On The Internet: Freedom Of Speech Is Pitching And Congress May Strike Out, Dawn S. Conrad

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

The Internet provides the First Amendment’s “freedom of speech” with a world of opportunity. Any person with access to the Internet may take advantage of a wide variety of information and communication methods. This unique medium, known to its users as cyberspace, is located in no particular geographical location and has no centralized control point, but is available to anyone, anywhere in the world with access." In the past twenty years, the Internet, a network of connected computers, has experienced extraordinary growth. The number of “host” computers, or those that store information and relay communications, increased between the years of …

Museletter: December 2002, James Wirrell

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B.N.A Services Online: Easier Access to Useful B.N.A. Titles by James Wirrell

Winter Break Hours: Happy Holidays!

Website of the Month -- Finding Basic British Law on the Internet

Winter Closings

Holiday Humor

Museletter: November 2002, James Wirrell

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Let's Get Technical: Meet the Technical Services Staff by James Wirrell

Exam Hours

Website of the Month: Virginia General Assembly's Legislative Information System (http://leg1.state.va.us/lis.htm)

ID Please: Restricted Access to the Law Library During Exam Period Evenings for Certain Users Will Begin Again

"New Books" Function on Library Catalog

Lexis and Westlaw Updates

Environmental Law, Lisa Spickler Goodwin

University of Richmond Law Review

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Health Care Law, Peter M. Mellette, Emily W. G. Towey, J. Vaden Hunt

University of Richmond Law Review

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Corporate And Business Law, C. Porter Vaughan Iii, David I. Meyers, W. Lake Taylor Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

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Technology Law, J. Douglas Cuthbertson, Glen L. Gross

University of Richmond Law Review

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Restoring Fiscal Integrity To Virginia Government Is Highest Priority, Mark Warner

University of Richmond Law Review

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Labor And Employment Law, Thomas M. Winn Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

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Education Law, D. Patrick Lacy Jr., Kathleen S. Mehfoud

University of Richmond Law Review

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Wills, Trusts, And Estates, J. Rodney Johnson

University of Richmond Law Review

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Family Law, Elizabeth P. Coughter, Ronald R. Tweel

University of Richmond Law Review

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Real Estate And Land Use Law, John V. Cogbill Iii, D. Brennen Keene

University of Richmond Law Review

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Criminal Law And Procedure, Julie E. Mcconnell, Gregory Franklin, Craig Winston Stallard

University of Richmond Law Review

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Islamic Law Vs. Patriarchal Systems: A Woman's Perspective, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

Law Faculty Publications

It is best to understand Islam through its core concept,· adalah (justice). This is a complex concept that thoroughly permeates the Islamic worldview. It is not reducible to retributive justice, because it is a higher-order concept whose backbone is the Mizaan (balance and harmony).

Richmond Law Magazine: Fall 2002

Richmond Law Magazine

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Fulfilling the Promise

Top Legal Minds

Museletter: September/October 2002, James Wirrell

Museletter

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In the Public Eye: Meet the Reference and Circulation Staff by James Wirrell

Faculty and Students: Don't Forget the Law Library's Electronic Exam Site!

Hein-On-Line Update

Muse Library Facts

Website of the Month: http://www.yourdictionary.com

Meet Marcella!

Lexis and Westlaw Updates

Museletter: August 2002, James Wirrell

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Welcome New and Returning Students by Timothy L. Coggins

Electronic Reserves - Coming to a Computer Near You!

Library Policy Reminder [Drink; cell phones]

Library Fines - a Reminder!

Muse Library Facts

"My Account" on Voyager - Manager Your Library Account Online

Weingarten In The Nonunion Workplace: Looking In The Funhouse Mirror, Ann C. Hodges

Law Faculty Publications

The National Labor Relations Board's extension of the Weingarten decision, granting the right to union representation at pre-disciplinary interviews, to the nonunion workplace was recently upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.- Section 7's, protection of concerted activity and the symmetrical protection of union and nonunion employees alike renders the decision sensible and supportable. Nevertheless, closer examination ofthe decision's consequences suggests that the application ofthe Weingarten right in the nonunion workplace results in a distorted reflection ofthe right's application in the unionized workplace. The situations are not mirror images. Thus, some adjustments to the interpretation ofthe …

Terrorism And Assassination: Political Assassination As An Instrument Of National Policy - An Inquiry Into Operations, Expediency, Morality, And The Law, Jeff Addicott, June Aprille, William C. Banks, Azizah Al-Hibri, Julie Laskaris, Peter Raven-Hansen, Gary Solis, Porcher Taylor, Robert Turner

University of Richmond Law Review Symposium

The 2002 Symposium opened on Thursday, April 11, with a role-playing exercise and town meeting: Assassination of a Terrorist Enemy. In this session, a group of nationally prominent political leaders, policy makers, scholars, and members of the intelligence, military, religious and civil liberties communities engaged in a role-playing exercise exploring a fictional scenario posing the question of whether the United States should undertake an operation to assassinate the leader of a terrorist organization deemed responsible for acts of violence against the United States. The issue was explored through historical, moral, religious, operational, political, diplomatic, and legal perspectives. The final segment …

Museletter: April/May 2002, Gail F. Zwirner

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ID Please: New Policy Restricts Access to the Law Library During Exam Period Evenings for Certain Users

Lexis and Westlaw Provide Summer Access for Students Involved in Law School Activities

Alcoa-Reynolds Building - Law School Will Not Move by Timothy L. Coggins

Spring Exam Schedule

10 Tips for Summer Associate Research Survival: A View from a Former Law Firm Librarian (Repeated by request, previously published in April 2001 Museletter) by Gail F. Zwirner

Carrel Information by Deborah Barlett

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Incentives For Hiring Welfare-To-Work Participants, Mary L. Heen

Law Faculty Publications

The Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, signed into law by President Bush on March 9th, extends the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) and the Welfare-to-Work Tax Credit (WtW) for two more years. The credits provide employers with tax incentives to hire former long-term welfare recipients and certain other economically disadvantaged workers, a goal that comports with the welfare-to-work focus of welfare reform legislation adopted by Congress in 1996. This article describes these employer tax credits, explains how they have evolved from prior versions of similar targeted tax credits, and considers their operation as tax-delivered subsidies.

Foreword, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

Law Faculty Publications

Recent world events have also underlined the fact that the shrinking global village is not moving automatically towards increased democracy, peace and cooperation. The use of force continues to be the preferred tool for conflict resolution, despite all claims to the contrary. To complicate matters, the new technological innovations are bringing violence instantaneously to our doorstep. Conflicts in far away regions of the world can no longer be ignored. They have cast their shadow over our cities. The dream of the global village has become a nightmare, with no apparent exit. What can we do about it?