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Naturalness And Biodoversity: Why Natural Conditions Should Be Maintained Within Protected Areas, Gordon Steinhoff

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Virginia's Moratorium: Is Uranium Mining On The Horizon In The Commonwealth?, William Brice Fiske

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Red, White, And Green: A Federal Sustainability Vision For The National Capital, L. Preston Bryant Jr.

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Monsanto V. Geertson Farms: Congressional Intent, Judicial Infidelity, And The National Environmental Policy Act, Alexander Macdonald

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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The Duty To Advise The Lorax: Environmental Advocacy And The Risk Of Reform, Keith W. Rizzardi

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Lawyers have an ethical duty to advise their clients on moral, economic, social, and political matters. When applied to the changing field of environmental law, this abstract notion becomes provocative. Lawyers should advise their environmental advocacy clients of the possibility that their efforts to apply statutes or rules might initially succeed, but subsequent legislative reactions might defund, reform, or repeal the laws the client’s case relied upon. As a client’s sophistication decreases, or as the risk of adverse reactions to the client’s environmental advocacy increases, the lawyer’s duty to advise the client of these risks can shift from discretionary to …

Reliable Science: Overcoming Public Doubts In The Climate Change Debate, Michelle S. Simon, William Pentland

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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A Legislative Solution To Environmental Protection In Military Action Overseas, Sarah Hilbert

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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The Tsunami Of March 2011 And The Subsequent Nuclear Incident At Fukushima: Who Compensates The Victims, Michael Faure, Jing Liu

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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Shaping California's Prisons: How The Alternative Custody Program, Designed To Remedy The State's Eighth Amendment Violations In The Prison System, Encroaches On Equal Protection, Emilie A. Whitehurst

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself: Islamophobia And The Recently Proposed Unconstitutional And Unnecessary Anti-Religion Laws, Lee Tankle

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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A Clarification Of The Constitution's Application Abroad: Making The "Impracticable And Anomalous" Standard More Practicable And Less Anomalous, Jesse Merriam

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Bridging The Liability Gap: How Kowalski's Interpretation Of Reasonable Foreseeability Limits School Liability For Inaction In Cases Of Cyberbullying, Christopher A. Sickles

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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Constitutional Limits On The Right Of Government Investigations To Interview And Examine Alleged Victims Of Child Abuse Or Neglect, Teri Dobbins Baxter

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Investigating allegations of child abuse or neglect presents unique challenges, particularly if parents or guardians are the alleged perpetrators. Those accused of harming the children are in a position to prevent the victims from getting access to the help they need to escape their abuser(s). The courts have not clearly defined the federal constitutional boundaries of searches and seizures in this context. The Supreme Court, in particular, has not weighed in on the constitutionality of warrantless searches and seizures in connection with abuse and neglect investigations. This lack of Supreme Court guidance has led to unpredictable and sometimes conflicting opinions …

Creating Hammer V. Dagenhart, Logan E. Sawyer Iii

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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The Real Rules Of "Search" Interpretations, Luke M. Milligan

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The Supreme Court tells us that a Fourth Amendment “search” is a matter of “reasonable expectations of privacy.” Scholars meanwhile debate “search” on the axes of value, doctrine, institutionalism, interpretation, and judicial politics. Yet neither prevailing judicial doctrine nor normative academic discourse has had much impact on the Court’s actual “search” interpretations. This article suggests that this static between “paper” rules and “real” rules (and, more generally, normative prescriptions and judicial decisionmaking) is a function of a deep constraint on the judiciary’s capacity to form “search” doctrine in free accordance with evolving juridical and policy norms. This constraint is one …

Beyond Morrison: The Effect Of The "Presumption Against Extraterritoriality" And The Transactional Test On Foreign Tender Offers, Vladislava Soshkina

William & Mary Law Review

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Information Wants To Be Free (Of Sanctions): Why The President Cannot Prohibit Foreign Access To Social Media Under U.S. Export Regulations, Jarred O. Taylor Iii

William & Mary Law Review

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Cities, Property, And Positive Externalities, Gideon Parchomovsky, Peter Siegelman

William & Mary Law Review

Cities are the locales of numerous interactions that generate externalities—both negative and positive. Although the common law provides a vast array of mechanisms for limiting negative externalities, there is a striking absence of provisions for stimulating the production of positive ones. As a consequence, activities whose social benefits are greater than their private costs are not undertaken, with a resulting efficiency loss.

In this Article, we demonstrate how cities can develop commercial districts that allow for the capture of positive externalities by following the example of suburban malls. In malls, anchor stores provide positive externalities—additional customers—to neighboring stores. Anchors capture …

The Equal Protection Implications Of Government's Hateful Speech, Helen Norton

William & Mary Law Review

Under what circumstances should we understand government’s racist or otherwise hateful speech to violate the Equal Protection Clause? Government speech that communicates hostility or animus on the basis of race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, or other class status can facilitate private parties’ discriminatory behavior, deter its targets from certain important opportunities or activities, and communicate a message of exclusion and second-class status. Contemporary equal protection doctrine, however, does not yet fully address the harms that such government expression potentially poses. The recent emergence of the Court’s government speech doctrine—which to date has emphasized the value of government expression without …

Resolving Election Error: The Dynamic Assessment Of Materiality, Justin Levitt

William & Mary Law Review

The ghosts of the 2000 presidential election will return in 2012. Photo-finish and error-laden elections recur in each cycle. When the margin of error exceeds the margin of victory, officials and courts must decide which, if any, errors to discount or excuse, knowing that the answer will likely determine the election’s winner. Yet despite widespread agreement on the likelihood of another national meltdown, neither courts nor scholars have developed consistent principles for resolving the errors that cause the chaos.

This Article advances such a principle, reflecting the underlying values of the electoral process. It argues that the resolution of an …

Jurisdictional Procedure, Justin Pidot

William & Mary Law Review

Scholars have lavished attention on the substance of jurisdictional doctrines such as standing, mootness, diversity, and federal question. They have left largely unexamined, however, the procedures courts use to address these doctrines; collectively, I refer to these procedures as “jurisdictional procedure.” A paramount feature of jurisdictional procedure is the unique and virtually unqualified obligation federal courts possess to identify and decide issues of subject matter jurisdiction even if the parties and lower courts overlook these issues. Courts have reached no consensus about how to identify the facts necessary to effectuate this obligation. The confluence of court-initiated legal inquiry and unpredictable …

Setting The Statute Of Limitations In United States V. Home Concrete & Supply, Llc, 132 S. Ct. 1836 (2012), Joan I. Oppenheimer

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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A Primer On Us. Taxation Of International Transactions (Outline), William B. Sherman

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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School Of Risk Control Excellence: Responsibilities In Tax Practice And Malpractice Risks, Diane S. Wainwright

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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An Objective View Of Insurance: Advanced Life Insurance Planning Case Studies (Slides), Thomas J. Pauloski

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Statute Of Limitations For Overstatements Of Basis, Richard T. Rice

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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A Primer On Us. Taxation Of International Transactions (Slides), William B. Sherman

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Partnership Tax Planning Without Falling Into The Canal (Slides), Andrea M. Whiteway

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Federal Tax Update: Structuring Deals In 2012 And Beyond (Slides), Stephen L. Owen

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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Introduction To M&A Tax: Due Diligence Traps In S Corp Acquisitions (Slides), Robert G. Mcelroy, William M. Richardson

William & Mary Annual Tax Conference

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