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The Fourth Era Of American Civil Procedure, Thomas O. Main, Stephen N. Subrin
The Fourth Era Of American Civil Procedure, Thomas O. Main, Stephen N. Subrin
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Every contemporary American lawyer who has engaged in litigation is familiar with the now fifty-four-volume treatise, Federal Practice and Procedure. Both of that treatise’s named authors, Charles Alan Wright and Arthur Miller, have mourned the death of a Federal Rules regime that they spent much of their professional lives explaining and often celebrating. Wright shared a sense of gloom about federal procedure that he compared to the setting before World War I. Miller has also published a series of articles that chronicled his grief.
We agree that something has fundamentally changed. In fact, we believe that we are in …
Conferring About The Conference (Recalibrating Copyright: Continuity, Contemporary Culture, And Change), Marketa Trimble
Conferring About The Conference (Recalibrating Copyright: Continuity, Contemporary Culture, And Change), Marketa Trimble
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Professor Marketa Trimble and her colleagues Professors Jessica Silbey and Aaron Perzanowski reflect on papers presented at the University of Houston Law Center's Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law's annual conference held in Spring of 2014.
Introduction: Collaboration Good Or Bad: How Is It Working On The Colorado River?, Jean R. Sternlight
Introduction: Collaboration Good Or Bad: How Is It Working On The Colorado River?, Jean R. Sternlight
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This is an introduction to articles submitted as part of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution’s Symposium, Collaboration and the Colorado River. The Symposium focused on the uses of collaboration to resolve environmental and natural resource disputes pertaining to the Colorado River.
This written version of the conference now builds upon the live event. We are most fortunate that many (unfortunately not all) of the speakers were able to contribute articles to comprise this written version of the Symposium. In their papers, presenters have expanded on their oral remarks and responded to points made by others during the conference.
Foreword: Confronting The Rights Deficit At Home And Abroad, Ruben J. Garcia
Foreword: Confronting The Rights Deficit At Home And Abroad, Ruben J. Garcia
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In this foreword, the author introduces the idea of the rights deficit faced by people of color and low socioeconomic status by linking it to related debates—first on the nature of rights and second on whether there are domestic and international “democracy deficits.” Then the author describes the essays from the 2006 Western Law Professors of Color Conference in the three groups in which they appear in the issue. One group of essays focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for the domestic rights deficit. In the area of education law and policy, the issue is not just the rights …
Etchings On Glass: Reflections On The Science Of Proof, Louise Harmon
Etchings On Glass: Reflections On The Science Of Proof, Louise Harmon
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