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The Legal Construction Of Race: Mexican-Americans And Whiteness, George A. Martinez

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In light of the privileged status of whiteness and these important critical race projects, this essay seeks to examine a number of issues concerning Mexican-Americans and whiteness. In particular, this essay seeks to examine how legal actors - courts and others –constructed the race of Mexican-Americans. In this regard, the essay seeks to examine whether the law constructed Mexican-Americans as white and whether they received the benefits traditionally associated with whiteness. The essay also explores the importance of group definition and argues that an examination of whiteness and Mexican-Americans has implications for the affirmative action debate. The article also explores …

International Commercial Transactions: 1996, Peter Winship

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The year 1996 was a quiet one in the world of international commercial law. The principal accomplishment was the adoption of a Model Law on Electronic Commerce, but progress was also made on several international secured transactions projects. The following survey focuses on these and other projects that touch on subject matter within the scope of the Uniform Commercial Code.' As in the past,2 the survey examines completed projects, pending projects, and proposed projects before the U.N. Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and the Organization of American States (OAS).3 …

Handbook Of The Law Of Antitrust By Lawrence Sullivan, C. Paul Rogers Iii.

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Comparing United States And New Zealand Legal Education: Are U.S. Law Schools Too Good?, Gregory S. Crespi

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This Article offers a comparison of the legal education systems of the United States and New Zealand. While it was originally published in 1997 in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and has been largely overlooked in more recent years, it is germane to the current vigorous debate regarding what changes need to be made in American legal education. I highlight in this Article several significant differences between these two systems by contrasting their admissions policies, clinical programs, availability of "law-and-economics" electives, and staffing of required courses. Based on this analysis, I concluded that although American law schools were clearly …

Putting The Chicago School Debate In Proper Perspective, Gregory S. Crespi

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Dutch Uncle Sam: Immigration Reform And Notions Of Family, Lolita Buckner Inniss

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On Law And Truth, George A. Martinez

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The Res Judicata Effect Of Bankruptcy Court Judgments: The Procedural And Constitutional Concerns, George A. Martinez

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This article seeks to resolve the conflict in the circuits and argues that bankruptcy court judgments should not bar the assertion of non-core claims because to do so violates the basic principles of res judicata and threatens to undermine fundamental Article III values or create judicial inefficiencies in an effort to preserve such values.

Part II of the article provides the relevant Article III background, and identifies the key Article III cases: Northern Pipeline Construction Company v. Marathon Pipe Line Company and Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor. This section explores the impact of Northern Pipeline which held that the …

The Lessee's Right Of Free Use Of Produced Substances: New Wine In Old Bottles, John S. Lowe

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The move in the United States to restructure the electric power industry will present the oil and gas industry with synergistic opportunities that have been widely discussed in the trade press. The commentary has focused, however, upon competition in the public utility industry and the effects of the wave of mergers that increased competition is likely to cause.

This paper will explore an incidental benefit presented to oil and gas producers by the increased flexibility of electric distribution companies - the possibility that oil or gas produced from a property can be traded, royalty free, for electricity or other services, …

Does The Chicago School Need To Expand Its Curriculum, Gregory S. Crespi

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