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Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone, Sompong Sucharitkul

Publications

Among the latest developments inducing system compliance is the conclusion of the Treaty on Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone on December 15, 1995 during the Fifth ASEAN Summit in Bangkok. As the Author of a Note introducing this Treaty in a recent publication of the American Society of International law, I am particularly pleased to have been invited to present to the Workshop the impact and implications of the Bangkok Treaty.

Death Knell For The “Other Security” Deficiency Exception?, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses the California purchase money antideficiency prohibition, and the “other security” exception to that rule.

Notes From The Underground, November, 1997

Newsletters

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National Evaluation Of G.R.E.A.T., Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Class Action, Fall 1997, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Class Action

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Not Otherwise In Default, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article contrasts prepayment and late payment charges involved in a California case where a lender imposed a $115,000 prepayment charge because the mortgagor was late in an earlier installment payment.

Budgeting For Federal Water Projects: Report To The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, Eop Foundation, Washington, Dc

Federal Documents

This report:

• Provides an overview of total budget and deficit reduction efforts by the Administration and the Congress,

• Provides an analysis of individual water resource programs and highlights the trends and policy issues that are clearly identified in the budget analysis, and

• Addresses the use of coordinated program and budget development among Federal agencies.

An Offer You Can't Refuse? Punishment Without Trial In Italy And The United States: The Search For Truth And An Efficient Criminal Justice System, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

This Article compares the steps taken by Italy and the United States to reconcile the need for an efficient criminal justice system on the one hand, and the desire to achieve justice or discover the truth on the other. Plea bargaining in the United States has a significant history and has generated a substantial amount of literature critical of the device as violative of a criminal defendant's constitutional rights, particularly the right to be tried by a jury of one's peers. In addition, scholars have criticized the distortive effect of plea bargaining on the roles of the prosecutor, judge, and …

Age Patterns Of Victims Of Serious Violent Crime, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Sex Differences In Violent Victimization, 1994, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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One Action Or One Exception: Bank Of America V Graves, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case where a junior creditor postponed its foreclosure proceedings in order to have the senior sale occur first in order to treat itself as a sold-out junior.

Colorado River Basin Study. Report To The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Committee, Dale Pontius

Federal Documents

This report cannot possibly cover all the issues of concern in the Colorado River basin. The basin is vast and diverse geographically, ethnically, and politically. Conflicts over water are part of its history, as water has been the defining resource in the settlement and development of the Colorado River basin. A complex set of laws, a treaty, court decrees, contracts, agreements, regulations and traditions of use have evolved over this past century which have governed water policy and management decisions. Over the last few decades, new social values have emerged in the basin and across the country which reflect an …

Violence-Related Injuries Treated In Hospital Emergency Departments, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

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Confronting The Abuse Excuse, Susan Rutberg

Publications

Review of "Black Rage Confronts the Law" by Paul Harris.

Inclusive Teaching Methods Across The Curriculum: Academic ·Resource And Law Teachers Tie A Knot At The Aals, David Dominguez, Laurie Zimet, Fran Ansley, Charles Daye, Rodney O. Fong

Publications

This article describes an educational journey of seven diverse law teachers, located in different parts of the country, at various stages of our careers, who, in the course of preparing a simple panel, found that we had created a truly rewarding experience of our own. We write with the conviction that we need to share what we learned from those four months of "schoolwork" and from the AALS program we eventually presented in January, 1997. As we reconstruct our collaboration on inclusive teaching methods and ponder where it is taking us, we find we worked through the following stages of …

Solomonic Priority, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses the effect on priority in California when a senior lender modifies its loan to capitalize arrearages without consent of the junior.

Water Management Study: Upper Rio Grande Basin. Final Report. Report To The Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission, Ernie Niemi, Tom Mcguckin

Federal Documents

In September, 1996, the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission contracted with ECONorthwest to study the major problems associated with the growing competition for scarce water and related resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin, and to make recommendations for appropriate federal policies and actions for addressing the problems. This is our final report. The study covers the area from the headwaters, in Colorado, to Ft. Quitman, Texas (see map).

In this report we identify problems and make recommendations associated with the growing competition for scarce water and related resources in the Upper Rio Grande Basin. Our definition of problems …

Portable Guides To Investigating Child Abuse: An Overview, Us Department Of Justice

Juvenile Justice Bulletin

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Keeping Young People In School: Community Programs That Work, Us Department Of Justice

Juvenile Justice Bulletin

No abstract provided.

National Assessment Of The Byrne Formula Grant Program, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Research in Brief

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Commencement Address, 1997, Ming W. Chin

Commencement

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Is Your Best Woman Really A Man? Nurturing A New Image Of Women Criminal Defenders, Susan Rutberg

Publications

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California Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin To Speak At Golden Gate University School Of Law Graduation

Press Releases

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Trading Mortgages For Judgments Against Community Property, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses the incompatibility between California Family Code sections that require the signature of both spouses to lease, convey, or encumber community real property, but also make the community property liable for the debts of either spouse.

Know Your Rights: A Guide To Employment Law For California Workers, Marci Seville, Maria Blanco, Whitney Gabriel, Anne Yen

Women’s Employment Rights Clinic

The Women's Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law has written this handbook to help guide California employees who have legal questions regarding their employment. The chapters include broad overviews of different areas of the law. The law changes frequently, and this book contains only basic information. Employees should use this handbook as a starting place for further action and advice; it is not meant to be a substitute for legal counsel.

Sompong Sucharitkul, John K. Waters

Articles About Faculty

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Class Action, Spring 1997, Golden Gate University School Of Law

Class Action

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Prudence Or Paranoia?, Roger Bernhardt

Publications

This article discusses a California case that implicitly imposed a duty to inquire as to whether a recorded loan is inferior to another unrecorded and unknown loan.

International Law In The Nigerian Legal System, Christian N. Okeke

Publications

The central argument of this paper is that the character of a nation's system of law is inextricably connected with its socio-economic, cultural, religious and political make-up. To understand the attitude of a nation towards other nations, one must not be ignorant of the laws through which that nation gives expression to its sense of justice and regulates its structure. Furthermore, one must bear in mind that each system of law has different concepts through which its law is expressed, language through which it is explained, categories by which it is organized, and legal rules which themselves embody the law …

Criminal Victimization, 1973-95, Us Department Of Justice

National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs

No abstract provided.