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The Implementation Of Oregon’S Death With Dignity Act: Reassuring, But More Data Are Needed, David Orentlicher

Scholarly Works

Undoubtedly, empirical data from Oregon will play a key role for academics, legislators, judges, and the public as debate over the legalization of physician-assisted suicide continues. A central issue in the debate is whether a right to assisted suicide can be limited to only the truly compelling cases, or whether it will in practice be provided to patients who choose it out of depression, coercion, or misunderstanding. Empirical research can provide critical insights into this question.

Judicial Termination Of Treaty Water Rights: The Snake River Case, Judith Royster, Michael C. Blumm, Dale D. Goble, Mary Christina Wood

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

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Remarks, Golden Pen Award, Mary Beth Beazley

Scholarly Works

Professor Beazley, then President of the Legal Writing Institute, joins her colleagues in presenting the inaugural Golden Pen Award to Arthur Levitt, Chairman of the United States Securities Exchange Commission, for his leadership in requiring plain language in financial disclosure documents, in this transcript of the presentation of the award at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.

Going From "Us" To "Them" In Sixty Seconds, Nancy B. Rapoport

Scholarly Works

Observations by a professor who has decided to become an Associate Dean.

Unfinished Business On The Taxpayer Rights Agenda: Achieving Fairness In Transferee Liability Cases, Steve R. Johnson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Beyond Cloning: Expanding Reproductive Options For Same-Sex Couples, David Orentlicher

Scholarly Works

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The Freedom Of Access To Clinic Entrances Act And The Nuremberg Files Web Site: Is The Site Properly Prohibited Or Protected By Speech, Melanie C. Hagan

UC Law Journal

In 1999, a federal jury, in the case of Planned Parenthood v. American Coalition of Life Activists, returned a verdict in plaintiff's favor to the tune of $100 million. At issue was whether the Web site known as The Nuremberg Files, as well as printed "wanted style" posters dubbed The Deadly Dozen, both listing personal information regarding abortion physicians, were "threats" under The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (FACE).

FACE imposes liability on any person who intimidates or attempts to intimidate by force or threat of force any person because that person provides reproductive health services. …

Faculty Diversity As A Clinical Legal Education Imperative, Jon C. Dubin

UC Law Journal

Clinical legal education has rapidly evolved from a novelty or boutique offering in law school curricula to a relatively settled and accepted component of the academy. Much has been written about the composition of law and university faculties, the value of faculty diversity in university and traditional law school educational settings, and proposals for reform. However, scant attention has been paid to the composition of the increasingly significant cadre of law professors engaging in clinical teaching and scholarship and the educational and social consequences of the demographic distribution of clinical faculty positions. In this article, Professor Dubin examines and analyzes …

Black Gaius: A Quest For The Multicultural Origins Of The "Western Legal Tradition", P. G. Monateri

UC Law Journal

This article is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to reconstructing the historical self-consciousness of the Western Legal Tradition, showing the emergence of a model based on the more or less explicit assumptions of Roman, and subsequently Western, legal originalism and supremacy. In the second part, different areas are investigated--contract, theories of government, dispute settlements, and legal culture-to challenge the same existence of a Roman law at the root of modem Western laws. In this way the package of received ideas in legal scholarship about the history and nature of the Western legal culture is revealed to be …

Republican Mothers, Bastards' Fathers And Good Victims: Discarding Citizens And Equal Protection Through The Failures Of Legal Images, Linda Kelly

UC Law Journal

In Republican Mothers, Bastards' Fathers and Good Victims: Discarding Citizens and Equal Protection Through the Failures of Legal Images, Professor Linda Kelly uncovers the influence of gender images in immigration law. While in many areas of law gender perceptions have been exposed, in immigration law legal images of gender remain unspoken and unchallenged. In the recent decision of Miller v. Albright, the Supreme Court declared that while a woman becomes a parent immediately upon the birth of her child, a man is not legally considered a parent until he assumes post-birth responsibility for his child. Miller challenged a provision of …

Watergate: What Was It?, John W. Dean Iii

UC Law Journal

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Transcription Of Legal Ethics Panel Q & A Period, Uc Hastings College Of The Law

UC Law Journal

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"The Local Mindset", D. Lowell Jensen

UC Law Journal

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Teaching Legal Ethics A Quarter Of A Century After Watergate, Ronald D. Rotunda

UC Law Journal

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From Watergate To Generation Next: Opening Remarks, Rory K. Little

UC Law Journal

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Comparing The Nixon And Clinton Impeachments, Fred H. Altshuler

UC Law Journal

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"Volcano Of Change", Reid Weingarten

UC Law Journal

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How High The Crime?, Joseph A. Woods Jr.

UC Law Journal

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Comparing The Scope Of The Federal Government's Authority To Prosecute Federal Corruption And State And Local Corruption: Some Surprising Conclusions And A Proposal, Sara Sun Beale

UC Law Journal

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The Honorable Charles E. Wiggins, Uc Hastings College Of The Law

UC Law Journal

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The Independent Counsel Act, Kenneth W. Starr

UC Law Journal

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Reflections On The Legacy Of Watergate, Richard Ben-Veniste

UC Law Journal

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Pledged To Public Service, Rory K. Little

UC Law Journal

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Divining Regulatory Intent: The Place For A "Legislative History" Of Agency Rules, Lars Noah

UC Law Journal

This Article juxtaposes the recent debates about statutory interpretation and the judicial uses of legislative histories with the relative quiescence over methods for interpreting agency regulations. The latter subject merits more attention than it has received given the relatively greater prevalence and practical import of legislative rules issued by administrative agencies as compared with statutory commands from the legislature. Unlike attempts to understand the legislature's original intent, whether by focusing solely on statutory text or considering extrinsic aids found in various pre-enactment explanatory materials, courts routinely defer to agencies' post-promulgation interpretations of the meaning of their regulations. This grants executive …

Every Conflicts Decision Is A Promise Broken, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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American-Arab -- Getting The Balance Wrong -- Again!, John A. Scanlan

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Procedural Justice In Civil Court Mediation : A Critical Review Of The Literature, & Procedural Justice In Civil Court Mediation : Exploring The Instrumental And Non-Instrumental Processes, Jill A. Howieson

Theses : Honours

This article provides a comprehensive review of research on the issue of procedural justice in dispute resolution procedures, with a particular focus on mediation. The review traces the history of the literature from the early control models of Thibaut and Walker ( 1975), through to the modem relational model postulated by Lind and Tyler (1992-1998). It discusses the major theoretical models of procedural justice in terms of their implications for legal dispute resolution and focuses on mediation procedures used by the civil courts. The models provide a theoretical base for identifying which psychological processes, namely non-instrumental, instrumental or relational, operate …

Practice, Policy, And Pedagogy In A Mandatory Environmental Law Course, Michael Allan Wolf, Joel B. Eisen

Law Faculty Publications

All students at the University of Richmond School of Law are required to complete a first-year course in Environmental Law, as an introduction to the strategies and technicalities of statutory and regulatory regimes. This requirement poses special pedagogical challenges for the instructors. How, for example, is the class to address pollution questions regarding diverse media? Which of the many federal and nonfederal statutory provisions deserve the most (and least attention)? How does the instructor hold the attention of, and gain the most effective work product from, students whose major interests lie outside the area of Environmental Law? What is the …

Should The Brandenburg V. Ohio Incitement Test Apply In Media Violence Tort Cases?, Rodney A. Smolla

Law Faculty Publications

Imagine that you are a newly-installed justice of a state supreme court. An array of cases come before you in your first term posing, in a variety of contexts, questions concerning the extent to which tort liability may be imposed to compensate victims for injuries or death allegedly caused by presentation of violent material in the media. Here are the cases:

I. The manufacturers of a violent video game are sued for wrongful death by the families of victims of school children murdered in a killing spree at a high school. The plaintiffs allege that the teen-aged boy who committed …

In Memoriam: Gary Bellow, Beatrice A. Moulton, Gerald E. Frug, John D. Hamilton Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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