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Arbitrating Employment Law Disputes, William L. Corbett

Montana Law Review

Arbitrating Employment Law Disputes

Embracing Big Brother? State V. A Blue In Color, 1993 Chevrolet Pickup, Jeffrey D. Perkins

Montana Law Review

Embracing Big Brother?

Keynote Address: The Right To Privacy, James C. Nelson

Montana Law Review

Keynote Address: The Right to Privacy

Tribute To James C. Nelson

Montana Law Review

Tribute to James C. Nelson

Privacy And Same-Sex Marriage: The Case For Treating Same-Sex Marriage As A Human Right, Vincent J. Samar

Montana Law Review

Same-Sex Marriage as a Human Right

Bespeaking Justice: A History Of Indigent Defense In Montana, James Park Taylor

Montana Law Review

Indigent Defense in Montana

Odious, Not Debt, Anna Gelpern

Law and Contemporary Problems

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 revived public and academic debate about a wobbly old doctrine of international law: the Doctrine of Odious Debt. This doctrine allows governments to disavow debts incurred by their predecessors without the consent of or benefit for the people, provided creditors knew of the taint. It has roots in nineteenth century jostles over colonial possessions. However, for the past eighty years, Odious Debt's rhetorical appeal has vastly outstripped its "legal vitality." Here, Gelpern argues that the Doctrine of Odious Debt frames the problem of odious debt in a way that excludes a large number, …

Odious Debt, Odious Credit, Economic Development, And Democratization, Tom Ginsburg, Thomas S. Ulen

Law and Contemporary Problems

When a country signs an international treaty, it is not the government but the state that is bound, and the obligation will stand until a subsequent government formally exits the treaty. Exit is presumed to be costly: a government that "repudiates" earlier treaty obligations will suffer reputational harm in its international relations. Moreover, this general background norm of international law applies as well to debt: a government can announce that it is renouncing debt, but it will suffer severe reputational harm in the debt marketplace, much as a government that repudiates public international law obligations suffers a reputational harm. Here, …

The Power Structure: Energy, Politics, And The Public Interest In The Lng Debate, Irma S. Russell

Faculty Works

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A How To Guide For Incorporating Global And Comparative Perspectives Into The Required Professional Responsibility Course, Laurel S. Terry

Faculty Scholarly Works

This article was written for an AALS symposium on "Teaching Legal Ethics" and discusses how to incorporate global and comparative perspectives into the required Professional Responsibility course. The scope of the paper is much broader, however. The first half of the paper explains why global and comparative perspectives are relevant to contemporary law practice. This section explains why global perspectives are relevants to clients and lawyers and explains why lawyer regulators now use a more global approach to regulation than previously. The second half illustrates how one can introduce global and comparative perspectives into a professional responsibility course without taking …

Moral Judgment And Professional Legitimation, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In this essay I would like to consider the nature of the role of lawyers from the point of view of both jurisprudence and the sociology of professions. From this perspective it is apparent that the judgment characteristic of lawyers' expertise is not primarily the exercise of ethical discretion. Rather, it is the application of legal norms, which may incorporate moral principles by reference, but which are analytically distinct from morality. The task of legal education, and specifically of legal ethics education, might include training lawyers to be better at making moral judgments. In fact, there has been a fairly …

Social Security Reform: Fundamental Restructuring Or Incremental Change?, Kathryn L. Moore

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In light of Social Security's long-term deficit, reform of the system appears inevitable. Commentators and policymakers have offered a wide range of possible reforms. This Article describes and analyzes five possible types of reform: (1) individual accounts, (2) progressive price indexing, (3) general revenue and/or estate tax revenue financing, (4) increasing the maximum taxable wage base, and (5) increasing the normal retirement. The Article opposes the first two proposed changes, individual accounts and progressive price indexing, because they would fundamentally restructure the current system. The Article recommends that Social Security's financing difficulties be addressed by a combination of estate tax …

When Is A "Minor" Also An "Adult"?: An Adolescent's Liberty Interest In Accessing Contraceptives From Public School Distribution Programs, Joshua A. Douglas

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Imagine “Mary,” a sixteen-year-old junior in high school, who has been dating “John,” a seventeen-year-old senior, for three years in a serious relationship. Mary knows that she and John should practice safe sex, and she does not want to become pregnant or catch a sexually transmitted disease. However, she is concerned that her parents will not approve of her activities and will not help her in obtaining contraceptives. John also feels that he is mature enough to make the decision to have sex, yet he knows that his parents will want to consent before he can receive condoms from his …

Trial Practice And Procedure, John O'Shea Sullivan, Ashby L. Kent

Mercer Law Review

The 2006 survey period yielded several noteworthy decisions in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals relating to federal trial practice and procedure, many of which involved issues of first impression. This Article analyzes several recent developments in the Eleventh Circuit, including significant rulings in the areas of class actions, subject matter jurisdiction, statutory interpretation, judicial estoppel, civil procedure, and other issues of interest to the trial practitioner.

Daimlerchrysler V. Cuno: The Supreme Court Hits The Brakes On Determining The Constitutionality Of Investment Incentives Given By States To Corporate America, Jonathan Edwards

Mercer Law Review

In DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno, the United States Supreme Court, under the pen of Chief Justice Roberts, unanimously held that state taxpayers did not have Article III standing to challenge local property tax abatements and investment tax credits given to DaimlerChrysler Corporation ("Daimler"). Claiming standing as municipal and state taxpayers, the plaintiffs challenged the City of Toledo and the State of Ohio's decisions to offer Daimler certain exemptions from and reductions of its local property and state franchise taxes. The Court held that the plaintiffs failed to satisfy the injury-in-fact and redressability requirements of standing because their alleged injury …

Separation Of Religion And Law?: Buddhism, Secularism And The Constitution Of Bhutan, Richard W. Whitecross

Buffalo Law Review

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The Journal of Law and Education

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Re-Examining The Constitutionality Of Prayer In School In Light Of The Resignation Of Justice O'Connor, Julie F. Mead, Preston C. Green, Joseph O. Oluwole

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Primary And Secondary Education - Law Review Digests

The Journal of Law and Education

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Primary And Secondary Education - Recent Developments In The Law

The Journal of Law and Education

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Random Drug Testing In Public Schools, Michael Loesevitz

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Claim Construction, Appeal, And The Predictability Of Interpretive Regimes, Jeffrey A. Lefstin

University of Miami Law Review

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America's Drug War And The Right To Privacy, Norm Stamper

Montana Law Review

America's Drug War and the Right to Privacy

Challenging The Constitutionality Of Montana's Statute Limiting Medical Malpractice Non-Economic Damages, Alexander Blewett Iv

Montana Law Review

Challenging Montana's Limits

Recent Decisions Affecting The Montana Practitioner

Montana Law Review

Recent Decisions

News Media As Mediators, Carol Pauli

Faculty Scholarship

Journalism thrives on conflict, a classic "news value," which can make a story newsworthy. As a result, the normal routines of reporters and editors tend to emphasize extreme voices and combative themes, triggering the criticism that news coverage of an event is "more likely to escalate a conflict than to pacify it."

Even so, journalism has made some legendary journeys into conflict resolution. In 1977, for example, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite conducted separate interviews with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which led directly to Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem. In 1985, Ted Koppel, in …

Tactical Level Psyop And Mildec Information Operations: How To Smartly And Lawfully Prime The Battlefield, Joshua E. Kastenberg

Faculty Scholarship

The subject matter and scope of this article is limited to providing a framework for legal oversight to the planning and execution of tactical level PSYOP and MILDEC operations. As a result, it does not cover in detail issues such as neutrality, operations conducted within the United States which impact the Constitution, or combatant command authorities and their attendant supporting and supported relations. Rather, it seeks to provide a roadmap for a JA or legal representative assigned to an IO cell in support of tactical military operations.

The Existing Legal Infrastructure Of Brics: Where Have We Been And Where Are We Going, Robert B. Ahdieh, Zhu Lee, Srividhya Ragavan, Kevin Noonan, Clinton W. Francis

Faculty Scholarship

The focus of this panel is incrementally shifting from the previous panel. Whereas the previous was looking at public/private issues and issues relating to incentivizing innovation in the subject countries, we're going to take a focus more on, I think it's safe to say, from an external perspective looking at these countries and issues that are confronted by businesses who our either planning to deal with the four subject countries or are concerned about their technologies being used in their four subject countries.

We have four panelists, and each of them is going to speak to one of the four …

From Darfur To Sinai To Kashmir: Ethno-Religious Conflicts And Legalization, Sandeep Gopalan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law, Buddhism, And Social Change: A Conversation With The 14th Dalai Lama September 20-21, 2006, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.