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John Calmore’S America, Robert S. Chang, Catherine Smith Jan 2008

John Calmore’S America, Robert S. Chang, Catherine Smith

Faculty Articles

In their contribution to this symposium honoring Professor John Calmore, Professors Robert Chang and Catherine Smith analyze the recent school desegregation case, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, through the lens of Professor Calmore's work. In particular, they locate this case as part of what Professor Calmore calls the Supreme Court's Racial Project. Understood as a political project that reorganizes and redistributes resources along racial lines, the Supreme Court's Racial Project creates a jurisprudence around race that solidifies the work of the new right and neoconservatives. Borrowing from Calmore's methodology, Professors Chang and Smith clarify …


The Poetry Of Law, Sidney Delong Jan 2008

The Poetry Of Law, Sidney Delong

Faculty Articles

This article examines the literature of statutory drafting. This underappreciated genre is perhaps the last place one would expect to find a sensitive soul struggling to escape the prison house of language. Yet the economic realities facing today's graduate students mean that many former lit majors will find their way onto legislative drafting committees, whence they peek out at us from under the sub-sections of their lives. It is time that this genre was formally recognized. Of course, its artists struggle against the challenge of the form and their achievements must be measured in millimeters rather than miles. This article …


The Parent Trap: Differential Familial Power In Same-Sex Families, Deirdre Bowen Jan 2008

The Parent Trap: Differential Familial Power In Same-Sex Families, Deirdre Bowen

Faculty Articles

Do intact same-sex couples where one member of the couple became pregnant with assisted reproduction or was the primary adopter, and the other member became a parent through second parent adoption, understand the legal protections afforded them? In short the answer is no. An interesting family dynamic arises around those who can claim the true status as parent based on their legal understandings of parenthood and their interactions with the dominant culture. The result of research conducted on this issue indicated that second parent adopters had much less emotional power in the family, but often had more economic power. Even …


You Are Not In Kansas Anymore: Orientation Programs Can Help Students Fly Over The Rainbow, Paula Lustbader Jan 2008

You Are Not In Kansas Anymore: Orientation Programs Can Help Students Fly Over The Rainbow, Paula Lustbader

Faculty Articles

Analogizing Oz to Law School, this article discusses the role of orientation in the law school curriculum and offers implementation strategies to develop an effective orientation. An effective and comprehensive orientation program for law school would have many goals: it should attempt to construct the profession as a calling; create syntactical, substantive, and pedagogical context; communicate care and model empathy and compassion; cultivate community to promote mutual respect, cultural competence, and interdependence; and confirm student self-confidence. In addition to explaining why these are important goals, the article explores possible ways of achieving those goals. It ends with models of different …


In Memoriam: Joseph M. Williams, Chris Rideout Jan 2008

In Memoriam: Joseph M. Williams, Chris Rideout

Faculty Articles

Professor Chris Rideout pays tribute to Joseph M. Williams, 1933-2008, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago and author of Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, among other highly influential works. Professor Rideout shows his appreciation for Williams' generous support and many contributions to the world of writing instruction, especially legal writing.


Remedial Approaches To Human Rights Violations: The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights And Beyond, Thomas Antkowiak Jan 2008

Remedial Approaches To Human Rights Violations: The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights And Beyond, Thomas Antkowiak

Faculty Articles

A sustained reflection upon remedial obligations and possibilities is particularly necessary at this juncture in the development of international law, where important mechanisms with reparative functions have recently sprung up around the world: the International Criminal Court, the African Court of Human Rights, and several national schemes, as a result of proliferating transitional justice initiatives. This article argues for a remedial model that emphasizes the restorative measures of satisfaction and rehabilitation, as well as general assurances of non-repetition. The work first examines the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the only international human rights body with binding …


Storytelling, Narrative Rationality, And Legal Persuasion, Chris Rideout Jan 2008

Storytelling, Narrative Rationality, And Legal Persuasion, Chris Rideout

Faculty Articles

Professor Chris Rideout has long been interested in persuasion, and for many years he has included theories of persuasion in an advanced legal writing seminar that he teaches. He always asks his students the same question—“what persuades in the law?”—and after looking at different theories of persuasion, they then develop their own theory of legal persuasion. When he first taught the course, he had in mind rhetorical models of persuasion, starting with Aristotle and Cicero and moving toward more contemporary rhetorical work. Very quickly, however, he had to add narrative models of persuasion, plus a second question—“what is it about …


Theology In Public Reason And Legal Discourse: A Case For The Preferential Option For The Poor, Russell Powell Jan 2008

Theology In Public Reason And Legal Discourse: A Case For The Preferential Option For The Poor, Russell Powell

Faculty Articles

There is a strange disconnect between the formal understanding of the separation of religion from government in the United States and the almost ubiquitous use of religious language in political discourse, not to mention the web of complicated religious motivations that sit on or just below the surface of policy debates. This paper presents an argument for the relevance of the principle of the "preferential option for the poor" from Catholic social thought in public reason and legal discourse in order to explore the possible advantages of making the veil between religion and the secular state more permeable. As a …


The Fundamental Goal Of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not Increasing Efficiency, Jack Kirkwood Jan 2008

The Fundamental Goal Of Antitrust: Protecting Consumers, Not Increasing Efficiency, Jack Kirkwood

Faculty Articles

This article defines the relevant economic concepts, summarizes the legislative histories, analyzes recent case law in more depth than any prior article, and explores the most likely bases for current popular support of the antitrust laws. All these factors indicate that the ultimate goal of antitrust is not to increase the total wealth of society, but to protect consumers from behavior that deprives them of the benefits of competition. When conduct presents a conflict between protecting consumers and improving the efficiency of the economy (e.g., a merger that raises prices but reduces costs), no court in recent years has chosen …


Documenting Gender, Dean Spade Jan 2008

Documenting Gender, Dean Spade

Faculty Articles

This article provides an analysis of gender reclassification policies - policies that determine when an administrative agency will change an individual's gender marker on its records - in three contexts: policies related to placement in gender-segregated facilities, policies related to changing gender marker on ID, and policies related to the state provision of healthcare that is prohibited based on the gender on record for the person seeking care. The article looks at the significant variation in these policies across agencies to demonstrate the instability of gender as a category of identity verification and to ask whether the assumed usefulness of …


Unlocking The Secrets Of Highly Successful Legal Writing Students, Anne Enquist Jan 2008

Unlocking The Secrets Of Highly Successful Legal Writing Students, Anne Enquist

Faculty Articles

Why are some law students successful in their legal writing classes and others are not? To identify the secrets to success, Professor Enquist did a case study of six second-year law students as they wrote a motion brief and an appellate brief for their 2L legal writing course. Based on their 1L legal writing course, two of these students were predicted to be highly successful, two were predicted to be moderately successfully, and two were predicted to be only marginally successful. Through daily records of all their activities related to writing the briefs, interviews with the study subjects, drafts of …


The Terrorism Exception To Asylum: Managing The Uncertainty In Status Determination, Won Kidane Jan 2008

The Terrorism Exception To Asylum: Managing The Uncertainty In Status Determination, Won Kidane

Faculty Articles

The Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA "), as it must, excludes a terrorist from receiving asylum. The substantive criteria, and the adjudicative procedures set forth under the INA for the identification of the undeserving terrorist inevitably exclude those who are neither terrorists nor otherwise undeserving. Such unintended consequences are perhaps unavoidable in any well-conceived statutory scheme. What is disconcerting is, however the margin of the possible error in the application of this statutory scheme. Those who may be excluded by the application of these provisions are often not those who are supposed to be excluded as terrorists. Moreover, the existing …


From Bad To Worse?: Some Early Speculation About The Roberts Court & The Constitutional Fate Of The Poor, Andy Siegel Jan 2008

From Bad To Worse?: Some Early Speculation About The Roberts Court & The Constitutional Fate Of The Poor, Andy Siegel

Faculty Articles

Conventional wisdom - supported in large measure by blackletter law - suggests that discrimination on the basis of wealth or class largely escapes constitutional sanction. If the conventional wisdom is correct, then issues of class and equal protection represent one area in which advocates of a more robust individual rights jurisprudence have little to fear from the Roberts Court. In this essay, prepared for a Symposium on "The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class," Professor Siegel offers a contrary view. He makes three related observations. First, existing caselaw is more complex than usually acknowledged, offering substantial interstitial …


Controlling Above-Cost Predation: An Alternative To Weyerhaeuser And Brooke Group, Jack Kirkwood Jan 2008

Controlling Above-Cost Predation: An Alternative To Weyerhaeuser And Brooke Group, Jack Kirkwood

Faculty Articles

This article proposes a new legal standard for predatory pricing, predatory bidding, and possibly other forms of exclusionary pricing - the welfare/economic sense standard. Under this standard, the plaintiff would have to show that the challenged conduct was not only profitable to the defendant but harmful to the long-run welfare of consumers or suppliers. Moreover, even if the plaintiff made that showing, the defendant would escape liability if it proved that its conduct made economic sense without regard to its anticompetitive effects. The article argues that the new standard is superior to the below-cost/recoupment standard of Brooke Group and Weyerhaeuser …


Nuremberg’S Legacy Continues: The Nuremberg Trials’ Influence On Human Rights Litigation In U.S. Courts, Gwynne Skinner Jan 2008

Nuremberg’S Legacy Continues: The Nuremberg Trials’ Influence On Human Rights Litigation In U.S. Courts, Gwynne Skinner

Faculty Articles

This article traces the Nuremberg trials' influence on human rights litigation in the United States under the Alien Tort Statute, especially in the area of corporate complicity, and argues that the use of the Nuremberg trials as precedent in modern domestic human rights litigation is appropriate.


Environmental Justice In The Tribal Context: A Madness To Epa's Method, Catherine O’Neill Jan 2008

Environmental Justice In The Tribal Context: A Madness To Epa's Method, Catherine O’Neill

Faculty Articles

Many American Indian tribes and their members are among those most burdened by mercury contamination. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set out to regulate mercury emissions from coal-fired utilities, it was aware that mercury contamination and regulation affects tribal rights and resources. EPA's inquiry, therefore ought to have been differently framed, given tribes' unique legal and political status. Specifically, EPA ought to have confronted squarely the impact of its decision on tribes' fishing rights, rather than consider these rights as a mere afterthought. EPA 's process, too, should have been differently conducted EPA should have consulted with tribes from …


The Enforceability Of Default Interest In Real Estate Mortgages, Steven W. Bender Jan 2008

The Enforceability Of Default Interest In Real Estate Mortgages, Steven W. Bender

Faculty Articles

This article examines the use of default interest rate provisions in real estate mortgage loan transactions and the varying ways courts assess the enforceability of such provisions. The authors argue that these provisions are important to lenders, ensuring that they are able to recover the transaction costs and risks associated with defaulting borrowers. The article asserts that, due to the importance of these provisions to lenders' financial stability, courts should apply the unconscionability standard with a deference to freedom of contract principles before refusing to enforce default interest rate provisions. The authors also outline guidelines lenders should follow in both …


The Celotex Initial Burden Standard And An Opportunity To “Revivify” Rule 56, Brooke Coleman Jan 2008

The Celotex Initial Burden Standard And An Opportunity To “Revivify” Rule 56, Brooke Coleman

Faculty Articles

This article provides a pragmatic review of the summary judgment process and offers a new methodological approach to critiquing the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Using qualitative empirical methods to focus on the defendant's initial burden standard under the watershed case Celotex v. Catrett, the article calls on two new sets of data - a broad survey of published and unpublished district and appellate court opinions and a focused survey of district court cases from a single federal district court - to evaluate the critical responses to the case. The article finds that those who criticize the Celotex initial burden …


The Challenges Of Representing Detained Non-Citizens In Expedited Removal Proceedings From The Perspective Of The Dickinson School Of Law Immigration Clinic, Won Kidane Jan 2008

The Challenges Of Representing Detained Non-Citizens In Expedited Removal Proceedings From The Perspective Of The Dickinson School Of Law Immigration Clinic, Won Kidane

Faculty Articles

Persons deprived of their liberties as a result of administrative detention for immigration reasons face a multitude of serious challenges. There is currently no recognized right to the government-appointed representation in immigration proceedings. As a result, on a very small percentage of immigrants obtain pro bono or any other kind of legal representation. This problem is compounded by the fact that most immigration detainees are detained in remote rural areas where the private bar is virtually unavailable. Those who are fortunate to obtain pro bono or other types of legal representation also face some serious challenges at the different stages …


Lock & Load? The 2nd Amendment Arrives On Campus, Porcher L. Taylor Iii, Beth Anne Simonds Jan 2008

Lock & Load? The 2nd Amendment Arrives On Campus, Porcher L. Taylor Iii, Beth Anne Simonds

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed decision regarding the Second Amendment in June, state lawmakers, university policymakers and campus safety personnel nationwide face a conundrum that must be answered in a prudent way. The solution will greatly impact the daily lives of everyone on campus.


Moot Court Executive Board, Teams And Coaches, 2008-09, Kellie Casey Monk Jan 2008

Moot Court Executive Board, Teams And Coaches, 2008-09, Kellie Casey Monk

Materials from All Student Organizations

No abstract provided.


Infrastructure Development In Emerging Economies And The Roles Played By Multilateral Institutions, Amjad Ahasan Basheer Jan 2008

Infrastructure Development In Emerging Economies And The Roles Played By Multilateral Institutions, Amjad Ahasan Basheer

LLM Theses and Essays

This thesis is a study of the development of long-term infrastructure projects in the emerging economies. The essay addresses the emerging economies’ particular attraction to project finance to bring in much needed foreign investment for implementing infrastructure projects instead of obtaining loans, grants, and assistance from international institutions and wealthy donor countries. While the investors have found new opportunities to invest in the emerging economies, it is not without its own set of risks. To assist both the host nations and the investors, bilateral institutions as well as multilateral institutions provide risk insurance for long-term infrastructure projects. These institutions not …


Symposium: Issues In Estate Planning For Same-Sex And Transgender Couples: Foreword, Jennifer L. Levi Jan 2008

Symposium: Issues In Estate Planning For Same-Sex And Transgender Couples: Foreword, Jennifer L. Levi

Faculty Scholarship

Despite the sea of change in possibilities for creating lawful relationships for many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals, most jurisdictions do not allow them to marry or enter into any comparable legal status. The vast majority of states either by statute or state constitutional amendment actually prohibit marriage for same-sex couples. And, even when couples can marry or enter into a comparable legal status, they are faced with uncertainty regarding what effect, if any, will be accorded to that status should they travel or move. Given the legal challenges that same-sex couples face, the need for high-quality estate planning …


Too Dependent On Contractors? Minimum Standards For Responsible Governance, Steven L. Schooner, Daniel S. Greenspahn Jan 2008

Too Dependent On Contractors? Minimum Standards For Responsible Governance, Steven L. Schooner, Daniel S. Greenspahn

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

While acknowledging that there are many benefits, challenges, and risks involved in outsourcing, this article asserts that failed implementation, rather than outsourcing policy, explains the government's current (mis)management of its contractors. This article explores the minimum standards for responsible governance following more than 15 years of ill-conceived and inadequate investment in the federal government's acquisition workforce, followed by a governmentwide failure to respond to a dramatic increase in procurement activity. These trends have led to a buying and contract management regime animated by triage, with insufficient resources available for contract administration, management, and oversight. The old adage "an ounce of …


Reflections On The Technicolor Right To Association In American Labor And Employment Law, Paul M. Secunda Jan 2008

Reflections On The Technicolor Right To Association In American Labor And Employment Law, Paul M. Secunda

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Thou Shall Not Hunt: A Historical Introduction To And Discussion Of The Modern Debate Over Sunday Hunting Laws, Mike Balestra Jan 2008

Thou Shall Not Hunt: A Historical Introduction To And Discussion Of The Modern Debate Over Sunday Hunting Laws, Mike Balestra

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Public Trust In Private Hands: Social Security And The Politics Of Government Investment, Benjamin A. Templin Jan 2008

The Public Trust In Private Hands: Social Security And The Politics Of Government Investment, Benjamin A. Templin

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Where Are You Hurt? Kentucky Redefines Workers' Compensation Injury In A Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder World, James M. Inman Jan 2008

Where Are You Hurt? Kentucky Redefines Workers' Compensation Injury In A Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder World, James M. Inman

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Flood Of Pregnancy Discrimination Cases: Balancing The Interests Of Pregnant Women And Their Employers, Jennifer Yue Jan 2008

The Flood Of Pregnancy Discrimination Cases: Balancing The Interests Of Pregnant Women And Their Employers, Jennifer Yue

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Giving Millennials A Leg-Up: How To Avoid The "If I Knew Then What I Know Now" Syndrome, Leslie Larkin Cooney Jan 2008

Giving Millennials A Leg-Up: How To Avoid The "If I Knew Then What I Know Now" Syndrome, Leslie Larkin Cooney

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.