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Hipaa Compliance Resources, Paul M. Birch
Hipaa Compliance Resources, Paul M. Birch
Law Faculty Publications
As health care consumers, attorneys may need no introduction to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). It may have introduced itself to you already in the form of a refused request for your spouse’s pharmacy receipts without signed authorization, or lengthier patient information forms to fill out before seeing a new doctor. On the other hand, the legislation may have facilitated your own access to your personal health records that otherwise would have been denied, or shielded those records from public disclosure by deterring a mass data spill. Along with establishing portability requirements for employee health …
Overlitigating Corporate Fraud: An Empirical Examination, Jessica M. Erickson
Overlitigating Corporate Fraud: An Empirical Examination, Jessica M. Erickson
Law Faculty Publications
Corporate law leaves no stone unturned when it comes to litigating corporate fraud. The legal system has developed a remarkable array of litigation options shareholder derivative suits, securities class actions, SEC enforcement actions, even criminal prosecutions all aimed at preventing the next corporate scandal. Scholars have long assumed that these different lawsuits offer different avenues for deterring the masterminds of corporate fraud yet this assumption has gone untested in the legal literature. This Article aims to fill that gap through the first empirical examination of the broader world of corporate fraud litigation. Analyzing over 700 lawsuits, the study reveals that …
A Brave New World Of Stop And Frisk, Ronald J. Bacigal
A Brave New World Of Stop And Frisk, Ronald J. Bacigal
Law Faculty Publications
In this article, the author Ron Bacigal discusses the editorials, The Shame of New York by Bob Herbert and Fighting Crime Where the Criminals Are by Heather MacDonald. These editorials were prompted by the New York City Police Department's release of figures regarding "stop and frisk" incidents within New York City.' MacDonald and Herbert reacted to the same statistical report by putting two very different spins on the raw data. While it's always helpful to compile empirical evidence, Bacigal suggests that we also need to look beyond the mere numbers. If you put aside anecdotal versions of encounters between minorities …
Education & Practice (Newsletter Of The Section On Education Of Lawyer, Virginia State Bar) - V. 19, No. 3 (Spring 2011), Dale Margolin Cecka
Education & Practice (Newsletter Of The Section On Education Of Lawyer, Virginia State Bar) - V. 19, No. 3 (Spring 2011), Dale Margolin Cecka
Law Faculty Publications
Contents
What Every Lawyer Should Know About the Economic Realities of a Legal Education, by Heather Jarvis, a student loan lawyer and founder of askheatherjarvis.com
Chair’s Column, by Professor A. Benjamin Spencer of Washington and Lee School of Law
Beyond Langdell, by Professor A. Benjamin Spencer
Law Faculty News
News and Events Around the Commonwealth
Section’s Website Update
2011-2012 Board of Governors
Health Care: Why Jurisdiction Matters, Kevin C. Walsh
Health Care: Why Jurisdiction Matters, Kevin C. Walsh
Law Faculty Publications
Congress’s enactment of comprehensive healthcare reform legislation last year was the culmination of one round of an intense debate that continues today. The second round began the same day that the first round ended, when President Obama signed the legislation. In this second round, the locus of debate has shifted from Congress to the courts, which are processing a slew of lawsuits filed immediately after enactment.
One of the most prominent is Virginia v. Sebelius. The lawsuit presents on its face a prominent and critically important question of federalism: Did Congress exceed the limits of its enumerated legislative powers by …
Little Girl Lost: Las Vegas Metro Police Vice Division And The Use Of Material Witness Holds Against Teenaged Prostitutes, Geneva O. Brown
Little Girl Lost: Las Vegas Metro Police Vice Division And The Use Of Material Witness Holds Against Teenaged Prostitutes, Geneva O. Brown
Law Faculty Publications
This article explores the Las Vegas Metro Police Vice Division routine use of material witness holds to detain young prostitutes. The Juvenile court places the girls on material witness holds seeking their cooperation in the prosecution of their traffickers and pimps. The girls languish in detention awaiting the outcome of the adult cases in which they are the central or only witness. The use of material witness holds is reviewed through the historical perspective of government response to prostitution and the history of material witness holds. The article then argues that the detention of the girls, sometimes without charges, is …
Langdellian Limericks, D. A. Jeremy Telman
Langdellian Limericks, D. A. Jeremy Telman
Law Faculty Publications
Christopher Columbus Langdell Used cases to teach the law well. So everyone thought, Except for distraught Students in Socratic hell.
Theirs is no lone cri de coeur. Now bashing Langdell’s de rigueur. Knowing case law alone, A young lawyer is prone To resemble a high-priced poseur.
After a part that rehearses Anti-Langdellian curses; The Author proceeds To attend to the needs Of students who learn best through verses.
Law And Economics As A Rhetorical Perspective In Law, Michael D. Murray
Law And Economics As A Rhetorical Perspective In Law, Michael D. Murray
Law Faculty Publications
Law and Economics as a Rhetorical Perspective in Law
Michael D. Murray
Abstract
This article introduces twenty-first century law and economics as a school of contemporary legal rhetoric to test and improve general legal discourse in areas beyond the economic analysis of law. My article is the first to examine the prescriptive implications of the rhetoric of law and economics for general legal discourse as opposed to examining the benefits and limitations of the economic analysis of law itself. This article advances the conversation in two areas: the study and understanding of the persuasiveness of law and economics and the …
Response To Reasonable Expectations In Sociocultural Context, David G. Epstein
Response To Reasonable Expectations In Sociocultural Context, David G. Epstein
Law Faculty Publications
The Article starts 6 (and ends)7 with the premise that contract law should enforce the reasonable expectations of the parties. This is a hard premise to challenge.8 And an even harder premise to apply.9 The Article recognizes the two problems with applying this premise: (1) how does a court decide what expectations are “reasonable,”10 and (2) what does a court do when the contracting parties have different reasonable expectations.11 The Article then uses two cases to illustrate how “sociocultural dissonance between a judge and contracting party”12 exacerbates these problems.
Low Cost Alternatives For Legal Research: Using Casemaker And Loislaw, Emily Janoski-Haehlen
Low Cost Alternatives For Legal Research: Using Casemaker And Loislaw, Emily Janoski-Haehlen
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
No Easy Answers, Dana Neacsu
No Easy Answers, Dana Neacsu
Law Faculty Publications
In his essay “No Exit” (March 20), David Greenberg dutifully points out some old and recent books whose endings seem “unpersuasive and unsupported by what came before.” And I disagree with his characterization of Walter Lippmann and his 1922 treatise “Public Opinion.”
A Demographic Snapshot Of America's Federal Judiciary: A Prima Facie Case For Change, Jonathan K. Stubbs
A Demographic Snapshot Of America's Federal Judiciary: A Prima Facie Case For Change, Jonathan K. Stubbs
Law Faculty Publications
Nearly a decade ago, then judge Sonia Sotomayer gave a speech at the U.C. Berkeley Law School and asked a simple question: “What it all will mean to have more women and people of color on the bench?” This article places Justice Sotomayer’s perceptive question in historical context by providing a demographic profile of the gender and race of federal judges confirmed to the bench from September 24, 1789 through January 13, 2011. The paper focuses principally upon federal courts of general jurisdiction, specifically, the Supreme Court, the various Courts of Appeal and the federal district courts. After presenting historical …
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2010, Roger V. Skalbeck
Top 10 Law School Home Pages Of 2010, Roger V. Skalbeck
Law Faculty Publications
This ranking report attempts to identify the best law school home pages based exclusively- on objective criteria. The goal is to assess elements that make websites easier to use for sighted as well as visually impaired users. Most elements require no special design skills, sophisticated technology or significant expenses.
Avoiding Legal Seduction: Reinvigorating The Labor Movement To Balance Corporate Power, Ann C. Hodges
Avoiding Legal Seduction: Reinvigorating The Labor Movement To Balance Corporate Power, Ann C. Hodges
Law Faculty Publications
This Article begins by briefly describing how legal and political action has come to be a central strategy for labor unions. Next, it analyzes the ways in which the law has failed the labor movement, reviewing various laws that have been enacted to protect employees, often at the behest of unions, and how those laws have been perversely twisted to the detriment of workers. The Article, then, looks at unions and employee movements that have succeeded in the face of unfavorable laws and analyzes the determinants of those union successes. Finally, based on these strategies, the Article provides suggestions about …
Price Includes Tax: Protecting Consumers From Tax-Exclusive Pricing, Hayes R. Holderness
Price Includes Tax: Protecting Consumers From Tax-Exclusive Pricing, Hayes R. Holderness
Law Faculty Publications
This Note contributes to the debate regarding the behavioral effects of the salience of taxes on taxpayers by examining the impact of including the value of sales taxes in the displayed prices of goods. The Note concludes that consumers should make more beneficial decisions regarding consumption when the value of sales taxes is included in or with displayed prices.
The Origins Of The Privileges Or Immunities Clause, Part Ii: John Bingham And The Second Draft Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Kurt T. Lash
The Origins Of The Privileges Or Immunities Clause, Part Ii: John Bingham And The Second Draft Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Kurt T. Lash
Law Faculty Publications
Historical accounts of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment generally assume that John Bingham based the text on Article IV of the original Constitution and that Bingham, like other Reconstruction Republicans, viewed Justice Washington’s opinion in Corfield v. Coryell as the definitive interpretation of Article IV. According to this view, Justice Miller in the Slaughterhouse Cases failed to follow both framers’ intent and obvious textual meaning when he sharply distinguished Section One’s privileges or immunities from Article IV’s privileges and immunities.
This article, the second in an extended investigation of the origins of the …
Reviewing Joan Delfattore's Knowledge In The Making, Suzanne Corriell
Reviewing Joan Delfattore's Knowledge In The Making, Suzanne Corriell
Law Faculty Publications
A book review of Joan DelFattore's Knowledge in the Making.
Notice And Takedown, Here And Abroad, James Gibson
Notice And Takedown, Here And Abroad, James Gibson
Law Faculty Publications
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been around for more than a dozen years now. Some of its provisions were just weird, such as the one that established sui generis protection for boat hull designs. Others have had a skeptical reception in the courts, like the anti-circumvention provisions that forbid certain forms of hacking through technological protections for copyrighted works.
But one DMCA provision that has proved popular in both the copyright community and the courts is the notice-and-takedown procedure codified at 17 U.S.C. § 512(c). When a copyright owner finds that some Internet user has illegally posted its copyrighted …
Polygamy, Publicity, And Locality: The Place Of The Public In Marriage Practice, Allison Anna Tait
Polygamy, Publicity, And Locality: The Place Of The Public In Marriage Practice, Allison Anna Tait
Law Faculty Publications
This Article offers a reading of State v. Holm that highlights the Utah court's struggle to define marriage and presents the court's eventual definition of marriage as one that is based on visual indicators.
Principles Of Insurance Law, Peter N. Swisher
Principles Of Insurance Law, Peter N. Swisher
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Women And Children Last: The Prosecution Of Sex Traffickers As Sex Offenders And The Need For A Sex Trafficker Registry, Geneva Brown
Women And Children Last: The Prosecution Of Sex Traffickers As Sex Offenders And The Need For A Sex Trafficker Registry, Geneva Brown
Law Faculty Publications
Sex trafficking is a moral and legal tragedy that affects thousands in the United States and abroad. The U.S. State Department estimates that human traffickers bring between 14,500 and 17,500 persons annually into the United States for various avenues of exploitation, including involuntary servitude and forced prostitution. Human traffickers are highly organized into criminal syndicates that reap exponential profits exploiting vulnerable women and children. Individual states struggle to prosecute traffickers and must rely on federal prosecution of trafficking enterprises. International cooperation with local law enforcement is essential in combating trafficking, especially in the sex trade. This Article proposes that an …
Canines In The Classroom: Service Animals In Primary And Secondary Educational Institutions, Rebecca J. Huss
Canines In The Classroom: Service Animals In Primary And Secondary Educational Institutions, Rebecca J. Huss
Law Faculty Publications
This Article focuses on the issue of whether a child with a disability has the legal right to attend a primary or secondary school with a service animal. It begins by setting forth basic information regarding the children who are currently receiving special education services and discussing the increasing number of animals placed into service with individuals under the age of eighteen, focusing on the recent trend of utilizing service animals to assist children with an autism spectrum disorder. Studies relating to the common argument against allowing service animals in schools – the impact of service animals on others with …
Gender-Based Affirmative Action And Reverse Gender Bias: Beyond Gratz, Parents Involved, And Ricci, Rosalie Levinson
Gender-Based Affirmative Action And Reverse Gender Bias: Beyond Gratz, Parents Involved, And Ricci, Rosalie Levinson
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson
The Many Faces Of Iqbal, Rosalie Berger Levinson
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
War As Metaphor And The Rule Of Law In Crisis: The Lessons We Should Have Learned From The War On Drugs, Susan Stuart
War As Metaphor And The Rule Of Law In Crisis: The Lessons We Should Have Learned From The War On Drugs, Susan Stuart
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Logic And Limits Of Environmental Criminal Law In The Global Setting: Brazil And The United States--Comparisons, Contrasts, And Questions In Search Of A Robust Theory, Robert F. Blomquist
The Logic And Limits Of Environmental Criminal Law In The Global Setting: Brazil And The United States--Comparisons, Contrasts, And Questions In Search Of A Robust Theory, Robert F. Blomquist
Law Faculty Publications
Strict but arguably unfair and counterproductive systems of criminal environmental law and enforcement exist in both the United States and Brazll in the twenty-first century. In order to create a sovereignty dividend encompassing the rule of law and evenhanded administrative control in the competitive global setting, both countries should rethink and reform their respective systems of environmental criminal law by seeking answers to several questions of legal philosophy in search of a robust theory.
Is International Law Really Law? Theorizing The Multi-Dimensionality Of Law, Elizabeth M. Bruch
Is International Law Really Law? Theorizing The Multi-Dimensionality Of Law, Elizabeth M. Bruch
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Clarion Call Or Sturm Und Drang: A Response To Pierre Schlag's Lecture On The State Of Legal Scholarship, David R. Cleveland
Clarion Call Or Sturm Und Drang: A Response To Pierre Schlag's Lecture On The State Of Legal Scholarship, David R. Cleveland
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Precedent And Justice, William D. Bader, David R. Cleveland
Precedent And Justice, William D. Bader, David R. Cleveland
Law Faculty Publications
Precedent is the cornerstone of common law method. It is the core mechanism by which the common law reaches just outcomes. Through creation and application of precedent, common law seeks to produce justice. The appellate courts' practice of issuing unpublished, non-precedential opinions has generated considerable discussion about the value of precedent, but that debate has centered on pragmatic and formalistic values. This essay argues that the practice of issuing non-precedential opinions does more than offend constitutional dictates and present pragmatic problems to the appellate system; abandoning precedent undermines justice itself. Issuance of the vast majority of decisions as nonprecedential tears …
Judicial Opinion Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, Ruth C. Vance
Judicial Opinion Writing: An Annotated Bibliography, Ruth C. Vance
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.