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North Carolina's Bold Model For Eugenics Compensation, Peter Hardin, Paul Lombardo
North Carolina's Bold Model For Eugenics Compensation, Peter Hardin, Paul Lombardo
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If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington
If The Supreme Court Listens To Millennials, Same Sex Marriage Will Become Legal, Tanya M. Washington
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What Do Clients Want From Their Lawyers?, Clark D. Cunningham
What Do Clients Want From Their Lawyers?, Clark D. Cunningham
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This working paper assembles empirical data from England, Australia and the United States indicating that individual clients do not evaluate their lawyers - as attorneys frequently assume - primarily in terms of the outcomes achieved. Rather, clients place greater weight on the quality of communication with their lawyers and are often disappointed by failure to listen carefully and explain clearly. The paper concludes with suggestive survey data that organizational clients may have similar views about the large firm lawyers that represent them. The author is the director of the Effective Lawyer-Client Communication Project and the National Institute for Teaching Ethics …
A Person's A Person: Children's Rights In Children's Literature, Jonathan Todres, Sarah Higinbotham
A Person's A Person: Children's Rights In Children's Literature, Jonathan Todres, Sarah Higinbotham
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Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history, children’s rights are still seen in many circles as novel and quaint ideas but not serious legal theory. The reality, however, is that the realization of children’s rights is vital not only for childhood but for individuals’ entire lives. Similarly, although the books children read and have read to them are a central part of their childhood experience, so too has children’s literature been ignored as a rights-bearing discourse and a means of civic socialization. We argue that children’s literature, like …