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F18rs Sgb No. 4 (Responsibilities), Jack Green

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgfb No. 4 (Water Bottles), Adriana Deras

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgcr No. 37 (Referenda Postponement), Jordan K. Landry

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgb No. 2 (Budget), Tyler Porche

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgr No. 1 (Edrc), Christina Black

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgr No. 2 (Sfvac), Christina Black

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgb No. 3 (Rules Of Order), Austin Grashoff, Catherine Mckinney, Tyler Porche, Cameron Burris, Jack Green

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgr No. 3 (Higher Ed. Funding), Jordan Landry, Edouard D'Espalungue, Jack Green, Catherine Mckinney, Cassidy Riley

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgfb No. 1 (Aashe Conference), Cassidy Riley

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgb No. 1 (Rules Of Court), Andrew Grashoff

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

No abstract provided.

F18rs Sgb No. 1 (Rules Of Court Amendments), Andrew Grashoff

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To change the current Articles VII-X of the Rules of Court to Articles VIII-XI with the insertion of Student Organization Decision Appeals as Article VII.

F18rs Sgb No. 3 (Rules Of Order), Austin Grashoff, Cameron Burris, Jack Green, Catherine Mckinney, Tyler Porche

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To amend the Rules of Order

F18rs Sgb No. 2 (Budget), Tyler Porche

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A BILL

to amend the Student Government budget.

F18rs Sgb No. 5, Spencer Chiasson, Shrey Dalal

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To AMEND THE PROGRAMMING, SUPPORT, AND INITIATIVES FUND (PSIF) BYLAWS

F18rs Sgb No. 7 (Spending And Discipline), Jordan Landry

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To Amend the Election Code Regarding Election Spending and Discipline

F18rs Sgb No. 6 (Admin And Campaigning), Jordan Landry

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A Bill

To Amend the Governing Documents Regarding Election Administration and Campaigning

F18rs Sgfb No. 6 (Study Space), Amber Tran

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

TO ALLOCATE A MAXIMUM OF EIGHT HUNFRED FORTY-SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-TWO CENTS ($846.72) FROM THE STUDENT SENATE INITIATIVES ACCOUNT TO FUND SECURITY FOR LATE NIGHT STUDY SPACE FOR THE STUDENT UNION.

F18rs Sgfb No. 7 (Lighting), Victoria Pitre

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

A FINANCE BILL

To Appropriate A Maximum of Eighteen Thousand Dollars and zero cents ($18,000.00) From the Student Senate Initiatives Account To Aid LSU Facility Services In Funding The Thirty-Six Thousand Dollar ($36,000) Installation Of Lighting Along The Walkway Between the Patrick F. Taylor and Energy, Coast & Environment Parking Lots Located On South Quad Dr.

Whiteness At Work, Lihi Yona

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

How do courts understand Whiteness in Title VII litigation? This Article argues that one fruitful site for such examination is same-race discrimination cases between Whites. Such cases offer a peek into what enables regimes of Whiteness and White supremacy in the workplace, and the way in which Whiteness is theorized within Title VII adjudication. Intra-White discrimination cases may range from associational discrimination cases to cases involving discrimination against poor rural Whites, often referred to as “White trash.” While intragroup discrimination is acknowledged in sex-discrimination cases and race-discrimination cases within racial minority groups, same-race discrimination between Whites is currently an under-theorized …

Do You See What I See? Problems With Juror Bias In Viewing Body-Camera Video Evidence, Morgan A. Birck

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, advocates and activists called for greater oversight and accountability for police. One of the measures called for and adopted in many jurisdictions was the implementation of body cameras in police departments. Many treated this implementation as a sign of change that police officers would be held accountable for the violence they perpetrate. This Note argues that although body-camera footage may be useful as one form of evidence in cases of police violence, lawyers and judges should be extremely careful about how it is presented to the jury. Namely, the …

Paper Promises For Drug Innovation, Erika Lietzan

Faculty Publications

Innovation does not stop when a new medicine is launched. Development of new uses for already approved drugs, in particular, can make profound contributions to the public health. Whether a new use is suspected during the initial premarket trials, identified through focused research after approval, or discovered serendipitously by physicians treating patients, however, it requires extensive clinical testing before it can be approved by FDA. This testing takes time and money — three to five years on average, and as much as $300 million. This Article considers the incentives that federal law offers to companies to make this investment: patent …

Access To Justice In The United Nations Human Rights Committee, Vera Shikhelman

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Article has two main purposes. The first is to describe and evaluate empirically the right of individuals to access the HRC under the OP in light of the special goals of this procedure as perceived by the different stakeholders. The second is to recommend ways to improve individuals’ access to the HRC and thereby to international justice in general. In order to address the first question, the Article uses a mixed-methods approach—a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

The New York Convention: A Self-Executing Treaty, Gary B. Born

Michigan Journal of International Law

The thesis of this Article is that uncertainty regarding the Convention’s status as a self-executing treaty of the United States is unwarranted and unfortunate. Instead, both the Convention’s provisions for recognition and enforcement of arbitration agreements (in Article II) and of arbitral awards (in Articles III, IV, V, and VI) should be regarded as self-executing and directly applicable in U.S. (and other national) courts. As discussed in detail below, this is because Article II establishes mandatory, complete, and comprehensive substantive rules, directed specifically to national courts, for the recognition and enforcement of international arbitration agreements. Likewise, the history and purposes …

Space, The Final Frontier Of Enterprise: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining Under A Revised International Framework, Jack Heise

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note argues that the Outer Space Treaty (the “OST”) should be modified to provide explicit permission for private entities to engage in asteroid mining while maintaining the principles of international peace and cooperation that the treaty espouses as the core of the framework governing outer space. Part I explores the current state of asteroid mining with reference to the current objectives of companies conducting missions in this realm. Part II examines the OST as applied to the enterprise of asteroid mining by private companies. Part III considers the benefits and drawbacks of various regulatory schemes to govern asteroid mining. …

International Dispute Resolution: International Commercial Arbitration: 2018-19, Hugh Meighen

Osgoode Course Casebooks

Course number: 3007D.03

Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Survey Data Report, Lisa Moore

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

Civil and family justice problems in Canada result in financial, temporal, physical health, mental health and social costs that are often not treated with the same urgency as healthcare problems or other social problems. The “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” (Cost of Justice) survey, the flagship study for the Cost of Justice project, includes the first national legal problems survey in Canada (or elsewhere) to specifically ask participants about the costs of legal problems to their economic and social wellbeing. By measuring all costs related to experiencing civil and family justice problems, the Cost of …

Everyday Legal Problems And The Cost Of Justice In Canada – Spending On Everyday Legal Problems Report, Lisa Moore

Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

The national “Everyday Legal Problems and the Cost of Justice in Canada” (Cost of Justice) survey was conducted with a random sample of 3,263 adults ages 18 years and older. 3,051 resided in households with land lines and 212 used cell phones only. The data presented in the following pages are based on the 3,051 land line calls. Weighted to the Canadian population, this represents an estimated 23,590,697 people from the ten provinces.

Request For Rulemaking On Environmental, Social, And Governance (Esg) Disclosure, Cynthia Williams, Jill E. Fisch

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

Enclosed is a petition for a rulemaking on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure authored by Osler Chair in Business Law Cynthia A. Williams, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law Jill E. Fisch, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and signed by investors and associated organizations representing more than $5 trillion in assets under management including the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Illinois StateTreasurer Michael W. Frerichs, Connecticut State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier, Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read, and the U.N. Principles for Responsible Investment.

The Holy Grail? Designing And Teaching An Integrated Doctrine And Drafting Course, Claire C. Robinson May

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

I’ve long considered teaching doctrine and skills together in a single course to be the holy grail of legal education. If we could do so successfully, we might make significant strides in providing a legal education that better prepares our students to be practicing lawyers. In spring 2016, my colleague Professor April Cherry and I took the plunge and collaboratively offered a course titled Estates and Trusts: Doctrine and Drafting at our institution, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. This essay describes our experience and lessons learned pursuing the holy grail.

Get Out From Under My Land! Hydraulic Fracturing, Forced Pooling Or Unitization, And The Role Of The Dissenting Landowner, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This article addresses the legal circumstances arising when a state agency authorizes oil and gas production operations beneath a landowner’s land against that landowner’s wishes. One might assume that, if a landowner wants to preserve his or her land from oil and gas development, the landowner could simply refuse to allow drilling to occur beneath the land. However, neighbors may want to develop the oil and gas resources beneath their own land. To satisfy the neighbors’ wishes, an oil and gas producer must assemble mineral production rights on or beneath enough contiguous land to satisfy state spacing and acreage requirements …