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The Indignities Of Civil Litigation, Matthew A. Shapiro Jan 2020

The Indignities Of Civil Litigation, Matthew A. Shapiro

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Dispute resolution has become increasingly shrouded in secrecy, with the proliferation of protective orders in discovery, confidential settlement agreements, and private arbitration. While many civil procedure scholars have criticized this trend for undermining the systemic benefits of public adjudication, the desirability of secrecy in civil litigation proves to be a much more complicated question.

On the one hand, some of those same scholars have recently sought to justify civil litigation in terms that, ironically, highlight the benefits of secrecy. Although this new justification remains somewhat inchoate, it is best understood as a claim that the procedures of civil litigation allow …


Law Students And Cell Phone Use: Results Of A Six-School Survey, Linda Galler, Robert M. Jarvis, Cindy I.T. Archer, Hugh D. Spitzer, Jodi Wilson, Mark E. Wojcik Jan 2020

Law Students And Cell Phone Use: Results Of A Six-School Survey, Linda Galler, Robert M. Jarvis, Cindy I.T. Archer, Hugh D. Spitzer, Jodi Wilson, Mark E. Wojcik

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The sight of a law student using his or her cell phone now is so common that law professors do not give it a second though. But what, exactly, is the student doing? Texting with friends? Shopping? Watching a movie? To try to find out, during the Fall 2019 semester we asked our six diverse law schools to take an online survey consisting of eighteen questions. To our knowledge, this is the first phone survey of law students.

This paper presents the results of the survey, exploring applications used (text, social media, email, etc.) and differences by audience (e.g., whether …


Local Offenses, Brenner M. Fissell Jan 2020

Local Offenses, Brenner M. Fissell

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Criminal law is generally thought to exist within two jurisdictional levels: federal and state. Neglected in the legal mind, and in legal scholarship, is the vast body of criminal law promulgated by local governments. While one should ask “what” is being criminalized by cities, towns, and villages, one should also ask “how” these offenses are written. The offense drafting practices reflected in state criminal law have been extensively studied, but this has never been attempted for local offenses. This Article undertakes that task. After surveying a large number of local criminal codes, the Article concludes that local offenses routinely fail …


Through The Guardianship Looking Glass: A Personal Perspective On Conflicting Commitments, Susan Greene Jan 2020

Through The Guardianship Looking Glass: A Personal Perspective On Conflicting Commitments, Susan Greene

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The imposition of a guardianship exacts an extraordinary toll on both the life of the person subjected to the guardianship, curtailing fundamental freedoms and basic civil liberties, and the life of the guardian, redirecting to that guardian the overwhelming burden of taking on a decision‐making role that should ordinarily belong to another human being. This Article will examine the legal framework governing the decision-making role of a guardian and suggest that, while many guardianship statutes propose to compel a guardian to make decisions in line with the known desires of a ward, few guardianship statutes are flexible enough to account …


The Cynical Successes Of The Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions, G. Alex Sinha Jan 2020

The Cynical Successes Of The Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions, G. Alex Sinha

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Since they were first authorized in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions--special military tribunals for the trial of certain terror suspects--have generated eight minor convictions at a cost of over one billion dollars. Nearly half of the convictions have been vacated on appeal. The three ongoing contested cases, including the case against those accused of complicity in the 9/11 attacks, remain mired in pretrial proceedings. The biggest storylines emanating from the commissions do not concern convictions, but rather government surveillance of the defense teams and the compelled recusal of judges for the appearance of partiality …


Empathy And Worthiness: The Modern Victims' Rights Movement And The Growth Of Mass Incarceration, Samantha Dresner Jan 2020

Empathy And Worthiness: The Modern Victims' Rights Movement And The Growth Of Mass Incarceration, Samantha Dresner

Scripps Senior Theses

The Victims' Rights Movement emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, at the same time as the War on Drugs and War on Crime were driving mass incarceration at unprecedented levels. This paper examines the historical roots of the victims' rights movement and its evolution from grassroots organizing into a tool of state power. It interrogates the meaning of "worthy" victims, and looks into the landmark Supreme Court case Payne v. Tennessee as an example of victim impact evidence being used to support the state project of the death penalty.


Annual Report 2019-2020, Ira M. Millstein Center For Global Markets And Corporate Ownership Jan 2020

Annual Report 2019-2020, Ira M. Millstein Center For Global Markets And Corporate Ownership

Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership

Looking back on the 2019-2020 academic year, we are pleased to reflect on another highly productive period for the Millstein Center.


Introduction: Remedies Discussion Forum, Russell L. Weaver Jan 2020

Introduction: Remedies Discussion Forum, Russell L. Weaver

FIU Law Review

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Publisher Jan 2020

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FIU Law Review

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Independent Creation In A World Of Ai, Clark D. Asay Jan 2020

Independent Creation In A World Of Ai, Clark D. Asay

FIU Law Review

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Can Algorithms Promote Fair Use?, Peter K. Yu Jan 2020

Can Algorithms Promote Fair Use?, Peter K. Yu

FIU Law Review

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Table Of Contents Jan 2020

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MC Law Review

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Welcome To The Party: Creating A Responsible Third-Party Litigation Finance Industry To Increase Access And Options For Plaintiffs, Christopher Mendez Jan 2020

Welcome To The Party: Creating A Responsible Third-Party Litigation Finance Industry To Increase Access And Options For Plaintiffs, Christopher Mendez

MC Law Review

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Death With Dignity: An Option Denied To Children Of The United States, Katherine M. Gargiulo Jan 2020

Death With Dignity: An Option Denied To Children Of The United States, Katherine M. Gargiulo

MC Law Review

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Expanding Expropriation: The Subordination Of Property Rights To Eminent Domain In St. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District. V. Violet Dock Port, Inc. Llc, Stephen Marsalis Jan 2020

Expanding Expropriation: The Subordination Of Property Rights To Eminent Domain In St. Bernard Port, Harbor & Terminal District. V. Violet Dock Port, Inc. Llc, Stephen Marsalis

MC Law Review

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Introduction, Christina Marie Nunez Jan 2020

Introduction, Christina Marie Nunez

MC Law Review

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The International Joint Commission And Air Pollution: A Tale Of Two Cases, Owen Temby, Don Munton Jan 2020

The International Joint Commission And Air Pollution: A Tale Of Two Cases, Owen Temby, Don Munton

School of Earth, Environmental, & Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

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Table Of Contents Jan 2020

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FIU Law Review

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Editorial Board Jan 2020

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FIU Law Review

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Publisher Jan 2020

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FIU Law Review

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Private Law Remedies And Public Law Standards: An Awkward Statutory Intrusion Into Tort Liability Of Public Authorities, Margaret Allars Jan 2020

Private Law Remedies And Public Law Standards: An Awkward Statutory Intrusion Into Tort Liability Of Public Authorities, Margaret Allars

FIU Law Review

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Evolution And Revolution: The Remedial Smorgasbord For Misleading Conduct In Australia, Elise Bant, Jeannie Marie Paterson Jan 2020

Evolution And Revolution: The Remedial Smorgasbord For Misleading Conduct In Australia, Elise Bant, Jeannie Marie Paterson

FIU Law Review

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Negotiating Damages In English Contract Law, Sirko Harder Jan 2020

Negotiating Damages In English Contract Law, Sirko Harder

FIU Law Review

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Restitutionary Remedies In Three-Party Cases: A Comparative Perspective, John D. Mccamus Jan 2020

Restitutionary Remedies In Three-Party Cases: A Comparative Perspective, John D. Mccamus

FIU Law Review

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Going Bare In The Law Of Assignments: When Is An Assignment Champertous?, Anthony Sebok Jan 2020

Going Bare In The Law Of Assignments: When Is An Assignment Champertous?, Anthony Sebok

FIU Law Review

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Nationwide Injunctions, Russell L. Weaver Jan 2020

Nationwide Injunctions, Russell L. Weaver

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Just A Minute, Isn’T That De Minimis: California Should Not Burden Or Require National Employers To Compensate Employees For De Minimis Off-The-Clock Work Activities, Alan Persaud Jan 2020

Just A Minute, Isn’T That De Minimis: California Should Not Burden Or Require National Employers To Compensate Employees For De Minimis Off-The-Clock Work Activities, Alan Persaud

FIU Law Review

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The Distraction That Is Stand Your Ground, Katryna Santa Cruz Jan 2020

The Distraction That Is Stand Your Ground, Katryna Santa Cruz

FIU Law Review

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Table Of Contents Jan 2020

Table Of Contents

FIU Law Review

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Editorial Board Jan 2020

Editorial Board

FIU Law Review

No abstract provided.