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When Patients Are Their Own Doctors: Roe V. Wade In An Era Of Self-Managed Care, Yvonne F. Lindgren
When Patients Are Their Own Doctors: Roe V. Wade In An Era Of Self-Managed Care, Yvonne F. Lindgren
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The Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade framed the abortion right as a right to make the abortion decision in consultation with a “responsible physician.” Under this framing, doctors were cast in the role of medical “gatekeepers” to mediate patient access to abortion. In the ensuing years, the doctor-patient relationship has become the site of restrictive abortion regulations in many states. This Article argues that Roe’s framing suffers from a foundational flaw: While the gatekeeper framing may have been appropriate in the Roe era when abortion was surgical and non-clinical abortions were potentially lethal, today, medication abortion—a two-drug non-surgical regimen …
Advanced Property Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography, Travis Mcdonald, Nancy Levit
Advanced Property Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography, Travis Mcdonald, Nancy Levit
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This bibliography covers law review articles published, for the most part, after 2006 on property issues within the context of family law. Articles for which the title is self-explanatory or that concern only a single case, state, or statute are cited, but not annotated.
A Better Beginning: Family Law In The First Year Of Law School, Wanda M. Temm
A Better Beginning: Family Law In The First Year Of Law School, Wanda M. Temm
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The American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar’s Standards Review Committee has focused law schools’ efforts to modify their curriculum with an appeal to focus on outcomes and assessments. A cornerstone of the outcomes and assessments discussion is skills training. The committee’s call for more skills training has prompted family law faculty to consider innovative methods to bring that training into substantive courses or to bring the substantive curriculum into a skills course. This essay discusses how law faculty are incorporating family law doctrines into first-year legal research and writing courses.
Cohabitation, Domestic Partnerships, And Nontraditional Families Annotated Bibliography, Nancy Levit
Cohabitation, Domestic Partnerships, And Nontraditional Families Annotated Bibliography, Nancy Levit
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This annotated bibliography covers law review articles, American Law Reports (ALR), and some web articles published between 2005 and 2008. The topics covered include adoption, ADR, bankruptcy, all aspects of child custody and support, cohabitation, divorce and dissolution, domestic or intimate partner violence, civil unions, estate planning, paternity, international aspects, lesbian, gay and bisexual parents, marriage in all its varieties, tax and trial issues.
Family Law In The Twenty-First Century: An Annotated Bibliography, Nancy Levit
Family Law In The Twenty-First Century: An Annotated Bibliography, Nancy Levit
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The twenty-first century will bring, among other things, an explosion of technology (in domains ranging from electronic to reproductive), greater personal mobility, and an aging population. Thus, this bibliography emphasizes cutting edge issues in areas as wide-ranging as elder law, electronic discovery, changes in the legal profession (such as internet advertising and provision of legal services), multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional practice, and the new world of reproductive technologies. This bibliography covers law review articles, A.L.R. entries, and some web articles published after 2002, with an emphasis on those in more recent years. The bibliography for the first time expands to include …