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Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A list of books recenlty received by Michigan Law Review.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A list of books recenlty received by Michigan Law Review.

Parallel Citations-Past And Present, K.K. Duvivier

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

By quiet decree, the fifteenth edition of the Bluebook changed all of this. The convention of using parallel citations was dropped in every instance except for "state court cases in documents submitted to courts of the state that originally decided them." Parallel citations were no longer required in legal memoranda or law reviews. Furthermore, the fifteenth edition required writers to use only the West version when a single source was listed. This new rule seemed to undermine the value of official citations that traditionally came before the unofficial West versions and suggested a preference for the official source issued by …

Teaching Social Justice Through Legal Writing, Pamela Edwards, Sheilah Vance

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Escape To Alcatraz: What Self-Guided Museum Tours Can Show Us About Teaching Legal Research, James B. Levy

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Survey On Electronic Reference: A Briefs In Law Librarianship Issue, Scott Childs

Law Library Faculty Scholarship

Published as a volume in Briefs in Law Librarianship: AALL Publication Series (no.56, vol.4), edited by Roberta Studwell.

Survey On Electronic Reference: A Briefs In Law Librarianship Issue, Scott Childs

Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

2001 John Marshall National Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Bench Memorandum, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 91 (2001), Ryan Alexander, Robert S. Gurwin, Dominick Lanzito, Nicole D. Milos, Bridget O'Neill

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

In this bench memo, the Supreme Court of the state of Marshall is asked to decide whether the actions of defendant, Marshall Manatees, evidence a theory of false light invasion of privacy as defined by the Restatement (Second) of Torts and whether defendant's actions of comparing the digital photographic images collected at the Marshall Center to their database and ultimately posting plaintiff's photo on its billboard constituted an actionable claim for misappropriation. Plaintiff, Allen Sanders, attended a professional basketball game where the Marshall Manatees were hosting an opposing team at the Marshall Center. He purchased the ticket online and received …

2001 John Marshall National Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Brief For The Petitioner, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 109 (2001), Gregory Brady, Steven Brooks, Christian Sullivan

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

No abstract provided.

2001 John Marshall National Moot Court Competition In Information Technology And Privacy Law: Brief For The Respondent, 20 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 151 (2001), Courtney Scantlin, Mekisha Walker, Warren Clint Wells

UIC John Marshall Journal of Information Technology & Privacy Law

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 2001.

From The Editor, David W. Dulabon

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

In this issue, the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law & Practice (JELP) explores two such themes. In the Film/TV section, we present views on the degree to which First Amendment protection extends to expression that arguably entails a negative influence on some audiences. In the Music section, we are pleased to offer two variations on a common theme, in the form of two accounts of the copyright law's reaction to advances in technology. Accompanying these recurrent themes are those of our own, as sections dealing with the Internet and Sports round out this, our fifth issue.

Banking Law, Penny A. Hazelton

Chapters in Books

• Introduction
• Federal Law
• State Law
• Federal Regulatory Framework
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Office of Thrift Supervision
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Resolution Trust Corporation
• Federal Housing Finance Board
• Federal Home Loan Bank System
• State Regulatory Framework
• Additional Research Sources
• Appendices

Common Disorders Of The Appendix And Their Treatment, Roger J. Miner '56

Federal Courts and Federal Practice

No abstract provided.

Credit Cards In The United States And Japan, Ronald J. Mann

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following essay is excerpted from a paper prepared during fall 2000 during the author's stay in Tokyo as a visiting scholar at the Institutefor Monetary and Economic Studies at the Bank of Japan.

One of the most important aspects of consumer payment systems in the United States is the widespread use of credit cards. American consumers use credit cards to pay for about one-fifth of their purchases each year. That pattern of use is not universal.

A Suggestion On Suggestion, Richard D. Friedman, Stephen J. Ceci

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The following essay is adapted from "The Suggestibility of Children: Scientific Research and Legal Implication" (86.1 Cornell Law Review 33-108 [November 2000]) and appears here with permission of the publisher.

The vulnerabilities of young children have far-reaching implications for the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Arguably, these vulnerabilities may affect how an investigator should interview the child; whether her hearsay statements should be admitted; whether expert evidence concerning her vulnerability should be admitted; and whether a criminal conviction based principally on her testimony should be allowed.

Secondary Legal Sources: A Selected Subject Bibliography Of Treatises, Looseleaf Services And Form Books Seventh Edition, Thomas G. Oatmen

Law Library Publications

This bibliography, now in its seventh edition, is a subject arrangement of selected English language treatises, looseleaf services and form books in the University of Michigan Law Library, current through 2001.

The goal of the bibliography is to list books that provide a starting point for legal research in major areas of American law. It includes only works published since 1990 or those kept current via looseleaf or other supplementation. Books that are kept up-to-date by some sort of supplementation are indicated by a hyphen following the publication date, e.g., "1949-". The bibliography excludes casebooks, journals, popular works and encyclopedias. …

Front Matter

St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 13, Issue 4, Summer 2001.

Front Matter

St. Thomas Law Review

Front Matter includes Masthead and Table of Contents for St. Thomas Law Review Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 2001.

The 50th Anniversary Of The Catholic University Law Review, Ralph J. Rohner

Scholarly Articles

This is an essay, not a history, on the first fifty years of the Catholic University Law Review. When an enterprise survives that long, it is cause for acknowledgment and celebration. This seems especially appropriate for the Law Review when we consider that it is managed by amateurs, relies on volunteer labor, and changes leadership every year; yet, it has grown and matured into a respectable scholarly journal. There is reason to wonder from where the Law Review has come, what it has accomplished, and how and where it is going. There is reason, too, to reminisce over half a …

Gender And Legal Writing: Law Schools’ Dirty Little Secrets, Kathryn M. Stanchi, Jan M. Levine

Scholarly Works

While great strides have been made by legal writing professors in the past two decades, many law schools-perhaps most accurately, many law school deans-try to avoid the investments needed to provide their students with professional, high-quality instruction in legal research and legal writing. Law professors, including women law professors, have reacted to their deans' decisions to maintain the status quo largely by quiet acquiescence- although in some cases they openly support that stance. Legal writing seems to be just too hard, and too demanding in time and energy, to be taught by doctrinal law professors, most of whom are men …

Women, Writing & Wages: Breaking The Last Taboo, Jan M. Levine, Kathryn M. Stanchi

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Mary S. Lawrence: Director Of Legal Research And Writing University Of Oregon 1978 - 2000, Linda H. Edwards

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

The Lawyering Process Program: Building Competence And Confidence, Terrill Pollman, Jennifer B. Anderson

Scholarly Works

In this article, the authors describe the Lawyering Process Program at the William S. Boyd School of Law. Like their colleagues at law schools across the country, students at the Boyd School of Law spend the early part of their law school careers learning the basics of legal research and writing. Unlike many of their fellow IL's, however, Boyd students also learn other important concepts and skills. The Lawyering Process Program at Boyd is a unique, three-semester class that includes significant instruction and experience in four areas: (1) legal writing and analysis; (2) legal research; (3) lawyering skills; and (4) …

I Know That I Taught Them How To Do That, Laurel Oates

Faculty Articles

Teachers have complained for years that students could not transfer their skills from one class to another, and employers have complained that the students could not apply the skills they learned in class to real world tasks. This article delves into the issues involved in students acquiring skills and the ability to transfer those to skills to similar tasks. The article describes the four steps involved in transfer identified by researchers: problem representation, search and retrieval, mapping, and application.

Modeling: Placing Persuasion In Context, Myra G. Orlen

Faculty Scholarship

The Author discusses the use of a contextual model to teach persuasion and its proven success in first year classes at Western New England College School of Law.

A Novelist's Perspective, Marianne Wesson

Publications

No abstract provided.

Encounters With Sources, Mary Whisner

Librarians' Articles

A reference encounter with The Congressional Globe leads Ms. Whisner to ruminate on a librarian's relationship with sources.

Finding Out What They Want To Know, Mary Whisner

Librarians' Articles

A skilled reference librarian knows more than simply where and how to look up information. Recognizing the importance of knowing what to look for as well, Ms. Whisner discusses the venerable reference interview and its role in this key aspect of patron services.

Legal Scholarship As A Vocation, David Luban

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Law professors occupy a twin role as scholars and (most of them, at any rate) as lawyers. Deborah Rhode has pointed out, in her contribution to this symposium, that the lawyer role of the professor carries with it some frequently overlooked obligations, specifically the obligation to perform pro bono service. I agree with her, and have ventured similar arguments myself. Here I will address the more purely theoretical side of the legal scholar's vocation. The text I will take for my sermon is the famous speech on the scholar's role that Max Weber delivered to a student audience eighty years …