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53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series, The Hon. Justice John Paul Stevens

Georgia State University Law Review

Remarks by the Honorable John Paul Stevens, Retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, at the 53rd Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture Series.

Division Of Labor: The Modernization Of The Supreme Court Of Georgia And Concomitant Workload Reduction Measures In The Court Of Appeals, Kyle G.A. Wallace, Andrew J. Tuck, Max Marks

Georgia State University Law Review

This article addresses two distinct yet interrelated topics: the arcane and unnecessarily complex jurisdictional division between the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals, and the excessive caseload at the Georgia Court of Appeals.

In Part I.A., this article discusses Georgia’s appellate system—its history, the jurisdictional division that arose, the confusion the current jurisdictional framework creates, and the limitations and burdens it places on Georgia’s highest court. In Part I.B., the article discusses the current caseload at the Court of Appeals and the burden any jurisdictional reforms would have on the Court of Appeals. In Part II, the article …

Historical Antecedents Of Challenges Facing The Georgia Appellate Courts, Michael B. Terry

Georgia State University Law Review

The Georgia appellate courts face challenges common to many courts in these days of reduced governmental resources. At the same time, the Georgia appellate courts face unusual challenges that can be traced to their historical antecedents and one unique constitutional provision: the “Two-Term Rule.” Just as “[t]he law embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries,” the current rules and practices of both the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Court of Appeals of Georgia embody the story of the development of those courts since their founding.

Several aspects of the history of the courts directly impact the …

Fulton County Business Court: A Specialized Solution For The Modern Business Community, Megan K. Johnson

Georgia State University Law Review

Business courts or complex commercial divisions are growing in popularity as an effective tool to channel the most complex civil cases into one place before experienced judges with the background and training necessary to resolve the sophisticated issues often presented in those cases. According to North Carolina Business Court Judge Ben F. Tennille, one of the first judicial advocates of the business court model, the evolution of specialty business courts is a necessary response to “‘the rapidly increasing complexity, rate of change and globalization of business.’”

In 2005, Fulton County Superior Court launched a Business Case Division (“Fulton Business Court”) …

The Trouble With Torgerson: The Latest Effort To Summarily Adjudicate Employment Discrimination Cases, Theresa M. Beiner

Nevada Law Journal

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How The Nlrb's Light Still Shines On Anti-Discrimination Law Fifty Years After Title Vii, Michael Z. Green

Nevada Law Journal

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Defying "Common Sense?": The Legitimacy Of Applying Title Vii To Employer Criminal Records Policies, Tammy R. Pettinato

Nevada Law Journal

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No.29 - June 2014, Center Of Civil Law Studies

The Center of Civil Law Studies Newsletter

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Summary Of Jacobs V. Adelson, 130 Nev. Adv. Op. 44, Kylee Gloeckner

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The Court determined whether the absolute privilege rule applies to statements made to the media.

Supreme Court, New York County, Hughes V. Farrey, Eric Pack

Touro Law Review

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Appellate Division, First Department, Koeiman V. New York, Gennaro Savastano

Touro Law Review

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University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center V. Nassar: Undermining The National Policy Against Discrimination, Matthew A. Krimski

Maryland Law Review Online

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Abstention, Balancing The Equities, And Armed Conflict In Al-Nashiri: A Reply To Steve Vladeck And Kevin Jon Heller, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Al-Nashiri, The Cole Bombing, And The Start Of The Conflict With Al-Qaeda, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Suing Everyone Will Not Solve The Problem: An Analysis Of The Development Of Peer-To-Peer File Sharing, The Actions Taken By The Music And Movie Industries Against Them, Stephen G. Lee

Selected Honors Theses

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Towards Universal Fiduciary Principles, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Fiduciary relationships play an important role in civil law and common law jurisdictions. While both legal systems offer similar outcomes in upholding fiduciary law principles, the way they achieve these ends is fundamentally different. In common law jurisdictions, fiduciary law is rooted in the law of property. By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions, fiduciary principles find their source in contract law. This article seeks to reconcile these differences, by identifying universal principles that apply to both systems. The author describes the sources of fiduciary law in the common law and the civil law, then highlights underlying differences between the two …

The Justice In Unjust Enrichment, Dan Priel

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The question of what justice has to do with the law of unjust enrichment (if it has anything to do with it at all) has in recent years come to occupy scholars who have sought to explain the theoretical foundations of this area of law and its relationship with other branches of private law. A popular answer has been that the law of unjust enrichment, like the rest of private law, instantiates the politically neutral norms of corrective justice. In this article, I argue that this is not the case in two distinct senses. First, even on its own, corrective …

Introduction: Angles Of The Right To Counsel In Civil Cases Debate: Formalism, Immigration, Reviewability, And Empiricism, John Pollock

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

Given the recent celebrations of Gideon v. Wainwright's 5 0 th anniversary,' it is most appropriate that this Symposium issue focuses on the civil right to counsel. While Gideon was only about the right to counsel in criminal cases, many of the events and articles marking the anniversary discussed the interplay between criminal and civil cases,2 even reaching the front page of the New York Times 3 and various radio shows. 4 Yet historically, criminal and civil cases have rarely been discussed simultaneously.

The Trumpet Player's Lament: Rethinking The Civil Gideon Movement, Chad Flanders, Alexander Muntges

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

In Gideon 's Trumpet,' Anthony Lewis recounts the story of Clarence Gideon, an indigent man whose appeal to the United States Supreme Court improbably culminated with the Court holding that the right to counsel in a criminal trial was a fundamental right, one which requires the states to provide counsel to indigent criminal defendants. 2 Almost fifty years later in Turner v. Rogers,3 the Court rejected the analogous argument that the right to counsel in a civil contempt proceeding was a fundamental right where an indigent, noncustodial parent faces incarceration. This argument was at the core of the civil Gideon …

Expanding The Civil Privilege Of Being Represented By Counsel Through The Presumed Prejudice Doctrine, Maurice Hew Jr.

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

On the fiftieth anniversary of Gideon v Wainwright,' many scholars are examining 2 the promise to not ration justice 3 by requiring counsel to be appointed for the indigent for State crimes. 4 Yet, other scholars are trying to expand Gideon's promise to all civil law matters,5 including immigration. Providing free appointed immigration counsel for representation in secretive 7 civil immigration removal proceedings would be ideal. However, for respondents who are subjected to the mandatory deportation consequences of their *9. convictions, immigration representation is impractical and serves little purpose.' 0 A better approach is to have criminal counsel simultaneously provide …