Navigating Law Librarianship While Black: A Week In The Life Of A Black Female Law Librarian,
2018
University of Colorado Law School
Navigating Law Librarianship While Black: A Week In The Life Of A Black Female Law Librarian, Shamika Dalton, Gail Mathapo, Endia Sowers-Paige
Publications
No abstract provided.
The Strength Of Digital Ties: Virtual Networks, Norm-Generating Communities, And Collective Action Problems,
2018
Albany Law School
The Strength Of Digital Ties: Virtual Networks, Norm-Generating Communities, And Collective Action Problems, Raymond H. Brescia
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
To live in a nomos—a norm-generating community—is to understand the norms that are expected of us; to honor our credible commitments to other members of the community; and to share the values, the goals, and even the myths, histories, and stories of the community. For millennia, humans have used narratives, or stories, to communicate norms and values designed to spur the communities they inhabit to solve collective action problems by encouraging their members to trust and to be trust- worthy. To do so, we have used a range of tools, media, and set- tings for those communications, from oral …
The Language Of Neutrality In Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings,
2018
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Language Of Neutrality In Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, Carolyn Shapiro
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
At Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing, then-Judge Gorsuch repeatedly insisted that judging involves no more than examining the legal materials—like statutes and precedents— and applying them to the facts of the case. There is, he emphasized, no room for a Justice’s “personal views,” and he refused even to state his agreement (or disagreement) with such iconic cases as Loving v. Virginia and Griswold v. Connecticut. Instead, then Judge Gorsuch reiterated only that they were precedents of the Court and thus entitled to respect. Frustrating as his answers may have been to some senators, however, they differed from answers given …
Issue 2: Table Of Contents,
2018
University of Richmond
Cardozo,
2018
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
In Honor Of Beth Mobley,
2018
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Table Of Contents,
2018
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Cardozo's "Law And Literature": A Guide To His Judicial Writing Style,
2018
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Cardozo's "Law And Literature": A Guide To His Judicial Writing Style, Richard H. Weisberg
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
She Dressed To The Nines And Knew “How To Write Good”,
2018
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
She Dressed To The Nines And Knew “How To Write Good”, Han Sheng Beh, Alice Jakyung Choi
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
"And/Or" And The Proper Use Of Legal Language,
2018
American University Washington College of Law
"And/Or" And The Proper Use Of Legal Language, Ira P. Robbins
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
The use of the term and/or is pervasive in legal language. Lawyers use it in all types of legal contexts—including statutes, contracts, and pleadings. Beginning in the 1930s, however, many judges decided that the term and/or should never be used in legal drafting. Ardent attacks on the term included charges that it was vague, if not meaningless, with some authorities declaring it to be a “Janus-faced verbal monstrosity,” an “inexcusable barbarism,” a “mongrel expression,” an “abominable invention,” a “crutch of sloppy thinkers,” and “senseless jargon.” Still today, critics maintain that the construct and/or is inherently ambiguous and should be avoided …
Front Matter,
2018
St. Thomas University College of Law
Front Matter
Intercultural Human Rights Law Review
Front Matter includes Masthead, advisors, and Table of Contents for the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Volume 13 (2018).
Tips About Written Advocacy From The North Dakota Supreme Court,
2018
University of Missouri School of Law
Tips About Written Advocacy From The North Dakota Supreme Court, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
In 1940, legendary Supreme Court advocate John W. Davis published "The Argument of an Appeal," an article that remains influential to lawyers and law students today. A few years later, the one-time Democratic presidential candidate closed his career with 141 arguments before the court, the most of any 20th century lawyer.
Best Practices For Teaching Advanced Legal Research Asynchronously Online,
2018
American University Washington College of Law
Best Practices For Teaching Advanced Legal Research Asynchronously Online, Khelani Clay, Shannon M. Roddy
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The Life Of The Law Cannot Be Coded,
2018
New York Law School
The Life Of The Law Cannot Be Coded, Rebecca Roiphe
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
The Infinite Power Of Grammar,
2018
Univeristy of Michigan School of Law
The Infinite Power Of Grammar, Patrick Barry
Articles
Good lawyers know that effective advocacy requires more than just choosing the right words; it also requires choosing the right word order. The formal term for this choice is “syntax.” But perhaps a better description comes from a 1976 essay by Joan Didion called “Why I Write.”
In it, Didion draws a helpful parallel between the arrangement of a photograph and the arrangement of a sentence. “To shift the structure of a sentence,” she notes, “alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.” Didion refers …
You Can Lead A Horse To Water: Heller And The Future Of Second Amendment Scholarship,
2018
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
You Can Lead A Horse To Water: Heller And The Future Of Second Amendment Scholarship, Eric Ruben, Joseph Blocher
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Ten years ago, there was reason to believe that Second Amendment doctrine would—following elements of District of Columbia v. Heller—become rigid and binary. Likewise, scholarship might have followed the same path; digging into the pre-Heller trenches and pitting "pro-gun" against "pro-regulation" views. In "From Theory to Doctrine: An Empirical Analysis of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms After Heller," we showed through empirical study that the doctrinal reality is far more nuanced and interesting. In this essay, we describe how Heller not only inaugurated a new era of constitutional doctrine, but it also helped create a burgeoning new field …
Detection And Correction Of Case-Publication Bias,
2018
Vanderbilt University Law School
Detection And Correction Of Case-Publication Bias, Edward K. Cheng
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The article proceeds as follows. Section 2 motivates the study by de scribing the reasons why case publication bias may be especially acute in the evidentiary context. Section 3 discusses methods for detecting and correcting publication bias. It surveys existing approaches, introduces the intuition behind MSE, and then develops a series of detection models. Section 4 turns to applications. To validate the method, I first apply the proposed model to simulated data sets in which I control the level of publication bias present. I then apply the model to a newly compiled data set of evidentiary rulings dealing with false …
Results May Vary,
2018
University of Colorado Law School
Understanding The Human Element In Search Algorithms And Discovering How It Affects Search Results,
2018
University of Colorado Law School
Understanding The Human Element In Search Algorithms And Discovering How It Affects Search Results, Susan Nevelow Mart
Publications
When legal researchers search in online databases for the information they need to solve a legal problem, they need to remember that the algorithms that are returning results to them were designed by humans. The world of legal research is a human-constructed world, and the biases and assumptions the teams of humans that construct the online world bring to the task are imported into the systems we use for research. This article takes a look at what happens when six different teams of humans set out to solve the same problem: how to return results relevant to a searcher’s query …
Researching Colorado Health Law,
2018
University of Colorado Law School
