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Civil Liability For Sexual Misconduct, Mike K. Steenson 2023 Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Civil Liability For Sexual Misconduct, Mike K. Steenson

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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The Most Substantial Factor: Analysis Of Ambiguous Causation--Staub As Trustee Of Weeks V. Myrtle Lake Resort, Llc, 964 N.W.2d 614 (Minn. 2021), Hailey Oestreicher 2023 Mitchell Hamline School of Law

The Most Substantial Factor: Analysis Of Ambiguous Causation--Staub As Trustee Of Weeks V. Myrtle Lake Resort, Llc, 964 N.W.2d 614 (Minn. 2021), Hailey Oestreicher

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Defaming The President, Douglas B. McKechnie 2023 Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Defaming The President, Douglas B. Mckechnie

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

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Nestlé V. Doe: A Death Knell To Corporate Human Rights Accountability?, Phillip Ayers 2023 Seattle University School of Law

Nestlé V. Doe: A Death Knell To Corporate Human Rights Accountability?, Phillip Ayers

Seattle University Law Review

The Supreme Court in Nestlé v. Doe held that foreign plaintiffs who claimed to be victims of overseas tortious conduct by corporate defendants had no jurisdiction to sue in federal courts using the Alien Tort Statute. This Comment looks at the history of the Alien Tort Statute, from its inspiration, long dormancy, and recent reinvigoration beginning in the 1980s. The Comment then explores the background of Nestlé and its issues with child slavery in its cocoa supply chain. From there, the Comment analyzes the Nestlé v. Doe decision, and posits an alternative outcome. Finally, this Comment looks for a new …


Ad Coelum And The Design Of Property Rights, Joseph Schremmer 2023 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Ad Coelum And The Design Of Property Rights, Joseph Schremmer

Faculty Articles

This Article seizes on a specific doctrinal discussion in Eric Claeys's Natural Property Rights to argue for the importance of understanding property doctrines in the context of a system of interconnecting rules and standards and not in isolation. The ad coelum doctrine provides that land ownership entails ownership of the suprajacent airspace as well as the underlying subsurface. As Claeys's discussion highlights, scholars disagree about the significance of ad coelum both conceptually, as to what function the rule serves in defining and allocating property, and normatively. It is only by viewing ad coelum in the context of how it interacts …


Subsurface Trespass: Private Remedies And Public Regulation, Joseph Schremmer 2023 University of Oklahoma College of Law

Subsurface Trespass: Private Remedies And Public Regulation, Joseph Schremmer

Faculty Articles

There is a growing literature examining when subsurface invasions from activities like tunneling, horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and waste disposal will constitute actionable subsurface trespasses. Liability for subsurface trespass has become an important question for many reasons, including that a significant climate-change technology, carbon dioxide sequestration, hinges on the ability to inject massive quantities of carbon dioxide underneath the land of many owners. To date, the subsurface trespass scholarship has paid relatively little attention to two topics downstream of liability:private remedies for trespassing subsurface activities. This Article provides a high level account of the role of, and relationship between, private …


The Concurrent Use Of Land For Carbon Sequestration And Mineral Development, Joseph Schremmer 2023 University of Oklahoma College of Law

The Concurrent Use Of Land For Carbon Sequestration And Mineral Development, Joseph Schremmer

Faculty Articles

As carbon capture and sequestration projects gain momentum across the United States, questions about the coordination of sequestration with mineral extraction—especially oil and gas development—are growing in urgency. Using many of the same technologies, these two marvels of modern ingenuity aim to exploit the same subsurface resources for different purposes: one to bring out the hydrocarbons and the other to put away the byproducts of their combustion. From needing to drill through each other’s operations to reach deeper strata, to competing for the use of reservoir storage space (“pore space”), mineral development and carbon sequestration projects are sure to clash, …


Take Me To Church [Of Logan], Kelvin Santos 2023 Roger Williams University School of Law, Class of 2020

Take Me To Church [Of Logan], Kelvin Santos

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Logan Church, Rebekkah Ruth Nardi Stoeckler 2023 Roger Williams University School of Law Class of 2022

Logan Church, Rebekkah Ruth Nardi Stoeckler

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Martins V. Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, 266 A.3d 753 (R.I. 2022)., Keith Lefevre 2023 Candidate for Juris Doctor, Roger Williams University School of Law

Martins V. Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, 266 A.3d 753 (R.I. 2022)., Keith Lefevre

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Georges V. State, 249 A.3d 1261 (R.I. 2021), Logan Faucher 2023 Candidate for Juris Doctor, Roger Williams University School of Law

Georges V. State, 249 A.3d 1261 (R.I. 2021), Logan Faucher

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Dextraze V. Bernard, 253 A.3d 411 (R.I. 2021), Angela Amaral 2023 Candidate for Juris Doctor, Roger Williams University School of Law

Dextraze V. Bernard, 253 A.3d 411 (R.I. 2021), Angela Amaral

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Fuoco V. Polisena, 244 A.3d 124 (R.I. 2021), David Marks 2023 Candidate for Juris Doctor, Roger Williams University School of Law

Fuoco V. Polisena, 244 A.3d 124 (R.I. 2021), David Marks

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Henry V. Media General Operations, Inc., 254 A.3d 822 (R.I. 2021), Stefanie D. Fischer 2023 Candidate for Juris Doctor, Roger Williams University School of Law

Henry V. Media General Operations, Inc., 254 A.3d 822 (R.I. 2021), Stefanie D. Fischer

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Third-Party Releases Under The Bankruptcy Code After Purdue Pharma, Jeanne L. Schroeder, David G. Carlson 2023 Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Third-Party Releases Under The Bankruptcy Code After Purdue Pharma, Jeanne L. Schroeder, David G. Carlson

Articles

The biggest bankruptcy case ever (as measured by unsecured claims against a debtor-in-possession) is In re Purdue Pharma, LLC. The bankruptcy court affirmed a plan discharging the Sackler family (equity owners and often officers of Purdue) of all “derivative” claims that belonged to the debtor-in-possession. The settlement was bought for a substantial sum payable over time by the Sacklers. A debtor-in-possession is the sole owner of a derivative claim and has the power to bind all the creditors to a settlement. Under the Bankruptcy Code, a plan discharging derivative claims is confirmable. In fact, as we will, show, a great …


Mind The Gap: A Tribute To David Logan On His Retirement, Colleen P. Murphy, Justin R. Kishbaugh 2023 Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law

Mind The Gap: A Tribute To David Logan On His Retirement, Colleen P. Murphy, Justin R. Kishbaugh

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Lessons From Logan: Lessons In Life From David Logan, Mary J. Davis 2023 Dean, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law

Lessons From Logan: Lessons In Life From David Logan, Mary J. Davis

Roger Williams University Law Review

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Diverse Scholarship, David Anderson 2023 Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Law School

Diverse Scholarship, David Anderson

Roger Williams University Law Review

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The Private Enforcement Of National Security, Maryam Jamshidi 2023 University of Colorado Law School

The Private Enforcement Of National Security, Maryam Jamshidi

Publications

The private enforcement of public law is a central feature of the American administrative state. As various scholars have argued, the federal government depends upon private parties to enforce public laws through litigation in order to achieve the government’s regulatory objectives. This scholarship has, however, largely overlooked the phenomenon of private enforcement in the national security arena. This Article seeks to describe and analyze national security’s private enforcement for the first time. In doing so, it explores what national security’s private enforcement reveals about the costs of private enforcement more broadly. In particular, this Article identifies an important downside to …


A Theory Of (In)Justice: The Failure Of Tort Law To Secure Equal Respect For Women And A Feminist Contractarian Framework For Reform, Eva Augst 2023 Claremont Colleges

A Theory Of (In)Justice: The Failure Of Tort Law To Secure Equal Respect For Women And A Feminist Contractarian Framework For Reform, Eva Augst

CMC Senior Theses

Traditional approaches to philosophical theories of tort law have systematically undermined the individual worth and security interests of women. However, torts also provide a particularly powerful avenue for reform, in that they embody the public power of private law and offer individuals the opportunity to seek recourse and accountability for wrongs. In this paper, I offer a framework for such reformist approaches to tort philosophy, predominantly inspired by Jean Hampton’s “Feminist Contractarianism,” which requires that women be recognized as individuals with intrinsic worth who are deserving of respect. To accomplish this, I first note the particular relevance of social contract …


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