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27 Jun 2013, 5:29 am
We have become aware that there is an intermittent problem affecting this database. Normally, if you are on the OU network, have a VPN installed on your own computer or (if off campus) have signed onto SOLO using your Oxford Single Sign On username and password details you simply use the View online option in […] [read post]
3 Apr 2013, 7:48 am
The following is a summary of Professor Ross’s recent article that appeared in the Journal of Supreme Court History. Although the Supreme Court’s decisions have far-reaching political consequences and presidential elections profoundly affect the Court by determining who will appoint the Justices, the Court only sporadically has emerged as a significant issue in presidential campaigns. During the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century, the Court became an issue only at… [read post]
1 Apr 2013, 7:31 am
More law reviews should adopt this policy. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 12:12 pm
The Journal of the ABA Section of Labor & Employment Law Volume 28, Number 1, Fall 2012 SYMPOSIUM: Employee Benefits in an Era of Retrenchment Peter J. Wiedenbeck, The Editor's Page Sean M. Anderson, ERISA Benefits Litigation: An Empirical Picture... [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 7:06 am
E. Sunny Greer has published ” Na Wai Hoʻōla i Nā Iwi? Who Will Save the Bones: Native Hawaiians and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act” in the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal. An excerpt: This paper will argue that although the application of the Native American Graves Protection Act (“NAGPRA”) in Hawai‘i is problematic, it is imperative that Native Hawaiians include the care of ancestral remains and cultural… [read post]
6 Jan 2013, 4:37 am
One of the hot topics for corporate counsel is the conflict minerals legislation. Karen E.Woody of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP has a new article that was recently published in 81 Fordham Law Review (2012) titled "Conflict Minerals Legislation: The... [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 7:34 am
A new empirical article by Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles finds evidence of possible complementarity between scholarly output and quality of teaching at the... [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 8:31 am
The University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law has published “Too Many Gaps, Too Many Fallen Victims: Protecting American Indian Women from Violence on Tribal Lands.” [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 9:36 am
Under the traditional law school model, the individual schools fund legal research; under the grant-funding model, third-party non-profits and government agencies supply a big chunk of the resources. There's a third model that exists in law schools today, and that is the sales model. Under this model, scholars act as individual entrepreneurs selling their research to publishers for personal payment. Much of the action between profs and publishers is in teaching materials,… [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 3:01 am
Robert Hershey, Jennifer McCormack, and Gillian E. Newell have posted “Mapping Intergenerational Memories (Part I): Proving the Contemporary Truth of the Indigenous Past” on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How Indigenous communities choose to represent spaces or spatial information is integral to constructing and archiving cultural memory, articulating current environmental use, and dealing with evidentiary issues for title or land claim cases. For Indigenous communities around the world,… [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 5:00 am
I will be attending meetings in Morristown, NJ, on Tuesday, October 21, 2014. One of my sponsors, Innography, will be sponsoring the free happy hour event... John White and I will be in San Francisco teaching the PLI patent bar review course at the end of October 2014. This will be our last live course of the year, with our next live course being in the DC/VA area the first full week of 2015. Of course, home study courses are always available. [read post]
20 Jul 2009, 10:00 pm
We're kicking back today and letting others do the work for us. Generally, practitioners don't read the law reviews. So we're skimming the tables of contents for you. Today's post simply describes four recent scholarly articles -- two on preemption, one on post-sale duties to warn, and one theorizing about how tort law should be coordinated with non-tort regulatory standards -- that may tickle your fancy. If none of those topics grabs you, come back tomorrow; we'll… [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 12:49 pm
Christopher Balding (Political Science Graduate Program, University of California, Irvine) has posted On Sex Selective Abortion on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Abortion is a sensitive issue around the world. Acting as a clear dividing line in American politics, countries... [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 1:57 pm
Hsiaowei Kuan (Penn Law) has posted Abortion Law and Abortion Discourse in Taiwan: Rights, Social Movements and Democratization on SSRN. Here is the abstract: My dissertation tells a story of the abortion right in Taiwan: how abortion was not a... [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 6:50 pm
John A. Humbach (of Pace University School of Law) has posted a new article on SSRN entitled: 'Sexting,' the First Amendment and Prosecuting Teens. From the abstract: 'Sexting' and other teen autopornography are becoming a widespread phenomenon, with perhaps 20% of teenagers admitting to producing nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves and an ever greater proportion, perhaps as many as 50%, having illegally received such pictures from friends and classmates. It is, moreover,… [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 7:05 am
Although the following pieces are not specifically aimed at mass torts, they do bear on procedure more broadly and might be of interest: Cathy Struve (Penn) has posted her article, "Institutional Practice, Procedural Uniformity, and As-Applied Challenges under the Rules... [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 8:52 am
Earlier this year the Supreme Court rejected federal preemption of tort claims for FDA regulated prescription drugs in Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S.Ct. 1187 (2009). Since that time several commentators have weighed in on the decision. After the jump, I... [read post]
10 Sep 2009, 9:00 am
Two new articles posted to SSRN employ quantitative empirical methods in researching issues involving the federal courts: Between Cases and Classes: The Decision to Consolidate Multidistrict Litigation Margaret S. Williams (Federal Judicial Center) Tracey E. George (Vanderbilt University -- School... [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 5:46 pm
Judge Stanley Marcus, Wither the Jury Trial, 21 St. Thomas L. Rev. 27-34 (2008). Andrea N. Silvestri, Comment. Time for Change: Maryland's Inadequate Treatment of Alternate Jurors and the Federal Solution, 38 U. Balt. L. Rev. 203-229 (2008). 3. Professor Hiroshi Fukurai proposes a federal civil grand jury. [read post]
25 Oct 2009, 3:48 pm
Over the weekend, several international law scholars made excellent and thought-provoking presentations on their current work at the Central States Law Schools Association (CSLSA) Conference at Capital Law School in Columbus, Ohio. Gregory Gordon, from the University of North Dakota... [read post]
