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23 Feb 2010, 6:00 pm
By Brandon J. Harrison, esq. and available in 62 Ark. L. Rev. 725 (2009). From the introduction: Lawyers are professional writers. If you practice law in Arkansas or anywhere else in the world, then you are by any practical definition... [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 12:24 pm
In Empirical Studies of Contract, Zev Eigen, examines scholarly works published in the last seven years from the fields of, among others, law, management, sociology, psychology, and law and economics to report the trend of empirical analysis of the relationship... [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 4:39 pm
25 Jan 2009, 8:22 am
The University of Chicago Law Review has published this new comment, titled "Determining 'Reasonableness' without a Reason?: Federal Appellate Review Post-Rita v United States." As detailed in these passages from the introduction, the piece provides a potent and wise account of how appellate courts should assess procedural reasonableness: This Comment explores the circuits' conflicting readings of the Booker and Rita rulings with… [read post]
25 Sep 2008, 9:25 pm
I have been amazed and disappointed by how little scholarly attention has been given to the faith-based prison movement. Thus, I say hallelujah for this new piece from Lynn Branham appearing on SSRN. (Music fans can listen to Jeff Buckley or Tracy Chapman if they'd like a melodious hallelujah.) The article is titled "'The Devil is in the Details': A Continued Dissection of the Constitutionality of Faith-Based Prison Units," and here is… [read post]
30 May 2007, 1:00 am
Interesting op-ed in this week's Chronicle of Higher Education: Harvard, Be Honest, by Leonard Cassuto (Fordham University, English Department):Dear Harvard: It was with eager anticipation that I opened your recently released task-force report, A Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning... [read post]
9 Oct 2007, 3:52 am
The Law Librarian Blog (10/9/2007) brings ourattention to an article by Nancy Levit, Curators' Professorand Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, University ofMissouri-Kansas City School of Law. The article, ScholarshipAdvice for New Law Professors in the Electronic Age,offers 14 tips for new law professors, including "make friendswith your librarian."See: 16 Widener L.J. 947 (2007) [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 6:12 pm
Here. (Thanks to Justin Coates for the pointer.) [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:23 am
Thaddieus W. Conner and William A. Taggart have published “Indian Gaming and Tribal Revenue Allocation Plans: Socio-economic determinants of policy adoption” in the Social Science Journal. Here is the abstract: As the Indian gaming industry has experienced unprecedented growth over the past two decades, tribes have pursued different paths regarding the utilization of gaming revenues within parameters established by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. Since 1993, more than 100… [read post]
9 Mar 2013, 3:52 am
India Reed Bowers has posted “Indigenous Decolonization and United Nations Membership: Indigenous Peoples and the Fundamental Right to Self-Determination” on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This LL.M. thesis provides legal arguments for, amongst other things, the inclusion of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples as Members of the United Nations (equal to States, but not required to form States) through an equality- and dignity-based examination of UN Decolonization, ‘friendly… [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 3:19 am
Heather L. Pretrovich, a North Carolina law student, has published Circumventing State Consumer Protection Laws: Tribal Immunity and Internet Payday Lending in the North Carolina Law Review. Here is the abstract: As tribal payday lending becomes more prevalent, there is a dire need for federal action to halt the trend’s momentum. In 2010, tribal payday lenders made up “[m]ore than 35 of the 300” Internet payday lenders and made “about $420 million in payday… [read post]
18 Dec 2012, 5:48 am
Dustin Frye has posted “Law, and Land Tenure: Understanding the Impact of the Long-Term Leasing Act of 1955 on Indian Land Holdings” on SSRN. Here is the abstract: An increasing focus of contemporary Native American economic development literature concentrates on the role of institutions. Land tenure arrangements are an important part of the institutional structure on reservations because several reservations rely on agriculture and resource extraction. The 1950s and 1960s were… [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 5:48 am
The following comes to us from Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. (I should note that I attended this conference a few years ago and, while I ended up taking my... [read post]
22 Mar 2007, 6:27 pm
Last June we sued the Estate of James Joyce to establish the right of Stanford Professor Carol Shloss to use copyrighted materials in connection with her scholarly biography of Lucia Joyce. Shloss suffered more than ten years of threats and intimidation by Stephen James Joyce, who purported to prohibit her from quoting from anything that James or Lucia Joyce ever wrote for any purpose. read more [read post]
14 Dec 2016, 4:52 am
UC Irvine law professor, David Min, has a new article titled, Corporate Political Activity and Non-Shareholder Agency Costs, in theYale Journal on Regulation. Professor Min examines corporate constitutional law in recent examples such as Citizens United, through the lens of... [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 7:06 am
Periodically, we’ll put together a package of links to recent Indian law articles, mostly from SSRN, and therefore mostly yet-to-be published. Here’s the first dispatch: Locked Up: Fear, Racism, Prison Economics, and the Incarceration of Native Youth40 Am. Indian Culture & Research J. 55, 2016Addie Rolnick University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and the Environment: Affirming the Right to Habitat Protection and RestorationMichael C.… [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 5:06 pm
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Laura Maechtlen We were honored by Westlaw's request that Seyfarth's class action practitioners author an analysis of the SCOTUS ruling in Dukes, et al. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for its Westlaw Journal Expert Commentary Series on complex litigation. Our article is hot off the press, and can be accessed here. Our analysis of the SCOTUS ruling appeared in Westlaw Journal Expert Commentary Series as the lead article, alongside pieces by Professor Robin J. Effron… [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 3:05 am
Sheryl Lightfoot has published an article called “Selective Endorsement without Intent to Implement: Indigenous Rights and the Anglosphere” just published in the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 16, No. 1 Jan 2012.) — here: LIghtfoot IJHR 16.1 2012 Professor Lightfoot writes (and I am quoting from her): analyzed the verbal commitments to the UNDRIP made by all four English-speaking settler countries. This analysis finds that they all engaged in a similar… [read post]
7 Apr 2014, 4:07 am
Sarah Krakoff posted “Constitutional Concern, Membership, and Race” on SSRN. It is forthcoming in the Florida International Law Review. The abstract: American Indian Tribes in the United States have a unique legal and political status shaped by fluctuating federal policies and the over-arching history of this country’s brand of settler-colonialism. One of the several legacies of this history is that federally recognized tribes have membership rules that diverge significantly from… [read post]
26 Dec 2013, 9:16 am
Friend of the blog, Steven Feldman (pictured), has recently published his critique of Richard R.W. Brooks and Alexander Stremitzer's Remedies on and off Contract, which appeared in the Yale Law Journal in 2011. Feldman's piece, Rescission, Restitution, and the Principle... [read post]
