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Forensics, , Chicken Soup, and Meteorites: A Tribute to Michael Risinger
(Seton Hall Law Review, 2018)
Michael Risinger's scholarship has had a profound impact on our field. And while his work has run the gamut in evidence law, I think it is clear that Michael's true love has always been expert evidence, and more specifically, ...
Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts
(Catholic University Law Review, 2012)
Two seemingly different federal enforcement systems that affect the movement of unskilled workers — the 1793 and 1850 Fugitive Slave Acts and current state immigration enforcement policies — have remarkable similarities. ...
Anatomy of an Uprising
(Boston University International Law Journal, 2014)
During the Arab Spring, Moroccan men and women first took to the streets on February 20, 2011 to demand governmental reforms. Their movement became known as the Mouvement du 20-Février. In a series of protests, Moroccans ...
Federalism Anew
(American Journal of Legal History, 2016)
One of the most remarked-upon events of the recent past is the August 2014 death of a black teenager, Michael Brown, at the hands of a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri. Attention initially focused ...
The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism
(Texas Law Review, 2016)
For much of the past 80 years courts have fixated on dual sovereignty as the organizing federalism paradigm under New Deal era energy statutes. Dual sovereignty’s reign emphasized a jurisdictional “bright line,” with a ...
Legal Strategies for Economic Empowerment of Persons in Recovery
(West Virginia Law Review, 2018)
Substance use disorders, which afflict nearly 8% of the U.S. population, exact a devastating human and economic toll. The opioid epidemic has caused overdose deaths to quadruple since 1999. In 2013 alone, the epidemic ...
Frontiers of Sex Discrimination Law
(Michigan Law Review, 2017)
A short time ago, the argument that sex discrimination includes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was considered a risky litigation tactic with little hope of success. One reason was the fear that extending ...
Insurance Coverage Policies for Pharmacogenomic and Multi-Gene Testing for Cancer
(Journal of Personalized Medicine, 2018)
Abstract: Insurance coverage policies are a major determinant of patient access to genomic tests. The objective of this study was to examine differences in coverage policies for guideline-recommended pharmacogenomic tests ...
Medical Marijuana and the Political Safeguards of Federalism
(Denver University Law Review, 2012)
Medical marijuana has emerged as one of the key federalism battlegrounds of the last two decades. Since 1996, sixteen states have passed new laws legalizing the drug for certain medical purposes.' All the while, the federal ...
Money and (Shadow) Banking: A Thought Experiment
(Review of Banking & Financial Law, 2012)
This paper approaches the shadow banking problem from a monetary point of view. It does so by means of a simple thought experiment. The aim is to strip away the inessentials so as to reveal some of the basic legal-institutional ...