Law School: Recent submissions
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(Constitutional Commentary, 2009)Taking a cue from Professor Laurence Tribe's decision to abandon the third edition of his constitutional law treatise, the organizers of this symposium have asked us to address whether constitutional law is in crisis. I ...
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(William and Mary Law Review, 2005)In the past decade, a new frontier of constitutional discourse has begun to emerge, adding a fresh perspective to state constitutional law. Instead of treating states as jurisdictional islands in a sea under reign of the ...
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(Minnesota Law Review, 2012)Many people and businesses in the United States stand to receive market and nonmarket benefits from climate change as it moves forward over the next 100 years. Speaking of climate change benefits is not for polite 'green' ...
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(Duke Law Journal, 2013)The climate change policy debate has only recently turned its full attention to adaptation - how to address the impacts of climate change we have already begun to experience and that will likely increase over time. Legal ...
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(Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 2003)This article examines the interstate water controversy between Florida, Georgia, and Alabama regarding allocation of water in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (ACF). The three states have been unable after ...
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(Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, 2007)Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in ecosystem services from scientists, economists, government officials, entrepreneurs, and the media. This article traces the development of the ecosystem ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 2005)This Article argues that valuing compensation provides just such a window into deeper theories of takings, revealing a host of considerations that map on to specific approaches to takings law. 4 Moreover, compensation rules ...
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)In the past few years a number of scholars in a variety of intellectual disciplines have contributed to a better understanding of dyadic conflicts and their resolution. In particular, sociologists, psychologists, ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)The filed tariff doctrine, fashioned by courts to protect consumers from rate discrimination, has strayed from its origins. Instead of protecting consumers, the doctrine has evolved into a shield for regulated firms against ...
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(William and Mary Law Review, 2012)Failure is the basis of much of scientific progress because it plays a key role in knowledge building. In fact, negative results comprise the bulk of knowledge produced in scientific research. This is not a bad thing because ...
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(Environmental Law, 2010)This Article explores the administrative reform potential that exists for integrating new knowledge about ecosystem services into Clean Water Act (CWA) regulatory programs as an example for all environmental laws. Part II ...
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(Environmental Law, 1995)This article probes the history, meaning, and potential applications of section 7(a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act, which by its terms imposes a "duty to conserve" on all federal agencies. The article examines how ...
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(South Texas Law Review, 1991)This article assesses Congress' effort, through enactment of OPA, to meet the goals it stated in 1989. Part II provides an overview of the fragmented" condition of pre-OPA federal law addressing oil spills and an examination ...
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(Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 2007)In 2003, the Supreme Court of the United States held that public universities - and the University of Michigan in particular - had a compelling reason to use race as one of many factors in their admissions processes: to ...
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(Fordham Law Review, 1999)Nonlawyer legal assistance is a necessary ingredient of any plan for meaningful access to the courts. The American Bar Association Commission on Nonlawyer Practice found in 1995 "that as many as 70% to 80% or more of ...
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(Michigan Law Review, 2011)State constitutions are terribly important legal documents, but their interpretation is remarkably understudied (and, of course, highly undertheorized) in the academic literature. This review essay discusses Robert Williams’s ...
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(Buffalo Law Review, 1996)Two law students under the supervision of a law professor represented M. Dujon Johnson by court appointment on a misdemeanor charge in a Midwestern state's trial court. The lawyers investigated the case thoroughly, interviewed ...
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(Northwestern University Law Review, 1998)In these pages,1 Steven Lubet recently reviewed A Tour of the Calculus, by David Berlinski.2 Inspired by both the beauty of calculus and Berlinski's description of it, Lubet waxes poetic on the many parallels between the ...
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(Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology, 2006)The statutory requirement of identifying the first and true inventor is often muddled by the mores and practices of academic science. Unfortunately, and despite claims of scientists and attorneys to the contrary, I contend ...
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(Wisconsin Law Review, 1992)The 1992 presidential election is over but the United States economy still faces hard times. Each man who hoped to lead us promised to revive our sick economy, and each cure promised included a strong dose of tax reform. ...