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The bepress Legal Series contains manuscripts by top scholars, many of which will eventually appear in top law reviews. Browse the most recent submissions here!

Documents from 2021

Why a Consideration of Race Is Important to Medical School Admissions, Nancy L. Zisk

Documents from 2020

An Economic Model of Patent Exhaustion

Better Compliance Through Less Surveillance: No Excuses for Poor Management

Crime pour soi et crime contre soi

Governing New Biotechnologies for Biodiversity Conservation: Gene Drives, International Law, and Emerging Politics

Memories of Judgement: Constructing the ICTY’s Legacies

The BC Ninth Circuit Appellate Program provides pro bono representation to non-citizens with criminal convictions. A central criticism of immigration law is that it treats hundreds of crimes the same, failing to take into account that state and federal judges consider specific offenses not serious or deserving of probation instead of incarceration. The clinic’s mission is to use federal court advocacy to restore proportionality and common sense into the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.

The Duty to Bargain in Good Faith: NLRB v. Truitt Manufacturing Co. and NLRB v. Insurance Agents’ International Union

Spain ∙ Nutriscore®: ¿Sí o No?, Leticia A. Bourges and Luis González Vaqué

The Autonomous Community of Catalonia Adopts an Act to prevent food loss and waste, Leticia A. Bourges and Luis González Vaqué

The impact of food legislation on sustainability: organic vs. conventional?, Leticia A. Bourges and Luis González Vaqué

Singapore Mediation Convention Reference Book, Harold Abramson (Faculty Editor)

Defining Nonviolence as a Matter of Law and Politics, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

Innovation and overgeeking in compliance.pdf, Hugo Acciarri

Corporate Ethics: Approaches and Implications to Expanding the Corporate Mindset of Profitability, Arthur Acevedo

1. El país y las fuentes de la historia de Jesús de Nazaret.docx, Jorge Adame Goddard

American Punitive Damages vs. Compensatory Damages in Promoting Enforcement in Democratic Nations of Civil Judgments to Deter State-Sponsors of Terrorism, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Calls for National Identity Card to Halt Illegal Immigration, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Codification of the “Special Forces Exception”, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Cyber Security and the Government/ Private Sector Connection, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Efficacy of the Obama Policies to Combat Al-Qa’eda, the Taliban, and Associated Forces—The First Year, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Game of Bombs: President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Impact of Data on Litigation: Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Private Sector by Means of Civil Liability Lawsuits - The Connie Francis Effect, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Military Justice at Abu Ghraib, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Proposal for a New Executive Order on Assassination, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Prosecuting the War on Terror in the Trump Administration: The Trump Doctrine: Is There Really a New Sheriff in Town, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Reshaping American Jurisprudence in the Trump Era - The Rise of Originalist Judges, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Rightly Dividing the Domestic Jihadist from the Enemy Combatant in the “War Against Al-Qaeda” – Why it Matters in Rendition and Targeted Killings, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Targeted Killing - Death by Drone, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Terrorism Law, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Abu Ghraib Story, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Misuse of Religion in the Global War on Terrorism, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Political Question Doctrine and Civil Liability for Contracting Companies on the “Battlefield”, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Practice of Rendition in the War on Terror, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Strange Case of Lieutenant Waddell: How Overly Restrictive Rules of Engagement Adversely Impact the American War Fighter and Undermine Military Victory, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Trump Travel Ban: Rhetoric vs Reality, Jeffrey F. Addicott

Using a Civil Suit to Punish/Deter Sponsors of Terrorism: Connecting Arafat & the PLO to the Terror Attacks in the Second Intifada, Jeffrey F. Addicott

The Protect America Act of 2007: A Framework for Improving Intelligence Collection in the War on Terror, Jeffrey F. Addicott and Michael T. McCaul

Building Democracies with Southern Command’s Legal Engagement Strategy, Jeffrey F. Addicott and Guy B. Roberts

The Same River Twice: A Brief History of How the 1968 Florida Constitution Came to Be and What it Has Become, Mary E. Adkins

Leopold & Morel: A Story of 'Free Trade' and 'Native Rights' in the Congo Free State, Padideh Ala'i

The United States' Multidimensional Approach to Combating Corruption, Padideh Ala'i

The Vital Role of the WTO Appellate Body in the Promotion of Rule of Law and International Cooperation: A Case Study, Padideh Ala'i

Transparency and the Post Cold-War Trading System, Padideh Ala'i

Transparency in International Economic Relations and the Role of the WTO, Padideh Ala'i and Matthew D'Orsi

Climate Change Innovation, Products and Services under the GATT/WTO System, Padideh Ala'i and David Gantz

Litigation Migrants, Charlotte S. Alexander

#MeToo and the Litigation Funnel, Charlotte S. Alexander

Socialization at Work and #MeToo Backlash, Charlotte S. Alexander

Manufacturing unsafe foods in Bangladesh: a legal and regulatory analysis, Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali

Diversity Among State Court Judges.docx, Jennifer Allison

Negotiation Law Journal Training - July 2020, Jennifer Allison

On Censorship: Lessons from the Giftschrank, Jennifer Allison

Living with Impunity: Unsolved Murders in Oakland and the Human Rights Impact on Victims' Family Members, Roxanna M. Altholz

Introduction to Various Online Teaching Tools, Sue Altmeyer, Tiffany Johnson, Joy Kanwar, Abby Perdue, Kim D. Ricardo, and Sarah Starnes

Interview of Srividhya Ragavan: Professor at Texas A&M University, NLUD VC Candidate, Aditya Anand

Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law-Made Simple: Ethics in UM/UIM Cases, Constance A. Anastopoulo

'Accountability' as 'Legitimacy': Global Governance, Global Civil Society and the United Nations, Kenneth Anderson

Efficiency in Bello and Ad Bellum: Making the Use of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson

Introductory Note to the Supreme Court of the United States: Noriega v. Pastrana, Kenneth Anderson

Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum: The Alien Tort Statute's Jurisdictional Universalism in Retreat, Kenneth Anderson

Living with the UN: American Responsibilities and International Order, Kenneth Anderson

Maximizing Deniability the Justice System and Human Rights in Guatemala, Kenneth Anderson

Microcredit: Fulfilling or Belying the Universalist Morality of Globalizing Markets, Kenneth Anderson

Persecuting Human Rights Monitors: The CERJ in Guatemala, Kenneth Anderson

Remarks by an Idealist on the Realism of 'the Limits of International Law', Kenneth Anderson

Secular Eschatologies and Class Interests of the Internationalized New Class, Kenneth Anderson

Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, Kenneth Anderson

The Anfal Campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan: The Destruction of Koreme, Kenneth Anderson

The Assumptions Behind the Assumptions in the War on Terror: Risk Assessment as an Example of Foundational Disagreement in Counterterrorism Policy, Kenneth Anderson

The Cost of Confusion: Resolving Ambiguities in Detainee Treatment, Kenneth Anderson

The Role of the United States Military Lawyer in Projecting a Vision of the Laws of War, Kenneth Anderson

The Secret "Kill List" and the President, Kenneth Anderson

The Selection of an Arbitrator: A Human Resource Management Perspective, Kenneth Anderson

Through Our Glass Darkly: Does Comparative Law Counsel the Use of Foreign Law in U.S. Constitutional Adjudication?, Kenneth Anderson

United Nations Collective Security and the United States Security Guarantee in an Age of Rising Multipolarity: The Security Council as the Talking Shop of the Nations, Kenneth Anderson

U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and Superpower Compliance with International Human Rights Norms, Kenneth Anderson

What to Do with Bin Laden and Al Qaeda Terrorists?: A Qualified Defense of Military Commissions and United States Policy on Detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Kenneth Anderson

Who Owns the Rules of War in Today's Post-Post-Cold War?, Kenneth Anderson

Why the Hurry to Regulate Autonomous Weapon Systems-but Not Cyber-Weapons?, Kenneth Anderson

Yugoslavia: Crisis in Kosovo, Kenneth Anderson and

Adapting the Law of Armed Conflict to Autonomous Weapon Systems, Kenneth Anderson, Daniel Reisner, and Matthew Waxman

'Global Civil Society': A Skeptical View, Kenneth Anderson and David Rieff

Discordant Environmental Laws: Using Statutory Flexibility and Multi-Objective Optimization to Reconcile Conflicting Laws, Mary Jane Angelo

Food Security, Industrialized Agriculture, and a Changing Global Climate: Perspectives on the United States and Cuba, Mary Jane Angelo

Integrating Water Management and Land Use Planning: Uncovering the Missing Link in the Protection of Florida’s Water Resources?, Mary Jane Angelo

The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action, Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner

The Bar Exam and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for Immediate Action, Claudia Angelos, Sara J. Berman, Mary Lu Bilek, Carol L. Chomsky, Andrea A. Curcio, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner

Ecosystem Management and the Everglades: A Legal and Institutional Analysis, Thomas T. Ankersen and Richard Hamann

A Genetic Surveillance State: Are We One Buccal Swab Away from A Total Loss of Genetic Privacy?, Catherine Arcabascio

Adoption, Timothy L. Arcaro

Discusiones sobre la importancia de la Regulación Inteligente (Discussing Core Features of Smart Regulation), Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

Documento de Trabajo: Regulación Financiera en Europa y Estados Unidos (Working Paper: Financial Regulation in Europe and the US), Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

Impacto del FinTech en la Regulación Financiera (Impact of FinTech in Financial Regulation), Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

Is Risk-Based Regulation the Most Efficient Strategy to Rule the Unknown Risks Brought by FinTech?, Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

La estrategia de la Regulación basada en el Riesgo (Risk-based Regulation as a Regulatory Strategy), Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

Los Contratos Inteligentes en el Sistema Financiero y la Regulación Realmente Responsiva, Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera

Problemáticas Asociadas a la Adopción de Contratos Inteligentes en el Mercado de Derivados Financieros (Legal Challenges Associated With the Adoption of Smart Contracts in Financial Derivatives), Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera