University of Pittsburgh School of Law Working Paper Series
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Papers from 2008
Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers, Anthony C. Infanti (August 1, 2008)
Tax Equity, Anthony C. Infanti (June 1, 2008)
Tax as Urban Legend, Anthony C. Infanti (January 27, 2008)
You Say You Want a Revolution: Interpretive Communities and the Origins of Islamic Finance, Haider Ala Hamoudi (January 1, 2008)
Papers from 2007
The Curious Complications with Back-End Opt-Out Rights, Rhonda Wasserman (November 28, 2007)
Conflicts Between the Commander in Chief and, Jules Lobel (November 9, 2007)
Conflicts Between the Commander in Chief and Congress: Concurrent Power Over the Conduct of War, Jules Lobel (November 9, 2007)
The Muezzin's Call and the Dow Jones Bell: On the Necessity of Realism in the Study of Islamic Law, Haider Ala Hamoudi (September 21, 2007)
The Failure of Title VII as a Rights-Claiming System, Deborah L. Brake and Joanna Grossman (August 31, 2007)
Search Me?, John Burkoff (August 28, 2007)
The French Legal System: Laypeople and Professionals: La justice en France: Laïcs et professionnels, Vivian Grosswald Curran (August 22, 2007)
Conformity of Goods, Third Party Claims, and Buyer’s Notice of Breach under the United Nations Sales Convention ("CISG"), with Comments on the "Mussels Case," the "Stolen Automobile Case," and the "Ugandan Used Shoes Case", Harry M. Flechtner (August 14, 2007)
Of Cops and Bumper Stickers: Notes Toward a Theory of Selective Prosecution, Richard Delgado (August 2, 2007)
You Are Living in a Gold Rush, Richard Delgado (August 2, 2007)
Rodrigo's Riposte: the Mismatch Theory of Law School Admissions, Richard Delgado (August 2, 2007)
The Dutch Auction Myth, Peter B. Oh (August 1, 2007)
The Regulation of Judicial Ethics in the Federal System: A Peek Behind Closed Doors, Arthur Hellman (April 5, 2007)
No Seat at the Table - How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom , Douglas M. Branson (March 15, 2007)
Parallel Courts, Elena A. Baylis (February 19, 2007)
Freeing Racial Harassment from the Sexual Harassment Model, Pat K. Chew (February 19, 2007)
The View from the Trenches: A Report on the Breakout Sessions at the 2005 National Conference on Appellate Justice , Arthur Hellman (January 25, 2007)
The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child Safety and Wellbeing, David J. Herring (January 20, 2007)
Sending the Bureaucracy to War, Elena A. Baylis and David Zaring (January 18, 2007)
Money Laundering Amidst Mortars: Legislative Process and State Authority in Post-Invasion Iraq, Haider Ala Hamoudi (January 1, 2007)
Jurisprudential Schizophrenia: On Form and Function in Islamic Finance, Haider Ala Hamoudi (January 1, 2007)
Papers from 2006
The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access, Michael J. Madison (December 1, 2006)
Remembering Welsh White, John Burkoff (November 14, 2006)
Shooting The Messenger, Richard Delgado (October 26, 2006)
Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities, George H. Taylor and Michael J. Madison (October 25, 2006)
Tolling: The American Pipe Tolling Rule and Successive Class Actions, Rhonda Wasserman (September 12, 2006)
The Tiger Awakens: The Tumultuous Transformation of India’s Patent System and the Rise of Indian Pharmaceutical Innovation, Janice M. Mueller (August 16, 2006)
The Politics of Memory/Errinerungspolitik and the Use and Propriety of Law in the Process of Memory Construction, Vivian Grosswald Curran (August 8, 2006)
Legal Scholarship, Humility, and the Scientific Method, David J. Herring (May 31, 2006)
Homo Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerrilla Warfare, Anthony C. Infanti (March 16, 2006)
Too Many Bells? Too Many Whistles? Corporate Governance in the Post Enron, Post WorldCom Era, Douglas M. Branson (March 1, 2006)
Domestic Law and Tax Treaties: The United States, Anthony C. Infanti (January 27, 2006)
Papers from 2005
L’Enseignement du droit aux États-Unis: réflexion sur l’actualité, Vivian Grosswald Curran (December 8, 2005)
Dimensions of Equality in Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Mary Crossley (December 7, 2005)
Discrimination against the Unhealthy in Health Insurance, Mary Crossley (December 7, 2005)
Foster Care Safety and the Kinship Cue of Attitude Similarity, David J. Herring (November 28, 2005)
How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds (Duke University Press 2005), Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado (November 28, 2005)
Comparative Law and Language, Vivian Grosswald Curran (November 17, 2005)
What’s the Matter with Liberalism? Reassessing Voting, Politics, and Ideology, George H. Taylor (October 12, 2005)
Terrorism and the New Criminal Process, John Parry (September 16, 2005)
Punitive Damages Revisited: Taking the Rationale for Non-Recognition of Foreign Judgments Too Far, Ronald A. Brand (August 25, 2005)
Social Software, Groups and Governance , Michael J. Madison (August 19, 2005)
Retaliation, Deborah L. Brake (August 18, 2005)
Culture and Race in Provider-Client Relationships, Janet W. Schofield, Lu-in Wang, and Pat K. Chew (August 5, 2005)
UNWRAPPING RACIAL HARASSMENT LAW, Pat K. Chew and Robert E. Kelley (August 5, 2005)
Balancing Sovereignty and Party Autonomy in Private International Law: Regression at the European Court of Justice, Ronald A. Brand (June 30, 2005)
Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians: An Introduction, Anthony C. Infanti (June 3, 2005)
From the Sidelines: A Deconstructionist View of Circular 230, Anthony C. Infanti (May 31, 2005)
The Legitimacy of Open Source and Other Software Licenses, Michael J. Madison (May 19, 2005)
Re-Membering Law in the Internationalizing World, Vivian Grosswald Curran (May 11, 2005)
Law as Design: Objects, Concepts and Digital Things, Michael J. Madison (April 29, 2005)
Have We Come Full Circle? Judicial Sentencing Discretion Restored in Booker and Fanfan, Sandra D. Jordan (April 29, 2005)
Transcending the Debate on Legal Narrative, George H. Taylor (April 15, 2005)
FAIR USE, SOCIAL PRACTICES, AND THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT REFORM, Michael J. Madison (April 11, 2005)
The Thirteenth Amendment Enforcement Authority, Alexander Tsesis (February 5, 2005)
Papers from 2004
When Equality Leaves Everyone Worse Off: The Problem of Leveling Down in Equality Law, Deborah L. Brake (November 1, 2004)
Tax Protest, A Homosexual, and Frivolity: A Deconstructionist Meditation , Anthony C. Infanti (August 3, 2004)
A Tax Crit Identity Crisis? Or Tax Expenditure Analysis, Deconstruction, and the Rethinking of a Collective Identity, Anthony C. Infanti (July 22, 2004)
Constitutional Interpretation and Coercive Interrogation after Chavez v. Martinez, John Parry (July 14, 2004)
Racism as "the Nation's Crucial Sin": Theology and Derrick Bell, George H. Taylor (April 15, 2004)
Foster Care Placement: Reducing the Risk of Sibling Incest, David J. Herring (February 16, 2004)
Revisiting Title IX's Feminist Legacy: Moving Beyond The Three-Part Test, Deborah L. Brake (January 21, 2004)
Papers from 2003
Child Placement Decisions: The Relevance of Facial Resemblance and Biological Relationships, David J. Herring (October 8, 2003)
A Deadly Dilemma: Strategic Choices by Attorneys Representing "Innocent" Capital Defendants, Welsh S. White (September 18, 2003)
The Pervasiveness of Culture in Conflict, Pat Chew (May 15, 2003)
Papers from 2001
The Struggle for Sex Equality in Sport and the Theory behind Title IX, Deborah L. Brake (October 17, 2001)
Papers from 2000
Dueling Class Actions, Rhonda Wasserman (April 1, 2000)