About the bepress Legal Series

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!

from 2005

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Home as a Legal Concept, Benjamin Barros

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Block Me Not: Are Patented Genes 'Essential Facilities'?, Shamnad Basheer

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Deadly Discounts: How Reimportation Jeopardizes the Safety of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Drug Supply under the Federal Trade Commission Amendment, Nicole C. Bates

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Minority Rights, Minority Wrongs, Elena A. Baylis

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Turning Offense into Defense: Making Sense of Public Citizen's Arguments against the WTO, Branden A. Bell

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From International Law to Law and Globalization, Paul Schiff Berman

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Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Conflict of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests in a Global Era, Paul Schiff Berman

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The Limits of Equality - Wishing for Discrimination?, Yifat Bitton

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Restorative Justice, Slavery and the American Soul, A Policy-Oriented Approach to the Question of Slavery Reparations by the United States, Michael F. Blevins

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Congressional Oversight of Counterterrorism and Its Reform, Robert F. Blomquist

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Jury Trials in Japan, Robert M. Bloom

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On the Potential of Neuroscience: A Comment on Greene and Cohen’s "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything", Theodore Y. Blumoff

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The Problems with Blaming, Theodore Y. Blumoff

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The Future of the Casebook: An Argument for an Open-Source Approach, Matthew T. Bodie

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Cultural Relativism in International War Crimes Prosecutions: The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Ida L. Bostian

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Blocking Legal Evolution and Paying the Price: Property and Conflict in the Nigerian Highlands, Karol C. Boudreaux

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Neo-Colonial Relationships Gone Wrong: French Leaders Should Be Held Legally Responsible for their Role in the Rwandan Genocide, Kirsten T. Bowman

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Seeing Government Purpose through the Objective Observer's Eyes: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Debates, Kristi L. Bowman

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Private International Law-Making for the Financial Markets, Caroline Bradley

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Getting Real About Privacy: Eccentric Expectations in the Post-9/11 World, Jeffrey A. Breinholt

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Who Are the Good Guys? The Legacy of Watergate and the Tangled Webs We Weave, Jeffrey A. Breinholt

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Va Savoir! - The Adage "Jura Novit Curia" in Contemporary France, Douglas Brooker

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From Pax Mercatoria to Pax Europea: How Trade Dispute Procedures Serve the EC's Regional Hegemony , Tomer Broude

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Taking 'Trade and Culture' Seriously: Geographical Indications and Cultural Protection in WTO Law , Tomer Broude

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Modern Day Slavery in Our Own Backyard, Ellen L. Buckwalter, Meredith S. Salvaggio, Susan L. Pollet, and Maria Perinetti

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The Notion of Trust as a Comprehensive Theory of Contract and Corporate Law: A New Approach to the Conception that the Corporation Is a Nexus of Contract, Eli Bukspan

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Nuclear Energy and Proliferation: Problems, Observations, and Proposals, Taylor A. Burke

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The Aesthetics of Lawrence v. Texas' Moral Vision, Courtney Megan Cahill

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California’s New Ethics Standards: A Hot Bed of Controversy, Rebecca Callahan

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Facework in Mediation: The Need for "Face" Time, Rebecca Callahan

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Identity and Market for Loyalties Theories: The Case for Free Information Flow in Insurgent Iraq, Paul D. Callister

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Law’s Box: Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere, Paul D. Callister

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The Law and Economics of Wardrobe Malfunction, Adam Candeub

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Keeping Score: The Struggle for Music Copyright, Michael W. Carroll

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Christian Faith and Political Life: A Pre- and Post-Election Dialogue, Jason Carter and Randy Beck

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The Difficulty in Winning Restaurant Defamation Cases, Joshua A. Cash

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Tax Havens and Public International Law: The Case of the Netherlands Antilles, Georges A. Cavalier

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Copyright and Open Source Software Licensing, Sau Sheong Chang

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No Longer Just Company Men: The Flexible Workforce and Employment Discrimination (Book Review of Katherine Stone's From Widgets to Digits), Miriam A. Cherry

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Markets For Markets: Origins and Subjects of Information Markets, Miriam A. Cherry and Robert L. Rogers

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Extending Predation Analysis to Monopolist's Bundled Discounts under Section 2: An Economic, Legal, and Comparative Perspective, Seth B. Chertok

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Jurisdictional Competition in the European Community, Seth B. Chertok

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The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal for Female and Child Refugees Trapped in a Post-9/11 World, Marisa S. Cianciarulo

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The Legal Employment Market: Determinants of Elite Firm Placement, and How Law Schools Stack Up, Anthony M. Ciolli

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Management-Based Strategies for Improving Private Sector Environmental Performance, Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash

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Seeing Straight in the Workplace: An Examination of Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Public Employment in the Aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas, Devin A. Cohen

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The Same Side of Two Coins: The Peculiar Phenomenon of Bet-Hedging in Campaign Finance, Jason Cohen

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Race Against the Machine: An Argument for the Standardization of Voting Technology, Jason Belmont Conn

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International Responsibility for Human Rights Violations by American Indian Tribes, Klint A. Cowan

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Making Free Speech Affordable: A Discussion of Legislation to Provide Public Funding to Candidates for the U.S. Congress, Jared S. Cram

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Harry Potter and the Three-Second Crime: Are We Vanishing the De Minimis Defense from Copyright Law?, Julie Cromer

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Why Judicial Review Fails: Organizations, Politics, and the Problem of Auditing Executive Discretion, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar

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Major Lenders' May Violate Due Process by Enforcing One-Sided Arbitration Contracts to Avoid Borrowers' Defenses to Foreclosure, Lynn E. Cunningham

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Law as a Healing Profession: The “Comprehensive Law Movement”, Susan Daicoff

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Solomon Amendment, Gerald A. Daniel

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Lost in Translation: The Economic Analysis of Law in the United States and Europe, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

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The Duty to Bargain in Good Faith: NLRB v. Truitt Manufacturing Co. and NLRB v. Insurance Agents’ International Union, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt

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A Call To Arms: “Taking” The Volunteer Out Of The All Volunteer Force, Jerome Dees

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How It Works: Sobriety Sentencing, the Constitution and Alcoholics Anonymous. A Perspective from AA's Founding Community, Max E. Dehn

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The Five Stages of Law Review Submission, Brannon P. Denning

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Harmonizing Business Laws in Africa: OHADA Calls the Tune, Claire M. Dickerson

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A Theory of Interpretation in the Realm of Idealism, Larry A. DiMatteo

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Counter-Majoritarian Power and Judges' Political Speech, Michael R. Dimino

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The Rise and Fall of Israel's Senior Citizens’ Law, Israel Doron

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A Comparative Analysis of International Tribunals: The Formation of an Iraqi Judiciary to Try Sadaam Hussein, Melissa L. Dougherty

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An Analysis for the Valuation of Venture Capital-Funded Startup Firm Patents, John Dubiansky

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The Abolition of Wealth Transfer Taxes: Lessons from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, David G. Duff

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Sailing Around Erie:The Emergence of a Federal General Common Law of Arbitration, Kenneth Dunham

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Awakening An Empire of Liberty: Exploring The Roots of Socratic Inquiry and Political Nihilism In American Democracy, Maurice R. Dyson

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Law and Poetry, Edward J. Eberle

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Protecting Black Tribal Members: Is the Thirteenth Amendment the Linchpin to Securing Equal Rights within Indian Country?, Lydia M. Edwards

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Treaty Solutions From the Land Down Under: Reconciling American Federalism and International Law, Cyril R. Emery

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True Lies: The Constitutional and Evidentiary Bases for Admitting Prior False Accusation Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions, Jules Epstein

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Appraising Surge in Legal Scholarship Regarding Restorative Justice and Discovering Lenses to the South: Is Global Criminal Justice Necessarily Different Than United States Ideal?, Nancy D. Erbe

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Appreciating ADR's Global Role with Good Governance, Nancy D. Erbe

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The Ethics of Cause Lawyering: An Examination of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Cause Lawyers, Margareth Etienne

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Recalibrating the War on Terror by Enhancing Development Practices in the Middle East, Kevin J. Fandl

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The Problematics of the Pareto Principle, Daniel A. Farber

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A Brief Look at Broward County Lawyers’ and Judges’ Attitudes Toward Plea Bargaining as a Tool of Courtroom Efficiency, Mohammad A. Faruqui

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Rethinking Rights in Biospace, Robin C. Feldman

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Divided by Common Interests: Transatlanticism and the Future of International Law After Iraq, Aaron X. Fellmeth

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The Opacity of Transparency, Mark Fenster

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Reinvigorating First Year Criminal Law: Integrating Mental Disability Issues into the Criminal Law Course, Linda C. Fentiman

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Juridical Discourse and Evolutionary Dynamics , Atahualpa Fernandez

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Law and Human Nature: The Social-Adaptive Function of the Normative Behavior, Atahualpa Fernandez

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Law and Neuroscience, Atahualpa Fernandez

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Moral Intelligence: Mind, Brain an the Law , Atahualpa Fernandez

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A New Weapon against Piracy: Patent Protection as an Alternative Strategy for Enforcement of Digital Rights, Dennis S. Fernandez, Matthew Chivvis, and Mengfei Huang

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Deterrence and Crime Results, Marcelo Ferrante

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The "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" Defense to Patent Infringement for Today's Global Economy: Section 272 of the Patent Act, Ted L. Field

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The Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights by International Agreement: A Case Study Comparing Chile and Australia’s Bilateral FTA Negotiations With the U.S., Ralph G. Fischer

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Towards a Basal Tenth Amendment: A Riposte to National Bank Preemption of State Consumer Protection Laws, Keith R. Fisher

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Transparency in Global Merger Review: A Limited Role for the WTO?, Keith R. Fisher

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The Missing Preferred Return, Victor Fleischer

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Out of Bounds: San Francisco's Homeless Policies, Alexandra Flynn

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Reclaiming the Public Forum: Courts Must Stand Firm Against Governmental Efforts to Displace Dissidence, Christopher B. Ford

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Still Mortgaging the American Dream: Predatory Lending, Preemption, and Federally-Supported Lenders, Julia P. Forrester

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The Utility of a Bright-line Rule in Copyright Law: Freeing Judges from Aesthetic Controversy and Conceptual Separability in Leicester v. Warner Bros., John B. Fowles

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Water Justice in South Africa: Natural Resources Policy at the Intersection of Human Rights, Economics, & Political Power, Rose Francis

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Help Wanted: The Constitutional Case against Gerrymandering to Protect Congressional Incumbents, Walter M. Frank