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Documents from 2017

Panelist, The Structure of Deals, Renee Jones

The Irrational Actor in the CEO Suite: Implications for Corporate Governance, Renee M. Jones

The Unicorn Governance Trap, Renee M. Jones

Unjustified enrichment : should South Africa venture into the thick forest of passing-on defence?, Aimite Jorge

Quoted in "Assistance or Coercion? Intent is Key in Text Message Suicide Case, Experts Say", Sarah Jorgensen

Introduction to the Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer and Karen Johnston

Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law, Julian C. Juergensmeyer, Thomas E. Roberts, Patricia E. Salkin, and Ryan Rowberry

Communicating science across borders, Kirk W. Junker

Ein Jahr Trump - Bewährungsprobe für die US-Verfassung, Kirk W. Junker

Ist "trans" die nächste Phase des Völkerrechts?, Kirk W. Junker

News Is Not Always Truth and Truth Is Not Always News, Kirk W. Junker

US-Recht als ausländisches Recht, Kirk W. Junker

US-Umweltrecht aus dem Ausland betrachtet, Kirk W. Junker

The Stricter Standard: An Empirical Assessment of Daubert’s Effect on Civil Defendants, Andrew Jurs and Scott DeVito

Revisiting the 1996 Experiment in Comprehensive Immigration Severity in the Age of Trump, Anil Kalhan

Implicit Bias and How it Can Impact the Law, Steven J. Kaminshine

No-Analogue Future: Challenges for the World of Nature in a World Without Precedent, Sean M. Kammer

Railroad Land Grants in an Incongruous System: Corporate Subsidies, Bureaucratic Governance, and Legal Conflict in the United States, 1850-1903, Sean M. Kammer

The Dual Vulnerability of Transnational, Science-Based Standards in the National Legal Order, Machiko Kanetake

The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors: Distance in international law, Machiko Kanetake

UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies Before Domestic Courts, Machiko Kanetake

Deportation as a Global Phenomenon: Reflections on the Draft Articles on the Expulsion of Aliens, Daniel Kanstroom

Immigration Enforcement and State Post-Conviction Adjudications: Towards Nuanced Preemption and True Dialogical Federalism, Daniel Kanstroom

The “Right to Remain Here” as an Evolving Component of Global Refugee Protection: Current Initiatives and Critical Questions, Daniel Kanstroom

Fiat Lux: Tracing A Standard of Review for Class Certification Orders, Curtis E.A. Karnow

Legalish, Curtis E.A. Karnow

The Opinion of Machines, Curtis E.A. Karnow

No Time for Tinkering: How a “More Progressive” NAFTA Could Break the Vicious Circle of Global Inequities in the Ownership of Knowledge, Ariel Katz

Teaching Legal Analysis Using the "Unified Field Theory", Howard E. Katz

What Law School Curriculum Committees Can Learn from Architecture Schools HEK.pdf, Howard E. Katz

What Law School Curriculum Committees Can Learn from Architecture Schools HEK.pdf, Howard E. Katz

Comments submitted to the US Patent Office on Examination Time Goals, Ron D. Katznelson

Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Faculty Fellowship Program, Nancy J. Kaufman and Charity Scott

Ethics at the Edges of Law: Christian Moralists and American Legal Thought, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: The American Context, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Law and Religious Freedom, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Panelist, After Charlottesville, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Panelist, Civility in Public Discourse, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Panelist, Understanding and Misunderstanding the Scope, the Challenge, and the Promise of Amoris Laetitia, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Policing the Communion Line: Why Sacramental Rigorism Backfires, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Seventh-Circuit Shakedown: Myra Selby Deserved Her Day in the Senate, M. Cathleen Kaveny

The Christian View of Mercy, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Assessing Academic Law Libraries' Performance and Implementing Change: The Reorganization of a Law Library, Linda Kawaguchi

Construction, Originalist Interpretation and the Complete Constitution, Richard Kay

Robin Hambleton, Leading the Inclusive City: Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet (Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2015), W Dennis Keating

An Uber Dilemma: The Conflict Between the Seattle Rideshare Ordinance, the NLRA, and For-Hire Driver Worker Classification, Richard B. Keeton

Property: A Context and Practice Casebook, Alicia B. Kelly and Nancy J. Knauer

Customary International Law in Historical Context: The Exercise of Power Without General Acceptance, Patrick Kelly

Customary International Law in Historical Context: The Exercise of Power Without General Acceptance, Patrick Kelly

Synthetic and bioorganic studies. Part 1: Progress toward the total synthesis of peloruside A. Part 2: Computational investigations of 3,5,5-pyrrolin-4-one-derived peptidomimetics including the design, theoretical prediction, and structural elucidation of a novel, highly accurate pyrrolinone alpha-helix mimetic, Craig Scott Kenesky

A Current Update of EPCRS Through Rev. Proc. 2016-51, 45 Tax Mgnt Comp. Plan. J. 9 NO. 1 (Jan. 9, 2017), Kathryn J. Kennedy

Employee Benefits Law: Qualification and ERISA Requirements, Kathryn J. Kennedy

Notable Employee Benefits Articles of 2016, Tax Notes, Kathryn J. Kennedy

Protective Plan Provisions, 24 J. Pension Benefits 3 (Winter 2017), Kathryn J. Kennedy

Protective Plan Provisions for Employer-Sponsored Employee Benefit Plans, Kathryn J. Kennedy

Protective Plan Provisions For Employer-Sponsored Employee Benefits Plans, 18 Marq. Ben. & Soc. Welfare L. Rev. 1 (2017), Kathryn J. Kennedy

Notable Employee Benefits Articles of 2016, 155 Tax Notes 829 (2017), Kathryn J. Kennedy and Melissa Travis

Public Pension Reform and the Takings Clause, Michael B. Kent Jr.

Writing for Practice, Kendall L. Kerew

The Anti-Science Seed Treaty, Drew L. Kershen and Henry I. Miller

One Decade Later: Florida's Stand Your Ground Law Alive And Well, Shahabudeen K. Khan

Beyond Finality: R v Hart and the Ghosts of Convictions Past, Amar Khoday

Beyond Finality: R v Hart and the Ghosts of Convictions Past, Amar Khoday and Jonathan Avey

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Child Protection, Shelley M. Kierstead

Text Work as Identity Work for Legal Writers: How Writing Texts Contribute to the Construction of a Professional Identity, Shelley M. Kierstead and Erika Abner

A game changer for pension relief, Jason J. Kilborn

A venture investor’s guide to the advantages and dangers of ABCs versus bankruptcy, Jason J. Kilborn

Determinants of Failure ... and Success in Personal Debt Mediation, Jason J. Kilborn

La Responsabilisation de L'economie: What the United States Can Learn from the New French Law on Consumer Overindebtedness, Jason J. Kilborn

Plain Meaning, Round Umpteen: When a Bank Customer Pays via Bank Transfer, Is This a Transfer Made by the Customer or the Bank?, Jason J. Kilborn

Posts at CreditSlips blog, Jason J. Kilborn

The unravelling of the General Motors restructuring: Claims beyond the limits of bankruptcy, Jason J. Kilborn

International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, Hugh M. Kindred; Philip M. Saunders; Robert J, Currie; Jutta Brunnée; Ted L. McDorman; Ikechi Mgbeoji; Karin Mickelson; René Provost; Linda C. Reif; and Christopher S. Waters

The Public Defender as International Transplant, John D. King

A Painless way to Rebel against the Current Political Situation in America., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Eight Ways to Ensure Biodiversity on Earth: Insights from the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

How a Visit from Death Saved My Life, Matthew Wilburn King PhD

How Yoga can Reverse Climate Change. Really!, Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Meet the Artist who Paints your Life to help find the Key to your Dreams., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Memorial Day—Remember This Today., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

My Ode to Nature: a Message of Love. {Poem}, Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Nonviolence: Countering the Alt-Right, Neo-Nazis of America., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

The Assault on the White Working Class & their Trump Card for us All., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

This is why Environmental Problems Should be Blamed on Consumers. No Title, Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Tips for Standing Up to a Corrupt & Unethical President., Matthew Wilburn King PhD

Designing Effective Groundwater Sustainability Agencies: Criteria for Evaluation of Local Governance Options, Michael Kiparsky, Dave Owen, Nell Green Nylen, Holly Doremus, Juliet Christian-Smith, Barbara Cosens, Andrew Fisher, and Anita Milman

Missing the Mark How FMLA's Bonding Leave Fails Mothers, Rona Kaufman Kitchen

A Post Mortem of the Eichmann Case--The Lessons for International Law, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Democracy: An Institution Whose Time Has Come--From Classical Greece to the Modern Pluralistic Society, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Looking at the World Realistically, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Patriots and Terrorists: Reconciling Human Rights with World Order, Nicholas N. Kittrie

The History of Drug Control Laws: American Aspects, 9 J. Marshall J. Prac. & Proc. 46 (1975), Nicholas N. Kittrie

The Task Ahead: Making the Constitution Work for Pluralism, Nicholas N. Kittrie

United States Regulation of Foreign Airlines Competition, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Subject files pertaining to miscellaneous activities and issues, Nicholas N. Kittrie, Arnold S. Trebach, and American Society of Criminology

"Message Failure: How Assessment Can Be More Harmful than Helpful", Jamie Kleppetsch

Kleven Final Document.doc, Thomas Kleven

Single IRBs in Multisite Trials: Questions Posed by the New NIH Policy, Robert Klitzman, Ekaterina Pivovarova, and Charles W. Lidz

Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines, Kay Knapp, Tom Johnson, William E. Falvey, and Esther Tomljanovich

Space, Time, and Historical Injustice: A Feminist Conflict-of-Laws Approach to the Comfort Women Agreement, Karen Knop and Annelise Riles