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Documents from 2020

No Title5 reasons the T-Mobile-Sprint merger should’ve been rejected—and will raise your phone bill, Nicholas Economides, John Kwoka, Thomas Philippon, Robert Seamans, Hal Singer, Marshall Steinbaum, and Lawrence J. White

The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law, Edmund P. Edmonds

When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana, David A. Edwin, Evam K. Glover, and Edinam K. Glover

When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana, David A. Edwin, Evam K. Glover, and Edinam K. Glover

Lawyers and Clients: Critical Issues in Interviewing and Counseling, Stephen Ellmann, Robert Dinerstein, Isabelle Gunning, Katherine Kruse, and Ann Shalleck

Private Law Alternatives to the Individual Mandate, Wendy Netter Epstein

PLANIFICACIÓN ESTRATÉGICA Y PROSPECTIVA PARA EL CUMPLIMIENTO DE LOS ODS - SDG EN LOS PLANES DE ORDENAMIENTO TERRITORIAL.pdf, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

EVOLUCION HACIA EL DERECHO DE LOS SERES SINTIENTES NO HUMANOS - Proyecto de Investigación, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco; Emanuel Saldi; Mariano Talquenca; and Daniela Mátar Busajn, Universidad de Congreso

Diversity and Inclusion Piece (DICTA 2020).pdf, Akram Faizer

Federal Abortion Rights Under a Conservative United States Supreme Court, Akram Faizer

Applying the Privileges or Immunities Clause to Gun Rights: A Framework to Depolarize the Debate and Strengthen the Federal Judiciary, Mohamed Akram Faizer

Green Marks, Christine Farley

Looking Beyond the Known Story: How the Prehistory of Protection of Geographical Indications in the Americas Provides an Alternate Approach, Christine Farley

Public Policy Limitations on Trademark Subject Matter: A U.S. Perspective, Christine Farley

Registering Offense: The Prohibition of Slurs as Trademarks, Christine Farley

The Lost Unfair Competition Law, Christine Farley

The Trademark Provisions in the TRIPS Agreement, Christine Farley

Confronting Expectations: Women in the Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley

Confusing the Similarity of Trademark Law in Domain Name Disputes, Christine Haight Farley

Convergence and Incongruence: Trademark Law and ICANN's Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains, Christine Haight Farley

Guest Post Out of the Blue The Federal Circuit Devises a New Rule for Color Mark, Christine Haight Farley

Men May Work from Sun to Sun, But Women's Work is Never Done: International Law and the Regulation of Women's Work at Night, Christine Haight Farley

No Comment: Will Cariou v. Prince Alter Copyright Judges’ Taste in Art?, Christine Haight Farley

No Trademark, No Problem, Christine Haight Farley

Stabilizing Morality in Trademark Law, Christine Haight Farley

Territorial Exclusivity in U.S. Copyright and Trademark Law, Christine Haight Farley

The Protection of Geographical Indications in the Inter-American Convention, Christine Haight Farley

Considering Trademark and Speech Rights Through the Lens of Regulating Tobacco, Christine Haight Farley and Kavita DeVaney

Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, Christine Haight Farley, Peter Jaszi, Victoria Phillips, Joshua D. Sarnoff, and Ann Shalleck

Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History, Mark Fenster

Terminology Matters: Dangers of Superficial Transplantation, Silvia Ferreri and Larry A. DiMatteo

74. Setting the ground rules: Use and practice of ground rules in child forensic interviews. Child Maltreatment., Melanie B. Fessinger, Faizun N. Bakth, Kelly McWilliams, and Thomas D. Lyon

Virtual Briefing at the Supreme Court, Jeffrey L. Fisher and Allison Orr Larsen

Logos Grounds Dialogue; Dialogue Bonds Multidenominational Societies; The Abrahamic Religions Strengthen Those Bonds, Scott T. FitzGibbon

The Ethical Bases of Human Rights, Scott T. Fitzgibbon

Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Correos_electronicos_Flores_Carlos_-_Comentarios_a_la_iniciativa_de_reforma_al_Codigo_Civil_de_la_Ciudad_de_Mexico.pdf, Carlos Alberto Flores Hernández

Beach Law Cleanup: How Sea-Level Rise Has Eroded the Ambulatory Boundaries Legal Framework, Alyson C. Flournoy

Integrative Environmental Law: A Prescription for Law in the Time of Climate Change, Alyson C. Flournoy

Recreational Rights to the Dry Sand Beach in Florida: Property, Custom and Controversy, Alyson C. Flournoy, Thomas T. Ankersen, and Sasha Alvarenga

Recreational Rights to the Dry Sand Beach in Florida: Property, Custom and Controversy, Alyson C. Flournoy, Thomas T. Ankersen, and Sasha Alvarenga

Supreme Court Amicus Brief of AARP and the National Legislative Association on Petition Drug Prices in Support of Petitioners, William H. Sorrell v. IMS Health, Inc., No. 10-779 (Filed March 1, 2011), Sean Flynn, Meredith Jacob, and Stacy Canan

Consumer Bankruptcy Should Be Increasingly Irrelevant -- Why Isn't It?, Pamela Foohey

Debt's Emotional Encumbrances, Pamela Foohey

Fines, Fees, and Filing Bankruptcy, Pamela Foohey

CARES Act Gimmicks: How Not To Give People Money During a Pandemic And What To Do Instead, Pamela Foohey, Dalie Jimenez, and Christopher K. Odinet

The Debt Collection Pandemic, Pamela Foohey, Dalie Jimenez, and Christopher K. Odinet

The Folly of Credit As Pandemic Relief, Pamela Foohey, Dalie Jimenez, and Christopher K. Odinet

Driven to Bankruptcy, Pamela Foohey, Robert M. Lawless, and Deborah Thorne

Has President Trump Committed a War Crime by Pardoning War Criminals?, Stuart Ford

Has President Trump Committed A War Crime by Pardoning War Criminals?, 35 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 757 (2020), Stuart Ford

Is the Failure to Respond Appropriately to a Natural Disaster a Crime against Humanity - The Responsibility to Protect and Individual Criminal Responsibility in the Aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, Stuart Ford

The Need for a Wealth Inequality Amendment, Stuart Ford

The Need for A Wealth Inequality Amendment, 122 W. Va. L. Rev. 1 (2019), Stuart Ford

So Are Games Coffee Mugs or What? Games and the Right of Publicity Revisited, 19 UIC Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 178 (2020), William K. Ford

All that Glitters is Not Always Gold or Silver: Typical Bilateral Investments Treaties (BITs) Clauses as Peril to Third World Economic Sovereignty, George Forji Amin

A Marxist and TWAIL Reading of the Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law, George Forji Amin

Brief of Amici Curiae Michael L. Rosin, David G. Post, David F. Forte, Michael Stokes Paulsen, and Sotirios Barber in Support of Presidential Electors, David F. Forte, Michael L. Rosin, David G. Post, Michael Stokes Paulsen, and Sotirios Barber

Can Directors Insure Against Criminal Workplace Health and Safety Penalties?, Neil J. Foster

Acción Popular Caballos Montados.docx, Beatriz Franciskovic Ingunza

Mesa redonda iur et veritas.pdf, Beatriz Franciskovic Ingunza

Dual Regulation of Insurance, Christopher French

Insuring Against Cyber Risk: The Evolution of an Industry (Introduction), Christopher French

Medical Malpracrice and Cost Containment-Furrow .pdf, Barry Furrow

Swear Not at All: Time to Abandon the Testimonial Oath, Ian Gallacher

Suspects, Cars & Police Dogs: A Complicated Relationship, Brian Gallini

Consent, Coercion and Trade: A Reflection on the Relationship Between Free Trade and Values, Frank J. Garcia

Regulating Third-Party Funding in Investor-State Arbitration Through Reform of ICSID and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: Holding Global Institutions to Their Development Mandates, Frank J. Garcia, Brooke S. Güven, Karl M.F. Lockhart, and Michael R. Garcia

A Review of China's and Japan's International Engagement in South America : the Cases of Brazil, Chile and Venezuela, Gabriel Garcia

Transoceanic Connections: a Legal Assessment of China’s and Japan’s Economic Engagement with Latin America and the Caribbean, Gabriel Garcia

Safe Zone or Battle Zone? Free Speech on the Campus Quad, Alan E. Garfield

The Senate voted. Now it's our turn to vote Trump out, Alan E. Garfield

Christianity and the Criminal Law, Richard Garnett

Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging Contexts for Freedom for and Freedom From Religion, Richard Garnett

Estimating Judicial Ideal Points in Bidimensional Courts: Evidence from Catalonia, Nuno Garoupa, Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, and Marian Gili

Spurred by Legal Tradition or Contextual Politics? Lessons about Judicial Dissent from Slovenia and Croatia, Nuno Garoupa and Peter Grajzl

Constitutions and Courts, Nuno Garoupa and Pedro Magalhães

Judicial Politics: The Constitutional Court, Nuno Garoupa and Pedro Magalhães

Public Trust in the European Legal Systems: Independence, Accountability, and Awareness, Nuno Garoupa and Pedro Magalhães

CREATE a New Path to a Smoke-free Australia, Coral Gartner, Billie Bonevski, Tony Blakely, Richard Edwards, Raymond Lovett, Matthew Rimmer, Ron Borland, Geoffrey Fong, Michael Farrell, Natalie Walker, David Thomas, Gary Chan, Michelle Schollo, Catherine Segan, Amanda Baker, David Hammond, Amanda Baker, Andrew Waa, and Andrew Dunlop

Las licencias hipotéticas en la ley sobre el Derecho de autor, Ricardo Geldres Campos

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Rules and Commentary (2020 ed. Thomson Reuters), Steven S. Gensler

Expedited Trial Programs in Federal Court: Why Won't Attorneys Get on the Fast Track?, Steven S. Gensler and Jason A. Cantone

Better By The Dozen Published Version.pdf, Steven S. Gensler, Lee H. Rosenthal, and Patrick E. Higginbotham

The Impact of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Deferred Prosecution Program, Christine George, John Orwat, Don Stemen, Jennifer Cossyleon, and Whitney Key

Competition Law and Antitrust: A Global Guide, David J. Gerber

Don’t Steal My Recipe! A Comparative Study of French and U.S. Law on the Protection of Culinary Recipes and Dishes Against Copying, Claire M. Germain

Trials by Peers: The Ebb and Flow of the Criminal Jury in France and Belgium, Claire M. Germain

The Machine As Author, Daniel Gervais

The Machine as Author, Daniel J. Gervais

Banking, Payments and Negotiable Instruments, Benjamin Geva

Central Bank Digital Currencies: The New Era of Modern-Day Banking, Benjamin Geva

Commercial Law: Secured Transactions Statutory and Supplementary Materials: 2018-19, Benjamin Geva

Commercial Law: Secured Transactions Statutory and Supplementary Materials: 2019-20, Benjamin Geva