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Documents from 2022
Independent and Adequate State Grounds: A Stone Unturned by Louisiana’s Criminal Defense Bar?, Michael Vitiello
Joshua Dressler and “The Incident” – More Evidence of Liberal Bias?, Michael Vitiello
Justice Scalia’s Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence: An Unabashed Foe of Criminal Defendants, Michael Vitiello
Katz v. United States: Back to the Future?, Michael Vitiello
Letting Seriously Ill Minors Die: A Review of Louisiana’s Natural Death Act, Michael Vitiello
Lies, Damn Lies and Claims of Judicial Activism, Michael Vitiello
Louisiana’s Natural Death Act and Dilemmas in Medical Ethics, 46 LA. L. REV. 259 (1985). An Analysis of Mississippi’s Natural Death Act, Michael Vitiello
Miranda Is Dead. Long Live Miranda, Michael Vitiello
Payne v. Tennessee: A Stunning Ipse Dixit, Michael Vitiello
Professor Kingsfield: The Most Misunderstood Character in Literature, Michael Vitiello
Punishing Sex Offenders: When Good Intentions Go Bad, Michael Vitiello
Punishment and Democracy: A Hard Look at Three Strikes’ Overblown Promises, Michael Vitiello
Reflections on Hoffheimer’s The Stealth Revolution in Personal Jurisdiction, Michael Vitiello
Rethinking Adultery, Michael Vitiello
Somewhat Frantic: A Brief Response to Crime, Punishment and Romero, Michael Vitiello
Speedy Trial Under Rule 1100: Administrative Ease or Administrative Agony?, Michael Vitiello
Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Criminal Procedure, Michael Vitiello
Teaching Oral Advocacy: Creating More Opportunities for an Essential Skill, Michael Vitiello
The Appellate Lawyer’s Role in the Caseload Crisis, Michael Vitiello
The Baby Jane Doe Litigation: An Exercise in Raw Executive Power, Michael Vitiello
The Ethics of BRILAB, Michael Vitiello
The Firm Revisited: Somebody at The Justice Department Has Been Reading John Grisham, Michael Vitiello
The New Personal Jurisdiction Case Law: Allowing Foreign Defendants to Avoid American Courts, Michael Vitiello
The Nuremberg Files: Testing the Outer Limits of the First Amendment, Michael Vitiello
The Victim Impact Statements: Skewing Criminal Justice Away from First Principles, Michael Vitiello
The War on Drugs: Moral Panic and Excessive Sentences, Michael Vitiello
Three Strikes: Can We Return to Rationality?, Michael Vitiello
What Marc Anthony, Lady Macbeth, and Iago Teach Us about the First Amendment, Michael Vitiello
Cases and Material on Marijuana Law, Michael Vitiello, Howard Bromberg, and Mark Osbeck
Mapp’s Exclusionary Rule: Is the Court Crying Wolf?, Michael Vitiello and Jane C. Burger
Legalizing Marijuana: A View From Among the Weeds, Michael Vitiello and Rosemary Deck
Persuasive Written and Oral Advocacy: In Trial and Appellate Courts, Michael Vitiello and Michael R. Fontham
A Proposal for Wholesale Reform of California’s Sentencing Practice and Policy, Michael Vitiello and J. Clark Kelso
Reform of California’s Grand Jury System, Michael Vitiello and J. Clark Kelso
Trial manual for Louisiana prosecutors, Michael Vitiello, Arthur Lemann, and Gerard Rault
Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File I, Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham
Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File II, Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham
Practicing Persuasive Legal Written and Oral Advocacy: Case File III, Michael Vitiello, David W. Miller, and Michael R. Fontham
Afterward: A Thought about Feminist Litigation Strategies, Valorie K. Vojdik
At War: Narrative Tactics in the Citadel and VMI Litigation, Valorie K. Vojdik
Beyond Stereotyping in Equal Protection Doctrine: Reframing the Exclusion of Women from Combat, Valorie K. Vojdik
Conceptualizing Intimate Violence and Gender Equality: A Comparative Approach, Valorie K. Vojdik
Gender Outlaws: Challenging Masculinity in Traditionally Male Institutions, Valorie K. Vojdik
Girls' Schools after VMI: Do They Make the Grade, Valorie K. Vojdik
Politics of the Headscarf in Turkey: Masculinities, Feminism, and the Construction of Collective Identities, Valorie K. Vojdik
Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Women and Girls by U.N. Peacekeeping Troops, Valorie K. Vojdik
The Invisibility of Gender in War, Valorie K. Vojdik
Transatlantic Data Transfer Compliance, W. Gregory Voss
The Political Face of Antitrust, Spencer Weber Waller
Civil Procedure in the Chief Justice's Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Howard M. Wasserman
Zombie Laws, Howard M. Wasserman
Solving The Procedural Puzzles of The Texas Heartbeat Act And Its Imitators: New York Times V. Sullivan As Historical Analogue, Howard M. Wasserman and Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes
Solving the Procedural Puzzles of the Texas Heartbeat Act and Its Imitators: The Limits and Opportunities of Offensive Litigation, Howard M. Wasserman and Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes
Fake News (& Deep Fakes) And Democratic Discourse, Russell L. Weaver
Introduction: Remedies Discussion Forum, Russell L. Weaver
Nationwide Injunctions, Russell L. Weaver
Social Media, Section 230, and Free Expression, Russell L. Weaver
Constitutional Scholars Offer New 'Framework' for Agreement on Protecting Data, Rick Weber and Jennifer C. Daskal
Against Discourse: Why Eliminating Racial Disparities Requires Radical Politics, Not More Discussion, Robert F. Weber
Ohio Planning and Zoning Law (2022 ed.), Alan Weinstein, Kenneth Pearlman, John Bredin, Stuart Meck, and Rebecca Retzlaff
Sandy’s Joyfully Divided Soul and a Glimpse at a Constitutional Poethics in View of Roe’s Leaked Demise, Richard Weisberg
The Nazis and the Law: A Kristallnacht Program, Richard Weisberg
Yom Ha’Shoah in an Even More Special Context, Richard Weisberg
Cardozo's "Law and Literature": A Guide to His Judicial Writing Style, Richard H. Weisberg
Sullivan v. Zebley: New Disability Standards for Indigent Children to Obtain Government Benefits, Richard P. Weishapt and Robert E. Rains
A Basic Introduction to Robot Ethics, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
A Legal and Technical Perspective on Informed Consent – Learning from Japan, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Data Governance for Social Robots: How to Design the Informed Consent in HRI from a Regulatory Perspective, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Interdisciplinary Approaches on Ethics and Design for HRI Governance, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Interdisciplinary Sciences (Ethics), Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Proposals for Regulating Robots and AI: Soft Laws and HRI Governance, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Workshop Introducation, Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Design-Centered HRI Governance for Healthcare Robots, Yueh-Hsuan Weng and Yasuhisa Hirata
Uniform Commercial Code, James J. White, Robert S. Summers, Daniel D. Barnhizer, Wayne Barnes, and Franklin G. Snyder
Uniform Commercial Code, James J. White, Robert S. Summers, Daniel D. Barnhizer, Wayne Barnes, and Franklin G. Snyder
Why Do We Need Transdisciplinarity.mp4, Marcus R. Wigan
PIT Colloquium - The role of expertise and experts in public service and policy.mp4, Marcus Ramsay Wigan
The role of expertise and experts in public service and in policy, Marcus Ramsay Wigan
Lawyering Peace, Paul Williams
Sports Law: Governance and Regulation, 3d, Paul Williams
An Exclusionary Rule for Police Lies, Melanie D. Wilson
Anti-Justice, Melanie D. Wilson
A Reckoning Over Law Faculty Inequality, Melanie D. Wilson
A Return to the Grand Jury to Promote a Zen Zeal in Prosecutors, Melanie D. Wilson
A Tribute to Professor Jonathan Rohr, Melanie D. Wilson
Biden's Prosecutors, Melanie D. Wilson
DNA – Intimate Information or Trash for Public Consumption?, Melanie D. Wilson
Finding a Happy and Ethical Medium Between a Prosecutor Who Believes the Defendant Didn't Do It and the Boss Who Says That He Did, Melanie D. Wilson
Improbable Cause: A Case for Judging Police by a More Majestic Standard, Melanie D. Wilson
In Booker's Shadow: Restitution Forces a Second Debate on Honesty in Sentencing, Melanie D. Wilson
Juror Privacy in the Sixth Amendment Balance, Melanie D. Wilson
Progress Is a Chameleon, Melanie D. Wilson
Prosecutors "Doing Justice" Through Osmosis—Reminders to Encourage a Culture of Cooperation, Melanie D. Wilson
Quieting Cognitive Bias with Standards for Witness Communications, Melanie D. Wilson
Sentencing Inequality Versus Sentencing Injustice, Melanie D. Wilson
Since When Is Dicta Enough to Trump Fourth Amendment Rights? The Aftermath of Florida v. J.L., Melanie D. Wilson
The Common Prosecutor, Melanie D. Wilson