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Documents from 2014

You Get What You Pay For: Justice Reuben Anderson's Dissent in Pruett v. State Revisited, Jack F. Williams

All the Glitter Really Protect the Gold?, Jack F. Williams and Alexander A. Bove Jr.

Title VII and the Reserve Clause: A Statistical Analysis of Salary Discrimination in Major League Baseball, Jack F. Williams and Jack C. Chambless

American Bankruptcy Institute Media Teleconference to Examine the Future of Retail Sector Distress, Jack F. Williams, Laura Davis Jones, Scott Avila, and Howard Brod Brownstein

Aggressive Tactics Required to Combat Fraud: Top-Down Commitment is Essential, Jack F. Williams and William K. Lenhart

Assessing the Liability of Officers, Directors of Corporate Debtors, Jack F. Williams and William K. Lenhart

Cumulative Supplement to Financial Handbook for Bankruptcy Professionals, Jack F. Williams and William K. Lenhart

Independent Examiners and Internal Investigations, Jack F. Williams and William K. Lenhart

You are Now Entering the Zone of Insolvency, Jack F. Williams and William K. Lenhart

Collision of Policy: Chapter 13 and Taxes, Jack F. Williams and Tamara Miles Ogier

Public Financing of Green Cathedrals, Jack F. Williams, Jessica O'Quin, and Joshua Stein

American Bankruptcy Institute Media Teleconference to Examine the Future of Real Estate Industry Distress, Jack F. Williams, Rebecca Roof, and Greg Apter

Debt, Bankruptcy, Taxes and the Servicemember Civil Relief Act, Jack F. Williams and Susan H. Seabury

Thorny Issues in Consumer Bankruptcy Cases, Jack F. Williams and Susan H. Seabury

American Bankruptcy Institute Media Teleconference to Examine the Future of Automotive Sector Distress, Jack F. Williams, Deborah L. Thorne, Ronald J. Silverman, and Ben Pickering

Tax Consequences of Post-Petition Income as Property of the Estate in an Individual Debtor Chapter 11 Case and Tax Disclosure in Chapter 11, Jack F. Williams and Jacob L. Todres

Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy, Jack F. Williams and Pamela Williams

Caregivers In The Courtroom: The Growing Trend Of Family Responsibilities Discrimination, Joan C. Williams and Stephanie Bornstein

The Evolution Of “FReD”: Family Responsibilities Discrimination And Developments In The Law Of Stereotyping And Implicit Bias, Joan C. Williams and Stephanie Bornstein

Shots Fired: Second Amendment Jurisprudence and An Evolving Standard of Review, Joseph N. Williams II

The Right to Housing in South Africa: An Evolving Jurisprudence, Lucy A. Williams

Unions and Democracy: When Do Nonmembers Have Voting Rights?, Melanie Stallings Williams and Dennis A. Halcoussis

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The Road Most Travel: Is the Executive’s Growing Preeminence Making America More Like the Authoritarian Regimes It Fights So Hard Against?, Ryan T. Williams

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Brain Injury: Light at the End of the Tunnel through Research, Zoe Williams

The potential role of a racial discrimination law in Myanmar, Nathan Willis

Reconstructing Section Five of the Fourteenth Amendment to Assist Impoverished Children, James Wilson

The Imperial Republic: A Structural History of American Constitutionalism from the Colonial Era to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, James Wilson

Americanization, James G. Wilson

Downes v. Bidwell (The Insular Cases): Background, James G. Wilson

Expansion, James G. Wilson

The Concept of Empire, James G. Wilson

The Individual, The State and the Corporation, James G. Wilson

Wealth Distribution, James G. Wilson

Why the International Court Should Have Jurisdiction Over Slavery, James G. Wilson

A Brief History of America's Republic Empire, James G. Wilson

Altered States: A Comparison of Separation of Powers in the United States and in the United Kingdom, James G. Wilson

American Constitutional Conventions: The Judicially Unenforceable Rules That Combine With Judicial Doctrine and Public Opinion to Regulate Political Behavior, James G. Wilson

Chaining The Leviathan: The Unconstitutionality of Executing Those Convicted of Treason, James G. Wilson

Commentary: Noam Chomsky and Judicial Review, James G. Wilson

Constraints of Power: The Constitutional Opinions of Judges Scalia, Bork, Posner, Easterbrook, and Winter, James G. Wilson

Jefferson's Empire of Equality, James G. Wilson

Noam Chomsky and Judicial Review, James G. Wilson

Surveying the "Forms of Doctrine" on the Bright Line Balancing Test Continuum, James G. Wilson

The Culture of an Empire: The Structure of a Republic, James G. Wilson

The Eleventh Amendment Cases: Going "Too Far" with Judicial Neofederalism, James G. Wilson

The Eleventh Amendment Cases: Going Too Far with Judicial Neofederalism, James G. Wilson

The Founders' Vision and the Estate Tax, James G. Wilson

The Morality of Formalism, James G. Wilson

The Most Sacred Text: The Supreme Court's Use of The Federalist Papers, James G. Wilson

The Role of Public Opinion in Constitutional Interpretation, James G. Wilson

The Unconstitutionality of Eliminating Estate and Gift Taxes , James G. Wilson

The Unconstitutionality of Eliminating Estate and Gift Taxes, James G. Wilson

Why a Fundamental Right to a Quality Education Is Not Enough, James G. Wilson

United States of America v. Manning, Bradley E., PFC: When Fear Meets Reality: How an Aggressive Prosecution did not equate to an Assault on First Amendment Freedoms, Jordan A. Wilson

Japan's Lay Judge System: Expectations, Accomplishments, Shortfalls, and Possible Expansion, Matthew J. Wilson

Human Rights Violations by Peacekeeping Forces in Somalia.pdf, Richard J. Wilson

Restoration of Historical Memory and Dignity for Victims of the Armenian Genocide: A Human Rights Law Approach to Effective Reparations, Richard J. Wilson

The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (Book Review), Richard J. Wilson

The Most Important Cases of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Richard J. Wilson

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Carried Interest for the Common Man, Richard Winchester

Learning To Be a Lawyer: Transition Into Practice Pilot Project, Sally Evans Winkler, C. Ronald Ellington, and John T. Marshall

Broker-Dealer Regulation: New Developments and Continuing Practical Concerns, Stephen P. Wink

A Plumber's Guide to Lawyering, Stephen P. Wink

Citizens Disunited, Steven Winter

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Equality and Democracy, Steven L. Winter

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Equality and Democracy, Steven L. Winter

Equality and Democracy, Steven L. Winter

Human Values in a Postmodern World, Steven L. Winter

Contingency and Community In Normative Practice, Steven L. Winter

Indeterminacy and Incommensurability in Constitutional Law, Steven L. Winter

Transcendental Nonsense, Metaphoric Reasoning, and the Cognitive Stakes for Law , Steven L. Winter

What if Justice Scalia Took History and the Rule of Law Seriously?, Steven L. Winter

Without Privilege, Steven L. Winter

A Climate Treaty without Congress, David A. Wirth

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Deep Dive: Greenhouse Implications of Energy Policies of International Financial Institutions, David A. Wirth

International Administrative Law -- WTO and Implications for Rulemaking, David A. Wirth

Panelist, New Year’s Renaissance Weekend, David A. Wirth

Panelist: The Globalization of Environmental Politics, David A. Wirth

Private Voluntary Standards and New U.S. Food Safety Legislation: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Imported Food, David A. Wirth

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Private Voluntary Standards and New U.S. Food Safety Legislation: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Imported Food, David A. Wirth

The International and Domestic Law of Climate Change: A Binding International Agreement Without the Senate or Congress?, David A. Wirth

Cases and Materials on Discrimination on the Basis of Handicap: Selected Topics, Patrick Wiseman

Deferring to the Judgment of Mental Health and Related Professionals in Striking the Constitutional Balance between Individual Liberty and the Interests of the State, Patrick Wiseman

Denial of Treatment to Handicapped Newborns: In Whose Interest?, Patrick Wiseman

Ethical Jurisprudence, Patrick Wiseman

First English's Regulatory Takings Analysis: Is Compensation for a Landowners Temporary Frustration of Economic Expectations Justified?, Patrick Wiseman

Foreword: Law and the Internet: A Symposium for the New Millennium, Patrick Wiseman

Law and the Internet: A Symposium for the New Millenium, Patrick Wiseman

Legal Education and Cynicism About the Law: Practicing Ethical Jurisprudence in the Classroom, Patrick Wiseman

Lessons Virtually Learned, Patrick Wiseman

Lessons Virtually Learned: The Evolution of an Online Course, Patrick Wiseman

May the Market Do What Taking Jurisprudence Does Not: Divide a Single Parcel into Discrete Segments?, Patrick Wiseman

Mental Health, Happiness, and the Social Order: An Investigation of Man's "Proper Function", Patrick Wiseman

Professional Ethics, Social Morality: A Reply to Professor Hazard, Patrick Wiseman

When the End Justifies the Means: Understanding Takings Jurisprudence in a Legal System with Integrity, Patrick Wiseman

"When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It," and Other Sage Advice for First-Time Law School Exam Takers, Patrick Wiseman

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Finding the Foregone Conclusions of Encryption, Timothy A. Wiseman

Sheltering Speech in the DMCA's Safe Harbors, Timothy A. Wiseman

Can Judges Ignore Inadmissible Information? The Difficulty of Deliberately Disregarding, Andrew J. Wistrich, Chris Guthrie, and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski

How Lawyers' Intuitions Prolong Litigation, Andrew J. Wistrich and Jeffrey J. Rachlinski