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Documents from 2013

Parent-Initiated Termination of Parental Rights: The Ultimate Weapon in Matrimonial Warfare, D. Blair

The New Oklahoma Adoption Code: A Quest to Accommodate Diverse Interests, D. Blair

1998 Amendments to the Oklahoma Adoption Code: The Third Round of Adoption Reform, Marianne Blair

Admonitions or Accountability?: U.S. Implementation of the Hague Adoption Convention Requirements for the Collection and Disclosure of Medical and Social History of Transnationally Adopted Children, Marianne Blair

Getting the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: The Limits of Liability for Wrongful Adoption, Marianne Blair

International Application of the UCCJEA: Scruntinizing the Escape Clause, Marianne Blair

Liability of Adoption Agencies and Attorneys for Misconduct in the Disclosure of Health-related Information, Marianne Blair

Lifting the Genealogical Veil: A Blueprint for Legislative Reform of the Disclosure of Health-Related Information in Adoption, Marianne Blair

Safeguarding the Interests of Children in Intercountry Adoption: Assessing the Gatekeepers, Marianne Blair

The Impact of Family Paradigms, Domestic Constitutions, and International Conventions on Disclosure of an Adopted Person's Identities and Heritage: A Comparative Examination, Marianne Blair

The Right of an Indigent Defendant to an Interpreter in a Civil Trial: Jara v. Municipal Court, Marianne Blair

The Uniform Adoption Act's Health Disclosure Provisions: A Model that Should Not Be Overlooked, Marianne Blair

Unveiling Our Heritage: A Comparative Examination of Access by Adopted Persons and Their Families to Identifying and Non-identifying Information, Marianne Blair

Oklahoma Family Law - Statutes and Rules - Annotated (Divorce & Adoption) 2012-2013, Marianne Blair, Robert Spector, and Carolyn Thompson

International Family Law: Conventions, Statutes, and Regulatory Materials, Marianne Blair and Merle Weiner

Resolving Parental Custody Disputes - A Comparative Exploration, Marianne Blair and Merle H. Weiner

Family Law in the World Community, Marianne Blair, Merle Weiner, Barbara Stark, and Solangel Maldonado

Twombly is the Logical Extension of the Mathews v. Eldridge Test to Discovery, Andrew Blair-Stanek

Increased Market Power as a New Secondary Consideration in Patent Law, Andrew Blair-Stanek

Profits as Commercial Success, Andrew Blair-Stanek

Tax in the Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Tax, Andrew Blair-Stanek

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A Legal 'Red Line'? Syria and the Use of Chemical Weapons in Civil Conflict, Jillian Blake

Ovaries, Testicles, and Uteruses, Oh My! Regulating Reproductive Tissue Transplants, Valarie Blake

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Article: No Child Left Behind: Why Race-Based Achievement Goals Violate the Equal Protection Clause, Ayriel Bland

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Where Babies and Death-row Inmates Intersect: Is Arbitrary Agency Decision-making Supported Under Existing Law?, Lisa C. Blanton BS., MJ.

Supreme Court Term Review, Vincent Blasi, Jesse H. Choper, Anne Coughlin, A. E. Dick Howard, William H. Rehnquist, William W. Van Alstyne, and J. Harvie Wilkinson III

Interception and offshore processing of asylum seekers, Sam Blay, Jennifer Burn, and Patrick Keyzer

Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers: The Search for Legitimate Parameters, Sam Blay, Jennifer Burn, and Patrick Keyzer

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UNDERSTANDING CHINA’s NEED TO FOCUS ON ITS RENEWABLE ENERGY EXPANSION PROGRAMME AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO ITS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY, patricia j. blazey Ms

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How Much Are My Cells Worth?- Poster, Elizabeth Bley

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Springtime for Freedom of Religion or Belief: Will Newly Democratic Arab States Guarantee International Human Rights Norms or Perpetuate Their Violation?, Robert C. Blitt

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The Natural Rights of Children, Walter E. Block

"A Fascination without Scruples": American Popular Culture and Its Corrosive Impact on the Law (reviewing Richard K. Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (2000))., Robert F. Blomquist

American "Road Rage": A Scary and Tangled Cultural-Legal Pastiche, Robert F. Blomquist

Annoyancetech Vigilante Torts and Policy, Robert F. Blomquist

Applying Pesticides: Toward Reconceptualizing Liability to Neighbors for Crop, Livestock and Personal Damages from Agricultural Chemical Drift, Robert F. Blomquist

Concurrence, Posner-Style: Ten Ways to Look at the Concurring Opinions of Judge Richard A. Posner, Robert F. Blomquist

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

In Search of Themis: Toward the Meaning of the Ideal Legislator--Senator Edmund S. Muskie and the Early Development of Modern American Environmental Law, 1965-1968, Robert F. Blomquist

Judge Posner's Dissenting Judicial Oeuvre and the Aesthetics of Canonicity, Robert F. Blomquist

Overinterpreting Law, Robert F. Blomquist

Playing on Words: Judge Richard A. Posner's Appellate Opinions, 1981-82--Ruminations on Sexy Judicial Opinion Style During an Extraordinary Rookie Season, Robert F. Blomquist

Protecting Nature "Down Under": An American Law Professor's View of Australia's Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity--Laws, Policies, Programs, Institutions and Plans, 1992-2000, Robert F. Blomquist

Re-Enchanting Torts, Robert F. Blomquist

Six Thinking Hats for the Lorax: Corporate Responsibility and the Environment, Robert F. Blomquist

Solar Energy Development, State Constitutional Interpretation and Mount Laurel II: Second-Order Consequences of Innovative Policymaking by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Robert F. Blomquist

The Logic and Limits of Environmental Criminal Law in the Global Setting: Brazil and the United States--Comparisons, Contrasts, and Questions in Search of a Robust Theory, Robert F. Blomquist

The Logic and Limits of Public Information Mandates Under Federal Hazardous Waste Law: A Policy Analysis, Robert F. Blomquist

The Pragmatically Virtuous Lawyer?, Robert F. Blomquist

The Presidential Oath, the American National Interest and a Call for Presiprudence, Robert F. Blomquist

The Trouble with Negligence Per Se, Robert F. Blomquist

Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law, Robert F. Blomquist

What is Past is Prologue: Senator Edmund S. Muskie's Environmental Policymaking Roots as Governor of Maine, 1955-58, Robert F. Blomquist

Cases on Criminal Procedure, Robert M. Bloom

Chapter 19: Rent Control, Robert M. Bloom and Marshall F. Newman

Beyond the Bylaws: Hospital-Physician Relationships, Economics, and Conflicting Agendas, John D. Blum

Feng Shui and the Restructuring of the Hospital Corporation: A Call for Change in the Face of the Medical Error Epidemic, John D. Blum

Is Justice for One Justice for All? The Dilemma of Public Health Enforcement in an Interconnected World, John D. Blum

Leveraging Quality in Managed Care: Moving Advocates Back into the Box, John D. Blum

Overcoming Managed Care Regulatory Chaos Through A Restructured Federalism, John D. Blum

The Role of Law in Global E. Health: A Tool for Development and Equity in a Digitally Divided World, John D. Blum

Too Strange To Be Just Fiction: Legal Lessons from a Bioterrorist Simulation, the Case of Topoff 2, John D. Blum

Medicaid Governance in the Wake of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius: Finding Federalism's Middle Pathway, from Administrative Law to State Compacts., John D. Blum and Gayland O. Hethcoat II

Qualified Immunity Developments: Not Much Hope Left for Plaintiffs, Karen Blum, Erwin Chemerinsky, and Martin A. Schwartz

Municipal Liability and Liability of Supervisors: Litigation Significance of Recent Trends and Developments, Karen Blum, Celeste Koeleveld, Joel B. Rudin, and Martin A. Schwartz

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Antimonopoly and the Radical Lochean Origins of Western Water Law, Michael Blumm

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Lands Council, Karuk Tribe, and the Great Environmental Divide in the Ninth Circuit, Michael Blumm and Maggie Hall

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The Public Trust in Wildlife, Michael Blumm and Aurora Paulsen

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Final Appeals: Same-sex marriage reaches the Supreme Court (2014 Catholic Press First Place Award), Ellen K. Boegel

Evans v. Abney: Reverting to Segregation , David S. Bogen

Symposium: Directions in Labor Law: Concern for the Dignity of the Worker - Introduction, David S. Bogen

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CJEU, can you hear me? Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Sanja Bogojevic

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Emissions Trading Schemes: Markets, States and Law, Sanja Bogojevic

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EU Climate Change Litigation, the Role of the European Courts, and the Importance of Legal Culture, Sanja Bogojevic

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Economic Thought and Climate Disruption: Neoclassical and Economic Dynamic Approaches in the USA and the EU, Sanja Bogojevic and David Driesen

Liability for delay in multimodal transport under the Rotterdam Rules, Olena Bokareva

Liability for Delay in Multimodal Transport under the Rotterdam Rules, Olena Bokareva

When Fantasy Meets the Courtroom: An Examination of the Intellectual Property Issues Surrounding the Burgeoning Fantasy Sports Industry, Zachary C. Bolitho

Co-Moderator, Legal Education and the Profession in Transition Summit, Zachary C. Bolitho

Decision-Making, Zachary C. Bolitho

Finding Your Professional Purpose, Zachary C. Bolitho

Moderator, The Evolving Role of the Corporate Counsel: How Information Technology is Reinventing Legal Practice, Zachary C. Bolitho

Moderator, The Trial: a View from the Bench, Zachary C. Bolitho

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Balancing Constitutional Rights: Introduction, Jacco Bomhoff

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Balancing Constitutional Rights: The Origins and Meanings of Postwar Legal Discourse, Jacco Bomhoff

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Review of Teubner, Constitutional Fragments (OUP 2012), Jacco Bomhoff

The Reach of Rights: “The Foreign” and “The Private” in Conflict-of-Laws, State-Action, and Fundamental-Rights Cases with Foreign Elements, Jacco Bomhoff

Victimization, Mainstreaming, and the Complexity of Gender in Armed Conflict, Johanna Bond

Culture, Dissent, and the State: The Example of Commonwealth African Marriage Law, Johanna E. Bond

A Decade After Abu Ghraib: Lessons in "Softening Up" The Enemy and Sex-Based Humiliation, Johanna E. Bond

Constitutional Exclusion and Gender in Commonwealth Africa, Johanna E. Bond

Gender, Discourse, and Customary Law in Africa, Johanna E. Bond

Honor as Property, Johanna E. Bond

Personal Delegations, Alexander Boni-Saenz

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Social Capital: Friend or Foe in the Lives of Two Prominent Incarcerated Individuals, Froswa Booker-Drew

Majority-of-the-Minority Voting and Fairness in Freeze-out Mergers, RICHARD A. BOOTH

The Two Faces of Materiality, RICHARD A. BOOTH

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Notable Partnership Tax Articles of 2012, Bradley T. Borden

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Quantitative Model for Measuing Line-Drawing Inequity, Bradley T. Borden

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Using the Client-File Method to Teach Transactional Law, Bradley T. Borden