About the bepress Legal Series

The bepress Legal Series contains manuscripts by top scholars, many of which will eventually appear in top law reviews. Browse the most recent submissions here!

from 2006

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Human Worth as Collateral, Rashmi Dyal-Chand

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Lost Opportunity: Bush v. Holmes and the Application of State Constitutional Uniformity Clauses to School Voucher Programs, Jamie S. Dycus

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The Press as Interest Group: Mainstream Media in the United States Supreme Court, Eric B. Easton

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Hit and Miss: Leverage, Sacrifice, and Refusal to Deal in the Supreme Court Decision in Trinko, Nicholas Economides

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The Law, Marketing and Behavioral Economics of Consumer Rebates, Matthew A. Edwards

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Don’t Get Bit: Addressing ICSID’s Inconsistent Application of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses to Dispute Resolution Provisions, Gabriel Egli

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Marriage and the Elephant: State Regulation of Intimate Relationships between Adults , Maxine Eichner

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Marriage and the Elephant: The Liberal Democratic State’s Regulation of Intimate Relationships between Adults , Maxine Eichner

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Who Should Control Children's Education?: Parents, Children, and the State, Maxine Eichner

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The Flight from Arbitration: An Empirical Study of Ex Ante Arbitration Clauses in Publicly-Held Companies’ Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg and Geoffrey Miller

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Understanding the Policy Support Instrument of the IMF , Adebukola A. Eleso

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WTO Dispute Settlement Remedies: Monetary Compensation as an Alternative for Developing Countries, Adebukola A. Eleso

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The Anomaly of Guantanamo: Two Innocent Men Caught in a Devastating Legal Limbo, Lauren S. Elfant

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Regulatory Status of VoIP in the Post-Brand X World, Jerry Ellig

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Buried Online: State Laws That Limit E-Commerce in Caskets, Jerry Ellig and Asheesh Agarwal

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The Purpose of Child Support, Ira M. Ellman

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Making Main Street Legal Again: The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl, Chad Emerson

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Developing Reasoned Framework for International Choice with Criminal Procedure, Nancy D. Erbe

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Nomos, Conflict, and the Tragedy of Adjudication: The Jurisprudence of Robert Cover, Julen Etxabe

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How Can a Mediator be Both Impartial and Fair: Why Ethical Standards of Conduct Create Chaos for Mediators, Susan Nauss Exon

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Domestic Violence and Legal Reforms in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges, Itoro Eze-Anaba

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Death Penalty Jurisprudence in New York and the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution: How Supreme Is It ?, Joseph E. Fahey

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The Elusive Promise: Northern Ireland and the Quest for Peace; An Examination of the Peace Process, Joseph E. Fahey

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A Unified Theory of Constitutional Facts, David L. Faigman

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Fuck, Christopher M. Fairman

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Reproductive Cloning Case:How Law and Bioethics Measure a Compelling Governmental Interest, Paulo Farias

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Suspicionless Canine Sniffs: Does the Fourth Amendment Prohibit Public Schools from Using Dogs to Search Students without Individualized Suspicion?, Todd J. Feinberg

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The Role of International Human Rights Law in the American Decision to Abolish the Juvenile Death Penalty, William A. Feldman

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Troubles with Hiibel: How the Court Inverted the Relationship between Citizens and the State, John A. Fennel and Richard Sobel

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Regulating Land Use in a Constitutional Shadow: The Institutional Contexts of Exactions, Mark Fenster

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The Takings Clause, Version 2005: The Legal Process of Constitutional Property Rights, Mark Fenster

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Statutes of Repose and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Garris G. Ference

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Of Politics and Policy: Can the U.S. Maintain Its Credibility abroad while Ignoring the Needs of Its Children at Home?—Revisiting the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child as a Transnational Framework for Local Governing, Cleveland Ferguson

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Mind, Brain and the Law, Atahualpa Fernandez

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Fiction, Form and Substance in Subchapter K -- Approaching Partnership Mergers, Divisions and Incorporations, Heather M. Field

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Brain Imaging and Privacy: How Recent Advances in Neuroimaging Implicate Privacy Concerns , David P. Finn

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China’s Market Participation: The Case for a Paradigm Shift in Analyzing China’s Capital Market Regulation, David P. Finn

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Fumbling in the Dark: The Case for a Paradigm Shift in Analyzing China’s Capital Market Regulation, David P. Finn

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The Boundaries of Plea Bargaining: Negotiating the Standard of Proof , Talia Fisher

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The "Benefits" of Non-Delegation: Using the Non-Delegation Doctrine to Bring More Rigor to Benefit-Cost Analysis, Victor B. Flatt

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Who Should Hold the Key? An Analysis of Access and Confidentiality in Juvenile Dependency Courts, Jennifer L. Flint

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Choosing Tribal Law: Why State Choice-of-Law Principles Should Apply to Disputes with Tribal Contacts, Katherine J. Florey

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Legal Pluralism & Women's Rights: A Study in Post-Colonial Tanzania, Edward R. Fluet, Mark J. Calaguas, and Cristina M. Drost

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Gender Equality, Social Values and Provocation Law in the United States, Canada and Australia, Caroline A. Forell

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Still Crazy after All These Years: The Absolute Assignment of Rents in Mortgage Loan Transactions, Julia P. Forrester

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The Weldon Amendment: The Ongoing Restrictions on a Woman's Right to Choose, John Patton Fortuno

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Vouchers for Sectarian Schools after Zelman: Will the First Circuit Expose Anti-Catholic Bigotry in the Massachusetts Constitution?, Richard Fossey and Robert LeBlanc

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Facial Challenges, Legislative Purpose, and the Commerce Clause, David L. Franklin

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Airline Liability for Loss, Damage or Delay of Passenger Baggage, M. R. Franks

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Making Our Congressional Elections More Competitive: A Proposal for a Limited Number of Statewide At Large Elections in Our More Populous States, Walter M. Frank

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Network Neutrality or Bias?--Handicapping the Odds for a Tiered and Branded Internet, Robert M. Frieden

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Revenge of the Bellheads: How the Telecommunications Mindset Will Reshape the Internet, Robert M. Frieden

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Wallace v. City of Chicago and Accrual of 1983 Claims, Michael D. Frisch

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Certifying Questions to Congress, Amanda Frost

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Managers' Fiduciary Duties in Financially Distressed Corporations: Chaos in Delaware (and Elsewhere), Christopher W. Frost and Rutheford B. Campbell

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Leaving the Thicket at Last, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

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Statutory Interpretation, Constitutional Limits, and the Dangers of Collaboration: The Ironic Case of the Voting Rights Act, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

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Taking "Justice and Fairness" Seriously: Distributive Justice and the Takings Clause, Jeffrey M. Gaba

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A Fighting Chance: Race Conscious Admissions, Social Science, and the Law, Crystal R. Gafford Muhammad

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An Analysis of the Contemporary Role of Social Science in the Law: The Case of Race Conscious Admissions, Crystal R. Gafford Muhammad

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When Hope Lies with the Courage of a Cowardly Lion: Social Science, Race, and Judicial Political Affiliation in Contemporary Race Conscious Admissions Cases, Crystal R. Gafford Muhammad

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Cite Unseen: How Neutral Citation and America's Law Schools Can Cure Our Strange Devotion to Bibliographical Orthodoxy and the Constriction of Open and Equal Access to the Law, Ian Gallacher

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Conducting the Constitution: Justice Scalia, Textualism, and the Eroica Symphony, Ian Gallacher

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A Republic of the Mind: Cognitive Biases, Fiscal Federalism, and the Tax Code, Brian Galle

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Designing Interstate Institutions: The Example of the SSUTA, Brian D. Galle

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Unmasking Extraordinary Renditions in the Context of Counter-Terrorism, James M. Gallen

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Herding Bullfrogs towards a More Balanced Wheelbarrow: An Illustrative Recommendation for Federal Sentencing Post-Booker, Brian R. Gallini and Emily Q. Shults

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Commodification and Contract Formation: Placing the Consideration Doctrine on Stronger Foundations, David S. Gamage

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Manipulative Behavior in Auction IPOs, Mira Ganor

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Informal Economy: Is It a Problem, a Solution or Both? The Perspective of the Informal Business, Omar E. Garcia-Bolivar

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Repressed Memory Evidence in Civil Sexual Abuse Cases, Lindsay R. Garrett

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Sovereignty of Aves Island: An Argument against Standardized, Compulsory Arbitration, Michael S. Garrison

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Vagueness at the Highest Level: How the Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings Brought an Infrequently Discussed Legal Topic Back into the Spotlight--Recusal, Brett S. Garson

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Imperialism, Colonialism and International Law, James Gathii

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Economic Analysis of Law and Economics, Oren Gazal-Ayal

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Uncivil Religion: "Judeo-Christianity" and the Ten Commandments, Frederick Mark Gedicks and Roger Hendrix

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Employee Blogs and Social Capital: A Time for State Legislative Action, Rafael Gely and Leonard Bierman

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An Idea Whose Time Has (sort of) Come: BAPCPA Provides Direct Appeals from Bankruptcy Courts to Circuit Courts in Limited Situations, David George

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Rent Concessions and Illegal Contract Penalties in Texas, James P. George

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Rent Concessions, Reimposable Discounts, and the Return of Medieval Contract Penalties, James P. George

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Non-Judicial Precedent, Michael J. Gerhardt

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Taxing Emotional Injury Recoveries: A Critical Analysis of Murphy v. Internal Revenue Service, Gregory L. Germain

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The Abortion Rights of Adolescents Should Be Coextensive with Those of Adults--a Theoretical Framework, Chad M. Gerson

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Toward an International Standard of Abortion Rights: Empirical Data from Africa, Chad M. Gerson

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Evaluating the WTO's Two Step Test for Environmental Measures under Article XX, Nita Ghei

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Risk Aversion and Rights Accretion in Intellectual Property Law, James Gibson

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The Judgment-Proof Society, Stephen G. Gilles

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Performing Rights Societies And The Digital Environment, Philippe Gilliéron

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Poor Whites, Benevolent Masters, and the Ideologies of Slavery: A Slave Accused of Rape in the Antebellum South, Jason A. Gillmer

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Calling the United States' Bluff: How Sovereign Immunity Undermines the United States' Claim to an Effective Domestic Human Rights System, Denise L. Gilman

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Forcing Fairness in State Taxation, Randall J. Gingiss

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Should It Be Illict to Solicit? A Legal Analysis of Policy Options to Regulate Solicitation of Organs for Transplant, Alexandra K. Glazier and Scott Sasjack

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Distance Education in Law School: The Train Has Left the Station, Diana L. Gleason

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Race Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era, Rachel D. Godsil

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Regulation of Joint Ventures under Article 81 of EU Treaty, Rahul Goel

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The Unilateral Creation of International Law During the "War on Terror": Murder by an Unprivileged Belligerent is not a War Crime, Noman A. Goheer

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Torture: Considering a Framework for Limiting Use, Scott J. Goldberg

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Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor: RLUIPA and the Mediation of Religious Land Use Disputes, Jeffrey H. Goldfien

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Legal Construct Validation: Expanding Empirical Legal Scholarship to Unobservable Concepts, David S. Goldman

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Fair Use and the First Amendment: Corporate Control of Copyright Is Stifling Documentary Making and Thwarting the Aims of the First Amendment, Paige Gold