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Documents from 2024

Regulatory Sandbox and Legal Challenges for Social Robots, Yueh-Hsuan Weng

Unveiling the Ethical Dimensions of AI Research: Exploring the Intricate Relationship between AI and Human Behaviour, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Yonah Welker, Ida Skubis, and Tom LIndemann

4 July 2024 Wigan Imperial Talk 30-6 Final Draft 15-6.pdf, Marcus Ramsay Wigan

Pricing the use of roads-to U3a, Marcus Ramsay Wigan

Thoughts on the endurance and relevance of transport publications. A ppt slide collation in pdf format, Marcus Ramsay Wigan

111. Forensic interviewers’ difficulty with the birthday narrative, Breanne E. Wylie, Hayden M. Henderson, Georgia M. Lundon, and Thomas D. Lyon

110. Adults’ interpretation of invitations using the word “time", Breanne E. Wylie, Ella P. Merriwether, Alma P. Olaguez, Miriam Lieber, J. Zoe Klemfuss, Thomas D. Lyon, and Kelly McWilliams

A critical appraisal of the COVID-19 TRIPS waiver, Peter K. Yu

The comparative law and economics of counterfeits and post-sale confusion, Peter K. Yu

Two Decades of TRIPS in China, Peter K. Yu

War & IP, Peter K. Yu

Central Bank Digital Currency and the Agenda of Monetary Devolution, Leonidas Zelmanovitz and Bruno Meyerhof Salama

By Cyann Zoller and Ihekwoaba Onwudiwe, Cyann Zoller and Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe

Documents from 2023

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State Court Practice for the Federal Practitioner

The Schooner Enterprise: A Forgotten Key West Murder Case

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Human Rights

Suing Russia: How Americans Can Fight Back Against Russian Intervention in American Politics

ELCC - Marginal vs. Average Theory (April 2023 working paper).docx, Todd S. Aagaard

ELCC - Marginal vs. Average Theory (April 2023 working paper).docx, Todd S. Aagaard and Andrew N. Kleit

Brief of Amici Curiae Human Rights Organizations in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants, Georges v. United Nations, Docket No. 15-00455 (Second Circuit 2015), William Aceves, Baher Azmy, and Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak

TRANSCRIPT: Doing Business in the Middle East: A Guide for U.S. Companies, William Aceves, John Hooman Donboli, Ali Gheissari, and Alidad Vakili

A Distinction with a Difference: Rights, Privileges, and the Fourteenth Amendment, William J. Aceves

Amending a Racist Constitution, William J. Aceves

Amending a Racist Constitution, William J. Aceves

Avoiding the Terrorist Trap: Why Respect for Human Rights is the Key to Defeating Terrorism by Tom Parker (review), William J. Aceves

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Human Rights, William J. Aceves

Diplomacy at Sea: U.S. Freedom of Navigation Operations in the Black Sea, William J. Aceves

Hernandez, Bivens, and the Supreme Court’s Expanding Theory of Judicial Abdication, William J. Aceves

Epilogue: Canto Para Latinoamerica, William J. Aceves

Epilogue: Canto Para Latinoamerica, William J. Aceves

Hernandez, Bivens, and the Supreme Court's Expanding Theory of Judicial Abdication, William J. Aceves

Interrogation or Experimentation? Assessing Non-Consensual Human Experimentation During the War on Terror, William J. Aceves

Interrogation or Experimentation? Assessing Non-Consensual Human Experimentation During the War on Terror, William J. Aceves

Law's Trials: The Performance of Legal Institutions in the US "War on Terror" by Richard L. Abel (review), William J. Aceves

Lost Sovereignty? The Implications of the Uruguay Round Agreements, William J. Aceves

Persons of Colour (POC), William J. Aceves

Relative Normativity: Challenging the Sovereignty Norm through Human Rights Litigation, William J. Aceves

Solving the Settlement Puzzle in Human Rights Litigation, William J. Aceves

Suing Russia: How Americans Can Fight Back Against Russian Intervention in American Politics, William J. Aceves

The Civil Redress and Historical Memory Act of 2029: A Legislative Proposal, William J. Aceves

The Freedom of Navigation Program: A Study of the Relationship between Law and Politics, William J. Aceves

The Problem with Dobbs and the Rule of Legality, William J. Aceves

The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations: A Study of Rights, Wrongs, and Remedies, William J. Aceves

The Watts Gang Treaty: Hidden History and the Power of Social Movements, William J. Aceves

Two Stories About Skin Color and International Human Rights Advocacy, William J. Aceves

Two Stories About Skin Color and International Human Rights Advocacy, William J. Aceves

Valuing Life: A Human Rights Perspective on the Calculus of Regulation, William J. Aceves

Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States, William J. Aceves

Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States, William J. Aceves

When Death Becomes Murder: A Primer on Extrajudicial Killing, William J. Aceves

Using Immigration Law to Protect Human Rights: A Critique of Recent Legislative Proposals, William J. Aceves and Paul L. Hoffman

Using Immigration Law to Protect Human Rights: A Legislative Proposal, William J. Aceves and Paul L. Hoffman

Why is There Property?, Richard Adelstein

Designing for Justice: Pandemic Lessons for Criminal Courts, Cynthia Alkon

A Theory of Interests in the Context of Hybrid Warfare: It's Complex, Cynthia Alkon and Sanda Kaufman

Tribute to Professor Samuel W. Calhoun, Doug Ammar, David Carson, Kelly Faglioni, John Fishwick, Mark Grunewald, Stephen Halpin, Brandon Hasbrouck, Brant Hellwig, Lyman Johnson, Bill Johnston, Rick Kirgis, Brian Murchison, Joan Shaughnessy, and Howard Wall

Tribute to Professor Samuel W. Calhoun, Doug Ammar, David Carson, Kelly Faglioni, John Fishwick, Mark Grunewald, Stephen Halpin, Brandon Hasbrouck, Brant Hellwig, Lyman Johnson, Bill Johnston, Rick Kirgis, Brian Murchison, Joan Shaughnessy, and Howard Wall

A Pandemic Meets a Housing Crisis, Courtney Anderson

Hate Wins, Courtney L. Anderson

Housing Instability and COVID-19, Courtney L. Anderson

Post-Pandemic, but Not Post-Racial, Courtney Lauren Anderson

Anderson Vaughan_final.corrected.pdf, Jerry L. Anderson and Amy Vaughn

Constitutional Constraints on Lawyer Licensing in the Age of COVID-19, Claudia Angelos, Andrea A. Curcio, Sara Berman, Carol Chomsky, Marsha Griggs, Joan W. Howarth, Eileen Kaufman, Deborah Jones Merritt, Patricia E. Salkin, and Judith Welch Wegner

New Arbitration Reforms on the Horizon for India?, Hiro Aragaki

The Case against Expanding Defamation Law, Yonathan A. Arbel and Murat C. Mungan

Access to substance use disorder treatment during COVID-19: Implications from reduced local jail populations, Erkmen G. Aslim and Murat C. Mungan

The Effect of Public Health Insurance on Criminal Recidivism, Erkmen G. Aslim, Murat C. Mungan, Carlos I. Navarro, and Han Yu

A Theory of Stategraft, Bernadette Atuahene

THE INNOCENCE STANDARD: SUPREME COURT NOMINEES AND SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, Lisa Avalos

Uniform Probate Code and Uniform Trust Code in a Nutshell, 7th ed., Lawrence H. Averill Jr. and Mary F. Radford

“A different day in court”: Exploring the place of judicial mediation in Ontario’s alternative dispute resolution landscape, Nicole Aylwin and Trevor C. W. Farrow

Walk Like the Bird Flies, Susan Ayres

Reframing Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence at the Intersections of Law & Society, Jane S. Bailey, Carys Craig, Suzie Dunn, and Sonia Lawrence

Transnacionalni odnosi i svetska politika: novi pristup, Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker

Judging facts, judging norms: Training machine learning models to judge humans requires a modified approach to labeling data, Aparna Balagopalan, Gillian Hadfield, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, David Madras, and Marzyeh Ghassemi

Confidentiality Clauses in Settlement Agreements After the Consumer Review Fairness Act, Wayne Barnes

Tribute to Professor Doug Rendleman, Katy Barnett; Alison Bell; Jeff Berryman; Neil Birkhoff; Daniel Friedmann; Thomas P. Gallanis; Claire Hagan Eller; Brandon Hasbrouck; Corey Hauser; Brant Hellwig; Margaret Howard; Alexandra L. Klein; Douglas Laycock; Benjamin V. Madison, III; Judith L. Madison; Kyle McNew; Linda Mullenix; Rami Rashmawi; Caprice Roberts; Victoria Shannon Sahani; Joan Shaughnessy; Barry Sullivan; Martha Vazquez; and Edilson Vitorelli

From Imperial Shackles to Sovereign Justice: The Decolonisation Journey of Indian Criminal Law, Subhajit Basu

Scandal-Plagued DC Housing Agency Faces Reform Demands, Susan Bennett and Valentina Pasquali

Book Review - Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case by Kent Roach, Benjamin Berger

Judicial Discretion and the Rise of Individualization: The Canadian Sentencing Approach, Benjamin Berger

Proportionality and the Experience of Punishment, Benjamin Berger

Religious Difference, Law, and the Silences of Multiculturalism, Benjamin Berger

Two Theologies of Chosenness, Benjamin Berger

Opening Address: A Review of the Supreme Court's 2021 Constitutional Jurisprudence | 25th Annual Constitutional Cases Conference, Benjamin L. Berger, Emily Kidd White, Sonia Lawrence, Mary Condon, and Craig M. Scott

Introducción al Compendio de Legislación Puertorriqueña y sus Precedentes, Alberto Bernabe

Neither Smarter nor Stronger: Bill 161 is a Step Backwards for Access to Justice and Community-Based Legal Services in Ontario, Amar Bhatia, Janet Mosher, Jillian A. Rogin, Gemma Smyth, Erin Sobat, and David Wiseman