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Documents from 2021

Free Trade Agreements and the New Federalism, Charles Tiefer

How to Steal a Trillion: The Uses of Laws about Lawmaking in 2001, Charles Tiefer

Restrain “Risky Business”: Treat High-Risk Private Security Contractors as Inherently Governmental, Charles Tiefer

Sino 301: How Congress Can Effectively Review Relations with China after WTO Accession, Charles Tiefer

Testimony Before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Charles Tiefer

The Controversial Transition Process From Investigating the President to Impeaching Him, Charles Tiefer

The Gait Agreement on Government Procurement in Theory and Practice, Charles Tiefer

The Iraq Debacle: The Rise and Fall of Procurement-Aided Unilateralism as a Paradigm of Foreign War, Charles Tiefer

The Polarized Congress: The Post-Traditional Procedure of Its Current Struggles, Charles Tiefer

The Reconceptualization of Legislative History in the Supreme Court, Charles Tiefer

The Semi-Sovereign Presidency: The Bush Administration's Strategy for Governing Without Congress, Charles Tiefer

The Senate and House Counsel Offices: Dilemmas of Representing in Court the Institutional Congressional Client, Charles Tiefer

The Senate Impeachment Trial for President Clinton, Charles Tiefer

The Silencing of Senator Warren, Charles Tiefer

The Specially Investigated President, Charles Tiefer

Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law for Conservative Causes, Charles Tiefer

War Decisions in the Late 1990s by Partial Congressional Declaration, Charles Tiefer

What Trump Should Know About Regulations, Charles Tiefer

Risky Business: Medicare's Vulnerabiliy to Selection Games of Managed Care Providers, Charles Tiefer and Heather Akehurst-Krause

Congressional and Presidential War Powers as a Dialogue: Analysis of the Syrian and ISIS Conflicts, Charles Tiefer and Kathleen Clark

Could This Train Make It Through: The Law and Strategy of the Gold Train Case, Charles Tiefer, Jonathan W. Cuneo, and Annie Reiner

Letting Federal Unions Protest Improper Contracting-Out, Charles Tiefer and Jennifer Ferragut

Government Contract Law, Second Edition, Charles Tiefer and William A. Shook

A Religious Test in America?: The 1809 Motion to Vacate Jacob Henry’s North Carolina State Legislative Seat—A Re-Evaluation of the Primary Sources, Seth Barrett Tillman

Extract from Levitt's Article, Seth Barrett Tillman

Ilan Wurman's Administrative Law Theory and Fundamentals: An Integrated Approach citing Tillman on Federalist No 77, Seth Barrett Tillman

Applying Universal Design into the Legal Academy, Matthew L. Timko

FOREWORD: CLASSCRITS IX SYMPOSIUM ISSUE, Matthew Titolo

Leasing Sovereignty: On State Infrastructure Contracts, Matthew Titolo

Privatization and the Market Frame, Matthew Titolo

Retroactivity and the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, Matthew Titolo

Financial Attributes, Financial Behaviors, Financial‐Advisor‐Use Beliefs, and Investing Characteristics Associated with Having used a Robo‐Advisor, Timothy M. Todd and Martin Seay

La responsabilidad civil y el derecho de las familias ¿Es viable la aplicación de la norma general de la responsabilidad extracontractual frente a los daños derivados de las relaciones familiares?, Marco Andrei Torres Maldonado

Instructor and Facilitator, Clinical Law Review Writers' Workshop, Paul R. Tremblay

The Simultaneity Puzzle: Lawyers Working at Multiple Law Firms, Paul R. Tremblay

Litigation Blues for Red-State Trusts: Judicial Construction Issues for Wills and Trusts, Lee-ford Tritt

The Rise of Business Trusts in Sustainable Neo-Innovative Economies, Lee-ford Tritt and Ryan Scott Teschner

Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Religion in Robotics, Gabriele Trovato, Yueh-Hsuan Weng, Antonio Sgorbissa, and Rainer Wieching

Can An Investor Sue a Self-Regulatory Organization for Failing to Enforce its Own By-Laws?, Phillip J. Troyer and Barry R. Temkin

What We Owe Workers as a Matter of Common Humanity: Sickness and Caregiving Leaves and Pay in the Age of Pandemics, Eric Tucker, Leah F. Vosko, and Sarah Marsden

The [E]x Factor: Addressing Trauma From Post-Separation Domestic Violence As Judicial Terrorism, Lisa A. Tucker

Response to "Pervasive Sequence Patents Cover the Entire Human Genome", Shine Tu, Christopher M. Holman, Adam Mossoff, Ted M. Sichelman, Michael Risch, Jorge L. Contreras, Yaniv Heled, Gregory Dolin, and Lee Petherbridge

Menstrual “impurity”, women’s access to public worship and the law: a feminist re-writing of the Sabarimala judgement S. Mahendran v The Secretary, Travancore Devaswom Board AIR 1993 Ker 42, Saumya Uma

SAUMYA'S PUBLICATION LIST 1 FEB 2021.pdf, Saumya Uma

Wedlock or Wed-Lockup? A Case for Abolishing Restitution of Conjugal Rights in India, Saumya Uma

'Rights and Wrongs of Anti-Conversion Law(s): Juxtaposing 'Honour' with Women's Agency, Saumya Uma and Niti Saxena

Navigating the Shoals of Use Immunity and Secret International Enterprises in Major Congressional Investigations: Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair, George W. Van Cleve and Charles Tiefer

Dedication to Professor Emeritus Jonathan Van Patten, Jonathan K. Van Patten

The Trial of John Scopes, Jonathan K. Van Patten

Tribute to John Hagemann (in The Trial of John Scopes), Jonathan K. Van Patten

Spain: A New Food Chain Law, Luis González Vaqué

INFORME SOBRE EL IMPACTO DEL PACTO VERDE EUROPEO DESDE UN ENFQUE DE SISTEMA ALIMENTARIO GLOBAL SOSTENIBLE, Luis González Vaqué, Ramon Clotet, Yvonne Colomer, José Pío Beltrán, and Julio Berbel

The Perplexities of Patent Prosecution History: Procedure over Principle?, David Vaver

The Wonderful World of Patents: "They Do Things Differently There", David Vaver

User Rights in Canadian Copyright Law, David Vaver

Foreword: Bubble Trouble, Robert R.M. Verchick

Louisiana Should Get Serious about Its Climate Crisis, Robert R.M. Verchick

The Long Goodbye: How to Build a Responsible Climate Migration Program, Robert R.M. Verchick

The New Orleans Power Outage Shows How Urgently a Climate-Resilient Power Grid Is Needed, Robert R.M. Verchick

A Legal Pillar of Environmental Justice Is Now Under Attack, Robert R.M. Verchick and James Goodwin

Toward a Climate-Ready Power Grid: What We Can Learn from Texas-Size Hurricanes and the Queensland Floods?, Robert R.M. Verchick and Rosemary Lyster

Disaster, Robert R.M. Verchick and Paul Rink

Apologies in the Marketplace, Kish Vinayagamoorthy

Constitutional Structure in the Patent Office, Saurabh Vishnubhakat

An Overview: The Revolution And Beyond, Michael Vitiello

Brock Turner: Sorting Through the Noise, Michael Vitiello

Civil Procedure Simulations: Bridge to Practice, Michael Vitiello

Due Process and the Myth of Sovereignty, Michael Vitiello

Legalizing Marijuana: Lessons from the United States, Michael Vitiello

Liberal Bias in the Legal Academy: Overstated and Undervalued, Michael Vitiello

Marijuana Legalization, Racial Disparity and the Hope for Reform, Michael Vitiello

Opening Remarks, Michael Vitiello

Symposium—Regulating Marijuana at Home and Abroad: Introduction, Michael Vitiello

The False Dichotomy Between Theory and Skills Training: Why Good Lawyers Need to Pay Attention to Theory, Michael Vitiello

The Warren Court’s Eyewitness Identification Case Law: What if?, Michael Vitiello

Forging the Path Forward: Critical Conversations from Title IX: History, Legacy, and Controversy, Valorie K. Vojdik

From Suffrage to Citizenship: The Battle for Gender Equality at The Citadel, Valorie K. Vojdik

Introduction: Forging the Path Forward: Critical Conversations from Title IX: History, Legacy, and Controversy, Valorie K. Vojdik

The Statutory Expert Reliance Defense and Federal Rule of Evidence 702: Lessons in Gatekeeping, Valorie K. Vojdik

How the COVID-19 Crisis Has Reshaped Legal Education, Debra Moss Vollweiler

The CCPA and the GDPR Are Not the Same: Why You Should Understand Both, W. Gregory Voss

The concept of accountability in the context of the evolving role of ENISA in data protection, ePrivacy and cybersecurity (preprint), W. Gregory Voss

EU General Data Protection Regulation Sanctions in Theory and in Practice, W. Gregory Voss and Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas

Unpacking the privacy paradox of consumers: A psychological perspective, W. Gregory Voss, Francesco Massara, and Francesco Raggiotto

Article III WTO Agreement: Functions of the WTO, Markus Wagner

3D Printing and Housing: Intellectual Property and Construction Law, Brydon T. Wang and Matthew Rimmer

Common-Knowledge-Based Pragmatics, Richard Warner

Making Artificial Intelligence Transparent: Fairness and the Problem of Proxy Variables, Richard Warner and Robert H. Sloan

The Privacy Fix: How To Preserve Privacy in the Onslaught of Surveillance (forthcoming), Richard Warner and Robert H. Sloan

May It Please the Court, Howard Wasserman

A Court with No Names: Anonymity and Celebrity on the Kardashian Court, Howard M. Wasserman

Congress and Universal Injunctions, Howard M. Wasserman

Texas’ Fetal-heartbeat Law Creates a Procedural Morass, but doesn’t Preclude Judicial Review,, Howard M. Wasserman

The Forum-Defendant Rule, the Mischief Rule, and Snap Removal, Howard M. Wasserman

Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada's Images of Constitutional Rights, Howard M. Wasserman and M.C. Mirow, eds.

"The Report of My Death Was An Exaggeration" -- The Legal Treatise, Amanda Bolles Watson

Least Restrictive Environment and the Education of Children with Disabilities, Mark C. Weber

Program Access Under Disability Discrimination Law, Mark C. Weber

Taking Disability Discrimination Out of the Public Charge Rule, Mark C. Weber

Will the "Legal Singularity" Hollow Out Law's Normative Core?, Robert F. Weber