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Documents from 2020

The Legal Profession's Failure to Discipline Unethical Prosecutors, Angela J. Davis

The Progressive Prosecutor: An Imperative for Criminal Justice Reform, Angela J. Davis

The Prosecutor's Ethical Duty to End Mass Incarceration, Angela J. Davis

The Phases and Faces of the Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation, Angela J. Davis, James E. Coleman Jr, Michael Gerhardt, and K.C. Johnson

Opinion: How Policing Black Boys Leads to the Conditioning of Black Men, Angela J. Davis and Kristin Henning

Policing the Black Man: A Conversation with Angela J. Davis and Sherrilyn Ifill, Angela J. Davis and Sherrilyn Ifill

COVID-19: People of Color and the Pandemic, Charles H.F. Davis III

Culturally Sustaining Practices on Race for a Better Campus Climate, Charles H.F. Davis III

If Black Lives Matter to Colleges, They’ll Divest from Campus Policing, Charles H.F. Davis III

Davis, Mustaffa, King, & Jama (2020) – Legislation, Policy, and the Black Student Debt Crisis, Charles H.F. Davis III, Jalil M. Bishop, Kyah King, and Ayan Jama

Lest We Forget: Continuing Historically Black Colleges and Universities’ Legacy of Fostering Social Change, Charles H.F. Davis III, Felecia Commodore, and Kyah King

More Colleges Should Divest From the Institution of Policing, Charles H.F. Davis III and Jude P. Dizon

Interrogation and the Sexual Assault Suspect: On the Synergy between Pretext Caller and Police Interrogator, Deborah Davis, Richard Leo, Tyler Livingston, and Peter Rerick

Espérer un vaccin ? Oui mais ..., Daniel de Beer, Serge Gutwirth, Isabelle Stengers, and Els Torreele

Amicus Brief: Smith v. Kelley, Natali De Corso, Rebecca Rabinowitz, and Brian J.M. Quinn

War is More Than a Political Question: Reestablishing Original Constitutional Norms, John C. Dehn

The Many Harms of Forced Marriage: Insights for Law from Ethnography in Northern Uganda, Myriam S. Denov and Mark A. Drumbl

Court-Ordered Reductions of Greenhouse Gases? The Urgenda and Juliana Decisions, John C. Dernbach

Justice John Paul Stevens: An appreciation, John C. Dernbach

Natural Resources and the Public Estate; Article I, Section 27, John C. Dernbach

The Role of Trust Law Principles in Defining Public Trust Duties for Natural Resources, John C. Dernbach

Thinking Anew About the Environmental Rights Amendment: An Analysis of Recent Commonwealth Court Decisions, John C. Dernbach

America's Zero Carbon Action Plan: Federal Legislative and Administrative Framework, John C. Dernbach and Michael B. Gerrard

State Constitutionalism in the Age of Party Polarization, Neal Devins

Trust and Government by Judges, Severin de Wit

Rationalising Corporate Disregard, Alan J. Dignam and Peter B. Oh

Illegitimacy - vol 1.docx - draft only / forthcoming - do not cite, Carter Dillard

The Political Process of Preemption, Paul A. Diller

Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century, Paul A. Diller, Richard Briffault, Richard C. Schragger, Nestor Davidson, Erin Adele Scharff, Sarah A. Fox, Laurie Reynolds, and Rick Su

The Local Power & Politics Review First_excerpt_diller_fresina_public_health.pdf, Paul A. Diller and Lori Fresina

Unframing Legal Reasoning: A Cyclical Theory of Legal Evolution, Larry A. DiMatteo

Let’s Be Reasonable: Thoughts on the Fourth Amendment and Constitutional Interpretation, Michael R. Dimino

You’ve Got (Political) Questions? We’ve Got No Answers, Michael R. Dimino

The Best Candidate Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times, Michael R. Dimino and Eugene D. Mazo

Voting Rights and Election Law, Third Edition, Michael R. Dimino, Bradley A. Smith, and Michael Solimine

Pandemic Puts Americans' Patience, Flexibility to the Test, Jerome E. Dobson and William A. Herbert

A Critique of Jurisdictionality, Scott Dodson

Book Review: The Conservative Case for Class Actions, Scott Dodson

Personal Jurisdiction in Comparative Context, Scott Dodson

The Zooming of Federal Civil Litigation, Scott Dodson, Lee H. Rosenthal, and Christopher L. Dodson

81. Detecting children’s true and false denials of wrongdoing: Effects of question type and base rate knowledge., Kirsten Domagalski, Jennifer Gongola, Thomas D. Lyon, Steven E. Clark, and Jodi A. Quas

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades, John J. Donohue and Steven Levitt

The Meaning Ascribed to the Aging Phenomena by Mayors in Israel, Israel Doron Prof. and Dafna Vardimon

Black Boys Matter: Developmental Equality, Nancy E. Dowd

Equality, Equity, and Dignity, Nancy E. Dowd

John Moore Jr.: Moore v City of East Cleveland and Children's Constitutional Arguments, Nancy E. Dowd

Radical ACEs: Building Resilience and Triggering Structural Change, Nancy E. Dowd

Introduction: Early Childhood Symposium - Early Childhood Matters, Nancy E. Dowd and Teresa Drake

A Former Child Soldier in the Hague, as an Accused, Mark A. Drumbl

"And Where the Offence Is, Let the Great Axe Fall": Sentencing Under International Criminal Law, in International Criminal Law in Context (Phillipp Kastner ed., 2017), Mark A. Drumbl

Book Review, Anton Weiss-Wendt, The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention (2017), Mark A. Drumbl

Book Review, Daniele Archibugi & Alice Pease, Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment (2018), Mark A. Drumbl

Book Review, Jamie Rowen, Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement (2017) & Leonie Steinl, Child Soldiers as Agents of War and Peace: A Restorative Transitional Justice Approach to Accountability for Crimes under International Law (2017), Mark A. Drumbl

Book Review: The Genocide Contagion: How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and Genocide, Mark A. Drumbl

Child Pirates: Rehabilitation, Reintegration, and Accountability, Mark A. Drumbl

Children in Armed Conflict, in The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law (Jonathan Todres & Shani M. King eds., 2020), Mark A. Drumbl

Emil Stanislaw Rappaport, in Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Justice Pénale Internationale (Olivier Beauvallet ed., 2017), Mark A. Drumbl

Epilogue: From Too Tall to Trim and Small, Mark A. Drumbl

Epilogue: Homecoming Kings, Queens, Jesters, and Nobodies, Mark A. Drumbl

From Timbuktu to The Hague and Beyond: The War Crime of Intentionally Attacking Cultural Property, Mark A. Drumbl

Histories of the Jewish ‘Collaborator’: Exile, Not Guilt, in The New Histories of International Criminal Law: Retrials (Immi Tallgren & Thomas Skouteris eds., 2019), Mark A. Drumbl

Judging the 11 September Terrorist Attack, Mark A. Drumbl

Memorializing Dissent: Justice Pal in Tokyo, Mark A. Drumbl

Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda, Mark A. Drumbl

Punishment and Sentencing, in Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law (William A. Schabas ed., 2016), Mark A. Drumbl

Reviewing Supranational Criminology: Towards A Criminology of International Crimes, Alette Smeulers & Roelof Haveman, eds. (2008), Mark A. Drumbl

Supreme National Tribunal of Poland, in Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de La Justice Pénale Internationale (Olivier Beauvallet ed., 2017), Mark A. Drumbl

The Kapo on Film: Tragic Perpetrators and Imperfect Victims, Mark A. Drumbl

US Courts, Jurisdiction, and Mutual Trust: RJR Nabisco v. European Community, in Dealing with Terrorism: Empirical and Normative Challenges of Fighting the Islamic State (Marc Engelhart & Sunčana Roksandić Vidlička eds., 2019), Mark A. Drumbl

Victims Who Victimise, Mark A. Drumbl

When Perpetrators Become Defendants, and then Convicts, in The Routledge International Handbook on Perpetrator Studies (Susanne C. Knittel & Zachary J. Goldberg eds., 2019), Mark A. Drumbl

Women as Perpetrators: Agency and Authority in Genocidal Rwanda, in Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Survey (Amy E. Randall ed., 2014), Mark A. Drumbl

Research Handbook on Child Soldiers (Mark A. Drumbl & Jastine C. Barrett eds., 2019), Mark A. Drumbl and Jastine C. Barrett

Article 38: The Rights of Children in Armed Conflict, in The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary (John Tobin ed., 2019), Mark A. Drumbl and John Tobin

Commentary on Cheshire v. Commissioner, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Bridget J. Crawford & Anthony C. Infanti eds., 2017), Michelle Lyon Drumbl

Tax Attorneys as Defenders of Taxpayer Rights, Michelle Lyon Drumbl

Tax Credits for the Working Poor: A Call for Reform (2019), Michelle Lyon Drumbl

When Helpers Hurt: Protecting Taxpayers from Their Return Preparers, in Ethical Duties to the Tax System: A Handbook (Scott A. Schumacher & Michael Hatfield eds., 2015), Michelle Lyon Drumbl

Skills & Values: Federal Income Taxation (2011), Michelle Lyon Drumbl and Deborah S. Kearns

Practice Before the IRS and Professional Responsibility in Tax Practice, in Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (6th ed. 2015), Michelle Lyon Drumbl and Jennifer Mueller

Practice Before the IRS and Professional Responsibility in Tax Practice, in Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (T. Keith Fogg ed., 5th ed. 2011), Michelle Lyon Drumbl and Jennifer Mueller

Understanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, in Effectively Representing Your Client Before the IRS (7th ed. 2018), Michelle Lyon Drumbl and Caleb Smith

Review of “The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England" by Taisu Zhang, Bryan H. Druzin

Organizational Hierarchies, Conformity, and Leadership, Alev Dudek

All the World’s a Platform?: Some Remarks on 'Marketplace Platform' Employment Laws, Michael C. Duff

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Coverage and other Expanding Benefit Changes in the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Marketplace: Academic Legal Perspective, Michael C. Duff

Advancing Technology and the Changing Conception of Human Rights, Olympia Duhart

Afterword, James G. Dwyer

Children and the Law: An Introduction, James G. Dwyer

Family Law: A Multidisciplinary Approach, James G. Dwyer

Screening Potential Parents, James G. Dwyer

The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law, James G. Dwyer

Unauthorized Practice of Law in South Carolina, Kevin R. Eberle

To Use or Not to Use Virtual Private Networks: Why U.S. Professors Shouldn't Require Students in China to Use VPNs, Robert A. Eckhart

The status of the UN Watercourses Convention: does it still hold water?, Gabriel Eckstein

No Title5 reasons the T-Mobile-Sprint merger should’ve been rejected—and will raise your phone bill, Nicholas Economides, John Kwoka, Thomas Philippon, Robert Seamans, Hal Singer, Marshall Steinbaum, and Lawrence J. White

The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law, Edmund P. Edmonds

When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana, David A. Edwin, Evam K. Glover, and Edinam K. Glover

When Tradition Meets Modernity in Land Registration: Evidence from Dagbon, Ghana, David A. Edwin, Evam K. Glover, and Edinam K. Glover

Lawyers and Clients: Critical Issues in Interviewing and Counseling, Stephen Ellmann, Robert Dinerstein, Isabelle Gunning, Katherine Kruse, and Ann Shalleck