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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
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: 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
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
Victims Who Victimise, 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
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