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from 2006
Access to Audiences as a First Amendment Right: Its Relevance and Implications for Electronic Media Policy, Philip M. Napoli and Sheea T. Sybblis
Parents Involved & Meredith: A Prediction Regarding the (Un)Constitutionality of Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans, Eboni S. Nelson
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Are Multi-National Corporations Unduly Burdened?, William Alan Nelson
Enron and the Special Purpose Entity. Use or Abuse? The Real Problem - The Real Focus, Neal F. Newman
Copyright's Empire: Why the Law Matters , Alina Ng
Taking Copyright Seriously: Abridging Rights Is More Serious Than Inflating Rights, Alina Ng
The World Bank and the Ideology of Reform in International Development Discourse, Joel M. Ngugi
Multi-Tiered Marriage: Ideas and Influences from New York and Louisiana to the International Community, Joel A. Nichols
The Problem of Freedom Override by Digital Rights Management Technologies: The Market Mechanisms and Possible Legal Options, Yuko Noguchi
Debtor Discharge and Creditor Repayment in Chapter 13, Scott F. Norberg
Scientific Expertise in Policymaking: The Case for Open Review and Patent Reform, Beth Simone Noveck
Privilege through Prayer: Examining Bible-Based Prison Rehabilitation Programs under the Establishment Clause, Nathaniel J. Odle
Two Types of Consequentialism, Two Types of Formalism: Reconsidering Bordenkircher in Light of Apprendi, Michael M. O'Hear
Developing Development Theory: Law & Development Orthodoxies and the Northeast Asian Experience, John K.M. Ohnesorge
The Dutch Auction Myth, Peter B. Oh
MNC Liability for International Human Rights Violations under the Alien Tort Claims Act., Frank Christian Olah
Sherman's March (In)to the Sea, Andrew S. Oldham
Volunteer Discrimination, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Nigerian Anti-Corrutpion Initiatives, Ijeoma I. Opara
Christ, Christians & Capital Punishment, Mark Osler
Who’s In and Who’s Out? Can India’s Answer Help Us Determine Who Qualifies for Affirmative Action? , Sean A. Pager
Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think about Legal Scholarship, Carol A. Parker
The Freedom to Manifest Religious Belief: An Analysis of the Neccesity Clauses of the ICCPR and the ECHR, Todd Parker
Critical Race Realism: Towards an Integrative Model of Critical Race Theory, Empirical Social Science, and Public Policy, Gregory S. Parks
The Three Faces of Retainer Care, Frank A. Pasquale
Reasonable Expectations of Privacy and Novel Search Technologies: An Economic Approach, Steven Penney
Biopolitics at the Bedside: Proxy Wars and Feeding Tubes, Joshua E. Perry
Essay -- Preemption, Agency Cost Theory, and Predatory Lending by Banking Agents: Are Federal Regulators Biting Off More Than They Can Chew?, Christopher L. Peterson
Predatory Structured Finance, Christopher L. Peterson
Losing Control: Regulating Situational Crime Prevention in Mass Private Space, Robert E. Pfeffer
Child Statements in a Post-Crawford World: What the United States Supreme Court Failed to Consider with Regard to Child Victims and Witnesses, Allie Phillips
The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State, David M. Phillips
The Unexplored Option: Jewish Settlements in a Palestinian State, David M. Phillips
Democratizing the Administrative State, Richard James Pierce
Discarded Deference: Judicial Independence in Informal Agency Guidance, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz
Discarded Deference: Judicial Independence in Informal Agency Guidance, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz
Against Freedom of Commercial Expression, Tamara R. Piety
Sex Torts, D A. Pollard
Reasonable Burdens: Resolving the Conflict between Disabled Employees and Their Co-Workers, Nicole Porter
Five Recommendations to Law Schools Offering Legal Instruction over the Internet, Daniel C. Powell
Changing Expectations of Privacy and the Fourth Amendment, Robert Power
An Empirical Assessment of Federal Question Jurisdiction, Jack F. Preis
Bizarro Statutory Stare Decisis, Jamie D. Prenkert
Affirmative Defenses in Section 337 ITC Patent Infringement Proceedings, Natalie Prescott
Enforcing Foreign Summary/Default Judgments: The Damoclean Sword Hanging over Pro Se Canadian Corporate Defendants? Case Comment on U.S.A. v. Shield Development, Antonin I. Pribetic
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally”: Recent Trends in the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Canada, Antonin I. Pribetic
Imagining the Law-Trained Reader: the Faulty Description of the Audience in Legal Writing Textbooks., Jessica E. Price
Tough Love: The Dramatic Birth and Looming Demise of UNCLOS Property Law (and What Is to Be Done about It), Peter S. Prows
Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, Lisa R. Pruitt
People as Property: On Being a Resource and a Person, Jedediah S. Purdy
Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M'Intosh, Jedediah S. Purdy
The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, and Nationality, Jedediah S. Purdy
The Promise (and Limits) of Neuroeconomics, Jedediah S. Purdy
Crossing the Immunological Barrier, Farrah Qazi
Defining Fair Use in the Digital Era, Joseph James Raffetto
Larceny Offenses in Islamic Law , Hisham M. Ramadan
Are Browse-Wrap Agreements All They Are Wrapped Up to Be? , Ian A. Rambarran
The End of Corporate Governance Law, Steven A. Ramirez
Empirically Bankrupt, Bob Rasmussen
To Catch a Sex Thief: The Burden of Performance in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials, Corey Rayburn Yung
A Race or a Nation? Cherokee National Identity and the Status of Freedmen's Descendents, S. Alan Ray
A Trade Dress Approach to the Protection of Radio Brands, Christopher S. Reed
The Efficiencies Defense in Mergers: The Baby-Food Case Reconsidered , Daniel J. Richards and Richard B. Dagen
Genetic Residues of Ancient Migrations: An End to Biological Essentialism and the Reification of Race, William M. Richman
The Different Tax Treatment of Investment Advisory Fees and Brokerage Fees; The Lower the Fiduciary Duty the Better the Tax Consequences, Barry W. Rickert
Confronting the Genericism Conundrum, Sandra L. Rierson and Deven R. Desai
The Roberts Court: Year 1, Lori A. Ringhand
All in the Family: The Apocalyptic Legal Tradition as Crit Theory, Marc L. Roark
Opening the Barbarians Gate or Watching the Barbarians from the Coliseum: A Requiem on the Nomos of the Louisiana Civil Law, Marc L. Roark
Our Sovereign Body: Narrating the Fiction of Sovereign Immunity in the Supreme Court, Marc L. Roark
Our Sovereign Body: Narrating the Fiction of Sovereign Immunity in the Supreme Court: Part I-A English Stories, Marc L. Roark
Rhetoricized Constitutionality: Describing -- Defining -- Deciding in Kelo, Marc L. Roark
The Constitution as Idea: Defining Describing Deciding in Kelo, Marc L. Roark
Understanding Jurisprudential Approaches to Islam, Marc L. Roark
The Importance of the Secret Ballot in Law Faculty Personnel Decisions: Promoting Candor and Collegiality in the Academy, Ira P. Robbins
The Optimal Law Enforcement with Mandatory Defendant Class Action, Nelson Rodrigues Netto
The Optimal Law Enforcement with Mandatory Defendant Class Actions, Nelson Rodrigues Netto
Impotence of Being Earnest: Status of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners in Europe and the United States, Sara A. Rodriguez
Democracy and Tort Reform in the U.S.A., Christopher J. Roederer
Access to Knowledge as a Bridge over the Troubled Waters of Copyright Fair Use -- From Jefferson to Mandela to Google, Douglas L. Rogers
The Citizenship Dialectic, Ediberto Roman
The Public Forum Doctrine and Public Housing Authorities: Can You Say That Here?, Martin J. Rooney
Galactic Stupidity and the Business Judgment Rule, David Rosenberg
A Theory of Government Damages Liability: Torts, Constitutional Torts, and Takings, Lawrence Rosenthal
Originalism and Parking Tickets, Lawrence Rosenthal
The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Exclusive Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions, Zvi S. Rosen
Harnessing the Costs of International Tax Arbitrage, Adam H. Rosenzweig
The Corporate Governance Industry, Paul Rose
The Place of Covert Policing in Democratic Societies: An Empirical Study of the U.S. and Germany, Jacqueline E. Ross
He Said-She Said: On Credibility and the New Reason, Nancy Rourke
Saving Trade Secret Disclosures on the Internet through Sequential Preservation, Elizabeth A. Rowe
The Right to Self-Determination and Statehood: The Case of Kosovo, Besfort Rrecaj
The Ineffectiveness of Capped Damages in Cases of Employment Discrimination: Solutions toward Deterrence, Vanessa M. Ruggles
Does Law School Curriculum Affect Bar Examination Passage? An Empirical Analysis of the Factors Which Were Related to Bar Examination Passage between 2001 and 2006 at a Midwestern Law School, Douglas Rush and Hisako Matsuo
No Welcome Mat, No Problem?: Federal-Question Jurisdiction after Grable, Rory M. Ryan
A Complete Property Right Amendment, John H. Ryskamp