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Documents from 2005

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Sexually Expressive Materials for Gay Men: Sex Discrimination or Subversive Potential?, Donn Short

“Spiritual Custody: Relational Rights and Constitutional Commitments”, Jeffrey Shulman

Legal Issues in Stem Cell Research, Marjorie M. Shultz

Old Wine and New Wineskins: Parentage Law and ARTs Reproduction, Marjorie M. Shultz

Predicting Lawyering Competence as a Means of Improving Diversity in Admissions Decision-making, Marjorie M. Shultz

Predicting Lawyering Competence for Purposes of Law School Admissio, Marjorie M. Shultz

Taking Account of ARTs in Determining Parenthood: A Troubling Dispute in California, Marjorie M. Shultz

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Taking Account of ARTs in Determining Parenthood: A Troubling Dispute in California, Marjorie M. Shultz

The Problematic Law of Parenthood Where ARTs Are Used: A Troubling Dispute in California, Marjorie M. Shultz

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Numerical Comparative Law - Do We Need Statistical Evidence in Law in Order to Reduce Complexity?, Mathias M. Siems

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The Case Against Harmonisation of Shareholder Rights, Mathias M. Siems

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The European Directive on Cross-Border Mergers: An International Model?, Mathias M. Siems

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The Impact of the European Company (SE) on Legal Culture, Mathias M. Siems

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What Does Not Work in Comparing Securities Laws: A Critique on La Porta et al.'s Methodology, Mathias M. Siems

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Filmmaking in the Precinct House and the Genre of Documentary Film, Jessica M. Silbey

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Internationalizing U.S. Legal Education: A Report on the Education of Transnational Lawyers, Carole Silver

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Winners and Losers in the Globalization of Legal Services: Situating the Market for Foreign Lawyers, Carole Silver

Edgework and Insurance in Risk Societies: Some notes on Victorian Lawyers and Mountaineers, Jonathan S. Simon

REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: The Resurgence of Individual Risk Assessment in Criminal Justice, Jonathan Steven Simon

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CHILD LABOUR IN INDIA, Pankaj Singh

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Photocopying of copyrighted works for educational purposes, Does it Constitute Fair Use, Pankaj Singh

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Interlinking Of rivers In India , Pankaj Singh and Dharamveer Singh Chauhan

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Tribal Rights And Forest Conservation Laws , Pankaj Singh and Dharamveer Singh Chauhan

Reining in Footnotes, Louis J. Sirico

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American Constitutionalism and Dualist Democracy, George Skouras

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State Legislation as a Fulcrum for Change: Wisconsin's Public Sector Labor Law, and the Revolution in Politics and Worker Rights, Joseph E. Slater

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Aboriginal Rights and the Honour of the Crown, Brian Slattery

Constitutional Developments Regarding Aboriginal and Treaty Rights., Brian Slattery

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Paper Empires: The Legal Dimensions of French and English Ventures in North America, Brian Slattery

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Reconceptualizing Due Process in Criminal Justice: Contributions from Law and Social Science, Christopher Slobogin

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Deferential Review of Tax Court Decisions of Law: Promoting Expertise, Uniformity, and Impartiality, Andre L. Smith

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Establishing a Global Quarantine Against Weapons of Mass Destruction, Derek D. Smith

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General Intangible or Commercial Tort: Moral Rights and State Based Intellectual Property as Collateral Under UCC Revised Article 9, Lars Smith

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General Intangible or Commercial Tort: Moral Rights and State Based Intellectual Property as Collateral Under UCC Revised Article 9, Lars Smith

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Community Prosecution: Can a Law School Prosecutors Clinic Adopt This Approach?, Lisa C. Smith

Behavioral Economics Reserach and the Foundations of Economics, Vernon L. Smith

Economics, Market Behavior and the Law, Vernon L. Smith

Hayek and Experimental Economics, Vernon L. Smith

Markets, Capital Markets and Globalization, Vernon L. Smith

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When Punishment Fails: Research on Sanctions, Intentions and Non-Cooperation, Vernon L. Smith, Daniel Houser, Erte Xiao, and Kevin A. McCabe

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The Law and Economics of Irrational Behavior: An Introduction, Vernon L. Smith and Francesco Parisi

Social Disruption and the Maya Civilization of Mesoemerica: A Study of Health and Economy of the Last Thousand Years, Vernon L. Smith, R. Story, and L. M. morfin

Diversity of Contract Law and the European Internal Market, Jan M. Smits

The Need for a European Contract Law: Empirical and Legal Perspectives, Jan M. Smits

Inhoud en werking van de overeenkomst naar Belgisch en Nederlands recht, Jan M. Smits and Sophie Stijns

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Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children, David M. Smolin

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Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking, David M. Smolin

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The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals, David M. Smolin

American System Requires Sunshine, Rodney A. Smolla

Anatomy of an Oral Argument, Rodney A. Smolla

First Amendment Law Handbook, Rodney A. Smolla

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Life of Privilege, Rodney A. Smolla

Not So Free Speech, Rodney A. Smolla

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Prosecuted, Not Persecuted: Why a Muslim Scholar Probably Crossed the First Amendment Line, Rodney A. Smolla

River City Should Honor Its Native Son, Undervalued Hero, Rodney A. Smolla

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The Best Defense: Prosecutors are from Neptune, Defense Attorneys are from Pluto, Rodney A. Smolla

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The Supreme Court and the Trusts: Antitrust and the Foundations of Modern American Business Regulation from Knight to Swift, Donald J. Smythe

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Can Business Learn to Love the Environment? The Case for a U.S. Corporate Carbon Fund, Sophie E. Smyth

Analysis of Topological Persistence in Data Sets, David Snyder

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The Child Client: Representing Children in Child Protective Proceedings, Merril Sobie

Language and Law: Definitions in Law, Lawrence M. Solan

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Private Langauge, Public Laws: The Central Role of Legislative Intent in Statutory Interpretation, Lawrence M. Solan

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The New Textualists’ New Text [Symposium: Statutory Interpretation], Lawrence M. Solan

Vagueness and Ambiguity in Legal Interpretation , Lawrence M. Solan

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Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice , Lawrence M. Solan and Peter Tiersma

La défense par la culture en droit américain, Sarah Song

Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality, Sarah Song

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On the Sources of Islamic Law and Practices, Ahmed E. SOUAIAIA

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Comment on professor Gopal Sreenivasan’s A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights, Horacio Spector

The Future of Legal Science in Civil Law Jurisdictions, Horacio Spector

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Domestic Torts, Robert G. Spector

Maintenance in Private International Law in the United States: Harmonization of Divergent Rules and the New Hague Maintenance Convention, Robert G. Spector

Marital Torts: A Survey of the Current Legal Landscape, Robert G. Spector

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The Unconstitutionality of Oklahoma's Statute Denying Recognition to Adoptions by Same-Sex Couples from Other States, Robert G. Spector

The United States Proposals for Applicable Law Rules in the Mandatory Part of the New Maintenance Convention, Robert G. Spector

The United States Proposals for Applicable Law Rules in the Optional Part of the New Hague Maintenance Convention, Robert G. Spector

United States Policy on Enforcement of Maintenance in International Family Law Matters, Robert G. Spector

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A Review of the Year in Family Law: "Same-Sex" Marriage Issue Dominates Headlines, Robert G. Spector and Linda D. Elrod

Legal Aid in the 1920s: Whither Law Reform, Mark Spiegel

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Book Review: To Kill and Take Possession, Law, Morality, and Society in Biblical Stories, Andrew C. Spiropoulos

The Enumeration Clause, Andrew C. Spiropoulos

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The Conscience of the Queen: Lady Macbeth, Queen Elizabeth, and the Transparent Female Body in Jacobean England, Carla Spivack

Uncanny Returns in "The Dead", Robert Spoo

Copyright, Fair use, Fair Dealing, and Scholarship, Robert E. Spoo

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When ‘Welfare’ Becomes ‘Work Support’: Exempting Earned Income Tax Credit Payments in Bankruptcy, Jennifer E. Spreng

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Human Rights Claims vs. the State: Is Sovereignty Really Eroding?, Chandra L. Sriram

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Cleaning Up the Eighth Amendment Mess, Tom Stacy

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The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries, Tad Stahnke and Robert C. Blitt

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"Constructive Total Loss" -- an Illegal Alien in Tort Law, Graydon S. Staring

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Reflections on the Admiralty Prospects of Mixed Policies, Graydon S. Staring

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What’s in a Word? Can “Marriage” Mean Something It Never Meant Before?, Deanna M. Stathis

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Technology for Justice Customers: Bridging the Digital Divide Facing Self-Represented Litigants, Ronald W. Staudt

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Criterion Rubric for Class Participation, Alex Steel

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Criterion Rubric for Online Participation, Alex Steel

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Criterion Rubric for Research Essays, Alex Steel

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Overenforcement, Alex Stein and Richard A. Bierschbach

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Irregulars: The Appellate Rights of Persons Who Are Not Full-Fledged Parties, Joan E. Steinman

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The Case for the Legislative Override, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Disrobe Dot Com for the ACLU: Ashcroft v. ACLU, a Strict Scrutiny Review for the Child Online Protection Act, Roger W. Stepp

Policy guidelines for regions falling under the new regional competitiveness and employment objective for the 2007 - 2013 period, Alessandro Sterlacchini, Roberto Esposti, Nicola Matteucci, and Francesco Venturini