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Documents from 2017

Empirical Law In Canada: Lessons For U.S.

First-Ever Indigenous-Led Summit to Focus on Moving Past the Indian Act

Former MP to Ask International Criminal Court to Investigate Canada’s Afghan War Conduct

From Small Town Girl to Politics with a Capital P

FYI Industry Profile: Paul Sanderson

Harmonizing Plural Societies: The Case of Lasallians, Families, Schools - and the Poor

Human Development as an Intellectual Property Metric

International Conference at Osgoode Builds on Work Done on Criminalization Project

Kept apart by a miscarriage of justice, torn apart by death, brothers finally together

Lawrence Solomon: If Voters Want to Rip Up Ontario’s Outrageous Renewable Energy Contracts, the Courts Won’t Stop Them

Law School and In-Practice Needs: Are We Ready to Negotiate?

Law Society Medal For Bessner's Outstanding Work For Women In Law

Law students killed in WWI to be called to the bar

Less Than Half of Law Grads Find Work After Call: Survey

Live chat: Knia Singh on carding

LSAC Announces Expanded LSAT Schedule In Effort To Reduce Barriers To Law School

Navi Pillay Reflects on 50 Years as a Champion for Human Rights

No-contest settlements still hot-button issue, Investor Recovery Conference hosted by Osgoode and FAIR

Open letter to Parliament: Amend C-51 or kill it

OSC using more freeze orders to recoup fraud money, challenges remain, Investor Recovery Conference hosted by Osgoode and FAIR

Osgoode Introduces Mandatory Indigenous and Aboriginal Law

Ottawa Creates Office to Investigate Human Rights Abuses Linked to Canadian Companies Abroad

Possible Discipline Faced by Trump Hat Judge Remains Unclear

Texas, California take very different approaches to 'sanctuary city' debate

The Courthouse of the Future

The Jim Crow Effect: Denial, Dignity, Human Rights, and Racialized Mass Incarceration

The Need for an Indigenous Supreme Court Justice

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Child Protection

Time for true diversity in corporate boardrooms

Time to scrap tax break for very rich

Two New Projects Support Innovative, Youth-Led Tech Solutions to Justice Problems

White Out

Why the Rich Should Revolt — And It's Not For the Reasons They Think

Wrongly convicted of murder, Roméo Phillion never lost resilient spirit

Quoted in "15 States, D.C. Sue to Stop Trump DACA Decision", and

Environmental Law Outside the Canon, Todd S. Aagaard

Environmental Regulation and Environmental Rights, Todd S. Aagaard

Practicing Environmental Law, Todd S. Aagaard, David Owen, and Justin Pidot

Locational Analysis of Crime in Gombe Metropolis, Nigeria, Adam A. Abbas, Abubakar U. Alhaji, and Kadini J. Bitrus

Supporters Rally in San Francisco After Apple Plans to Fight Order to Help FBI Unlock Shooter's iPhone, Tami Abdollah, Eric Tucker, and Terry McSweeney

Application of Sustainable Environmental Design requirements in Filling Stations in Niger State Nigeria, Aisha P. Abdullahi and Olatunde F. Adedayo

A Preliminary Exploration of the Elements of Expert Performance in Legal Writing, Erika Abner and Shelley M. Kierstead

Causa e função social: a ordem pública e o interesse coletivo nas relações contratuais, Lucas Abreu Barroso

A reparação integral ao consumidor pelo fato do produto e do serviço, Lucas Abreu Barroso and Lucio Andrade

Brazil: the difficult path toward democratization of civil law.pdf, Lucas Abreu Barroso, Pablo Malheiros da Cunha Frota, Brigida Roldi Passamani, and Lúcio Moreira Andrade

Usucapião extrajudicial: o procedimento para além da desjudicialização, Lucas Abreu Barroso and Brigida Roldi Passamani

“Live Free or Die”—Liberty and the First Amendment, Tabatha Abu El-Haj

An Argument in Support of Tax-Free Per-Cap Distribution Payments Derived from Native American Nations Gaming Sources, 37 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 66 (2016), Arthur Acevedo

¿La caducidad? de las acciones derivadas del incumplimiento de pago por parte de la Entidad Contratante en el marco de la Ley de Contrataciones y su nuevo reglamento, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

QUÉ ES EL MATRIMONIO.pdf, Jorge Adame Goddard

The Exchange Order: Property and Liability as an Economic System, Richard Adelstein

The forgetfulness of noblesse: a critique of the German Foundation Law compensating slave and forced laborers of the Third Reich, Libby Adler and Peer Zumbansen

Making America Equal Again - An Interview with Robert Ahdieh, Robert B. Ahdieh

58. The effects of secret instructions and yes/no questions on maltreated and non-maltreated children’s reports of a minor transgression., Elizabeth C. Ahern, Stacia N. Stolzenberg, Kelly McWilliams, and Thomas D. Lyon

Forced Population Transfers, Mass Expulsions, and Migration_ The Law and its Claw - Modern Diplomacy.pdf, Dr Nafees Ahmad

Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law: Protection Gaps, Challenges and Implementation in Practice.pdf, Dr Nafees Ahmad

MPW-The Constitution-Based Approach of Indian Judiciary to The Refugee Rights and Global Standards of the UN Convention.pdf, Dr Nafees Ahmad

MPW-The Global Nuclear Justice-From Westphalian Exceptionalism To Universal Constitutionalism.pdf, Dr Nafees Ahmad

MPW-The Right to Nationality and the Reduction of Statelessness–The Responses of the International Migration Law Framework.pdf, Dr Nafees Ahmad

Assessment of the Economics of Maize Production in Jema’a Local Government Area, Kaduna State, Joshua A. Akaito, A A. Adepetu, and Y Saleh

Effect of nonsurgical periodontal treatment on clinical periodontal variables and salivary resistin levels in obese Asians, Zohaib Akram Dr, Nor Baharuddin, Rathna Vaithilingam, Zubaidah Hj Abdul Rahim, Karuthan Chinna, Vignes Gopal Dr, Roslan Saub, and Syarida Safii

Second Wenger Annual Distinguished Lecture on Trade: Current Standing and Future Prospects of The World Trading System, Padideh Ala'i

The Future of Trade Agreements under the Trump Administration, Padideh Ala'i

The Rise and Fall of Major Trade Deals, Padideh Ala'i

Four Unconstitutional Constitutions and their Democratic Foundations, Richard Albert

Single-Subject Constitutional Amendments, Richard Albert

Public Interest Law Organizations and the Two-Tiered System of Access to Justice in the United States, Catherine R. Albiston

Incentivizing and Protecting OSH Whistleblowers, Charlotte S. Alexander

Misclassification and Antidiscrimination: An Empirical Analysis, Charlotte S. Alexander

Transmitting the Costs of Unsafe Work, Charlotte S. Alexander

Workplace Information-Forcing: Constitutionality and Effectiveness, Charlotte S. Alexander

Adblocker, Christian Alexander

Aggressive Einflussnahme.pdf, Christian Alexander

Arbeitsblätter Kartellrecht, Christian Alexander

Arbeitsblätter Leistungsstörungen, Christian Alexander

Die Berichterstattung in der Flüchtlingskrise durch die Medien. Ein medienrechtlicher Blick, Christian Alexander

Transparenzgebote, Christian Alexander

Objects of Art; Objects of Property, Gregory S. Alexander

Improper Labelling of Manufacturing and Expiry Dates of Food: A Legal and Regulatory Study of Food Quality and Food Waste in Bangladesh, Dr. A N M Atahar Ali

Improper Labelling of Manufacturing and Expiry Dates of Food: A Legal and Regulatory Study of Food Quality and Food Waste in Bangladesh, Dr. A N M Atahar Ali and Shah Newaj

An Overlooked Key to Reversing Mass Incarceration: Reforming the Law to Reduce Prosecutorial Power in Plea Bargaining, Cynthia Alkon

Hard Bargaining in Plea Bargaining: When do Prosecutors Cross the Line?, Cynthia Alkon

Plea Bargaining, Just as it Ever Was?, Cynthia Alkon

Plea Bargain Negotiations: Defining Competence Beyond Lafler and Frye, Cynthia Alkon

The Right to Defense Discovery in Plea Bargaining Fifty Years After Brady v. Maryland, Cynthia Alkon

What's Law Got to Do With It? Plea Bargaining Reform after Lafler and Frye, Cynthia Alkon

Introducing Plea Bargaining into Post-Conflict Legal Systems, Cynthia Alkon and Ena Dion

Hard Bargaining in Plea Bargaining: When Do Prosecutors Cross the Line?, Cynthia J. Alkon

Ein Blick über den Tellerand: So organisiert die Harvard Law School Library die bedarfsgerechte Literatur- und Informationsversorgung, Jennifer Allison

Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari, John R. Allison; Margo Bagley; James Bessen; Jeremy Bock; Daniel H. Brean; Michael A. Carrier; Michael W. Carroll; Bernard Chao; Tun-Jen Chiang; Colleen V. Chien; Andrew Chin; Robert Cook-Deegan, MD; Rochelle Dreyfuss; Dr. Dieter Ernst; Samuel F. Ernst; Robin C. Feldman; Lee Fleming; Brian Frye; William Gallagher; Shubha Ghosh; Eric Goldman; Bronwyn H. Hall; Yaniv Heled; Christian Helmers; Joachim Henkel; Susan Helper; Tim Holbrook; Herbert Hovenkamp; William Hubbard; Dr. Xavier Jaravel; Dennis S. Karjala; Peter Lee; Mark A. Lemley; David K. Levine; David S. Levine; Doug Lichtman; Yvette Joy Liebesman; Orly Lobel; Brian Love; Phil Malone; Michael J. Meurer; Dr. Shawn Miller; Matthew Mitchell; Susan Barbieri Montgomery; Sean Pager; Arti K. Rai; Jacob H. Rooksby; Jorge R. Roig; Matthew Sag; Pamela Samuelson; Ana Santos Rutschman; Lea Bishop Shaver; Toshiko Takenaka; John L. Turner; Jennifer Urban; and Eric von Hippel

Brief of Amici Curiae 56 Professors of Law and Economics in Support of Petition of Writ of Certiorari, John R. Allison; Margo Bagley; James Bessen; Jeremy Bock; Daniel H. Brean; Michael A. Carrier; Michael W. Carroll; Bernard Chao; Tun-Jen Chiang; Colleen V. Chien; Andrew Chin; Robert Cook-Deegan, MD; Rochelle Dreyfuss; Dr. Dieter Ernst; Samuel F. Ernst; Robin C. Feldman; Lee Fleming; Brian Frye; William Gallagher; Shubha Ghosh; Eric Goldman; Bronwyn H. Hall; Yaniv Heled; Christian Helmers; Joachim Henkel; Susan Helper; Tim Holbrook; Herbert Hovenkamp; William Hubbard; Dr. Xavier Jaravel; Dennis S. Karjala; Peter Lee; Mark A. Lemley; David K. Levine; David S. Levine; Doug Lichtman; Yvette Joy Liebesman; Orly Lobel; Brian Love; Phil Malone; Michael J. Meurer; Dr. Shawn Miller; Matthew Mitchell; Susan Barbieri Montgomery; Sean Pager; Arti K. Rai; Jacob H. Rooksby; Jorge R. Roig; Matthew Sag; Pamela Samuelson; Ana Santos Rutschman; Lea Bishop Shaver; Toshiko Takenaka; John L. Turner; Jennifer Urban; and Eric von Hippel

The Ignable History of the 3-Drug Cocktail, Ty Alper

Accountability & International Financial Institutions: Community Perspectives on the World Bank's Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, Roxanna M. Altholz

Judicial Behavior and Devolution at the Privy Council, Sofia Amaral-Garcia and Nuno Garoupa

Judicial Behavior and Devolution at the Privy Council, Sofia Amaral-Garcia and Nuno Garoupa

How Canada Could Actually Become a World Leader in Pension Innovation, Keith Ambachtsheer and Edward J. Waitzer

Estimation of total dissolved solid in groundwater using multiple linear regression analysis around Igando dumpsites in Lagos, South-West, Nigeria, Anthony A. Ameloko and Elijah A. Ayolabi

A New Twist on Remedies: Judicial Assignment of Bad Faith Claims, Constance A. Anastopoulo

Classroom Taping Under Scrutiny: A Roadmap to a Law School Policy, Alexis Anderson

Perceptual Commensuration in Decision Tables, Barry F. Anderson and Raffaella Misuraca