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Documents from 2019

International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, Joseph Freedman, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Erika Lennon, Erica Lyman, Stephen J. Porter, Thomas Parker Redick, R. Justin Smith, and Hong Tang

International Environmental Law, David R. Downes, Joseph Dellapenna, Khouane Dittahovong, Joseph Freedman, Royal C. Gardner, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Thomas Parker Redick, David M. Gravallese, Jeffrey M. Klein, and Erica Thorson

International Environment Law, David R. Downes, Michael Wascom, Charlotte de Fontaubert, Joseph Dellapenna, Khouane Ditthavong, Kristen Genovese, Richard A. Horsch, David Hunter, Thomas Parker Redick, Marianne Tyrrell, William L. Fang, and Robert McKinstry

Sexual Misconduct, Religion, And Culture, Alev Dudek

USA: Millions Of Cats Killed, Millions Of Cats Declawed; The Culture Of Convenience And The Lack Of Respect For Life, Alev Dudek

2013 National Lawyers Convention: Intellectual Property: Intellectual Property, Free Markets, and Competition Policy, John F. Duffy, Richard A. Epstein, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Joshua D. Wright, and Douglas Ginsburg

Emotional Appraisals in the Wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, Olympia Duhart

Adopted Couple v. Baby Girl: Erasing the Last Vestigates of Human Property, James G. Dwyer

Amicus Brief: Commonwealth v. Nixon, James G. Dwyer

Book Review of The Best Interests of the Child in Healthcare, James G. Dwyer

Book Review of The Child Cases: How America's Religious Exemption Laws Harm Children, James G. Dwyer

Children’s Welfare and the State’s Fiduciary Responsibility, James G. Dwyer

Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, and the Rights of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer

Equality Between Adults and Children: Its Meaning, Implications, and Opposition, James G. Dwyer

First Parents: Reconceptualizing Newborn Adoption, James G. Dwyer

Funding Religion in a Post-Zelman World, James G. Dwyer

Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer

Inter-country Adoption and the Special Rights Fallacy, James G. Dwyer

Jailing Black Babies, James G. Dwyer

Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions in Family Law Debates, James G. Dwyer

No Accounting for School Vouchers, James G. Dwyer

Parents' Religion and Children's Welfare: Debunking the Doctrine of Parents' Rights, James G. Dwyer

Parents' Self-Determination and Children's Custody: A New Analytical Framework for State Structuring of Children's Family Life, James G. Dwyer

Promising Protection: 911 Call Records as Foundation for Family Violence Intervention, James G. Dwyer

Religious Schooling and Homeschooling Before and After Hobby Lobby, James G. Dwyer

Same-Sex Cynicism and the Self-Defeating Pursuit of Social Acceptance Through Litigation, James G. Dwyer

Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution: Let's Change the Law the Right Way, James G. Dwyer

School Accountability and ‘High Stakes’ Testing, James G. Dwyer

Setting Standards for Parenting - By What Right?, James G. Dwyer

Spiritual Treatment Exemptions to Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think, James G. Dwyer

The Child Protection Pretense: States' Continued Consignment of Newborn Babies to Unfit Parents, James G. Dwyer

The Children We Abandon: Religious Exemptions to Child Welfare and Education Law as Denials of Equal Protection to Children of Religious Objectors, James G. Dwyer

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Employment Division v. Smith for Family Law, James G. Dwyer

The Liberal State's Response to Religious Visions of Education, James G. Dwyer

The Parental Choice Fallacy in Education Reform Debates, James G. Dwyer

Which Side Are You On?, James G. Dwyer

A Child-Centered Approach to Parentage Law, James G. Dwyer

A Child-Centered View of Foster Parenting by Same-Sex Couples, James G. Dwyer

A Taxonomy of Children's Existing Rights in State Decision Making About Their Relationships, James G. Dwyer

Children's Interests in a Family Context - A Cautionary Note, James G. Dwyer

Diagnosing Liberal Resistance to Needed Child Welfare Reforms, James G. Dwyer

Introductory Remarks: Property Law, James G. Dwyer

No Place for Children: Addressing Urban Blight and its Impact on Children Through Child Protection Law, Domestic Relations Law, and "Adult-only" Residential Zoning, James G. Dwyer

Parental Entitlement and Corporal Punishment, James G. Dwyer

School Vouchers: Inviting the Public into the Religious Square, James G. Dwyer

The Ever-Shrinking Case for a Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage, James G. Dwyer

Victory by Litigation Would be Hollow: Front Burner, James G. Dwyer

En Banc Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors James G. Dwyer, J. Herbie Difonzo, Jennifer A. Drobac, Deborah L. Forman, Marsha Freeman, William Ladd, Ellen Marrus, John E.B. Myers, and Deborah Paruch in Support of the Appellees, James G. Dwyer, J. Herbie DiFonzo, Jennifer A. Drobac, Deborah L. Forman, Marsha Freeman, William Ladd, Ellen Marrus, John E.B. Myers, and Deborah Paruch

Taking Evidence and Breaking Treaties: Aerospatiale and the Need for Common Sense, James G. Dwyer and Lois A. Yurow

The Anti-Democratic Nature of the Columbus Way, Robert A. Eckhart

One and Done: How My Life Started When My Football Career Ended, Robert A. Eckhart and Maurice Clarett

Conferring legal personality on the world's rivers: A brief intellectual assessment, Gabriel Eckstein, Ariella D'Andrea, Virginia Marshall, Erin O'Donnell, Julia Talbot-Jones, Deborah Curran, and Katie O'Bryan

Assessing DOJ’s Proposed Remedy in Sprint/T-Mobile: Can Ex Ante Competitive Conditions in Wireless Markets Be Restored?, Nicholas Economides, John Kwoka, Thomas Philippon, Robert Seamans, Hal Singer, Marshall Steinbaum, and Lawrence J. White

Restrictions on Privacy and Exploitation in the Digital Economy: A Competition Law Perspective, Nicholas Economides and Ioannis Lianos

Monitoring Educational Equity, Christopher Edley

2019 Professor's Update to Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, and Cases, Aaron Edlin

Hunting Unicorns, Aaron Edlin

It Can't Happen Here, Has It?, W. A. Edmundson

Book Review, Justice for Hedgehogs, William A. Edmundson

Charlie Hebdo Meets Utility Monster, William A. Edmundson

Neoliberalism Versus Distributional Autonomy: The Skipped Step in Rawls's The Law of Peoples, William A. Edmundson and Matthew R. Schrepfer

Kentucky and Sports Law, Adam Epstein

La justicia restaurativa en lo penal ambiental, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

71. The effects of the putative confession and evidence presentation on maltreated and non-maltreated 9- to 12-year-olds’ coached concealment of a minor transgression., Angela D. Evans and Thomas D. Lyon

Congressional Procedure and Statutory Interpretation, Larry Evans, Jarrell Wright, and Neal Devins

Distinguishing 'incorrigibility' from 'transient immaturity': Risk assessment in the context of sentencing/resentencing evaluations for juvenile homicide offenders., Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, Sarah Fishel, and David DeMatteo

The Human Element: The Under-Theorized and Underutilized Component Vital to Fostering Blockchain Development, Joshua A.T. Fairfield

Abortion Rights in Tennessee under the Current U.S. Supreme Court (DICTA).pdf, Akram Faizer

RESURRECTING CONGRESS TO REDUCE ADMINISTRATIVE CHAOS.doc.rtf, Akram Faizer

Sheppard v. Maxwell, Patricia J. Falk

Hart & Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System (2019 Supplement to the 7th Edition), Richard H. Fallon Jr., Jack L. Goldsmith, John F. Manning, David L. Shapiro, and Amanda L. Tyler

Immigration Adjudication Bankruptcy, Jill E. Family

SCOTUS's Second Take on Trademark Registration as Speech, Christine Haight Farley

Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, Christine Haight Farley, Peter A. Jaszi, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Ann Shalleck, and Victoria F. Phillips

The F Word - an Early Empirical Study of Trademark Registration of Scandalous and Immoral Marks in the Aftermath of the in Re Brunetti Decision, Vicenç Feliú

“Bullets of Truth”: Julian Assange and the Politics of Transparency, Mark Fenster

Feed: State Transparency Amidst Informational Surplus, Mark Fenster

Communication in the 21st Century, Lori Ferguson, Betty Ruth Sylvester, and David Leitch

Promoting Patient Interests in Implementing the Federal Right to Try Act, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Patricia J. Zettler, and Ameet Sarpatwari

Democracia & Civilização.doc, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Intelectuais para Hoje, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Universidade e Ufanismo, Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Pigs Get Fat, Hogs Get Slaughtered: A Memoir of the TRO-X v. Anadarko Petroleum Case, Caleb A. Fielder

Transition-Age Medicaid Coverage for Adolescents With Autism and Adolescents With Intellectual Disability, Robert I. Field, Steven C. Marcus, Craig Newschaffer, Lindsay Shea, David Mandell, and Ming Xie

Factors Associated With Pediatrician Responses to Alternative Immunization Schedule Requests, Robert I. Field; Salini Mohanty, MPH; Kristen Feemster; Alison Buttenheim; Charlotte Moser; Whitney Mayer; and Amy Carroll-Scott

Superstorm Sandy at Five: Lessons on Law as Catalyst and Obstacle to Long-Term Recovery Following Catastrophic Disasters, Donovan Finn and John Travis Marshall

How Successfully Can the States' Item Veto be Transferred to the President?, Louis Fisher and Neal Devins

Political Dynamics of Constitutional Law, Louis Fisher and Neal E. Devins

Bullying Prevention: A Summary of the Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Daniel J. Flannery, Jonathan Todres, Catherine P. Bradshaw, Angela Frederick Amar, Sandra Graham, Mark Hatzenbuehler, Matthew Masiello, Megan Moreno, Regina Sullivan, Tracy Vaillancourt, Suzanne M. Le Menestrel, and Frederick Rivara

Unauthorized Legal Practice Prosecutions and Independent Paralegals in Ontario and the United States, John A. Flood and Frederick H. Zemans

What happens when books enter the public domain? Testing copyright’s underuse hypothesis across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada, Jacob Flynn, Rebecca Giblin, and François Petitjean

Informed Consent: Does “Ok” Really Mean “Ok?”, Michael Flynn

A Hierarchy of the Goals of International Criminal Courts, Stuart Ford

How Leadership in International Criminal Law is Shifting from the United States to Europe and Asia: An Analysis of Spending on and Contributions to International Criminal Courts, Stuart Ford

Understanding Crime Gravity: Exploring the Views of International Criminal Law Experts, Stuart Ford

Understanding Crime Gravity: Exploring the Views of International Criminal Law Experts, 27 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 659 (2019), Stuart Ford

Implications of video games and immersive entertainment in trademark law, William K. Ford and Anna King

Deux oiseaux et un serpent, Matthieu Forlodou

Black Childhood and Philosophy | Panel Discussion, Sarah Jane Forman, Odeana R. Neal, SpearIt, Phyllis C. Taite, Tsedey Tedla, Cedric Merlin Powell, and Anthony Paul Farley

Amicus brief in support of motion for reconsideration, in the case of Murray v. Chagrin Valley Publishing Co., Case no. 2015-0127, Supreme Court of Ohio, David Forte