| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
| April L. Cherry |
Shifting Our Focus from ReTribution to Social Justice: an Alternative Vision for the Treatment of Pregnant Women Who Harm Their Fetuses |
28 Journal of Law and Health Health 6 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 7 II. Three Accounts of Self-Harming Behavior Among Pregnant Women. 10 A. Depression and Attempted Suicide: The Story of Bei Bei Shuai. 11 B. A Story about Drug and Alcohol Use: The Story of Rennie Gibbs. 14 C. Self-Induced Abortion: The Story of Kawana Ashley. 21 III. The Rhetoric of Fetal Personhood and the Use of Fetal... |
2015 |
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| Margaret H. Zhang |
Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction for Indian Tribes: Inherent Tribal Sovereignty Versus Defendants' Complete Constitutional Rights |
164 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 243 (December, 2015) |
Introduction. 244 I. Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country. 249 A. Historical Origins. 249 B. Oliphant: No Jurisdiction over Non-Indians. 252 C. Duro, the Duro Fix, and Lara: Jurisdiction over Nonmember Indians. 253 II. Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Under VAWA 2013. 256 A. Narrowly Expanded Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Karen M. Tani |
States' Rights, Welfare Rights, and the "Indian Problem": Negotiating Citizenship and Sovereignty, 1935-1954 |
33 Law and History Review Rev. 1 (February, 2015) |
What distinguishes the American Indians from other native groups is . the nature of their relationship with a government which, while protecting their welfare and their rights, is committed to the principles of tribal self-government and the legal equality of races. Felix S. Cohen, Chairman, Board of Appeals, United States Department of Interior... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Brian L. Pierson |
The Precarious Sovereign Immunity of Tribal Business Corporations |
62-APR Federal Lawyer 58 (April, 2015) |
Like the United States and the 50 states, federally recognized Indian tribes enjoy immunity from suit based on their sovereign status: Indian tribes have long been recognized as possessing the common-law immunity from suit traditionally enjoyed by sovereign powers. In its 1998 decision in Kiowa Tribe v. Manufacturing Techs. Inc., the U.S. Supreme... |
2015 |
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Treated Worse than Animals: Women and Girls in Indian Mental Institutions |
22 Human Rights Brief 14 (Spring, 2015) |
In January 2015, Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone revealed to the press that she has struggled with depression and anxiety. Her disclosure has received praise and sparked a discussion in a society where, according to Ms. Padukone, [t]here is shame and stigma attached to talking about depression. Supporting her assessment is a report released by... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Charles G. Curtis Jr. , Donald C. Baur , Jena A. MacLean , Partners, Perkins Coie LLP |
Tribal "Treatment as State" Programs under Federal Environmental Statutes: Key Provisions and Case Studies |
2015 Aspatore 9194946 (November, 2015) |
Many federal environmental programs provide for the delegation of regulatory authority to individual states, subject to minimum federal standards and to the oversight and veto authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This cooperative federalism structure allows both the federal government and states to share in the regulation and... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Julia Guarino |
Tribal Food Sovereignty in the American Southwest |
11 Journal of Food Law & Policy 83 (Spring 2015) |
I. Introduction: American Indian Conceptions of Land, Food, and Identity. 84 II. Agricultural Practices in the American Southwest Prior to Eurpoean Contact. 87 A. Indigenous Teachings about the Origin of Peoples in the Southwest. 88 B. Archeological Evidence of the Ancient Occupants of the American Southwest. 90 C. Agricultural Practices in the... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Alan S. Kaplinsky |
Tribally-affiliated Payday Lenders Can Use Tribal Sovereign Immunity as Defense to State Administrative Proceedings and Class Actions |
69 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 78 (2015) |
Two recent decisions provide support for the use of tribal sovereign immunity by tribally affiliated payday lenders as a defense to both state administrative proceedings and private class actions. In Everette v. Joshua Mitchem, et al., the United States District Court for the District of Maryland granted the motion to dismiss filed by two payday... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Priscilla A. Ocen |
(E)racing Childhood: Examining the Racialized Construction of Childhood and Innocence in the Treatment of Sexually Exploited Minors |
62 UCLA Law Review 1586 (August, 2015) |
Over the last twenty years, domestic sexual trafficking of children has received increased attention from state and national policymakers and advocates. Indeed, states across the country have enacted laws establishing harsh new penalties for individuals convicted of domestic sexual trafficking. At the same time, arrest and conviction rates for... |
2015 |
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| Angela Ostrowski |
(Elephant) Death and Taxes: Proposed Tax Treatment of Illegal Ivory |
21 Animal Law 221 (2015) |
African elephants are poached for their ivory at alarming rates. If the current level of poaching continues, it is projected they will be extinct from the wild in the year 2025. Preserving the African elephant species is important from an animal rights, conservation, ecological, economical, and crime prevention perspective. The current penalties... |
2015 |
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| Theresa K. Bowley |
A Blanket of Immunity Will Not Keep Florida Dry: Proposed Adjustments to Florida's Drainage Regulations and Sovereign Immunity Laws to Account for Climate Change Impacts |
10 Florida A & M University Law Review 387 (Spring 2015) |
Introduction. 388 I. Florida's Enhanced Vulnerability to Increased Flooding from Climate Change. 391 A. Stormwater Drainage is Interconnected in Florida. 391 B. Flooding Vulnerability in Stormwater Drainage Systems. 393 C. Stormwater Drainage Capacity Decreased. 394 II. Stormwater Drainage Regulation in Florida. 396 III. Sovereign Immunity in... |
2015 |
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| Herbert C. Brown, Jr. |
A Crowded Room or the Perfect Fit? Exploring Affirmative Action Treatment in College and University Admissions for Self-identified Lgbt Individuals |
21 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 603 (Spring, 2015) |
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) civil rights movement has made tremendous advances over the years. Many polls show that acceptance of same-sex marriage and other rights for LGBT individuals are at their highest. These polls have also shown that an overwhelmingly large population of younger Americans support and accept LGBT... |
2015 |
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| Vik Kanwar |
A Fugitive from the Camp of the Conquerors: the Revival of Equal Sovereignty Doctrine in Shelby County v. Holder |
17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 272 (2015) |
I. The Equivocal Doctrine of Equal Sovereignty of States 1. The Equality of States: Built on Air? 2. Equal Footing: From the First Reconstruction to Revival in Coyle 3. Equal Sovereignty: From the Second Reconstruction to its Revival in Shelby County II. Expressive Harms: Conditionality and Selectivity 4. Critique of Conditionality: The VRA... |
2015 |
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| Joshua Nichols |
A Reconciliation Without Recollection? Chief Mountain and the Sources of Sovereignty |
48 U.B.C. Law Review 515 (July, 2015) |
On 3 February 2013, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released the Chief Mountain decision. The issue in this case was the constitutionality of the legislative and self-government powers set out in the Nisga'a Final Agreement (NFA). The appellants (who are members of the Nisga'a Nation) argued that the NFA and the attending Settlement... |
2015 |
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| Dr. Jay A. Weiss |
Addiction and Treatment in a Professional Population |
62 Louisiana Bar Journal 282 (December, 2014/January, 2015) |
Drug and alcohol problems are common within our society, but we are not the first society to have them. The great physicians Hippocrates and Galen in Greek and Roman societies wrote of the symptoms and damage caused by substances. Indian and Chinese physicians were describing similar problems long before Greece and Rome emerged as civilizations.... |
2015 |
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| Francesco Seatzu , Paolo Vargiu |
Africanizing Bilateral Investment Treaties ('Bits'): Some Case Studies and Future Prospects of a Pro-active African Approach to International Investment |
30 Connecticut Journal of International Law 143 (Spring, 2015) |
The issue of African contributions to the development of international investment law is one that has been almost completely neglected by international legal scholarship, as very few examples of such contributions - if any - can be found in the investment treaty experience of African countries since the decolonisation of the continent. This paper... |
2015 |
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| Francesca Trivellato |
Amphibious Power: the Law of Wreck, Maritime Customs, and Sovereignty in Richelieu's France |
33 Law and History Review 915 (November, 2015) |
The precise length of territorial waters, the swath of sea along the coast over which a state extended sovereign control, remained an object of debate during the seventeenth century. Some authors still adhered to the 100-mile boundary established by medieval glossators, whereas others embraced the so-called cannon-shot rule that set the limit to... |
2015 |
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| David Kow |
An "Equal Sovereignty" Principle Born in Northwest Austin, Texas, Raised in Shelby County, Alabama |
17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 346 (2015) |
[A] small inconsequential village will shortly find out that there are causes and effects that have no precedent--such is usually the case in the Twilight Zone. Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone: I Am the Night--Color Me Black (CBS television broadcast Mar. 27, 1964) The 1965 Voting Rights Act brought to a halt the regime of organized racial... |
2015 |
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| Duncan B. Hollis |
An Intersubjective Treaty Power |
90 Notre Dame Law Review 1415 (March, 2015) |
How does the Constitution limit the subject matter of the U.S.'s treaties? For decades, conventional wisdom adopted a textual emphasis -- prohibitions and other limits on federal authority listed in the Constitution itself (e.g., the Bill of Rights) apply to U.S. treaties. In contrast, proposals for subject matter limitations implied by federalism... |
2015 |
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| David Gringer |
Antitrust Treatment of State Licensing Boards in the Wake of North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. F.t.c. |
24 Competition: the Journal of the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section of the State Bar of California 50 (Fall, 2015) |
In its decision formulating the state action immunity doctrine, the Supreme Court rested its holding primarily on respect for the political processes in the states: in a dual system of government in which . the states are sovereign . an unexpressed purpose to nullify a state's control over its officers and agents is not to be likely attributed to... |
2015 |
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| Susan Block-Lieb |
Austerity, Debt Overhang, and the Design of International Standards on Sovereign, Corporate, and Consumer Debt Restructuring |
22 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 487 (2015) |
Following the Asian Financial Crisis, sovereign debt defaults prompted calls by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a statutory Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM). In promoting the SDRM, IMF leaders argued that countries' sovereign debt problems needed something like U.S. Chapter 11, which is to say that IMF leaders supported the... |
2015 |
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| Gregory H. Shill |
Boilerplate Shock: Sovereign Debt Contracts as Incubators of Systemic Risk |
89 Tulane Law Review 751 (March, 2015) |
Scholars generally assess the usefulness of standard-form securities contracts from the perspective of the firms that use them. But these firm-centric accounts overlook the cumulative impact of standardization on markets. Where the market in question is critical to the financial system, this oversight can be quite consequential. This Article... |
2015 |
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| Monica Carusello |
Can an Oil Pit Take a Bird?: Why the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Should Apply to Inadvertent Takings and Killings by Oil Pits |
31 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 87 (2015) |
Introduction. 88 I. The MBTA. 89 II. Current Federal Court Split in Interpreting Criminal Liability for MBTA Violations: What Does Take Mean in the MBTA? Must the Action Be Directed at Birds in Order to Constitute a Taking?. 90 A. Oil Field Equipment Can Take Birds. 91 B. Simply Maintaining a Pit in Which Birds Die Does Not Trigger Liability.... |
2015 |
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| Luís Pereira Coutinho |
Chapter 9 the Passive Sovereignty of the Constitutional Judge a State Theory Approach |
44 IUS Gentium 119 (2015) |
In a book dedicated to judicial activism, the following paper explores its apparent opposite: I put forward the hypothesis of judicial passivity as a virtue of courts charged with the task of judicial review of legislation. In a preliminary notion, judicial passivity (not to be confused with passivity as a necessary institutional posture of the... |
2015 |
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China and Russia Sign New Tax Treaty, Protocol |
26 Journal of International Taxation Tax'n 5 (February, 2015) |
China and Russia signed a new income tax treaty and protocol on October 13, 2014. Key changes in the new treaty are summarized below. Place of effective management is added as one of the criteria for a residency determination. The current period of more than 18 months is modified to more than 183 days for determining a service PE within a... |
2015 |
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| Catherine Elkemann , Oliver C. Ruppel |
Chinese Foreign Direct Investment into Africa in the Context of Brics and Sino-african Bilateral Investment Treaties |
13 Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business 593 (Winter, 2015) |
China is now the second largest economy in the world after the United States of America and is deemed to be the most influential member of the group of leading emerging economies, the so called BRICS partnership consisting of Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa. According to the latest World Investment Report published by... |
2015 |
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| Joshua Nichols |
Claims of Sovereignty--burdens of Occupation: William and the Future of Reconciliation |
48 U.B.C. Law Review 221 (January, 2015) |
The William case presented two very different jurisprudential trajectories on the question of Aboriginal title. On the one hand, there is the test that Justice Vickers sets out in the British Columbia Supreme Court decision Tsilhqot'in Nation, in which title is determined according to a combination of pre-sovereignty occupation, exclusivity, and... |
2015 |
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| Stephanie Hartmann |
Comparing the National Treatment Obligations of the Gatt and the Tbt: Lessons Learned from the Ec-seal Products Dispute |
40 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 629 (Spring, 2015) |
I: Introduction. 629 II: National Treatment Under the GATT Agreements. 634 III: EC-Seal Products.. 643 A. Background of the Dispute. 643 B. The Panel Decision. 644 1. TBT Annex 1:1: Technical Regulation. 644 2. TBT Article 2.1. 645 3. GATT Article III:4. 649 4. GATT Article XX(a). 650 5. GATT Article XX Chapeau. 651 C. The Appellate Body Decision.... |
2015 |
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| Michael D. Ramsey |
Congress's Limited Power to Enforce Treaties |
90 Notre Dame Law Review 1539 (March, 2015) |
This Article focuses on Justice Scalia's concurrence in the judgment in Bond v. United States. It makes three main points. First, Scalia's claim that Congress lacks a general power to enforce treaties is unpersuasive as a matter of the Constitution's original meaning. Congress's power to enact laws necessary and proper to carry into execution the... |
2015 |
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| Brian J. Litwak |
Constitutional Conflation: the Incorrect Incorporation of Dual Sovereignty into Sixth Amendment Jurisprudence |
41 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 85 (Winter, 2015) |
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. The Sixth Amendment stands as a constant admonition that if the constitutional safeguards it provides be lost, justice will not still be done. As every schoolchild learns, our Constitution established a system of dual... |
2015 |
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| Guinevere E. Moore, Robert T. Moore |
Crisis at the Border: a Need to Reexamine the Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity |
17 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 35 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 35 II. Foreign Sovereign Immunity versus Domestic Sovereign Immunity. 39 III. A Limitation on Domestic Sovereign Immunity. 43 A. International Law. 43 B. State Practice. 50 IV. Conclusion. 59 |
2015 |
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| Alfred R. Light |
Dealing with the Complexity of Settling Private Cercla Claims: Due Process, Article Iii, and Sovereign Immunity |
1 St. Thomas Journal of Complex Litigation Litig. 1 (Spring, 2015) |
The inaugural issue of the St. Thomas Law School's Journal of Complex Litigation, provides an opportunity to describe in a more comprehensive way the complex constitutional and practical problems with CERCLA's private cause of action. Part I explains the evolution of the EPA and the DOJ's position regarding the private cause of action under CERCLA... |
2015 |
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| Julien Chaisse |
Demystifying Public Security Exception and Limitations on Capital Movement: Hard Law, Soft Law and Sovereign Investments in the Eu Internal Market |
37 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 583 (Winter 2015) |
1. Introduction. 585 2. Sovereign Wealth Funds In The Context Of Rising State Capitalism. 589 2.1. Operations of SWFs in Europe. 589 2.2. European concerns about SWFs. 591 3. Balancing Capital Flows and National Security: The EU International Commitments. 596 3.1. Implications for SWF Investment from the General Agreement on Trade in Services. 597... |
2015 |
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| Kaitlyn Schrick |
Does Anyone Have "Actual Knowledge" of What Effects the Cape Town Treaty Has Had on the Application of Philko Aviation, Inc. v. Shacket? |
67 Oklahoma Law Review 867 (Summer, 2015) |
There are currently competing laws in the United States regarding how a party must register and perfect his or her interest in an aircraft object. This conflict arose after the United States signed the Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on... |
2015 |
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| Nida Alvi |
Dressed to Oppress? An Analysis of the Legal Treatment of the First Amendment and its Effect on Muslim Women Who Wear Hijabs |
21 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 785 (Spring 2015) |
I. Introduction. 785 II. Background. 787 III. U.S. Constitutional Law and Circumstances Where it has been Regulated. 790 A. Schools. 791 B. Employment. 793 C. Police Force. 799 D. Identity. 801 IV. The Coercion of Assimilation by the Law. 803 A. Challenging Sincerity. 805 B. The Guise of Protection. 807 V. Modern Day Response. 809 A. The Rise of... |
2015 |
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| Paul R. Williams , Abigail J. Avoryie , Carlie J. Armstrong |
Earned Sovereignty Revisited: Creating a Strategic Framework for Managing Self-determination Based Conflicts |
21 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 425 (Spring, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 425 II. Dangerous Legacy of Sovereignty-Based Conflicts: Deadly, Durable, and Destabilizing. 429 III. False Security in Economic Prosperity and Regional Integration: Europe's Failed Self-Determination Policy. 437 IV. Sovereignty-First and the Failure to Establish Viable New States. 444 V. Looking Forward: Utilizing Earned... |
2015 |
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| Qadir Qeidary |
Emerging Issues: New Uses, Whether Threat or Chance, What Is the Current and Appropriate Legal Treatment? |
11 Oklahoma Journal of Law & Technology 78 (2015) |
Legal status of the new detected uses for old patents as an independent invention is a problematic issue that gives rise to basic legal challenges regarding patent's promotion standards of protection, in particular the prolongation of the patent monopoly's term. International instruments, uncertainties, and a variety of treatments within different... |
2015 |
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| Claire Y. Kim |
Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900. Edited by Saliha Belmessous. New York, Ny: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. V, 269. Price: $74.00 (Hardcover) |
40 Yale Journal of International Law 429 (Summer 2015) |
When thinking about European expansion into the New World during the period of 1600-1900, most scholars imagine military conquest and coercion as the primary means through which European empires sought footholds in the Americas, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa. Empire by Treaty, edited by Saliha Belmessous, seeks to reframe and challenge the... |
2015 |
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| Philip M. Thoennes |
Eo Nomine: the Divergence of State and Foreign Sovereign Immunity |
19 Lewis & Clark Law Review 543 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 544 II. The Development of State and Foreign Immunity. 545 A. State Immunity. 546 1. The Eleventh Amendment. 547 2. Hans and the Expansion of Immunity. 548 3. Ex parte Young and Injunctive Relief. 549 4. Abrogation. 553 5. Modern Doctrine. 555 B. Foreign Sovereign Immunity. 558 1. The Early Doctrine of Absolute Immunity. 558 2. The... |
2015 |
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| Seth Davis |
Equal Sovereignty as a Right Against a Remedy |
76 Louisiana Law Review 83 (Fall, 2015) |
Introduction. 83 I. Rights Talk About Remedies. 87 A. Rights as Limits on Remedies. 88 B. Examples of Rights Against Remedies. 92 1. Due Process. 93 2. First Amendment. 95 3. Equal Protection. 99 II. Equal Sovereignty and Constitutional Remedies. 103 A. The Equal Sovereignty Two-Step. 103 1. NAMUDNO v. Holder. 103 2. Shelby County v. Holder. 105 B.... |
2015 |
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| Elana Rodman |
From Criminalization to Regulation: New Classifications of Cannabis Necessitate Reform of United Nations Drug Treaties |
40 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 647 (2015) |
The world has failed to come to terms with cannabis as a drug. In some countries, cannabis use and trafficking are taken very seriously, while in others they are virtually ignored. This incongruity undermines the credibility of the international system, and the time for resolving global ambivalence on the issue is long overdue. Either the gap... |
2015 |
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| Charles E. Loeser |
From Paper Terrorists to Cop Killers: the Sovereign Citizen Threat |
93 North Carolina Law Review 1106 (May, 2015) |
Introduction. 1106 I. From the Posse to Ruby Ridge -The Beginnings of a Far-Right Movement. 1111 A. The Posse Comitatus. 1111 B. Tax Protestors. 1112 C. The Militia Movement. 1113 II. Sovereign Citizens. 1118 A. Beliefs. 1120 B. Tactics. 1125 III. Stopping the Sovereign Citizen Threat. 1129 A. Can Deterrence Work for Sovereign Citizens?. 1129 B.... |
2015 |
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| Jamey Minnihan |
Having Your Cake and Eating it Too: U.s. Treatment of Well-known Foreign Trademarks and its Global Market Implications |
50 Gonzaga Law Review 219 (2014-2015) |
I. Introduction. 220 II. Legal Protection of Well-Known Foreign Trademarks. 223 A. Well-Known Marks Doctrine. 223 1. U.S. Trademark Law and Territoriality. 224 2. The Paris Convention and the TRIPS Agreement. 227 III. An Uncertain Future: U.S. Circuit Split. 229 A. National Treatment: Ninth Circuit's Ruling on Well-Known Marks. 229 B.... |
2015 |
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| David N. Cinotti |
How Informed Is Sovereign Consent to Investor-state Arbitration? |
30 Maryland Journal of International Law 105 (2015) |
Argentina's recent history of international investment disputes highlights the role of sovereign consent in investor-State dispute resolution. Argentina has been a frequent party to both litigation in the United States and international investment arbitration based on its consent to dispute-resolution provisions in bond agreements and bilateral... |
2015 |
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| James Turner Johnson |
Humanitarian Intervention, the Responsibility to Protect, and Sovereignty: Historical and Moral Reflections |
23 Michigan State International Law Review 609 (2015) |
I. Humanitarian Intervention in Recent Moral Thinking and Law. 609 II. State Sovereignty: Its Conception, Extent, and Efforts at Limitation. 619 III.The Responsibility to Protect Initiative and the Conception of Sovereignty. 627 |
2015 |
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| Samantha Schmid |
Income Tax Treatment of Same-sex Couples: Windsor vs State Marriage Bans |
98 Marquette Law Review 1805 (Summer 2015) |
In 1996 the United States Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which codified the federal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. But in 2013 the United States Supreme Court struck down this definition of marriage and, for the first time, the federal government began recognizing same-sex marriages. However, many states,... |
2015 |
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| Julie A. Buonocore |
Inconvenient Truth: Second Circuit Breaches U.s. International Arbitration Treaty Obligations with Forum non Conveniens |
29 Temple International and Comparative Law Journal 25 (Spring 2015) |
The use of arbitration to resolve disputes that originate between parties from different nations is one of the most prevalent movements in international commerce. In a 2013 study, 52% of responding corporations selected international arbitration as their most preferred mechanism to settle cross-border disputes. That figure is nearly double the... |
2015 |
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| Timo Koivurova |
Increasing Relevance of Treaties: the Case of the Arctic |
108 AJIL Unbound 52 (March, 2014-July, 2015) |
The Arctic was one of the main theatres for strategic military confrontation during the Cold War between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. There was no place for multilateral cooperation, other than for very limited issue areas, such as the 1973 Agreement on Conservation of Polar Bears between the five states with polar bear... |
2015 |
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| Mark Strasser |
International Covenant as Bond: on Federalism and Congress's Ability to Promote National Interests via the Treaty Power |
84 Mississippi Law Journal 309 (2015) |
Introduction. 309 I. Holland. 311 A. Background. 311 B. Limitations on Federal Powers as a General Matter. 312 C. The Congressional Power to Protect Birds. 320 II. Other Attempts to Delimit the Treaty Power. 321 A. The Treaty Power and State Law. 322 B. Other Treaty Cases Suggesting Limitations on that Power. 328 III. Bond. 339 A. Background on... |
2015 |
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| The Honorable Robert H. Henry |
Introduction of Judge William Holloway, Jr. Sovereignty Symposium, June 7, 1995 |
40 Oklahoma City University Law Review 169 (Spring 2015) |
When Thomas Jefferson was appointed Ambassador to France upon the retiring of Ben Franklin, it is said that the following occurred. A nobleman inquired, Oh, you must be Dr. Franklin's replacement. No, Jefferson responded, I am Dr. Franklin's successor. No one can replace Benjamin Franklin. I feel the same way about Judge Bill Holloway. Son of... |
2015 |
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