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From:Loyola Maritime Law Journal (Vol. 11, Issue 1)I. INTRODUCTION On March 29, 2011, Senator Johnny Isakson introduced Senate Bill 669 to amend the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, ("LHWCA"), (4) in an attempt to improve the federal workers'...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe communication on services of general interest which the president of the Commission, Jose-Manuel Barroso, promised to deliver to the Parliament before the end of 2006, is not expected to be ready before theaSpring...
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From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 68, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIn June, the House approved the Class Action Fairness Act, H.R. 1115, which addresses abuse of the class action mechanism, including token awards to class members and "venue shopping" by class action attorneys. The bill...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 63, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJAMES D. COX [*] I INTRODUCTION One of the most significant characteristics of the Federal Securities Act of 1933 [1] is its durability. Even though the Securities Act has been amended several times since its...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE RECENTLY ELECTED BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (BJP) government in India has once again brought to the foreground an issue that has plagued Indian feminists for decades: that of a uniform civil code (UCC) for all Indian...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Lawmaking by citizen initiative (1) is currently driving public policy in the twenty-seven states that have bestowed voters with the initiative power. Initiative sponsors span the political spectrum,...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 90, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article develops a new code-based, comparative, and comprehensive program for American penal law. Without this fresh start, the discipline of American penal law will play no significant role in the inevitable...
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From:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION If a plaintiff sues a state or local institution for violating constitutional or federal statutory rights, when should federal courts intervene, and when should they defer to state courts? Federal courts...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 82, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION Sometimes technology can threaten to upend an entire system of regulation. Autonomous vehicles challenge current driver-based regulations; (1) 3D printing defies patent law; (2) the gig economy...
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From:ARSC Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt was a short bus ride to a local event during the 2004 ARSC Convention in Cleveland, but Sam Brylawski and I got to talking. Sam, who was Recorded Sound head at the Library of Congress, was an old friend, and we--along...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4)I. COMMUNITY COURTS--REFORM AND ACCOUNTABILITY Community courts belong to an array of legal reforms designed to improve the efficiency and accountability of the court system. They have been proposed as a new version...
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From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 69, Issue 3)Perhaps the stars are aligned for meaningful government reform when every key player in New York State Government releases a package of proposed reforms to enhance efficiency and productivity in government and to...
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From:Child Protection Law Report (Vol. 30, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIS THERE ANY BETTING about whether the latest congressional hearing on child welfare reform will also be the last? At the first hearing last fall before Chairman Wally Herger's (R-Calif.) Human Resources panel,...
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From:Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION There is a crisis of patent quality. Patents are being issued that are vague and overbroad, lack novelty, and fail the constitutional mandate "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION All sentencing systems make use of information beyond the elements of the offense of conviction. This practice, known generally as "real-offense sentencing," is necessary because of the complexity and...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 98, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe principle of the sovereignty of the people, which to some extent always underlies nearly all human institutions, is ordinarily wrapped in obscurity. People obey it without recognizing it; if light should chance...
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From:Journal of Politics in Latin America (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe literature addressing market dynamics typically assumes that reforming labor legislation has a direct impact on economic performance, the configuration of labor markets, and the strength of labor organizations....
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 115, Issue 464) Peer-ReviewedHENRY Brougham's career has attracted much attention among political historians.(1) Although he was the most charismatic Whig spokesman in the House of Commons of the 1820s, he has defied easy political...
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From:Journal of the Professional LawyerIntroduction For most of the Twentieth Century, law practice in the United States was primarily regulated by the state supreme courts working in tandem with the ABA and state and local bar associations (1) in a...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[The attention of policy-makers has recently been focused on the entitlement of shareholders to participate in corporate governance. This issue is analysed from a perspective which combines social choice theory with...