ACLI Case Notes Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Darryl Wilson, ACLI Case Notes, 1 American and Caribbean Law News 5 (2007)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Articles
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: Assessment of International Designations within the United States Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Royal C. Gardner and Kim Diana Connolly, The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands: Assessment of International Designations within the United States, 37 Envtl. L. Reporter 10089 (2007)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, more commonly knows as the Ramsar Convention, is one international framework used to protect wetlands. At this time, the United States has designated 22 sites as wetlands of international importance. In this Article, Royal C. Gardner and Kim Diana Connolly analyze survey data collected from each of these 22 sites to determine whether and how Ramsar designation benefits these wetland areas. The authors first provide a brief overview of the Ramsar Convention, including its function within the United States. They then break down the survey data, looking at both benefits and problems of Ramsar designation. Finally, they make several recommendations for strengthening Ramsar wihin the United States.
Internet Governance Forum & Technology: A Matter of Human Development Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Roy Balleste, Internet Governance Forum & Technology: A Matter of Human Development, 7 Loyola Law and Technology Annual 37 (2007)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
2006
From the Elder-Friendly Law Office to the Elder-Friendly Courtroom–Providing the Same Access and Justice for All Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Rebecca C. Morgan, From the Elder-Friendly Law Office to the Elder-Friendly Courtroom–Providing the Same Access and Justice for All, 2 NAELA Journal 325 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Alcohol and Campus Risk Management Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Peter Lake and Darby Dickerson, Alcohol and Campus Risk Management, Campus Activities Programming (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Hazing in the Internet Age Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Peter Lake and Darby Dickerson, Hazing in the Internet Age, NASPA Leadership Exchange (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Protecting Parent-Child Relationships: Determining Parental Rights of Same-Sex Parents Consistently Despite Varying Recognition of Their Relationship Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Linda S. Anderson, Protecting Parent-Child Relationships: Determining Parental Rights of Same-Sex Parents Consistently Despite Varying Recognition of Their Relationship, 5 Pierce L. Rev. 1 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article discusses the potentially unseen effects of the different ways states recognize children of same-sex partners. It considers how states can allow or ban civil unions or same-sex marriages without causing uncertainty regarding parental rights and responsibilities. The article proposes changes to the Uniform Parentage Act and state statutes that would cause them to focus on the parent-child relationship rather than on the relationship of the parents.
To Speak or Not to Speak: Effect of Third Party Presence on Attorney Client Privilege Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Roberta Flowers, To Speak or Not to Speak: Effect of Third Party Presence on Attorney Client Privilege, 2 NAELA Journal 153 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Incorporating Adult Learning Theory into Law School Classrooms: Small Steps Leading to Large Results Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Linda S. Anderson, Incorporating Adult Learning Theory into Law School Classrooms: Small Steps Leading to Large Results, 5 Appalachian J.L. 127 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article explores aspects of adult learning theory that can be easily applied to law school teaching. It briefly addresses the landscape of legal education today: the traits of law students, pressures to change legal education, and the need to make legal education more effective. After describing several specific principles of adult education, the article offers concrete suggestions for incorporating these ideas by making small changes in the law school classroom that specifically address some of the current concerns about legal education.
The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries’ Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation Article
Date of Publication:
Recommended Citation
Susan D. Rozelle, The Principled Executioner: Capital Juries’ Bias and the Benefits of True Bifurcation, 38 Ariz. St. L.J. 769 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Capital jurors are "death-qualified," or asked to verify at voir dire that their views on the death penalty would not prevent them from serving impartially. Ironically, death qualification itself creates juries unfairly biased toward guilt and death. Empirical investigation has demonstrated this skewing effect for over fifty years, and with the release of the recent Capital Jury Project data, any doubts on this score surely have been laid to rest.
Efforts to ameliorate death qualification's prosecutorial bias have been hamstrung, however, by statutory unitary jury requirements like the one found in the Federal Death Penalty Act. Statutes like these, which require that the same jury that determined guilt also determine punishment, place defendants in a double-bind. Death-qualifying a unitary jury before the conviction stage asks jurors to presume the defendant is guilty before the trial has even begun. Waiting to death-qualify the unitary jury until after conviction, however, means jurors will be asked about their willingness to impose death after having heard all the gristly details of the crime, and not a scrap of evidence in mitigation.
True bifurcation offers an escape from the double-bind, but the unitary jury requirement forbids it. This article considers the rationales for the unitary jury requirement, framed as objections to true bifurcation, and proves them to be illusory. As the only real barrier to the improved fairness true bifurcation offers is the statutory requirement itself, that requirement should be abandoned. Surely the principled executioner would agree.