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Roy Balleste, Could You Translate This Site for Me – Rating the Usefulness of Translation Software Programs for Law Library Web Sites, 5 AALL Spectrum 4 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Darryl Wilson, Home Field Disadvantage: The Negative Impact of Allowing Home Schoolers to Participate in Mainstream Sports, 3 Virginia Journal of Sports and the Law 1 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Everyone's heard of the proverbial home field advantage in sports whereby the friendly confines of one's own humble abode provides a competitive edge over the inherent stress of being a member of the visiting team in a hostile environment. This article does not aim to analyze the extent to which the psychological perceptions of the home-field advantage manifest themselves into a positive reality. Instead the issues surrounding a more recent phenomenon are explored wherein progressively larger numbers of students are leaving the traditional school setting in favor of being taught at home. The home-schooler, for whatever reason, has become disassociated from the normal group-teaching mainstream environment offered by the more standard, yet varied educational options and instead receives individualized-educational attention literally within the confines of his or her own dwelling. Despite making the choice to avoid the mainstream scholastically, the home-schoolers argue that they are entitled to take advantage of the extracurricular offerings of the mainstream, including band and other arts programs as well as the right to be a member of the best sports teams whether public, private or parochial.
This article initially reviews the evolution of the home-school movement and the quest of the home-school student to participate in sports. The history is followed by an analysis of the arguments for and against allowing participation, along with administrative and legislative responses. The article then assesses whether more subtle and insidious aspects of student-athlete exploitation are the motivating forces behind the home-schoolers desires or whether these exploitative forces have yet to be considered or whether the mere fact that such exploitation is possible is enough to support a ban on the home-schooler becoming the ultimate athletic free agent of secondary education.
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Ellen S. Podgor and Barry Sullivan, Respect, Responsibility, and the Virtue of Introspection: An Essay on Professionalism in the Law School Environment, 15 Notre Dame J.L. Ethics & Pub. Pol'y 117 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The point of this essay can be summed up in the following set of propositions: that the cultivation of professional values - certain attitudes and habits of heart that are thought critical to the practice and culture of the profession - is essential to the education of lawyers; that the cultivation of professionalism necessarily entails the nurturing of a sense of professional self-consciousness and constructive introspection, and an attitude of respect and responsibility towards others - what some would call "caring;" that law schools can go a long way towards encouraging their students in the cultivation of these virtues by creating within the law school community an atmosphere that encourages its faculty to interact with students in ways that take seriously the need to teach professionalism, whether by intellectual engagement with these issues, by example, or otherwise; that such interactions necessarily require faculty time, energy, and availability; and that the competing demands placed on law faculty will prevent that attention from being paid to students unless the faculty and administrative leadership within universities and law schools gives appropriate value and recognition to excellence in this aspect of legal education.
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Luz Estella Nagle, E-Commerce in Latin America: Business and legal Challenges for Developing Enterprise, 50 Am. U. L. Rev. 859 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
As Latin American becomes wired for the Internet, the traditional brick and mortar businesses will come under pressure by online merchants whose access to consumers will leap across international boundaries. While this may help consumers gain access to a greater variety of goods, significant legal and logistic challenges must first be addressed. Improvement in the handling and distribution of freight and packages and a greatly increased use of credit cards are critical to e-commerce taking off in the region. This article examines the growth and pitfalls of e-commerce at a time when Latin America is only now being connected to the worldwide information highway.
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Ann Piccard, Using Peer Editing to Supplement Feedback, 15 Second Draft 14 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Darryl Wilson, ‘Black’ Law Schools Face Challenges of a New Day, 18 Black Issues in Higher Education 104 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Rebecca C. Morgan and Robert B. Fleming, Lawyers’ Ethical Dilemmas: A Normal Relationship when Representing Demented Clients and Their Families, 35 Ga. L. Rev. 735 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Rebecca C. Morgan et al., Foreward. Symposium: Joint Conference on Legal/Ethical Issues in the Progression of Dementia, 35 Ga. L. Rev. 391 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Tim Kaye, The Human Rights Act 1998 – One Year On: A Focus on Further and Higher Education, 6 Educ., Pub. L. & Individual 58 (2001)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Judith A.M. Scully, Book Review, Why Respectability is Not Enough, 19 Criminal Justice Ethics 29 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.