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Royal C. Gardner, International Environmental Law: International Legal Developments in Review, 40 American Bar Association Section of International Law Year in Review 197 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Darryl Wilson, ACLI Case Notes, 1 American and Caribbean Law News 5 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Darryl Wilson, “Let Them Do Drugs,” A Commentary on Random Efforts at Shot Blocking in the Sports Drug Game, 8 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 53 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Performance enhancing supplements are a part of most people's everyday life whether it be coffee, cigarettes, Coke, or something "good for you" in a non-pharmaceutical sense of the term. No where is performance enhancement more sought after than in competitive athletics. This article reviews the historical background of performance enhancements and steroid use in sports. It then analyzes the unnecessarily unwieldy assortment of administrative bodies charged with testing, regulation, and disciplining policy offenders. A look at domestic legislative responses follows, along with a review of the disparate court and administrative decisions rendered in this area from both domestic and international bodies. Next, this article will look at some of the practical implications of these decisions to determine if the goal of ridding sports of these enhancements is truly desirable, remotely realistic and reasonably furthered by the actions of the decisions rendered. While some tangible suggestions on how the system can be reformed are offered, they also consider the prospects of simply changing the rewards available for those found to use unauthorized drugs instead of the ineffective approach of instituting after the fact bans and making examples of certain athletes. Without a concerted effort by more unified domestic and international bodies in conjunction with actions by existing or new governmental authorities there really is no hope for stopping illicit drug usage.
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Stephanie Vaughan and Jack M. Graves, The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: Making the Most of an Extraordinary Educational Opportunity, 10 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration 173 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Paul Boudreaux, A Case for Recognizing Unenumerated Powers of Congress, 9 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol'y 551 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Many federal statutes are justified constitutionally as the regulation of interstate commerce. But it is disingenuous to characterize the Endangered Species Act, anti-discrimination law, and many criminal statues in this way. This article argues that it would be more honest, more straightforward, and better for the nation to recognize explicitly that Congress holds certain unenumerated powers. Using principles developed in the field of unenumerated individual constitutional rights, the article suggests categories for such rights, including fields in which states are discouraged from acting, fields that involve foreign affairs, and fields that implicate national symbols and future ideals. These limits would in turn offer hope for a strengthened system of federalism.
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Luz Estella Nagle, La Cenicienta del gobierno: reforma a la justicia en América Latina, in Independencia Judicial: Diseños Institucionales y Balances Historicos (Ediciones Antropos, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle and Henry W. McGee, Protección del medio ambiente imponiendo una responsabilidad civil, in Responsibilidad civil de profesionales y empresarios (Grupo Bilbo, 2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Prosecuting the Use of Antipersonnel Mines by Illegal Armed Groups: The Colombia Situation, 8 Or. Rev. Int'l L. 231 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Colombia is among the most heavily mined nations in the world. The mines are deployed by illegal armed groups waging an internal armed conflict against the Colombian state going back many decades. Many of the mines are of Eastern European origin or improvised explosive devices, and poor documentation by the offending groups on where land mines are deployed has created a situation throughout Colombian territory where innocent civilians and livestock wander into unmarked or forgotten minefields and detonate the devices. This article examines the problem of landmines in Colombia and the challenges of holding illegal armed groups responsible for the deployment of deadly “silent sentinels.”
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Kirsten K. Davis, Building Credibility in the Margins: An Ethos-Based Perspective on Commenting on Student Papers, 12 Legal Writing 73 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Part of the teacher-student relationship is created in the commenting process. Students make conclusions about the ethos of their writing professor based on the way in which students view the comments written in the margins of their papers. This article explores marginalia as discourse, composition theory, and rhetorical theory and develops principles that can underlie an ethos of commenting.