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Elizabeth Ippolito Boals et al., Reflections: The Honorable Irma S. Raker — Judge, Teacher and Role Model, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 1563 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Paul Boudreaux, Covert Opinion: Revealing a New Interpretation of Environmental Laws, 9 Vermont Journal of Envtl. L. 239 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Rebecca C. Morgan, Future of Elder Law & Conclusion, in Theories on Law & Aging (Springer Publications, 2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Brooke J. Bowman, Research Across the Curriculum: The Road Must Continue Beyond the First Year, 61 Okla. L. Rev. 503 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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D. Benjamin Barros, Natural Selection as a Mechanism, 75 Philosophy of Science 306 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Skipper and Millstein (2005) argued that existing conceptions of mechanisms failed to "get at" natural selection, but left open the possibility that a refined conception of mechanisms could resolve the problems that they identified. I respond to Skipper and Millstein, and argue that while many of their points have merit, their objections can be overcome and that natural selection can be characterized as a mechanism. In making this argument, I discuss the role of regularity in mechanisms, and develop an account of stochastic (i.e., probabilistic) mechanisms. Explaining the phenomenon of adaptation through the mechanism of natural selection illustrates the power and flexibility of using mechanistic strategies to explain natural phenomena.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Colombia’s Incursion into Ecuadorian Territory: Justified Hot Pursuit or Pugnacious Error?, 17 J. Transnat'l L. & Pol'y 359 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
On March 1, 2008, Colombian military forces launched a cross-border airstrike and ground operation into Ecuador to attack a jungle encampment occupied by high ranking members of the Colombian guerrilla army known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The specific target of the air attack was Luis Edgar Devia Silva, aka Raul Reyes, the FARC’s number two in command and one of Latin America’s longest enduring guerrilla leaders. Reyes and several cohorts were killed. The Colombian forces retrieved Reyes’ body and forensic evidence, including his laptop computer, and retreated back across the frontier, leaving the Ecuadorian military to deal with the aftermath and attend to a lone survivor.
The raid sparked a regional crisis that resulted in Ecuadorian and Venezuelan military mobilizations along their borders with Colombia. Colombia’s President, Alvaro Uribe, justified the incursion into Ecuadorian territory as an operation of "hot pursuit," an international legal doctrine that allows a nation to give chase across an international frontier in order to capture a rebel force attempting to escape to safe haven in a neighboring country. The justification quickly unraveled, however, when evidence of the actual attack indicated that those in the FARC camp were in bed sleeping at the time of the airstrike on the site, and that the force that went into Colombia on the ground was a clean-up operation rather than an offensive operation.
Although the crisis was resolved two weeks later at a Latin American summit, issues remain over international law doctrines such as hot pursuit, preemptive and anticipatory self defense, and use of the Bush Doctrine by other nations for purposes of crossing into another country’s territory to pursue combatants involved in an internal armed conflict. This article examines the international law issues surrounding Colombia’s actions and its justifications in the face of harsh international reactions.
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Catherine J. Cameron and Jeffrey J. Minneti, Using Student Learning Preferences to Compare and Contrast Objective Memo Writing with Essay Exam Writing, 22 Second Draft 10 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Roy Balleste, A Hypothetical Case Study: Creating AI Assistants in the Law Library, in Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century (Barbara Bintliff and Lee F. Peoples eds., Hawthorn Press, Inc., 2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Brooke J. Bowman, Learning Citations: Just in Time and Through a Variety of Learning Styles, 22 The Second Draft 4 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
A citation exercise for the millennials and all types of learning styles.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Selling Souls: The Effect of Globalization on Human Trafficking and Forced Servitude, 26 Wis. Int'l L.J. 131 (2008)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Globalization and regional integration have contributed to human trafficking becoming the fastest growing and the third most widespread criminal enterprise in the world after drugs and weapons trafficking. The rush to integrate trading blocs and to compete in the international marketplace has led unscrupulous entrepreneurs and international criminal organizations to create a supply chain of men, women, and children for exploitation in agriculture, manufacturing, services industries, construction, and worst of all, sexual servitude in the sex tourism industry. The crimes perpetrated by human traffickers constitute egregious human rights abuses and crimes against international law. This article examines the nexus between globalization and human trafficking, why human trafficking is growing at a alarming rate worldwide, and what can be done by nation states to control and stop this most insidious international crime.