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Peter Lake and Judith Areen, Higher Education and the Law: Cases and Materials (2nd ed., Foundation Press, 2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Peter Lake, Title IX Compliance Series (Magna Publications, Inc., 2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Peter Lake, Title IX for Faculty: Your Role in Helping Students (Magna Publications, Inc., 2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Peter Lake, Title IX for Students: What You Need to Know (Magna Publications, Inc., 2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Rebecca C. Morgan, What the Future of Aging Means to All of Us: An Era of Possibilities, 48 Ind. L. Rev. 125 (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Introduction: White Collar Crime, Federal Criminal Law, and Business Crimes Pedagogy, 11 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 751 (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Elizabeth Berenguer, A Call for Change: A Contextual-Configurative Analysis of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Laws, 68 U. Miami L. Rev. 1051 (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Florida’s Stand Your Ground has stood center stage since the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin. On the one hand, certain sectors of society are calling for its repeal, and on the other, proponents vigorously defended its value and efficacy. Despite the public outcry for reform, every attempt to repeal or change the law has been defeated. This Article examines whether Florida’s Stand Your Ground law is inconsistent with commonly-held societal values, and if so, what might prompt a change in the law.
To that end, this Article relies on the jurisprudential framework established by Myres S. McDougal and Harold D. Laswell which identifies the law as an expression of community interests and a source of authority rooted in community values. The common interests, or values, identified by McDougal and Laswell are power, enlightenment, wealth, well-being, skill, affection, respect, and rectitude. This Article examines these values in the context of Florida’s Stand Your Ground laws and analyzing them from competing perspectives to conclude the law is inconsistent with commonly-held community values.
This Article concludes by exposing the legislature’s reticence to repeal the statute as a reflection of its entrenched mode of thinking. It calls for opposition voices to collaborate in advancing reform messages aimed at deconstructing the entrenched categories and restructuring them to prompt an amendment to or repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground statutory scheme.
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Andrew D. Appleby et al., Heads They Win, Tails You Lose: New York Decombination and Discretionary Adjustments, Tax Analysts: State Tax Notes (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Anne E. Mullins, Subtly Selling the System: Where Psychological Influence Tactics Lurk in Judicial Writing, 48 U. Rich. L. Rev. 1111 (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The Light Hiding Under McCutcheon’s Bushel: Transparency (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.