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Catherine J. Cameron and Lance Long, The Science Behind The Art Of Legal Writing (1st ed., 2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Kirsten K. Davis, The First Year Legal Writing Course: Praxis Is Pivotal, 28 Second Draft 5 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article suggests that the first-year legal writing class is important because it is the primary place where students engage in praxis by exercising judgment about both the means for accomplishing a legal task and the desired ends and enacting their knowledge, skills, and values.
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Kelly Feeley, Mastering Alternative Dispute Resolution (2015) (co-author Professor James A. Sheehan). (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Grant Christensen, Selling Stories or You Can’t Own This: Cultural Property as a Form of Collateral in a Second Transaction under the Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act, 80 Brook. L. Rev. 1219 (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The Model Tribal Secured Transactions Act was recently proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This article takes the position that the model act, if adopted, will encourage economic development in Indian Country by creating a set of uniform rules which both non-Indians and Indians can utilize to promote lending. Critically – before it is widely adopted, this article implores the NCCUSL to consider including in the model act – language that would protect tribal cultural property; and in the absence of such language, encourages tribes to modify the act to accomplish this protection. The stakes include the potential loss of priceless real and personal, tangible and intangible, cultural property which itself form the linchpin of both tribal identity and cultural expression for many indigenous communities in the United States and beyond.
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Royal C. Gardner et al., State of the World’s Wetlands and Their Services to People: A Compilation of Recent Analyses, (Ramsar Sci. & Technical Briefing Note no. 7, Ramsar Convention Secretariat) (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Ramsar Resolution XI.17 requested the Convention’s Scientific and Technical Review Panel to report on the state of the world’s wetlands and their services to people. As a contribution to this task, this Briefing Note summarizes and highlights for Contracting Parties and other decision makers key points from select scientific reports and articles published in 2013 and 2014. In particular, the Briefing Note discusses wetland status and trends, the loss of wetland ecosystem services and future steps for data collection and assessment. The negative trends shown by recent studies should serve as a call to Contracting Parties to avoid further wetland loss and degradation and to strengthen wetland assessment, monitoring and restoration.