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Lance Long, Is There Any Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing, 16 Wyo. L. Rev. 287 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Louis J. Virelli, Disqualifying the High Court: Supreme Court Recusal and the Constitution (University Press of Kansas, 2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Royal C. Gardner et al., Bibliography of 2015 Scientific Publications on the Ramsar Convention or Ramsar Sites (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This paper provides a consolidated and categorized bibliography of scientific articles published in 2015 that discuss the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands or individual Ramsar Sites. The articles are separated into two main categories: (a) articles that discuss the Ramsar Convention or its implementation generally, and (b) articles about wetland sites that are on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. Articles in the latter category are further separated into subcategories by region (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania). Each entry summarizes the article’s Ramsar connection. This bibliography is intended to facilitate research and provide timely, relevant article updates to the members of the Ramsar community.
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Ellen S. Podgor and Darnesha K. Carter, Miranda at 50, 40 Champion 16 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Robyn Powell and Michael Ashley Stein, Persons with Disabilities and their Sexual, Reproductive, and Parenting Rights: An International and Comparative Analysis Focus: Disability Rights in China and in the World, 11 Frontiers of Law in China 53 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Despite important gains in human rights, persons with disabilities — and in particular women and girls with disabilities — continue to experience significant inequalities in the areas of sexual, reproductive, and parenting rights. Persons with disabilities are sterilized at alarming rates; have decreased access to reproductive health care services and information; and experience denial of parenthood. Precipitating these inequities are substantial and instantiated stereotypes of persons with disabilities as either asexual or unable to engage in sexual or reproductive activities, and as incapable of performing parental duties. The article begins with an overview of sexual, reproductive, and parenting rights regarding persons with disabilities. Because most formal adjudications of these related rights have centered on the issue of sterilization, the article analyzes commonly presented rationales used to justify these procedures over time and across jurisdictions. Next, the article examines the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the attendant obligations of States Parties regarding rights to personal integrity, access to reproductive health care services and information, parenting, and the exercise of legal capacity. Finally, the article highlights fundamental and complex issues requiring future research and consideration.
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Theresa J. Pulley Radwan, With Malice Toward One? — Defining Nondischargeability of Debts For Willful and Malicious Injury Under Section 523(a)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code, 7 Wm. & Mary Bus. L. Rev. 151 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The federal bankruptcy system strikes a balance between the rights of debtors seeking a fresh start and the rights of creditors seeking repayment for debt. While many areas of the Bankruptcy Code provide examples of this balancing act, perhaps no area of the Code embodies this balance better than discharge of debt. Discharge of debt provides the fresh start for debtors on which the bankruptcy system rests, but the Code also protects the interests of creditors who would otherwise have their claims against the debtor discharged.
Section 523(a)(6) excepts from discharge any debt for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity. Clearly, this section prohibits discharge for debts that result from a bad act of the debtor, and serves a punitive function by not allowing a debtor to use the bankruptcy system to avoid debts when the debtor acted wrongfully in incurring those debts. While the Supreme Court has had the opportunity to consider the definition of willful and malicious injury, it has done so only in the context of a tort claim, leaving courts to determine the applicability of § 523(a)(6) in the context of breach of contract claims.
This article merges traditional tort doctrine regarding levels of intent to harm, traditional contract doctrine of efficient breach, and modern developments recognizing punitive damages in contract actions to conclude that § 523(a)(6) should permit nondischargeability of intentional breaches of contract that lack business justification.
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Elizabeth Ippolito Boals, State v. Peyton: Case File and Teaching Guide (2nd ed., NITA, 2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Louis J. Virelli, Administrative Abstention, 67 Ala. L. Rev. 1019 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Abstention — a federal court’s decision to avoid interfering with an ongoing state proceeding — offers a snapshot into the foundations of our constitutional arrangement. In addition to notions of equity and comity, abstention conjures issues of federalism, the separation of powers, and democratic legitimacy. When abstention intersects with state administrative law, these issues take on new force and, in some instances, new meaning. Unlike state courts, administrative agencies occupy a tenuous position in a tripartite democracy and are tasked with making often difficult and controversial policy decisions. A federal court’s decision to interfere with that policymaking process has consequences for state government far beyond the interruption of a purely judicial proceeding. Yet despite the different stakes raised by administrative abstention, the Supreme Court and the academic literature have largely overlooked the unique interplay between abstention and administrative law. This Article recasts administrative abstention as a distinct species of abstention and evaluates it in terms of the principles of democratic legitimacy and good government that provide the foundation for the administrative state. Only by thinking of abstention in distinctly administrative terms can we fashion a relationship between federal courts and state agencies that protects the legitimacy of state administrative governance while maintaining a robust forum for the vindication of federal rights.
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Ashley Krenelka Chase, Leading with (Next to) Nothing: A Blueprint for Active Library Leadership When Times Are Tough, 24 Strategic Library 1 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Criminal Procedure: It Wasn’t Always So, 13 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 469 (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.