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Luz Estella Nagle, Understanding Human Trafficking, Corruption, and the Optics of Misconduct in the Public, Private, and NGO Sectors: Causes, Actors, and Solutions (Carolina Academic Press, 2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stacey-Rae Simcox and Brian Clauss (eds.), Servicemember and Veterans Rights (Matthew Bender Elite Products, 2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stacey-Rae Simcox et al., Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, in Servicemember and Veterans Rights (Matthew Bender Elite Products, 2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, “What Kind of a Mad Prosecutor” Brought Us This White Collar Case, 41 Vt. L. Rev. 523 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Prosecutors have enormous charging and plea discretion, although this discretion is not “unfettered.” This Essay examines this discretionary function when prosecutors in white collar cases stretch statutes beyond the statutory language, congressional intent, or policy. This Essay looks at three areas of white collar crime that have seen prosecutorial statute stretching: fraud, obstruction-of-justice, and bribery. Within each of these areas, there are examples of cases requiring judicial oversight to halt these prosecutorial practices. This Essay concludes by noting that prosecutors who stretch statutes do a disservice to our criminal justice process, as it is important to strictly construe white collar statutes to assure that criminal conduct is recognized and conformity with the law is promoted.
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Stacey-Rae Simcox and John Paul Cimino, Veterans Benefits, in Servicemember and Veterans Rights (Matthew Bender Elite Products, 2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Salman: The Court Takes a Left-Hand Turn, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Jason Bent, Searching for Common Law Amid the Statutes: A Report on the Restatement of Employment Law, Chapter 4, 21 Em. Rts. & Emp. Pol'y J. 459 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Lance Long and Ted Hamilton, Washington v. Brockway: One Small Step Closer to Climate Necessity, 13 McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law & Pol'y 151 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stephanie Vaughan, Experiential Learning: Moving Forward in Teaching Oral Advocacy Skills by Looking Back at the Origins of Rhetoric, 59 S. Tex. L. Rev. 121 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
What could make all the difference in a law student’s employment potential in today’s legal market? The answer is skills training. The American Bar Association (ABA) has required that law students be better prepared for practice by implementing experiential learning requirements for law students, which they must complete before graduation. One way to fulfill this experiential requirement is through oral advocacy.
This Article exemplifies how giving law students opportunities to orally advocate will help fulfill the experiential learning requirement and produce practice-ready graduates. It will explain the reasons that oral communication is so important and will give directives on how law schools, in compliance with the ABA standards, can help achieve the goals of graduating students who are ready to begin a legal practice from the minute they receive their bar results. This Article is among the first to explore the boundaries of experiential learning under the new ABA standards. It employs an historical analysis of the classical foundations of oral advocacy in order to develop best practices for law schools in “shifting the curriculum” to both comply with the ABA standards and to help students become successful practitioners in today’s global society.
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R. Kumar et al., Integrating Multiple Wetland Values into Decision-Making, (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The Ramsar Convention recognizes the interdependence of people on wetlands for their important economic, cultural, scientific and recreational values. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides a framework for considering the multiple values of nature, including wetlands, and its benefits to society within policy-making and decisionmaking processes. The recognition of the diverse values of wetlands is essential to their wise use, and to ensuring that their role is reflected in global policy processes such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement on climate change.
This Policy Brief can support policy-makers by informing and facilitating the integration of the multiple values of wetlands across sectors, supported by improved valuation studies, to enhance the relevance and impact of policies.