Law School Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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AAA Consumer Arbitration
(2014-01-23)This chapter has provided an overview of consumer arbitrations administered by the American Arbitration Association, the largest administrator of consumer arbitrations. It does not, of course, purport to resolve the ongoing ... -
Design and Challenges of Banking and Foreign Exchange Regulation in India
(2015)In the post-British Raj Era, two hallmarks characterize Indian banking law: financial inclusion and financial liberalization. Indian banking law and policy has emphasized incorporation of the unbanked and under-banked as ... -
The Glucose Model of Mediation: Physiological Bases of Willpower as Important Explanations for Common Mediation Behavior
(Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 2015-06-29)Success in life requires the ability to resist urges and control behavior. This ability is commonly called “willpower,” the capacity to overcome impulses and engage in conscious acts of self-control. Social psychologists ... -
A Natural Experiment on Innovation Without Patents
(2015-05-07)Innovation occurs within a complex web of law. Of the myriad legal doctrines that affect innovation, the most directly relevant is intellectual property, particularly patent law. The United States Constitution, in Article ... -
Empirical Legal Research Support Services: A Survey of Academic Law Libraries
(2015)Empirical legal research is a significant and growing portion of legal scholarship, however it has received little attention in the law library literature. In the forthcoming paper, we share and discuss the results of a ... -
Legal Challenges in Government Imposition of Water Conservation: The Kansas Example
(Agronomy Journal, 2014-08-08)This article deals with legal challenges in conserving water in the United States, using Kansas as an example. The focus is on one aspect of American water allocation law—the extent to which a state can force reductions ... -
Legal Responses to Drought in Kansas
(Kansas Law Review, 2014-05)In this article I examine legal responses to drought in Kansas since statehood in 18611 by persons and various levels of government. An article about drought should probably use or create a definition for the term. Although ... -
Fighting Iran with Trade Sanctions
(Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law, 2014)How do American trade sanctions against Iran work? Have they worked? Championed by six American Presidents and sixteen Sessions of Congress, these sanctions against Iran have spanned nearly forty years. In that time, the ... -
Judicial Elections, Judicial Impartiality and Legitimate Judicial Lawmaking: Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar
(Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc, 2015-01)At the level of constitutional law, Williams-Yulee is a First Amendment case about judicial campaign fundraising. The First Amendment issues raised by judicial campaigns and money in politics are vital, and they are not ... -
A 20th Century Debate About Imprisonment for Debt
(American Journal of Legal History, 2014-06)In the early twentieth century, Parliament debated whether to abolish imprisonment for debt. Parliament’s Select Committee on Debtors (Imprisonment) of 1909 heard testimony from witnesses and issued a report recommending ... -
The Silver Lining of Downsizing
(2014)Downsizing can have a silver lining - if you look for it. All types of work settings are experiencing it. How do you make it a positive experience? A silver lining may come in the form of fulfilling the work needs and ... -
Overcoming Service Barriers: Effectively Meeting the Needs of International Law Students
(2014-07-15)Law schools admitting international students to J.D. and other advanced degree programs find that international students in those programs come to American legal institutions with diverse skill sets and varied information ... -
Diversity within Unity: Import Laws of Islamic Countries on Haram (Forbidden) Products
(The International Lawyer, 2014-05-15)How do Muslim countries treat importation of goods that Islamic Law (Sharı’a) considers Haram (forbidden), namely, alcoholic beverages and pork products? Why do they do so? What might Muslim countries do, in accordance ... -
Restraints on Plain View Doctrine: Arizona v. Hicks
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1988-01-01)Before criticizing President Reagan's recent nominations of conservative judges to the Supreme Court, one should note a recent Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Scalia, a Reagan appointee. Those who fear that a ... -
Defining Interrogation Under Miranda: Arizona v. Mauro
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1988-01-01)The United States Supreme Court has continuously attempted to define the scope of allowable police interrogation practices. One question that frequently arises is whether particular police conduct amounts to interrogation ... -
Applying the Good Faith Exception to the Particularity and Execution of Search Warrants : Maryland v. Garrison
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1988-01-01)Few social problems in the last decade have raised the public's conscience like illegal drug use and abuse. Television documentaries, advertising campaigns, and drug literature denouncing drug abuse have become commonplace ... -
Preventive Detention: United States v. Salerno
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1988-01-01)Our constitutional form of government is a delicate balance between two important principles: the protection of individual liberty interests and the preservation of society as a whole. United States v. Salerno represents ... -
The Kansas Death Penalty Debate
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1988-01-01)The death penalty has been fiercely debated in Kansas for more than ten years. During this period, the Kansas Legislature passed four bills that would have reinstated the death penalty. Former Governor Carlin, however, ... -
The Threatened Future of Peremptory Challenges – Batson v. Kentucky
(University of Kansas School of Law, Criminal Justice Clinic, 1987-01-01)The United States Supreme Court has rendered numerous decisions in its effort to eliminate racial discrimination from the selection of juries. In Strauder v. West Virginia, an 1879 case, the Supreme Court first considered ...
