Feb

21

Failures of Refugee Law and the Inhumane Prospect of Deporting Settled Liberians from the United States

Posted by: | February 21, 2009 | 8 Comments

This semester I am teaching a seminar entitled Comparative Refugee and Asylum Law, and last week, one of my students in that course, Vintee Sawnhey, sent me a link to a news article about the thousands of Liberians who fear deportation from the United States because the “deferred enforced departure” status that President Bush extended to them in [...]

Feb

21

Mediator Ethics Opinions

Posted by: | February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

I just received this notice from the ABA and thought that they are offering a great service, so I wanted to pass this along. The ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Ethics Committee has created a national clearinghouse for mediator ethics opinions and decisions. The clearinghouse provides a searchable database with hundreds of opinions on mediator [...]

Feb

20

Meares on Race and Policing

Posted by: | February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In delivering the first annual Barrock Lecture on Criminal Law yesterday, Yale Professor Tracey Meares set a high bar for future speakers.  (A webcast is available here, and a written version will appear in the summer issue of the Marquette Law Review.)  Tracey’s talk was a call for police to move from an emphasis on deterring crime through [...]

Feb

20

Drug Treatment Courts: More Band-Aid Than Magic Bullet

Posted by: | February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment

Last week, I traveled to Stanford Law School to speak about drug treatment courts, which are intended to divert drug offenders from prison to treatment.  I was part of a program entitled, ”Drug Courts: Magic Bullets or Band-Aids?”  My two co-panelists (Professor Eric Miller of St. Louis University and Attorney Theshia Naidoo of the Drug Policy Alliance) [...]

Feb

19

New Issue of Marquette Sports Law Review

Posted by: | February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to the editors and staff of the Marquette Sports Law Review for producing Volume 19, No. 1 (Fall 2008), which is an excellent symposium issue on “Doping in Sports: Legal and Ethical Issues.” Information about how to obtain a copy of this issue is avaiable here. The symposium issue includes the following: DOPING IN [...]

Feb

19

Okay, Judge, You Hit Your Number or Die in This Room*

Posted by: | February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments

Much of the attention following yesterday’s decision in Siefert v. Alexander focuses upon the invalidation of prohibitions against judges or judicial candidates belonging to political parties and endorsing partisan candidates for office. That part of Judge Crabb’s decision seems to me, given the balance between regulatory interests and the protection of speech struck by the United States [...]

Feb

17

Tracey Meares to Deliver First Barrock Lecture on Criminal Law

Posted by: | February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Professor Tracey Meares of Yale Law School will be here on Thursday to deliver the first annual George and Margaret Barrock Lecture on Criminal Law.  Tracey is one of my favorite authors on criminal justice issues, and I am looking forward to hearing what she has to say on a topic that should be of [...]

Feb

17

Can You Bug Your Own Cellphone?

Posted by: | February 17, 2009 | 3 Comments

This recent post over at Consumerist caught my eye: A person loses his cell phone. Before he lost it, he set it up to blind-copy him on all emails sent from the cell phone. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that he did this (as the post recommends) as a “pretty brilliant low-tech security [...]

Feb

17

Dollars and Sense

Posted by: | February 17, 2009 | 4 Comments

I was scanning the Legal Writing Prof Blog this afternoon, and I noticed a post stating that, in an effort to save money, one large law firm is now requiring its attorneys to use Loislaw, rather than Lexis or Westlaw, for some of their research.  Evidently, the firm has imposed a three-part policy: All non-billable [...]

Feb

17

Ask God What Your Grade Is

Posted by: | February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

This morning I have mostly questions. A student has filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles City College, claiming that he was giving a class-assigned speech on same sex marriage (which he apparently opposes) and his instructor interrupted him calling him a “fascist bastard.” The instructor then dismissed the class without allowing the student to finish and, on [...]

Feb

16

New Issue of Marquette Law Review Available

Posted by: | February 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Congratulations to the editors of the Marquette Law Review, who have just posted the final versions of the articles for their winter issue (volume 92) here.  Here is the table of contents: ARTICLES CRAWFORD, RETROACTIVITY, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST J. Thomas Sullivan: Published on Page 231 WHAT’S SO FAIR ABOUT THE FAIR AND [...]

Feb

16

Reflections of a 3L, Installment Two: Fieldwork and Clinics are Indisputably Indispensable

Posted by: | February 16, 2009 | 4 Comments

Casebook reading got you down?  Tired of briefing pretend issues for pretend clients?  Wish you’d never heard of Socrates or his dubious method? Have I got news for you!  Now for the low, low (HA!) price of your already-paid tuition, you can learn about the law through real life experience. I don’t mean to denigrate [...]

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