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Testimony of Marcy L. Karin in Support of B23-0494. The Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2019
No full textLearning Criminal Procedure: Investigations
No full textLearning Criminal Procedure: Investigations teaches students the law that governs the investigation of criminal cases. The book presents the legal rules directly in plain language. Each topic includes a clear, straightforward description of the binding legal rules, illustrations of how the rules are applied using examples and summaries of cases, and longer excerpts of the leading Supreme Court cases. The book highlights evolving or ambiguous areas of the law, and provides scores of review questions so that students can test their mastery of each issue. The book\u27s authors build on their combined decades of practical experience to explain the law in plain language and explore the policy justifications behind the rules.https://digitalcommons.law.udc.edu/fac_books/1001/thumbnail.jp
Learning Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
No full textLearning Criminal Procedure: Adjudication teaches students the law that governs the “bail to jail” process of criminal prosecutions. It draws on both the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and Supreme Court case law to present clear, succinct rules for each topic and summaries of actual cases to illustrate how the rules operate in practice. Each topic includes a clear, straightforward description of the binding legal rules, illustrations of how the rules are applied using examples and summaries of cases, and longer excerpts of the leading Supreme Court cases. The book highlights evolving or ambiguous areas of the law, and provides scores of review questions so that students can test their mastery of each issue. The book\u27s authors build on their combined decades of practical experience to explain the law in plain language and explore the policy justifications behind the rules.https://digitalcommons.law.udc.edu/fac_books/1000/thumbnail.jp
In the Room Where It Happens: Including the Public\u27s Will in Judicial Review of Agency Action
No full textIn the context of higher education reform, the people need to be in the important rooms where the decisions are being made. One such room is the courtroom. This essay elaborates on this premise, previously written about in an article I wrote entitled, 50,000 Voices Can’t Be Wrong, But Courts Might Be: How Chevron’s Existence Contributes to Retrenching the Higher Education Act. That article was the second in a series of three articles on the retrenchment of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (“HEA”) using the William Eskridge and John Ferejohn statutory entrenchment model
The Upgraded Lawyer: Modern Technology and Its Impact on the Legal Profession
No full textAt the peak of the Space Race in 1963, President John F. Kennedy remarked that, despite the great leaps brought by technology, man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. With the advent of the internet and artificial intelligence, today\u27s technological advancements might have shaken even Kennedy\u27s faith in human superiority. For the legal profession, new technology presents a challenge to traditional notions in the practice of law as well. Clients may grow to expect tech-savviness from their attorneys, especially when their cases involve digital concepts. At the same time, the necessity for flesh-and-blood counsel may be diminished by internet-based legal resources. Despite such a sea change, history suggests that lawyers need not fear becoming obsolete just yet
Wealth Accumulation at Elite Colleges, Endowment Taxation, and the Unlikely Story of How Donald Trump Got One Thing Right
No full textPresident Donald Trump has· declared war on immigrants, diversity, and those who dare to dissent. Rooted in resentments about who people are, where they were born, and what they believe, these executive-led assaults are dangerous developments in the modern era. However, in the course of Trump\u27s many retrograde tirades, he has somehow managed to get one thing right-too many elite private colleges in the United States, considered nonprofit entities, have amassed way too much wealth. This Article recounts this unlikely story, including how the Trump Administration\u27s 2017 endowment tax could work to advance diversity. The new endowment tax penalizes private colleges for stockpiling assets. In response, potentially impacted universities have argued they are victims of an unfair conservative conspiracy intended to target liberal ideology. But the data demonstrates that this is not true. And concerns about rich colleges hoarding their resources have come from both the right and the left. Moreover, Trump\u27s endowment tax could be seen as an opportunity and invitation to increase egalitarianism and equity in this country. If rich colleges simply utilize more of their massive savings to further socialjustice, impact poverty, and enhance public good-particularly in their own at-risk communities-they will not only avoid federal taxation but also begin to address critiques about their elitism and greed. In doing so such universities would not only thwart Trump and his tax but stand with vulnerable groups who are the true victims of the Trump Administration\u27s ever-expanding conservative attack