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Dire Wolf Collects his Due While the Boys Sit by the Fire: Why Michigan Cannot Afford to Buy into the Death Penalty
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Deal-Making on French Terms: How France\u27s Legislative Crusade to Purge American Terminology From French Affects Business Transactions
Get PDFHow Can We Sleep While the Beds are Burning? The Tumultuous Prison Culture of Attica Flourishes in American Prisons Twenty-Five Years Later
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Science Based Standards for the Uniform Global Protection of Intellectual Property: The Case of Logic Functions Expressions
Get PDFAmicus Curiae Brief to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in Holtzmann v. Knott on behalf of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
No full textThis brief, with an introduction by Prof. Barbara Cox, was written by her and filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court on behalf of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. That case involved a custody and visitation claim filed by a non-biological parent of H.S.H-K, who had participated in the decision to have and raise the child with the child\u27s biological parent. The court granted the petition and in doing so, became the first state supreme court to recognize the visitation rights of a non-biological lesbian parent
Flesh of My Flesh but Not My Heir: Unintended Disinheritance
Get PDFThis article briefly explains how the laws of intestacy and adoption work together, providing background information on second parent adoptions. It then describes why these laws are inadequate for same sex partners who adopt each others\u27 children. It is impractical to cover statutes throughout the United States, and because I seek legal reform in California, this article focuses on California statutes, with occasional reference to the Uniform Probate Code. However, the problems caused by California\u27s statutes also arise in other states with similar statutes. Therefore, the issues raised in this article, as well as the solutions proposed, are relevant in other states. The article closes with a suggestion for legal reform that is necessary to prevent penalizing same sex families who adopt and denying them equal protection of the laws