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Consistency with Comprehensive Plans: Does Maryland Law Mean What It Says, or Say What It Means?
Get PDFEditorial Notes: January 2017
Get PDFI am extremely honored to write my first “Editorial Notes” for Family Court Review, and I am most grateful to the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) Board of Directors for appointing me to succeed Professor Andrew Schepard. I have been a devoted reader of and contributor to FCR (and its predecessor journals) for many decades, and I have been a committed AFCC member since the early 1990s. Although I doubt anyone can fill Professor Schepard’s shoes, I certainly plan to try my best to follow in his incredibly large footsteps. He is a dear friend and colleague with whom I regularly have consulted and collaborated since my early days in law school teaching, and I am most appreciative of his unwavering support.
It is with a heavy heart, however, that I must mention the untimely passing of Ruth Stern. Ruth and her husband, Professor Herbie DiFonzo, along with Dr. Robert Emery, oversaw and maintained the operation of FCR at Hofstra during the transition year prior to my appointment. Ruth served as Managing Editor of FCR during her tenure with the journal. I met Ruth last March at an editorial meeting at Hofstra, and we communicated throughout the latter part of the transition process. It was obvious from the interactions at the editorial meeting that Ruth had developed close working relationships with the law student staff, who displayed their respect and affection for her. Likewise, in the short time I had the privilege to work with Ruth, she welcomed me to FCR with warmth, humility, encouragement, and support. I have known Herbie for quite some time, and, on behalf of FCR, I extend to him our deepest sympathies. Bob Emery’s October 2016 Editorial Notes provide more information about Ruth and a description of his working relationship with her. In addition, Herbie’s fitting tribute to his wife is forthcoming in the April 2017 issue of FCR
University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism\u27s 9th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism Today: Keynote Speaker Judge Nancy Gertner, Former United States Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Get PDFBelow is a transcription of the keynote speech from the University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism’s 9th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference: Applied Feminism Today. Judge Nancy Gertner, former United States Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, gave the keynote speech on March 4, 2016.
I was on the bench for seventeen years, and I intend to write about that experience. The problem is that while my memoir was funny, this book—on judging—is not. In my memoir, I describe the fact that the only way I could face the discrimination I was facing was to crack jokes about it, to find the humor in horrific situations. I started writing about judging literally the minute I joined the federal bench. I recorded everything I did and why—the palpable change from who I had been on April 26, 1994, when I was an employment discrimination, civil rights, and criminal defense lawyer, and who I was supposed to be on April 27, 1994, when I was sworn in as a judge
Introduction: Legitimacy and International Courts
Get PDFLegitimacy and International Courts examines the underpinnings of legitimacy, or the justification of the authority, of international courts and tribunals. It brings together an esteemed group of authors, noted for both their expertise in individual courts, tribunals, or other adjudicatory bodies, and their work on legitimacy, effectiveness, and governance more broadly, to consider the legitimacy of international courts from a comparative perspective. Authors explore what strengthens and weakens the legitimacy of various different international courts, while also considering broader theories of international court legitimacy. Some chapters highlight the sociological or normative legitimacy of specific courts or tribunals, while others address cross-cutting issues such as representation, democracy, independence and effectiveness. This Introduction surveys some of the key contributions of this volume and distills some of the lessons of its varied chapters for the legitimacy of international courts. Parts II and III are largely conceptual in approach, exploring what legitimacy means for each and all of the courts. Part IV takes a more functional approach, exploring how various factors internal or external to particular courts have contributed to those courts’ normative or sociological legitimacy. Part V provides thumbnail summaries of each the chapters that follow
Leaving Other Than Honorable Soldiers Behind
No full textAbout eighty-four percent of all military discharges are characterized as honorable, while the other sixteen percent are characterized as something less than honorable. Unfortunately, thousands of veterans have been wrongfully discharged from military service under other-than-honorable ( OTH ) conditions. This is a serious problem because an OTH discharge carries significant consequences. For example, an OTH discharge bars veterans from receiving most military benefits. Additionally, veterans with OTH discharges often face discrimination when seeking housing and employment, and are usually excluded from legislation supporting veterans. Unless the characterization is corrected, veterans with an OTH discharge carry the OTH label for life
Solomonic Judgments and the International Court of Justice
Get PDFThis chapter, in a forthcoming book on legitimacy and international courts, analyzes the impact of Solomonic or split the baby judgments on the normative and sociological legitimacy of the International Court of Justice