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Virgil Darnell Hawkins, Portrait circa 1960\u27s
No full textVirgil Darnell Hawkins, Florida\u27s Civil Rights Pioneerhttps://commons.law.famu.edu/hawkins-photos/1000/thumbnail.jp
Virgil Darnell Hawkins Archive
No full textIn 1949, Virgil Hawkins applied to law school at the University of Florida. At that time, there were no state supported graduate schools in Florida for black students. His application was rejected on the basis of race.and he began a nine-year effort to integrate Florida\u27s graduate schools.https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1003/thumbnail.jp
Florida A & M University Law Review
No full textThe Florida A & M University Law Review is a student-run organization at the Florida A & M University College of Law. Dedicated to quality and consistency, its main purpose is to publish a journal of legal scholarship for use by practitioners, judges, professors, and students.https://commons.law.famu.edu/homepage-images/1004/thumbnail.jp
Judicial Externship Clinic Brochure, page 2
No full textJudicial Externship Clinic Brochure, page 2https://commons.law.famu.edu/brochure-photos/1010/thumbnail.jp
Prosecution Clinic Brochure
No full textProsecution Clinic Brochurehttps://commons.law.famu.edu/brochure-photos/1011/thumbnail.jp
Expansive Legal Research
No full textThis article will introduce an approach to teaching legal research called Expansive Legal Research. The Expansive Legal Research perspective is based upon dissertation research on legal information behavior at a law school legal aid clinic. This approach is inspired by an educational perspective called Expansive Learning, which in turn has roots in the psychological theory called Activity Theory. The Expansive Legal Research perspective includes elements inspired by Expansive Learning and Activity Theory such as a focus on an activity-centered context of both the individual and social aspects of human behavior; the design-oriented nature of human problem-solving; the role of tacit knowledge and unwritten rules in daily activity and practice; and a cultural historical approach to learning and development, where both the user and their tools are undergoing a constant process of growth and change and transformation. An Expansive Legal Research approach, and the theory it is based upon, may provide new insights into legal research instruction, and may be a useful tool for legal research instructors
A. Felicia Epps, Dean Jan. 2016-May, 2017
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Starting From Scratch: Reasserting Indian Country in Alasky by Placing Alaska Native Land Into Trust
Get PDFThe Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) was enacted for the purpose of promoting economic development in remote Alaska Native villages. ANCSA has fallen short of this goal. ANCSA dissolved the trust relationship between Alaska Native tribes and the federal government by transferring former tribal lands to state-chartered, Native corporations. As a result, ANCSA severed Alaska Native tribal authority from tribal lands. Today, tribal governments in Alaska are without the resources necessary to address issues that threaten the survival of their communities. Tribal governments throughout the lower 48 states have long used federal land-into-trust provisions to expand and consolidate former tribal lands through reacquisition. In Alaska, however, a longstanding policy excludes Alaska Natives from placing their lands into trust. Without a means of reasserting tribal authority, tribal governments in Alaska are left to rely on a failing state and federal apparatus to combat poverty, social disorder, emigration, and a changing climate. A 2013 decision by a United States District Court has revived the proposition of establishing new Indian country in Alaska. In Akiachak Native Community v. Salazar,\u27 the district court held that ANCSA does not provide an absolute bar for Alaska Natives wishing to place their lands into trust. This decision has prompted the Department of the Interior to remove the Alaska Exception from its land into-trust regulations, thus opening up the possibility for tribal governments in Alaska to rebuild their former trust lands. Despite the actions of the district court and the Interior Department, obstacles remain that limit the ability of tribal governments in Alaska to place their lands into trust. To overcome ANCSA\u27s limitations on trusteeship, Congress must amend ANCSA to make settlement lands eligible for trust status. Additionally, the Interior Department must overcome regulatory ambiguity by creating separate criteria to evaluate land acquisitions in Alaska. When these limitations are removed, tribal governments in Alaska will be able to expand their territorial reach and access crucial economic development tools tied to Indian country, allowing them to work in partnership with both the state and the federal government to meet the needs of Native communities
Bank Frauds and Tracking the Hidden Assets
Get PDFEach year banks are the targets of insider and outsider fraudulent activity. Borrowers overstate their assets and holdings in order to obtain loans for which they would never otherwise qualify. Employees embezzle, steal, or conspire with crooked clients for a kickback, and billions are lost. Law enforcement agencies around the world are reporting increased instances of corporate, mortgage, and bank fraud. For example, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations ( FBI ) in its FY2007 Financial Crimes Report states that its corporate fraud cases doubled from five years earlier. Through FY2007, U.S. Grand Juries returned 183 indictments resulting in 173 convictions. Securities and commodities fraud cases increased from 937 cases in 2002 to 1,217 in 2007.5 With the increased attention, mortgage fraud is getting in the wake of the mortgage default crisis, the FBI in FY2008 had 1,204 cases under investigation, got 321 indictments, and 260 convictions. The number of mortgage fraud investigations has tripled over the last five-year period.7 In FY2007, the FBI\u27s health care fraud cases alone produced 1 billion per year.
Denying the criminal the fruits of his unlawful enterprise is one of law enforcement\u27s main deterrents. To accomplish this, financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement must be able to follow and find the ill-gotten assets and get them back, which is not an easy task. Even when assets are found, stumbling blocks often keep private parties from seizing them
The Past, Present, and Future of Predictive Coding
Get PDFElectronic discovery, or e-discovery, refers to the discovery of electronically stored documents and images.\u27 Examples of e-discovery related documentation would include email, digital versions of paper documents (e.g. MS Word, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint), social media postings, digital photos, Global Positioning System data, and content within computerized databases, etc. Digital data stored on computers, smartphones, tape drives, hard-drives, portable digital storage devices and the like would fall under the domain of e-discovery. Collecting and sorting massive amounts of electronically stored data presents both opportunities and challenges for lawyers.
For context: In 2015, electronic discovery was a 8.2 billion flowed to e-discovery service providers (e.g. document review by contract attorneys and vendors); and $2 billion flowed to the development of new software. The worldwide e-discovery market is expected to grow at 9.4% annually through 2019.
Predictive coding-a dimension of e-discovery-is a process whereby attorneys train computer programs to identify potentially relevant documents within a large body of documents.This process begins with the attorney(s) selecting a seed set of documents and choosing keywords relevant to the case. This seed set is then searched, and re-searched, in an iterative process until the software recognizes patterns. For practical purposes, it is simply telling the software what to find. However, attorneys need to have a general understanding of statistics and computer assisted technology prior to engaging in predictive coding