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Standard Lawyer Behavior? Professionalism as an Essential Standard for ABA Accreditation
Get PDFThis article addresses the ABA as a source of pressure to encourage and foster professionalism education in law schools. The ABA holds a uniquely powerful position in the American legal community, and with it the ABA enjoys the attendant ability to influence professionalism training and awareness. The principal tool at the ABA\u27s disposal considered in this article is the ABA\u27s ability to promulgate standards for professionalism as a requirement for law school accreditation. This article argues that this is the proper time for the ABA to institute a specific standard in an effort to increase professionalism in the legal profession
Voices in Medical Sociology: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Get PDFVoices in Medical Sociology: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a reader for students of health care. The collection of articles written by sociologists, health care providers, public health professionals, lawyers, and students addresses the most salient issues in the field of medical sociology today. These readings cover epidemiology, maternal health, children\u27s health, legal aspects of health care reform, and the lack of health care for incarcerated women. Additionally, the book addresses controversial topics such as fracking, female genital mutilation, alternative medicine, and the social construction of illness. This material familiarizes students with long-standing concerns in the field of health care, and also exposes them to new issues that are relevant today.Voices in Medical Sociology is an interdisciplinary text that provides important information for students without relying on the standard textbook form. Rather, it makes use of diverse materials including legal cases, personal memoirs, and book reviews. It also includes previously published and new articles. The variety of the original writings and the different voices of the writers serve to discuss and define the many diverse aspects of contemporary health care.https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. U. S. A.: Brief of Professor Robert H. Abrams and Property and Water Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent
Get PDFArkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States of America, on Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.: Brief of Professor Robert H. Abrams and Professors of law teaching in the property law and water rights fields as Amici Curiae in support of Responden
Is Color Blind Justice Also Culturally Blind? The Cultural Blindness in Justice
Get PDFAs diverse ethnic groups continue to experience numeric growth and societal grounding in America, their advocacies for culturally competent representation within the legal system cannot be ignored or underplayed. Undoubtedly, some professions such as mental and physical health, and their related sectors, have developed and continue to integrate cultural competencies into their respective practices. Others such as the legal profession seem to lag in their advocacies and promotion of culturally competent practices.
In the criminal justice system, where discretionary legal decision-making authority is commonplace and may grossly affect the civil liberties of the citizenry, a paucity of standards requiring cultural competence training in any area of practice is evident. Without broad-based, mandatory public policy initiatives for cultural competency training among legal services providers and practitioners, the system will continue to be plagued with communicative and interpretive barriers. In all likelihood, these barriers will serve to hinder, if not retard, competent representation and the fair dispensation of justice
Will Free Speech Get a License to Drive in Florida?: A Proposal for Distinguishing Free Speech from Government Speech in Florida Specialty Plate Cases
Get PDFSpecialty license plates for automobiles, which publish individual and special interest Free Speech, present a quagmire for the courts when analyzed through the lens of the First Amendment\u27s Free Speech Clause. While citizens and groups can obtain personalized license plates that publish both symbolic and written speech, state governments often exercise strict editorial control over their license plates. This regulatory scenario raises the dual questions of who is speaking - the government or the private party - and how much constitutional power the government has to engage in viewpoint restriction in regulating that speech in this traditional government forum. The United States Supreme Court has not heard any cases addressing this unique forum. State and federal courts have used several tests to decide this issue and have reached conflicting outcomes. This lack of a uniform analytical framework to guide courts in determining whether specialty license plates are private, government, or hybrid speech allows a State to engage in what is likely impermissible viewpoint restriction. Therefore, the courts must develop a clear test that determines who is speaking in this forum and how much editorial control the State has over the viewpoints that individuals and special interest groups wish to publish in this forum
How the Internet is Used to Facilitate the Trafficking of Humans as Sex Slaves
Get PDFHuman trafficking is, sadly, a part of the fabric of the 21st century global community, but it has different goals than those of sex trafficking. One expert defines human trafficking as “‘an opportunistic response’ to the tension between the economic necessity to migrate . . . and the politically motivated restrictions on migration”. To give an idea of how widespread sex trafficking is, understand that it is now more profitable for criminals to sell women for sex than it is to sell drugs. Drugs are disposable and finite. Women can be resold over and over and over again. These “commodities” are not as expendable as drugs. Sex trafficking is multifaceted but can be viewed from the basics of how the crime is defined. The definition of the severe form of sex trafficking is defined as being “severe” if force, fraud, or coercion is involved. The other definition is noted as not being “severe” if no such force, fraud, or coercion is present or if the victims cannot prove such. This paper uses the two-tiered definition’s portion that does not require a showing of force, fraud, or coercion because that definition examines the exploitive nature of this entire criminal activity. By distinguishing between victims of this heinous industry who are able to show force, fraud, or coercion and those who are not, we are essentially giving the traffickers an “out” in being able to argue that the victim somehow cooperated or agreed to be trafficked