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Enforcement of Law Schools\u27 Non-Academic Honor Codes: A Necessary Step Towards Professionalism?
Get PDFAs law schools strive to enforce their codes of student conduct, enforcement has called into question the legal standing of the schools, since enforcement affects the fundamental rights of students. Consequently, this Article will address the following question: to what extent can law schools fulfill their responsibility and opportunity to enforce behavioral codes-specifically codes governing non-academic conduct-with a goal of improving professionalism? Through analysis of law schools\u27 enforcement capabilities, this Article will suggest a practical framework by which law schools can promulgate and enforce codes and rules affecting students\u27 non-academic conduct
A Conversation with President Obama: A Dialogue about Poverty, Race, and Class in Black America
Get PDFThe date is November 13, 2012.1 Just mere days ago, I received the invitation of a lifetime. Last night, I arrived in Washington, D.C. I am staying in the Hay-Adams Hotel on the third floor. I still cannot believe the extent of my life\u27s journey. I have just been summoned to the White House by second term President-elect Barack Obama, who defeated Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for President on November 6, 2012. The 2012 Presidential Election was a hard-fought battle between Barack Obama on the Democratic side, and Mitt Romney on Republican side. The election was a like the Rumble in the Jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.\u27 President Obama employed a rope-a-dope style of fighting against Mitt Romney early in the 2012 campaign, lying on the ropes. Then, after Labor Day, he came off of the ropes fighting and scored a decisive knockout victory. This shocked the pundits who wrote his Presidency off after the heartbreaking Democratic defeats in the 2010 Midterm Elections.
President Obama has invited me to the White House to discuss the issue of Race in America and to present my ideas and perspectives on solving a myriad of problems
Green Justice for All: International and Comparative Dimensions of Environmental Justice
No full textThe Second Annual Environmental Law and Justice Symposium features Carlton Mark Waterhouse, J.D., Ph.D., as Keynote Speaker, a performance by Environmental and Social Justice performers, Climbing PoeTree, and closing Keynote Speaker, Esperanza Garcia.https://commons.law.famu.edu/cilj-lectures-pres/1002/thumbnail.jp
Obama\u27s Africa Policy on Human Rights, Use of Force and Humanitarian Intervention: In Whose Interest
Get PDFWhat\u27s Wrong with U.S.?: Why the United States Should Have a Public Performance Right for Sound Recordings
Get PDFThis Article discusses the need for the United States to implement a public performance royalty for sound recordings. Under the current system, song writers are compensated for the use of their musical works, but performers on sound recordings do not receive any compensation. Radio and television stations currently pay the performing rights societies a royalty for playing the sound recordings, but they do not pay a performance royalty to the artists who perform the music and record companies that promote and release the sound recordings. Proposed legislation will add a performance royalty for artists and record companies to the current royalty scheme while not reducing the current royalty paid to the songwriters. The Article argues for congressional adoption of a performance royalty
