Constitutional Law

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Infinite Hope-- Introduction to the Symposium: the 140th Anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment, Akron Law Review (2009)

The Fourteenth Amendment embodies hope. This article introduces the Symposium celebrating the 140th anniversary of...

 

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The Union as it Wasn't and the Constitution as it Isn't: Section Five and Altering the Balance of Power, Akron Law Review (2009)

The original prototype of Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment, as introduced by its primary...

 

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'Secure the Blessings of Liberty': A Free Exercise Analysis Inspired by Selective Service Nonregistrants, Northern Kentucky Law Review (1988)

Mark Schmucker taught me about freedom. United States v. Schmucker II taught me about institutional...

 

Damages

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Compensatory Damages- Chapter 3, Damages in Tort Actions (1989)
 

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Punitive Damages- Chapter 40, Damages in Tort Actions (1988)
 

Law & Gender

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Radical Tweak -- Relocating the Power to Assign Sex, Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender (2005)

Simply, starkly, the law mandates an answer--every child must be male, or female. The need...

 

Legal Education

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Deposing the "Tyranny of Extroverts": Collaborative Learning in the Traditional Law School Classroom, Journal of Legal Education (2000)

When I began teaching Constitutional Law, I was already an adherent of having students work...

 

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Education and The Constitution: Shaping Each Other and the Next Century, Akron Law Review (2000)

Thinking about the interaction between the Constitution and education reveals that they are deeply interconnected,...

 

Professional Responsibility

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Priest, Minister or Knowing Instrument: The Lawyer’s Role in Constructing Constitutional Meaning, Tulsa Law Review (2003)

This article will first explain how the theory of protestant constitutionalism requires an examination of...

 

Reproductive Rights

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The Jurisprudence of Doubt’: How the Premises of the Supreme Court's Abortion Jurisprudence Undermine Procreative Liberty, Journal of Law and Politics (1998)

Two realities make continuing disagreement likely: the limits of human knowledge and the diversity of...

 

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The Rhetoric of Disrespect: Uncovering the Faulty Premises Infecting Reproductive Rights, American University Journal of Gender and the Law (1996)

This article attempts to expose and clear away the debris which the law has contributed...

 

Salary Compression

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Faculty Salary Compression: A Model for Response (with Chand Midha, Thomas Calderon, and Richard Steiner), University of Akron Legal Studies Paper No. 04-09 (2004)

This paper describes a process used by The University of Akron to address salary compression....

 

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Empathy and Pragmatism in the Choice of Constitutional Norms for Religious Land Use Disputes, Albany Government Law Review (2009)

From the perspective of both religious entities and local governments, religious land use requests are...