Recently added articles from Duke Law Journal:
Repairing family law.
Mar 01, 2008; Huntington, Clare ... ABSTRACT Scholars in the burgeoning field of law and emotion have paid surprisingly little attention to family law. This gap is unfortunate because law and emotion has the potential to bring great insights to family law. This Article begins to fill this void--and inaugurate a ...
Paradigms of restraint.
Mar 01, 2008; Murphy, Erin ... ABSTRACT Incapacitation of dangerous individuals has conventionally entailed the exercise of physical control over an actual body: the state confines the person in jail. But advances in technology have changed that convention. A variety of new technologies--such as GPS tracking ...
Hindsight is 20/20: revisiting the reapportionment cases to gain perspective on partisan gerrymanders.
Mar 01, 2008; Calidas, Douglass ... ABSTRACT In the first decade of the twentieth century, political party operatives have manipulated the boundaries of congressional districting maps to an unprecedented extent in the interest of gaining partisan advantage. The judiciary, led by a fractured Supreme Court, has ...
From New London to Norwood: a year in the life of eminent domain.
Mar 01, 2008; Han, Andrew S. ... ABSTRACT A little more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London upheld the use of eminent domain for economic development, the Ohio Supreme Court became the first state supreme court to address a factual situation raising the same issues ....
The siren song of interrogational torture: evaluating the U.S. implementation of the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
Mar 01, 2008; Linnartz, Isaac A. ... ABSTRACT Though the United States officially condemns all forms of torture, it has not adequately implemented the United Nations Convention Against Torture. This Note focuses on instances in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries that practice ...
How reasonable is "reasonable"? The search for a satisfactory approach to employment handbooks.
Mar 01, 2008; Yoder, Bryce ... ABSTRACT Although courts, in considering the enforceability of employment handbooks, have relied on a single source of principles, contract law, their inconsistent approaches have produced inequitable and irreconcilable results. This Note argues that courts should abandon their ...