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The Land Use Jurisprudence of Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Stevens: Two Views on Balancing Public and Private Interests in Property
(2010)This three-part article examines the separate and combined legacies of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice John Paul Stevens in the area of regulatory takings jurisprudence as applied to land use controls. Part ... -
The Lassiter Decision: Termination of Parental Rights - New Standards for Right to Appointed Counsel
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1982-05)This casenote will examine the historical development of the constitutional right to counsel. It will then analyze the Court's opinion in Lassiter in light of previous cases and look to the future impact of the decision. -
The Lasting Viability of Rasul in the Wake of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2006-11)This article examines the jurisdictional features of the newly enacted Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision as it relates to the retroactive application of the Act. In particular, ... -
Law & Literature and the Moderns: Explorations
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2000-07)Law and Literature courses are intended, at least in part, to supply the sound moral understanding as well as the elementary intellectual skills that law students need before they can learn to read in the way that is needed ... -
Law and Information--A Review of the Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1990-05)Professor Barkan critiques the recent work of M. Ethan Katsh and concludes it is a worthy comment and analysis of the often ignored topic of law and information. Professor Barkan takes issue with some of the basic theses ... -
Law Firm Marketing in the Age of Social Media: A Toolbox for Attorneys
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2016-07)This Article provides many sources for a broad spectrum of attorneys interested in learning more about social media. Part I explores the social media platforms popular in the legal profession. Part II presents select ... -
The Law of Citations and Seriatim Opinions: Were the Ancient Romans and the Early Supreme Court on the Right Track?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2010-11)This article explores the oft forgotten and somewhat misunderstood ancient Roman law methodology known as the Lex Citandi, or Law of Citations. The Law of Citations was a relatively simple theory in which authority was ... -
The Law of Education: Educational Rights and the Roles of Virtues, Perfectionism, and Cultural Progress
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-04)This article recognizes the importance of rights-talk in the law of education, but encourages supplementing that rights-talk with a focus on some basic and largely uncontroversial personal and civic virtues; as well as on ... -
The Law of Lawyering, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. and W. William Hodes
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1987-11)A discussion of the recent treatise on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Professor Pirsig, in his review, focuses on the authors' treatment of Rule 1.6 on confidential communications and Rule 1.13 on organization ... -
The Law School Compensation Systems at Three Top Quartile Law Schools: Factors Correlating with Law Professors' Salaries and Suggestions
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-07)This article is a study of the factors which may impact the salary levels of law professors. The authors employ various methods of statistical analysis to determine what association, if any, a variety of factors have to ... -
Law Students Lie and Other Practical Information for First-Year Students
(Law Teacher, 2012)The first thing I tell students, and the piece of information they most often remember, is something that took me nearly my entire first year of law school to figure out: Law students lie. I do not mean that all law students ... -
Law, Medicine, and Social Justice
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1989-11)This review examines the recent book by Larry L. Palmer, Vice President for Academic Programs and Professor of Law at Cornell University. The book itself, an analysis of the interplay between law and medicine in light of ... -
Lawyers in Business
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1987-11)This Article explores a new and interesting question in the area of professional responsibility: How should the legal profession deal with large law firms involved in non-legal businesses? The modern trend in today's large ... -
Lawyers, First Principles, and Contemporary Challenges: Explorations
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1999-12)The preparation of this Collection chanced to be stimulated by a current Illinois bar admission controversy which has reminded observers of my own bar admission controversy of the 1950s. My April 15, 1999 talk at Northern ... -
Leapfrogging the Constitution: The Rise of State Takings Legislation
(1997)This article will examine the recent and potentially significant trend in state takings legislation. Part I will describe the development and current state of Supreme Court takings law. Part II will then survey current ... -
Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.: The Final Blow to the use of Per Se Rules in Judging Vertical Restraints - Why the Court Got it Wrong
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-07)This case note provides an in depth discussion of Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc., in which the United States Supreme Court held that minimum resale price maintenance should be analyzed under the rule ... -
Legacy of the Warren and Brandeis Article: The Emerging Unencumbered Constitutional Right to Informational Privacy
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1990-07)The development of the right to privacy into a constitutional right independent of the fourth amendment is examined from its philosophical and jurisprudential bases. The article also explores the application of the ... -
Legal Limits on Development Exactions: Responding to Nollan and Dolan
(1995)Over the last thirty years local governments have increasingly relied on development exactions as a funding source for land use development. Faced with shrinking budgets and the need to provide services attendant to growth, ... -
Legal Paternity (and Other Parenthood) After Lehr and Michael H.
(2012)Actual genetic ties do not always establish, or even help to establish, legal paternity of children born of consensual sex, that is, male parental rights and/or duties as of the time of birth. Paternity status, typically ... -
The Legal Profession in Transition: An Address at the Graduation Ceremonies of Northern Illinois University College of Law
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1992-11)The Northern Illinois University Law Review is pleased to publish the address delivered by the Honorable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé at the graduation for the class of 1992. Justice L'Heureux-Dubé is a member of the Supreme Court ...
