Browsing The Northern Illinois University Law Review (print version) by Title

O Brave New World? Electronic Voting Machines and Internet Voting: An Annotated Bibliography

Arado, Therese A. Clarke; Boland, Susan M. (2007)

The Obviously Impossible Attempt: A Proposed Revision to the Model Penal Code

Brodie, Kyle S. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1995-05)

This article discusses the problems posed by attempt crimes which have no chance of succeeding (often called "obviously impossible attempts"). Impossibility has largely been abolished as a defense to attempt crimes, so the ...

Of Courts, Clauses and Native American Culture: Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association

Peters, Bill (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1989-05)

This Casenote discusses the Supreme Court opinion in Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, which approved road construction across land held sacred by various North American Indian tribes. The Note ...

Of Dangers, Conditions, Children, and Maturity: A Plea for a Comprehensible Standard in Long-standing Rules

Kordesh, Maureen Straub (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2019-11)

This Article explores the common law doctrine of attractive nuisance in Illinois and proposes a more detailed explication of the rule. The doctrine lies in the junction between tort and contract, which might account for ...

On Making Persons: Legal Constructions of Personhood and Their Nexus with Human Trafficking

Bravo, Karen E. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-06)

This article identifies and analyzes the role of law in constructing personhood and the impact of such construction on human trafficking. Who is a “person”? Are all human beings “persons”? Are children, legal immigrants, ...

Online and Off-Label: Closing the Regulatory Gap in Online Direct-to-Consumer Drug Promotion and Prescribing

Bitzer, Kristina L. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2021-11)

The advent of telemedicine led to an evolution in healthcare delivery, making it possible for healthcare professionals to provide remote patient care, thus minimizing or eliminating the need for the patient to visit a ...

Opening the Broom Closet: Recognizing the Religious Rights of Wiccans, Witches, and Other Neo-Pagans

Stewart, Bradford S. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2011-11)

Religious freedom is a core component of our nation and one of the most widely known and accepted constitutional guarantees provided by the First Amendment. No prior civilization had adopted a national policy that tolerated ...

Opening the Flood Gates: Rasul v. Bush and the Federal Court's New World-Wide Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction

Pope, Joseph (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2006-05)

This article discusses the Supreme Court's controversial Rasul v. Bush decision--a case dealing with the ability of the federal courts to entertain the habeas petitions filed by terrorist suspects detained at Guantanamo ...

Oregon's Procedural Due Process and the Necessity of Judicial Review of Punitive Damage Awards: Honda Motor Co. v. Oberg: "Stop the Insanity!"

Brecht, Jeff Duncan (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1995-05)

This note examines the United States Supreme Court's most recent decision involving the judicial review of punitive damage awards. In addition to discussing the history of punitive damages and the role they have played in ...

Our English Legal Forebearers and Their Contributions to the Practice of Law and American Jurisprudence: Sir Thomas More, Sir Edward Coke, and Sir William Blackstone

Darsie, Heather R. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2020-05)

This Article seeks to remind lawyers of the important duty to uphold the law, and how that was shown through the actions of several English and British attorneys from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Beginning ...

"Our System Is Broken": A Study Of The Crisis Facing The Death-Eligible Defendant

Reissmann, Kelly (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-11)

Courts have been reluctant to find instances of ineffective assistance of counsel in death penalty cases. Most ineffective assistance claims are dismissed as "tactical decisions" or nonprejudicial error. This comment ...

Out With the New and in With the Old: Why the Illinois Supreme Court went too far in Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital and not far enough in Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital on the issue of duties owed to third-party non-patients in medical malpractice cases

MacIver, Andrea (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2016-02)

When the Illinois Supreme Court decided Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital in 1977 and Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital in 1987, it was presented with unique facts where a third-party, non-patient was allegedly harmed by a ...

Out with the Old and In with the New: An Analysis of Illinois Maintenance Law under the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act and a Proposal for Its Replacement

Drefchinski, Megan A. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2003-07)

Perhaps few issues in family law, or in legal jurisprudence generally, are debated as widely and heatedly as maintenance is. Opinions on the subject cover the full range of the spectrum, from the suggestion that maintenance ...

Out-of-State Wine Retailers Corked: How the Illinois General Assembly Limits Direct Wine Shipments from Out-of-State Retailers to Illinois Oenophiles and Why the Commerce Clause Will Not Protect Them

Sparks, Christopher G. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2010-05)

481 In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court in Granholm v. Heald reexamined the interplay between the dormant Commerce Clause and the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Granholm caused many states, including Illinois, ...