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2011-2012
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The Writing on the Wall: Walmart Meets Wall Street Reform
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“Inconsistent Truth? The Incompatibility of Plausibility Pleading, the Assumption of Truth Rule and Rule 8(d)(2) and (3)”
*This presentation is part of a Faculty Exchange Program.
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Death by Indian School: How the United States Killed a Culture
Monday, February 20, 2012
*This presentation is part of a Faculty Exchange Program.
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The Affordable Care Act as Disability Rights Legislation
Friday, February 10, 2012
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Neither Fish, Nor Fowl: Explorations at the Junction of Corporations, Vulnerability Theory, and Global Law
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"From the Oppressed to the Terrorist: American Muslim Women Caught in the Crosshairs of Intersectionality"
Friday, November 11, 2011
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“Ideas and the Public Domain: Revisiting INS v. AP in the Internet Age”
Friday, November 18, 2011
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Former Boston Globe reporter and Mississippian Curtis Wilkie charts the meteoric career of lawyer Richard "Dickie" Scruggs in this riveting if labyrinthine account that in Wilkie's telling, involves treachery, professional jealousy, and zealous prosecution. Known as the "King of Torts," Scruggs had made a fortune with class action lawsuits involving asbestos claims in Pascagoula, Miss., and then tobacco lawsuits in the mid-1990s.
From a single, abbreviated life grew a seemingly immortal line of cells that made some of the most crucial innovations in modern science possible. And from that same life, and those cells, Rebecca Skloot has fashioned in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks a fascinating and moving story of medicine and family, of how life is sustained in laboratories and in memory. Henrietta Lacks was a mother of five in Baltimore, a poor African American migrant from the tobacco farms of Virginia, who died from a cruelly aggressive cancer at the age of 30 in 1951.
Like Standage’s The Victorian Internet, this book explores an earlier information revolution, the invention and use of the telegraph. Where The Victorian Internet gave short overviews of a variety of social, economic and legal issues arising from the telegraph, comparing and contrasting these with similar developments arising from the internet, Mr.
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