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Race Separatism in the Family: More on the Transracial Adoption Debate
(1995)Some twenty-five years ago a trial court in Virginia upheld the state ban on interracial marriage, reasoning that God created different races and, accordingly, that it was natural to maintain racial purity, and unnatural ... -
The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions
(2009)This article addresses the issue of Racial Disproportionality in child welfare - the disproportionate representation of black children in the foster care system as compared to their representation in the general population. ... -
The Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968: History, Accomplishments, and Future
(2006)Prior to 1968, control of radiation-emitting electronic devices was left to state and local governments, whose regulations proved both inconsistent and ineffective. This was highlighted by General Electric's 1967 recall ... -
The Radio and the Internet
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Raising the Bar: Maples v. Thomas and the Sixth Amendment Right to Counsel
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Ranking Law Schools: A Market Test?
(Indiana University School of Law, 2006)Instead of ranking law schools through statistical aggregations of expert judgments or by combining a list of heterogeneous factors, it would be possible to rely on a market test simply by examining student choices. This ... -
Rapists Discover New Weapons: The Problem and Response to Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault
(2001)Drug-facilitated rape presents its victims and law enforcement personnel with an additional set of challenges above and beyond those associated with other sexual assaults. This paper will explore those challenges by examining ... -
Ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Pros and Cons from a Child's Rights Perspective
(Sage in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2011)This article discusses the significance of the United States ratification of the CRC, concluding that even if the treaty is not self-executing, ratification would make a major difference. It would enable the United States ... -
Rationing Legal Services
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)There is a deepening crisis in the funding of legal services in the United States. The House of Representatives has proposed cutting the budget of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), one of the main funders of legal ... -
Raw Milk Cheeses: Historical Overview, Current Regulations, and the Battle to Preserve Artisinal Cheesemaking
(2005)The current law with regard to raw milk cheese can be summarized as follows: interstate sales cheese made with raw, un-aged milk are prohibited by federal law. Intra-state sale of raw milk cheese is not prohibited by federal ... -
Re-crafting a Public Domain
(2006)There is a public domain, but it is small, relative to its history, and it is shrinking. Digital technology will only speed its decline. And because most are oblivious to the particular threat that digital technology poses ... -
Re-Envisaging the International Law of Internal Armed Conflict: A Reply to Sandesh Sivakumaran
(European University Institute, 2011)The regulation of internal armed conflict by international law has come a long way in a very short space of time. Until the early 1990s, there were a minimum of international law rules applicable to internal armed conflict. ... -
Re-Solidifying Racial Bloc Voting: Empirics and Legal Doctrine in the Melting Pot
(Indiana University School of Law, 2011)Racial bloc voting is the central concept in judicial regulation of redistricting. For the past several decades, the definition and proof of this concept have depended on two premises: that polities can be conceptualized ... -
Reading Our Lips: The History of Lipstick Regulation in Western Seats of Power
(2006)This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 B.C. to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily ... -
The Real Fountain of Youth: How Old Drugs Get Covered By New Patents
(2003)Until 1995, the term of a patent was 17 years from issue, with a possible extension of five years for delays in market entry related to the Food and Drug Administration drug approval process. Still, many pharmaceutical ... -
The Real Judicial Activists
(New Prospect, Inc., 2007)To understand these figures, we observed that the Clinton administration sometimes made conservative decisions, challenged in the Supreme Court by public interest groups, and both Bush administrations sometimes made liberal ... -
The Real Thalidomide Baby: The Evolution of the FDA in the Shadow of Thalidomide, 1960-1997
(1997)This paper is intended to document the over thirty-year relationship between the FDA and thalidomide and to describe in some detail the new uses for that drug. The paper’s secondary goal is to demonstrate ... -
The Real World of Arbitrariness Review
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Reaping the Full Health Benefits of the Human Genome: The Duty to Warn and The Need to Establish a Comprehensive Federal Regulatory Structure for Genetic Testing
(2002)This paper discusses the need for a comprehensive federal regulatory structure governing genetic testing. Particularly, the article proposes a legal standard to govern physicians’ duty to warn their ...