Rethinking Counterterrorism in the Age of ISIS: Lessons from Sinai
Sahar F. Aziz
Failing states serve as havens for violent extremist groups to grow and spread, yet Western nations continue to limit their counterterrorism practices to merely preventing violence on their soil. Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula serves as a valuable case study for rethinking counterterrorism methods in the age of ISIS.
Book Review
David Dow
Modern Trials. By Melvin M. Belli. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1954. 2763 pp. $50.00
If the field of taxation has any rival for the title of being most written about, it must be that of procedure and trial practice. The art of persuasion is so all-pervasive in the law, and at the same time so subtle and elusive, that lawyers of all generations have been drawn to write about it as the flies are drawn to honey. The urge is no respecter of age—young and old have sought to solve the mysteries, and they remain unsolved. And these mysteries seem likely to remain so until our scientific brethren, the psychologists, have succeeded in delving much deeper into the problems of motivation and the reasons for human behavior.
It is therefore true that a new book in this field usually is approached with a good deal of skepticism, as something to be skimmed through without much hope of acquiring anything new beyond an anecdote or so for the next bar meeting. Such anecdotes you will find aplenty in Mr. Belli’s Modern Trials, but you will also find a great deal more. Not long ago one of my former students came to me and said that one of the real needs he felt was for new ways to prove various propositions. It is precisely in this area that Mr. Belli has the most to offer. He is, of course, primarily interested in showing how this can be done through the use of demonstrative techniques: pictures, maps, charts, models, illustrative drawings and real evidence. He gives literally hundreds of examples, themselves amply illustrated by photographs, of how these techniques can be used to explain the propositions which counsel is called upon to get across to the jury; and in particular he shows much that is new in photography and medicine.
The Journalist and His Confidential Source: Should a Testimonial Privilege Be Allowed
W. D. Lorensen
Introduction
The Basis for a Privilege
The Current Law
When Is the Public Benefited?
When Should This Privilege Be Denied?
When Is There No Public Benefit?
When Does Detriment Outweigh Benefit?
Conclusion
A Murder Most Fowl: United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., 801 F.3d 477 (5th Cir. 2015), and Incidental Killings Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
Lora Anne Waeckerle
"This Note focuses on the weaknesses of the Fifth Circuit’s decision to interpret the misdemeanor section of the MBTA to penalize only those who affirmatively cause protected birds to die. This Note further argues that the Fifth Circuit should adopt a broader rule regarding MBTA sanctions in order to penalize both direct and incidental killing of migratory birds."
Karasek v. Regents of the University of California, No. 15-cv-03717-WHO, 2015 WL 8527338 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 11, 2015): The Victimization of Title IX
Chelsea Avent
"This Note focuses on the Northern District of California in Karasek v. Regents of the University of California, its interpretation of Title IX’s 'deliberate indifference' standard, and the 'further harassment' requirement that some courts have imposed for Title IX sexual harassment claims."
Slavery in the Name of Tolerance: Whether an International Legal Obligation Exists to Criminalize Prostitution
Braden W. Storer
I. Introduction
II. Background of Applicable International Law on Slavery and Sex Trafficking ... A. International Law Prohibiting Slavery and the Slave Trade ... B. International Law Prohibiting Sex Trafficking ... C. Sex Trafficking as Slavery: Overlap of the Practices ... D. An Alternative Way to Think about the Issue: Commercial Sexual Exploitation as Slavery
III. International Legal Obligations to Criminalize and Prevent Slavery and Sex Trafficking ... A. Obligation to Criminalize and Prevent Sex Trafficking ... B. Obligation to Criminalize and Prevent Slavery
IV. Conflict between Obligation to Criminalize and Other Human Rights
V. Conclusion
Why Try to Change Me Now? The Basis for the 2016 Indian Child Welfare Act
Kasey D. Ogle
"Though the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA or the Act) sought to address the systemic issues that created such high rates of Indian child displacement, because of the inaction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), these problems remain."
The Limits of Executive Power: The Obama-Trump Transition
Jody Freeman, Harvard Law School
"I thought I would talk today about the limits of executive power to rescind or weaken regulations. It is a particularly interesting time to think about this topic because we are in a moment of political transition following the 2016 presidential election."
The New Negative Rights: Abortion Funding and Constitutional Law After Whole Woman’s Health
Mary Ziegler, Florida State University College of Law
"Part II considers how proponents of the Hyde Amendment redefined conscience-based objection . . . . Part III traces the deployment of formal distinctions between positive and negative rights in the Hyde Amendment debate. Drawing on this history, Part IV reconsiders the constitutional case against the Hyde Amendment and similar laws under Whole Woman’s Health."
Insurance Risk Classification in an Era of Genomics: Is a Rational Discrimination Policy Rational?
Anya E.R. Prince, University of Iowa College of Law
"This Article examines the merits and drawbacks of a rational discrimination approach to address life, long-term care, and disability insurer use of genetic test results."