Leveraging Noncognitive Skills to Foster Bar Exam Success: An Analysis of the Efficacy of the Bar Passage Program at FIU Law
Raul Ruiz, Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean, Florida International University College of Law
"This Article will discuss what has caused a decrease in bar exam scores nationwide and how the bar preparation program at the Florida International University College of Law (FIU or the FIU College of Law) has counteracted declining pass rates."
The Damages of Caps in Nebraska
Carey D. Collingham, J.D., 2020, University of Nebraska College of Law
"Nebraska holds the embarrassing distinction of likely being one of the two harshest states in the country in its treatment of citizens injured at the hands of malpractice."
Execution on the Ballot: Lessons for Judicial Review of Ballot Measures from the Death Penalty Referendum in Nebraska
Kait Madsen, J.D. Candidate, University of Nebraska College of Law, 2021
"This Comment argues that the appropriate level of judicial review of ballot measures is (1) high deference to voters and “[liberal construction] to promote the democratic process” in reviewing procedural challenges before the election, and (2) “legislative mirroring” for challenges to newly enacted laws after an election."
The Public School as the Preeminent Site of Constitutional Law
Justin Driver, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
The 2019 Lane Lecture.
Job Training Mythologies: Stitching up Labor Markets
Henry H. Perritt, Jr., Professor of Law and former Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law, the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology
"This Article uses the textile and clothing industry—where the American Industrial Revolution began—as a case study to explore adjustments of labor markets to changes in technology and in product markets, while occasionally referring to other industries to reinforce a proposition or to acknowledge a difference that might alter the analysis."
Contract Design in the Shadow of Regulation
James Fallows Tierney, Senior Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law
"Drawing on behavioral law and economics, and illustrating with a case study of lobbying surrounding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s bank account overdraft rule, this Article shows how companies use the high-quality terms they adopt in anticipation of regulation to “frame” the status quo rule."
Irrevocable Gift Promises and Promises Inducing Reliance: A Mandate for the Return of the Seal in Contract Law
Alex M. Johnson, Jr., James C. Slaughter Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
"What makes irrevocable inter vivos trust donative promises—promises that induce reliance on the part of the donee— and promises made in a will enforceable, while other simple or future gift donative promises are not? The primary purpose of this Article is answering that question."
Duress and Undue Influence in Contract Law as Cognitive Trespass
Jeffrey L. Harrison, Huber C. Hurst Eminent Scholar, University of Florida College of Law
"In all cases, contract law takes a permissive approach by limiting the remedy to avoidance and restitution. This Article argues that the permissive approach is inappropriate, particularly in cases in which the vulnerability is created."
Is Prior Salary a Factor Other Than Sex? An Approach to Resolve the Ongoing Debate
Elizabeth A. Stevenson, J.D., University of Nebraska College of Law, 2020
This Note examines the uncertainty of the Equal Pay Act’s “factor other than sex” exception.