SSRN University of Nevada Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

1.

Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Obama: Performing Gender, Race, and Class on the Campaign Trail

Denver University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 709, 2009, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-04

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Ann McGinley

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 2,122

2.

Good Lawyers Should Be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 23, p. 437, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-24, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LEC08-024

Number of pages: 113 Posted: 05 May 2008 Last Revised: 21 Jul 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jean R. Sternlight and Jennifer K. Robbennolt

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and University of Illinois College of Law

Downloads 2,012

3.

Is Alternative Dispute Resolution Consistent With the Rule of Law?

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 56, p. 569, 2006, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-12

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jean R. Sternlight

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 1,398

4.

From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes

Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 2009, Univ. of San Francisco Law Research Paper No. 2009-28

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Richard A. Leo and Deborah Davis

University of San Francisco - School of Law and University of Nevada, Reno

Downloads 1,259

5.

Oral Argument and Impression Management: Harnessing the Power of Nonverbal Persuasion for a Judicial Audience

Kansas Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-01, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 84

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Michael J. Higdon

University of Tennessee College of Law

Downloads 923

6.

Once Upon a Time in Law: Myth, Metaphor, and Authority

Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 883, 2010, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-02

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Linda H. Edwards

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 835

7.

Philosophical Legal Ethics: Ethics, Morals, and Jurisprudence

Legal Ethics, Forthcoming, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-21, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1646558, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 212

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Alice Woolley, W. Bradley Wendel, William H. Simon, Stephen Pepper, Daniel Markovits, Katherine R. Kruse and Tim Dare

University of Calgary, Cornell University - School of Law, Columbia University - Law School, University of Denver College of Law, Yale Law School, Mitchell Hamline School of Law and University of Auckland

Downloads 821

8.

After the Battle of the Forms: Commercial Contracting in the Electronic Age

I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 4, p. 271, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-33

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 19 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 808

9.

When General Statutes and Specific Statutes Conflict

State Tax Notes, Vol. 57, p. 113, 2010, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-35

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 31 Aug 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Steve R. Johnson

Florida State University - College of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 725

10.

From Simon Cowell to Tim Gunn: What Reality Television Can Teach Us About How to Critique Our Students' Work Effectively

Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Vol. 15, p. 169, 2007, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-31

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 05 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Michael J. Higdon

University of Tennessee College of Law

Downloads 656

11.

Lord of the Flies (1963): Development of Rules Within an Adolescent Culture

SCREENING JUSTICE - THE CINEMA OF LAW: SIGNIFICANT FILMS OF LAW, ORDER AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster & Taunya Lovell Banks, eds., William S. Hein & Co., 2006, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-21

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 29 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 656

12.

Behavioral Legal Ethics

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, p. 1107, Fall 2013, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS13-31, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 13-41

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Jennifer K. Robbennolt and Jean R. Sternlight

University of Illinois College of Law and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 647

13.

The Jurisprudential Turn in Legal Ethics

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, p. 493, 2011, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Jan 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Katherine R. Kruse

Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Downloads 627

14.

Choiceless Choices: Deportation and the Parent-Child Relationship

Nevada Law Review, Vol. 6, p. 1165, 2006, Bender's Immigration Bulletin, Vol. 12, p. 167, February 15, 2007, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-35

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

David B. Thronson

Michigan State University College of Law

Downloads 623

15.

Anticipatory Repudiation of Letters of Credit

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 56, Fall 2003

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 Sep 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Keith A. Rowley

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 619

16.

Enron, Titanic, and The Perfect Storm

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 1373, 2003

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Feb 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 598

17.

Eating Our Cake and Having It, Too: Why Real Change is so Difficult in Law Schools

Indiana U School of Law Symposium on the Next Generation of Law School Rankings Paper, Indiana Law Journal, Vol. 81, p. 359, 2006

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Apr 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 573

18.

Custody and Contradictions: Exploring Immigration Law as Federal Family Law in the Context of Child Custody

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 59, p. 453, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-30

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 06 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2008

Accepted Paper Series

David B. Thronson

Michigan State University College of Law

Downloads 556

19.

The Future of Cybertravel: Legal Implications of the Evasion of Geolocation

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. 22, 2012

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 08 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 26 Jan 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Marketa Trimble

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 554

20.

A Brief History of Anticipatory Repudiation in American Contract Law

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 565, 2001

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 07 Mar 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Keith A. Rowley

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 520

21.

Gadamer's Rhetorical Conception of Hermeneutics as the Key to Developing a Critical Hermeneutics

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2013

Working Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 473

22.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Skilling: How Enron's Public Image Morphed from the Most Innovative Company in the Fortune 500 to the Most Notorious Company Ever

ENRON: CORPORATE FIASCOS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS, Foundation Press 2004

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Feb 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Jeffrey D. Van Niel and Nancy B. Rapoport

Independent and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 471

23.

Creating Crisis: Immigration Raids and the Destabilization of Immigrant Families

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 391, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-36

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

David B. Thronson

Michigan State University College of Law

Downloads 458

24.

The Endurance of Biological Connection: Heteronormativity, Same-Sex Parenting and the Lessons of Adoption

BYU Journal of Public Law, Vol. 22, 2008, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-07

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Annette Ruth Appell

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 449

25.

When Informal Adoption Meets Intestate Succession: The Cultural Myopia of the Equitable Adoption Doctrine

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 223, 2008

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Michael J. Higdon

University of Tennessee College of Law

Downloads 435

26.

The Lady, or the Tiger? A Field Guide to Metaphor and Narrative

Washburn Law Journal, Vol. 50, p. 275, 2011, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Apr 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Linda L. Berger

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 400

27.

Through the Eyes of Jurors: The Use of Schemas in the Application of 'Plain-Language' Jury Instructions

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 64, p. 643, Apr. 2013, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Sara Gordon

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 392

28.

You Asked for it, You Got it...Toy Yoda: Practical Jokes, Prizes, and Contract Law

Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 3, p. 526, 2003

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Mar 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Keith A. Rowley

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 385

29.

The Curious Incident of the Law Firm that Did Nothing in the Night-Time (Reviewing Milton C. Regan, Jr., Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer [Univ. of Michigan Press, 2004])

UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-04, Legal Ethics, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2007

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Sep 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 366

30.

Not Quite 'Them', Not Quite 'Us': Why it's Difficult for Former Deans to Go Home Again

Toledo Law Review, Vol. 38, p. 81, 2007, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-22

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 29 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 362

31.

Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is it Just?

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1631, 2005

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 13 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 20 May 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Jean R. Sternlight

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 352

32.

'We Live in a Country of UNHCR': The UN Surrogate State and Refugee Policy in the Middle East

The UN Refugee Agency: Policy Development & Evaluation Service Research Paper No. 201 , UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 10 Nov 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Kagan

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 351

33.

The Sub Rosa Subchapter: Individual Debtors in Chapter 11 after BAPCPA

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2007, p. 67, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-03

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Bruce Alan Markell

Northwestern University School of Law

Downloads 350

34.

An Argument for Imposing Disclosure Requirements on Public Companies

Florida State University Law Review, No. 32, 2004

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 04 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Michael D. Guttentag

Loyola Marymount University

Downloads 347

35.

Distance Education in Law School: The Train Has Left the Station

UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-09

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Oct 2007

Working Paper Series

Diana Gleason

Weiner-Rogers Law Library, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV

Downloads 346

36.

The Ontological Basis of Legal Hermeneutics: A Proposed Model of Inquiry Based on the Work of Gadamer, Habermas and Ricoeur

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 68, pp. 523-617, 1988

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 15 Dec 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 342

37.

The Potential Contribution of ADR to an Integrated Curriculum: Preparing Law Students for Real World Lawyering

Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Vol. 25, p. 247, 2010, University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2010-05, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-12, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 09/10 #21

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2012

Accepted Paper Series

John Lande and Jean R. Sternlight

University of Missouri School of Law and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 341

38.

Human Rights and Military Decisions: Counterinsurgency and Trends in the Law of International Armed Conflict

University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 30, p. 1367, 2008-09, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-13

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Jul 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Dan E. Stigall, Christopher L. Blakesley and Chris Jenks

U.S. Department of Justice - National Security Division, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law and Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law

Downloads 338

39.

Forum Non Conveniens in Federal Statutory Cases

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 49, pp. 1137-1210, 2000

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 30 Apr 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Lonny Hoffman and Keith A. Rowley

University of Houston Law Center and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 337

40.

Lessons from Enron -- And Why We Don't Learn from Them

Commercial Lending Review, p. 23, May-June 2009, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-17

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 05 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 337

41.

Ricoeur's Critical Hermeneutics and the Psychotherapeutic Model of Critical Theory

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Dec 2008

Working Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 335

42.

Dressed for Excess: How Hollywood Affects the Professional Behavior of Lawyers

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics and Public Policy, Vol. 14, p. 49, 2000

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 327

43.

'Bad' Mothers and Spanish-Speaking Caregivers

Nevada Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2007, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-07

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Annette Ruth Appell

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 324

44.

The Irrelevance of Contemporary Academic Philosophy for Law: Recovering the Rhetorical Tradition

ON PHILOSOPHY IN AMERICAN LAW, Francis J. Mootz III, ed., Cambridge U. Press, 2009, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-27

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 25 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2008

Working Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 324

45.

Managing U.S. News & World Report - The Enron Way

Gonzaga Law Review, Vol. 48, 2013, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Nancy B. Rapoport

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 316

46.

Interpretation

LAW AND THE HUMANITIES: AN INTRODUCTION, Austin Sarat, Matt Anderson, Cathrine O. Frank eds., pp. 339-376, 2010, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-15

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Francis Joseph Mootz III

University of the Pacific - McGeorge School of Law

Downloads 299

47.

Fortress in the Sand: The Plural Values of Client-Centered Representation

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 12, pp. 501-572, Spring 2006, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 05/06-19

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 26 Mar 2006

Accepted Paper Series

Katherine R. Kruse

Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Downloads 290

48.

An IRS Duty of Consistency: The Failure of Common Law Making and a Proposed Legislative Solution

Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 3, Spring 2010, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-07

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 12 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Steve R. Johnson

Florida State University - College of Law

Downloads 286

49.

Creating Masculine Identities: Harassment and Bullying 'Because of Sex'

University of Colorado Law Review, Forthcoming, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-01

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2007

Accepted Paper Series

Ann McGinley

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 284

50.

The Multiplicity of Copyright Laws on the Internet

25 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 339 (2015), UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Marketa Trimble

University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law

Downloads 283

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