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2009 Winter

 

Introductory Material

Cover and Masthead

Publication Information

Faculty List

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor

 

 

Articles

 

Charting A New Course:
Practical Considerations For Implementing An Electronic Health Records System

Roy H. Wyman, Jr. & Amanda L. Kutz

Real Feminists For Motherhood Coalition, Petitioner v. Virginia
Bridget Leanne Welborn

 

 

Comments

Protecting Neglect:
The Constitutionality of Spiritual Healing Exemptions To Child Protection Statutes
Scott St. Amand

An Ounce Of Prevention: Why The Innocence Movement Should Focus On Proscriptive Pre-Conviction Measures Instead of Abolition Of The Death Penalty
Rhiannon M. Hartman

 

 

2008 Fall

 

Cover & Masthead

Publication Information

Faculty List

Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor

Corrections

 

Articles

MCCONNELL V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION: THE PROBLEM OF
ERADICATING CAMPAIGN FINANCE CORRUPTION
Michelle C. Gabriel

HAVA’S MATCHING/ID REQUIREMENT: A MEANINGLESS TALE
TOLD BY . . . CONGRESS
Nathan Cemenska

 

 

Comments

PROTECTING VIRGINIA’S YOUTH: ESTABLISHING A CHILDREN’S
OMBUDSMAN OFFICE
Chelsea Dunn

FINDERS SLEEPERS: WHY RECENT STATE REGULATION OF
FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES SHOULD ROUSE THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT FROM ITS SLUMBER
Jeffrey D. Chadwick

 

Note

DAVIS V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION: CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE ADVANTAGE
W. Clayton Land

 

 

2008 General Assembly in Review

 

Foreword

Acknowledgement

Mental Health Articles & Editorials

A New Era Begins: Mental Health Reform in Virginia

Mental Health in Virginia

Promised Reforms Fall Short of the Mark

 

Environmental Articles

The Role of Citizens in Environmental Decision-Making

 

Immigration Editorials

Illegal Immigration in the Virginia General Assembly-
From the Perspective of an Advocate of Passing Laws
to Stop Illegal Immigration: Why Do We Do It and
What Can Be Done?

Two Thumbs Down: In the Absence of Comprehensive
Immigration Reform, Ill-Conceived Bills Flood the Virginia
General Assembly

 

Health Editorials

Secondhand Smoke Deserves First-Rate Attention

 

Juvenile Justice Editorials

Who You Gonna Call? Virginia's Multi-Year Effort
to Create a Children's Ombudsman Office

 

Comments

The Price of Privilege: Is Virginia's Ban on Mental
Health Profesionals' Participation in Custody
Determinations Really in the Best Interest of the Child?

DUI GILT PL8
An Evaluation of the Proposed Shaming Sanction
for Multiple DUI Offenders

 

Legislative Summaries & Indices

Bills Passed by the 2008 Session of the General Assembly

Indices

 

 

Summer 2008- (Volume XI, number 3)

***This is a late publication by the 2007-2008 Editorial Board***

2007-2008 Editorial Board

Featured Articles

Fourth Amendment Challenges to "Camping Ordinances": A Legal Strategy To Force Legislative Solutions to Homelessness
by Nicholas May

Really Leaving No Child Left Behind: How the Supreme Court's Student Speech Doctrine Compromises Modern Education Reform - And How It Can Use the In Loco Parentis Doctrine to Change It
by Scott J. Street

Another Day in the Life of the Juvenile Justice System: The Fight Against the Abolishment of the System
by Antwanisha Gray

Spring 2008- (Volume XI, number 2)

Featured Articles

Ramifications of Felony Disenfranchisement on the Voting Population in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
by Dr. Monica Robbers

Commentaries

Condemning Our Youth to Lives as Criminals: Incarcerating Children as Adults.
by Chelsea Dunn

DNA Is Different: Implications of the Public Perception of DNA Evidence on Police Interrogation Methods.
by Christine D. Salmon

Fall 2007/Winter 2008- (Volume XI, number 1)

Featured Articles

Why All the King's Horses and All the King's Men Couldn't Put Sovereign Immunity Back Together Again:
An Analysis of the Test Created in
James v. Jane.
by Colleen F. Shepherd

Is Race in Public Schools Still Compelling?
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
Justice Breyer's Theory of Active Liberty, and Practical Considerations of Democracy

by Andrea Kayne Kaufman

Commentaries

Checking up with BARF: Evaluating the effectiveness, challenges and shortcomings of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
by Robert Slimak

Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc.:
By Allowing Military Recruiters on Campus, Are Law Schools Advocating "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"?

by Braxton Williams

Spring 2007 - (Volume X, number 2)

Featured Articles

The Whole is Not Always Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Call For Stricter Regulation of Post-Mortem Human Tissue
by Megan A. Scanlon

Commentaries

Sustainable Living: Theme of the Future or a One-Hit Wonder?
by Michelle Hershman

Taxing the Disabled: the IRS, the Insurance Industry, and the Disability Waiver of Premium Rider
by Andrew Strelka

 

Profitability Versus the Public Interest: Is International Patent Law Hindering Third World Countries' Access to HIV/Aids Medications?
by Karen Godnick

Winter 2006 - (Volume X, number 1)

Featured Articles

Through the Looking Glass: Judicial Deference to Academic Decision-makers
by Douglas K. Rush

The Rationality of Law Students’ Career Choices
by Aaron Haas

Commentaries

Who’s Afraid of Promissory Estoppel?: Charitable Giving in Virginia and the Enforceability of Promised Gifts
by Charlotte Dauphin

”Coining Children’s Blood Into Capital”: Can Precepts of International Law End Economic Exploitation of Children?
by Valerie L’Herrou

Winter/Spring 2006 - (Volume IX, number 1)

Featured Article

Community Plans to Address Domestic Violence:
An Overview of Domestic Violence within the Context of Family and Community Violence

by Dr. Rhonda Impink

Commentaries

Virginia’s Sexually Violent Predators Act:
A Guide for Virginia [Court-appointed] Attorneys

by Neal Lewis

An Examination of the United States Supreme Court’s Recent Establishment Clause Rulings in McCreary County, Ky. v. ACLU and Van Orden v. Perry
by Joanna L. Suyes

Civil Disobedience in the Jury Room: Give Juries the Right to Go With Their Power
by Robert J. Gallagher

Smith v. City of Jackson: Disparate Impact in Age Discrimination Cases
by Michael Leedom

Winter/Spring 2005 - (Volume VIII, number 2)

Featured Article

Commentaries

Rivera v. NIBCO:  A Tentative Limitation of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB
by Rebecca L. Ennis

Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court: Can Police Arrest Suspects for Withholding Their Names?
by John Farnum

Raytheon v. Hernandez:  The Americans with Disabilities Act and Its Effect on Neutral, Non-Discriminatory (NON) Hiring Policies of Employers
by Kendra Horger

Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders:  The Constructive Discharge Doctrine’s Applicability to Title VII Sexual Harassment Cases and the Availability of the Ellerth/Faragher Affirmative Defense
by Laura Marston

Hardly a Clean Sweep:  An Analysis of the Supreme Court of Virginia’s Treatment of Statutory Employee Litigation
by Scott Pasierb

Summer 2004 - (Volume VIII, number 1)

Standing in the Penumbras of Privacy: The Future of Privacy in the Wake of Lawrence v. Texas Symposium

The Symposium Writing Competition and Debate

Competitors from the T.C. Williams School of Law drafted a brief in response to a moot court problem.  The winners of the writing competition were then invited to present moot court arguments on the basis of Lawrence before a panel of judges who represented the fictional Court of Appeals for the 13th Circuit

Commentaries

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Winter 2003 - (Volume VII, number 1)

School Vouchers

School Vouchers: Will They Undermine American Public Schools? Establishing a Context for Debate (Part I)
by Michael F. DiPaola

Public Funding for Nonpublic Education: School Voucher Initiatives (Part II)
by Kathleen G. Harris, Senior Attorney

Moral Responsibility

Aristotle on Animals, Agency, and Voluntariness
by Nancy E. Schauber

Commentary

Successfully Training and Retaining New Teachers
by Jo Ann Daly, Ed.D. and Carolyn Kazemi, M.Ed

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Spring 2001 - (Volume VI, number 1)

Cathleen Burnett, Petitions for Life: Executive Clemency in Missouri Death Penalty Cases

Nicholas Compton, Public Executions in America: Should Death Row Inmates Be Able to Choose Between Private and Public Death

Tara Elgie, The Death Penalty in Virginia: Attempts at Legislative Reform

Adelaide H. Villmoare, Through the Looking Glass of Teaching: The Death Penalty and the Political Culture of Detached Passions

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Fall 2000 - (Volume V, number 1)

Leanord Page, NLRB Remedies: Where Are They Going?

Frederick M. Hess and Bradley C. Davis, Charter School Legislation in Virginia: How Race, Regional Tension,and the Absence of Crisis Produced a "Weak" Law

Paul J. Piccard, Ann M. Piccard and Mary M. Piccard, Tick, Tick, Tick...The Electoral College, A Ticking Time Bomb

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Spring 2000 - (Volume IV, number 2)

F. Emmit Fitzpatrick & NiaLena Caravasos, Ineffective Assistance Of Counsel

*First Name Unknown* Lee, The Extradition Proceedings Against General Pinochet: A Case Study in The Emerging International System of Criminal Justice

James M. McCauley, The Delivery of Legal Services Through Multidisciplinary Practices

Spahn, Virginia State Bar Special Committee To Study The Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility; Substantive Differences Between the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of Professional Responsibility

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Fall 1999 - (Volume IV, number 1)

The Prosecution v. The Defense

Jane Amory Allen, The Execution of Angel Breard:  The United States Federalist System as scapegoat for the violation of an ICJ order

Robert H. Burger, State Regulation of Federal Prosecutors:  The impact on contact with represented persons in Virginia

Nina Marino and Richard Kaplan, The McDade Amendment:  Moving Towards a Meaningful Limitation on Wrongful Prosecutorial Contact With Represented Parties

Brenda E. Mallinak, Dickerson and the Future of Miranda

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Spring 1999 - (Volume III, number 3)

Second Environmental Issue

Thomas L. Eggert, Thinking Ahead:  Protecting the Environment in the 21st Century

Nicole A. Kleman, The North American Environment and its Linkages to Trade

James E. Plumhoff, Establishing an Environmental Audit Privilege to Promote Implementation of the ISO 14000 Standards

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Fall 1998 - (Volume III, number 2)

American Public Education:  From One Room Schoolhouse to Global Classroom

Michael Farris and Bradley P. Jacob, Public Schools' Pyrrhic Victories Over Parental Rights

James V. Koch, The Revolution in Higher Education

Kevin Mattson, The Great Evasion: Why Technology Won't Save Education

Anita O. Poston, Thomas B. Lockamy, Jr. and Gary L. Ruegsegger, NQSI: Quality Schools Come From Quality People

Patricia Smith, RJOLPI Editor-in-Chief, 1997-1998, Editorial Notes

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Fall 1998 - (Volume III, number 1)

Biomedical Ethics: Keeping Pace with Science and Technology

Mary Ann Palese Chandler, When Species Collide: An Analysis of the Use of Anencephalic Infants and Non-Human Animals as Organ Donors

Melissa S. Iotti, Mandatory HIV Testing of Accused Rapists: Whose Rights Are We Protecting?  An Ethical and Legal Analysis

Kay Ely-Pierce, Keeping Pace: A New Paradigm for the Ethical Use of Medical Technology

George P. Smith, II, Complexities in Biomedical Decision-making

Bernadette Spina, Ethical Justifications for Voluntary Active Euthanasia

Marcia Weiss, Medical Records On-Line: What Happened to Privacy?  A Legal Analysis

Vanessa Williamson, Liver Transplant Dilemma: The Alcoholic, Medicaid Patient

Michelle Wong, The Gift of Life: Ethical and Social Consequences of Organ Donation

 

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Spring 1998 - (Volume II, number 1)

First Environmental Issue

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Executive Summary of Virginia's Waters: Still at Risk - A Critique of the Commonwealth's Water Quality Reports

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Virginia's Waters: Still at Risk - A Critique of the Commonwealth's Water Quality Assessment Reports

Debra Schneider, Taking Superfund Presumptive Remedies to the Brownfields Arena

John Paul Woodley, Jr., Remarks of the Secretary of Natural Resources, at Environmental Virginia '98, April 2, 1998

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Spring 1997 - (Volume I, number 2)

Welfare Reform: A New Deal for the 1990s

Meredith Barton and Deborah Chandler, The Impact of Social Reform on Legal Immigrants

Richard K. Caputo, Welfare Reform: An Historical Overview

Peter Edelman, Virginia Commonwealth University Keynote Address: Social Justice Week 1997

Katja Hamel, Corporate Welfare: If Business Location Incentives Do Not Work, Then Why Do Communities Continue to Use Them?

Mary L. Heen, Welfare Reform, Work-Related Child Care and Tax Policy: The 'Family Values' Double Standard

Larry Nackerud, Alicia Isaac, Nicole Deets and Curtis Kleem, Welfare Reform and Unintended Consequence: Its Impact on a Local Child Protection Program

Laura Piper, Virginia as a Model for Other State Welfare Plans

David Stoesz, Reinventing Human Rights in Virginia

David G. Tuerck and William F. O'Brien, Rethinking Welfare in the Age of Devolution

Joel Weaver, Charitable Choice: Will This Provision of Welfare Reform Survive Constitutional Scrutiny?

James Williams, The Earned Income Tax Credit and Welfare Reform

J.R. Smith, RJOLPI Editor-in-Chief 1996-1997, Editorial Notes

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Fall 1996 - (Volume I, number 1)

The American Presidency in the Twenty-First Century

David Gray Adler, The Judiciary and Presidential Power in Foreign Affairs: A Critique

Anthony Eksterowicz and Glenn Hastedt, Executive-Congressional Liaison in a Post Cold War Era

Dean C. Hammer, From the Covenant to the Contract: Rhetoric and Meaning in the American Presidency

Braxton Hill, Jones v. Clinton and Presidential Immunity

Dana Makielski, Foreign Policy: Can the President Act Alone?  Gaps and Conflicts in the Constitutional Grants of Power

Amy L. Marshall, Jones v. Clinton: Reconsidering Presidential Immunity

J. R. Smith, The U.S. Presidency: Fostering Global Free Trade Through Multilateral Free Trade Agreements with Germany and Japan (abstract only)

Robert D. Gehringer, RJOLPI Editor-in-Chief 1995-1996, Editorial Notes

 

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