By Dr. Dana Raigrodski, Lecturer & Director, General L.L.M. track, from the University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA Click here to download the full article.
Category Archives: Issues
Article: Determining the Preemptive Effect of Federal Law on State Statutes of Repose
By Adam Bain Statutes of repose can prevent causes of actions from arising or being enforced after a given period of time has elapsed from a defined event. In recent years, courts applying the doctrine of federal preemption have increasingly found that federal statutes removed the barriers of state statutes of repose to certain tortContinue reading “Article: Determining the Preemptive Effect of Federal Law on State Statutes of Repose”
Volume 42 Issue 3
Our March 28, 2013 symposium, Privacy Rights and Proactive Investigations: Emerging Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement, brought together leading scholars and practitioners to explore three issues that have once more thrust Maryland to the frontier of law enforcement: the validity of DNA databases, new approaches and the latest thinking on witness identifications, and the use of trackingContinue reading “Volume 42 Issue 3”
Privacy Rights and Proactive Investigations: Emerging Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement
Our March 28th symposium examines growing tensions between constitutional safeguard and effective law enforcement in Maryland and across the nation including the validity of DNA databases, new approaches and the latest thinking on witness identifications, and the use of tracking devices after United States v. Jones, with forthcoming articles by several of our panelists serving as theContinue reading “Privacy Rights and Proactive Investigations: Emerging Constitutional Issues in Law Enforcement”
Volume 42 Issue 2
Here’s a look at our latest issue: 1) A Q&A with Keynote Speaker Senator Barbara Mikulski, moderated by Professor Margaret E. Johnson. A full transcript of Senator Mikulski’s remarks at the 2012 Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Applied Feminism and Democracy, is available here. 2) Reflections on VAWA’S Strange Bedfellows: The Partnership between the Battered ImmigrantContinue reading “Volume 42 Issue 2”