Oregon Law Review : Vol. 93, No. 2 (2014)
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2024-03-28T15:45:19ZOpen Wide the Gates of Legal Access
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Open Wide the Gates of Legal Access
Ford, Beth
This Comment will explore the problem of copyrighting various aspects of state statutes, explain the precedent of this copyrighting conundrum, and analyze its detrimental effects. Part I summarizes relevant case law and statutory history that provide the authority (or lack thereof) for copyrighting the law; Part II explains the codification process; Parts III and IV describe how impediments to access have manifested across the country; Part V analyzes how limiting public access to the law can be problematic and why citizens should not tolerate it; and Part VI offers a workable solution providing access to the law so that more may understand it.
32 pages.
2015-02-17T00:00:00ZThe Thirteenth Amendment and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act: Is There Room for Religion?
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The Thirteenth Amendment and the Hate Crimes Prevention Act: Is There Room for Religion?
Mintz, David R.
This Comment explores the extent to which federal hate crime legislation such as the Hate Crimes Prevention Act (HCPA) protects people from bias-motivated violence on account of their religion. In doing so, it examines racial and religious protection in the context of Thirteenth Amendment jurisprudence and federal hate crime legislation. This Comment seeks to explain and clarify the relationship between the Thirteenth Amendment, religion, and federal hate crime statutes like the HCPA.
40 pages.
2015-02-17T00:00:00ZUrban Growth Management in Portland, Oregon
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Urban Growth Management in Portland, Oregon
Sullivan, Edward J.
Oregon’s urban growth management experience sets it apart from other land use planning and regulatory programs in the United States. The Oregon land use program has endured for more than forty years, suffering the vicissitudes of multiple constitutional attacks and legislative adjustments. Oregon’s policy protects most rural lands suitable for farm or forest use. It also seeks to be efficient in spending limited public funds to expand public facilities and services when lands are urbanized. This Article examines one aspect of Oregon’s program in one area of the state—growth management in the Portland Metropolitan Area, the state’s most populous region.
44 pages.
2015-02-17T00:00:00ZThe United States’ Maternal Care Crisis: A Human Rights Solution
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The United States’ Maternal Care Crisis: A Human Rights Solution
Duncan, Erin K.
In the United States, unnecessarily high rates of cesarean sections, artificial labor inductions performed without medical indication, and other medical interventions that can cause preventable injury during childbirth are just some of the indicators of a system that is failing to protect the rights of pregnant women. Other deficiencies in maternal care in the United States include healthcare providers’ failure to obtain informed consent reflecting the risks and benefits of medical interventions, enactment of fetal rights laws that infringe on the rights of pregnant women, the lack of a comprehensive reporting system for maternal mortality, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity (serious injury).
52 pages.
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