Law journal articles, and other scholarship by the faculty of California Western School of Law

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Publications from 2017

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Pregnancy Test Missed Before IUD Placement? Your Liability, Joseph S. Sanfilippo and Steven R. Smith

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The GMO/GE Debate, Joanna K. Sax

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Biotechnology and Consumer Decision-Making, Joanna K. Sax

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Business Law Critical to Your Practice: Preventive Law, Like Preventive Medicine, Can Make All the Difference, Steven R. Smith

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Supreme Court 2016-2017: A New Justice and a Term of Surprising Importance, Steven R. Smith

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Informed Consent: The More You Know, the More You and Your Patient Are Protected, Steven R. Smith and Joseph S. Sanfilippo

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Illiberty of Contract, Donald J. Smythe

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Certain Certiorari: The Digital Privacy Rights of Probationers, Daniel Yeager

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Stuffed Deer and the Grammar of Mistakes, Daniel B. Yeager

Publications from 2016

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Some Skepticism about Criminal Discovery Empiricism, Miriam H. Baer

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Too Vast to Succeed,, Miriam H. Baer

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Re-Designing Law and Lawyering for the Information Age, Thomas D. Barton

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Harmonizing the Law to Protect Cultural Diplomacy: The Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunities Clarification Act, Emily T. Behzadi

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Lifetime Disadvantage, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

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Toward a Civilized System of Justice: Reconceptualizing the Response to Sexual Violence in Higher Education, Hannah Brenner and Kathleen Darcy

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Bars to Justice: The Impact of Rape Myths on Women in Prison, Hannah Brenner, Kathleen Darcy, Gina Fedock, and Sheryl Kubiak

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Wrongfully Convicted in California: Are There Connections Between Exonerations, Prosecutorial and Police Procedures, and Justice Reforms?, Justin P. Brooks and Zachary Brooks

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If Hindsight is 20/20, Our Justice System Should Not Be Blind to New Evidence of Innocence: A Survey of Post-Conviction New Evidence Statutes and a Proposed Model, Justin P. Brooks, Alexander Simpson, and Paige Kaneb

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The Rise of Private Actors Along the United States-Mexico Border, James M. Cooper

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3D Printing: Digital Infringement and Digital Regulation, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Trademarks and Brands in 3D Printing, Tabrez Y. Ebrahim

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Madonnas and Whores in the Workplace, Jessica K. Fink

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Considering Consequences: Autonomy’s Missing Half, Catherine A. Hardee

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Online Contracting, Nancy Kim

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Truth and Legitimacy (in Courts), Kenneth S. Klein

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From Edward to Eric Garner and Beyond, Nancy C. Marcus

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Reporting Sexual Victimization During Incarceration: Using Ecological Theory as a Framework to Inform and Guide Future Research, Sheryl Pimlott Kubiak, Hannah Brenner, Deborah Bybee, Rebecca Campbell, and Gina Fedock

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Patent "Trolls" and Claim Construction, Greg Reilly

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Contours of GMO Regulation and Labeling, Joanna K. Sax

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Food Labeling and Consumer Associations with Health, Safety, and Environment, Joanna K. Sax and Neal Doran

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Clearing the Clouds on the CISG's Warranty of Title, Donald J. Smythe

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Liberty at the Borders of Private Law, Donald J. Smythe

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Reasonable Standards for Contract Interpretations under the CISG, Donald J. Smythe

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Fiduciary-isms: A Study of Academic Influence on the Expansion of the Law, Daniel B. Yeager

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Cross-Deductions in the Net Investment Income Tax Imposed on a Trust or Estate with Separate Shares, Michael T. Yu

Publications from 2015

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Two Stories About Skin Color and International Human Rights Advocacy, William J. Aceves

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United States v. George Tenet: A Federal Indictment for Torture, William J. Aceves

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Timing Brady, Miriam H. Baer

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Unsophisticated Sentencing, Miriam H. Baer

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Flexibility and Stability in Contracts, Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio, and Tatiana Borisova

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The ACA, Provider Mergers and Hospital Pricing: Experimenting with Smart, Lower-Cost Health Insurance Options, Susan A. Channick

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From One Town's 'Alternative Families' Ordinance to Marriage Equality Nationwide, Barbara Cox

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The Parts Are Greater Than the Sum: What I Learned From My Mediation Clinic Students, Floralynn Einesman

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Internet Giants as Quasi-Governmental Actors and the Limits of Contractual Consent, Nancy Kim and D.A. Jeremy Telman

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Comparative Jury Procedures, Kenneth S. Klein

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Promoting Contract Flexibility through Trademarks: "Branded" Intellectual Property Licensing Practices, Nari Lee and Thomas D. Barton

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Bridging Bisexual Erasure in LGBT-Rights Discourse and Litigation, Nancy C. Marcus

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Out of Breath and Down to the Wire, Nancy C. Marcus

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Teamwork, Linda H. Morton and Janet Weinstein

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Linking Patent Reform and Civil Litigation Reform, Greg Reilly

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Law School Based Incubators and Access to Justice, Patricia Salkin, Ellen Suni, Niels Schaumann, and Mary Lu Bilek

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Dietary Supplements are Not all Safe and Not all Food: How the Low Cost of Dietary Supplements Preys on the Consumer, Joanna K. Sax

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Fair Use and Appropriation Art, Niels Schaumann

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Policing Sex: The Colonial, Apartheid, and New Democracy Policing of Sex Work in South Africa, I. India Thusi

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Collaboration and Teamwork, Janet Weinstein and Linda H. Morton

Publications from 2014

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Confronting the Two Faces of Corporate Fraud, Miriam H. Baer

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Secrecy, Intimacy and Workable Rules, Miriam H. Baer

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It's Complicated: Age, Gender, and Lifetime Discrimination against Working Women - the United States and the U.K. as Examples, Susan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm Sargeant

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Expanding the Pathways to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession, Hannah Brenner

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Reflective practice in legal education: The stages of reflection, Timothy Casey

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Marriage Equality is Both Feminist and Progressive, Barbara Cox

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In Defense of Snooping Employers, Jessica Fink

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Boilerplate and Consent, Nancy Kim

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Situational Duress and the Aberrance of Electronic Contracts, Nancy Kim

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Two Alternate Visions of Contract Law in 2025, Nancy Kim

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Wrap Contract Morass, Nancy Kim

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Deeply Rooted Principles of Equal Liberty, not “Argle Bargle”, Nancy C. Marcus

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When Quacking like a Duck is Really a Swan Song in Disguise, Nancy C. Marcus

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Aggregating Defendants, Greg Reilly

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Completing the Picture of Uncertain Patent Scope, Greg Reilly

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Judicial Capacities and Patent Claim Construction: An Ordinary Reader Standard, Greg Reilly

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Clinical Jurisprudence: Could Thorough Documentation Have Changed The Outcome Of This Trial?, Joseph S. Sanfilippo, Steven R. Smith, and Shirley M. Pruitt

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The Separation of Politics and Science, Joanna K. Sax

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The Supreme Court 2013-2014: The Happiest Term?, Steven R. Smith

Publications from 2013

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Visualization: Seeing Contracts for What They Are, and What They Could Become, Thomas Barton, Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, and Helena Haapio

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Why Dennis?, Michal R. Belknap

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Beyond Seduction: Lessons Learned About Rape, Politics, and Power from Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Moshe Katsav, Hannah Brenner

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Transcending the Criminal Law's "One Size Fits All" Response to Domestic Violence, Hannah Brenner

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Health Care Cost Containment: No Longer an Option but a Mandate, Susan A. Channick

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“The Tyranny of the Majority is No Myth”: Its Dangers for Legally Married Same-Sex Couples, Barbara Cox

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How not to be jaded when the world is going to the bad place in a hand basket, Kathryn Fehrman

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It started with a cat fight; a story and a call to grow out of the Arab-Israeli conflict, Kathryn Fehrman

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Carnival Cruise and the contracting of everything, Nancy Kim

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The Enduring Quality of an Alluring Mistake: Why One Person’s Intentions Cannot—And Never Could—Be Evidence of Another Person’s Conduct, Kenneth S. Klein

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Why Federal Rule of Evidence 403 is Unconstitutional, and Why That Matters, Kenneth S. Klein

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Teaching Teamwork to Law Students, Linda Morton, Janet Weinstein, Howard Taras, and Vivian Reznik

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Innovating Contract Practices: Merging Contract Design with Information Design, Stefania Passera, Helena Haapio, and Thomas D. Barton

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Improvidently Granted: Why the En Banc Federal Circuit Chose the Wrong Claim Construction Issue, Greg Reilly

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The Tobacco Diaries: Lessons Learned and Applied to Regulation of Dietary Supplements, Joanna K. Sax

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Consideration for a Price: Using the Contract Price to Interpret Ambiguous Contract Terms, Donald J. Smythe

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Legal Education at a Crossroads: Innovation, Integration, and Pluralism Required!, Karen Tokarz, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Peggy Maisel, and Robert F. Seibel

Publications from 2012

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Choosing Punishment, Miriam H. Baer

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Some Thoughts on the Porous Boundary between Ordinary and Extraordinary Frauds, Miriam H. Baer

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Symposium Introduction: Advancing Intellectual Property Goals Through Prevention and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Thomas Barton and James M. Cooper

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Social-Network Theory and the Diffusion of the Search-and-Seizure Exclusionary Rule Among State Courts Between Weeks and Wolf, Laurence A. Benner, Robert Bird, and Donald J. Smythe

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The International Labour Organization and International Labor Standards, Roger Blanpain, Susan Bisom-Rapp, William R. Corbett, Hilary K. Josephs, and Michael J. Zimmer

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Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power: A Study on Media Coverage of Supreme Court Nominees (Phase 1, the Introduction Week), Hannah Brenner and Renee Newman Knake

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Redinocente: The Challenge of Bringing Innocence Work to Latin America, Justin Brooks

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Find the Cost of Freedom: The State of Wrongful Conviction Compensation Statutes Across the Country and the Strange Legal Odyssey of Timothy Atkins, Justin Brooks and Alexander Simpson

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Taming the Beast of Health Care Costs: Why Medicare Reform Alone is Not Enough, Susan A. Channick