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Defending refugees: A case for protective procedural safeguards in the persecutor bar analysis
(2019)For refugees and asylum seekers, application of the so-called persecutor bar is tantamount to a death sentence. However, the Board of Immigration Appeals -- without any real deliberation--has arrived at an interpretation ... -
Seeking predicate findings in Nebraska for special immigrant juveniles
(2018)On April 23, 2018, Governor Pete Ricketts signed LB 670, a bill which contains several important provisions related to individuals seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) predicate findings before Nebraska state courts. ... -
Cuba-U.S. bilateral relationship: New pathways and policy choices
(. New York, NY, 2019)At the end of President Barack Obama’s second term, it seemed that the U.S. and Cuba might be on track to normalize relations after five decades of cold war animus. These hopes seemed dashed by the results of the 2016 U.S. ... -
Hearing on competition and consumer protection in the 21st Century
(. Washington, D.C., 2019)The Federal Trade Commission held the 14th session of its Hearings Initiative with Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska on June 12, 2019. This concluded the FTC’s Hearings on Competition and Consumer ... -
Mangrum on Nebraska evidence
(. Eagan, MN, 2019) -
Maintaining an ethical balance in probate practice
(. Eau Claire, WI, 2019) -
Legal structures in a Game of Thrones: The laws of the first men and those that followed
(2018)For as long as we humans have recorded our existence, we have developed rules to govern our affairs. It is not surprising then that the rule of law predominates not only our own life, but also that of those worlds that ... -
District attorneys, discretion, and dialogue: How the culture of a prosecutor's office frames the relationship between superiors and subordinates
(2018)INTRODUCTION|Failings in legal reasoning echo the failings of the Enlightenment project. The Creighton Law Review asked me to address the relationship between superiors and subordinates in a legal ethics context. In this ... -
Muddy-booted, disingenuous revolution in personal jurisdiction
(2018)When the editors of the Florida Law Review offered me the opportunity to comment on Professor Michael Hoffheimer’s wonderfully insightful article, I almost declined. The reason is that I agree with pretty much everything ... -
Ethical and legal issues
(. St. Louis, MO, 2020) -
Humanitarian logic and the law of siege: A study of the Oxford Guidance on relief actions
(2019)In terms of human suffering, few military operations have rivaled sieges and comparably harsh legal regimes have governed them. At a time when legal vindication of humanitarian interests in armed conflict is ascendant, ... -
These words may not mean what you think they mean: Toward a modern understanding of children and Miranda waivers
(2018)In Parts I and II, this article will discuss the history of the Miranda waiver standards and cases interpreting those standards as applied to children. In Part III, the article will explore efforts on the state level to ... -
Important developments in federal income taxation
(. Lincoln, NE, 2018) -
Retrenchment, temporary-effect legislation, and the home mortgage interest deduction
(2018)There are several sacred cows in the Internal Revenue Code, but perhaps none quite as sacrosanct as the home mortgage interest deduction. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has characterized the mortgage interest deduction ... -
Caremark in the arc of compliance history
(2018)In 1996, the Delaware Chancery Court's In re Caremark International Inc. Derivative Litigation decision was the first to recognize a director's fiduciary duty to oversee a corporation's compliance and ethics program. Two ... -
Mangrum and Benson on Utah Evidence
(. Eagan, MN, 2018) -
Overview of corporate compliance and ethics program
(. New York, NY, 2018) -
Ethics -- it's legal, but is it right?
(. Eau Claire, WI, 2018)
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