Welcome back and Happy New Year! I hope that everyone had a restful holiday and you are ready to go for another busy semester. If I had to pick a theme as 2014 begins at the Law College, it would have to be “change.” Continue reading…
The College's Civil Clinic Program recently held the first of 4 Advanced Directive Clinic (ADC) in Beatrice. The program is a joint venture between the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS), Legal Aid, and the College of Law, funded through a federal grant awarded to NDHHS. Continue reading…
Professor Marcia Dority Baker wrote a chapter on "Social Software" for the recently published book, "Law Librarianship in the Digital Age", edited by Ellyssa Kroski.
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Professor Rick Duncan's article, Just Another Brick in the Wall: The Establishment Clause as a Heckler's Veto, has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2014 Issue of Texas Review of Law & Politics. The article critiques the Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning passive religious displays in the public square, and the true source of the Court's Wall of Separation between church and state metaphor. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2361504 Continue reading…
Professor Christal Sheppard was recently featured in UNL Today discussing new patent legislation, and she also just returned from participating in the 3rd Annual Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest in Cape Town South Africa. Continue reading…
Professor Sandra Zellmer recently published two books on natural resources. Comparative Environmental and Natural Resources Law and
Principles of Natural Resources Law (Concise Hornbook) Continue reading…
Peter Maggs was my contracts professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and, according to the law school's Facebook feed, he's been there 50 years. He's a legend. Beyond sheer longevity or his myriad accomplishments in contract law, he will forever be remembered by my classmates for Maggs' Last Stand: on the final day of contracts, Professor Maggs stepped up to the podium, recapped the entire semester of contracts law in 50 minutes, gave a slight nod, and exited stage left to thunderous applause. It was truly something to behold. (I'm actually surprised it's not on YouTube by now.) Continue reading…