{"title":"Legislative Enactment of Standard Forms","authors":"John M. Gradwohl","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2065954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2065954","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers when a state legislature should include a statutory form as part of the enactment. No other form, however professionally prepared, can bestow the same validation as a legislative statement that \"a [document] in substantially the following form shall be sufficient\" [to invoke the provisions of this act]. The easy availability of reliable forms and information in the electronic age can present issues of an unauthorized practice of law. The article examines recent experiences of two Uniform Acts of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws which contain statutory forms -- the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act and the Uniform Power of Attorney Act. The conclusions are that the statutory forms can be valuable in carrying out the provisions and policies of the underlying enactment and should be considered by everyone involved in the legislative proposal to be as important as the substantive provisions, themselves.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"91 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67896719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear of Facebook: Private Ordering of Social Media Risks Incurred by Healthcare Providers","authors":"N. Terry","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1908346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1908346","url":null,"abstract":"The last two years have seen important quantitative and qualitative shifts in social media use patterns in the healthcare environment. Reacting to present and future risks there has been a rapid deployment of private ordering: social media policies and other contractual constructs emanating from physicians, professional organizations, employers and educators. These private, often contractual attempts to regulate online interactions or social media conduct are not all benign, themselves creating ethical or legal risk. This article, a follow-up to Physicians And Patients Who ‘Friend’ Or ‘Tweet’: Constructing A Legal Framework For Social Networking In A Highly Regulated Domain, 43 IND. L. REV. 285 (2010), concentrates on social media and these new risk management constructs. Part II provides updated statistics on Internet use by healthcare workers and explores some of the scenarios that have led medical schools and healthcare entities to expressly address social media behavior. Part III inquires into how professional organizations or those who employ or credential physicians have attempted to change the rules of the game by promulgating social media policies and analyses some of the legal constraints on those policies. Part IV deals with the reality of medically relevant information about patients increasingly moving online and asks whether physicians should attempt to access information that might be useful or even life-saving. Finally, Part V describes how the patient-physician dialog has increasingly spilled out of the consulting room and onto social media sites and explores how physicians should react not only to overtures for social media friendship but also to online critical patient comments.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"90 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67777952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Tale of Two Waivers: Waiver of the Jury Waiver Defense Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure","authors":"J. Gonzalez","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1174882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1174882","url":null,"abstract":"There is an extensive amount of academic commentary on the enforceability of pre-dispute contractual jury waivers. My article, entitled A Tale of Two Waivers: Waiver of the Jury Waiver Defense under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, considers a related topic that has not received much scholarly attention: the procedure for raising a jury waiver defense in federal civil litigation. Specifically, I advocate a novel approach that treats a contractual jury waiver defense as an affirmative defense under Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The affirmative defense approach requires a party that desires to strike a jury demand on the basis of a pre-dispute contractual jury waiver to plead the waiver as an affirmative defense and then move to strike the jury demand after discovery has been conducted on the merits of the defense. Under this approach, the waiver issue must be raised early on in the pre-trial litigation process and determined expeditiously by the courts. Under the current approach, a party may raise the jury waiver challenge for the first time on the eve of trial or even during the jury trial itself, which is very problematic. As far as I know, this is the first scholarly piece to advocate a departure from the current approach and my arguments are novel.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"59 1","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68149710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Good Times and in Debt: The Evolution of Marital Agency and the Meaning of Marriage","authors":"Marie T. Reilly","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1123612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1123612","url":null,"abstract":"A married person sometimes acts solely for herself and at other times on behalf of her spouse. If she incurs debt solely for herself, then only she is liable to the creditor. If, however, she incurs debt both for herself and on behalf of her spouse, both are liable - the debtor directly and the spouse indirectly by imputed liability. Before married women's property reform, imputed marital liability followed from marital status. As marriage changed to recognize the legal individuality of both spouses, so too did the scope of a spouse's imputed liability for the debts of the other spouse. Today, the scope of a spouse's imputed liability for the debts of an insolvent spouse defines an important and largely unexamined aspect of what it means to be married. Despite change in the terms of marriage between the parties, courts continue to view imputed marital liability with sensitivity to the historical privilege of marital investment and the unique social value of trust and dependency within marriage.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"87 1","pages":"373"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mandatory Disclosure of State Corporate Law","authors":"Christopher John Gulinello","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1010997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1010997","url":null,"abstract":"The disclosure of information on state corporate law should be high on the agenda of the ongoing mandatory disclosure debate. State corporate law plays a central role in the governance of public firms and despite the intense focus legal academia places on state corporate law, public companies are not required to disclose much information about the corporate law of their respective states of incorporation. This article makes a case for mandating public companies to disclose information about state corporate law as part of their regular disclosures. State corporate law is an important part of the information investors need to evaluate corporate governance risk. Mandatory disclosure of state corporate law would reduce the costs of disseminating information in a market where there are 51 possible jurisdictions for which investors need to research and process information on state corporate law. In addition, mandatory disclosure of state corporate law would better ensure that this information is incorporated into the price of securities when there is a possibility the market largely ignores some important aspects of state corporate law. Posted with permission from the Nebraska Law Review. See Christopher J. Gulinello, The Mandatory Disclosure of State Corporate Law, 86 Neb. L. Rev. 795 (2008)","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"86 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68124616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolving Business and Social Norms and Interpretation Rules: The Need for a Dynamic Approach to Contract Disputes","authors":"Nancy S. Kim","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.713962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.713962","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid societal and technological changes - such as the rise in electronic commerce, increasing diversity and globalization - create contract interpretation issues that require a dynamic approach. While many modern contractual disputes arise from a confluence of factors, contract doctrine has tended to adopt a unitary approach to problems with an emphasis on interpretation of words. This article argues that non-intuitive interpretation rules work to the disadvantage of language and cultural minorities and should only be used if their purpose is to determine the intent of the parties or to uphold a policy or legislative objective. A dynamic approach is best suited to address evolving social norms and needs. This article proposes a dynamic approach to contract interpretation which shifts focus away from the meaning of written words to a determination of the intent of the parties.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"84 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67809396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Out-of-Priority Water Use: Adding Flexibility to the Water Appropriation System","authors":"Lawrence J. Macdonnell","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2691110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2691110","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the different ways that state laws have adapted to allow out-of-priority water uses.","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"83 1","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68256522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient advocacy and termination from managed care organizations. Do state laws protecting health care professional advocacy make any difference?","authors":"Linda C Fentiman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"82 2","pages":"508-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25886869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is Congress Supposed to Promote?: Defining 'Progress' in Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, or Introducing The Progress Clause","authors":"M. Pollack","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.304180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.304180","url":null,"abstract":"Repeated Supreme Court dicta characterize the Intellectual Property Clause of the United States Constitution as containing both grants of power and limitations. The Court, however, has yet to explicate the limit imposed by the Clause's opening words, \"to Promote the progress of Science and the useful Arts.\" Scholars and jurists have assumed without investigation that \"progress\" bears the meaning most potent in Nineteenth Century American civilization: a continuous qualitative improvement of knowledge inevitably leading to consensus and human happiness. This article presents empirical evidence that the 1789 meaning of \"progress\" is \"spread.\" The original meaning of Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the Constitution is that Congress has power to pass only such time-limited copyright and patent statutes as increase the dissemination of knowledge and technology to the public. Congress' modern focus on providing maximum control and economic benefit to copyright holders is constitutionally illegitimate. The Court, therefore, should hold the Copyright Term Extension Act to be unconstitutional when it decides Eldred v. Ashcroft next Term. The same fate should await the anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Article I, section 8, clause 8 is most properly referred to as the \"Progress Clause.\"","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"80 1","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68505870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Physician-assisted suicide: new protocol for a rightful death.","authors":"C N O'Brien, G A Madek","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82091,"journal":{"name":"Nebraska law review","volume":"77 2","pages":"229-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22403170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}