Jones Law Review articles from January 1 2003

Jones Law Review archives from January 1 2003

Water resource protection in Alabama: the need for a paradigm change.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Few resources are more important to Alabama citizens than the state's abundant rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and seashores. Alabama has 14 major river basins containing 47,072 miles of perennial rivers and streams and...

The struggle in Alabama for constitutional reform.
January 1, 2003... On January 31, 2003, Alabama's new Republican governor, Bob Riley, convened a diverse group of citizens in Montgomery to begin deliberating changes he proposed for the state's 1901 Constitution. Thus he fulfilled his promise that constitutional...

What a poor defense! Exploring the ineffectiveness of counsel for the poor and searching for a solution.
January 1, 2003... "Laws are like spiders' webs: they catch the weak and the small, but the strong and the powerful break through them." (1) INTRODUCTION Close your eyes and imagine you are a poor person accused of a crime and cannot afford to retain...

Preparation of the trial lawyer for mediation.
January 1, 2003... The entire legal profession--lawyers, judges, law teachers--has become so mesmerized with the stimulation of the courtroom contest that we tend to forget that we ought to be 'healers of conflict.' For many claims, trials by adversarial contest...

Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union.(children and Internet pornography)
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION Reasonable men might well be forgiven for assuming that a United States Supreme Court decision dealing with children and Internet pornography would entail some titanic clash of the fundamental principles of the opposing...

Atkins v. Virginia: the costs of arriving at a decision to exempt the mentally retarded from execution.
January 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION In 1989, the United States Supreme Court in Penry v. Lynaugh (1) first addressed the issue of whether the execution of the mentally retarded was cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. At that time, lack of a...