Yakima Herald-Republic articles from November 2007

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from November 2007

Refugee Roulette: disparities in asylum adjudication.
November 1, 2007... INDEX OF FIGURES AND TABLES INTRODUCTION I. THE ASYLUM PROCESS A. The Regional Asylum Offices B. The Immigration Courts C. The Board of Immigration Appeals D. The United States Courts of Appeals E. The Supreme...

Learning to live with unequal justice: asylum and the limits to consistency.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. THE BACKGROUND A. A Summary of the Asylum Process B. The Asylum Study--Disparities in Asylum Adjudication II. WHY CONSISTENCY MATTERS III. THE DETERMINANTS OF CONSISTENCY A. Numbers 1. The...

Refugee Roulette in an administrative law context: the deja vu of decisional disparities in agency adjudication.(response to article by Jaya Ramji-Nogales and others in this issue, p. 295)
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. OPENING A WINDOW TO POLITICAL SCIENCE II. THROUGH THE LENS OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW A. A Primer on the Structure of Agency Adjudication B. Comparing Asylum and Disability Adjudication C. The Unhappy...

Four models of Fourth Amendment protection.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. THE FOUR MODELS A. The Probabilistic Model B. The Private Facts Model C. The Positive Law Model D. The Policy Model E. The Relationship Among the Models II. THE CASE FOR MULTIPLE MODELS OF FOURTH...

Wiretapping before the wires: the post office and the birth of communications privacy.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. EMBEDDING COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY INTO THE AMERICAN POST OFFICE A. Communications Privacy in the British Post Office B. Communications Privacy in the American Post Office II. THE CONSTITUTIONALIZATION OF...

The empire's new clothes: political economy and the fragmentation of international law.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. THE EFFECTS OF FRAGMENTATION II. STRATEGIC COORDINATION IN THE DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT III. FOUR FRAGMENTATION STRATEGIES 1. The Creation of a Large Number of Narrow, Functionally-Defined ...

Controlling family shareholders in developing countries: anchoring relational exchange.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. THE STRUCTURE Of REPUTATION MARKETS II. CORPORATIONS AS LONG-LIVED REPOSITORIES OF REPUTATION III. THE FAMILY AS A MORE EFFICIENT REPUTATION BEARER IV. WHY MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS? V. THE DYNAMICS OF REPUTATION-BASED...

Doubtful duty: physicians' legal obligation to treat during an epidemic.
November 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION I. HISTORICAL ORIGINS A. Emergence of the American Medical Association B. Relationship Between Law and Ethics C. Reluctance to Treat II. IN THE ABSENCE OF AN "EMERGENCY" A. Americans with Disabilities...