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The abstract: This article asserts that legal change in systems influenced by religion requires a legitimizing hermeneutic rooted in sacred texts and tradition. I argue that a number scholars of legal history (Michael Klarman), feminist jurisprudence Catharine MacKinnon, Katherine Bartlett and Elizabeth Schneider) and narrative theory (Jacques Derrida, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic) explicitly or implicitly accept that legal reform is in some sense determined by underlying social shifts ...

Russell Powell (Seattle University School of Law) has posted Zakat: Drawing Insights for Legal Theory and Economic Policy from Islamic Jurisprudence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The rapid development of complex income taxation and welfare systems in the 20th century may give the impression that progressive wealth redistribution systems are uniquely modern. However, religious systems provided similar mechanisms for addressing economic injustice and poverty alleviation centuries earlier. ...

... attending or would like more information once the schedule is finalized, please fill out the attached registration form and e-mail it to: Lisa Schiltz: erschiltz@stthomas.edu . We look forward to seeing you in June! Kevin Lee, kplee@avemarialaw.eduRussell Powell, rpowell@seattleu.eduLisa Schiltz, erschiltz@stthomas.eduSusan Stabile, stabiles@stjohns.eduMichael Scaperlanda, mscaperlanda@ou.eduAmy Uelmen, Auelmen@law.fordham.edu (The Executive Committee of the Conference on Catholic Legal Thought)

... of the rest of their lives in jail (not whether Skilling should be running Enron). Only the witless will think this is an easy question for the jury. I noted, regarding Well, now we have some information about how the jury went about making up its mind: Russell Powell, The Enron Trial Drama: A New Case for Stakeholder Theory. The article analyzes comments the jury made to the media after the trial. Here are some excerpts ( ...

Not so new article, but an interesting one: Russell Powell, Theology in Public Reason and Legal Discourse: A Case for the Preferential Option for the Poor, Washington & Lee J. of Civil Rights & Social Justice (forthcoming). Abstract below: There is a strange disconnect between the formal understanding of the separation of religion from government in [...]

... a new trial was filed Thursday on behalf of Russell Wright and his company, Stoam Holdings. It claims juror Johnathan Powell sent eight messages - or "tweets" - to the micro-blogging ... s kind of crazy that they're trying to use this to get the case thrown out," Powell said. "I understand where they're coming from, they lost over $12 million." ... room and corrupted a verdict - not that information from the jury room made its way out. Powell, a 29-year-old manager at a Wal-Mart photo lab, said he tried ...

... lawsuits scattered across the nation. (See, for example, Quinn Emanuel lawyer Michael Powell, whose PitchWare dot-com went bust but left him with a patent he ... Seven defendants were hit with an additional patent, 6,466,862. In this lawsuit, Russell and DeKock sued AT&T Mobility LLC, Research in Motion, Sony ... Volvo of Dallas (a ploy to keep venue?), claiming the companies infringe the '606 patent. Russell and DeKock are the named inventors, along with Richard J. Qian, an engineer who appears ...

... , and Alito) because twenty-three years earlier he wrote the decision in the Russell case, which found that consequential damages were not permitted under a Section ... case, carries considerable weight in trying to decide the relationship between LaRue and Russell. In fact, and this is rank speculation on my part, I wonder if Alito joined ... because Stevens was joined by Rehnquist, Burger, O'Connor, and Powell in his previous opinion in Russell. What say you fellow law professors with way too much ...

... receive an Award, rendering any harm from the failure to recommend "speculative" and "difficult to remedy" [Russell, 257 F.3d at 818]. Because a recommendation for a Presidential Rank Award does not ... makes an employee unhappy'" is actionable under Title VII. Maj. Op. at 4 (quoting Russell v. Principi, 257 F.3d 815, 818 (D.C. Cir.2001)). ... injur[y], such as dissatisfaction with a reassignment, or public humiliation or loss of reputation," Forkkio v. Powell, 306 F.3d 1127, 1130-31 (D.C. Cir. 2002) ( ...

... D., 410 U.S. 614, 619 (1973) In re Persico. 522 F.2d 52, 54 (2d Cir. [1975]) Powell v. Katzenbach, 359 F.2d 234, 234-35 (D.C. Cir 1965)(per curiam) JAG HUNTER HERE: Judge Royce C ... of the authority to refuse to bring the Grand Jury's decided, formal criminal accusation before the Petite Jury in a criminal court. James Russell Dedrick, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District in Tennessee is on the record stating that Dedrick would not act upon the federal criminal complaint naming SOETORO-OBAMA ...