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11/14/2009 - Virginia Goes 20 Months without a Jury Death Verdict
Washington and Lee School of Law professors David Bruck and Scott Sundby are both quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch story about the decline of death sentenences imposed by juries in Virginia.   
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11/10/2009 - D.C. Sniper's Defense Team See Glimpses of Humanity
Washington and Lee professor and capital case clinic director David Bruck comments in a Washington Post story about the defense team for D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday.   
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11/9/2009 - Wider Oversight Looms for Insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an WSJ story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws.    
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11/8/2009 - Compromises get U.S. health bill through
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a Globe and Mail story examining the compromises between lawmakers that facilitated the passage of the U.S. House health care reform bill.   
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10/31/2009 - Tim Jost on the House Health Reform Bill
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost guest blogs at the Health Affairs website on the House Health Reform Bill, HR 3962.   
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10/28/2009 - Pulling a trigger on the public option
Research by Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost is cited in this Forbes column examining a trigger for a public health care plan.   
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10/28/2009 - Constitutionality of Health Overhaul Questioned
Washington and Lee law professor Timothy Stoltzfus Jost discusses the constitutionality of requiring individuals to purchase health care in the Washington Times.   
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10/26/2009 - Law Professor Argues for Marriage Bill that Respects Religious Objectors
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson argues in a Washington Post opinion piece that legislation legalizing same-sex marriage will better serve both sides of the debate if it includes robust protections for religious objectors.   
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10/25/2009 - An Affectionate Portrait of Bill Rehnquist, Regular Guy
Washington and Lee law school dean Rod Smolla writes about a new book profiling the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.   
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10/25/2009 - Expert Discusses Death Penalty Holdouts
Washington and Lee Law School Professor Scott Sundby comments in a Chicago Tribune story examining the refusal of several jurors in a recent mass murder trial to support a death sentence.   
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10/22/2009 - Antitrust move poses few risks to health insurers
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in an AP story about an effort by Democratic lawmakers to strip health insurers of their protection from certain federal antitrust laws.   
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10/22/2009 - More for the Wish List
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost discusses the Finance Committe health reform bill on The New Republic blog, The Treatment, a must-read guide to health care reform.   
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10/17/2009 - Prof. Robin Wilson Analyzes Maine's Same-sex Marriage Debate
Washington and Lee Professor Robin F. Wilson explores the need for religious protections in same-sex marriage laws being enacted in serveral U.S. states.   
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10/5/2009 - Health Insurance Exchanges: Will They Work?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care reform expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Times article examining the viability of health insurance exchanges.   
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10/4/2009 - High Court tackles animal-abuse tapes as free speech test
Washington and Lee Law Dean and First Amendment scholar Rodney A. Smolla comments in a USA Today story exploring a federal law that makes it a crime to sell depictions of animal cruelty.   
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9/28/2009 - In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
Lawmakers in some states are pushing ahead with state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a health insurance requirement for all citizens. Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost comments on the chances of these state amendments challenging federal law.    
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9/24/2009 - Dean Smolla, Third Year Program Featured in ABA Journal Legal Rebels Project
The ABA Journal's Legal Rebels project, which features lawyers, scholars and others who are committed to innovation in the legal profession, made a stop in Lexington to meet with students and faculty involved in the School's new third year program.   
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9/21/2009 - Human-research oversight is too lax
In this opinion piece in the Arizona Daily Star, Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson examines oversight of human subject research and the death of Jesse Gelsinger.   
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9/17/2009 - Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law
Washington and Lee law professor David Millon comments in a Wall Street Journal analysis of new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's comments in her first Court appearance related to the protections from government oversight afforded to corporations.   
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9/7/2009 - Reality's knocking: Recession forcing schools to bow to reality
Washington and Lee's new third year program is featured in a National Law Journal story covering legal education reform at several law schools.   
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8/24/2009 - What's in it for you
In this opinion piece from the Roanoke Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost argues that all Americans, even those with insurance, will benefit from health care reform.   
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8/21/2009 - Follow Tim Jost in the Health Care Debate
For the past few months, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost has been heavily involved in the national debate on health care reform. Follow his media appearances and read his essays on the subject.    
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8/17/2009 - So What’s a Health Insurance Co-op, Anyway?
In this interview with the New York Times, Washington and Lee law professor and health care expert Tim Jost discusses nonprofit health co-ops, which have taken center stage in the health care reform debate after support for a public plan diminished.   
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8/14/2009 - The Truth Behind the Death Panel
With charges, countercharges, information, disinformation, flat-out lies, and half truths being disseminated on all sides of the health reform debates, how is a poor citizen to learn the real story? Washington and Lee Law professor Tim Jost helps out in the Columbia Journalism Review's Straight Talk column.   
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8/10/2009 - Hiding behind the robes
If Supreme Court law clerks do not exercise undue influence, why all the secrecy? This is the question pondered by visiting professor Todd C. Peppers and his colleague Artemus Ward in a recent opinion piece published in The National Law Journal.    
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8/3/2009 - German Ambassadors
Law professor Russell Miller was profiled along with German Law Journal co-founder Peer Zumbansen in one of Germany's leading newspapers concerning the Journal's 10th anniversary celebration and its promotion of German law abroad.   
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7/28/2009 - Worth the Effort
A new ABA Journal article examines law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's empirical study of the American Law Institute Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution.   
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7/18/2009 - A Matter of Opinion
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla was quoted in a New York Times profile of famed First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams. In a turn that has surprised some of his followers, Abrams has signed on to defend the now infamous credit rating company Standard and Poor's in a series of investor lawsuits.   
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7/9/2009 - New Research Considers Impact of Investment Disputes on Developing World
Global Arbitration Review, a leading journal focused on international public and private arbitration, featured research by Washington and Lee law professor Susan Franck in a recent article examining potential bias against developing nations in investment treaty arbitration.    
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7/7/2009 - Jost Participates in CNBC Health Care Debate
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell on Tuesday to participate in a debate on public health care plans.   
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7/6/2009 - Do Health Co-op Offer Model for Overhaul?
Washington and Lee law professor and health care system expert Tim Jost comments in a New York Time article exploring the viability health insurance cooperatives.   
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7/2/2009 - Law Professor's Work in New York Review of Books
Same-sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts, co-edited by Washington and Lee law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson, was reviewed recently in the New York Review of Books.   
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6/16/2009 - What Could Stop Obama on Health Care Reform
Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost is participating in a discussion about health care reform in Politico.com's Arena, the site's daily debate with policymakers and decision shapers.   
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6/5/2009 - Va. Supreme Court Hears Death Row Appeal
Washington and Lee Law Professor David Bruck argued on behalf of convicted murderer William Morva that the trial judge erred by not allowing the defense to challenge Morva's future dangerousness. Prof. Bruck is the director of the School's death penalty defense clinic, the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse.   
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5/22/2009 - Same-Sex Marriage Laws Pose Protection Quandary
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's work pushing for religious exemptions in states legalizing same-sex marriage is examined in the New York Times.   
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5/21/2009 - W&L Law Professors Lay Out Legal Plan for Gitmo Detainees
In the wake of dueling speeches from President Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney on the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and U.S. interrogation practices, Washington and Lee Law Professor Mark Drumbl discusses a set of legal due process principles in the area of detainee treatment.    
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5/14/2009 - Religious Exemptions in Same-Sex Laws Under Scrutiny
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's work pushing for religious exemptions in states legalizing same-sex marriage is examined in the Washington Post's God in Government blog.   
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5/3/2009 - The flip-side of same-sex marriage
In a recent Op/ed in the Los Angeles Times, Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson urges the growing number of states passing same-sex marriage laws to adopt religious protections as part of their legislation.   
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5/2/2009 - Historic home opens with a new purpose
The Washington and Lee Community Law Center at the Oliver Hill House officially opened on Friday. The Center's goal is to enhance access to justice efforts in Roanoke.   
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4/28/2009 - Institute of Medicine Report Targets Conflicts of Interest
A report released today by the Institute of Medicine urges reforms within the medical and pharmaceutical industries aimed at ending conflicts of interest. Washington and Lee law professor Timothy S. Jost served on the committee that produced the report.   
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4/20/2009 - Free Speech Does a Body Good
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla explores free speech issues in the marketplace in this recent commentary from Legal Times.   
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4/8/2009 - W&L Law Student Instrumental in Federal Bear Baiting Case
Clifford Ashcroft-Smith, a third year law student in the Public Prosecutors Program, served as the prosecutor in a federal case involving a man illegally baiting and shooting black bears. Click below for coverage of the investigation and details of the plea agreement.   
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4/4/2009 - 4th Circuit Reinstates Police Officer's First Amendment Suit
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rodney A. Smolla comments on a Fourth Circuit decision reinstating a lawsuit by a Baltimore police officer who claims he was fired for giving information about a police shooting to a reporter.   
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4/1/2009 - Justice Ginsburg's centrist role
As rumors swirl regarding a retirement announcement from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Washington and Lee Law Professor Russell A. Miller reflects in this commentary on her centrist legacy.   
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3/19/2009 - Corporate Rules Don't Work
Washington and Lee School of Law student Alexandre Rourk '10 argues in this commentary that populist anger directed at CEO's is misplaced. The real problem, he says, is the way corporations are governed.   
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3/16/2009 - Church won't be forced to marry gay couples if laws change
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson was quoted in a Catholic News Service article on the possible effects of legalized same-sex marriage.   
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3/6/2009 - Will Law Demand We Support Gay Marriage?
In a recent Op/ed, Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson explores a Connecticut General Assembly bill that guarantees same-sex couples equal protection under the state's constitution.   
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2/19/2009 - Libel Suit Against New York Times Settled
A lobbyist's lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspaper's account of her ties to Senator John McCain has been settled, both sides announced on Thursday. Dean Rodney A. Smolla represented lobbyist Vicki Iseman in the dispute.    
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2/13/2009 - U.S. Policy and the Ethics of Multiple Births
In a recent article, opinion columnist Jim Wooten cites research by Prof. Robin F. Wilson on the relationship between family structure and child welfare while discussing the controversial multiple births of Nadya Suleman.   
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2/9/2009 - Consumer-Driven Health Care Q&A
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Tim Jost answers questions about consumer-driven health plans in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review.   
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2/4/2009 - Health Benefits For Unemployed Stripped From Stimulus Plan
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Tim Jost serves as a citizen reporter for the Huffington Post, helping parse the 736 page economic stimulus plan to explore potential negative effects.   
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1/20/2009 - The Future of Video Game Regulation
Washington and Lee Law Professor Josh Fairfield explores how the speed of technology is driving both the evolution and experimentation of the law as it struggles to keep pace with innovation.   
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1/16/2009 - Does the First Amendment Protect the Naming of Children?
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rodney Smolla comments on the First Amendment rights afforded to parents when naming their children. Three New Jersey children with Nazi-influenced names were removed recently from their home by state officials.   
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1/11/2009 - Dissecting AIG's Failure
Washington and Lee Law Professor Adam Scales looks at the crash of AIG and wonders why the insurance giant's huge profit margins did not draw more scrutiny.   
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1/9/2009 - What Can Taylor Case Tell Us About Our Moral Compass?
Washington and Lee Law Professor Mark Drumbl explores what the torture conviction of Charles Taylor Jr., who received 97 years for his crimes, teaches us about the importance of international law.   
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12/26/2008 - Memo to Obama: Remember Promises of Humility
In a recent Op/Ed, Washington and Lee Law Professor Russell A. Miller urges President-elect Barack Obama to learn from history and wield his executive power with great care.   
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12/9/2008 - Does Marriage Matter to Nurturing of Children?
In an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, columnist Jim Wooten explores research by Washington and Lee Law professor Robin F. Wilson that shows children do better in families where married adults are rearing their biological children.   
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12/8/2008 - Law Professor's Research Explores Influence of Supreme Court Clerks
Research by Washington and Lee Law School visiting professor Todd C. Peppers was featured in a New York Times article exploring the influence of U.S. Supreme Court law clerks. The study, coauthored with Christopher Zorn of Penn State, shows that political leanings of law clerks do influence votes of Supreme Court justices.   
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12/5/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Comments on Renewed Focus on the Freedom of Choice Act
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor story about the Catholic Churches' renewed interest in blocking the decades old Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). The Church fears that the act, which has never come to a vote, will become a priority during a Democratic-controlled administration.   
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11/22/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Discusses Rights for Same-sex Couples following California Vote
Washington and Lee Law Professor Robin F. Wilson was quoted in a Winston-Salem Journal article discussing legal rights for same-sex couples. Following California's vote to ban same-sex marriage, some church groups who supported the ban indicated they would not object to certain rights for same-sex couples.   
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11/10/2008 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses 8-year Old Charged with Murder on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to debate whether an 8-year old boy should be tried as an adult for the murder of his father and another man.   
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10/31/2008 - Prof. Russell Miller Discusses International Treaty Obligations and U.S. Courts in leading German Newspaper
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Russel A. Miller was quoted in an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany's leading newspaper. The article covers the U.S. Supreme Court's Medellin decision from last term, which held that federal treaty obligations are not binding on U.S. courts.    
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10/27/2008 - Professor Tim Jost Discusses Health Care on NPR Affiliate WMRA
On Monday, October 27, at 3 p.m., Washington and Lee Law Professor Tim Jost appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA's Virginia Insight show to discuss health care reform.   
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10/22/2008 - Prof. Tim Jost Evaluates the Obama Health Care Plan in the Roanoke Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor and health care policy expert Tim Jost explains in a Roanoke Times op/ed why he thinks Barack Obama has the better health care plan.   
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9/24/2008 - Is the Wall Street Bailout Proposal Unconstitutional?
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla explores in an article for Slate the constitutionality of provisions in Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion Wall Street bailout proposal.   
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9/15/2008 - Professor Russell Miller Discusses his Book on National Security on NPR Affiliate WMRA
Monday, September 15, at 3 p.m., Russell A. Miller appeared on NPR affiliate WMRA's Virginia Insight show to discuss his new book on national security and the Church Committee.   
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9/13/2008 - Dean Smolla Analyzes Virginia Supreme Court Spam Ban Decision
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla comments on a decision by the Virginia Supreme Court to overturn a state anti-spam law due to free speech violations.    
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9/1/2008 - Dean Smolla Discusses Third Year Reform in Legal Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses the School of Law's third-year curriculum reform in a Legal Times Op/Ed.   
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7/29/2008 - Professor Mark Drumbl to be a Guest Today on Talk of the Nation
Mark A. Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Law Professor, and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, appeared Tuesday July 29, on NPR's national talk show Talk of the Nation to discuss war crimes tribunals.   
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6/29/2008 - Washington and Lee Law Review Mentioned in New York Times
Bob Dylan citations in judicial opinions, such as the one by Supreme Court Justice John Roberts in a recent dissent, are nothing new. New York Times reporter Adam Liptak explores this phenomenon described in a 2007 W&L Law Review article by University of Tennessee law professor Alex B. Long.   
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6/17/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Discusses California Samesex Marriage Ruling in the Christian Science Monitor
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson discusses the impact the California Supreme Court ruling allowing samesex marriages may have on churches and other religious organizations.   
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6/2/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Discusses California Samesex Marriage Ruling
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson commented on the California Supreme Court ruling on May 15 to overturn a state law prohibiting samesex marriages.    
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5/11/2008 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Katrina-related Insurance Changes
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Adam Scales is proposing changes to the way private insurers and the government deal with reimbursements for flood and wind damage.   
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4/16/2008 - Professor David Bruck Discusses Death Penalty for Child Rape on NPR
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor David Bruck appeared on NPR to discuss a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that will determine whether the death penalty can be applied for child rape.    
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4/11/2008 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Virginia Tech Massacre Settlement
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Adam Scales commented on the $11 million settlement between Virginia Tech and some of the families of the massacre victims.   
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4/1/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson’s Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's research on professional women opting out of family life was discussed on ABC News.   
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3/18/2008 - Dean Smolla Discusses Military Honors and Freedom of Speech in the New York Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses freedom of speech issues surrounding the case of Xavier Alvarez, a California man being prosecuted for falsely claiming he served as Marine and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.   
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3/11/2008 - Professor Ann Massie Discusses Obscenity Laws in the News Virginian
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Anne Massie discusses the constitutionality of Virginia obscenity laws in a case involving a Stauton, Virginia adult video store.    
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2/19/2008 - Professor David Bruck Profiled in Union Leader
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor David Bruck was featured in a Union Leader article titled 'Legal legend heads to NH'.   
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2/17/2008 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Discusses Religious Deference in the New York Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson discusses whether government courts should ever defer to religious ones. Professor Wilson said in the interview that government courts should refuse to enforce any ruling from a religious tribunal that leaves a woman worse off than she would have been in a conventional divorce.    
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2/1/2008 - Professor Josh Fairfield Discusses Police Response to Theft of Virtual Property
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Josh Fairfield discusses the police reaction to a theft of a gamer's virtual property worth almost four thousand dollars.   
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1/28/2008 - Professor Margaret Howard Discusses Bankruptcy on WMRA's Insight
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Margaret Howard was interviewed on NPR affiliate WMRA discussing bankruptcy.   
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1/17/2008 - Mark Drumbl Discusses Possibility of Indonesian War Crimes Trials
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl comments in an Associated Press story discussing the possibility of Indonesia's former dictator Suharto standing trial for war crimes.   
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1/13/2008 - Dean Smolla Discusses Blogs and Freedom of Speech in the Providence Journal
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses freedom of speech issues surrounding a divorce and child custody case where the wife and mother used a blog to criticize the State's handling of the custody case.   
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1/10/2008 - Dean Smolla Discusses Blogs and Freedom of Speech in New York Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses freedom of speech issues surrounding a Vermont divorce case where a judge has ordered a husband to stop posting fictionalized accounts of his marriage on a blog.   
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1/4/2008 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses New Jersey Prison Break on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to discuss whether prisoners in a recent New Jersey prison break are culpable in prison guard's suicide.   
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12/3/2007 - Prof. Mark Drumbl Discusses Blackwater Lawsuit in Trial Magazine
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl discusses the lawsuit brought against private security firm Blackwater USA on behalf of the families of the Iraqi civilians killed in September 2007.    
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11/28/2007 - Prof. Mark Drumbl's Book Award Announced in National Jurist
National Jurist magazine announced that Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl received the Book of the Year prize from the International Association of Criminal Law for his book Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law.   
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11/19/2007 - Professor Robin F. Wilson Discusses Nontraditional Family Structures on ABC News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson discusses the frequency of abuse in nontraditional families.   
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11/12/2007 - Black Lung Clinic Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
The Black Lung Clinic at the Washington and Lee University School of Law was featured in an article appearing in the Chronicle of Higher Education.   
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11/9/2007 - Mark Drumbl Book Discussion Covered in Virginia Law Weekly
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl discussed his book Atrocity, Punishment and International Law during a recent visit to UVA Law School.   
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11/2/2007 - Dean Smolla Discusses Protests at Military Funerals on NPR's Morning Edition
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses freedom of speech issues surrounding protests at military funerals on NPR's Morning Edition. Recently, a jury awarded a grieving father nearly $11 million in a law suit against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals in the belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.    
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10/17/2007 - Mark Drumbl discusses the punishment of child-soldier recruiters in an Op Ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, discusses the punishment of child-soldier recruiters in Sierra Leone.   
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10/13/2007 - Professor Ann Massie Discusses Obscenity Cases in the News Virginian
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Anne Massie discusses the chances of a successful obscenity case against a new Staunton, Virginia adult video store.   
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9/30/2007 - Dean Smolla Discusses Free Speech on University Campuses in the New York Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla discusses freedom of speech issues that have emerged after the visit to Columbia University by Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.   
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9/19/2007 - Dean Smolla Praises Legacy of Justice Lewis Powell in Richmond Times-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Dean Rod Smolla praises Justice Lewis Powell, a "hero of the middle ground", in a column published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on the 100th anniverary of Powell's birth.   
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9/5/2007 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses Phil Spector Trial on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to debate the merits of the prosecution and defense cases in the Phil Spector murder trial.   
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8/29/2007 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses Former Astronaut Lisa Nowak's Insanity Defense on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to analyze former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's insanity defense.    
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8/27/2007 - Dean Rod Smolla Looks at Sports-related Law Suits in Sports Illustrated
Dean Rod Smolla analyzed some current law suits in the Newsmakers section of a recent issue of Sports Illustrated magazine. The piece, "See You in Court! Handicapping the recent spate of sports related lawsuits" focused on cases involving Don Imus and Barry Bonds.   
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8/17/2007 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses Michael Vick's Plea Deal on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to provide an analysis of Michael Vick's plea deal.   
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8/15/2007 - Professor Tim Jost Discusses His New Book, Health Care at Risk, on WMRA's Insight
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Timothy Jost was a guest on WMRA's Insight radio program, an hour-long interview program. Jost discussed his new book, Health Care at Risk, which examines the consumer-driven health care movement.   
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8/15/2007 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses Possible Vick Plea Deal
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses the possibility that Michael Vick will strike a plea deal in the dogfighting case.   
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8/14/2007 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Boar Tusk Insurance Case at FindLaw.com
Professor Adam Scales, serving as a guest columnist on FindLaw, discusses the refusal of an insurance company to provide liability coverage for the Seattle dentist sued for replacing a patient's teeth with boar tusks as a prank.   
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7/26/2007 - Professor Lawton Cummings Discusses Eric Hainstock Trial on Fox News
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Lawton Cummings appeared on Fox News to discuss the possible first-degree murder conviction in the case of Eric Hainstock.    
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7/26/2007 - Professor Ron Krotoszynski Addresses Seattle School Diversity Plan in Op/Ed
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Ron Krotoszynski addresses the Seattle public school diversity plan, which was recently rejected by the Supreme Court along with a similar plan in Louisville, Kentucky.

In the Op/Ed, Krotoszynski argues that school districts remain free to pursue racial diversity, which was recognized by Justice Kennedy in his controlling concurring opinion as a compelling governmental interest, provided they do so in a more flexible manner.   
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7/14/2007 - Law Professor's Work Earns Citizen Lawmaker Award
A new state law prohibiting unauthorized pelvic exams by medical students earned a Washington and Lee University law professor one of 10 "citizen lawmaker" awards presented Friday by Del. Rob Bell, R-Albemarle County.

Robin Wilson won the presentation from Bell for her inspiration, research and work that led the General Assembly this year to pass House Bill 2969, which prohibits the little-known but common practice at teaching hospitals of allowing medical students to perform pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without explicit consent.   
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6/19/2007 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses His New Book on WINA
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl discusses his new book Atrocity, Punishment and International Law on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.   
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6/15/2007 - Black Lung Clinic Students Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
Black Lung Clinic students and faculty were featured on NPR's All Things Considered discussing their work.    
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5/11/2007 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses His New Book on WMRA
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl, author of Atrocity, Punishment and International Law, has spent more than fifteen years studying atrocity and genocide. He has worked both on defense and prosecution sides in international tribunals. Now he explains why he thinks current approaches to international law are not working.   
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4/7/2007 - Professor Doug Rendleman Discusses Compensation After Largest Pet Food Recall in U.S. History on WDBJ
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Doug Rendelman discusses how compensation is limited for pet owners who lost pets due to contaminated pet food.    
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3/7/2007 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses International Court Judgement in the Croatian National News
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl interviewed by the Croatian national news regarding the judgment of the International Court of Justice in Bosnia v. Serbia, in which the Court found Serbia responsible for failing to prevent genocide in Bosnia in 1995. Croatia has an interest in this case insofar as its government also has filed a claim with the Court regarding alleged genocide committed by Serbia in Croatia during the Balkans Wars.    
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2/27/2007 - Professor David Bruck Discusses the Triggerman Rule in the Time-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor David Bruck discusses a bill to eliminate Virginia's long-standing triggerman rule, which would expose more capital-murder accomplices to the death penalty. The bill has passed the legislature and now awaits approval by Governor Kaine.   
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2/6/2007 - Professor Robert Danforth Discusses Beneficiaries in Newsweek
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Robert Danforth comments on removing ex-spouses as beneficiaries from wills.   
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12/11/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Katrina Ruling at BestWire
Professor Adam Scales participated in a Q&A with BestWire concerning the recent decision by a federal judge to compensate policyholders for Katrina damage.    
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12/11/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Katrina Ruling at FindLaw.com
Professor Adam Scales, serving as a guest columnist on FindLaw, addresses the recent decision by a federal judge to compensate policyholders for Katrina damage.   
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11/28/2006 - Professor Mary Natkin Discusses Renewed Concern over Black Lung Disease in the Washington Post
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mary Natkin comments on coal dust limits and enforcement in mining operations. With coal production on the rise, Black Lung disease is receiving increased attention.   
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11/28/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses Hussein Trial on Charlottesville-Right Now
Mark Drumbl is the director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University, and a guest on the November 28th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. He and Coy Barefoot discuss the many trials Saddam Hussein will need to go through before actually being put to death, as well as how his trial has not helped the country unify. “The trial just isn’t that important for a lot of Iraqis and it certainly isn’t succeeding in curbing sectarian violence.” But Drumbl says that doesn’t mean Saddam Hussein should not continue to be prosecuted.   
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11/8/2006 - Professor Timothy Jost Discusses Effects of Election Results on Health Care Reform in ABC News Survey
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Timothy Jost participated in a survey of health care experts conducted by ABC News to determine whether the midterm election results will lead to changes in health-care policy.   
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11/6/2006 - Professor Doug Rendelman Comments on the Garnishment of Federally Protected Bank Accounts in the Roanoke Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Doug Rendelman comments on the banking practice of removing funds from a customer's bank account in order to repay judgement holders.   
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10/19/2006 - W&L Law Professor Tim Jost is Featured Guest with ABC News's Dr. Tim Johnson on the Need for Universal Health Insurance
Professor Tim Jost, the Willet Family Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee School of Law, was the featured guest recently on ABC's "Healthy Life Series" with Dr. Tim Johnson.

ABC News has been running a special series of health care-related stories this week entitled, "Prescription for Change: Fixing America's Health Care System."   
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10/18/2006 - Professor Timothy Jost Discusses Universal Health Care in ABC News Opinion
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Timothy Jost's opinion on universal health care coverage was featured on abcnews.com. Jost discusses fears Americans have conerning such a system and analyzes how these fears are answered by universal health care systems in other countries.   
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10/17/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses Reluctant Jurors in the Christian Science Monitor
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses the reluctance of people to serve on a capital case jury more than once. The failure of people to respond to a jury summons is an acute problem facing the entire judicial system.    
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10/1/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses the Nuremberg Trials in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's commentary on the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial verdicts was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Drumbl says that Nuremberg began 60 years of international genocide prosecutions -- but that the prosecutions have not achieved Nuremberg's most important goal, to keep similar events from happening.    
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10/1/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses No-fault Divorce in New York Times Op/Ed
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson's Op/Ed on New York state's no-fault divorce rules appeared in the New York Times on October 1.   
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9/28/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses the Nuremberg Trials on NPR's All Things Considered
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's commentary on the 60th Anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial verdicts was featured on the NPR's All Things Considered. Drumbl says that Nuremberg began 60 years of international genocide prosecutions -- but that the prosecutions have not achieved Nuremberg's most important goal, to keep similar events from happening.   
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9/25/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Cohabitation in the Weekly Standard
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Robin Wilson discusses how the law treats marriage and cohabitation.   
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9/25/2006 - Professor David Bruck Discusses Lethal Injection in the Virginia Pilot
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor David Bruck discusses lethal injection and whether the procedure constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.   
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9/18/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses Death Decision Effect on Jurors in the Star Tribune
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses the death penalty decision process in the case of Alfonso Rodriguez, the man convicted in the abduction and murder of Dru Sjodin.    
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9/17/2006 - Professor David Bruck Discusses the Triggerman Rule in the Time-Dispatch
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor David Bruck discusses a bill to eliminate Virginia's long-standing triggerman rule, which would exposing more capital-murder accomplices to the death penalty.   
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9/17/2006 - Professor Sally Wiant Discusses the Protection of School Logos in the Roanoke Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Sally Wiant discusses trademark abuse of school logos on clothing and other gear.   
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8/29/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl's Opinion Featured in Wall Street Journal
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl's letter to the editor concerning omissions in an editorial was published on August 29th in the Wall Street Journal.   
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8/18/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Ruling for Katrina Insurers on FindLaw
Professor Adam Scales, serving as a guest columnist on FindLaw, addresses the recent decision by a federal judge who ruled that insurance companies do not have to pay for damage caused by flooding during hurricane Katrina.    
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8/18/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Comments on Jonbenet Ramsey Case on NBC Affiliate WSLS, Roanoke
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby comments on the recent confession by a man claiming he killed Jonbenet Ramsey nearly ten years ago.   
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8/16/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Ruling for Katrina Insurers in the New York Times
Professor Adam Scales discusses the ruling by a federal judge that an insurance company's policies do not cover damage from flood waters or storm surge. This decision could affect hundreds of upcoming cases related to property damage from Hurricane Katrina.    
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8/4/2006 - Professor Adam Scales Discusses Denied Insurance Claims in the New York Times
Professor Adam Scales discusses the "anti-concurrent causation" clause that has resulted in the denial of many insurance claims from Hurricane Katrina victims. (Free registration at the New York Times website may be required to view this story.)   
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8/3/2006 - Professor Mark Drumbl Discusses Middle East Crisis on Popular Boston Radio Show
W&L School of Law Professor Mark Drumbl was the featured guest recently on "Stu Taylor on Business," a popular morning radio program on WBIX, Boston. Professor Drumbl spoke on the Middle East crisis.   
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7/15/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses His Book, A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty, in the St. Petersburg Times
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses his book, A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty, which looks at the way the decision to impose the death penalty affects juries.   
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7/12/2006 - David Bruck on Law.com discussing the Supreme Court and Death Penalty Disquiet
David Bruck on Law.com discussing the Supreme Court and Death Penalty Disquiet   
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7/11/2006 - Law Professor Melissa Waters Returns to All Things Considered
As the trial of Saddam Hussein resumes, commentator Melissa Waters describes a phenomenon she calls "The Great Iraqi Walkout." She's seen it many times in her work training Iraqi judges and lawyers over the past three years, and Americans have seen it in the walkouts and boycotts conducted by the attorneys and co-defendants in Saddam Hussein's trial.   
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6/29/2006 - Black Lung Clinic Profiled in Associated Press Story
The Black Lung Legal Clinic at the Washington and Lee University School of Law was profiled in an Associated Press story about compensation for black lung disease.   
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6/15/2006 - Adam Scales on WDBJ-7 commenting on judgment against MTD Mowers
Adam Scales on WDBJ-7 commenting on judgment against MTD Mowers   
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6/13/2006 - Melissa Waters in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Mirandizing Irag
Melissa Waters in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Mirandizing Irag   
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6/13/2006 - W&L's Melissa Waters on NPR's All Things Considered
Assistant Professor of Law Melissa Waters discusses her work in training Iraqi lawyers, prosecutors, and judges on NPR's "All Things Considered" from Tueday, June 13.   
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6/9/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Comments on the Overturning of the Atkins Death Sentence in The Washington Post
Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Scott Sundby commented on the overturned death sentence of Daryl Atkins, a Virginia man whose defense attorneys believe is mentally retarted.   
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6/7/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses how Mitigation Specialists can affect Jury Decisions in Salon Magazine
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby discusses how mitigation specialists can affect a death penalty decision by a jury. "[Juries] believe that even under adverse circumstances, every individual has the choice to do good or bad," says Sundby, who is also the author of "A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty." "When presented with strong mitigation evidence, they say, 'Well, he had a bad childhood. A lot of people have had a bad childhood, and they didn't murder.'"    
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5/31/2006 - Professor Scott Sundby Discusses the Muhammad Verdict in the New York Times
Washington and Lee School of Law Professor Scott Sundby comments on the guilty verdict in the case against sniper John A. Muhammad.    
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5/4/2006 - David Bruck on NPR's Morning Edition
David Bruck on NPR's Morning Edition   
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5/3/2006 - Mark Drumbl on Charlottesville—Right Now, a news radio show on 1070 am WINA in Charlottesville
Mark Drumbl on Charlottesville—Right Now, a news radio show on 1070 am WINA in Charlottesville   
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5/3/2006 - Scott Sundby in the Baltimore Sun
Scott Sundby in the Baltimore Sun   
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4/18/2006 - New York Times Op/Ed on Low-income Tax Credits by W&L School of Law Professor Dorothy Brown
LOW-INCOME taxpayers are audited by the Internal Revenue Service more often than their higher-earning counterparts. The reason for this is not politics, as is commonly presumed; nor is it that these taxpayers must be watched closely for fraud. The problem, as many people found out this week, is that the low-income tax credit is wildly complex.   
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4/18/2006 - Mark Drumbl's April 10 Interview on WMRA's Insight (NPR)
Mark Drumbl's April 10 Interview on WMRA's Insight (NPR)   
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4/6/2006 - David Bruck on the Mousaui Trial, The Washington Post
David Bruck on the Mousaui Trial, The Washington Post   
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4/3/2006 - Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Nanotechnology on Focus 580, University of Illinois Radio
Professor Robin Wilson Discusses Nanotechnology on Focus 580, University of Illinois Radio   
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