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Globalization and Regulation
Laurel S. Terry
This chapter is part of a 20-chapter book that features essays by subject-matter experts and advances and sharpens the dialogue within the bar about accelerating disruption of the legal services marketplace. It identifies forces that are creating pressure for regulatory change across the United States, summarizes regulatory reforms that have taken place elsewhere in the world, and highlights issues that U.S. lawyer regulators must confront soon in response to a rapidly evolving legal industry. It concludes by offering predictions about the future course of lawyer regulation in the United States. While it is impossible to know exactly which regulatory changes ... Read more
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Evidence in Cases of Mass Criminality
Dermot Groome
This chapter focuses on the complex criminal investigations of alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law, their anatomy and methodology for investigating those most responsible.
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Legal Services in the United States
Laurel S. Terry and Erica Moeser
This Chapter was the first of several case studies on domestic regulation included in Part III of this book. The Chapter began by noting the evolving regulatory environment for legal services in the United States. It provided an overview of the United States’ regulatory structure for legal services and included a section on pathways to licensure as a fully qualified United States lawyer. This Chapter also addressed trends towards modification of eligibility requirements, the rise of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE), and provided a view of the future, including expanded access for foreign lawyers in the United States. The Chapter ... Read more
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Innovation and Access: Legal Strategies at the Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law Interface
Daryl Lim
Innovation is a commercially risky and legally perilous process. It is risky because large sunk costs are often required to initiate and sustain research, product development and other steps involved in the offering of the product and winning of the market. At the cusp of commercial success however, firms have to contend with uncertainty as to whether the manner in which they exploit any intellectual property (IP) rights they have, or may be acquiring, will pass the scrutiny of competition laws. In the wake of a recent Microsoft decision in the European Union and developments elsewhere, companies have had to ... Read more
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The Crime of Persecution
Dermot Groome
This chapter in The Handbook of Human Rights Investigation considers several specific types of cases, e.g., crimes of sexual violence.
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The Mladic and Karadzic Rule 61 Hearing
Dermot Groome
This contribution to The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice describes the Rule 61 hearing held in 1996 after which international arrest warrants were issued for Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic.
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The Prosecutor V. Mrksic
Dermot Groome
This contribution to The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice provides an overview of the Mrksic case ("Vukovar Hospital Case") at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
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The Work of the ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice
Laurel S. Terry
This book chapter focuses on the work of the ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice (MDP Commission), which was active from 1998-2000. After an introductory section that places the work of this Commission is historical and global context, this chapter provides a history of the ABA MDP Commission and describes the models that the ABA MDP Commission circulated for public comment. The Chapter continues by summarizing the ABA MDP Commission's June 1999 and May 2000 recommendations. It also summarizes some of the major criticisms of the MDP Commission’s work. This Chapter supplements some of the authors other writings for and about ... Read more
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