Check Out: Volume 88.3 [Authors, Previews, and Full-text .PDFs Inside]
By TLR Editors

Articles:

  1. Health Insurance Rate Review
    • John Aloysius Cogan Jr., Associate Professor of Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
    • This Article contends that health insurance rate review holds great potential to control healthcare costs and hold down premium increases if it is modified from its present form, created to address century-old insurance market defects, to be a more dynamic process that gives state insurance commissioners the authority to correct market failures in the healthcare industry that drive up the prices insurers pay for the healthcare services we consume.
  2. Disparate Treatment and Lost Opportunity: Courts’ Approach to Students with Mental Health Disabilities under the IDEA
    • Kevin Golembiewski, Law Clerk to the Honorable Charles R. Wilson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; Harvard Law School, J.D., 2013
    • This Article examines the narrow approach to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act adopted by many courts that denies students with mental health disabilities equal access to special education services, and argues that this approach is both legally flawed and problematic from a policy perspective.
  3. The “Ohlbaum Paper” and Advocacy Scholarship—Why Now?
    • Jules Epstein, Professor of Law and Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple Beasley School of Law
    • This brief Article has multiple intentions and responsibilities: to introduce this year’s (and the inaugural) Edward Ohlbaum Annual Paper in Advocacy Scholarship (“Ohlbaum paper”); to recap Eddie’s contribution to trial advocacy knowledge and instruction; and to contextualize this contribution in a history of advocacy instruction, advocacy writing, and changes in the structure and focus of legal academia.
  4. Bringing Demonstrative Evidence in from the Cold: The Academy’s Role in Developing Model Rules
    • Maureen A. Howard, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Trial Advocacy at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, and Jeffery C. Barnum, judge advocate in the United States Coast Guard
    • The Article argues that trial advocacy and evidence professors should capitalize on their collective knowledge and influence and propose to the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence a set of uniform, analytically sound Model Rules for Demonstrative Evidence.

Comments:

  1. A Crumbling Keystone: Rebuilding Pennsylvania’s Twenty-Year-Old Anatomical Gift Legislation
    • Elizabeth L. Coyne, J.D. Candidate, Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2016
    • This Comment argues that passing the Donate Life PA Act is necessary for Pennsylvania to regain its place as a national leader in organ and tissue donation.
  2. On the Subject of Partial Verdicts: A Series of Practical Questions Answered for District Court Judges
    • Jessie D. Shields, J.D. Candidate, Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, 2016
    • By summarizing existing case law and offering a practical guide of best practices—in the form of A Series of Practical Questions Answered—this Comment seeks to advise district court judges on the appropriateness of issuing partial verdict instructions and receiving partial verdicts.

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