Religious Values, Legal Ethics, and Poverty Law: A Response to Thomas Shaffer

Stephen Wizner provides a response to Thomas Shaffer\u27s article on his pursuit of social justice through using religious figures as role models. Wizner argues that Shaffer is clearly right in asserting that there is much in the prophetic literature, and, indeed, in the entire Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, that could serve as a moral impetus for social justice lawyering. One can find considerable support for Shaffer\u27s religious thesis in the texts that he cites, and in the words of the prophets he looks to as role models. Nevertheless, Wizner presents a skeptical response to Professor Shaffer\u27s thoughtful essay. He argues for skepticism for using religion as a blueprint for what is to be done in law

University Scholar Series: Scott Shaffer

A New Form Of Biotechnology: Novel Data Logging Devices Reveal Secrets About The Lives Of Marine Animals On September 25, 2013, Dr. Scott Shaffer gave a talk titled “A New Form Of Biotechnology: Novel Data Logging Devices Reveal Secrets About The Lives Of Marine Animals” as part of the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Ellen Junn at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Dr. Shaffer’s research focuses on the ecology, physiology, and conservation of marine vertebrate species. Specifically, he uses novel smart technologies to study long-range movements, distribution, and behavior of wild seabirds and marine mammals. This new form of biotechnology is shedding light on the secret lives of marine animals that range widely over the open sea. Dr. Shaffer has used this technology to study animals in Alaska, Antarctica, the Arctic, and the tropical Pacific. Dr. Shaffer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/uss/1028/thumbnail.jp

The Law in Action at the WTO

This review of Gregory Shaffer\u27s new book Defending Interests: Private-Public Partnerships in WTO Litigation argues that Shaffer has made an important contribution to the field of international economic law. Shaffer does this by using the insights of legal realism and strong empirical work to illustrate the law in action rather than the law on the books in terms of how international trade cases in the WTO are actually generated and resolved

The Professional Responsibilities of the Public Official\u27s Lawyer: A Case Study from the Clinton Era

No one has sought more persistently to focus our attention on the relation of professional duty and personal integrity than Thomas Shaffer. Shaffer\u27s work is the most powerful defense of integrity in the legal ethics literature, and it offers the most useful set of strategies for vindicating integrity in law practice. This Essay was conceived in the spirit of Shaffer\u27s distinctive preoccupations and commitments, and it is a pleasure to present it in an issue dedicated to him

Quasi In Rem Jurisdication; Minimum Contacts; State Statutes; Intermeat, Inc. v. American Poultry, Inc.

The decision of Intermeat, Inc. v. American Poultry, Inc. is the first decision rendered by a federal appeals court based on the United States Supreme Court decision of Shaffer v. Heitner. The Shaffer Court handed down a landmark decision in 1977 that appeared at first light to aim the principles of quasi in rem jurisdiction in a new direction. From the date of the decision it appeared that a court could no longer take jurisdiction of a lawsuit based merely on the fact that property of the defendant was located in the state in which the suit was filed. However, in applying the holding of Shaffer to the Intermeat lawsuit, it seems that the decision in Shaffer is not as sweeping as the legal community first thought

The hydrolysis of phosphocreatine and the origin of urinary creatinine

Shaffer (1), Myers and Fine (2), and Hahn and Meyer (3) adduced evidence that muscle creatine is the precursor of urinary creatinine. This was questioned by Chanutin and Kinard (4) but was conclusively proved by Bloch, Schoenheimer, and Rittenberg (5, 6) by isotope tracer evidence, which also showed that creatinine was the only normal urinary constituent containing any significant amount of body creatine nitrogen (1)

John D. Shaffer

An obituary for Iowa farmer, banker, and legislator John D. Shaffer

Melvina J. Shaffer

An obituary for teacher Melvina J. Shaffer