Volume 9 Number 1 - Fall 2016

• How Not to Manage a Common Benefit Fund: Allocating Attorneys’ Fees in Vioxx Litigation

  by Charles L. Becker, Shanin Specter, and Thomas R. Kline

  This Article reviews a deal between insiders and certain law firms that resulted in an unauthorized distribution from the settlement fund to resolve objections over the size of the Vioxx common benefit fund. The Article argues that common benefit fees should be distributed according to the well-accepted lodestar approach, rather than an ad hoc “point” system created by self-interested parties, and that common benefit money should not be distributed through unauthorized deals.

  9 Drexel Law Review 1

• The Procreative Power of Dignity: Dignity’s Evolution in the Victims’ Rights Movement

  by Mary Margaret Giannini

  This Article contends that dignity should function as a substantive right whereby it has the power to identify a broad spectrum of treatment for victims to ensure they are not dishonored in the criminal justice process.

  9 Drexel Law Review 43

• (Un?)Lawful Religious Discrimination

  by Stephanie Pisko

  This Article explores religious institutions’ exemption from Title VII liability for religious discrimination. Religious institutions are allowed to fire and hire employees based on religious preference.

  9 Drexel Law Review 101

• Note: Considering Cultural Communities in Contract Interpretation

  by Alexandra Buckingham

  This Note advocates for the admission of cultural extrinsic evidence to both create ambiguity and resolve ambiguity. The notion of culture advocated for in this Note embraces dismantling the concept’s vagueness into more concrete constituents of social relations.

  9 Drexel Law Review 129

• Note - Achieving Transparency: Use of Certification Marks to Clean Up the Fashion Industry’s Supply Chains

  by Lisa Bollinger Gehman

  The use of certification marks requires collaborative involvement from every stakeholder, from workers and consumers, to manufacturers and retailers. This Note proposes an achievable solution to a problem that has long faced our society.

  9 Drexel Law Review 161

• Note - Big Brother is Watching at Country Meadows: A New Theory of Surveillance to Protect Our Elders with Dementia

  by Emily Hart

  Using CMS’s Proposed Rule, Reform of Requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities (“Proposed Rule”), this Note analyzes the Proposed Rule and comments to show how CMS can advance its growing commitment to person-centered care through new metrics for the Nursing Home Compare website.

  9 Drexel Law Review 193

• Note - Sex and Gender Violence in Asylum Law: Expanding Protection Beyond Domestic Violence

  by Trevor R. Larkin

  This Note analyzes how the statutory definition of “refugee” must be amended and new regulations must be promulgated in order to extend protection beyond domestic violence claims.

  9 Drexel Law Review 227