UALR L REV 002

Current Edition

The Obligation of Lawyers to Heal Civic Culture: Confronting the Ordeal of Incivility in the Practice of Law

By Russell G. Pearce and Eli Wald | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 1 (2011). Commentators have described a rise in incivility,…

Deed Covenants of Title and the Preparation of Deeds: Theory, Law, and Practice in Arkansas

By Lynn Foster and J. Cliff McKinney, II | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 53 (2011). Deed covenants for title are still…

No Paradise to Regain: Comments on Russell G. Pearce and Eli Wald, The Obligation of Lawyers to Heal Civic Culture: Confronting the Ordeal of Incivility in the Practice of Law

By Kenneth S. Gallant | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 113 (2011). This article is a response to an article by Pearce…

Setting the Record Straight on State v. John Ingram Purtle: Reflections on the Great Dissenter

By Samuel A. Perroni | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 135 (2011). Justice John Ingram Purtle was elected to the Arkansas Supreme…

Estate and Probate Law—Testamentary Disposition of Non-probate Assets: Whether IRAs are Comparable to Life Insurance Policies and Whether Testators Should Be Able to Change an IRA Beneficiary by Will. Nunnenman v. Estate of Grubbs, 2010 Ark. App. 75, __ S.W.3d __.

By Ashley L. Haskins | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 153 (2011). Contrary to the consensus of a vast majority of the…

Property Law—Homestead Exemption—A Beneficiary Interest Can Support a Homestead Exemption in Arkansas and a Look at Other Interests Sufficient to Support a Homestead Exemption. Fitton v. Bank of Little Rock, 2010 Ark. 280, __ S.W.3d __.

By Seth Williams | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 173 (2011). The homestead exemption provides protection to two groups of beneficiaries. First,…

Constitutional Law—It Wasn’t Me! Zinger v. State and Arkansas’s Unconstitutional Approach to Third-Party Exculpatory Evidence. Zinger v. State, 313 Ark. 70, 852 S.W.2d 320 (1993).

By Bourgon B. Reynolds | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 191 (2011). The author of this note argues that the Arkansas courts…