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Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
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This Article contends that judicial supervision of excessive manipulation of electoral lines for partisan purposes - political gerrymandering - may be justified in a mature democracy. The Article responds to the debate among courts and commentators over whether political gerrymandering presents any constitutionally relevant harms and, further, whether courts may be able to resolve the structural issues presented by political gerrymandering claims. Drawing from political theory and political science, this Article develops a theory of institutional distortion and provides a justification for aggressive judicial review of questions of democratic governance. The Article does not argue that the United States Supreme …
Toward A Human Rights Framework For Intellectual Property, Laurence R. Helfer
Toward A Human Rights Framework For Intellectual Property, Laurence R. Helfer
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This Article, prepared for a Symposium on Intellectual Property and Social Justice held at the University of California at Davis School of Law in March 2006, addresses the growing intersection of human rights law and intellectual property law. Its principal point of departure is a November 2005 General Comment on "the right of everyone to benefit from the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author" - a relatively obscure provision of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The Article builds upon the analysis …
The Future Of The International Labour Organization, Laurence R. Helfer
The Future Of The International Labour Organization, Laurence R. Helfer
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Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
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Justice Holmes, Ralph Kramden, And The Civic Virtues Of A Tax Return Filing Requirement, Lawrence A. Zelenak
Justice Holmes, Ralph Kramden, And The Civic Virtues Of A Tax Return Filing Requirement, Lawrence A. Zelenak
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A major goal of some tax reform proponents is the elimination of the return filing requirement for many or all Americans. Although the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform heard several hours of testimony concerning the possibility of a "return-free" income tax system, the Report of the Panel failed even to discuss the issue. This Article contends that the Panel was right to recommend (by implication) the retention of a return-based tax system, given the Panel's recommendations for major tax simplification. As long as the return filing obligation is not unduly burdensome which it would not be under the …
A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne
A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne
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Prompted by the court’s decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, this series of correspondence discusses the effect possible forms of punctuation may have on the Second Amendment. The article makes comments on the important grammars during the founding and also two possible writings of the Second Amendment that contain different sets of punctuation.
Beware The ‘Monological Imperatives’: Scholarly Writing For The Reader, Joan A. Magat
Beware The ‘Monological Imperatives’: Scholarly Writing For The Reader, Joan A. Magat
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This article describes principles of effective academic writing - offered not as edicts, but as guidelines - for legal scholars in particular. The overall focus is style, but the discussion begins with observations of format. These are followed by a few stylistic principles that govern clear and effective writing. None of these principles is a revelation to the student of method or to the accomplished writer. But for the academic writer less focused on or less familiar with such principles, being aware of and practicing them can clear the fog from syntax, illuminate the writer's thesis and its development, and …
Privacy And Law Enforcement In The European Union: The Data Retention Directive, Francesca Bignami
Privacy And Law Enforcement In The European Union: The Data Retention Directive, Francesca Bignami
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This paper examines a recent twist in EU data protection law. In the 1990s, the European Union was still primarily a market-creating organization and data protection in the European Union was aimed at rights abuses by market actors. Since the terrorist attacks of New York, Madrid, and London, however, cooperation on fighting crime has accelerated. Now, the challenge for the European Union is to protect privacy in its emerging system of criminal justice. This paper analyzes the first EU law to address data privacy in crime-fighting—the Data Retention Directive. Based on a detailed examination of the Directive’s legislative history, the …
“An Ingenious Man Enabled By Contract”: Entrepreneurship And The Rise Of Contract, Catherine Fisk
“An Ingenious Man Enabled By Contract”: Entrepreneurship And The Rise Of Contract, Catherine Fisk
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A legal ideology emerged in the 1870s that celebrated contract as the body of law with the particular purpose of facilitating the formation of productive exchanges that would enrich the parties to the contract and, therefore, society as a whole. Across the spectrum of intellectual property, courts used the legal fiction of implied contract, and a version of it particularly emphasizing liberty of contract, to shift control of workplace knowledge from skilled employees to firms while suggesting that the emergence of hierarchical control and loss of entrepreneurial opportunity for creative workers was consistent with the free labor ideology that dominated …
The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young
The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young
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Countries lacking a single canonical text define the “constitution” to include all laws that perform the constitutive functions of creating governmental institutions and conferring rights on individuals. The British Constitution, for example, includes a variety of constitutive statutes, such as the Magna Carta and the Parliament Acts. This Article proposes a thought experiment: what if we defined the U.S. Constitution by function, rather than by form? Viewed from this perspective, “the Constitution” would include not only the canonical document but also a variety of statutes, executive materials, and practices that structure our government. What these constitutive materials lack is a …
The Law And Policy Beginnings Of Ecosystem Services, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
The Law And Policy Beginnings Of Ecosystem Services, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
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This article is an introduction to a symposium issue of the journal on ecosystem services. As the brief descriptions of recent developments make clear, the field has changed greatly since the late 1990s and there are a lot of exciting developments underway. With the partnership of the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, we thought it important to revisit the state of the field five years after the Stanford workshop. Thus we invited experts across the range of environmental law to Florida State for a two-day workshop assessing the current status of ecosystem services in environmental law. The results …
Human Genetics Studies: The Case For Group Rights, Laura S. Underkuffler
Human Genetics Studies: The Case For Group Rights, Laura S. Underkuffler
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With the importance of genetic information has come bitter battles over its control. In these battles, some principles have emerged that are beyond dispute. The ability of individuals to control the disposition and genetic testing of their own biological materials is (as a matter of theory, at least) beyond question. No one would argue today that an individual could be subject to genetic testing for studies against her will, or that biological samples obtained from individuals under specified conditions could be simply deemed "free" of such conditions by researchers. Although difficult problems remain in the interpretation of research agreements, the …
On The Legal Consequences Of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller’S Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?, Christopher J. Buccafusco
On The Legal Consequences Of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller’S Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?, Christopher J. Buccafusco
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Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
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No abstract provided.
Immigration Law And The Regulation Of Marriage, Kerry Abrams
Immigration Law And The Regulation Of Marriage, Kerry Abrams
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Structural Reform Prosecution, Brandon L. Garrett
Structural Reform Prosecution, Brandon L. Garrett
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In what I call a structural reform prosecution, prosecutors secure the cooperation of an organization in adopting internal reforms. No scholars have considered the problem of prosecutors seeking structural reform remedies, perhaps because until recently organizational prosecutions were themselves infrequent. In the past few years, however, federal prosecutors adopted a bold new prosecutorial strategy under which dozens of leading corporations entered into demanding settlements, including AIG, American Online, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Computer Associates, HealthSouth, KPMG, MCI, Merrill Lynch & Co, Monsanto, and Time Warner. To situate the DOJ's latest strategy, I frame alternatives to the pursuit of structural reform remedies …
United States V. Goliath, Brandon L. Garrett
United States V. Goliath, Brandon L. Garrett
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Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens
Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young
Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young
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No abstract provided.
Knowledge Commons: The Case Of The Biopharmaceutical Industry, Arti K. Rai
Knowledge Commons: The Case Of The Biopharmaceutical Industry, Arti K. Rai
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No abstract provided.
Mandatory Constitutions, Paul D. Carrington