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A New Deal For Debtors: Providing Procedural Justice In Consumer Bankruptcy, Pamela Foohey
A New Deal For Debtors: Providing Procedural Justice In Consumer Bankruptcy, Pamela Foohey
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Across the criminal and civil justice systems, research regarding procedural justice — feeling that one has a voice, is respected, and is before a neutral and even-handed adjudicator — shows that people’s positive perceptions of legal processes are fundamental to the legal system’s effectiveness and to the rule of law. About a million people file bankruptcy every year, making the consumer bankruptcy system the part of the federal court system with which people most often come into contact. Given the importance of bankruptcy to American families and the credit economy, there should exist a rich literature theorizing and investigating how …
One Pillar: Legal Authority And A Social License To Operate In A Global Context, Hans Lindahl
One Pillar: Legal Authority And A Social License To Operate In A Global Context, Hans Lindahl
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The claim that businesses have a social license to operate acquires concrete form in the second pillar of the U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in the fundamental distinction between "compliance with all applicable laws" and "respect for human rights." The aim of this paper is to critically examine the presuppositions that undergird this distinction and to explain how and why moving beyond state-centered thinking about law, in response to violations of human rights by globally operating businesses, requires acknowledging that there is one pillar that embraces states and businesses: the legal obligation to comply with international …
Tuning The Obviousness Inquiry After Ksr, Mark D. Janis
Tuning The Obviousness Inquiry After Ksr, Mark D. Janis
Articles by Maurer Faculty
One of the most important and delicate judicial tasks in patent law is to keep the obviousness doctrine in reasonable working order. There are several reasons why the obviousness doctrine has been the subject of frequent judicial tinkering. First, patentability doctrines interact with each other, so doctrinal alterations that seem to be entirely external to the obviousness doctrine frequently have ripple effects on obviousness. The interaction between the utility and obviousness doctrines provides one good example. Second, the obviousness doctrine is internally complex. Cases in the chemical and biotechnology areas over the past several decades have amply illustrated this point. …
Anti-Horse Slaughter Legislation: Bad For Horses, Bad For Society, Laura J. Durfee
Anti-Horse Slaughter Legislation: Bad For Horses, Bad For Society, Laura J. Durfee
Indiana Law Journal
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