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Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler Oct 2005

Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler

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Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen Oct 2005

Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen

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A Government Of Limited Powers, Carl E. Schneider Jul 2005

A Government Of Limited Powers, Carl E. Schneider

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Roscoe C. Filburn owned a small farm in Ohio where he raised poultry, dairy cows, and a modest acreage of winter wheat. Some wheat he fed his animals, some he sold, and some he kept for his family's daily bread. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 limited the wheat Mr. Filburn could grow without incurring penalties, but his 1941 crop exceeded those limits. Mr. Filburn sued. He said Claude Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture, could not enforce the AAI's limits because Congress lacked authority to regulate wheat grown for one's own use. He reasoned: In our federal system, the states …


Solving The Due Process Problem With Military Commissions, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Jan 2005

Solving The Due Process Problem With Military Commissions, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Preemption Of State Spam Laws By The Federal Can-Spam Act, Roger Ford Jan 2005

Preemption Of State Spam Laws By The Federal Can-Spam Act, Roger Ford

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Congressional Authorization And The War On Terrorism, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith Jan 2005

Congressional Authorization And The War On Terrorism, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith

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This Article presents a framework for interpreting Congress's September 18, 2001Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), the central statutory enactment related to the war on terrorism. Although both constitutional theory and constitutional practice suggest that the validity of presidential wartime actions depends to a significant degree on their relationship to congressional authorization, the meaning and implications of the AUMF have received little attention in the academic debates over the war on terrorism.The framework presented in this Article builds on the analysis in the Supreme Court's plurality opinion in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which devoted significant attention to the AUME Under …


Political Trials In Domestic And International Law, Eric A. Posner Jan 2005

Political Trials In Domestic And International Law, Eric A. Posner

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Due process protections and other constitutional restrictions normally ensure that citizens cannot be tried and punished for political dissent, but these same restrictions interfere with criminal convictions of terrorists and others who pose a nonimmediate but real threat to public safety. To counter these threats, governments may use various subterfuges to avoid constitutional protections-often with the complicity of judges-but when they do so, they risk losing the confidence of the public, which may believe that the government targets legitimate political opponents. This Article argues that the amount of process enjoyed by defendants in criminal trials reflects a balancing of two …


The Value Of Institutions And The Values Of Free Speech, Dale Carpenter Jan 2005

The Value Of Institutions And The Values Of Free Speech, Dale Carpenter

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Should the First Amendment pay attention to the setting in which speech occurs, giving more protection to some institutions than to others? The very suggestion is a heresy. The First Amendment, to a degree unknown elsewhere in American law, has been characterized by a certain kind of blindness. It has largely been blind to the popularity of the speech involved, blind to whether the speech is favored or disfavored by the government, and blind to the identity of the speaker. On the other hand, some institutions - the professional media, libraries, and universities, for example - are especially good at …


The Expressive Power Of Adjudication, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2005

The Expressive Power Of Adjudication, Richard H. Mcadams

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This article provides a causal explanation of adjudicative compliance that is distinct from both the court's threat of sanctions and its institutional legitimacy. The new mechanism for compliance is the power of adjudicative expression. The theory of "expressive adjudication" arises from a previously neglected synergy among three expressive concepts in game theory -correlated equilibria, focal points, and signals. The article identifies the circumstances in which adjudicative expression can, by itself, influence the behavior of existing disputants and of future potential disputants. In each case, ambiguity in the relevant facts or the concepts underlying intentional and spontaneous order can cause a …


Reply To Helfer And Slaughter, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo Jan 2005

Reply To Helfer And Slaughter, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo

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Deterring Murder: A Reply Ethics And Empirics Of Capital Punishment, Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule Jan 2005

Deterring Murder: A Reply Ethics And Empirics Of Capital Punishment, Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule

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Of Citizens And Persons: Reconstructing The Privileges Or Immunities Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2005

Of Citizens And Persons: Reconstructing The Privileges Or Immunities Clause Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Richard A. Epstein

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Liberty Versus Property - Cracks In The Foundations Of Copyright Law, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2005

Liberty Versus Property - Cracks In The Foundations Of Copyright Law, Richard A. Epstein

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Policing L.A.'S Skid Row: Crime And Real Estate Redevelopment In Downtown Los Angeles (An Experiment In Real Time), Bernard E. Harcourt Jan 2005

Policing L.A.'S Skid Row: Crime And Real Estate Redevelopment In Downtown Los Angeles (An Experiment In Real Time), Bernard E. Harcourt

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From The Asylum To The Prison: Rethinking The Incarceration Revolution, Bernard E. Harcourt Jan 2005

From The Asylum To The Prison: Rethinking The Incarceration Revolution, Bernard E. Harcourt

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The incarceration revolution of the late twentieth century fueled ongoing research on the relationship between rates of incarceration and crime, unemployment, education, and other social indicators. In this research, the variable intended to capture the level of confinement in society was conceptualized and measured as the rate of incarceration in state and federal prisons and county jails. This, however, fails to take account of other equally important forms of confinement, especially commitment to mental hospitals and asylums. When the data on mental hospitalization rates are combined with the data on imprisonment rates for the period 1928 through 2000, the incarceration …


A Social Networks Theory Of Privacy, Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2005

A Social Networks Theory Of Privacy, Lior Strahilevitz

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What facts are public and what facts are private? It is the fundamental, first-principles question in privacy law, and a necessary element in the two most important privacy torts public disclosure of private facts and intrusion upon seclusion. This paper argues that insights from the literature on social networks and information dissemination can help provide courts with a coherent and consistent methodology for determining whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a particular fact that he has shared with one or more persons. The social networks literature has generated theoretical and empirical insights about the probability that …


First Circuit Upholds Reprosecution Of Defendant Acquitted In 'Sham' Trial, John Rappaport Jan 2005

First Circuit Upholds Reprosecution Of Defendant Acquitted In 'Sham' Trial, John Rappaport

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Credible Coercion, Omri Ben-Shahar, Oren Bar-Gill Jan 2005

Credible Coercion, Omri Ben-Shahar, Oren Bar-Gill

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The ideal of individual freedom and autonomy requires that society provide relief against coercion. In the law, this requirement is often translated into rules that operate "postcoercion" to undo the legal consequences of acts and promises extracted under duress. This Article argues that these ex post antiduress measures, rather than helping the coerced party, might in fact hurt her. When coercion is credible-when a credible threat to inflict an even worse outcome underlies the surrender of the coerced party-ex post relief will only induce the strong party to execute the threatened outcome ex ante, without offering the choice to surrender, …


Foreword: A Political Court, Richard A. Posner Jan 2005

Foreword: A Political Court, Richard A. Posner

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Judicial Independence In International Tribunals, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo Jan 2005

Judicial Independence In International Tribunals, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo

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Judicial Behavior And Performance: An Economic Approach, Richard A. Posner Jan 2005

Judicial Behavior And Performance: An Economic Approach, Richard A. Posner

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Guido Calabresi's 'The Costs Of Accidents': A Reassessment, Richard A. Posner Jan 2005

Guido Calabresi's 'The Costs Of Accidents': A Reassessment, Richard A. Posner

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Hayek, Law, And Cognition, Richard A. Posner Jan 2005

Hayek, Law, And Cognition, Richard A. Posner

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Courting Disaster: Looking For Change In All The Wrong Places, Gerald Rosenberg Jan 2005

Courting Disaster: Looking For Change In All The Wrong Places, Gerald Rosenberg

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Why We Need A Federal Reporter's Privilege, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2005

Why We Need A Federal Reporter's Privilege, Geoffrey R. Stone

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International Court Of Justice: Voting And Usage Statistics, Eric A. Posner Jan 2005

International Court Of Justice: Voting And Usage Statistics, Eric A. Posner

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Natural Law And Human Rights In English Law: From Bracton To Blackstone, Richard H. Helmholz Jan 2005

Natural Law And Human Rights In English Law: From Bracton To Blackstone, Richard H. Helmholz

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Consent, Aesthetics, And The Boundaries Of Sexual Privacy After Lawrence V. Texas, Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2005

Consent, Aesthetics, And The Boundaries Of Sexual Privacy After Lawrence V. Texas, Lior Strahilevitz

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Our 18th Century Constitution In The 21st Century World, Diane P. Wood Jan 2005

Our 18th Century Constitution In The 21st Century World, Diane P. Wood

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In this speech delivered for the annual James Madison Lecture, the Honorable Diane Wood tackles the classic question of whether courts should interpret the United States Constitution from an originalist or dynamic approach. Judge Wood argues for the dynamic approach and defends it against the common criticisms that doing so allows judges to stray from the original intent of those who wrote the Constitution or take into consideration improper foreign influences. She argues the necessity of an "unwritten Constitution" since a literalist approach to interpretation would lead to unworkable or even absurd results in the modern context, and since restricting …


Why Does The American Constitution Lack Social And Economic Guarantees, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2005

Why Does The American Constitution Lack Social And Economic Guarantees, Cass R. Sunstein

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