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Rules Vs. Standards In Private Ordering, Tomer S. Stein
Rules Vs. Standards In Private Ordering, Tomer S. Stein
Buffalo Law Review
The tradeoff between bright-line rules and general standards is one of the bedrocks of law design. This tradeoff determines how legal norms are composed. The tradeoff between rules and standards pervasively affects private ordering as well: it determines how contractual norms are composed. Yet, scholars exploring the rule vs. standard dichotomy have either entirely overlooked the tradeoff taking place in private orderings or equated it with the public tradeoff that dominates lawmaking.
This Article is the first to systematically examine the rule vs. standard tradeoff in private orderings. The Article carries out this task by identifying and analyzing the fundamental …
The Conceptual Problems Arising From Legal Pluralism, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
The Conceptual Problems Arising From Legal Pluralism, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Journal Articles
This paper argues that analytical jurisprudence has been insufficiently attentive to three significant puzzles highlighted by the legal pluralist tradition: the existence of commonalities between different types of law, the possibility of a distinction between law and non-law, and the explanatory centrality of the state. I further argue that the resolution of these questions sets the stage for a renewed agenda of analytical jurisprudence and has to be considered in attempts for reconciliation between the academic traditions of analytical jurisprudence and legal pluralism, often called “pluralist jurisprudence.” I also argue that the resolution of these problems affects the empirical, doctrinal, …
Taking Restorative Justice Seriously, Adriaan Lanni
Taking Restorative Justice Seriously, Adriaan Lanni
Buffalo Law Review
Those seeking to reduce mass incarceration have increasingly pointed to restorative justice—an approach that typically brings thoseaffected by a criminal offense together in an attempt to address the harmcaused by the offense rather than to mete out punishment. This Article is an attempt to think seriously about incorporating restorative justice throughout the criminal legal system. For restorative justice proponents, expanding these practices raises a host of questions: Does the opportunity to alleviate mass incarceration justify collaboration with a deeply flawed criminal legal system? Will the threat of criminal prosecution destroy the voluntariness and sincerity that is essential for a successful …
Legal Pluralism And Analytical Jurisprudence: An Inapposite Contrast, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Legal Pluralism And Analytical Jurisprudence: An Inapposite Contrast, Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
Journal Articles
The intellectual tradition of legal pluralism characterizes itself by way of a contrast to legal centralism or monism. Self-styled pluralists typically attribute centralist and monist views to mainstream theories of law, which I call here analytical jurisprudence. This article argues that the pluralist foundational contrast with analytical jurisprudence suffers from three recurrent defects. First, the pluralist opposition to analytical jurisprudence conflates conceptual questions with empirical, doctrinal, and politico-moral inquiries. Second, pluralists misattribute to analytical jurisprudents an equation between law and state that they do not hold and have the resources to reject. Third, pluralists address the conceptual problems of legal …
Decarcerating America: The Opportunistic Overlap Between Theory And (Mainly State) Sentencing Practice As A Pathway To Meaningful Reform, Mirko Bagaric, Daniel Mccord
Decarcerating America: The Opportunistic Overlap Between Theory And (Mainly State) Sentencing Practice As A Pathway To Meaningful Reform, Mirko Bagaric, Daniel Mccord
Buffalo Law Review
Criminals engender no community sympathy and have no political capital. This is part of the reason that the United States has the highest prison population on earth, and by a considerable margin. Incarceration levels grew four-fold over the past forty years. Despite this, America is now experiencing an unprecedented phenomenon whereby many states are now simultaneously implementing measures to reduce prison numbers. The unusual aspect of this is that the response is neither coordinated nor consistent in its approach, but the movement is unmistakable. This ground up approach to reducing prison numbers suffers from the misgiving that it is an …
Crafted From Whole Cloth: Reverse Stash-House Stings And The Sentencing Factor Manipulation Claim, Molly F. Spakowski
Crafted From Whole Cloth: Reverse Stash-House Stings And The Sentencing Factor Manipulation Claim, Molly F. Spakowski
Buffalo Law Review
Kenneth Flowers is currently serving a mandatory minimum sentence of 120 months imprisonment stemming from a conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine. While the ten-year prison sentence is very real, the five-kilograms of cocaine is not, and never was. Mr. Flowers was caught-up in one of the elaborate and overused “reverse stash-house sting” operations employed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”).
Mr. Flowers’ story is one of many similar cases resulting from the government operation conducted by the ATF known as a reverse stash-house sting operation. The …
Sez Who? Critical Legal History Without A Privileged Position, John Henry Schlegel
Sez Who? Critical Legal History Without A Privileged Position, John Henry Schlegel
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 30 in Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research, Markus D. Dubber & Christopher Tomlins, eds.
Scholars active in the Critical Legal Studies movement of the 1980s regularly attacked the scholarship of liberal legalist scholars by using a variety of then contemporary epistemological theories that argued for the impossibility of any observer attaining a neutral position from which to observe social activities. Somewhat surprisingly, liberal legalist scholars seldom turned this criticism back at the work of CLS scholars who themselves never criticized their own work as they did that of other scholars. The examination of several pieces of …
Agency And Insanity, Stephen P. Garvey
Agency And Insanity, Stephen P. Garvey
Buffalo Law Review
This Article offers an unorthodox theory of insanity. According to the traditional theory, insanity is a cognitive or volitional incapacity arising from a mental disease or defect. As an alternative to the traditional theory, some commentators have proposed that insanity is an especially debilitating form of irrationality. Each of these theories faces fair-minded objections. In contrast to these theories, this Article proposes that a person is insane if and because he lacks a sense of agency. The theory of insanity it defends might therefore be called the lost-agency theory.According to the lost-agency theory, a person lacks a sense of agency …
A Tale Of Two Clinics: Similarities And Differences In Evidence Of The Clinic Effect On The Development Of Law Students' Ethical And Altruistic Professional Identities, Jonel Newman, Donald Nicolson
A Tale Of Two Clinics: Similarities And Differences In Evidence Of The Clinic Effect On The Development Of Law Students' Ethical And Altruistic Professional Identities, Jonel Newman, Donald Nicolson
Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Humbug: Toward A Legal History, Susanna Blumenthal
Humbug: Toward A Legal History, Susanna Blumenthal
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History, Mark Fenster
Mr. Peabody's Improbable Legal Intellectual History, Mark Fenster
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Clinical Legal Education In The Future Of The Battered Women's Movement, Leigh Goodmark
The Role Of Clinical Legal Education In The Future Of The Battered Women's Movement, Leigh Goodmark
Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
Structural Overdelegation In Criminal Procedure, Anthony O'Rourke
Structural Overdelegation In Criminal Procedure, Anthony O'Rourke
Journal Articles
In function, if not in form, criminal procedure is a type of delegation. It requires courts to select constitutional objectives, and to decide how much discretionary authority to allocate to law enforcement officials in order to implement those objectives. By recognizing this process for what it is, this Article identifies a previously unseen phenomenon that inheres in the structure of criminal procedure decision-making.
Criminal procedure’s decision-making structure, this Article argues, pressures the Supreme Court to delegate more discretionary authority to law enforcement officials than the Court’s constitutional objectives can justify. By definition, this systematic “overdelegation” does not result from the …
How The "Unintended Consequences" Story Promotes Unjust Intent And Impact., Martha T. Mccluskey
How The "Unintended Consequences" Story Promotes Unjust Intent And Impact., Martha T. Mccluskey
Journal Articles
In the guise of critical analysis of the limits of law reform, the familiar phrase “unintended consequences” serves to rationalize rising inequality and to undermine democratic accountability. This paper examines how the phrase promotes a story of disentitlement, using the recent financial crisis as an example. By naturalizing inequality as power beyond law’s reach, this phrase’s message that benign law is likely to bring unequal consequences dovetails with a seemingly contradictory message that benign intent, rather than harmful impact, is what primarily counts for evaluating inequality.
As part of a LatCrit XV symposium taking a “bottom-up” view of the recent …
The Political Economy Of Criminal Procedure Litigation, Anthony O'Rourke
The Political Economy Of Criminal Procedure Litigation, Anthony O'Rourke
Journal Articles
Criminal procedure has undergone several well-documented shifts in its doctrinal foundations since the Supreme Court first began to apply the Constitution’s criminal procedure protections to the States. This Article examines the ways in which the political economy of criminal litigation – specifically, the material conditions that determine which litigants are able to raise criminal procedure claims, and which of those litigants’ cases are appealed to the United States Supreme Court – has influenced these shifts. It offers a theoretical framework for understanding how the political economy of criminal litigation shapes constitutional doctrine, according to which an increase in the number …
Law, Economics, And The Theory Of The Firm, Michael J. Meurer
Law, Economics, And The Theory Of The Firm, Michael J. Meurer
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Prophylactic Remedy: Normative Principles And Definitional Parameters Of Broad Injunctive Relief, Tracy A. Thomas
The Prophylactic Remedy: Normative Principles And Definitional Parameters Of Broad Injunctive Relief, Tracy A. Thomas
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Righting Victim Wrongs: Responding To Philosophical Criticisms Of The Nonspecific Victim Liability Defense, Aya Gruber
Righting Victim Wrongs: Responding To Philosophical Criticisms Of The Nonspecific Victim Liability Defense, Aya Gruber
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Symbols Of Governance: Thurman Arnold And Post-Realist Legal Theory, Mark Fenster
The Symbols Of Governance: Thurman Arnold And Post-Realist Legal Theory, Mark Fenster
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
But Pierre, If We Can't Think Normatively, What Are We To Do?, John Henry Schlegel
But Pierre, If We Can't Think Normatively, What Are We To Do?, John Henry Schlegel
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Habermas's Discourse Theory Of Law And Democracy, Hugh Baxter
Habermas's Discourse Theory Of Law And Democracy, Hugh Baxter
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Revenge And Punishment: Legal Prototype And Fairy Tale Theme, Kimberly J. Pierson
Revenge And Punishment: Legal Prototype And Fairy Tale Theme, Kimberly J. Pierson
Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy
No abstract provided.
Fuzzifying The Natural Law—Legal Positivist Debate, Edward S. Adams, Torben Spaak
Fuzzifying The Natural Law—Legal Positivist Debate, Edward S. Adams, Torben Spaak
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Virtue: Animals, Theology, And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Boyer, Alan Freeman
The Politics Of Virtue: Animals, Theology, And Abortion, Elizabeth B. Boyer, Alan Freeman
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
The Ten Thousand Dollar Question (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
The Ten Thousand Dollar Question (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
Review of Laura Kalman, Legal Realism at Yale.
The Future Of Legal Scholarship And The Search For A Modern Theory Of Law, Donald H. Gjerdingen
The Future Of Legal Scholarship And The Search For A Modern Theory Of Law, Donald H. Gjerdingen
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Not Socrates, But Protagoras: The Sophistic Basis Of Legal Education, William C. Heffernan
Not Socrates, But Protagoras: The Sophistic Basis Of Legal Education, William C. Heffernan
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel
American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
Studies In Boundary Theory: Three Essays In Adjudication And Politics, Al Katz
Studies In Boundary Theory: Three Essays In Adjudication And Politics, Al Katz
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy
Buffalo Law Review
No abstract provided.