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- " by saddling them with high debt levels. The higher rate of refiling that resulted was nevertheless efficient because refiling costs were low. In this essay we respond that the Ayotte-Skeel model is based on the assumption of a selection effect for which there is neither a shred of empirical evidence nor even a variable proposed for measurement. We demonstrate that it is mathematically impossible for the cost savings from Delaware's shorter bankruptcies to offset the cost of so many second bankruptcies. We also note that the Ayotte-Skeel model leads to several predictions in conflict with the empirical evidence. We argue that refailure is costly and propose an empirical approach to quantify those costs. We praise Ayotte and Skeel's discovery that the EBITDA of firms emerging from Delaware bankruptcy was not significantly different from the EBITDA of firms emerging from bankruptcy in other courts during the period of ascendency. We agree that their findings suggest leverage played a greater role in the failure of the Delaware companies than we had previously thought. Lastly (1)
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Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article is about international racism. Racism is not simply a local or national phenomenon, it is an immense global problem. Indeed, its tentacles stretch from the local to the global and back to the local. Let us put the picture of international racism into perspective by tying it to the claims made to eradicate racism in economic relations. Apart from affirmative action, there are two other approaches: either to assert the notion that reparations is a way to ameliorate the worst manifestations of racism and provide for racial justice, or to join that with the notion that there is …
I. Opening Remarks (Proceedings Of The Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues In The Americas Conference), Jon L. Mills
I. Opening Remarks (Proceedings Of The Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues In The Americas Conference), Jon L. Mills
UF Law Faculty Publications
Proceedings of the Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference (2002)
Proceedings Of The Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues In The Americas Conference (2002) -- V. The Export Of Medical Supplies And Agriculture Products In Cuba -- D. Cuban Economic Relations, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Proceedings Of The Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues In The Americas Conference (2002) -- V. The Export Of Medical Supplies And Agriculture Products In Cuba -- D. Cuban Economic Relations, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
Proceedings of the Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference (2002)
Vii. Legal Education In The Americas, A. An Introduction (Proceedings Of The Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues In The Americas Conference), Jon L. Mills
UF Law Faculty Publications
Proceedings of the Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference (2002)
Estate Tax Repeal: Through The Looking Glass, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
Estate Tax Repeal: Through The Looking Glass, Karen C. Burke, Grayson M.P. Mccouch
UF Law Faculty Publications
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 promises dramatic reductions in income and estate taxes over a nine-year phase-in period, culminating in 2010 with complete repeal of the estate tax and introduction of a new carryover basis regime for inherited property. The Act's sunset provision automatically terminates these substantive changes at the end of 2010 and reinstates prior law for 2011 and subsequent years. In effect, the sunset provision transforms the large-scale tax cuts into a temporary measure and leaves open the question of whether to make those cuts permanent. Since the Act was signed into law, …
Race, Crime And The Pool Of Surplus Criminality: Or Why The "War On Drugs" Was A "War On Blacks", Kenneth B. Nunn
Race, Crime And The Pool Of Surplus Criminality: Or Why The "War On Drugs" Was A "War On Blacks", Kenneth B. Nunn
UF Law Faculty Publications
The War on Drugs has had a devastating effect on African American communities nationwide. The concept of the pool of surplus criminality may explain the drug war's focus on African Americans. Faced with a perceived drug problem, White Americans naturally identified African American people as the source of that threat and targeted them for police harassment and penal control. There are ways in which the drug war may be construed as a race war. The disproportionate impact on the African American community, evidence that policy makers anticipated the drug war would disproportionately harm the African American community, and the historic …
Environmental Damages And Crimes, Jeffry S. Wade, Rafael González Ballar, Fernando C. Walcacer, José Rubens Morato Leite, Marcelo Buzaglo Dantas
Environmental Damages And Crimes, Jeffry S. Wade, Rafael González Ballar, Fernando C. Walcacer, José Rubens Morato Leite, Marcelo Buzaglo Dantas
UF Law Faculty Publications
Part III of Proceedings of the Third Annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas Conference (2002). Discusses the United States and Environmental Law, Costa Rica and Environmental Law, Brazil and Environmental Law, and Brazil and Environmental Damage.
Rehnquist's Vietnam: Constitutional Separatism And The Stealth Advance Of Martial Law, Diane H. Mazur
Rehnquist's Vietnam: Constitutional Separatism And The Stealth Advance Of Martial Law, Diane H. Mazur
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article argues that judicial deference to the military, at least as the principle is understood in contemporary decisions of the Court, is surprisingly recent and not at all constitutionally established. In fact, this deference departs from constitutional text and from a line of Supreme Court precedent concerning civilian-military relations extending back before the Civil War. Broad judicial deference to military discretion is only a creation of the post-Vietnam, all-volunteer military and, more specifically, only a creation of one single Justice of the Supreme Court, William H. Rehnquist.
In Greer v. Spock, First Amendment values were displaced narrowly in the …
Preserving Monumental Landscapes Under The Antiquities Act, Christine A. Klein
Preserving Monumental Landscapes Under The Antiquities Act, Christine A. Klein
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article examines the Antiquities Act, a 1906 statute that delegates authority to the President to establish national monuments on federal lands for the protection of prehistoric structures and relics. This modest statute, originally a scant one page in length, has set off a century of intermittent controversy that its drafters could not have anticipated. Although Congress probably intended that the statute merely protect archaeological ruins from looting by treasure hunters, presidents quickly began to utilize the statute to preserve large natural landscapes—ranging from President Theodore Roosevelt's establishment of the 800,000-acre Grand Canyon National Monument in 1908 to President Clinton's …
A History Of Race And Gender At The University Of Florida Levin College Of Law 1909-2001, Betty W. Taylor
A History Of Race And Gender At The University Of Florida Levin College Of Law 1909-2001, Betty W. Taylor
UF Law Faculty Publications
The evolution from an all-white male law school to the current diverse student body and faculty has been slow, deliberate, and often-times painful. This is true even for those who were successful in gaining admission or employment, and even more excruciating to those who were unsuccessful in achieving their goals. Barriers to those individuals who were not white males reflected the Southern society mores of the early years of our history that were super-imposed upon the law school. No one at the law school today would take pride in the fact that it took fourteen years of cajoling and pressuring …
Dr Ethics Book Brings It All Together, Jonathan R. Cohen
Dr Ethics Book Brings It All Together, Jonathan R. Cohen
UF Law Faculty Publications
Dispute resolution practice has changed dramatically over the past several decades. The traditional litigation model has increasingly given way to a “multi-door” vision of varied dispute resolution practices. With that functional change in how we process disputes has come a pressing need to address the varied ethical challenges of these varied practices. Dispute Resolution Ethics is a marvelous contribution toward that effort.
May Harvey Rest In Peace: Lakin V. Postal Life And Casualty Company, Robert H. Jerry Ii
May Harvey Rest In Peace: Lakin V. Postal Life And Casualty Company, Robert H. Jerry Ii
UF Law Faculty Publications
There is a case that has piqued my interest in recent years. Lakin v. Postal Life & Casualty Co., is a relatively simple story of two men whose paths crossed in Kansas City, Missouri, more than forty years ago. One was a down-in-the-luck drifter, and the other a con-artist who made his living by taking advantage of others. These two men would be long forgotten but for the fact that their final interactions during a hunting trip near Pleasant Hill, Missouri, raised some insurance law issues that ultimately made their way to the Missouri Supreme Court. Lakin stands for the …
The Anticanonical Lesson Of Huckleberry Finn, Sharon E. Rush
The Anticanonical Lesson Of Huckleberry Finn, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
Some books included in the canon of American literature no longer belong there, because they presently lack normative approval. Adapting concepts found in constitutional law, an anticanon of American literature functions the way the anticanon of constitutional law would operate and explicitly removes books from the canon. In law, the anticanon identifies outdated interpretations of the constitution. In education, it is time to consider removing from the canon and placing in an anticanon books that are inconsistent with multicultural education. One such book is Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, which is part of the canon of American literature and viewed as …
Identity Matters, Sharon E. Rush
Identity Matters, Sharon E. Rush
UF Law Faculty Publications
From the Sixth Annual LatCrit Conference in Gainesville, Florida on April 26-29, 2001.
Cluster VII: Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Progressive Race Blindness?: Individual Identity, Group Politics, And Reform, Darren Lenard Hutchinson
Progressive Race Blindness?: Individual Identity, Group Politics, And Reform, Darren Lenard Hutchinson
UF Law Faculty Publications
Critical Race Theorists advance race consciousness as a positive instrument for political and legal reform. A growing body of works by left-identified scholars, however, challenges this traditional progressive stance toward race consciousness. After summarizing the contours of this budding literature, this Article criticizes the "progressive race blindness" scholarship on several grounds and offers an alternative approach to race consciousness that balances skepticism towards the naturalness of race with a healthy appreciation of the realities of racial subjugation and identity.
Euclid Lives: The Survival Of Progressive Jurisprudence, Charles M. Haara, Michael Allan Wolf
Euclid Lives: The Survival Of Progressive Jurisprudence, Charles M. Haara, Michael Allan Wolf
UF Law Faculty Publications
The Supreme Court's expanded use of regulatory takings is making a highly controversial and confusing concept more difficult to apply and defend. The Court and commentators are invited to explore a different approach-- Progressive jurisprudence, as represented by the Court's enduring opinion in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co . This Commentary examines the reinvigoration of the Takings Clause and, in historical and ideological terms, discusses the Progressiveness of Euclid and of the regulatory scheme the Euclid Court approved. Professors Haar and Wolf identify and explore five inquiries concerning the character of regulations affecting the use, ownership, and value …
The Child As Other: Race And Differential Treatment In The Juvenile Justice System, Kenneth B. Nunn
The Child As Other: Race And Differential Treatment In The Juvenile Justice System, Kenneth B. Nunn
UF Law Faculty Publications
In this Article, I will focus on the treatment of African American children as the "other" in the juvenile justice system. As previously stated, African American children are not the only ones who may be treated as the "other." Latino, Native American, Asian, and even white children may be "othered" in the appropriate social context. My concern here, however, is with African American children. I focus on their condition because I believe it is exemplary of how all children who are perceived as children of the "other" are treated and because, in some ways, the treatment of African American children, …
The Contemplative Lawyer: On The Potential Contributions Of Mindfulness Meditation To Law Students, Lawyers, And Their Clients, Leonard L. Riskin
The Contemplative Lawyer: On The Potential Contributions Of Mindfulness Meditation To Law Students, Lawyers, And Their Clients, Leonard L. Riskin
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article proposes that introducing mindfulness meditation into the legal profession may improve practitioners' well-being and performance and weaken the dominance of adversarial mind-sets. By enabling some lawyers to make more room for - and act from - broader and deeper perspectives, mindfulness can help lawyers provide more appropriate service (especially through better listening and negotiation) and gain more personal satisfaction from their work.
Part I of this article describes a number of problems associated with law school and law practice. Part II sets forth a variety of ways in which lawyers, law schools, and professional organizations have tried to …
Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain
Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain
UF Law Faculty Publications
Professor Harry Bitner was an outstanding law librarian who shaped many of our best libraries, who was a mentor to many younger law librarians, and who provided leadership to the law library profession and to legal education generally.
A Background History Of Directional Drilling In Michigan, Christine A. Klein
A Background History Of Directional Drilling In Michigan, Christine A. Klein
UF Law Faculty Publications
Why should we care about directional drilling? A lot of people care, both at the federal and state levels. Many politicans have weighed in on this issue of whether or not directional drilling should be permitted. Beyond state politics, an interesting legal debate has begun over whether the federal or state government has primary regulatory authority over this amphibious sort of drilling, which starts on the land but ends up under the Great Lakes.
Legislating Apology: The Pros And Cons, Jonathan R. Cohen
Legislating Apology: The Pros And Cons, Jonathan R. Cohen
UF Law Faculty Publications
Should apologies be admissible into evidence as proof of fault in civil cases? While this question is a simple one, its potential ramifications are great, and legislative and scholarly interest in the admissibility of apologies has exploded. Shortly after the idea of excluding apologies from admissibility into evidence was raised in academic circles three years ago, it rapidly spread to the policy arena. For example, California and Florida enacted laws in 2000 and 2001 respectively excluding from admissibility apologetic expressions of sympathy ("I'm sorry that you are hurt") but not fault-admitting apologies ("I'm sorrythat I injured you") after accidents. Eight …
Out Of The Shadows: Traversing The Imaginary Of Sameness, Difference, And Relationalism - A Human Rights Proposal, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Out Of The Shadows: Traversing The Imaginary Of Sameness, Difference, And Relationalism - A Human Rights Proposal, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
This work seeks to develop a methodology that serves a women's anti-subordination project. To achieve this goal, Part II sets out the theoretical background of feminist theory (II.A) and three waves of feminism (II.B). Part II.C articulates the feminist revelations about law these analytical frameworks have engendered.
This project sets out to craft a methodology that can assist the goal of full personhood for women. Women's full personhood is a substantive concept that, as detailed in Part III, I ground on international human rights notions of fundamental rights - rights that we have, or ought to have, because we are …
International Intellectual Property, Access To Health Care, And Human Rights: South Africa V. United States, Winston P. Nagan
International Intellectual Property, Access To Health Care, And Human Rights: South Africa V. United States, Winston P. Nagan
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article examines the question of access to patented medicines in international law. It analyzes the extent to which international agreements may lawfully limit affordable versions of these medicines that may be available through parallel imports or compulsory licensing procedures. It considers the concept of intellectual property rights from a national and international perspective to determine how these rights must be sensitive to matters of national sovereignty when extraordinary, life-threatening diseases afflict societies in catastrophic ways. This Article suggests that viewing property (including intellectual property) as a human right requires that its scope be delimited and understood in the context …
Panel: Ethical Dilemmas: Finding Common Ground On Controversial Issues, Lesley Blackner, Richard C. Foltz, Brion Blackwelder, Lisa C. Schiavinato, Alyson C. Flournoy
Panel: Ethical Dilemmas: Finding Common Ground On Controversial Issues, Lesley Blackner, Richard C. Foltz, Brion Blackwelder, Lisa C. Schiavinato, Alyson C. Flournoy
UF Law Faculty Publications
This panel discussion applied ethics to the theme of the 8th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference. Panelists examined ways ethics may help reconcile industry (such as business and development) with environmentalism.
Reparations Theory And Postcolonial Puerto Rico: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Pedro A. Malavet
Reparations Theory And Postcolonial Puerto Rico: Some Preliminary Thoughts, Pedro A. Malavet
UF Law Faculty Publications
This article primarily focuses on the plight of the Puerto Ricans on the island because, in addition to their flawed social construction by the United States and lack of national political power, they are also legally constructed as second-class citizens. In defining the legal rights of Puerto Ricans, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that territorial citizens are entitled to fewer constitutional protections than U.S. citizens residing in any of the fifty states. The racist and essentialist social construction of the Puerto Ricans as inassimilable, the denial of legal rights by the courts, along with the democratic deficit which deprives …
Reforming Child Protection In Response To The Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Scandal, Susan Mangold
Reforming Child Protection In Response To The Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse Scandal, Susan Mangold
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
No abstract provided.
Defending Childhood: Developing A Child-Centered Law And Policy Agenda, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Defending Childhood: Developing A Child-Centered Law And Policy Agenda, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
No abstract provided.
Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
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Racial Discrimination In Health Care In The United States As A Violation Of The International Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination, Vernellia R. Randall
Racial Discrimination In Health Care In The United States As A Violation Of The International Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Racial Discrimination, Vernellia R. Randall
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
No abstract provided.
The U.N. Convention On The Rights Of The Child: Some Observations On The Monitoring And The Social Context Of Its Implementation, Jaap E. Doek
University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy
No abstract provided.