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Corruption And Legitimation Crises In Latin America, Ángel Oquendo

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Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod

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Universals And Particulars: A Comment On Women's Human Rights And Religious Marriage Contracts, Carol Weisbrod

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Chief Justice Marshall In The Context Of His Times, R. Kent Newmyer

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The Use And Abuse Of Trade Leverage To Protect The Global Commons: What We Can Learn From The Tuna-Dolphin Conflict, Richard Parker

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Retrofitting Unemployment Insurance To Cover Temporary Workers, Sachin Pandya

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On The Unique Value Of Law School Clinics, Paul Chill

Faculty Articles and Papers

This is an edited version of a speech given by the author on April 21, 1999, upon receiving the 1999 University of Connecticut Law Review Award for “excellence in legal scholarship and service to the legal community.”

Democratic Legitimacy And The Administrative Character Of Supranationalism: The Example Of The European Community, Peter Lindseth

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This Article argues, from the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, that supranational institutions are best understood as administrative in character, and then explores the implications of this argument by looking at the European Community. The author concludes that the Community's democratic deficit flows primarily from an inability to establish democratically legitimate hierarchical supervision over supranational technocrats -- a problem bound up with the historical relationship between demos, democracy and national political institutions as cultural symbols of popular sovereignty. The author examines aspects of Community law designed to maintain forms of national control, as well as two alternative strategies -- democratization through …

Who Authors Trademarks, Steven Wilf

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Fusion Folk: A Comment On Law And Music, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

This article is, in its most general sense, a critique of the idea of autonomy which is common to the understanding of both law and music. The idea of the autonomy of law, as an enterprise with its own rules and its own conventions, is parallel to a view of the composer working alone, uninfluenced by what has gone before, creating masterpieces free of cultural contexts. The stress here is on the point that both build on previous material, official and unofficial, and that in both there are latitudes and boundaries, ways in which the legal interpreter is free and …

Preface: Symposium On Corporate Groups, Phillip Blumberg

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Toward A Taxonomy Of Disputes: New Evidence Through The Prism Of The Priest/Klein Model, Peter Siegelman, Joel Waldfogel

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The Priest/Klein model predicts both trial rates and plaintiff win rates as functions of three structural parameters: the decision standard, parties' uncertainty in estimating case quality, and the degree of stake asymmetry across parties. Previous tests of the model are unsatisfactory because most have concentrated on its prediction of a 50 percent win rate, which only obtains as a limiting case. We gather independent evidence that describes the model's three parameters and compare it with estimates from a structural model that simultaneously estimates both trial and win rates. The model fits the data for four of our six case types. …

The Evolution Of The Electric Utility Industry, Richard Pomp

Faculty Articles and Papers

This article examines the evolution of the electric utility industry in three parts: I. Discovery, Innovation, and Expansion; II. Increased Demand, Improved Technology, and Increased Regulation; and III. Diversification, Regionalism, and Deregulation.

Part I begins with an examination of how the electric industry came to be, starting with incandescent light. The power industry at this time consisted of three segments that still exist today; generation, transmission, and distribution. Municipalities initially issued franchises and charters to power cities, which resulted in fierce competition to provide power at the lowest rates. Through 1880 to 1900, electricity-use increased rapidly, attracting private companies to …