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Race, Redistricting, And Representation, Guy-Uriel Charles
Race, Redistricting, And Representation, Guy-Uriel Charles
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This Essay, which was written for the Ohio State Law Journal's symposium on Election Law and the Roberts Court, examines the Court's decision in League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) v. Perry. The Essay explores two ways of reading LULAC: first as a racial representation case and second as a case concerned with representation itself. The essay argues that politics not race is the majority's worry in LULAC and that the case is the first application of Justice Kennedy's representation rights concept first introduced in Vieth.
Purposes And Effects In Criminal Law, Samuel W. Buell
Purposes And Effects In Criminal Law, Samuel W. Buell
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This brief comment, published in the Virginia Law Review's online companion, responds to Richard Bierschbach's and Alex Stein's article, Mediating Rules in Criminal Law.
A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne
A Constitutional Conundrum Of Second Amendment Commas: A Short Epistolary Report, William W. Van Alstyne
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Prompted by the court’s decision in Parker v. District of Columbia, this series of correspondence discusses the effect possible forms of punctuation may have on the Second Amendment. The article makes comments on the important grammars during the founding and also two possible writings of the Second Amendment that contain different sets of punctuation.
Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young
Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young
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No abstract provided.
Structural Reform Prosecution, Brandon L. Garrett
Structural Reform Prosecution, Brandon L. Garrett
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In what I call a structural reform prosecution, prosecutors secure the cooperation of an organization in adopting internal reforms. No scholars have considered the problem of prosecutors seeking structural reform remedies, perhaps because until recently organizational prosecutions were themselves infrequent. In the past few years, however, federal prosecutors adopted a bold new prosecutorial strategy under which dozens of leading corporations entered into demanding settlements, including AIG, American Online, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Computer Associates, HealthSouth, KPMG, MCI, Merrill Lynch & Co, Monsanto, and Time Warner. To situate the DOJ's latest strategy, I frame alternatives to the pursuit of structural reform remedies …
Federalism And Accountability: State Attorneys General, Regulatory Litigation, And The New Federalism, Timothy Meyer
Federalism And Accountability: State Attorneys General, Regulatory Litigation, And The New Federalism, Timothy Meyer
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No abstract provided.
Criminal Procedure Within The Firm, Samuel W. Buell
Criminal Procedure Within The Firm, Samuel W. Buell
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It seems improbable that the theoretical and doctrinal framework of criminal procedure, developed mostly through a binary model of the individual and the state, would fit without modification in the tripartite model of the state, the firm, and the individual that characterizes the investigation and sanctioning of criminal conduct within legal entities. This intuition—which has been underexplored in spite of heated public debate about the state’s practices in this area—proves correct. I develop some components of a framework for understanding procedure for individual cases of criminal wrongdoing within firms and generating insights to guide reform. The process of pursuing individual …
Reforming Punishment Of Financial Reporting Fraud, Samuel W. Buell
Reforming Punishment Of Financial Reporting Fraud, Samuel W. Buell
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Present sentencing law in criminal cases of financial reporting fraud is embarrassingly flawed. The problem is urgent given that courts are now regularly sentencing corporate offenders, sometimes (but sometimes not) to extremely punitive terms of imprisonment. Policing of fraud by multiple jurisdictions in a federal system means that principled sentencing law is necessary not only for first-order policy reasons but also for coordination of sanctioning efforts. Proportionality and rationality demand that sentencing law have an agreed scale for measuring cases of financial reporting fraud in relation to each other, a sound methodology for fixing a given case on that scale, …
Churn, Baby, Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant And Fringe Firms In A Segmented Industry, John M. De Figueiredo, Brian S. Silverman
Churn, Baby, Churn: Strategic Dynamics Among Dominant And Fringe Firms In A Segmented Industry, John M. De Figueiredo, Brian S. Silverman
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This paper integrates and extends the literatures on industry evolution and dominant firms to develop a dynamic theory of dominant and fringe competitive interaction in a segmented industry. It argues that a dominant firm, seeing contraction of growth in its current segment(s), enters new segments in which it can exploit its technological strengths, but that are sufficiently distant to avoid cannibalization. The dominant firm acts as a low-cost Stackelberg leader, driving down prices and triggering a sales takeoff in the new segment. We identify a “churn” effect associated with dominant firm entry: fringe firms that precede the dominant firm into …
Creating Online Tutorials: Five Lessons Learned, Lauren M. Collins
Creating Online Tutorials: Five Lessons Learned, Lauren M. Collins
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No abstract provided.
Finding The Golden Mean With Daubert: An Elusive, Perhaps An Impossible, Goal, Robert P. Mosteller
Finding The Golden Mean With Daubert: An Elusive, Perhaps An Impossible, Goal, Robert P. Mosteller
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No abstract provided.
The Politics Of Preclearance, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
The Politics Of Preclearance, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
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This Essay examines recent charges of political motivation against the Department of Justice and its enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. These accusations appear well-deserved, on the strength of the Department's recent handling of the Texas redistricting submission and Georgia's voting identification requirement. This Essay reaches two conclusions. First, it is clear that Congress wished to secure its understanding of the Act into the future through its preclearance requirement. Many critics of the voting rights bill worried about the degree of discretion that the legislation accorded the Attorney General. Supporters worried as well, for this degree of discretion might lead …
Toward A New Civil Rights Framework, Guy-Uriel Charles
Toward A New Civil Rights Framework, Guy-Uriel Charles
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No abstract provided.
Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
Comments On The European Commission’S Proposal For A Regulation Of The European Parliament And The Council On The Law Applicable To Contractual Obligations (Rome I), Ralf Michaels, Jürgen Basedow, Wolfgang Wurmnest
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No abstract provided.
Toward A Framework Statute For Supranational Adjudication, Ernest A. Young
Toward A Framework Statute For Supranational Adjudication, Ernest A. Young
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No abstract provided.
Was He Guilty As Charged? An Alternative Narrative Based On The Circumstantial Evidence From 12 Angry Men, Neil Vidmar, Sara Sun Beale, Erwin Chemerinsky, James E. Coleman Jr.
Was He Guilty As Charged? An Alternative Narrative Based On The Circumstantial Evidence From 12 Angry Men, Neil Vidmar, Sara Sun Beale, Erwin Chemerinsky, James E. Coleman Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Disloyal Agents, Deborah A. Demott
Disloyal Agents, Deborah A. Demott
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This paper examines the consequences of an agent's breach of the fiduciary duty of loyalty. These consequences are underexplored in academic literature, in contrast to rationales for fiduciary duties more generally. The consequences of an agent's disloyalty are, moreover, not uniform across jurisdictions. The paper begins by differentiating between the meaning and consequences that the law ascribes to agency and its meaning in other academic disciplines, including economics and philosophy. It then considers the extent to which principles derived from contract and tort law can account for the consequences that courts assign to agents' disloyal conduct and concludes that a …
Knowledge Commons: The Case Of The Biopharmaceutical Industry, Arti K. Rai
Knowledge Commons: The Case Of The Biopharmaceutical Industry, Arti K. Rai
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No abstract provided.
Economic Growth And The Interests Of Future (And Past And Present) Generations: A Comment On Tyler Cowen, Matthew D. Adler
Economic Growth And The Interests Of Future (And Past And Present) Generations: A Comment On Tyler Cowen, Matthew D. Adler
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No abstract provided.
Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
Democracy And Distortion, Guy-Uriel Charles
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This Article contends that judicial supervision of excessive manipulation of electoral lines for partisan purposes - political gerrymandering - may be justified in a mature democracy. The Article responds to the debate among courts and commentators over whether political gerrymandering presents any constitutionally relevant harms and, further, whether courts may be able to resolve the structural issues presented by political gerrymandering claims. Drawing from political theory and political science, this Article develops a theory of institutional distortion and provides a justification for aggressive judicial review of questions of democratic governance. The Article does not argue that the United States Supreme …
Book Review, Laurence R. Helfer
Book Review, Laurence R. Helfer
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reviewing Eyal Benvenisti & Moshe Hirsch eds., The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation: Theoretical Perspectives (2004)
Privacy And Law Enforcement In The European Union: The Data Retention Directive, Francesca Bignami
Privacy And Law Enforcement In The European Union: The Data Retention Directive, Francesca Bignami
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This paper examines a recent twist in EU data protection law. In the 1990s, the European Union was still primarily a market-creating organization and data protection in the European Union was aimed at rights abuses by market actors. Since the terrorist attacks of New York, Madrid, and London, however, cooperation on fighting crime has accelerated. Now, the challenge for the European Union is to protect privacy in its emerging system of criminal justice. This paper analyzes the first EU law to address data privacy in crime-fighting—the Data Retention Directive. Based on a detailed examination of the Directive’s legislative history, the …
The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young
The Constitution Outside The Constitution, Ernest A. Young
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Countries lacking a single canonical text define the “constitution” to include all laws that perform the constitutive functions of creating governmental institutions and conferring rights on individuals. The British Constitution, for example, includes a variety of constitutive statutes, such as the Magna Carta and the Parliament Acts. This Article proposes a thought experiment: what if we defined the U.S. Constitution by function, rather than by form? Viewed from this perspective, “the Constitution” would include not only the canonical document but also a variety of statutes, executive materials, and practices that structure our government. What these constitutive materials lack is a …
Why De Minimis?, Matthew D. Adler
Why De Minimis?, Matthew D. Adler
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De minimis cutoffs are a familiar feature of risk regulation. This includes the quantitative individual risk thresholds for fatality risks employed in many contexts by EPA, FDA, and other agencies, such as the 1-in-1 million lifetime cancer risk cutoff; extreme event cutoffs for addressing natural hazards, such as the 100 - year - flood or 475 - year - earthquake; de minimis failure probabilities for built structures; the exclusion of low - probability causal models; and other policymaking criteria. All these tests have a common structure, as I show in the Article. A de minimis test, broadly defined, tells the …
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
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No abstract provided.
Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens And The Making Of Modern America, Kerry Abrams
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No abstract provided.
Immigration Law And The Regulation Of Marriage, Kerry Abrams
Immigration Law And The Regulation Of Marriage, Kerry Abrams
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No abstract provided.
United States V. Goliath, Brandon L. Garrett
United States V. Goliath, Brandon L. Garrett
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No abstract provided.
Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens
Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Rights, The Public Domain, And The Commons, Arti K. Rai, James Boyle
Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Rights, The Public Domain, And The Commons, Arti K. Rai, James Boyle
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Synthetic biologists aim to make biology a true engineering discipline. In the same way that electrical engineers rely on standard capacitors and resistors, or computer programmers rely on modular blocks of code, synthetic biologists wish to create an array of modular biological parts that can be readily synthesized and mixed together in different combinations. Synthetic biology has already produced important results, including more accurate AIDS tests and the possibility of unlimited supplies of previously scarce drugs for malaria. Proponents hope to use synthetic organisms to produce not only medically relevant chemicals but also a large variety of industrial materials, including …