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Inside The Corporate Veil: The Character And Consequences Of Executives’ Duties, Deborah A. Demott
Inside The Corporate Veil: The Character And Consequences Of Executives’ Duties, Deborah A. Demott
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This paper is based on a keynote address to the 2006 annual workshop of the Australian Corporate Law Teachers' Association on "The Pathology of Corporate Law." The paper's thesis is that fuller understanding of many corporate malfunctions requires examination of organizational structures and patterns of interaction below the level of the board within a corporation's hierarchy. The paper argues that there is merit to mandating duties of skill and care at the executive level, drawing on examples of executive conduct in recent corporate fiascos. The paper also explores the application of the business judgment rule to officers. As conventionally formulated, …
Through A Glass Darkly: Van Orden, Mccreary And The Dangers Of Transparency In Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, Laura S. Underkuffler
Through A Glass Darkly: Van Orden, Mccreary And The Dangers Of Transparency In Establishment Clause Jurisprudence, Laura S. Underkuffler
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No abstract provided.
Understanding Change In International Organizations: Globalization And Innovation In The Ilo, Laurence R. Helfer
Understanding Change In International Organizations: Globalization And Innovation In The Ilo, Laurence R. Helfer
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This Article uses an interdisciplinary approach to explain why the International Labor Organization (ILO) has been given surprisingly short shrift in recent debates over the role of IOs in addressing the many transborder collective action problems that globalization has fostered. I review the ILO's past and its present with two broad objectives in mind. First, I seek to correct a misperception among international lawyers and legal scholars that the ILO is a weak and ineffective institution. The organization's effectiveness in creating and monitoring international labor standards has fluctuated widely during its nearly ninety-year existence. Over the last decade, however, the …
Incomplete Contracts In A Complete Contract World, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Scott Baker
Incomplete Contracts In A Complete Contract World, Kimberly D. Krawiec, Scott Baker
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This paper considers the role that contract doctrine should play in facilitating optimal investment in contractual relationships. All contracts are incomplete in the sense that they do not specify the optimal actions for the buyer and seller in every future contingency. This incompleteness can lead to both under and over-investment in resources specifically targeted to the needs of the other contracting party. To solve these investment problems, economists and legal scholars have looked to complicated contractual solutions and the ownership of assets. This Article offers another solution: contract doctrine. Specifically, we propose a contractual default rule applicable to all contract …
From St. Ives To Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion Of The Medieval ‘Law Merchant’, Stephen E. Sachs
From St. Ives To Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion Of The Medieval ‘Law Merchant’, Stephen E. Sachs
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Modern advocates of corporate self-regulation have drawn unlikely inspiration from the Middle Ages. On the traditional view of history, medieval merchants who wandered from fair to fair were not governed by domestic laws, but by their own lex mercatoria, or "law merchant. " This law, which uniformly regulated commerce across Europe, was supposedly produced by an autonomous merchant class, interpreted in private courts, and enforced through private sanctions rather than state coercion. Contemporary writers have treated global corporations as descendants of these itinerant traders, urging them to replace conflicting national laws with a transnational law of their own creation. The …
The Executive And The Avoidance Canon, H. Jefferson Powell
The Executive And The Avoidance Canon, H. Jefferson Powell
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Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part I: The Fda, The Courts, And The Regulation Of Tobacco, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins
Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part I: The Fda, The Courts, And The Regulation Of Tobacco, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins
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No abstract provided.
A Look Back At The Rehnquist Era And An Overview Of The 2004 Supreme Court Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
A Look Back At The Rehnquist Era And An Overview Of The 2004 Supreme Court Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
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No abstract provided.
Private Business As Public Good: Hotel Development And Kelo, Joseph Blocher
Private Business As Public Good: Hotel Development And Kelo, Joseph Blocher
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In the summer of 2004, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. announced plans to demolish the all-but-derelict New Haven Coliseum and replace it with a publicly financed redevelopment that would include a 300-room hotel. Critics of the plan immediately objected that the hotel-even if it were completed-was a poor public investment, that there was no demand for such a hotel, and that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Some critics pointed to New Haven's own checkered history of major development projects, especially the failed downtown mall and the famously catastrophic Oak Street redevelopment. As of February 2006, the city …
Tahoe’S Requiem: The Death Of The Scalian View Of Property And Justice, Laura S. Underkuffler
Tahoe’S Requiem: The Death Of The Scalian View Of Property And Justice, Laura S. Underkuffler
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In this article, I argue that from 1992 (when the Lucas case was decided) and for almost ten years thereafter, what I call the "Scalian view" of property and justice dominated Supreme Court jurisprudence. Under this vision, property provides a concrete, objectively knowable, and immutable legal barrier which marks the line between protected individual interests and the exercise of collective power. If government transgresses this line, the individual is almost always deemed to have been wronged. And compensation is required, as a matter of "justice," under the Takings Clause. I argue that with the Court's decisions in Palazzolo and Tahoe …
Storming The Castle To Save The Children: The Ironic Costs Of A Child Welfare Exception To The Fourth Amendment, Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Storming The Castle To Save The Children: The Ironic Costs Of A Child Welfare Exception To The Fourth Amendment, Doriane Lambelet Coleman
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This article first sets out the child welfare system's assumption that there is a child welfare exception to the Fourth Amendment and then describes the ways it is used to facilitate child maltreatment investigations. It goes on to analyze the validity of this assumption according to current Fourth Amendment doctrine including under the special needs administrative exception. (This analysis may be particularly useful to both family/children's law scholars as well as to Fourth Amendment scholars, as it examines all of the state and federal appellate cases addressing the subject, and provides a most up-to-date evaluation of the Supreme Court's special …
How Strongly Should We Protect And Enforce International Law?, University Of Chicago Law School Workshop, March 2006, Joost H. B. Pauwelyn
How Strongly Should We Protect And Enforce International Law?, University Of Chicago Law School Workshop, March 2006, Joost H. B. Pauwelyn
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Observers of international law are obsessed with trying to explain and predict why and when states comply with international law. Doing so, they have consistently overlooked a logically preceding, but no less important, question: To what extent should states perform their international commitments? Put differently, how strongly should we protect and enforce international law? Worrying as much about over-enforcement of international law as under-enforcement of international law, this article offers a theory of relative normativity. This theory is driven by efficiency, effectiveness and legitimacy concerns rather than a hierarchy of values. It makes distinctions between how international law allocates entitlements, …
Federalism Cases In The October 2004 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
Federalism Cases In The October 2004 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky
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A Proposed Settlement Rule For Mass Torts, Francis Mcgovern
A Proposed Settlement Rule For Mass Torts, Francis Mcgovern
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Abstract not available
The Players Have Lost That Argument: Doping, Drug Testing, And Collective Bargaining, Paul H. Haagen
The Players Have Lost That Argument: Doping, Drug Testing, And Collective Bargaining, Paul H. Haagen
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No abstract provided.
The Evolution Of Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Distribution Plans, Francis Mcgovern
The Evolution Of Asbestos Bankruptcy Trust Distribution Plans, Francis Mcgovern
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The evolution of asbestos litigation from the early 1970s to the present has become the source of much analysis. One commentator divides this history into several phases: the heroic phase, bureaucratic floundering, adaptation and maturity, search for global settlement, expansion of the number of cases, and legislative reform in a new era. A neglected aspect of the history of asbestos litigation has been the evolution of asbestos bankruptcy trust distribution plans. Since 1982 there have been more than 70 corporations which have filed bankruptcy proceedings because of their exposure to asbestos liability. As these corporations emerge from bankruptcy, their plans …
Reining In The Data Traders: A Tort For The Misuse Of Personal Information, Sarah Ludington
Reining In The Data Traders: A Tort For The Misuse Of Personal Information, Sarah Ludington
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In 2005, three spectacular data security breaches focused public attention on the vast databases of personal information held by data traders such as ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, and the vulnerability of that data. The personal information of hundreds of thousands of people had either been hacked or sold to identity thieves, yet the data traders refused to reveal to those people the specifics of the information sold or stolen. While Congress and many state legislatures swiftly introduced bills to force data traders to be more accountable to their data subjects, fewer states actually enacted laws, and none of the federal bills …
The Commerce Power And Criminal Punishment: Presumption Of Constitutionality Or Presumption Of Innocence?, Margaret H. Lemos
The Commerce Power And Criminal Punishment: Presumption Of Constitutionality Or Presumption Of Innocence?, Margaret H. Lemos
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The Constitution requires that the facts that expose an individual to criminal punishment be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. In recent years, the Supreme Court has taken pains to ensure that legislatures cannot evade the requirements of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and jury presentation through artful statutory drafting. Yet current Commerce Clause jurisprudence permits Congress to do just that. Congress can avoid application of the reasonable-doubt and jury-trial rules with respect to certain critical facts-the facts that establish the basis for federal action by linking the prohibited conduct to interstate commerce-by finding those facts itself rather …
Qalys And Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective, Matthew D. Adler
Qalys And Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective, Matthew D. Adler
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Popular Constitutionalism And The Rule Of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?, Matthew D. Adler
Popular Constitutionalism And The Rule Of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?, Matthew D. Adler
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In Defense Of Regulatory Peer Review, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
In Defense Of Regulatory Peer Review, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
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The debate over application of peer review to the regulatory decisions of administrative agencies has heated up in the last year. Part of the larger and controversial sound science movement, mandating peer review for certain types of agency decisions has recently been championed by the White House and proponents in Congress. Indeed, this past January the Office of Management and Budget finalized guidelines requiring peer review for large classes of agency activities. These initiatives have not gone unchallenged, and a fierce debate has resulted between those who claim peer review will strengthen the scientific basis of agency decisions and those …
The Rehnquist Court And The Death Penalty, Erwin Chemerinsky
The Rehnquist Court And The Death Penalty, Erwin Chemerinsky
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The Role Of Empirical Evidence In Evaluating The Wisdom Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, James D. Cox
The Role Of Empirical Evidence In Evaluating The Wisdom Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, James D. Cox
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No abstract provided.
The Limits Of Courage And Principle, Jedediah Purdy
The Limits Of Courage And Principle, Jedediah Purdy
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Reviewing Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004)
Voices From The Stars? America's Generals And Public Debates, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
Voices From The Stars? America's Generals And Public Debates, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
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No abstract provided.
‘No Net Loss’ - Instrument Choice In Wetlands Protection, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
‘No Net Loss’ - Instrument Choice In Wetlands Protection, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl
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While not a high priority issue for most people, the public has long recognized the general importance of wetlands. Since President George H.W. Bush's campaign in 1988, successive administration have pledged to ensure there would be "no net loss" of wetlands. Despite these continuous presidential pledges to protect wetlands, in recent decades, as more and more people have moved to coastal and waterside properties, the economic benefits from developing wetlands (and political pressures on obstacles to development) have significantly increased. Seeking to mediate the conflict between no net loss of wetlands and development pressures, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) …
When Does Deliberating Improve Decisionmaking?, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez
When Does Deliberating Improve Decisionmaking?, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Daniel B. Rodriguez
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Evidence History, The New Trace Evidence And Rumblings In The Future Of Proof, Robert P. Mosteller
Evidence History, The New Trace Evidence And Rumblings In The Future Of Proof, Robert P. Mosteller
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This paper is in two parts. The first part is about developments in the rules of evidence and particularly about developments in the federal rules of evidence, which has had a major impact on evidence rules in many states. This part turns out to be largely about the past because my sense is that the impact of changes in the formal rules of evidence, which were substantial, are largely historic. To be sure future changes in the formal rules, particularly those that may be made as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Crawford v. Washington (2004) that dramatically …
Loaded Dice And Other Problems: A Further Reflection On The Statutory Commander In Chief, Christopher H. Schroeder
Loaded Dice And Other Problems: A Further Reflection On The Statutory Commander In Chief, Christopher H. Schroeder
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Trial By Jury Involving Persons Accused Of Terrorism Or Supporting Terrorism, Neil Vidmar
Trial By Jury Involving Persons Accused Of Terrorism Or Supporting Terrorism, Neil Vidmar
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This chapter explores issues in jury trials involving persons accused of committing acts of international terrorism or financially or otherwise supporting those who do or may commit such acts. The jury is a unique institution that draws upon laypersons to decide whether a person charged with a crime is guilty or innocent. Although the jury is instructed and guided by a trial judge and procedural rules shape what the jury is allowed to hear, ultimately the laypersons deliberate alone and render their verdict. A basic principle of the jury system is that at the start of trial the jurors should …