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The New Common Law Courts, Culture, And The Localization Of The Model Penal Code, Anders Walker
The New Common Law Courts, Culture, And The Localization Of The Model Penal Code, Anders Walker
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Few tropes in American law teaching are more firmly entrenched than the criminal law division between Model Penal Code and common law states. Yet, even a cursory look at current state codes indicates that this bifurcation is outmoded. No state continues to cling to ancient English common law, nor does any state adhere fully to the Model Penal Code. In fact, those states that adopted portions of the Code have since produced a substantial body of case law – what this article terms “new common law” – transforming it. Taking the controversial position that criminal law pedagogy is antiquated, this …
Federal Common Law In Admiralty: An Introduction To The Beginning Of An Exchange, Joel K. Goldstein
Federal Common Law In Admiralty: An Introduction To The Beginning Of An Exchange, Joel K. Goldstein
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Most scholars and practitioners of admiralty law have long relied upon two central assumptions regarding their subject. First, they have understood that uniformity was a requisite of maritime law such that, generally speaking, national, rather than state, law governed most maritime events and transactions. Second, they have believed that in order to preserve the uniformity of maritime law, federal admiralty courts are empowered to fashion federal common law.[1] The commitment to these related propositions has been attested to or illustrated by a collection of Supreme Court decisions.[2] For instance, in Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen,[3] the case that stands as …