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Strategery's Refuge, Christopher W. Seeds
Strategery's Refuge, Christopher W. Seeds
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
By popular account, the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on effective assistance of counsel in capital sentencing—aggressive critiques of counsel’s failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence—initiate an era of improved oversight of the quality of legal representation in death penalty cases. One would expect the new and improved jurisprudence to curb post hoc efforts by trial counsel to disguise incomplete trial preparation as a tactical decision, a practice that has long undercut the Strickland doctrine. But the shelters for post hoc rationalizations—the refuges for “strategery”—remain. Surveying decisions of the federal courts of appeals since the turn of the century, this …
The Aspirational Constitution, Michael C. Dorf
The Aspirational Constitution, Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Executive Branch Contempt Of Congress, Josh Chafetz
Executive Branch Contempt Of Congress, Josh Chafetz
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
After former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten refused to comply with subpoenas issued by a congressional committee investigating the firing of a number of United States Attorneys, the House of Representatives voted in 2008 to hold them in contempt. The House then chose a curious method of enforcing its contempt citation: it filed a federal lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that Miers and Bolten were in contempt of Congress and an injunction ordering them to comply with the subpoenas. The district court ruled for the House, although that ruling was subsequently stayed …
The Mexican Constitution And Its Safeguards Against Foreign Investments, Álvaro Ramírez Martínez
The Mexican Constitution And Its Safeguards Against Foreign Investments, Álvaro Ramírez Martínez
Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers
Every state has safeguards against foreign investment in its country. Most of the times these safeguards are contained in a main document which governs said countries. This document can take the form of a Constitution.
The Mexican constitution contains a safeguard against foreign investments in Article 27, where it is stated that the Mexican state can expropriate private property among other things, due to public interest. Any expropriation must be followed by an indemnification. The price to pay as indemnification shall not exceed the assessment for tax purposes.
Mexico has an invaluable opportunity to attract foreign investments but it must …
Social Movements And The Ethical Construction Of Law, Gerald Torres
Social Movements And The Ethical Construction Of Law, Gerald Torres
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Excluding Religion: A Reply, Nelson Tebbe
Excluding Religion: A Reply, Nelson Tebbe
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This short piece replies to three prominent scholars who have offered thoughtful responses to my article, Excluding Religion. It first takes up their invitation to explore some of the ramifications of the article for legal and political theory, albeit in a limited way. Second, it revisits the article’s central argument - namely, that governments ought to have greater constitutional leeway to deny aid to religious actors and entities than is commonly thought - and shows how that proposal emerges from the conversation intact. Third, the reply defends certain limits on the practice of excluding religion, particularly the presumptive prohibition on …
Cooperative Federalism Post-Schaffer: The Burden Of Proof And Preemption In Special Education, Lara Gelbwasser Freed
Cooperative Federalism Post-Schaffer: The Burden Of Proof And Preemption In Special Education, Lara Gelbwasser Freed
Cornell Law Faculty Publications