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The "Discovery" Of Sexual Abuse: Experts' Role In Legal Policy Formulation, D. Kelly Weisberg
The "Discovery" Of Sexual Abuse: Experts' Role In Legal Policy Formulation, D. Kelly Weisberg
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Children Of The Night: The Adequacy Of Statutory Treatment Of Juvenile Prostitution, D. Kelly Weisberg
Children Of The Night: The Adequacy Of Statutory Treatment Of Juvenile Prostitution, D. Kelly Weisberg
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Sexual Abuse Of Children: Recent Developments In The Law Of Evidence, D. Kelly Weisberg
Sexual Abuse Of Children: Recent Developments In The Law Of Evidence, D. Kelly Weisberg
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Timing Under A Unified Wealth Transfer Tax, Theodore S. Sims
Timing Under A Unified Wealth Transfer Tax, Theodore S. Sims
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The United States taxes gifts made while an individual is living more leniently than it taxes wealth transfers at death. Although in some measure this disparity has existed since the enactment of the modern estate and gift taxes in 1916 and 1932, it was significantly narrowed by the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (the 1976 Act). That statute replaced the separate gift and estate taxes with a regime that taxes the cumulative total of an individual's lifetime taxable gifts and his taxable estate at death, under a single (or "unified") graduated table of rates. Nevertheless, there remains a signficant difference …
Some Unwise Reflections About Discretion, George P. Fletcher
Some Unwise Reflections About Discretion, George P. Fletcher
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In listening to discussions about discretion in the criminal process, one has the sense of sharply cut distinctions slipping toward a black hole in our language. All decisions by police, prosecutors, judges and jury are routinely called discretionary. This usage pervades respectable, basically sound papers. In a recent article in the Yale Law Journal, Goldstein and Marcus seek to demonstrate that discretion pervades the decisions of French, German and Italian prosecutors. They write: "Claims that prosecutorial discretion has been eliminated, or is supervised closely, are exaggerated. Discretion is exercised in each of the systems [French, German and Italian] for …