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Sustainable Tax Policy Through The Lens Of Intergenerational Justice, Neil H. Buchanan
Sustainable Tax Policy Through The Lens Of Intergenerational Justice, Neil H. Buchanan
UF Law Faculty Publications
As the papers in this issue demonstrate, the tax system, both domestically and internationally, can be used to help undo generations of damage to all aspects of society, allowing our children and grandchildren to inherit a society that is more just and prosperous than what we are living with today. This is what sustainable policy design requires.
Spite: Legal And Social Implications, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Spite: Legal And Social Implications, Jeffrey L. Harrison
UF Law Faculty Publications
Spite is not a simple concept. The same actions may be motivated by a desire to harm others as a source of the actor’s satisfaction. They may also be a reaction to a personal sense of injustice. Finally, spite-like actions are consistent with simply righting a wrong. This Article makes the case that spite, in its worst from, is comparable to theft. It is a taking of someone’s sense of well-being without consent. It also claims that the purchase of positional goods is ultimately spite driven. It canvasses tort law, contracts, tax law, trademark, and criminal law in an effort …
Two Directions Toward Ethical Peoplehood, Jonathan R. Cohen
Two Directions Toward Ethical Peoplehood, Jonathan R. Cohen
UF Law Faculty Publications
From the biblical era through the present day, the conception of Israel as a people devoted to ethical ends has been a core Jewish value. But how is such a model to be implemented? This essay suggests two basic ways of thinking about ethical peoplehood, namely, that one can begin with a people and try to transform it into an ethical people ("from tribe to ethics") or that one can begin with ethical norms and through those norms attempt to build a people ("from ethics to tribe"). Part I of this essay begins by sketching these two modalities in Jewish …
Lawyers Serving Gods, Visible And Invisible, Jonathan R. Cohen
Lawyers Serving Gods, Visible And Invisible, Jonathan R. Cohen
UF Law Faculty Publications
A critique of the American legal profession can be framed through the metaphor of idolatry, specifically the proclivity of lawyers to serve visible rather than invisible interests in their work. This proclivity has ramifications ranging from broad matters like lawyers' responses to deeply embedded social injustices to specific matters such as the excessive focus on pecuniary interests in ordinary legal representation and the high level of dissatisfaction that many lawyers experience in their careers. Using as a lens biblical teaching concerning idolatry, this article begins by describing "visible" as opposed to "invisible" interests in the context of legal practice. It …
Situational Ethics And Veganism, Neil H. Buchanan
Situational Ethics And Veganism, Neil H. Buchanan
UF Law Faculty Publications
The debate about vegan ethics frequently devolves into attempts by those opposed to veganism to prove that there are situations in which it is morally acceptable to consume animal products. If they can prove that it is acceptable to be non-vegan in one situation, the thinking seems to be that they have proved that it is acceptable never to be a vegan. Thus, because it is not morally objectionable to eat the carcass of an animal who died of natural causes, we are told that it is acceptable to eat animals full stop. That is absurd, because it is equivalent …
Open-Minded Listening, Jonathan R. Cohen
Open-Minded Listening, Jonathan R. Cohen
UF Law Faculty Publications
Parties in conflict do not typically listen to one another well. On a physical level they hear what their counterparts say, but on a deeper level they do not truly absorb or think seriously about their counterparts’ words. If they listen at all, they listen with an ear toward how they can refute rather than toward what they may learn. This article explores how we might change this. In contrast to prior research examining external aspects of listening (e.g., how being listened to influences the speaker), this article probes the internal side of listening, specifically, whether the listener will allow …
Latindia Ii -- Latinas/Os, Natives, And Mestizajes -- A Latcrit Navigation Of Nuevos Mundos, Nuevas Fronteras, And Nuevas Teorias, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Latindia Ii -- Latinas/Os, Natives, And Mestizajes -- A Latcrit Navigation Of Nuevos Mundos, Nuevas Fronteras, And Nuevas Teorias, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Essay is a journey that will elucidate a personal exploration of LatCrit's trinitarian goals of engagement of identity interrogations, community building, and self-critical analysis. It will reflect personal travels and travails, bumps in the road and epiphanies, theory and practice. The plot for these musings is a cultural voyage in which this viajera embarks to live and comprehend the meaning of mestizaje 5 in a personal quest for identity location; the stage is LatCrit IV.
My interrelated trips are chartered in three parts. Part I, Nuevos Mundos. Traveling LatCrit Community, presents the historical background of, contexts for, and evolutions …
Legal Culture, Legal Strategy, And The Law In Lawyers' Heads, Lynn M. Lopucki
Legal Culture, Legal Strategy, And The Law In Lawyers' Heads, Lynn M. Lopucki
UF Law Faculty Publications
Legal activity invariably takes place within some structure, however lax. No matter how often the impossibility of such structure is announced by academics, murmurs of disbelief are heard in the trenches below. Legal formalism is the effort to make sense of the lawyer's perception of an intelligible order. This is why in the last two centuries formalism has been killed again and again, but has always refused to stay dead. Weinrib claims to find the structure that explains Formalism's refusal to stay dead in natural law. This Article argues for an entirely different explanation. Law exists in the minds of …