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Buffalo Law Review

2019

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Drying Up The Slippery Slope: A New Approach To The Second Amendment, Stephanie Cooper Blum Aug 2019

Drying Up The Slippery Slope: A New Approach To The Second Amendment, Stephanie Cooper Blum

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Few issues are as divisive as guns in American society. In 2017, gun deaths in the United States reached their highest level in nearly forty years. The status quo is untenable as many gun rights groups feel that gun regulations are just a first step in a slippery slope of undermining the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms for self-defense. Conversely, many gun violence prevention activists insist that reasonable regulations concerning public safety can co-exist with the right to bear arms. This quagmire will never abate because on many levels both sides are right. For over 200 years, the courts …


‘Otro Mundo Es Posible’: Tempering The Power Of Immigration Law Through Activism, Advocacy, And Action, Susan Bibler Coutin May 2019

‘Otro Mundo Es Posible’: Tempering The Power Of Immigration Law Through Activism, Advocacy, And Action, Susan Bibler Coutin

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No abstract provided.


Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law And Society, John Braithwaite May 2019

Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law And Society, John Braithwaite

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No abstract provided.


Law And Power In Health Care: Challenges To Physician Control, Mary Anne Bobinski May 2019

Law And Power In Health Care: Challenges To Physician Control, Mary Anne Bobinski

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What’S The Point Of The Rule Of Law?, Martin Krygier May 2019

What’S The Point Of The Rule Of Law?, Martin Krygier

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“Those People [May Yet Be] A Kind Of Solution” Late Imperial Thoughts On The Humanization Of Officialdom, David A. Westbrook, Mark Maguire May 2019

“Those People [May Yet Be] A Kind Of Solution” Late Imperial Thoughts On The Humanization Of Officialdom, David A. Westbrook, Mark Maguire

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Foreword: Tempering Power, Errol Meidinger May 2019

Foreword: Tempering Power, Errol Meidinger

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What Good Is Abstraction? From Liberal Legitimacy To Social Justice, Nimer Sultany May 2019

What Good Is Abstraction? From Liberal Legitimacy To Social Justice, Nimer Sultany

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Transnational Law As Socio-Legal Theory And Critique: Prospects For “Law And Society” In A Divided World, Peer Zumbansen May 2019

Transnational Law As Socio-Legal Theory And Critique: Prospects For “Law And Society” In A Divided World, Peer Zumbansen

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Not From Guile But From Entitlement: Lawful Opportunism Capitalizes On The Cracks In Contracts, Gastón De Los Reyes Jr., Kirsten Martin Jan 2019

Not From Guile But From Entitlement: Lawful Opportunism Capitalizes On The Cracks In Contracts, Gastón De Los Reyes Jr., Kirsten Martin

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Few concepts have been more pivotal to contract law scholarship over the last forty years than the opportunism attributed ex ante and ex post to contracting parties, yet the lawful form of opportunism identified by Nobel Laureate Oliver Williamson in 1991 remains surprisingly overlooked in favor of the blatant forms of opportunism that result from “self-interest seeking with guile.” This Article extends Williamson’s inchoate account of lawful opportunism and reports the first empirical study of the phenomenon.

The conceptual analysis of lawful opportunism is developed with reference to the bargaining underlying the classic impossibility decision, Taylor v. Caldwell. Three component …