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Freedom Of Speech And True Threats, Jennifer E. Rothman Oct 2001

Freedom Of Speech And True Threats, Jennifer E. Rothman

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This article proposes a new test for determining what is a true threat - speech not protected by the First Amendment. Despite the importance of the true threats exception to the First Amendment, this is an underexplored area of constitutional law.

Even though the Supreme Court has made clear that true threats are punishable, it has not clearly defined what speech constitutes a true threat. To make this determination circuit courts have adopted inconsistent and inadequate tests including a reasonable listener test. The Supreme Court has never granted certiorari to resolve the issue.

The law surrounding threats has gained recent …


Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory To An Analysis Of Amnesty Legislation, William W. Burke-White Jul 2001

Reframing Impunity: Applying Liberal International Law Theory To An Analysis Of Amnesty Legislation, William W. Burke-White

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The Ex Ante Function Of The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley, Kevin M. Carlsmith Jun 2001

The Ex Ante Function Of The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley, Kevin M. Carlsmith

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Criminal legal codes draw clear lines between permissible and illegal conduct, and the criminal justice system counts on people knowing these lines and governing their conduct accordingly. This is the "ex ante" function of the law; lines are drawn, and because citizens fear punishments or believe in the moral validity of the legal codes they do not cross these lines. But do people in fact know the lines that legal codes draw? The fact that several states have adopted laws that deviate from other state laws enables a field experiment to address this question. Residents (N = 203) of states …


Berle And Means Reconsidered At The Century's Turn, William W. Bratton Apr 2001

Berle And Means Reconsidered At The Century's Turn, William W. Bratton

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Aggregation, Auctions, And Other Developments In The Selection Of Lead Counsel Under The Pslra, Jill E. Fisch Apr 2001

Aggregation, Auctions, And Other Developments In The Selection Of Lead Counsel Under The Pslra, Jill E. Fisch

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Punishing Dangerousness: Cloaking Preventive Detention As Criminal Justice, Paul H. Robinson Mar 2001

Punishing Dangerousness: Cloaking Preventive Detention As Criminal Justice, Paul H. Robinson

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Laypersons have traditionally thought of the criminal justice system as being in the business of doing justice: punishing offenders for the crimes they commit. Yet during the past several decades, the justice system's focus has shifted from punishing past crimes to preventing future violations through the incarceration and control of dangerous offenders. Habitual-offender statutes, such as "three strikes" laws, authorize life sentences for repeat offenders. Jurisdictional reforms have decreased the age at which juveniles may be tried as adults. Gang membership and recruitment are now punished. "Megan's Law" statutes require community notification of convicted sex offenders. "Sexual predator" statutes provide …


Rules Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Michele Taruffo, Rolf Sturner, Anthony Gidi Jan 2001

Rules Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Michele Taruffo, Rolf Sturner, Anthony Gidi

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Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz Jan 2001

Conflicting Rights And The Outbreak Of The First World War, Leo Katz

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Two Observations On Holocaust Claims, William W. Bratton Jan 2001

Two Observations On Holocaust Claims, William W. Bratton

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State Accountability For Violations Of Intellectual Property Rights: How To "Fix" Florida Prepaid (And How Not To), Mitchell N. Berman Jan 2001

State Accountability For Violations Of Intellectual Property Rights: How To "Fix" Florida Prepaid (And How Not To), Mitchell N. Berman

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Taking Action Against Auctions: The Third Circuit Task Force Report, Jill E. Fisch Jan 2001

Taking Action Against Auctions: The Third Circuit Task Force Report, Jill E. Fisch

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Poverty, Welfare Reform, And The Meaning Of Disability, Jennifer Pokempner, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 2001

Poverty, Welfare Reform, And The Meaning Of Disability, Jennifer Pokempner, Dorothy E. Roberts

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On Insider Trading, Markets, And "Negative" Property Rights In Information, Zohar Goshen, Gideon Parchomovsky Jan 2001

On Insider Trading, Markets, And "Negative" Property Rights In Information, Zohar Goshen, Gideon Parchomovsky

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Opaque Recklessness, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan Jan 2001

Opaque Recklessness, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

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Making Progress The Old-Fashioned Way, Stephen B. Burbank Jan 2001

Making Progress The Old-Fashioned Way, Stephen B. Burbank

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Introduction To The Principles And Rules Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Michele Taruffo, Rolf Sturner, Anthony Gidi Jan 2001

Introduction To The Principles And Rules Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Michele Taruffo, Rolf Sturner, Anthony Gidi

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What's So Bad About Delaware?, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2001

What's So Bad About Delaware?, David A. Skeel Jr.

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Shaming In Corporate Law, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2001

Shaming In Corporate Law, David A. Skeel Jr.

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Along with the burgeoning legal literature on norms has come a renewed interest in the use of shaming sanctions as an alternative to standard forms of punishment. Shaming enthusiasts such as Professor Dan Kahan have argued that shaming sanctions can be used either as an independent sanction, or to supplement sanctions such as fines that might not otherwise convey an adequate amount of moral disapproval. Shaming skeptics worry that shaming sanctions will lead to idiosyncratic or unpredictable enforcement. This Article focuses on the role that shaming can or could play in corporate law. Although this Article is not the first …


The Lawyer As Confidence-Man, David A. Skeel Jr. Jan 2001

The Lawyer As Confidence-Man, David A. Skeel Jr.

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"A Common Fate Of Discrimination": Race-Gender Analogies In Legal And Historical Perspective, Serena Mayeri Jan 2001

"A Common Fate Of Discrimination": Race-Gender Analogies In Legal And Historical Perspective, Serena Mayeri

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Givings, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky Jan 2001

Givings, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

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Givings - government acts that enhance property value - are omnipresent. Givings and takings are mirror images of one another, and of equal practical and theoretical importance, but the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment has enabled takings to dominate scholarly attention. This Article makes the first step toward rectifying this disparate treatment by laying the foundation for a law of givings. The Article identifies three prototype givings: physical givings, regulatory givings and derivative givings. The Article shows that givings are a formative force in property, and that a comprehensive takings jurisprudence cannot be devised without an attendant understanding of …


Takings Reassessed, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky Jan 2001

Takings Reassessed, Abraham Bell, Gideon Parchomovsky

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In this Essay, we challenge the conventional typology of constitutional takings by bringing to light a previously unrecognized type of taking-the derivative taking. We show that virtually every exercise of the power of takings generates derivative takings that have largely evaded takings scholars. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the failure of existing takings doctrine to account for derivative takings leads to inefficient and inequitable results. In particular, this failure disproportionately harms the poor. To remedy this problem, we craft an economic model of self-assessment to optimize constitutional protection at low administrative cost. Importantly, our self-assessment mechanism incentivizes property owners to report …


The Wanted Gaze: Accountability For Interpersonal Conduct At Work, Anita L. Allen Jan 2001

The Wanted Gaze: Accountability For Interpersonal Conduct At Work, Anita L. Allen

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Minor Distractions: Children, Privacy And E-Commerce, Anita L. Allen Jan 2001

Minor Distractions: Children, Privacy And E-Commerce, Anita L. Allen

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On Trademarks, Domain Names, And Internal Auctions, Gideon Parchomovsky Jan 2001

On Trademarks, Domain Names, And Internal Auctions, Gideon Parchomovsky

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Mary Joe Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections On The State Of Feminism Today·, Regina Austin, Elizabeth M. Schneider Jan 2001

Mary Joe Frug's Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto Ten Years Later: Reflections On The State Of Feminism Today·, Regina Austin, Elizabeth M. Schneider

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Fundamental Principles Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Rolf Sturner, Michele Taruffo, Anthony Gidi Jan 2001

Fundamental Principles Of Transnational Civil Procedure, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Rolf Sturner, Michele Taruffo, Anthony Gidi

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Law Enforcement By Stereotypes And Serendipity: Racial Profiling And Stops And Searches Without Cause, David Rudovsky Jan 2001

Law Enforcement By Stereotypes And Serendipity: Racial Profiling And Stops And Searches Without Cause, David Rudovsky

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Judicial Fact-Finding And Sentence Enhancements In A World Of Guilty Pleas, Stephanos Bibas Jan 2001

Judicial Fact-Finding And Sentence Enhancements In A World Of Guilty Pleas, Stephanos Bibas

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Kinship Care And The Price Of State Support For Children, Dorothy E. Roberts Jan 2001

Kinship Care And The Price Of State Support For Children, Dorothy E. Roberts

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