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Restructuring Immigration Adjudication, Stephen H. Legomsky
Restructuring Immigration Adjudication, Stephen H. Legomsky
Duke Law Journal
For decades, the immigration adjudication system has been under relentless attack from both the left and the right. The left has been concerned with the fairness of the proceedings, the accuracy and consistency of the outcomes, and the acceptability of both the procedures and the outcomes to the parties and to the public. The right has focused on the fiscal costs and elapsed times of these proceedings. This Article demonstrates that all of these criticisms have been well founded and that the roots of the problems are severe underfunding, reckless procedural shortcuts, the politicization of the process, and a handful …
Protecting Shareholder Access To Director Elections: A Response To Ca, Inc. V. Afscme Urging The Adoption Of A Blasius Standard Of Review For The Exercise Of A Fiduciary-Out Clause, Christopher Fawal
Duke Law Journal
The shareholder's role in corporate management is evolving. In CA, Inc. v. AFSCME, the Delaware Supreme Court likely expanded that role in a ruling that signals the potential for greater shareholder access to the corporate boardroom and enhanced director accountability. The court determined that a shareholder proposal to mandate reimbursement of certain board of director candidates was a proper subject for shareholder bylaws. But the court also held that the particular bylaw in question did not preserve the board's ability to exercise its fiduciary duties and, therefore, violated Delaware law. Future bylaws governing director nominations and elections are likely to …
Administrative Law, Filter Failure, And Information Capture, Wendy E. Wagner
Administrative Law, Filter Failure, And Information Capture, Wendy E. Wagner
Duke Law Journal
There are no provisions in administrative law for regulating the flow of information entering or leaving the system, or for ensuring that regulatory participants can keep up with a rising tide of issues, details, and technicalities. Indeed, a number of doctrinal refinements, originally intended to ensure that executive branch decisions are made in the sunlight, inadvertently create incentives for participants to overwhelm the administrative system with complex information, causing many of the decision-making processes to remain, for all practical purposes, in the dark. As these agency decisions become increasingly obscure to all but the most well-informed insiders, administrative accountability is …
The Limits Of Advocacy, Amanda Frost
The Limits Of Advocacy, Amanda Frost
Duke Law Journal
Party control over case presentation is regularly cited as a defining characteristic of the American adversarial system. Accordingly, American judges are strongly discouraged from engaging in so-called "issue creation"-that is, raising legal claims and arguments that the parties have overlooked or ignored-on the ground that doing so is antithetical to an adversarial legal culture that values litigant autonomy and prohibits agenda setting by judges. And yet, despite the rhetoric, federal judges regularly inject new legal issues into ongoing cases. Landmark Supreme Court decisions such as Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and Mapp v. Ohio were decided on grounds never raised …
Living Originalism, Thomas B. Colby, Peter J. Smith
Living Originalism, Thomas B. Colby, Peter J. Smith
Duke Law Journal
Originalists routinely argue that originalism is the only coherent and legitimate theory of constitutional interpretation. This Article endeavors to undermine those claims by demonstrating that, despite the suggestion of originalist rhetoric, originalism is not a single, coherent, unified theory of constitutional interpretation, but is rather a disparate collection of distinct constitutional theories that share little more than a misleading reliance on a common label. Originalists generally agree only on certain very broad precepts that serve as the fundamental underlying principles of constitutional interpretation: specifically, that the "writtenness" of the Constitution necessitates a fixed constitutional meaning, and that courts that see …
The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall
The Continuing Search For A Meaningful Model Of Judicial Rankings And Why It (Unfortunately) Matters, Scott Baker, Adam Feibelman, William P. Marshall
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist
Judging The Judges, Frank B. Cross, Stefanie Lindquist
Duke Law Journal
The evaluation of judges, especially circuit court judges, has commanded increased attention, with the quantitative analyses of Stephen Choi and Mitu Gulati. However, the proper dimensions for the evaluation of judges remains much disputed. Critics have challenged Choi & Gulati's scales for measuring judicial quality but have offered little that is positive that would improve measurement. The critics make philosophical challenges to whether the measures truly capture the qualities of judging we should desire, but they offer no measurement tools to improve on Choi and Gulati. We hope to advance the theoretical and empirical evaluation by incorporating different scales for …
Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner
Judicial Evaluations And Information Forcing: Ranking State High Courts And Their Judges, Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, Eric A. Posner
Duke Law Journal
Judges and courts get evaluated and ranked in a variety of contexts. The President implicitly ranks lower-court judges when he picks some rather than others to be promoted within the federal judiciary. The ABA and other organizations evaluate and rank these same judges. For the state courts, governors and legislatures do similar rankings and evaluations, as do interest groups. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, for example, produces an annual ranking of the state courts that is based on surveys of business lawyers. These various rankings and evaluations are often made on the basis of subjective information and opaque criteria. The …
Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?, Laura Denvir Stith
Just Because You Can Measure Something, Does It Really Count?, Laura Denvir Stith
Duke Law Journal
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Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Duke Law Journal
How should agencies and legislatures evaluate possible policies to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural hazards? In particular, should governmental bodies adopt the sorts of policy-analytic and risk assessment techniques that are widely used in the area of environmental hazards (chemical toxins and radiation)? Environmental hazards policy analysis regularly employs proxy tests, in particular tests of technological "feasibility," rather than focusing on a policy's impact on well-being. When human welfare does enter the analysis, particular aspects of well-being, such as health and safety, are often given priority over others. "Individual risk" tests and other features of …
Content And Context: The Contributions Of William Van Alstyne To First Amendment Interpretation, Rodney A. Smolla
Content And Context: The Contributions Of William Van Alstyne To First Amendment Interpretation, Rodney A. Smolla
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
“You Have Been In Afghanistan”: A Discourse On The Van Alstyne Method, Garrett Epps
“You Have Been In Afghanistan”: A Discourse On The Van Alstyne Method, Garrett Epps
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Modular Environmental Regulation, Jody Freeman, Daniel Farber
Modular Environmental Regulation, Jody Freeman, Daniel Farber
Duke Law Journal
This Article proposes a "modular" conception of environmental regulation and natural resource management as an alternative to traditional approaches. Under traditional approaches, agencies tend to operate independently, and often at cross-purposes, using relatively inflexible regulatory tools, without significant stakeholder input, and without institutional mechanisms capable of adapting to changing conditions over time. Modularity, by contrast, is characterized by a high degree of flexible coordination across government agencies as well as between public agencies and private actors; governance structures in which form follows function; a problem-solving orientation that requires flexibility; and reliance on a mix of formal and informal tools of …
Federalizing The First Responders To Acts Of Terrorism Via The Militia Clauses, Brian C. Brook
Federalizing The First Responders To Acts Of Terrorism Via The Militia Clauses, Brian C. Brook
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Rehabilitating Bioethics: Recontextualizing In Vitro Fertilization Outside Contractual Autonomy, Olivia Lin
Rehabilitating Bioethics: Recontextualizing In Vitro Fertilization Outside Contractual Autonomy, Olivia Lin
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Of Bread And Roses And Copyrights, Linda J. Lacey
Of Bread And Roses And Copyrights, Linda J. Lacey
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Dna Typing: A New Investigatory Tool, Clare M. Tande
Dna Typing: A New Investigatory Tool, Clare M. Tande
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Pac-Man Tender Offers, Deborah A. De Mott