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The 2020 Revision Of The Puerto Rican Civil Code: A Brief Explanation Of Major Changes, Luis Muñiz-Argüelles
The 2020 Revision Of The Puerto Rican Civil Code: A Brief Explanation Of Major Changes, Luis Muñiz-Argüelles
Journal of Civil Law Studies
Puerto Rico is with Louisiana one of the two United States jurisdictions having kept the civil law tradition as the bedrock of its private law. One of the last Spanish colonies, Puerto Rico became a US Territory in 1899. The Spanish Civil Code was replaced by a Puerto Rican Civil Code in 1930. A revision process spanned over a period of 23 years, ending with the adoption of a new Civil Code in 2020. After a presentation of the revision process, this report presents and discusses the changes and innovations in family law, property, contractual obligations, torts, and successions, also …
The Superfluous Rules Of Evidence, Jeffrey Bellin -- Professor Of Law
The Superfluous Rules Of Evidence, Jeffrey Bellin -- Professor Of Law
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are few American legal codifications as successful as the Federal Rules of Evidence. But this success masks the project's uncertain beginnings. The drafters of the Federal Rules worried that lawmakers would not adopt the new rules and that judges would not follow them. As a result, they included at least thirty rules of evidence that do not, in fact, alter the admissibility of evidence. Instead, these rules: (1) market the rules project, and (2) guide judges away from anticipated errors in applying the (other) nonsuperfluous rules.
Given the superfluous rules' covert mission, it should not be surprising that the …
Bending The Rules Of Evidence, Edward K. Cheng, G. Alexander Nunn, Julia Simon-Kerr
Bending The Rules Of Evidence, Edward K. Cheng, G. Alexander Nunn, Julia Simon-Kerr
Faculty Scholarship
The evidence rules have well-established, standard textual meanings—meanings that evidence professors teach their law students every year. Yet, despite the rules’ clarity, courts misapply them across a wide array of cases: Judges allow past acts to bypass the propensity prohibition, squeeze hearsay into facially inapplicable exceptions, and poke holes in supposedly ironclad privileges. And that’s just the beginning.
The evidence literature sees these misapplications as mistakes by inept trial judges. This Article takes a very different view. These “mistakes” are often not mistakes at all, but rather instances in which courts are intentionally bending the rules of evidence. Codified evidentiary …
The Heritage Of The Articles On State Responsibility For The International Law Commission, Sean D. Murphy
The Heritage Of The Articles On State Responsibility For The International Law Commission, Sean D. Murphy
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
In the two decades since their adoption in 2001, the International Law Commission (ILC)’s Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ASR) have had an extraordinary influence, not just on the field of international law generally, but also on the work of the ILC itself. Indeed, the ILC concluded four projects that directly resulted from or were closely related to the ASR in the first decade after its adoption. Moreover, references to the ASR have worked their way into most (albeit not all) of the ILC topics completed since 2001.
Yet those express references tell just part …
Codification Of Civil Law In Azerbaijan: History, Current Situation And Development Perspectives, Natig Khalilov
Codification Of Civil Law In Azerbaijan: History, Current Situation And Development Perspectives, Natig Khalilov
Journal of Civil Law Studies
The Civil Code is the second most important legal act in the country after the Constitution, and the first in terms of volume. Due to its important role in the lives of citizens, the Civil Code is sometimes informally referred to as the “Economic Constitution.” At the same time, the Civil Code is the main document setting the rules for a market economy. This article is devoted to the processes of codification of civil law in Azerbaijan over the past 100 years. During the twentieth century, through the codification of civil law, Azerbaijan has adopted three Civil Codes, far more …
Taking Stock Of The “Compatibility Requirement”: What Limitations Does It Impose For High Seas Fishing?, Sean D. Murphy
Taking Stock Of The “Compatibility Requirement”: What Limitations Does It Impose For High Seas Fishing?, Sean D. Murphy
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Under the contemporary law of the sea, coastal States enjoy sovereign rights within their exclusive economic zones (EEZs) to manage and exploit fishery resources. At the same time, States maintain the traditional freedom to fish on the high seas subject to some treaty obligations, including those arising from regional management fisheries organizations (RMFOs) and other treaties, such as (once it enters into force) the agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ agreement). Given that straddling stocks and highly migratory species of fish move with ease between EEZs and the high …
Relying On Restatements, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Relying On Restatements, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Faculty Scholarship
Restatements of the Law occupy a unique place in the Americanlegal system. For nearly a century, they have played a prominent and influential role as legal texts that courts routinely rely on in a wide variety of fields. Despite their ubiquitous and pervasive use by courts, Restatements are not formal sources of law. While they resemble statutes in their form and structure, Restatements are produced entirely by a private organization of experts set up to clarify and simplify the law and thus lack the force of law on their own. And yet, courts treat them as formal and authoritative sources …
When Shari'a Becomes A Science Of Law, Heba Sewilam
When Shari'a Becomes A Science Of Law, Heba Sewilam
Theses and Dissertations
The Sharīʿa codification, privatization and reconciliation present three reform movements to scientize Sharīʿa in the manner of liberal positivism. The scientism of Sharīʿa makes Islamic law predictable, rational and objective. Its final goal is to protect Sharīʿa from the political encroachments of the ruling elites and facilitate Sharīʿa implementation in a post-colonial era. The three reform movements are, however, incapable of harmonizing Sharīʿa with the liberal norms of a scientized law. Sharīʿa codification makes the law predictable but neglects Sharīʿa’s undemocratic methods of decision-making. Sharīʿa-compliant legislation is still the monopoly of the Muslim jurists and the ruling caliph. Sharīʿa privatization …
Public And Private Intermingled: Changes In The Family And Property Laws Of Argentina, Julieta Marotta, Agustín Parise
Public And Private Intermingled: Changes In The Family And Property Laws Of Argentina, Julieta Marotta, Agustín Parise
Journal of Civil Law Studies
No abstract provided.
The Encyclopedist Code: Ancien Droit Legal Encyclopedias And Their Verbatim Influence On The Louisiana Digest Of 1808, Seth S. Brostoff
The Encyclopedist Code: Ancien Droit Legal Encyclopedias And Their Verbatim Influence On The Louisiana Digest Of 1808, Seth S. Brostoff
Journal of Civil Law Studies
This Article identifies nearly one hundred articles and provisions in Louisiana’s first civil code, the Digest of 1808, which were copied verbatim or almost verbatim (that is, literally or almost literally) from three French legal encyclopedias popular during the Ancien Régime: Lerasle’s Encyclopédie méthodique: Jurisprudence (8 vols., 1782–89), Jean-Baptiste Denisart’s Collection de décisions nouvelles (1st ed., 6 vols., 1754–56), and Joseph-Nicolas Guyot’s Répertoire de jurisprudence (2d ed., 17 vols., 1784–85). As the Appendix indicates, verbatim and almost verbatim extracts from Lerasle, Denisart, and Guyot constitute approximately five per cent of the Digest’s source material. This Article therefore serves as a …
Lawmaking: Current Prospects And Challenges For The Future, D. Safarov
Lawmaking: Current Prospects And Challenges For The Future, D. Safarov
Review of law sciences
The article comprehensively analyzes current trends in lawmaking, and develops suggestions for further improvement of lawmaking process.
The Parable Of The Forms, Samuel L. Bray
The Parable Of The Forms, Samuel L. Bray
St. John's Law Review
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It might be good for each department to have its own form, or it might be better to have one form for the whole campus. That is an open question. It depends on how different the repair requests are in different departments, and on the value of specialization. It depends on whether we want some complexity about the choice of forms or if we want radical simplicity about the number of forms, with all of the complexity residing within a single form.
So, too, it might be good to have different forms of action. That way, everyone knows upfront …
Roll Over, Llewellyn?, Peter A. Alces
Commercial Codification As Negotiation, Peter A. Alces, David Frisch
Commercial Codification As Negotiation, Peter A. Alces, David Frisch
Peter A. Alces
No abstract provided.
Codifying A Sharia-Based Criminal Law In Developing Muslim Countries, Paul H. Robinson
Codifying A Sharia-Based Criminal Law In Developing Muslim Countries, Paul H. Robinson
All Faculty Scholarship
This paper reproduces presentations made at the University of Tehran in March 2019 as part of the opening and closing remarks for a Conference on Criminal Law Development in Muslim-Majority Countries. The opening remarks discuss the challenges of codifying a Shari’a-based criminal code, drawing primarily from the experiences of Professor Robinson in directing codification projects in Somalia and the Maldives. The closing remarks apply many of those lessons to the situation currently existing in Iran. Included is a discussion of the implications for Muslim countries of Robinson’s social psychology work on the power of social influence and internalized norms that …
Codification And Progressive Development Of International Law: A Legislative History Of Article 13(1)(A) Of The Charter Of The United Nations, Arnold N. Pronto
Codification And Progressive Development Of International Law: A Legislative History Of Article 13(1)(A) Of The Charter Of The United Nations, Arnold N. Pronto
FIU Law Review
No abstract provided.
The International Law Commission Between Codification, Progressive Development, Or A Search For A New Role, Pavel Šturma
The International Law Commission Between Codification, Progressive Development, Or A Search For A New Role, Pavel Šturma
FIU Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Ilc At Its 70th Anniversary: Its Role In International Law And Its Impact On U.S. Jurisprudence, Siegfried Wiessner, Christian Lee González
The Ilc At Its 70th Anniversary: Its Role In International Law And Its Impact On U.S. Jurisprudence, Siegfried Wiessner, Christian Lee González
FIU Law Review
No abstract provided.
Fiduciary Law In Financial Regulation, Howell E. Jackson, Talia B. Gillis
Fiduciary Law In Financial Regulation, Howell E. Jackson, Talia B. Gillis
Faculty Scholarship
This chapter explores the application of fiduciary duties to regulated financial firms and financial services. At first blush, the need for such a chapter might strike some as surprising in that fiduciary duties and systems of financial regulation can be conceptualized as governing distinctive and nonoverlapping spheres: fiduciary duties police private activity through open-ended, judicially defined standards imposed on an ex post basis, whereas financial regulations set largely mandatory, ex ante obligations for regulated entities under supervisory systems established in legislation and implemented through expert administrative agencies. Yet, as the chapter documents, fiduciary duties often do overlap with systems of …
Dan E. Stigall, The Santillana Codes: The Civil Codes Of Tunisia, Morocco, And Mauritania, Agustín Parise
Dan E. Stigall, The Santillana Codes: The Civil Codes Of Tunisia, Morocco, And Mauritania, Agustín Parise
Journal of Civil Law Studies
No abstract provided.
Dizzying Gillespie: The Exaggerated Death Of The Balancing Approach And The Inescapable Allure Of Flexibility In Appellate Jurisdiction, Bryan Lammon
University of Richmond Law Review
In Part I, I provide necessary background on the current re- gime of federal appellate jurisdiction before turning to the rise and fall of Gillespie and the balancing approach. Part I concludes by explaining how inconsistent Gillespie and the balancing approach are with the Supreme Court's current approach to appellate jurisdiction. Part II turns to five areas in which the balancing approach persists in the courts of appeals and demonstrates the influence of the balancing approach, and the often case-by-case nature of decision-making, in each of these areas. And in Part III, I explore the implications of the balancing approach's …
Reforming The Law Of Crossborder Litigation: Judicial Jurisdiction, Janet Walker
Reforming The Law Of Crossborder Litigation: Judicial Jurisdiction, Janet Walker
Janet Walker
This consultation paper prepared for the Law Commission of Ontario, in association with a Working Group of private international law specialists, considers the current state of the common law in Ontario and the options for codification.
Civilian Statutes And Judicial Discretion, Symeon C. Symeonides
Civilian Statutes And Judicial Discretion, Symeon C. Symeonides
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
Normalizing Copyright In The Electronic Environment, Vicenç Feliú
Normalizing Copyright In The Electronic Environment, Vicenç Feliú
Vicenç Feliú
This article is an update of an article written by Professor Ann Bartow in 2003 entitled Electrifying Copyright Norms and Making Cyberspace More Like a Book. In Electrifying Bartow examined the social norms applied when using copyrighted works in the analog world, she explains how social norms develop, coalesce, and become de facto rules of behavior. She proposed that, at the time the article was written, real world copyright norms were not making their way into cyberspace because copyright holders were using their own normative view to exercise control of works embodied in electronic formats. She focused on non-profit libraries …
A Government Of Laws Not Of Precedents 1776-1876: The Google Challenge To Common Law Myth, James Maxeiner
A Government Of Laws Not Of Precedents 1776-1876: The Google Challenge To Common Law Myth, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
The United States, it is said, is a common law country. The genius of American common law, according to American jurists, is its flexibility in adapting to change and in developing new causes of action. Courts make law even as they apply it. This permits them better to do justice and effectuate public policy in individual cases, say American jurists.
Not all Americans are convinced of the virtues of this American common law method. Many in the public protest, we want judges that apply and do not make law. American jurists discount these protests as criticisms of naive laymen. They …
The New Law Of Treaties: The Codification Of The Law Of Treaties Concluded Between States And International Organizations Or Between Two Or More International Organizations, Neri Sybesma-Knol
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
A Government Of Laws Not Of Precedents 1776-1876: The Google Challenge To Common Law Myth, James Maxeiner
A Government Of Laws Not Of Precedents 1776-1876: The Google Challenge To Common Law Myth, James Maxeiner
James R Maxeiner
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States is a common law country of precedents where, until the 20th century (the “Age of Statutes”), statutes had little role. Digitization by Google and others of previously hard to find legal works of the 19th century challenges this common law myth. At the Centennial in 1876 Americans celebrated that “The great fact in the progress of American jurisprudence … is its tendency towards organic statute law and towards the systematizing of law; in other words, towards written constitutions and codification.” This article tests the claim of the Centennial Writers of 1876 and finds …
Improving Agencies’ Preemption Expertise With Chevmore Codification , Kent Barnett
Improving Agencies’ Preemption Expertise With Chevmore Codification , Kent Barnett
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Vladimir Putin And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey Kahn
Vladimir Putin And The Rule Of Law In Russia, Jeffrey Kahn
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Grounding Into A Double Standard: Understanding And Repealing The Curt Flood Act, Brett J. Butz
Grounding Into A Double Standard: Understanding And Repealing The Curt Flood Act, Brett J. Butz
University of Massachusetts Law Review
This note calls for an end to Major League Baseball's statutory exemption from antitrust law for acts that are considered part of the "business of baseball." The Curt Flood Act was a Congressional mistake, the product of years of faulty analysis and absurd holdings by the Supreme Court. This note will explain how the exemption came to fruition, outline the various problems with its inception, and conclude by proposing that Major League Baseball should be subject to antitrust law, just like all other professional sports leagues.