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Introduction: Multidimensional Lawyering And Professional Responsibility, Margaret Chon
Introduction: Multidimensional Lawyering And Professional Responsibility, Margaret Chon
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Professor Margaret Chon introduces three following articles in which the authors posit the identity of the lawyer not just as client representative, but in the multiple roles of respondent to other people, entities and underlying societal values. Each article contributes to the formation of the self qua lawyer by showing how attorneys can and do respond to foils other than clients.
Interpreting Sacred Texts: Preliminary Reflections On Constitutional Discourse In China, Janet Ainsworth
Interpreting Sacred Texts: Preliminary Reflections On Constitutional Discourse In China, Janet Ainsworth
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The 1982 Constitution of the People's Republic of China provides the foundation for a nation governed by the rule of law rather than by Party fiat. It remains unclear whether and to what extent this ambitious Constitution will be implemented in practice. In her article, Professor Ainsworth asserts that the way in which Western scholars to date analyzed Chinese constitutions demonstrates the ethnocentric assumptions inherent in Western scholarship. Professor Ainsworth suggests that Chinese constitutional discourse needs to be understood in a Chinese context, requiring a historical study of the traditional Chinese exegetical methodology used in interpreting the Confucian Classics. This …
Economics And The Environment: Trading Debt And Technology For Nature, Catherine O'Neill, Cass R. Sunstein
Economics And The Environment: Trading Debt And Technology For Nature, Catherine O'Neill, Cass R. Sunstein
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In this article, Professor O’Neill and Professor Sunstein first explore and suggest improvements in current debt-for-nature swaps, with the ultimate aim of defending the use of economic incentives and Paretian principles in the context of international environmental policy. Second, they examine some of the limitations of the exchange of debt for nature, and thus suggest an alternative exchange that overcomes those limitations. The exchange they envision is quite simple. Developed nations would transfer to developing nations environmentally advanced technologies, particularly technologies designed to increase efficient energy use or to replace non-renewable sources with renewable sources of energy. In return, developing …
Opting In And Out Of Fiduciary Duties In Cooperative Ventures: Refining The So-Called Coasean Contract Theory, Charles O'Kelley
Opting In And Out Of Fiduciary Duties In Cooperative Ventures: Refining The So-Called Coasean Contract Theory, Charles O'Kelley
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Professor O’Kelley comments on a familiar problem in the law of closely held business associations - the alleged exploitation of weaker or minority investors by stronger or majority participants. The fact pattern is simple. At the outset of the cooperative venture, a stronger participant assumes the role of proprietor, partner, or majority shareholder, while the weaker participant assumes the role of agent, partner, or minority shareholder. For whatever reason, the venturers do not explicitly guarantee or protect the weaker participant’s right to income or continued participation in the venture. Consequently, at some later date the stronger participant reduces or eliminates …
Sexual Predator Law: The Nightmare In The Halls Of Justice, Robert C. Boruchowitz
Sexual Predator Law: The Nightmare In The Halls Of Justice, Robert C. Boruchowitz
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The Washington sexually violent predator commitment law presents some of the types of arbitrary legal processes that permeate Franz Kafka's The Trial.
A Modern Proposal, Sidney Delong
A Modern Proposal, Sidney Delong
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This article humorously explains Jonathan Swift’s intention when he wrote “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country.” Swift was not writing satirically, his analysis was purely written from an economic standpoint as was Landes and Posner’s modern proposal. Landes and Posner recognized the allocative efficiencies and wealth gains that can be realized when property rights are created in noncommodities, such as people, as did Jonathan Swift.
Introduction: Mexican Perspectives On Economic, Political And Cultural Implications Of Free Trade, Henry Mcgee
Introduction: Mexican Perspectives On Economic, Political And Cultural Implications Of Free Trade, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee introduces two papers submitted to the 1990 UCLA School of Law seminar entitled Law and Development in Latin America. The first paper, written before the onset of negotiations for a free trade treaty between Mexico and the United States, deals with the then new regulations of the Mexican Secretary of the Treasurer (Secretaria de la Hacienda) designed to sweep away a labyrinth of rules and procedures which had traditionally vexed foreign investors who dealt with the Mexican bureaucracy. The second paper concerns the irony which inheres in Mexico's treatment of Central American immigration, a problem relatively undiscussed in …
Speaking Of Rights, Janet Ainsworth
Speaking Of Rights, Janet Ainsworth
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Professor Janet Ainsworth reviews Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, by Mary Ann Glendon. The thesis of Mary Ann Glendon's book is a provocative one: that the way in which Americans talk about rights is dangerous to our political and social well-being as a nation. Professor Ainsworth explores the specifics of rights discourse that Glendon describes, and provides a thorough critique of Rights Talk.
What Went Wrong With The Warren Court's Conception Of The Fourth Amendment?, John B. Mitchell
What Went Wrong With The Warren Court's Conception Of The Fourth Amendment?, John B. Mitchell
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This article discusses the current status of police in the United States--police can undertake any and all actions unrestrained by any law but their own. The post-Warren Supreme Courts have held that none of these police activities are "searches" and/or "seizures," and in these courts' Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, that means that these activities are not circumscribed by the Fourth Amendment at all. Thus, in terms of the Constitution, the police are without any judicial supervision and subject to no standards but their own whim. The article explores the reasons for this, and faults the Warren Court for its mishandling of …
Filling Gaps In The Close Corporation Contract: A Transaction Cost Analysis, Charles O'Kelley
Filling Gaps In The Close Corporation Contract: A Transaction Cost Analysis, Charles O'Kelley
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This article develops a more refined transaction-cost based theory which explains: why rational investors in jointly owned, closely held firms initially choose corporate form; why they leave the contractual gaps that they do; and how efficiency-minded judges should respond to postharmony disputes made possible by the form chosen and the gaps left. Professor O’Kelley’s theory takes into account not only the possibility that investors should have chosen partnership law, but also the advantages and disadvantages of organizing production as an implicit team, via long-term contracts between separate businesses or as a sole proprietorship. In explicating this theory of form choice, …