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All I Ever Needed To Know About Teaching Law School I Learned Teaching Kindergarten: Introducing Gaming Techniques Into The Law School Classroom, Jennifer L. Rosato

Jennifer Rosato

No abstract provided.

Responsabilidad Civil Médica, Gastón Fernández Cruz

Gastón Fernández Cruz

No abstract provided.

The Illicit Trade In Cultural Property: What Is The Appropriate Response?, Stacey R. Jessiman

Stacey R Jessiman

This April 1995 article explores the potential efficacy of the draft 1995 UNIDROIT CONVENTION ON STOLEN OR ILLEGALLY EXPORTED CULTURAL OBJECTS and preferred responses to the illicit trade in cultural property.

Unconstitutional Incontestability?: The Intersection Of The Intellectual Property And Commerce Clauses Of The Constitution: Beyond A Critique Of Shakespeare Co. V. Silstar Corp., Malla Pollack

Malla Pollack

This article makes several assertions: (1) The Intellectual Property Clause of the Constitution, even read with the Commerce Clause, prevents Congress from giving authors or inventors exclusive rights unbounded by premeasured time limitations; (2) Because such limits exist, even incontestable trademarks must be subject to functionality challenges in order to prevent conflict with the Patent Clause; (3) The Intellectual Property Clause requires a similar challenge to prevent conflict with the Copyright Clause; (4) The states are also limited by either direct constitutional mandate or statutory preemption. Based on the first two assertions, this article argues that the Fourth Circuit's decision …

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Responding To Smith; Reconsidering Reynolds, Keith Jaasma

Keith Jaasma

This comment examines the cae of Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, and Congress' response to that decision in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The Comment further examines whether the Supreme Court's 1879 Decision in Reynolds v. United States, which upheld laws against polygamy in the Utah Territory, would continue to be viable in light of the RFRA and Free Excercise Clause cases that have been decided since.

Improving The Principal Residence Disaster Relief Provisions, Francine J. Lipman

Francine J. Lipman

In this article, the author proposes a simple statutory solution to an inequity in the disaster relief provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Using two hypothetical taxpayers, the paper demonstrates that similarly situated disaster-struck taxpayers may not be treated equally. She then analyzes the Service's position in this area, including a discussion of case law in which she focuses on the interactions between sections 1033 and 1034. The author then reviews legislative history to discern Congress's intent when it enacted section 1034. Finally, in her conclusion, the author sets forth a simple statutory amendment to remedy this inequity.

Peevyhouse V. Garland Coal & Mining Co. Revisited: The Ballad Of Willie And Lucille, Judith Maute

Judith L. Maute

No abstract provided.

L'Entreprise En Droit, Jean-Philippe Robé

Jean-Philippe Robé

No abstract provided.

What's Wrong With Exploitation?, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Abstract: Marx thinks that capitalism is exploitative, and that is a major basis for his objections to it. But what's wrong with exploitation, as Marx sees it? (The paper is exegetical in character: my object is to understand what Marx believed,) The received view, held by Norman Geras, G.A. Cohen, and others, is that Marx thought that capitalism was unjust, because in the crudest sense, capitalists robbed labor of property that was rightfully the workers' because the workers and not the capitalists produced it. This view depends on a Labor Theory of Property (LTP), that property rights are based ultimately …

In Defence Of Exploitation, Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

The concept of exploitation is thought to be central to Marx's Critique of capitalism. John Roemer, an analytical (then-) Marxist economist now at Yale, attacked this idea in a series of papers and books in the 1970s-1990s, arguing that Marxists should be concerned with inequality rather than exploitation -- with distribution rather than production, precisely the opposite of what Marx urged in The Critique of the Gotha Progam.

This paper expounds and criticizes Roemer's objections and his alternative inequality based theory of exploitation, while accepting some of his criticisms. It may be viewed as a companion paper to my What's …

Foul Is Fair: What Shakespeare Really Thought About Lawyers, Judith Fischer

Judith D. Fischer

This is a discussion of the meaning and background behind some of Shakespeare's references to lawyers. It explains the common misinterpretation of the famous quotation “Let’s kill all the lawyers." The line actually compliments lawyers, indicating that those who want anarchy must first get rid of lawyers. Review of Daniel J. Kornstein’s book, Kill All the Lawyers? Shakespeare’s Legal Appeal (1994).

In High Gear: A Case Study Of The Hees-Edper Corporate Group, David Strangeland, Ronald J. Daniels, Randall Morck

Ronald J. Daniels

This study compares firms in the Hees-Edper Group with a number of other independent firms of similar size and in the same industries over a four-year period from 1988 to 1992, just prior to the first release of news that the Hees-Edper group was in financial trouble. During that period, HeesEdper firms recorded profitability levels comparable to (or below) those of the matched firms. The Hees-Edper firms were also shown to have been much higher risk investments well before the group's financial position began to deteriorate. They were more highly levered, but even after risk levels are adjusted for this, …

The Role Of Debt In Interactive Corporate Governance, George C. Triantis, Ronald Daniels

Ronald J. Daniels

Most of the corporate governance literature rests on a premise that the interests of various stakeholder groups conflict and that managerial loyalty is more likely to be captured by shareholders than any other constituency. Yet, stakeholder interests do converge in the objective of controlling managerial slack and non-equity constituents have substantial influence over firm decisions. Although the study of governance has taken early steps to abandon its preoccupation with equity-centered solutions and identify interdependencies existing among a broader range of stakeholders, governance scholars have missed an important element of interactivity. A stakeholder reacts to the actions of others and thereby …

Too Close For Comfort: The Role Of The Closely Held Public Corporation In The Canadian Economy And The Implications For Public Policy, Ronald Daniels, Paul Halpern

Ronald J. Daniels

For several decades, American corporate scholars assumed the

inevitability of the widely held Berle and Means' corporation.

The argument was simple. In a rapidly developing industrial

economy, economic prosperity dictated the infusion of massive

amounts of capital into owner-managed corporations. Without

ample capital, entrepreneurs would be unable to realize the scale

economies or technological innovations necessary for industrial

growth. The rub in the story, however, was that to raise the

necessary capital, owner-managers had to sell off equity interests.

Inevitably, the pressure for capital meant that ownership ended up

being dispersed among numerous small stakes shareholders. With

ownership fractured, sundry …

Reinventing Labor Law: A Rejoinder, Tamara Lothian

Tamara Lothian

No abstract provided.

The Democratized Market Economy In Latin America (And Elsewhere): An Exercise In Institutional Thinking Within Law And Political Economy, Tamara Lothian

Tamara Lothian

No abstract provided.

The Criticism Of The Third-World Debt And The Revision Of Legal Doctrine, Tamara Lothian

Tamara Lothian

No abstract provided.

Cuestiones Sobre La Cambial En Blanco Y Las Alteraciones Del Título En Un Fallo De La Suprema Corte De Justicia De Buenos Aires, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Breve nota fallo del Tribunal Superior de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, sobre el régimen jurídico aplicable al título librado en blanco y los efectos testaduras o alteraciones del texto

El Derecho De Suscripción Preferente Y Las Acciones En Cartera De La Sociedad. La Enajenación De La Autocartera, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis sobre la inconveniencia de extender el derecho de suscripción preferente a las acciones en cartera de la sociedad

Fondos Comunes De Inversión Y Protección Del Ahorrista: Una Asignatura Pendiente, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Primera aproximación en la doctrina argentina sobre la aplicación de la legislación de defensa del consumidor en operaciones de mercado de capitales. Análisis de las falencias en materia de tutela de los cuotapartistas de fondos comunes de inversión

La Representación En Materia Cambiaria, Martin Paolantonio, Salvador Bergel

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis de las diferentes cuestiones que se plantean en materia de representación en los títulos valores cambiarios, incluyendo las derivadas de la actuación de sociedades comerciales

La Resolución General 262 De La Cnv Y La Compra De Sus Propias Acciones Por Las Sociedades Anónimas, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis de la RG 262 de la CNV y el régimen de compra de acciones propias por sociedades en el ámbito de la oferta pública

Las Acciones De Responsabilidad Patrimonial Contra Terceros En La Quiebra, Martin Paolantonio, Salvador Bergel

Martin Paolantonio

Análisis de las diferentes acciones de responsabilidad patrimonial en la quiebra luego de las reformas de la ley 24522

Oponibilidad De La Inexistencia De La Cuenta Corriente Bancaria En El Proceso Ejecutivo, Martin Paolantonio

Martin Paolantonio

Nota a fallo que acepta como defensa en el juicio ejecutivo la defensa de inexistencia del contrato de cuenta corriente

• Finding Shade From The "Government In The Sunshine Act": A Proposal To Permit Private Informal Background Discussions At The U.S. International Trade Commission, Michael Anthony Lawrence

Michael Anthony Lawrence

This article suggests that the practice of International Trade Commission (ITC) commissioners not to deliberate or share opinions among the themselves before releasing their decisions in antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) cases is at once shortsighted, anti-intellectual, and ultimately unnecessary. The plain language and legislative history of the federal Government in the Sunshine Act - the ITC’s apparent procedural reason not to deliberate or share opinions – simply does not apply, either to informal background discussions among the commissioners designed to clarify issues and expose varying views, or to the sort of meetings where the commissioners might discuss AD/CVD cases. …

The Reports Of The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Joel Fishman

Joel Fishman

This article reviews the history of the court reports of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from mid-eighteenth century to present along with a bibliography of the reports.

The Emergence Of An International Legal Framework For Transnational Corporations, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant, “The Emergence of an International Legal Framework for Transnational Corporations,” in Benno Engels, ed., Investieren in der Dritten Welt: Unternehmerische und Politische Herausforderungen (Hamburg: Deutsches Uebersee-Institut, 1995), pp.124-144.

A Political Theory Of Corporate Taxation, Deborah M. Weiss, Jennifer Arlen

Deborah M. Weiss

No abstract provided.

Lethal Laws, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

Book review of Lethal Laws, which examines the relationsip between gun prohibition and genocide in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Guatemala, Uganda, and Armenia.

Persona Humana Y Persona Jurídica, Jorge Carlos Adame

Jorge Adame Goddard

No abstract provided.