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The Uniform Marital Property Act: Some Suggested Revisions For A Basically Sound Act, William A. Reppy Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Should Courts Require The Internal Revenue Service To Be Consistent?, Lawrence A. Zelenak

Faculty Scholarship

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Arbitration Of International Contract Disputes, William W. Park

Faculty Scholarship

International commercial arbitration has been the victim of its own success. Arbitration is often the only dispute resolution process acceptable in business contexts where parties from different countries have rejected recourse to each other's legal system at the outset of the contractual relationship. For example, when a Swedish shipyard contracts to build tankers for an agency of the Libyan government, the Swedes are unlikely to relish the prospect of appearing before Libyan courts, and the Libyans may view submission to the courts of Sweden (or of another industrialized Western nation) as an affront to Libyan national sovereignty. Neither the Swedish …

Indirect Aid To The Arts, Alan L. Feld, Michael O'Hare

Faculty Scholarship

Most government support of arts institutions is indirect—the result of charitable deduction provisions of the federal income tax, property tax exemptions extended by local governments, and other tax provisions. The money that government forgoes through these provisions must be made up by higher taxes for all taxpayers. The public, however, has little say about how these funds are spent. By its very nature, the income tax deduction places the decision-making power over arts institutions in the hands of those with high incomes. Those with high incomes receive a greater tax benefit for each dollar they contribute, increasing the amounts they …

The Business Judgement Rule, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Symposium: Current Issues in Corporate Governance: Conference Panel Discussion

Prof. Kozyris: Our discussion today will focus on the so-called "business judgment rule," a judicially developed law concept that the business decisions of corporate management should not be second-guessed by the courts. The courts will not interfere with such decisions as they are being made and carried out, nor will they impose liability on management if it turns out that the decisions were wrong.

Serving Two Masters: Commercial Hues And Tax Exempt Organizations, Lawrence A. Zelenak

Faculty Scholarship

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Of Law And The River, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

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Book Review, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

Reviewing R. Stevens, Law School: Legal Education in America from the 1850s to the 1980s (1983).

Solvency And Survival After The Boom—A Different Perspective, A. Kenneth Pye, John R. Kramer

Faculty Scholarship

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Administrative Institutions And The Administrative Process, Lawrence G. Baxter

Faculty Scholarship

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Competence To Refuse Medical Treatment: Autonomy Vs. Paternalism, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The right to refuse medical treatment is universally recognized as a fundamental principle of liberty. Nonetheless, the right is often infringed upon by paternalistic physicians who either use too narrow a definition of competence, or misunderstand or ignore the patient's liberty interest in freedom from coerced medical interventions. A careful consideration of competence in the medical care setting leads to a conclusion that it can best be assessed by determining the patient's ability to understand the information necessary to provide informed consent to treatment. If a patient has this capacity, both his consent and refusal must be honored. Placing competence …

The Original Understanding Of Original Intent, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

When interpreting the Constitution, judges and commentators often invoke the "original intent of the framers" in support of their positions. Many claim that such an interpretative strategy is not only currently desireable, but indeed was the expectation of the Constitution's drafters and early interpreters. In this Article, Professor Powell examines the historical validity of the claim that the framers of the Constitution expected the future interpreters to seek the meaning of the document in the framers' intent. He first examines the various cultural traditions that influenced legal interpretations at the time of the Constitution's birth. Turning to the history of …

Role Of A National Legal Information Center In The Access To Justice, The, Robert J. Nissenbaum

Faculty Scholarship

The author reviews the nature of disputes and mechanisms for dispute

The Louis Stein Institute For Professional Responsibility And Leadership, Joseph Perillo

Faculty Scholarship

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An Analysis Of Durrett And Its Impact On Real And Personal Property Foreclosures: Some Proposed Modifications, William H. Henning

Faculty Scholarship

Section 548(a)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code empowers a bankruptcy trustee to avoid fraudulent transfers of the debtor's assets if the debtor was insolvent at the time of the transfer. Since 1980, a number of federal courts have allowed trustees in bankruptcy to avoid properly conducted foreclosure sales of a debtor's pledged collateral when the collateral was sold for less than seventy percent of its fair market value. These courts have based their decisions on the theory that the transfers involved in these sales are fraudulent conveyances. This theory has been the subject of vigorous opposition from mortgage holders and other …

The Perplexing Borders Of Justification And Excuse, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

This Article's central theme is that Anglo-American criminal law should not attempt to distinguish between justification and excuse in a fully systematic way. I explore three possible bases for drawing the distinction: (1) a distinction between warranted and wrongful conduct; (2) a division between general and individual claims; and (3) a distinction based on the rights of others. I show why none of these bases yields a clear and simple criterion for categorization. The difficulty rests largely on the conceptual fuzziness of the terms ''justification" and "excuse" in ordinary usage and on the uneasy quality of many of the moral …

Third Party Standing, Henry Paul Monaghan

Faculty Scholarship

Traditional constitutional theory posits a narrow conception of the issues that a litigant properly may assert. A litigant may invoke only his own constitutional rights or immunities; he may challenge a statute only in the terms in which it is applied to him; and, in the application process, courts have broad power to construe the relevant statutory language so as to avoid constitutional difficulties. The Yazoo case is perhaps the best known example of judicial adherence to these canons. There, a railroad claimed that a statute mandating speedy settlement of "all claims for lost or damaged freight" contravened the fourteenth …

Regulating The Market For Corporate Control: A Critical Assessment Of The Tender Offer's Role In Corporate Governance, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Better answers often await better questions. In the wake of a recent series of provocative articles dealing with contested tender offers, several questions have been vigorously debated:

(1) Should management of the target company be allowed to resist a hostile tender offer in order to remain an independent company? Which, if any, of the various "shark repellent" measures by which a potential target can make itself unattractive to a bidder are justified?;

(2) If defensive tactics were generally forbidden, should the target company's management still be permitted to encourage competing bids thereby creating an auction?; and

(3) Do hostile takeovers …

The Tudor Treason Trials: Some Observations On The Emergence Of Forensic Themes, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Conflicts Among Circuits And Transfers Within The Federal Judicial System, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Roger Traynor: Teacher, Jurist, And Friend, James R. Mccall

Faculty Scholarship

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Perfecting The Third Party Beneficiary Standing Rule Under Section 302 Of The Restatement (Second) Of Contracts, H.G. Prince

Faculty Scholarship

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Recent Developments In Tax-Exempt Organizations, Stephen Schwarz, William T. Hutton

Faculty Scholarship

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Grading The Judge, William W. Schwarzer

Faculty Scholarship

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The "Discovery" Of Sexual Abuse: Experts' Role In Legal Policy Formulation, D. Kelly Weisberg

Faculty Scholarship

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Children Of The Night: The Adequacy Of Statutory Treatment Of Juvenile Prostitution, D. Kelly Weisberg

Faculty Scholarship

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A Special Pleading Rule For Civil Rights Complaints: A Step Forward Or A Step Back?, C. Keith Wingate

Faculty Scholarship

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Litigation And Corporate Governance: An Essay On Steering Between Scylla And Charybdis, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Criticism of the ALI's Corporate Governance Project has had two very different strains. Most vocal have been those critics who exhibit what one sympathetic observer has aptly termed "a neurotic fear of articulation." Although their expressed concern – namely, that courts will be encouraged to second guess boards and impose liability for arm's length business decisions that turned sour – would be a legitimate cause for anxiety if this indeed were the intent or likely effect of the Project, the underlying fear of these critics is more basic and instinctive. It is best revealed in the title of one critique …

Refusal Of Lifesaving Treatment For Minors, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

I feel very comfortable talking about human rights, civil rights, the role of individual privacy, autonomy, and dignity in making decisions about oneself. Yesterday's topics concerning adults and privacy, however, were much easier than today's, which deal with children. It's not difficult to argue for the right of competent adults, whether it be in Texas' or California,2 to make their own decisions. As much as we may or may not agree with their decisions, at least arguing that -competent individuals like Dax Cowart and Elizabeth Bouvia have a right to make their own decisions makes a lot of sense; the …

Sexual Abuse Of Children: Recent Developments In The Law Of Evidence, D. Kelly Weisberg

Faculty Scholarship

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