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The Transformation Of Trusts As A Legal Category, 1800-1914, Gregory S. Alexander

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Sometimes we are least aware of that which most affects us. So it seems with respect to legal categories. Lawyers do not take legal categories very seriously today. But they should. Legal categories are central to legal reasoning; indeed it is almost impossible to imagine legal reasoning without the use of categories. Categorical thinking affects every area of law. The purpose of this article is to illuminate, through a case-study, the contingent and ideological character of legal categories. It focuses on the development of trusts into and then as a discrete legal category during the period between the beginning of …

Employers As Junior Immigration Inspectors: The Impact Of The 1986 Immigration Reform And Control Act, Maurice A. Roberts, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), also known as the Simpson-Rodino Act, is the most significant piece of immigration legislation in over thirty years. It radically revamps this already complicated area of law. Its impact on employers is particularly great, and can be seen in three ways. First, fines of up to $10,000 and even jail sentences can be imposed on businesses that knowingly hire undocumented aliens. Second, every employer must now verify and maintain records on the immigration and citizenship status of each prospective employee, even if the applicant is a U.S. citizen. Third, antidiscrimination provisions …

Procedure's Magical Number Three: Psychological Bases For Standards Of Decision, Kevin M. Clermont

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

So many procedural doctrines appear, after research and teaching, to trifurcate. An obvious example is that kind of standard of decision known as the standard of proof: what in theory might have been a continuum of standards divides in practice into the three distinct standards of preponderance of the evidence, clear and convincing evidence, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Other examples suggest both that I am not imagining the prominence of three and that more than coincidence is at work.

Part I of this essay describes the role of the number three in procedure, with particular regard to standards …

Corporate Behavior And The Social Efficiency Of Tort Law, John A. Siliciano

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Reality Of Constitutional Tort Litigation, Theodore Eisenberg, Stewart J. Schwab

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Bankruptcy In The Administrative State, Theodore Eisenberg

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Court Adjustment Of Long-Term Contracts: An Analysis Under Modern Contract Law, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Concept Of A Restatement Of The Law Governing Lawyers, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Free Rider Rationale And Vertical Restraints Analysis Reconsidered, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Collective Bargaining And The Coase Theorem, Stewart J. Schwab

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Foreign Farm Workers In The U.S.: The Impact Of The Immigration Reform And Control Act Of 1986, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The enactment of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"), popularly known as the Simpson-Rodino Act, was in large part spurred by Congressional desire to exercise more effective control over the influx of foreign farm workers in this country. This is not a new issue; the U.S. has admitted temporary foreign agricultural workers since 1917, and their entry has always been the subject of heated debate. Between 1942 and 1964 the "bracero" program allowed Mexicans to work temporarily in U.S. agriculture, but this program resulted in massive civil rights and labor violations and depressed wages in the Southwest. …

Demystifying Legal Scholarship, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Beyond The Ordinary Religion, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Tribute To Professor Robert Liberman, Robert B. Kent

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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