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Markets Overt, Voidable Titles, And Feckless Agents: Judges And Efficiency In The Antebellum Doctrine Of Good Faith Purchase, Harold R. Weinberg Dec 1981

Markets Overt, Voidable Titles, And Feckless Agents: Judges And Efficiency In The Antebellum Doctrine Of Good Faith Purchase, Harold R. Weinberg

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

In considering American common law doctrines shaped during the nineteenth century, commentators have advanced differing theories on the primary judicial criteria employed by judges. Recent studies have argued that these doctrines reflect a criterion of economic efficiency. This work has been criticized for its failure to explain why there seems to be a correlation between efficiency and these decision rules or why judges might have preferred efficiency over other decisional criteria. Other studies have proposed that many judicial doctrines announced before the Civil War were intended to facilitate or ratify major shifts in the distribution of social wealth. This article …


Reconciling World-Wide Water Supply With Demand [Outline], Gilbert F. White Jun 1981

Reconciling World-Wide Water Supply With Demand [Outline], Gilbert F. White

Water Resources Allocation: Laws and Emerging Issues: A Short Course (Summer Conference, June 8-11)

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United States Tax Treaty Policy: An Overview, H. David Rosenbloom, Stanley Langbein Jan 1981

United States Tax Treaty Policy: An Overview, H. David Rosenbloom, Stanley Langbein

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