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The Parsonage Exemption Violates The Establishment Clause And Should Be Declared Unconstitutional, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Racial Identity, Electoral Structures, And The First Amendment Right Of Association, Guy-Uriel Charles

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Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto, Jonathan B. Wiener, Richard B. Stewart

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In their comprehensive analysis of the Kyoto Protocol and climate policy, Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener examine the current impasse in climate policy and the potential steps nations can take to reduce greenhouse gases. They summarize the current state of information regarding the extent of global warming that would be caused by increasing uncontrolled greenhouse gas emissions. They explain why participation by all major greenhouse gas-emitting countries is essential to curb future greenhouse gas emissions and also note the significant obstacles to obtaining such participation.

Stewart and Wiener argue it is in the national interest of the United …

Supreme Court Review, Erwin Chemerinsky

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Foreword: The Myth Of The Liberal Ninth Circuit, Erwin Chemerinsky

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Teaching Genetics And The Law, Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Harrison F. Dillon

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Book review of Lori B. Andrews et al., Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (West Group, 2002)

Engaging Facts And Policy: A Multi-Institutional Approach To Patent System Reform, Arti K. Rai

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The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, charged with adjudicating appeals in patent cases, has adopted an unusual approach that arrogates power over fact finding while it simultaneously invokes rule-formalism. Although the Federal Circuit's approach may be justified by the fact-finding and policy application deficiencies of the trial courts and the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), it has had a negative impact on innovation policy and has resulted in a patent system that is sorely in need of reform. This Article argues that because of the interdependence of the various institutions within the patent system, reform of the system …

Book Review, Steven L. Schwarcz

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Reviewing Cross Border Collateral: Legal Risks and the Conflict of Laws (R. Potok ed., 2002).

Is The Sky Falling On The Federal Government? State Sovereign Immunity, The Section Five Power, And The Federal Balance, Ernest A. Young

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reviewing John T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)

Constitutional Analogies In The International Legal System, Laurence R. Helfer

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This Article explores issues at the frontier of international law and constitutional law. It considers five key structural and systemic challenges that the international legal system now faces: (1) decentralization and disaggregation; (2) normative and institutional hierarchies; (3) compliance and enforcement; (4) exit and escape; and (5) democracy and legitimacy. Each of these issues raises questions of governance, institutional design, and allocation of authority paralleling the questions that domestic legal systems have answered in constitutional terms. For each of these issues, I survey the international legal landscape and consider the salience of potential analogies to domestic constitutions, drawing upon and …

Cosmetic Compliance And The Failure Of Negotiated Governance, Kimberly D. Krawiec

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Across a range of legal regimes - including environmental, tort, employment discrimination, corporate, securities, and health care law - United States law reduces or eliminates enterprise liability for those organizations that can demonstrate the existence of "effective" internal compliance structures. Presumably, this legal standard rests on an assumption that internal compliance structures reduce the incidence of prohibited conduct within organizations. This Article demonstrates, however, that little evidence exists to support that assumption. In fact, a growing body of evidence indicates that internal compliance structures do not deter prohibited conduct within firms and may largely serve a window-dressing function that provides …

The International Journal Of Legal Information And The Iall: An Introduction To The Cumulative Index, Richard A. Danner

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Victim Impact Evidence: Hard To Find The Real Rules, Robert P. Mosteller

Faculty Scholarship

This comment has two major parts. Part I reviews some of the developments in the law relating to victim impact evidence over the last decade in light of my earlier predictions and hopes in this area. Part II examines victim catharsis and its growing importance as a justification for the receipt of victim impact evidence.

Still Tough On Crime? Prospects For Restorative Justice In The United States, Sara Sun Beale

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A Typology Of Multilateral Treaty Obligations: Are Wto Obligations Bilateral Or Collective In Nature?, Joost H. B. Pauwelyn

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An important, though oft neglected, distinction between multilateral treaty obligations separates obligations of the bilateral nature from those of the collective or erga omnes partes type. Multilateral obligations of the bilateral type can be reduced to a compilation of bilateral, state-to-state relations. They can be compared to contracts. Collective obligations, in contrast, cannot be divided into bilateral components. They are concluded in pursuit of a collective interest that transcends the individual interests of the contracting parties. The standard example of such obligations are those arising under a human rights treaty. In domestic law, collective obligations can be compared to criminal …

Authors At Work: The Origins Of The Work-For-Hire Doctrine, Catherine Fisk

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New Dimensions In Sentencing Reform In The Twenty-First Century, Robert P. Mosteller

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Asbestos Legislation Ii: Section 524(G) Without Bankruptcy, Francis Mcgovern

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Reforming The Culture Of Financial Reporting: The Pcaob And The Metrics For Accounting Measurements, James D. Cox

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Modeling Supreme Court Strategic Decision Making: The Congressional Constraint, Barak D. Richman, Mario Bergara, Pablo T. Spiller

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This paper addresses the contradictory results obtained by Segal (1997) and Spiller and Gely (1992) concerning the impact of institutional constraints on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision making. By adapting the Spiller and Gely maximum likelihood model to the Segal dataset, we find support for the hypothesis that the Court adjusts its decisions to presidential and congressional preferences. Data from 1947 to 1992 indicate that the average probability of the Court being constrained has been approximately one-third. Further, we show that the results obtained by Segal are the product of biases introduced by a misspecified econometric model. We also discuss …

Civil Rights And Civil Liberties: Whose “Rule Of Law”?, William W. Van Alstyne

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It Ain’T No Tv Show: Jags And Modern Military Operations, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

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Constitutional Existence Conditions And Judicial Review, Matthew D. Adler, Michael C. Dorf

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Although critics of judicial review sometimes call for making the entire Constitution nonjusticiable, many familiar norms of constitutional law state what we call "existence conditions" that are necessarily enforced by judicial actors charged with the responsibility of applying, and thus as a preliminary step, identifying, propositions of sub-constitutional law such as statutes. Article I, Section 7, which sets forth the procedures by which a bill becomes a law, is an example: a putative law that did not go through the Article I, Section 7 process and does not satisfy an alternative test for legal validity (such as the treaty-making provision …

The Puzzle Of Ex Ante Efficiency: Does Rational Approvability Have Moral Weight?, Matthew D. Adler

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A governmental decision is "ex ante efficient" if it maximizes the satisfaction of everyone's preferences ex ante, relative to other possible decisions. Equivalently, each affected person would be rational to approve the decision, given her preferences and beliefs at the time of the choice. Does this matter, morally speaking? Do governmental officials - legislators, judges, regulators - have a moral reason to make decisions that are ex ante efficient? The economist's answer is "yes." "Ex ante efficiency" is widely seen by welfare economists to have moral significance, and often appears within law-and-economics scholarship as a criterion for evaluating legal doctrines. …

Why Is There So Little Money In U.S. Politics?, John M. De Figueiredo, Stephen Ansolabehere, James M. Snyder Jr.

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Seventh Aspect Of Self-Hatred: Race, Latcrit, And Fighting The Status Quo, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.

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