Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Series

2006

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
File Type

Articles 3691 - 3720 of 4797

Full-Text Articles in Law

A Conversation Among Deans, Katharine T. Bartlett, Edward Rubin, W. H. Knight Jan 2006

A Conversation Among Deans, Katharine T. Bartlett, Edward Rubin, W. H. Knight

Faculty Scholarship

On March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and Harvard Law Review co-sponsored a conference, "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," to address the number of student experience studies that detail women's lower performance in and dissatisfaction with law school. Rather than advocate for a particular set of responses to the different experiences of men and women in legal education , this conference sought to foster a discussion about the institutional challenges these patterns highlight. As a means of accomplishing this end, law school deans from …


Military Commissions And Terrorist Enemy Combatants, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2006

Military Commissions And Terrorist Enemy Combatants, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Parsing The Commander In Chief Power: Three Distinctions, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2006

Parsing The Commander In Chief Power: Three Distinctions, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Assumptions Of Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 2006

The Assumptions Of Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Mediation Of The Snake River Basin Adjudication, Francis Mcgovern Jan 2006

Mediation Of The Snake River Basin Adjudication, Francis Mcgovern

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The American Transformation Of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation, Jedediah Purdy Jan 2006

The American Transformation Of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation, Jedediah Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, And Nationhood, Jedediah Purdy Jan 2006

The New Biopolitics: Autonomy, Demography, And Nationhood, Jedediah Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

In India and China, a population gap has opened between young men and women. There are now about 100 million more men than women in those countries and a few of their neighbors. Many of the "missing women" either were never born because of sex-selective abortion or died in childhood because families devote more medical and other resources to boys. "Missing women" mean men who will never marry. Socially unintegrated young men are associated with a variety of social pathologies; most importantly, they are the prime recruitment targets of nationalist and fundamentalist political groups. Conservative and reactionaries have always argued …


Kelo’S Moral Failure, Laura S. Underkuffler Jan 2006

Kelo’S Moral Failure, Laura S. Underkuffler

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Just And The Wild, Laura S. Underkuffler Jan 2006

The Just And The Wild, Laura S. Underkuffler

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


“Judicial Hellholes:” Medical Malpractice Claims, Verdicts, And The “Doctor Exodus” In Illinois, Neil Vidmar, Kara Mackillop Jan 2006

“Judicial Hellholes:” Medical Malpractice Claims, Verdicts, And The “Doctor Exodus” In Illinois, Neil Vidmar, Kara Mackillop

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Case Comment, Sanchez-Llamas V. Oregon, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2006

Case Comment, Sanchez-Llamas V. Oregon, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Military Tribunals Under The Law Of War, Robinson O. Everett Jan 2006

The Role Of Military Tribunals Under The Law Of War, Robinson O. Everett

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Precaution Against Terrorism, Jonathan B. Wiener, Jessica Stern Jan 2006

Precaution Against Terrorism, Jonathan B. Wiener, Jessica Stern

Faculty Scholarship

Stunned by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration adopted a new National Security Strategy in September 2002. The UK government took a similar stance. This new strategy calls for anticipatory attacks against potential enemies with uncertain capacities and intentions, even before their threat is imminent. Rather than wait for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, it shifts the burden of proof, obliging ‘‘rogue’’ states to show that they do not harbor weapons of mass destruction or terrorist cells, or else face the possibility of attack. This new strategy amounts to the adoption of the Precautionary Principle …


Grand Visions In An Age Of Conflict, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 2006

Grand Visions In An Age Of Conflict, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

Last spring Professor Laurence H. Tribe commented that federal constitutional law is in a state of intellectual disarray: "[I]n area after area, we find ourselves at a fork in the road--a point at which it's fair to say things could go in any. of several directions" and we have "little common ground from which to build agreement." No doubt fortuitously, two of our most formidable constitutional scholars, Akhil R. Amar and Jed Rubenfeld, have recently published systematic studies that implicitly challenge Tribe's conclusion that "ours [is] a peculiarly bad time to be going out on a limb to propound a …


A Response To Professor Sander: Is It Really All About The Grades?, James E. Coleman Jr., Mitu Gulati Jan 2006

A Response To Professor Sander: Is It Really All About The Grades?, James E. Coleman Jr., Mitu Gulati

Faculty Scholarship

Response to Richard Sander, The Racial Paradox of the Corporate Law Firm, 84 North Carolina Law Review 1755 (2006)


Crossing Judge Parker’S Luten Bridge: Partisan Politics, Economic Visions, And Government Reform In Retrospect And Prospect, Peter G. Fish Jan 2006

Crossing Judge Parker’S Luten Bridge: Partisan Politics, Economic Visions, And Government Reform In Retrospect And Prospect, Peter G. Fish

Faculty Scholarship

Commentary on, Barak D. Richman, Jordi Weinstock & jason Mehta, A Bridge, a Tax Revolt, and the Struggle to Industrialize: The Story and Legacy of 'Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co.', 84 North Carolina Law Review 1841-1912 (2006)


An Empirical Study Of Securities Disclosure Practice, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi Jan 2006

An Empirical Study Of Securities Disclosure Practice, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi

Faculty Scholarship

Using a dataset of sovereign bond offering documents and underlying bond contracts for ten sovereign issuers from 1985-2005, we examine the securities disclosure practices of issuers and attorneys. The sovereign bond market is comprised of sophisticated issuers with highly paid law firms. If anyone complies fully with federal securities disclosure requirements, we expect sovereign issuers and their attorneys to do so. On the other hand, network effects that determine what information issuers chose to disclose as well as the high cost of determining what information is required for disclosure may lead issuers to fail to meet their disclosure duties. We …


The Rat Race As An Information Forcing Device, Mitu Gulati, Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi Jan 2006

The Rat Race As An Information Forcing Device, Mitu Gulati, Scott Baker, Stephen J. Choi

Faculty Scholarship

In many job settings, there will be some promotion criteria that are less amenable to measurement than others. Often, what is difficult to measure is more important. For example, possessing "good judgment" under pressure may be a better predictor of success as a law firm partner than the ability to bill a vast amount of hours. The first puzzle that this essay explores is why, in some promotion settings, organizations appear to focus on less important, but measurable, criteria such as hours billed. The answer lies in the relationship between the objectively measurable criteria on the one hand, and the …


Brown Ii: A Case Of Missed Opportunity?, Trina Jones Jan 2006

Brown Ii: A Case Of Missed Opportunity?, Trina Jones

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Enforcing The Gnu Gpl, Sapna Kumar Jan 2006

Enforcing The Gnu Gpl, Sapna Kumar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


For Lash: Who Asks The Right Questions, H. Jefferson Powell Jan 2006

For Lash: Who Asks The Right Questions, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

A Tribute to Lewis H. LaRue


Selling The Name On The Schoolhouse Gate : The First Amendment And The Sale Of Public School Naming Rights, Joseph Blocher Jan 2006

Selling The Name On The Schoolhouse Gate : The First Amendment And The Sale Of Public School Naming Rights, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk And Treaty Design, Laurence R. Helfer Jan 2006

Not Fully Committed? Reservations, Risk And Treaty Design, Laurence R. Helfer

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay responds to Reserving, a forthcoming Article by Professor Edward T. Swaine to be published in the Yale Journal of International Law. The Essay first reviews the Article's explanation of the complex and often counterintuitive rules that govern the filing of unilateral reservations to multilateral treaties. It then offers three modest additions to Professor Swaine's insightful contribution to the growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship on treaty design. First, the Essay applies Swaine's theory of state interests and information to a dynamic model that takes account of temporal issues such as when states file reservations and how treaty commitments change …


Women In The Workplace: Which Women, Which Agenda?, Michael Selmi, Naomi R. Cahn Jan 2006

Women In The Workplace: Which Women, Which Agenda?, Michael Selmi, Naomi R. Cahn

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Much of the work family literature that has blossomed over the last decade has focused on professional women and has emphasized policy changes that would be of less utility to many other working women and men. In this symposium contribution, we explore the recent data on working time to demonstrate that in today's economy more women are underemployed rather than overemployed. We also demonstrate that although professional women tend to work the longest hours, they also tend to have the greatest means, both in income and workplace benefits, to support them in achieving a workable balance between their work and …


Conditions For Judicial Independence, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Roger Noll, Barry R. Weingast Jan 2006

Conditions For Judicial Independence, Mathew D. Mccubbins, Roger Noll, Barry R. Weingast

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part Ii: The Impact Of The Reapportionment Revolution On Congress And State Legislatures, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins Jan 2006

Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part Ii: The Impact Of The Reapportionment Revolution On Congress And State Legislatures, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Agenda Control In The Bundestag, 1980-2002, William M. Chandler, Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. Mccubbins Jan 2006

Agenda Control In The Bundestag, 1980-2002, William M. Chandler, Gary W. Cox, Mathew D. Mccubbins

Faculty Scholarship

We find strong evidence of monopoly legislative agenda control by government parties in the Bundestag. First, the government parties have near-zero roll rates, while the opposition parties are often rolled over half the time. Second, only opposition parties’ (and not government parties’) roll rates increase with the distances of each party from the floor median. Third, almost all policy moves are towards the government coalition (the only exceptions occur during periods of divided government). Fourth, roll rates for government parties sky- rocket when they fall into the opposition and roll rates for opposition parties plummet when they enter government, while …


Dunlap’S Very Subjective Reading List For Air Force Judge Advocates, Charles J. Dunlap Jr. Jan 2006

Dunlap’S Very Subjective Reading List For Air Force Judge Advocates, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Unwarranted Conclusions Drawn From Vincent V. Lake Erie Transportation Co. Concerning The Defense Of Necessity, George C. Christie Jan 2006

The Unwarranted Conclusions Drawn From Vincent V. Lake Erie Transportation Co. Concerning The Defense Of Necessity, George C. Christie

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Blaming Function Of Entity Criminal Liability, Samuel W. Buell Jan 2006

The Blaming Function Of Entity Criminal Liability, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

Application of the doctrine of entity criminal liability, which had only a thin tort-like rationale at inception, now sometimes instantiates a social practice of blaming institutions. Examining that social practice can ameliorate persistent controversy over entity liability's place in the criminal law. An organization's role in its agent's bad act is often evaluated with a moral slant characteristic of judgments of criminality and with inquiry into whether the institution qua institution contributed to the agent's wrong. Legal process, by lending clarity and authority, enhances the communicative impact, in the form of reputational effects, of blaming an institution for a wrong. …