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The Function Of The Supreme People’S Court Of Regulating Economy——Re-Evaluation Of The Zhongfu Industry Guarantee Case(最高法院规制经济的功能──再评“中福实业公司担保案”), Meng Hou Dec 2004

The Function Of The Supreme People’S Court Of Regulating Economy——Re-Evaluation Of The Zhongfu Industry Guarantee Case(最高法院规制经济的功能──再评“中福实业公司担保案”), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


How The Supreme Court Regulates Economy: Review On Exterior Coordination Cost(最高人民法院如何规制经济──外部协调成本的考察), Meng Hou Dec 2004

How The Supreme Court Regulates Economy: Review On Exterior Coordination Cost(最高人民法院如何规制经济──外部协调成本的考察), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


What’S Wrong With An International Labor Market?, Thomas Kohler Nov 2004

What’S Wrong With An International Labor Market?, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Performing Racial And Ethnic Identity: Discrimination By Proxy And The Future Of Title Vii, Camille Gear Rich Sep 2004

Performing Racial And Ethnic Identity: Discrimination By Proxy And The Future Of Title Vii, Camille Gear Rich

Camille Gear Rich

No abstract provided.


Community Determinants Of Volunteer Participation: The Case Of Japan, Mary Alice Haddad Aug 2004

Community Determinants Of Volunteer Participation: The Case Of Japan, Mary Alice Haddad

Mary Alice Haddad

Why are some communities more civically engaged than others? Why do some communities provide services with volunteer labor whereas others rely primarily on government provision? When communities provide both volunteer and paid labor for the same service, how do they motivate and organize those volunteers? This article addresses these questions through quantitative tests of prevailing explanations for levels of civic engagement (e.g., education, TV viewing, urbanization) and qualitative analyses of case studies of three medium-sized cities in Japan, focusing particularly on the service areas of firefighting and elder care. The statistical analyses demonstrate that current explanations that rely on individual …


Clasificación De Las Causas De La Revocación De Sentencias Por Operación Del Recurso Extraordinario (Gráficos), Horacio M. Lynch Aug 2004

Clasificación De Las Causas De La Revocación De Sentencias Por Operación Del Recurso Extraordinario (Gráficos), Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

No abstract provided.


Knowledge Constnlction And Academic Transformation On Sociology Of Law Studies In China(中国法律社会学的知识建构和学术转型), Meng Hou Aug 2004

Knowledge Constnlction And Academic Transformation On Sociology Of Law Studies In China(中国法律社会学的知识建构和学术转型), Meng Hou

Hou Meng

No abstract provided.


When Laws Backfire: Unintended Consequences Of Public Policy, Roger Roots Jul 2004

When Laws Backfire: Unintended Consequences Of Public Policy, Roger Roots

Roger Roots

Why is it that so many laws perpetually fall short of their intended goals? Why haven’t humanity’s greatest minds managed to solve basic social ills? This article amasses considerable evidence suggesting that (a) law is inherently incapable of producing major social change because legal restrictions unsettle social equilibria and generate counteractions and (b) the subconscious purpose behind many laws is the promotion of social solidarity for its own sake. The author concludes that laws and the politics that forge them are essentially religious practices that have little basis in rational analysis. Thus can be explained both the perpetual failure of …


Amicus Curiae: Intervención De Amigos Del Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol Jul 2004

Amicus Curiae: Intervención De Amigos Del Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Cuadro realizado en base a la Acordada 28/2004 (14Jul04) de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación.


Reingeniería De La Corte Suprema De La Nación 2: Información Sobre La Tarea Del Alto Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol Jun 2004

Reingeniería De La Corte Suprema De La Nación 2: Información Sobre La Tarea Del Alto Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

La información es clave para tomar decisiones. En el trabajo REINGENIERÍA (1) hicimos amplia referencia a la información en general (para el tribunal, las partes, el público, el extranjero). En este caso nos limitamos a uno sólo de estos aspectos: la información sobre la tarea de la Corte con el exclusivo propósito de dar fundamentos a las propuestas de cambio que se sugieran.


Mesa Del Diálogo Argentino - Sector Justicia - Comisión Para El Tratamiento De La Jurisdicción De La Corte Suprema - Síntesis Propositiva - Acuerdo Unánime: Formulación De Una Agenda, Horacio M. Lynch Jun 2004

Mesa Del Diálogo Argentino - Sector Justicia - Comisión Para El Tratamiento De La Jurisdicción De La Corte Suprema - Síntesis Propositiva - Acuerdo Unánime: Formulación De Una Agenda, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Recopilación de las propuestas y opiniones de los integrantes de la Comisión.


Los Tribunales Supremos Y Un Plan De Reingeniería Para La Corte Suprema De La Argentina, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol Apr 2004

Los Tribunales Supremos Y Un Plan De Reingeniería Para La Corte Suprema De La Argentina, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Versión depurada del informe REINGENIERÍA - Se exponen los objetivos, principios, criterios y finalidad de un proyecto de reingeniería en la Corte Suprema de la Argentina. REINGENIERÍA DE LA CORTE SUPREMA DE LA NACIÓN – Aspectos organizativos, funcionales y de gobierno del Alto Tribunal (Guía de trabajo) También se reflexiona sobre la repercusión sobre la labor institucional del Alto Tribunal así como también sobre otras cualidades como su independencia y especialmente en su transparencia.


Whose Public?: Parochialism And Paternalism In State Charity Law Enforcement, Evelyn Brody Mar 2004

Whose Public?: Parochialism And Paternalism In State Charity Law Enforcement, Evelyn Brody

Evelyn Brody

This piece was inspired by the increasing tendency of State attorneys general – backed up by courts and legislatures – to effectively confiscate the assets of wealthy nonprofits through overreaching enforcement actions. The article develops a legal framework for ascertaining the proper State role. It reviews many case studies including, most notoriously, the thwarted diversification of the Milton Hershey School Trust out of Hershey Foods Corporation (an investment worth over $5 billion) – thereby preserving the local operations of a publicly traded company. While few state attorneys general have the funding and inclination to engage in aggressive charity enforcement, the …


Bargaining Or Biology? The History And Future Of Paternity Law And Parental Status, Katharine K. Baker Feb 2004

Bargaining Or Biology? The History And Future Of Paternity Law And Parental Status, Katharine K. Baker

Katharine K. Baker

In practice, paternity rulings are remarkably unimportant. With the exception of state welfare authorities pursuing mostly impoverished biological fathers, few paternity actions are brought, few mothers want to bring them and (even with state-sponsored pursuit) very few dollars get transferred to children as a result of them. In theory, however, paternity judgments are very and perniciously important because they keep alive the biological fatherhood ideal, an ideal that has never been reflected in law or fact and that is inconsistent with the emerging law of parental rights and responsibilities. This article challenges the biological fatherhood ideal and suggests that contract, …


Agenda Para El Tratamiento De Los Problemas De La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol Jan 2004

Agenda Para El Tratamiento De Los Problemas De La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Una propuesta para el tratamiento orgánico de los problemas de la Corte Suprema.


Corte Suprema : Carga De Trabajo Y Producción, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol Jan 2004

Corte Suprema : Carga De Trabajo Y Producción, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Para proponer cambios en el Alto Tribunales es fundamental conocer el trabajo que le llega, los recursos con que cuenta, cómo se organiza, cuánto produce. El presente estudio - efectuado en el marco del proyecto “Reingeniería de la Corte Suprema” - se ha basado en (a) información de la Oficina de Estadística de la Corte (correspondiente al año 2002) y (b) datos del Presupuesto Nacional del año ___, (c) información sobre salarios obtenidos también del Presupuesto, junto con información propia.


Toward A Trinitarian Theory Of Products Liability, Amelia J. Uelmen Jan 2004

Toward A Trinitarian Theory Of Products Liability, Amelia J. Uelmen

Amelia J Uelmen

No abstract provided.


Isn't That Unconstitutional? Religion And Professional Life, Amelia J. Uelmen Jan 2004

Isn't That Unconstitutional? Religion And Professional Life, Amelia J. Uelmen

Amelia J Uelmen

No abstract provided.


What Is The Sound Of A Corporation Speaking? How The Cognitive Theory Of Metaphor Can Help Lawyers Shape The Law, Linda L. Berger Jan 2004

What Is The Sound Of A Corporation Speaking? How The Cognitive Theory Of Metaphor Can Help Lawyers Shape The Law, Linda L. Berger

Linda L. Berger

No abstract provided.


Lawrence V. Texas: When Profound And Deep Convictions Collide With Liberty Interests, Nancy J. Knauer Jan 2004

Lawrence V. Texas: When Profound And Deep Convictions Collide With Liberty Interests, Nancy J. Knauer

Nancy J. Knauer

This Essay offers a brief analysis of Lawrence v. Texas, arguing that Justice Kennedy's recognition of a liberty interest is preferable to the Equal Protection analysis urged by the Petitioners and advanced by Justice O'Connor. Equality arguments based on orientation and group affiliation in the absence of a core right to sexual autonomy reinforce a view of stable gay identities that is ultimately disingenuous and disempowering. After seventeen years of attempts by pro-gay advocates to bifurcate conduct from status and sidestep Bowers v. Hardwick, Justice Kennedy's majority opinion has conclusively put the sex back into homosexual. Under Equal Protection analysis, …


Running Backs, Wolves, And Other Fatalities: How Manipulations Of Coherence In Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death, Jonathan Yovel Jan 2004

Running Backs, Wolves, And Other Fatalities: How Manipulations Of Coherence In Legal Opinions Marginalize Violent Death, Jonathan Yovel

Jonathan Yovel

By examining legal cases that involve violent death and its marginalization by the courts, this essay looks into the relations between narrative coherence and narrative absurd in judicial opinions. Coherence, rather than a static, unequivocal characteristic of legal narratives, is studied here as a highly manipulable narrative and rhetorical performance. Giving a performative twist to reader-response approaches I do not really ask what is the meaning of this text (as construed by its reading)? but rather, working from the position of the text's discursive community, what does this text do? The reading of these cases explores how judicial narration and …


The Human Rights Dilemma: Rethinking The Humanitarian Project, Deborah M. Weissman Jan 2004

The Human Rights Dilemma: Rethinking The Humanitarian Project, Deborah M. Weissman

Deborah M. Weissman

This Article provides an interpretive account of the human rights discourse at a time when the U.S. legal community is deepening its relationship with these issues. It maps the context of the human rights project over the past one hundred years, with a critical eye and as a cautionary tale. It reviews the historical circumstances and the ideological framework in which human rights have been appropriated as an instrument of national policy, often to the detriment of humanitarian objectives. It considers the role of law, not only as an instrument by which colonial rule was maintained but as a system …


Life And Death Decision-Making: Judges V. Legislators As Sources Of Law In Bioethics, Charles Baron Dec 2003

Life And Death Decision-Making: Judges V. Legislators As Sources Of Law In Bioethics, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

In some situations, courts may be better sources of new law than legislatures. Some support for this proposition is provided by the performance of American courts in the development of law regarding the “right to die.” When confronted with the problems presented by mid-Twentieth Century technological advances in prolonging human life, American legislators were slow to act. It was the state common law courts, beginning with Quinlan in 1976, that took primary responsibility for gradually crafting new legal principles that excepted withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment from the application of general laws dealing with homicide and suicide. These courts, like the …


Chipping: Could A High Tech Dog Tag Find Future American Mias?, Marren Sanders Dec 2003

Chipping: Could A High Tech Dog Tag Find Future American Mias?, Marren Sanders

Marren Sanders

No abstract provided.


Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark Dec 2003

Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark

Leigh S. Goodmark

No abstract provided.


National Labor Relations Act, Thomas Kohler Dec 2003

National Labor Relations Act, Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Comments On Weiss' 'Trade Unions, Worker's Participation, And Collective Bargaining In Germany And In The Eu', Thomas Kohler Dec 2003

Comments On Weiss' 'Trade Unions, Worker's Participation, And Collective Bargaining In Germany And In The Eu', Thomas Kohler

Thomas C. Kohler

No abstract provided.


Hastening Death: The Seven Deadly Sins Of The Status Quo, Charles Baron Dec 2003

Hastening Death: The Seven Deadly Sins Of The Status Quo, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

The seven deadly sins of the status quo -- inhumanity, paternalism, Utilitarianism, hypocrisy, lawlessness, injustice, and the deadly risk of error and abuse -- are seven arguments against maintaining the artificial bright-line distinction between the prohibition against assisted suicide and the allowance of patients’ right to refuse life-prolonging treatment. This article calls on courts and legislatures to follow the successful example of the Oregon Death with Dignity statute.


Justice, Community, And Solidarity: Rethinking Affirmative Action Through The Lens Of Catholic Social Thought, Vincent Rougeau Dec 2003

Justice, Community, And Solidarity: Rethinking Affirmative Action Through The Lens Of Catholic Social Thought, Vincent Rougeau

Vincent D. Rougeau

No abstract provided.


Judicial Attitudes Toward Confronting Attorney Misconduct: A View From The Reported Decisions, Judith A. Mcmorrow, Jackie Gardina, Salvatore Ricciardone Dec 2003

Judicial Attitudes Toward Confronting Attorney Misconduct: A View From The Reported Decisions, Judith A. Mcmorrow, Jackie Gardina, Salvatore Ricciardone

Judith A. McMorrow

Over the last 20 years, a rich body of literature has emerged to describe the increasingly complex system of lawyer regulation in the United States. This article studies the available data from the Code of Judicial Conduct and federal and state court opinions to glean a richer understanding of how judges construct their individual and institutional role in this web of attorney regulation. The picture that emerges from the reported decisions in both state and federal court is a desire to maintain the integrity of the judicial process and a concern for the efficiency and fairness in the proceeding before …