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Full-Text Articles in Law
The "New Judicial Federalism" Before Its Time: A Comprehensive Review Of Economic Substantive Due Process Under State Constitutional Law Since 1940 And The Reasons For Its Recent Decline, Anthony B. Sanders
American University Law Review
The coming of the New Deal may have spelled the end of the Lochner era in the federal courts, but in the state courts Lochner's doctrine of economic substantive due process lives on. Since the New Deal, courts in almost every state have rebuffed the United States Supreme Court and have interpreted their own state constitutions' due process clauses to provide substantive protections to economic liberties. This Article presents a comprehensive survey of state court use of economic substantive due process since the New Deal. It includes an enumeration of every instance since 1940 of a state court of highest …
Leopold & Morel: A Story Of ‘Free Trade’ And ‘Native Rights’ In The Congo Free State, Padideh Ala'i
Leopold & Morel: A Story Of ‘Free Trade’ And ‘Native Rights’ In The Congo Free State, Padideh Ala'i
Working Papers
This article explores the role of the doctrine of free trade in the creation of the Congo State in 1885 and the relationship between free trade and native rights with respect to the subsequent campaign to reform the colonial administration of the Congo State. On one hand, King Leopold II of Belgium successfully used the rhetoric of free trade and native rights to camouflage his personal ambitions in Africa. He set up international associations with the stated aim of "exploring and civilizing Africa" through "legitimate trade" and "suppression of the slave trade", Leopold convinced the major European powers and the …
Theorizing Agency, Susan Carle
Theorizing Agency, Susan Carle
American University Law Review
Progressive legal scholars today exhibit contrasting views on the scope of legal actors' agency in making "choices" about how to lead their lives. Feminist legal scholar Joan C. Williams, for example, challenges claims that women who leave the paid workforce to stay home with children have made a voluntary choice to take this path. Critical race scholar Ian Haney López, on the other hand, argues that the social construction of racial identity occurs precisely through the many voluntary choices members of both subordinated and dominant racial groups make about matters that implicate racial meanings. Williams contests the idea of voluntary …
Homegrown Child Pornography And The Commerce Clause: Where To Draw The Line On Interstate Production Of Child Pornography, Lauren Bianchini
Homegrown Child Pornography And The Commerce Clause: Where To Draw The Line On Interstate Production Of Child Pornography, Lauren Bianchini
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Balancing Deterrence, Comity Considerations, And Judicial Efficiency: The Use Of The D.C. Circuit's Proximate Cause Standards For Determining Subject Matter Jurisdiction Over Extraterritorial Antitrust Cases, Stephanie Casy
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Hearing On Merger Enforcement, Panel On Treatment Of Efficiencies Antitrust Modernization Commission, Jonathan Baker
Hearing On Merger Enforcement, Panel On Treatment Of Efficiencies Antitrust Modernization Commission, Jonathan Baker
Congressional and Other Testimony
No abstract provided.
Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea) Summary Of Responses From Juvenile Focus Group On Staff Sexual Misconduct And Youth On Youth Sexual Assault (Focus Group: Juvenile Justice Agencies - Addressing Rape Of Youth In Correctional Custody, Overview Of Current Efforts, Close Out And Reactions (Delivery Strategies, Products)), Brenda V. Smith, Andie Moss
Presentations
Responses to thirteen questions regarding curriculum related to staff sexual misconduct with youth and youth on youth sexual assault are provided. "The objectives of the focus groups included: (1) to gather data that will inform NIC [National Institute of Corrections] in how to best develop a juvenile oriented curriculum on staff sexual misconduct; (2) to gather data that will guide NIC in identifying the major staff sexual misconduct related issues in juvenile corrections, including what stakeholders should be consulted, and what strategies should be utilized in naming the issues and building knowledge about the PREA [Prison Rape Elimination Act]; and …
International Decisions: Occidental Exploration And Production Company V. The Republic Of Ecuador, Susan Franck
International Decisions: Occidental Exploration And Production Company V. The Republic Of Ecuador, Susan Franck
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Occidental v. Ecuador is the first claim under a bilateral investment treaty claim involving tax issues. This case comment analyzes the tribunal's award and offers a critique of both the analysis and the conclusion. This comment suggests that the tribunal may have gone further than necessary in its analysis of arbitrary measures impairing investment, failed to engage in a sector-by-sector analysis of national treatment, and compressed the analysis of separate rights into one broad test for evaluating fair and equitable treatment. The comment concludes that Occidental may best be understood as confined to its unique facts lest there be larger …
The Historical Amendability Of The American Constitution: Speculations On An Empirical Problematic, Darren R. Latham
The Historical Amendability Of The American Constitution: Speculations On An Empirical Problematic, Darren R. Latham
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Shades Of Grey: Can The Copyright Fair Use Defense Adapt To New Re-Contextualized Forms Of Music And Art?, Nicholas B. Lewis
Shades Of Grey: Can The Copyright Fair Use Defense Adapt To New Re-Contextualized Forms Of Music And Art?, Nicholas B. Lewis
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Nature And Enforcement Of Investor Rights Under Investment Treaties: Do Investment Treaties Have A Bright Future, Susan Franck
The Nature And Enforcement Of Investor Rights Under Investment Treaties: Do Investment Treaties Have A Bright Future, Susan Franck
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The number of investment treaties has surged in the past decade. Even now, the United States and Canada are actively engaged in programs designed to facilitate the completion of multilateral treaties such as the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs). These investment treaties act like economic bills of rights, which grant foreign investors substantive protections and procedural rights to facilitate investment. Sovereigns, meanwhile, may benefit from these treaties by obtaining increased foreign direct investment, which may promote the development of their country's infrastructure 6 and offer citizens basic services including access to clean water, …
My Summer Vacation At The European Commission, Jonathan Baker
My Summer Vacation At The European Commission, Jonathan Baker
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Among the more than 100 jurisdictions with active competition policy regimes today, the United States has the distinction of starting first, creating the most extensive set of judicial precedents, and possessing the largest and most experienced enforcement institutions. Antitrust institutions in the United States have long stood at the summit on any scale of international prestige and influence in the competition policy field. Yet any such ranking would also undoubtedly indicate that during the last decade or so, the antitrust institutions of the European Union have grown in size and sophistication to the point where they are comparably respected and …
Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson
Foreign Law And The U.S. Constitution, Kenneth Anderson
Popular Media
The use of foreign law and unratified international treaty law by U.S. courts in U.S. constitutional adjudication has emerged as a major debate among justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Anthony Kennedy writing for a majority approving the practice in the March 2005 decision of Roper v. Simmons, and Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer undertaking an unusual public discussion of the practice in January 2005 at American University law school. This article examines the arguments made by Justices Kennedy, Scalia, and Breyer for and against the practice, setting them in the broader context of constitutional theory. It …
An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson
An American Gulag? Human Rights Groups Test The Limits Of Moral Equivalency, Kenneth Anderson
Popular Media
This 2005 article from the Weekly Standard criticizes the 2005 Amnesty International report and associated press releases and press conferences referring to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility as an American gulag. It more broadly criticizes the human rights movement for wanting it both ways - on the one hand, using extraordinarily inflammatory rhetoric such as raising the spectre of Soviet death camps, while on the other hand, calling for that very same, apparently deeply criminal regime, the Bush administration, to perform the tasks of human rights enforcement that the human rights movement would like to see performed elsewhere in the …
The Legitimacy Crisis In Investment Treaty Arbitration: Privatizing Public International Law Through Inconsistent Decisions, Susan Franck
The Legitimacy Crisis In Investment Treaty Arbitration: Privatizing Public International Law Through Inconsistent Decisions, Susan Franck
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Reply Declaration On Issues Of International Law, Laws Of War, Corporate Liability In International Law In Agent Orange Ats Litigation, Kenneth Anderson
Reply Declaration On Issues Of International Law, Laws Of War, Corporate Liability In International Law In Agent Orange Ats Litigation, Kenneth Anderson
Congressional and Other Testimony
This reply declaration elaborates the November 2, 2004 declaration on behalf of corporate defendants by Kenneth Anderson in the Agent Orange product liability ATS case heard before Judge Jack B. Weinstein. I have posted the declaration and this reply declaration to SSRN because of frequent requests for them from academics and because the declaration has been cited in scholarship.The reply declaration addresses the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War and the claim that its use in that period violated the laws of armed conflict. It discusses treaty and customary law of poison and poisoned weapons, issues of proportionality …
Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman
Report Of The Independent Expert On The Protection Of Human Rights And Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Robert K. Goldman
Reports
The Commission on Human Rights, in resolution 2004/87, decided to designate, from within existing resources, for a period of one year, an independent expert to assist the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the fulfillment of the mandate described in the resolution and, “taking fully into account the study requested in General Assembly resolution 58/187, as well as the discussions in the Assembly and the views of States thereon, to submit a report, through the High Commissioner, to the Commission at its sixty-first session on ways and means of strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms …
Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambivalence Of European Federalism, Fernanda Nicola
Constitutionalizing Tobacco: The Ambivalence Of European Federalism, Fernanda Nicola
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The Treaty Establishing the European Community announces in EC TREATY art. 5.1. the principle that the powers of the European Community are limited to those specifically conferred on it. However, experience and judicial interpretation have shown that, in practice, the allocation of power between the Community decision maker and Member States is neither clear nor immutable. In its Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe, the Community attempts to clarify the allocation of competences. Article III-278 of the Draft E.U. Constitution (Public Health Article) is a public health provision that expressly refers to the regulation of tobacco. To many, the Public …
Epilogue: Overcriminalizing: An Agenda For Change, Paul Rosenzweig
Epilogue: Overcriminalizing: An Agenda For Change, Paul Rosenzweig
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
2004 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Bruce J. Goldner, Kenneth A. Plevan
2004 Trademark Law Decisions Of The Federal Circuit, Bruce J. Goldner, Kenneth A. Plevan
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Jurisdiction And Separation Of Powers Strategies To Limit The Expansion Of Federal Crimes, John S. Baker Jr.
Jurisdiction And Separation Of Powers Strategies To Limit The Expansion Of Federal Crimes, John S. Baker Jr.
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ethics And The Problem Of White Collar Crime, John Hasnas
Ethics And The Problem Of White Collar Crime, John Hasnas
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Overcriminalization Phenomenon, Erik Luna
The Overcriminalization Phenomenon, Erik Luna
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Many Faces Of Overcriminalization: From Morals And Mattress Tags To Overfederalization, Sara Sun Beale
The Many Faces Of Overcriminalization: From Morals And Mattress Tags To Overfederalization, Sara Sun Beale
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Historicism: An Examination Of The Eighth Amendment Evolving Standards Of Decency Test, William C. Heffernan
Constitutional Historicism: An Examination Of The Eighth Amendment Evolving Standards Of Decency Test, William C. Heffernan
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comment: Does Hiibel Redefine Terry? The Latest Expansion Of The Terry Doctrine And The Silent Impact Of Terrorism On The Supreme Court's Decision To Compel Identification, Jamie L. Stulin
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Federal Marriage Amendment: To Protect The Sanctity Of Marriage Or Destroy Constitutional Democracy?, Joan Schaffner
The Federal Marriage Amendment: To Protect The Sanctity Of Marriage Or Destroy Constitutional Democracy?, Joan Schaffner
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Comment: Agency And Liability In Sexual Harassment Law: Toward A Broader Definition Of Tangible Employment Actions, Aric G. Elsenheimer
Comment: Agency And Liability In Sexual Harassment Law: Toward A Broader Definition Of Tangible Employment Actions, Aric G. Elsenheimer
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Analysis Of Options For Implementing Disclosure Of Origin Requirements In Intellectual Property Applications, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Carlos M. Correa
Analysis Of Options For Implementing Disclosure Of Origin Requirements In Intellectual Property Applications, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Carlos M. Correa
Traditional Knowledge and Culture
In 2002, the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at its Sixth Meeting adopted the Bonn Guidelines to address access to genetic resources and fair and equitable benefit-sharing arising from use of those resources. In the Bonn Guidelines, the CBD COP invited Parties and governments to encourage disclosure of the country of origin of genetic resources and of associated traditional knowledge in applications for intellectual property where the subject matter of the application concerns or makes use of such knowledge in its development. Since 2002, various proposals to facilitate or to mandate such “disclosure …
Operational Policies And Procedures And An Ombudsman, Daniel D. Bradlow
Operational Policies And Procedures And An Ombudsman, Daniel D. Bradlow
Working Papers
This paper is about the problems with the administrative practices and procedures in the IMF. It argues that currently the IMF lacks administrative practices and procedures that are consistent with the requirements of good governance. There are 2 requirements for such administrative practices and procedures. The first is clearly articulated and publicly available standards that guide IMF staff in their work and that other stakeholders can utilize in measuring the performance of IMF staff. These standards should set out both the substantive and procedural requirements applicable to the operations of the IMF. The second is a mechanism through which IMF …