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Investment To The Fore In Eu-Us Partnership, Karl P. Sauvant

Karl P. Sauvant

Thinking Out Cloud: California State Sales And Use Taxability Of Cloud Computing Transactions, Matthew A. Susson

Matthew A Susson

Confronted with growing budget deficits and decreasing tax bases, states have sought to expand sales tax laws to capture revenue from sales of digital products. Just as states have begun to impose such taxes, however, the shift from downloaded products to cloud-based data and applications—accessible from anywhere in the world—poses new challenges to the states’ ability to reach such transactions with their taxing powers.

Thus far, state governments have taken inconsistent and patchwork approaches towards determining taxability. Rather than supplement or amend state tax codes to address cloud computing transactions directly, they have sought to apply existing provisions dealing with …

Normas Para El Uso Del Servicio De Correo Electrónico En Las Entidades De La Administración Pública, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Evolución Jurídica De Las Mancomunidades, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

No abstract provided.

La Instrucción En El Procedimiento Administrativo Y La Actuación Probatoria, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Análisis De Los Requisitos De Validez Del Acto Administrativo Y Los Principales Vicios Que Lo Afectan, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Medidas De Ecoeficiencia Para El Sector Público, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Promoción Del Perú Para La Exportación Y El Turismo: La Marca Perú, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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El Test De Competencia: Pautas Jurídicas Para Dirimir Conflictos De Competencia En Las Instancias Del Gobierno Nacional, Regional Y Local, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Ámbito De Desarrollo De Los Sistemas Administrativos, Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

Carlos Augusto Acosta Olivo

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Legal Theory From The Regulative Point Of View, Alani Golanski

Alani Golanski

Evidence, Probability, And The Burden Of Proof, Ronald J. Allen, Alex Stein

Alex Stein

This Article analyzes the probabilistic and epistemological underpinnings of the burden-of-proof doctrine. We show that this doctrine is best understood as instructing factfinders to determine which of the parties’ conflicting stories makes most sense in terms of coherence, consilience, causality, and evidential coverage. By applying this method, factfinders should try—and will often succeed—to establish the truth, rather than a statistical surrogate of the truth, while securing the appropriate allocation of the risk of error. Descriptively, we argue that this understanding of the doctrine—the “relative plausibility theory”—corresponds to our courts’ practice. Prescriptively, we argue that the relative-plausibility method is operationally superior …

A Strategy For Teaching Objectivity To The Domestic Relations Student: Utilizing Psychodrama To Explore Attorney Empathy Toward Improving Family Law Outcomes, Bruce L. Beverly

Bruce L. Beverly

The basic domestic relations law course is often taught by the casebook method, with little reference to actual underlying human drama. In order to produce effective advocates, it is necessary for student to be brought out of the sterile case recitation model and into a role where the student experiences, in a controlled and directed fashion, some of the hardships faced by the players in a family law case. This article proposes that, in line with new emphasis on experiential learning and alternate learning styles, one might employ a psychodramatic approach to teaching the domestic relations course, in order to …

Justice Holmes’S Bad Man And The Depleted Purposes Of Punitive Damages, Jill W. Lens

Jill Wieber Lens

Response, The Obama Administration, In Defense Of Daca, Deferred Action, And The Dream Act, Shoba S. Wadhia

Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia

This essay responds to “The Obama Administration, the DREAM Act and the Take Care Clause” by Robert J. Delahunty and John C. Yoo. Though I credit Yoo and Delahunty for considering the relationship between the DACA program and the President’s duties under the “Take Care” clause, they miss the mark in at least three ways: 1) Contrary to ignoring immigration enforcement, the Obama Administration has executed the immigration laws faithfully and forcefully; 2) Far from being a new policy that undercuts statutory law, prosecutorial discretion actions like DACA have been pursued by other presidents, and part of the immigration system …

The Four Factor Test, Susan Freiwald

Susan Freiwald

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Truth In Context: Sketching A (New) Historicist Legal Pedagogy, Randy D. Gordon

Randy D. Gordon

Who Exempted Baseball, Anyway?: The Curious Development Of The Antitrust Exemption That Never Was, Mitchell J. Nathanson

Mitchell J Nathanson

This article takes a fresh look at baseball’s alleged antitrust exemption and explains why, after all, the exemption is alleged rather than actual. For contrary to popular opinion, this article concludes that the Supreme Court’s 1922 Federal Baseball Club decision did not exempt Organized Baseball from federal antitrust laws. Instead, the opinion was much more limited in scope and never reached the question of whether Organized Baseball should be treated differently than other, similarly situated businesses or institutions, although Organized Baseball clearly invited the Justices to make this determination in its brief to the Court. As this article discusses, the …

Book Review: John N. Mack, Bucking The Railroads On The Kansas Frontier: The Struggle Over Land Claims By Homesteading Civil War Veterans, 1867-1876, Sean M. Kammer

Sean Kammer

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Coming To Terms With Wilderness: The Wilderness Act And The Problem Of Wildlife Restoration, Sean Kammer

Sean Kammer

The Wilderness Act of 1964 calls for the preservation of certain areas in their natural, untrammeled condition. Even as wilderness preservation continues to be among the most popular of environmental causes, federal land management agencies have encountered various dilemmas in fulfilling their preservationist obligations. The Wilderness Act was designed to protect these areas from direct and immediate human disturbances, but serious questions are raised about the legal meaning of “wilderness” when the areas are deemed threatened by human-induced changes occurring on a much wider, or even global, scale. Some have advocated for increased interventions into the natural ecologies of wilderness …

Código Civil: Breve Estudio Introductorio Al Código Civil Peruano, Jorge Alberto Beltrán Pacheco

Marco Andrei Torres Maldonado

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Introduction: Presumed Incompetent: Continuing The Conversation (Part Ii), Carmen G. Gonzalez, Angela P. Harris

Carmen G. Gonzalez

On March 8, 2013, the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice hosted an all-day symposium featuring more than forty speakers at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law to celebrate and invite responses to the book entitled, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González & Angela P. Harris eds., 2012). Presumed Incompetent presents gripping first-hand accounts of the obstacles encountered by female faculty of color in the academic workplace, and provides specific recommendations to women of color, allies, and academic leaders on ways …

Environmental Justice And International Environmental Law, Carmen G. Gonzalez

Carmen G. Gonzalez

Environmental justice lies at the heart of many environmental disputes between the global North and the global South as well as grassroots environmental struggles within nations. However, the discourse of international environmental law is often ahistorical and technocratic. It neither educates the North about its inordinate contribution to global environmental problems nor provides an adequate response to the concerns of nations and communities disproportionately burdened by poverty and environmental degradation. This article examines some of the root causes of environmental injustice among and within nations from the colonial period to the present, and discusses several strategies that can be used …

Why Copyright Law Lacks Taste And Scents, Leon R. Calleja

Leon R Calleja

This paper explores the resistance in U.S. copyright law to extend copyright protection to scents and tastes, and advances the position that copyright law’s originality and expression requirements limit copyrightable subject matter to expressions that engage both author and audience in a way that requires reflection upon the work—or at least, the capacity for reflection—in a necessarily intersubjective and communicative fashion, what I call a “public dimension.” That the sensations of taste and smell are inescapably immediate and private suggest that they lack the kind of public dimension that visual and audio works exhibit. Indeed, this creates an ineffability characterized …

The Church And The Usurers: Unprofitable Lending For The Modern Economy, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

Professor McCall explains in a scholarly yet accessible manner the core principles of the usury doctrine. Tracing its history from Biblical texts, through Aristotelian philosophy and Roman law, to the great scholastic synthesis, Professor McCall separates the unchanging principles from the changes in their applications to new economic realities. With debt, personal, business and government spiraling out of control and massive insolvencies of ancient nations like Greece, contemporary economic theory has offered little in response. Professor McCall contributes the wisdom of the centuries in a concise and readable study.

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"Professor McCall places the issues confronting our debt based economy …

Can A Pluralistic Commonwealth Endure?, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

This article considers whether the American pluralist system can satisfy Cicero's definition of a commonwealth as a multitude united in a definition of law and justice. The analysis is based upon a review of Thaddeus Kozinski's book, The Problem or Religious Pluralism and Why Philosophers Can't Solve It. This book critiques the philosophy of John Rawls, Jacques Maritain and Alisdaire MacIntyre. The critique is based upon Cicero's definition of a commonwealth and the article concludes that a society which maintains a deep pluralism over the first principles of law and justice cannot survive as a commonwealth.

Redimir Nuestro Futuro, Brian M. Mccall

Brian M McCall

Este artículo en español se basa en la conclusión del libro del profesor McCall, La iglesia y los usureros: préstamos no rentables para la economía moderna (Sapientia Prensa 2013). Se argumenta a favor de la restauración de los antiguos principios de la justicia en relación con la usura. Después de explicar cómo el proceso democrático fué subvertido por la primacía federal a mutilar las leyes de usura que precedió la fundación de la república norteamericana, el artículo recomienda una restauración de la Ley de usura, la cual permita compensación por pérdidas resultantes de un préstamo monetario pero restringe los préstamos …

Trustee Courts And The Judicialization Of International Regimes: The Politics Of Majoritarian Activism In The Echr, The Eu, And The Wto, Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet

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The Structure Of Constitutional Pluralism, Alec Stone Sweet

Alec Stone Sweet

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The East Of The West. Harold J. Berman And Eastern Europe, Tomasz Giaro

Tomasz Giaro

No abstract provided.