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Historical Kinship And Categorical Mischief: The Use And Misuse Of Doctrinal Borrowing In Intellectual Property Law, Mark Bartholomew, John Tehranian Nov 2023

Historical Kinship And Categorical Mischief: The Use And Misuse Of Doctrinal Borrowing In Intellectual Property Law, Mark Bartholomew, John Tehranian

Journal Articles

Analogies are ubiquitous in legal reasoning, and, in copyright jurisprudence, courts frequently turn to patent law for guidance. From introducing doctrines meant to regulate online intermediaries to evaluating the constitutionality of resurrecting copyrights to works from the public domain, judges turn to patent law analogies to lend ballast to their decisions. At other times, however, patent analogies with copyright law are quickly discarded and differences between the two regimes highlighted. Why? In examining the transplantation of doctrinal frameworks from one intellectual property field to another, this Article assesses the circumstances in which courts engage in doctrinal borrowing, discerns their rationale …


Measuring Judicial Collegiality Through Dissent, Jonathan Remy Nash Aug 2022

Measuring Judicial Collegiality Through Dissent, Jonathan Remy Nash

Buffalo Law Review

While scholars frequently offer ideology as a primary explanation for judicial behavior, judges, and some scholars, emphasize the importance of collegiality on multimember courts. But there is disagreement over how to determine when collegiality is at work, and what type of multimember court is more likely to exhibit collegiality among its judges. Resolving these competing claims calls for a valid measure of collegiality.

This Article develops novel measures of collegiality based on dissenting judges’ expressions of collegiality towards judges in the majority. It uses judge-level and court-level databases to validate these measures by showing that the novel measures correlate with …


Derecho Constitucional [2016-2017 Puerto Rico Supreme Court Term Analysis: Constitutional Law], Jorge M. Farinacci Fernós Jan 2018

Derecho Constitucional [2016-2017 Puerto Rico Supreme Court Term Analysis: Constitutional Law], Jorge M. Farinacci Fernós

Journal Articles

El profesor Jorge Farinacci Fernós analiza las decisiones del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico en materia de Derecho Constitucional emitidas entre octubre de 2016 y julio de 2017. En particular, el artículo discute (1) el límite a los donativos a candidatos en las primarias y la elección general; (2) el voto adelantado de las personas encamadas y los requisitos aplicables; (3) la aplicación de la veda electoral a los procesos plebiscitarios; (4) la representación de las minorías en la Asamblea Legislativa; (5) la sustitución de un alcalde electo que renuncia antes de tomar posesión; (6) la doctrina de campo ocupado …


Before Interpretation, Anya Bernstein Apr 2017

Before Interpretation, Anya Bernstein

Journal Articles

What a statutory interpretation opinion interprets may seem given. It is not: this article shows how judges select what text to interpret. That text may seem to carry with it one of a limited range of contexts. It does not: this article shows how judges draw on a variety of factors to situate the texts they interpret in unique, case-specific contexts. Selecting and situating form the infrastructure of interpretation. Their creativity and choice provide the basis on which assertions of determinate meaning are made. That process reveals how contestation and indeterminacy permeate legal interpretation even as judicial opinions seek to …


Disparity In Judicial Misconduct Cases: Color-Blind Diversity?, Athena D. Mutua Jan 2014

Disparity In Judicial Misconduct Cases: Color-Blind Diversity?, Athena D. Mutua

Journal Articles

This article presents and analyzes preliminary data on racial and gender disparities in state judicial disciplinary actions. Studies of demographic disparities in the context of judicial discipline do not exist. This paper presents a first past and preliminary look at the data collected on the issue and assembled into a database. The article is also motivated by the resistance encountered to inquiries into the demographic profile of the state bench and its judges. As such, it also tells the story of the journey undertaken to secure this information and critiques what the author terms a practice of colorblind diversity. Initially …


Citizenship And Scholarship (Review Essay), George Kannar Nov 1990

Citizenship And Scholarship (Review Essay), George Kannar

Book Reviews

Review of Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1990); Ethan Bronner, Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America (1989); Michael Pertschuk & Wendy Schaetzel, The People Rising: The Campaign Against the Bork Nomination (1989); Patrick B. mcGuigan & Dawn M. Weyrich, Ninth Justice: The Battle for Bork (1990).


Citation Sources And The New York Court Of Appeals, Mary Anne Bobinski Oct 1985

Citation Sources And The New York Court Of Appeals, Mary Anne Bobinski

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Truth And Hierarchy: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?, David Fraser Oct 1984

Truth And Hierarchy: Will The Circle Be Unbroken?, David Fraser

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky Mar 1981

On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky

Book Reviews

Review of Kermit L. Hall, The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System and Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky 1789-1816.


Discretionary Power To Grant Additional Peremptory Challenges In Highly Publicized Criminal Trials: Securing A Fair And Impartial Trial, Joseph A. Matteliano Jan 1976

Discretionary Power To Grant Additional Peremptory Challenges In Highly Publicized Criminal Trials: Securing A Fair And Impartial Trial, Joseph A. Matteliano

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Activity And Public Attitude: A Quantitative Study Of Selective Service Sentencing In The Vietnam War Period, Dianne Bennett Graebner Jan 1974

Judicial Activity And Public Attitude: A Quantitative Study Of Selective Service Sentencing In The Vietnam War Period, Dianne Bennett Graebner

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Secrecy And The Supreme Court: On The Need For Piercing The Red Velour Curtain, Arthur Selwyn Miller, D. S. Sastri Apr 1973

Secrecy And The Supreme Court: On The Need For Piercing The Red Velour Curtain, Arthur Selwyn Miller, D. S. Sastri

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Irreverent Questions About Piercing The Red Velour Curtain, Eugene Gressman Apr 1973

Irreverent Questions About Piercing The Red Velour Curtain, Eugene Gressman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comment On Secrecy And The Supreme Court, J. Woodford Howard Jr. Apr 1973

Comment On Secrecy And The Supreme Court, J. Woodford Howard Jr.

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Comment On The Miller-Sastri Article, Walter Probert Apr 1973

A Comment On The Miller-Sastri Article, Walter Probert

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


One Touch Of Adonis: On Ripping The Lid Off Pandora's Box, Glendon Schubert Apr 1973

One Touch Of Adonis: On Ripping The Lid Off Pandora's Box, Glendon Schubert

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comments On "Secrecy And The Supreme Court", Roland Young Apr 1973

Comments On "Secrecy And The Supreme Court", Roland Young

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Secrecy And Institutional Legitimacy: Max Weber Revisited, John R. Schmidhauser, Larry L. Berg, Justin J. Green Apr 1973

Judicial Secrecy And Institutional Legitimacy: Max Weber Revisited, John R. Schmidhauser, Larry L. Berg, Justin J. Green

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Comments On "Secrecy And The Supreme Court", Joel B. Grossman Apr 1973

Comments On "Secrecy And The Supreme Court", Joel B. Grossman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The American Bar Association And The Supreme Court—Old Wine In A New Bottle?, Manly Fleischmann, Ronald H. Jensen Oct 1970

The American Bar Association And The Supreme Court—Old Wine In A New Bottle?, Manly Fleischmann, Ronald H. Jensen

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Standards For The Protection Of Basic Freedoms, Jacob D. Hyman Apr 1952

Judicial Standards For The Protection Of Basic Freedoms, Jacob D. Hyman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.