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Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Cafa Judicata: A Tale Of Waste And Politics, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Cafa Judicata: A Tale Of Waste And Politics, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The Class Action Fairness Act has taken on its real form through construction by the federal judges. That form emerges in this empirical study of judicial activity and receptivity to the Act. Our data comprise the opinions under the Act published during the two and a half years following its enactment in 2005.
CAFA has produced a lot of litigation in its short life. The cases were varied, of course, but most typically the resulting published federal opinion involved a removed contract case, with the dispute turning on the statute's effective date or on federal jurisdiction. Even though the opinions …
Guiding Litigation: Applying Law To Facts In Germany, James Maxeiner
Guiding Litigation: Applying Law To Facts In Germany, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
"Judges should apply the law, not make it." That plea appears perennially in American politics. American legal scholars belittle it as a "simple-minded demand" that is "silly and misleading. It is not; it is what the public rightly expects from law. H.L.A. Hart, reminded U.S. jurists that "conventional legal thought in all countries conceives as the standard judicial function: the impartial application of determinant existing rules in the settlement of disputes."
This essay discusses the German method of judicial applying of law to facts. called, in German, the "Relationstechnik," that is, in English, literally "relationship technique." This essay shows how …
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Happy Law Students, Happy Lawyers, Nancy Levit, Douglas Linder
Nancy Levit
This article draws on research into the science of happiness and asks a series of interrelated questions: Whether law schools can make law students happier? Whether making happier law students will translate into making them happier lawyers, and the accompanying question of whether making law students happier would create better lawyers? After covering the limitations of genetic determinants of happiness and happiness set-points, the article addresses those qualities that happiness research indicates are paramount in creating satisfaction: control, connections, creative challenge (or flow), and comparisons (preferably downward). Those qualities are then applied to legal education, while addressing the larger philosophical …
United States V. Grier, Lyndsay V. Ruotolo
Constitutional Law And Values—Version ’08 (Not Necessarily An Upgrade), Nadine Strossen
Constitutional Law And Values—Version ’08 (Not Necessarily An Upgrade), Nadine Strossen
NYLS Law Review
No abstract provided.
Discriminatory Pay And Title Vii: Filing A Timely Claim, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (2008), Megan E. Mowrey
Discriminatory Pay And Title Vii: Filing A Timely Claim, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 325 (2008), Megan E. Mowrey
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Magic Words And Millionaires: The Supreme Court's Assault On Campaign Funding, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2008), Michael J. Kasper
Magic Words And Millionaires: The Supreme Court's Assault On Campaign Funding, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2008), Michael J. Kasper
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of The Contraction Of Limited Tort Immunity For Recreational Liability In Illinois, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 65 (2008), Barnett P. Ruttenberg, Thomas Gianturco
An Analysis Of The Contraction Of Limited Tort Immunity For Recreational Liability In Illinois, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 65 (2008), Barnett P. Ruttenberg, Thomas Gianturco
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Nontestimonial Declarations Against Penal Interest: Eschewing The Corroboration Requirement For Inculpatory Statements, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 969 (2008), Michael Duffy
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Illinois Criminal Code Of 2009: Providing Clarity In The Law, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 815 (2008), Governor James R. Thompson, Justice Gino Divito, Peter G. Baroni, Kathy Saltmarsh, Daniel Mayerfeld
The Illinois Criminal Code Of 2009: Providing Clarity In The Law, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 815 (2008), Governor James R. Thompson, Justice Gino Divito, Peter G. Baroni, Kathy Saltmarsh, Daniel Mayerfeld
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Mission Of The Criminal Law Edit, Alignment And Reform Commission (Clear): An Introductory Commentary, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 611 (2008), John Decker
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Case Note: Golden Gate Restaurant Association V. City And County Of San Francisco: Setting The Stage For Supreme Court Review Of The Most Important Preemption Matter In The History Of Erisa, 41 J. Marshall L. Rev. 995 (2008), Joshua Waldbeser
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
First Things First: A Principled Approach To Patent Administrative Law, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 29 (2008), Kali Murray
First Things First: A Principled Approach To Patent Administrative Law, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 29 (2008), Kali Murray
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Much Ado About Pluralities: Pride And Precedent Amidst The Cacophy Of Concurrences, And Re-Percolation After Rapanos, Donald J. Kochan, Melissa M. Berry, Matthew J. Parlow
Much Ado About Pluralities: Pride And Precedent Amidst The Cacophy Of Concurrences, And Re-Percolation After Rapanos, Donald J. Kochan, Melissa M. Berry, Matthew J. Parlow
Donald J. Kochan
Conflicts created by concurrences and pluralities in court decisions create confusion in law and lower court interpretation. Rule of law values require that individuals be able to identify controlling legal principles. That task is complicated when pluralities and concurrences contribute to the vagueness or uncertainty that leaves us wondering what the controlling rule is or attempting to predict what it will evolve to become. The rule of law is at least handicapped when continuity or confidence or confusion infuse our understanding of the applicable rules. This Article uses the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Rapanos v. United States to …
Mega-Cases, Diversity, And The Elusive Goal Of Workplace Reform, Nancy Levit
Mega-Cases, Diversity, And The Elusive Goal Of Workplace Reform, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
Employment discrimination class action suits are part of a new wave of structural reform litigation. Like their predecessors - the school desegregation cases in the 1950s, the housing and voting inequalities cases in the 1960s, prison conditions suits in the 1970s, and environmental lawsuits since then - these are systemic challenges to major institutions affecting large segments of the public. This article explores the effectiveness of various employment discrimination remedies in reforming workplace cultures, promoting corporate accountability, and implementing real diversity.
Reviewing the architecture and aftermath of consent decrees in five major employment discrimination cases - the cases against Shoney's, …