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Getting To Yes In Specialized Courts: The Unique Role Of Adr In Business Court Cases, Benjamin Tennille, Lee Applebaum, Anne Tucker

Anne Tucker

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Die Mediation Der Geschichte: Von Der Wiedergutmachung Bis Zur Bürgerlichen Identität, Kenneth Ian Macduff

Ian Macduff

In states experiencing post-colonial processes of reconciliation and compensation for historical wrongs, mediators can find that their work with indigenous peoples and the states involves the mediation of history and memory. Such mediations have a further dimension: historical claims by indigenous peoples can also involve claims to a distinctive and identity-based citizenship. Mediations about the memory of past relations thus also deal with the prospects for a political future, including forms of sovereignty. Mediatoren werden bei ihrer Arbeit in Staaten, die sich in von Wiedergutmachung und Kompensation geprägten post-kolonialen Prozessen befinden, feststellen, dass ihre Arbeit mit den Eingeborenen und dem …

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The Rise Of The Common Law Of Federal Pleading: Iqbal, Twombly And The Application Of Judicial Experience, Henry S. Noyes

Henry S. Noyes

With its decisions in Twombly and Iqbal, the Supreme Court established a new federal pleading standard: a complaint must state a plausible claim for relief. Many commentators have written about the meaning of plausibility. None has focused on the Court’s statement that “[d]etermining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief...will be a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.” In this article, I make and support several claims about the meaning and application of judicial experience. First, in order to understand and define the plausibility standard, one must understand …