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Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Restoring The Historical Rule Of Lenity As A Canon, Shon Hopwood
Restoring The Historical Rule Of Lenity As A Canon, Shon Hopwood
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In criminal law, the venerated rule of lenity has been frequently, if not consistently, invoked as a canon of interpretation. Where criminal statutes are ambiguous, the rule of lenity generally posits that courts should interpret them narrowly, in favor of the defendant. But the rule is not always reliably used, and questions remain about its application. In this article, I will try to determine how the rule of lenity should apply and whether it should be given the status of a canon.
First, I argue that federal courts should apply the historical rule of lenity (also known as the rule …
Extraterritoriality As Choice Of Law, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Extraterritoriality As Choice Of Law, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The proper treatment of provisions that specify the extraterritorial scope of statutes has long been a matter of controversy in Conflict of Laws scholarship. This issue is a matter of considerable contemporary interest because the Third Restatement of Conflict of Laws proposes to address such provisions in a way that diverges from how they were treated in the Second Restatement. The Second Restatement treats such provisions—which I call geographic scope limitations—as choice-of-law rules, meaning, inter alia, that the courts will ordinarily disregard them when the forum’s choice-of-law rules or a contractual choice-of-law clause selects the law of a state as …
Cicero And Barack Obama: How To Unite The Republic Without Losing Your Head, Michael J. Cedrone
Cicero And Barack Obama: How To Unite The Republic Without Losing Your Head, Michael J. Cedrone
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
By turning to the works of Cicero and Barack Obama, we can find models of how to speak into crises in ways that foster unity. Cicero’s Catilinarian orations were delivered in 63 BCE, during his one-year term as consul—the highest elected official in the Roman Republic. Facing a conspiracy by certain noble Romans, Cicero delivered a series of four speeches that drove the chief conspirator out of Rome, turned public opinion against the conspirators, and convinced the Roman Senate to support the death penalty for conspirators who remained and were captured in Rome. The Fourth Catilinarian, in which Cicero advocates …
Considering Law And Macroeconomics, Anna Gelpern, Adam J. Levitin
Considering Law And Macroeconomics, Anna Gelpern, Adam J. Levitin
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The worst financial and economic crisis to hit the world’s richest economies since the Great Depression inspired a flood of scholarship that straddled the disciplines of law and macroeconomics. With few exceptions, this crisis scholarship did not set out to build a new interdisciplinary movement and did not claim the legacy of earlier efforts to mine the intersection of law and macroeconomics. What are we to make of this moment ten years on? Could Law and Macroeconomics (#LawMacro for short) be an important new turn in legal and economic thought, a casual interdisciplinary tryst on the margins of a hundred-year …
Fiduciary Legal Ethics, Zeal, And Moral Activism, David Luban
Fiduciary Legal Ethics, Zeal, And Moral Activism, David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The recent turn to fiduciary theory among private lawyer scholars suggests that "lawyer as fiduciary" may provide a fresh justification for legal ethics distinct from moral and political accounts propounded by theorists in recent decades. This Article examines the justification and limits of fiduciary legal ethics. In the course of the investigation, it argues that the fiduciary relation of lawyer to client as defined in the ethics codes does not align perfectly with fiduciary principles in other legal domains, such as agency, trust, or corporate law. Lawyers are fiduciaries of their clients. Does that mean lawyers can never throttle back …
International Law And Theories Of Global Justice, Steven Ratner, David Luban, Carmen Pavel, Jiewuh Song, James Stewart
International Law And Theories Of Global Justice, Steven Ratner, David Luban, Carmen Pavel, Jiewuh Song, James Stewart
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
International law informs, and is informed by, concerns for global justice. Yet the two fields that engage most with prescribing the normative structure of the world order – international law and the philosophy of global justice – have tended to work on parallel tracks. Many international lawyers, with their commitment to formal sources, regard considerations of substantive (and not merely procedural) justice as ultra vires for much of their work. Philosophers of global justice, in turn, tend to explore the moral commitments of international actors without grappling with the international legal doctrine or institutions. In recent years, however, both disciplines …
The Ratchet Wreck: Equality’S Leveling Down Problem, Louis Michael Seidman
The Ratchet Wreck: Equality’S Leveling Down Problem, Louis Michael Seidman
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Constitutional equality law has a two-way ratchet problem. When someone demonstrates that a government policy treats her unequally, the injury can be remedied by improving things for the claimant, but it can also be remedied by leaving the claimant’s status unchanged while making things worse for the people advantaged by the policy. If a court chooses the latter option, it diminishes the welfare of some people while arguably not improving welfare of anyone else. Why is that a good idea?
Courts have often attempted to avoid hard questions like these by leveling up – that is by allowing advantaged persons …