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Hayekian Socialism, Richard A. Epstein
Commentary On The Futures Problem By Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Diane P. Wood
Commentary On The Futures Problem By Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Diane P. Wood
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Impeachment And Presidential Immunity From Judicial Process, Joseph Isenbergh
Impeachment And Presidential Immunity From Judicial Process, Joseph Isenbergh
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The Scope Of Criminal Forfeiture Under Rico: The Appropriate Definition Of Proceeds, Anup Malani
The Scope Of Criminal Forfeiture Under Rico: The Appropriate Definition Of Proceeds, Anup Malani
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Dworkin, Polemics, And The Clinton Impeachment Controversy, Richard A. Posner
Dworkin, Polemics, And The Clinton Impeachment Controversy, Richard A. Posner
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An Economic Approach To The Law Of Evidence, Richard A. Posner
An Economic Approach To The Law Of Evidence, Richard A. Posner
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In this article, Judge Richard A. Posner presents the first comprehensive economic analysis of the law of evidence. The article is presented in three parts. First, Judge Posner proposes and describes two possible economic models, both a search and a cost-minimization approach, to describe how evidence is obtained, presented, and evaluated. In both, he incorporates Bayes' theorem to examine rational decisionmaking. Second, he examines the evidence gathering process, comparing and contrasting, in economic terms, the "inquisitorial" and "adversarial" systems of justice. The inquisitorial system, at first glance, appears to be more economically efficient. This, though, may be illusory, a result …
What Is Constitutional Theory?, David A. Strauss
What Is Constitutional Theory?, David A. Strauss
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Just what is constitutional theory? How can it be, as Professor Fallon rightly says, that constitutional theory is both descriptive and prescriptive, and is supposed to produce results that seem morally right but also some results that make the theory's proponents uncomfortable? In this Reply, Professor Strauss argues that a constitutional theory tries to draw upon bases of agreement that exist within a legal culture and to extend those agreed-upon principles to resolve more controversial issues. In our culture, for example, there is widespread agreement both on abstract principles- such as the idea that the text of the Constitution is …
International Law And Federalism: What Is The Reach Of Regulation?, Diane P. Wood
International Law And Federalism: What Is The Reach Of Regulation?, Diane P. Wood
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No abstract provided.
The Tentative Case Against Flexibility In Commercial Law, Omri Ben-Shahar
The Tentative Case Against Flexibility In Commercial Law, Omri Ben-Shahar
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Magna Carta And The Ius Commune, Richard H. Helmholz
Magna Carta And The Ius Commune, Richard H. Helmholz
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The English Magna Carta (1215) has long stood as a symbol of human liberty and the rule of law. This Article investigates its intellectual origins, suggesting the existence of possible influence on the Charter by the contemporary ius commune, the amalgam of Roman and canon laws that had emerged in consequence of the revival of legal studies on the Continent in the twelfth century. Comparing the substance of over half of the chapters with the contemporary ius commune, the Article demonstrates that many similarities existed. Accepting the possibility of use of Continental sources in drafting the Charter helps explain otherwise …
Compulsory Arbitration Of Discrimination Claims And The Civil Rights Act Of 1991: Encouraged Or Proscribed?, Mark Adams
Compulsory Arbitration Of Discrimination Claims And The Civil Rights Act Of 1991: Encouraged Or Proscribed?, Mark Adams
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Forfeiture Procedure In Federal Court: An Overview, David Pimentel
Forfeiture Procedure In Federal Court: An Overview, David Pimentel
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Confusion About Custom: Disentangling Informal Customs From Standard Contractual Provisions, Richard A. Epstein
Confusion About Custom: Disentangling Informal Customs From Standard Contractual Provisions, Richard A. Epstein
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Liberty, Patriarchy, And Feminism, Richard A. Epstein
Regulatory Protectionism And The Law Of International Trade, Alan O. Sykes
Regulatory Protectionism And The Law Of International Trade, Alan O. Sykes
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A wide array of policy instruments can protect domestic firms against foreign competition. Regulatory measures that raise the costs of foreign firms relative to domestic firms are exceptionally wasteful protectionist devices, however, with deadweight costs that can greatly exceed those of traditional protectionist instruments such as tariffs and quotas. This Article develops the welfare economics of regulatory protectionism and a related political economy analysis of the national and international legal systems that must confront it, including the WTO, the NAFTA, the European Union, and the United States federal system. It explains why regulatory measures that serve no purpose other than …
The Principle Of Non-Refoulement: Article 3 Of The Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment In Comparison With The Non-Refoulement Provisions Of Other International Human Rights Treaties, David Weissbrodt, Isabel Hortreiter
The Principle Of Non-Refoulement: Article 3 Of The Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment In Comparison With The Non-Refoulement Provisions Of Other International Human Rights Treaties, David Weissbrodt, Isabel Hortreiter
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Because of persecution, civil war, and economic despair, millions of people flee from their homes and go to live in other countries where they can stabilize their lives and find a safe place for themselves and their families. In 1998, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated the number of people fleeing their home countries to exceed 22 million. 1 The right to seek and enjoy asylum is a well established principle in international law. 2 It has, however, been interpreted consistently as the right of the sovereign state to grant or deny asylum to those within its territory, …
Travaux Preparatoires Of The Fair Trial Provisions--Articles 8 To 11--Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, David Weissbrodt, Mattias Hallendorff
Travaux Preparatoires Of The Fair Trial Provisions--Articles 8 To 11--Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, David Weissbrodt, Mattias Hallendorff
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On 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1 In view of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, this article reviews its origins. The article then focuses principally upon the drafting and meaning of the fair trial provisions of the Declaration. Rather than looking at the Declaration’s provisions article by article in numerical order, the article first considers the overall drafting history of the Declaration; second, it focuses on the principal fair trial provisions, Articles 10 and 11; and then deals with the drafting of Articles 8 and 9, which are complementary.
American Prisons At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century, Michael Tonry, Joan Petersilia
American Prisons At The Beginning Of The Twenty-First Century, Michael Tonry, Joan Petersilia
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No abstract provided.
More Light Thoughts And Night Thoughts On The American Family, Judith T. Younger
More Light Thoughts And Night Thoughts On The American Family, Judith T. Younger
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A Matter Of Prostitution: Becoming Respectable, Beverly Balos, Mary Louise Fellows
A Matter Of Prostitution: Becoming Respectable, Beverly Balos, Mary Louise Fellows
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Feminists have achieved significant antiviolence legal reforms in the areas of domestic abuse, sexual harassment, and rape over the past three decades. These reforms, however, have reinforced old borders between the traditional categories of violence and prostitution and have constructed new borders by maintaining the distinction between worthy and unworthy women. Despite these flaws, the law reform efforts have the capacity to transform the legal and social meaning of prostitution. By adopting an approach that transcends consent or coercion and private or public, Professors Fellows and Balos use the concept of respectability to introduce an analytically powerful framework for rethinking …
Lenders And Land, Ann Burkhart
Lenders And Land, Ann Burkhart
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Using land to secure loans has been a particularly durable human institution. Mortgages 1 have existed since antiquity, 2 primarily because land generally retains its value and is permanent and immovable. In societies with largely nonmonetary economies, such as feudal England, land also has been particularly valued as a source of livelihood and of power. Therefore, land has been and continues to be desirable security for loans.
Rethinking Unthinkable Punishment Policies In America, Michael Tonry
Rethinking Unthinkable Punishment Policies In America, Michael Tonry
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Finding The Constitution: An Economic Analysis Of Tradition's Role In Constitutional Interpretation, Adam C. Pritchard, Todd J. Zywicki
Finding The Constitution: An Economic Analysis Of Tradition's Role In Constitutional Interpretation, Adam C. Pritchard, Todd J. Zywicki
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In this Article, Professor Pritchard and Professor Zywicki examine the role of tradition in constitutional interpretation, a topic that has received significant attention in recent years. After outlining the current debate over the use of tradition, the authors discuss the efficiency purposes of constitutionalism--precommitment and the reduction of agency costs--and demonstrate how the use of tradition in constitutional interpretation can serve these purposes. Rejecting both Justice Scalia's majoritarian model, which focuses on legislative sources of tradition, and Justice Souter's common-law model, which focuses on Supreme Court precedent as a source of tradition, the authors propose an alternative model--the "finding model"-- …
Confrontation Confronted, Richard D. Friedman, Margaret A. Berger, Steven R. Shapiro
Confrontation Confronted, Richard D. Friedman, Margaret A. Berger, Steven R. Shapiro
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The following article is an edited version of the amicus curiae brief filed with the Supreme Court of the United States in the October Term, 1998, in the case of Benjamin Lee Lilly v. Commonwealth of Virginia (No. 98-5881). "This case raises important questions about the meaning of the confrontation clause, which has been a vital ingredient of the fair trial right for hundreds of years," Professor Richard Friedman and his co-authors say. "In particular, this case presents the Court with an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between the confrontation clause and the law of hearsay." On June 10 the …
State Immunity Waivers For Suits By The United States, Evan H. Caminker
State Immunity Waivers For Suits By The United States, Evan H. Caminker
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The Supreme Court closed this millennium with a virtual celebration of state sovereignty, protecting state authority from the reach of congressional power in several significant ways. In a pair of cases, Seminole Tribe v. Florida1 and Alden v. Maine,2 the Court held that states enjoy a constitutional immunity from being sued without their consent. In Seminole Tribe, the Court opined that "the background principle of state sovereign immunity embodied in the Eleventh Amendment"3 protects states from unconsented suits in federal court. In Alden, the Court held that this principle is not merely embodied in the Eleventh Amendment but rather is …
Dna Database Searches And The Legal Consumption Of Scientific Evidence, Peter Donnelly, Richard D. Friedman
Dna Database Searches And The Legal Consumption Of Scientific Evidence, Peter Donnelly, Richard D. Friedman
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DNA evidence has transformed the proof of identity in criminal litigation, but it has also introduced daunting problems of statistical analysis into the process. In this Article, we analyze a problem related to DNA evidence that is likely to be of great and increasing significance in the near future. This is the problem of whether, and how, to present evidence that the suspect has been identified through a DNA database search. In our view, the two well-known reports on DNA evidence issued by the National Research Council ("NRC"), each of which has carried great authority with the American courts on …
Humanities And The Law: A Kinship Of Performance, James Boyd White
Humanities And The Law: A Kinship Of Performance, James Boyd White
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The following essay is adapted from “A Visiting Scholar Considers The Law and the Humanities”, which appeared in The Key Reporter of Phi Beta Kappa in summer 1998 as a partial report of the author’s year as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. The selection here is a summary of a lecture the author delivered during his travels to eight colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Making Something Out Of Nothing: The Law Of Takings And Phillips V. Washington Legal Foundation, Michael A. Heller, James E. Krier
Making Something Out Of Nothing: The Law Of Takings And Phillips V. Washington Legal Foundation, Michael A. Heller, James E. Krier
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Phillips v. Washington Legal Foundation held that interest on principal amounts deposited into IOLTA accounts is the property of the various clients who handed over the money but expressed no view as to whether the Texas IOLTA program worked a taking, or, if it did, whether any compensation was due. The debates among the justices about the meaning of private property, argued in terms of contextual and conceptual severance, are unlikely to prove fruitful. We elaborate a better approach in terms of the underlying purposes of just compensation. We conclude that efficiency and justice are best served by uncoupling matters …
The Cutting Edge Of Poster Law, Michael A. Heller
The Cutting Edge Of Poster Law, Michael A. Heller
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Students place tens of thousands of posters around law schools each year in staircases, on walls, and on bulletin boards. Rarely, however, do formal disputes about postering arise. Students know how far to go-and go no farther despite numerous avenues for postering deviance: blizzarding, megasigns, commercial or scurrilous signs. What is the history of poster law? What are its norms and rules, privileges and procedures? Is poster law effident? Is it just?
The Boundaries Of Private Property, Michael A. Heller
The Boundaries Of Private Property, Michael A. Heller
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If your house and fields are worth more separately, divide them; if you want to leave a ring to your child now and grandchild later, split the ownership in a trust. The American law of property encourages owners to subdivide resources freely. Hidden within the law, however, is a boundary principle that limits the right to subdivide private property into wasteful fragments. While people often create wealth when they break up and recombine property in novel ways, owners may make mistakes, or their self-interest may clash with social welfare. Property law responds with diverse doctrines that prevent and abolish excessive …