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Panama City Reflections: Growing The City In The Time Of Sustainable Development, Ileana Porras Jan 2008

Panama City Reflections: Growing The City In The Time Of Sustainable Development, Ileana Porras

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Constitutional Patriotism, Citizenship, And Belonging, David Abraham Jan 2008

Constitutional Patriotism, Citizenship, And Belonging, David Abraham

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Proving Causation: The Holism Of Warrant And The Atomism Of Daubert, Susan Haack Jan 2008

Proving Causation: The Holism Of Warrant And The Atomism Of Daubert, Susan Haack

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Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity Of Knowing And Heeding What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Scott E. Sundby Jan 2008

Competent Capital Representation: The Necessity Of Knowing And Heeding What Jurors Tell Us About Mitigation, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson, Scott E. Sundby

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Second Amendment Minimalism: Heller As Griswold The Supreme Court, 2007 Term:, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2008

Second Amendment Minimalism: Heller As Griswold The Supreme Court, 2007 Term:, Cass R. Sunstein

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Some Effects Of Moral Indignation On Law, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2008

Some Effects Of Moral Indignation On Law, Cass R. Sunstein

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Soft Law: Lessons From Congressional Practice, Jacob Gersen, Eric A. Posner Jan 2008

Soft Law: Lessons From Congressional Practice, Jacob Gersen, Eric A. Posner

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Soft law consists of rules issued by lawmaking bodies that do not comply with procedural formalities necessary to give the rules legal status yet nonetheless influence the behavior of other lawmaking bodies and of the public. Soft law has been much discussed in the literatures on international law, constitutional law, and administrative law, yet congressional soft-lawmaking, such as the congressional resolution, has received little attention. Congressional soft law affects behavior by informing the public and political institutions about the intentions and policy preferences of Congress, which are informative about future hard law as well as of Congress's view of the …


The Concept Of International Delegation, Curtis A. Bradley, Judith G. Kelley Jan 2008

The Concept Of International Delegation, Curtis A. Bradley, Judith G. Kelley

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Foreward, Curtis A. Bradley, Judith G. Kelley Jan 2008

Foreward, Curtis A. Bradley, Judith G. Kelley

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Limiting Excessive Prison Sentences Under Federal And State Constitutions, Richard Frase Jan 2008

Limiting Excessive Prison Sentences Under Federal And State Constitutions, Richard Frase

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Combating The Color-Coded Confinement Of Kids: An Equal Protection Remedy, Perry L. Moriearty Jan 2008

Combating The Color-Coded Confinement Of Kids: An Equal Protection Remedy, Perry L. Moriearty

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This Article considers the viability of a constitutional challenge to the disproportionate confinement of juveniles of color – a phenomenon known as “disproportionate minority contact” or “DMC.” Specifically, I ask whether, in the wake of McCleskey v. Kemp and its progeny, it is possible bring an Equal Protection claim based on statistical evidence that juveniles of color are significantly more likely to be detained by juvenile court judges than similarly-situated white youth. I argue that the nature of the juvenile detention decision places it squarely within the contours of the types of administrative decisions for which the Supreme Court has …


Learning From The Limitations Of Deterrence Research, Michael Tonry Jan 2008

Learning From The Limitations Of Deterrence Research, Michael Tonry

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The Malign Effects Of Drug And Crime Control Policies On Black Americans, Michael Tonry, Matthew Melewski Jan 2008

The Malign Effects Of Drug And Crime Control Policies On Black Americans, Michael Tonry, Matthew Melewski

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Keynote Address: International Standard-Setting On The Human Rights Responsibilities Of Businesses, David Weissbrodt Jan 2008

Keynote Address: International Standard-Setting On The Human Rights Responsibilities Of Businesses, David Weissbrodt

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It is a great honor to be invited to my alma mater to speak at this confer- ence highlighting the human rights responsibilities of transnational corporations and to be selected to receive this year's Stefan A. Riesenfeld Award for my con- tributions in the field of international law.


Remedies For Undocumented Noncitizens In The Workplace: Using International Law To Narrow The Holding Of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. V. Nlrb, David Weissbrodt Jan 2008

Remedies For Undocumented Noncitizens In The Workplace: Using International Law To Narrow The Holding Of Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. V. Nlrb, David Weissbrodt

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In Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) back-pay claims of a worker wrongfully discharged for union organizing.1 The Supreme Court's 2002 decision reasoned that the worker should not be able to recover back pay under the NLRA because he was a noncitizen and not entitled to em- ployment. 2 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Labor Organization (ILO) Freedom of Association Committee have rejected the Hoffman decision and criticized the United States for its discrimination against noncitizens.3


Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, Prentiss Cox Jan 2008

Foreclosure Reform Amid Mortgage Lending Turmoil: A Public Purpose Approach, Prentiss Cox

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Irene Thomas was twenty-one years old when she met a man outside of a nightclub who convinced her that she could make money in real estate. 1 A mortgage broker and others used her credit rating to obtain ten residential properties within a ninety-day period with no money down. 2 Ms. Thomas incurred $ 2.4 million in mortgage debt for these home purchases. 3 Just over a year later, all the properties were in foreclosure after Ms. Thomas failed to make the mortgage payments. 4 The neighborhood on the north side of Minneapolis where these ten properties are located has …


Lawmakers As Norms Entrepreneurs, Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Georg Von Wangenheim Jan 2008

Lawmakers As Norms Entrepreneurs, Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Georg Von Wangenheim

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In this paper we consider the role of lawmakers as norm entrepreneurs. Drawing from expressive law theories and social response theories, we shed light on the role of law in shaping social values and norms, and on the ability of the law to produce social norms where they did not exist before. Furthermore, we unveil a possible undesirable effect of legal intervention, where a legal innovation can cause social divide and possible conflicts.


Carbon Sequestration And Sustainability, Alexandra B. Klass, Sara E. Bergan Jan 2008

Carbon Sequestration And Sustainability, Alexandra B. Klass, Sara E. Bergan

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This Symposium Essay explores the question of whether the developing technology of geologic carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), which involves capturing CO2 emissions from industrial sources and power plants and sequestering them underground, is consisting with principles of sustainable development. This Essay concludes that while CCS on its own may not be consistent with basic principles of sustainability, it presents a potential opportunity to create sufficiently deep cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to allow the transition to a more sustainable future.


Climate Change And Carbon Sequestration: Assessing A Liability Regime For The Long-Term Storage Of Carbon Dioxide, Alexandra B. Klass, Elizabeth J. Wilson Jan 2008

Climate Change And Carbon Sequestration: Assessing A Liability Regime For The Long-Term Storage Of Carbon Dioxide, Alexandra B. Klass, Elizabeth J. Wilson

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As the world struggles with how to address climate change, one of the most significant questions is how to reduce increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One promising technology is "carbon capture and sequestration" (CCS) which consists of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants and industrial sources and sequestering them in deep geologic formations for long periods of time. Areas for potential CO2 sequestration include oil and gas fields, saline aquifers, and coal seams. As Congress and the private sector begin to spend billions of dollars to research and deploy this technology, there has been insufficient …


State Innovation And Preemption: Lessons From State Climate Change Efforts, Alexandra B. Klass Jan 2008

State Innovation And Preemption: Lessons From State Climate Change Efforts, Alexandra B. Klass

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In cases involving both express and implied preemption, the Supreme Court and lower courts have applied a "presumption against preemption" to preserve state law in areas of "traditional state concern." In the decades since Congress first enacted major health, safety, and environmental legislation, federal agencies in the public health and environmental areas have created massive federal regulatory programs to fulfill Congressional directives. As a result of these agency developments, courts and scholars are forced to consider not only the original Congressional language relevant to preemption, but also subsequent actions taken by federal agencies to implement Congressional mandates to determine whether …


Horizontal Federalism, Allan Erbsen Jan 2008

Horizontal Federalism, Allan Erbsen

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This Article constructs frameworks for analyzing federalism's undertheorized horizontal dimension. Discussions of federalism generally focus on the hierarchical (or vertical) allocation of power between the national and state governments while overlooking the horizontal allocation of power among coequal states. Models of federal-state relations tend to treat the fifty states as a single aggregate unit, obscuring the fact that individual states often cannot concurrently exercise their powers without infringing the other states' autonomy, frustrating the others' legitimate interests, or burdening the others' citizens. Preserving interstate harmony and protecting citizens from excessive burdens therefore requires limits on how states may wield their …


Wipo-Wto Relations And The Future Of Global Intellectual Property Norms, Ruth Okediji Jan 2008

Wipo-Wto Relations And The Future Of Global Intellectual Property Norms, Ruth Okediji

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The intense scholarly debate about the effects of harmonized global intellectual property (IP) rules under the TRIPS Agreement has yet to consider what role an appropriate organizational framework should play in facilitating development of IP norms to address new global challenges. The prevailing assumption has been that the norm-setting role of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will remain unchanged despite the primacy of the TRIPS Agreement and the explicit mandate of the WTO for global IP regulation. Indeed, with respect to the supply of public goods, only the WTO - not WIPO - has the formal legal mandate to …


Responsible Debt Relief: An Algorithmic Assessment Of Household Debt Capacity And Repayment Capacity, Robert Manning Jan 2008

Responsible Debt Relief: An Algorithmic Assessment Of Household Debt Capacity And Repayment Capacity, Robert Manning

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Since the early 1990s, the growth of U.S. household debt in general consumer credit card debt in particular has soared to unprecedented levels-from an aggregate total of less than $4.0 trillion in 1990 to over $13 trillion in 2008. During this period, the average American household dramatically increased its home mortgage debt, from almost $2.5 trillion in 1990 to nearly $10.5 trillion today. Similarly, consumer "revolving" or credit card debt quadrupled from $239 billion to about $950 billion today. Moreover the growth of U.S. credit card debt was paid of through mortgage refinancing, home equity loans, and cash proceeds from …


Templates For Innovation: A Comment On Mumford, Bedell And Hunter, John Ettlie Jan 2008

Templates For Innovation: A Comment On Mumford, Bedell And Hunter, John Ettlie

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The authors confront the nontrivial issue of whether or not creativity and innovation can be planned, and proceed to support an affirmative answer with a well-organizated treatment of the applied research literature relevant to this topic. They outline and reference an incremental approach to this planning process at multiple level of aggregation (organization, group, and individual), and present both a state-of-the-art review and a general, normative approach to this daunting challenge.


The Myth Of Discovery, Claire Hill Jan 2008

The Myth Of Discovery, Claire Hill

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This review essay of Barry Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice discusses how Schwartz’s thesis that more choice is not always better should inform economists’ increasing acknowledgment that preferences are constructed, not fixed. In this companion piece to my more detailed consideration of the subject of constructed preferences, I argue that what makes the assumption of fixed preferences possible is a myth, the myth of discovery - that preferences exist to be discovered. Once we acknowledge that preferences are as much made as found, and that the raw materials from which they are made are scarcely stable, the assumption of fixed preferences …


What's Wrong With Litigation-Driven Science? An Essay In Legal Epistemology, Susan Haack Jan 2008

What's Wrong With Litigation-Driven Science? An Essay In Legal Epistemology, Susan Haack

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Mixed Speech: When Speech Is Both Private And Governmental, Caroline Mala Corbin Jan 2008

Mixed Speech: When Speech Is Both Private And Governmental, Caroline Mala Corbin

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Speech is generally considered to be either private or governmental, and this dichotomy is embedded in First Amendment jurisprudence. However, speech is often neither purely private nor purely governmental but rather a combination of the two. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court has not yet recognized mixed speech as a distinct category of speech. This Article suggests considerations for identifying mixed speech and exposes the shortcomings of the current approach of classifying all speech as either private or governmental when determining whether viewpoint restrictions pass First Amendment muster. Treating mixed speech as government speech gives short shrift to the free speech interests …


Rethinking Indivisibility: Towards A Theory Of Supporting Relations Between Human Rights, James W. Nickel Jan 2008

Rethinking Indivisibility: Towards A Theory Of Supporting Relations Between Human Rights, James W. Nickel

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Supply Chain Management Diffusion Among Firms In The Republic Of Ireland, Edward Sweeney, Claudia-Maria Wagner, Bernd Huber Jan 2008

Supply Chain Management Diffusion Among Firms In The Republic Of Ireland, Edward Sweeney, Claudia-Maria Wagner, Bernd Huber

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The changing business environment has sharpened the focus on the need for robust approaches to supply chain management (SCM) and the improvement of supply chain capability and performance. This is particularly the case in Ireland, which has the natural disadvantage of a location peripheral to significant markets and sources of raw materials which results in relatively high transport and distribution costs. Therefore, in order to gain insights into current levels of diffusion of SCM, a survey was conducted among 776 firms in the Republic of Ireland. The empirical results suggest that there is a need for more widespread adoption of …


Planning In The Irish Healthcare System; Legislative Strategy Or Administrative Control?, Vivienne Byers Jan 2008

Planning In The Irish Healthcare System; Legislative Strategy Or Administrative Control?, Vivienne Byers

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Although strategic planning in healthcare has been in evidence in many OECD countries since the 1970s, it did not emerge in Ireland until the advent of legislatively mandated service planning in the 1990s. This occurred in the context of significant managerial, organisational and environmental change. One of the central mechanisms of the Strategic Management Initiative is the devolution of accountability and responsibility from the centre to the periphery. Service planning in the health sector in Ireland is seen as part of this strategic planning ethos. This paper reports on part of a wider study that examined both the intent and …