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Sovereign Immunity In Indian Tribal Law, Ralph W. Johnson, James M. Madden

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An examination of the tribal courts' civil jurisdiction and sovereign immunity decisions, and a review of the doctrine's origins and purposes in federal and state law reveal the increasing importance of the sovereign immunity doctrine and suggest several options to tribal councils and courts in deciding which aspects of the doctrine to retain. The article concludes that:

(1) The doctrine of sovereign immunity is not part of the con-. trolling federal law applicable to Indian tribal courts, except where trust property is involved.

(2) Each Indian tribe has inherent sovereign power to adopt, reject, or waive the doctrine of sovereign …

The Washington Environmental Policy Act, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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As the Washington State Environmental Policy Act of 1971 (SEPA)'approaches its fourteenth birthday, the time is ripe for an assessment of its recent history and foreseeable future. Several SEPA milestones have come and gone in the last several months, and a period of stability is in order. Reported Washington decisions citing SEPA now number close to one hundred; more than fifty of these are decisions of the Washington Supreme Court.

The books are closed on the two-year efforts of the Washington Commission on Environmental Policy (the SEPA Commission), whose work culminated in a report to the 1983 Legislature. There was …

Excluding Israel From The General Assembly By A Rejection Of Its Credentials, Malvina Halberstam

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Scholarly Books: What, To Whom And Why, James J. White

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A consideration of the role that the books reviewed in this edition will play in the future of American legal thought has led me to speculate about the transmission of ideas into acts and about the role of books in that transmission. In certain arenas, tracing an idea from its origins to its ultimate application is straightforward. For example, the evolution of Germany's Schlieffen plan for invading France can be traced with little difficulty from the circumstances responsible for its birth, through years of refinement, to its eventual application in World War I. The development and acceptance of a medical …

Interstate Exploitation And Judicial Intervention, Saul Levmore

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The Meaning Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Richard A. Posner

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Public Employee Strikes, Executive Discretion, And The Air Traffic Controllers, Cass R. Sunstein, Bernard D. Meltzer

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The Most Insignificant Justice: Further Evidence, Frank H. Easterbrook

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Possession And Ownership: An Examination Of The Scope Of Article 9, Douglas G. Baird, Thomas H. Jackson

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Statutes' Domains, Frank H. Easterbrook

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A Common Law For Labor Relations: A Critique Of The New Deal Labor Legislation, Richard A. Epstein

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Extraterritoriality And Conflicts Of Jurisdiction, Kenneth W. Dam

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The Constitution In The Supreme Court: Contracts And Commerce, 1836-1864, David P. Currie

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Continuing a study of the first hundred years of constitutional litigation, Professor Currie explores the decisions of the Taney period respecting the Contract and Commerce Clauses. Though early decisions of the Taney Court seemed to portend a departure from the nationalism of its predecessor, the author argues that the impression was largely misleading. In general, for example, the Court under Taney proved rather sympathetic to contract rights. In Commerce Clause cases, after being badly split, the Court was able to agree on a longlasting formula that acknowledged an implicit limitation on state power, and although in the Taney period the …

The Most Insignificant Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry, David P. Currie

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The New Deal Regulatory Model: A History Of Criticisms And Refinements, Daniel J. Gifford

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When the Roosevelt administration took office in March 1933, the nation was suffering from the onslaught of the Great Depression. The complex set of economic and regulatory policies constituting President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" focused primarily on restoring health to the economy and secondarily on achieving a modicum of income redistribution. The Roosevelt administration, however, possessed neither a clear understanding of the causes of the Depression, nor a coherent, stable, and workable scheme for ending it. Nevertheless, that administration's tenure produced widespread federal economic regulation and brought ferment, imagination, and creativity to theoretical and practical regulatory techniques.

The Ethics Of Argument: Plato's Gorgias And The Modern Lawyer, James Boyd White

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In what follows I shall analyze Plato's text and do my best to suggest a response to it. But I should say at the outset that for the modern lawyer and law teacher this is not merely an academic exercise, for we in fact are rhetoricians very much as Plato defines them. What is at stake for us in reading this dialogue is what it means to have devoted ourselves to the set of social and intellectual practices that define the profession of law. We have a special relation to this text, for we can in the full Platonic sense …

Can Science Be Inopportune - Constitutional Validity Of Governmental Restrictions On Race-Iq Research, Richard Delgado, Sean Bradley, David Burkenroad, Ron Chavez

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Litigation Abuse And The Law Schools, John W. Reed

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At the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in July, 1983, one session was devoted to a discussion of "Excessive Discovery: A Symptom of Litigation Abuse." (Without knowing, I would guess that a similar title appeared on just about every judicial conference program this year-and last year, and the one before that.) Frank Rothman, President of MGM/United Artists, addressed the subject from the point of view of a corporate client, and his remarks are printed in this issue, beginning at page 342. Judges and trial lawyers expressed their views. And I was asked to comment on the extent to which the law …

The Natural Law Of Administrative Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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Law teachers and researchers are inveterate seekers of metaphors. The metaphor, even if glib and obvious, invariably suggests further parallels and relationships, the conjoinder of phenomena. This is the road to uncovering unsuspected linkages and building simple descriptive models.

Theory building, in administrative law as elsewhere, begins with the capture and expression of the convincing metaphor. Extracting metaphors from the natural sciences to account for social happenings begins with a figure of speech and often ends there. Legislatures now are squeezing fat out of administrative agencies, an apt biological picture of a weight watcher's rigor being imposed on flabby, middle-aged …

The Coming Curtailment Of Compulsory Child Support, David L. Chambers

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Absent parents ought to contribute to the support of their minor children and states can appropriately invoke the force of law to compel them to do so. Stated so generally, even absent parents behind in their payments would probably agree. Since so many others agree as well, and since the numbers of single-parent children have mushroomed, systems of governmentally compelled support in this country have grown enormously. By the early part of the next century, if current laws remain in force and current population trends continue, most of America's children on any given day will be entitled to support from …

Is There A Ratchet In Antitrust Law?, Frank H. Easterbrook

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Economics, Politics, And The Reading Of Statutes And The Constitution, Richard A. Posner

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Air Pollution Control In West Germany, David P. Currie

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Section 1983 And The Private Enforcement Of Federal Law, Cass R. Sunstein

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Limits Of Law Enforcement, The, Hans Zeisel

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Book Review (Reviewing Michael E. Parrish, Felix Frankfurter And His Times: The Reform Years (1982)), Richard A. Posner

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A New United Nations Mechanism For Encouraging The Ratification Of Treaties, David Weissbrodt

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The ratification of international human rights treaties is critical to the worldwide observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The United Nations General Assembly and Commission on Human Rights have repeatedly emphasized the importance of ratification and have frequently encouraged states to ratify the relevant international instruments. Despite these efforts, acceptance of human rights treaties has been uneven. A con- siderable number of states have failed to ratify.

Words That Wound: A Tort Action For Racial Insults, Epithets, And Name-Calling, Richard Delgado

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One of the first articles to discuss the problem of hate speech Words That Wound discusses the harms of racist speech before proposing a new tort enabling its victims to recover damages from the utterer I later expanded the article into a book with Jean Stefancic Entitled Understanding Words That Wound the book covers a range of recent problems including hate speech on the Internet campus hate speech codes and child porn

Price Discrimination Law And Economic Efficiency, Edward H. Cooper

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The Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act (15 U.S.C. § 13), undertakes to outlaw price "discrimination" upon proof of threatened injury to competition, and subject to specified defenses. Lawyers often bewail the fact that administration of this statute frequently fails to conform to an economist's notion of discrimination. For the most part, the complaints are addressed to the clear fact that, as drafted and interpreted, the statute wreaks unnecessary damage. In the name of protecting competition, competition and economic efficiency are often curtailed.

Beyond Sindell: Relaxation Of Cause-In-Fact Rules For Indeterminate Plaintiffs, Richard Delgado

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Discusses a doctrine the Sindell rule enabling plaintiffs to shift the burden of proof onto several defendants when all of them have exposed him or her to a risk which has eventuated but the plaintiff is uncertain which one is to blame for the injury Proposes extending this rule in the mirorimage case when an indeterminate plaintiff is one of several living in a locality who have suffered similar injuries some of which may be due to natural causes but others of which are known to be attributable to the defendant such as a polluter who has caused an increase …