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Bernie, Gerhard Casper

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Government Control Of Information, Cass R. Sunstein

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Hostile Share Acquisitions And Corporate Governance: A Framework For Evaluating Antitakeover Activities, John H. Matheson, Jon R. Norberg

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In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of hostile share acquisitions of American businesses. The authors examine the validity of the various defensive measures employed by target companies to defeat or deter a hostile takeover bid. They argue that antitakeover activity should not be viewed as a separate subset of legal analysis; rather, it should be analyzed according to four traditional principles of corporate governance: (1) the discretion afforded corporate management by the business judgment rule; (2) the prohibition against discriminating between members of the same class of shareholders; (3) the prohibition against shifting control …

The Three "Theme" Special Rapporteurs Of The Un Commission On Human Rights, David Weissbrodt

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In March 1982, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights initiated the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions. The Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions has done far more than merely study that grave human rights problem; he has received complaints about impending and past executions, issued appeals to governments about threatened executions and the need to investigate past killings, and reported publicly on much of his activity. The Commission on Human Rights not only has renewed the Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions in its subsequent annual sessions, but has followed this precedent …

Statutes Of Limitations In Minnesota Choice Of Law: The Problematic Return Of The Substance-Procedure Distinction, Laura Cooper

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Assume that you are an attorney seeking to determine the statute of limitations applicable in Minnesota to a case with multistate aspects. Perhaps you consult the Dunnell Minnesota Digest 2d, which states succinctly: "If a cause of action not arising in this state or accruing to a citizen thereof is barred by the law of another state it is barred here." 1 The encylopedia then states several corollary propositions for multistate cases with different fact patterns and provices numerous case citations in support of the propositions. What the reference unfortunately fails to tell you is that the legal propositions and …

In Step With The Times: Law Library Keeps Up With Changes In Legal Research, Margaret A. Leary

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Change is constant in legal research. Plucknett's work describes, for example, the modem textbook replacing published case reports as the most important form of legal literature. More recently, A.B.W. Simpson has argued that the law review article has displaced the treatise. Apart from these changes, the law itself has continued to embrace concepts from other disciplines and deal with facts and methodologies of an increasingly technological society.

Prosecutorial Discretion In Japan: A Response, Daniel H. Foote

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Marsha Goodman's Prosecutorial Discretion in Japan, with its thoroughly researched description of the manner in which that discretion is exercised-including several new case studies-is an important addition to English-language literature on the Japanese legal system and raises numerous interesting issues regarding the Japanese criminal justice system.

Goodman focuses much of her attention on the lengthy battle over the abuse of prosecutorial discretion doctrine in Japan. This discussion provides a fine example of a classic pattern of legal debate in Japan. As in this case, defense counsel familiar with an issue frequently initiate movements for change in criminal procedure standards …

The Drafting Process For Cabinet Bills, Daniel H. Foote

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I have undertaken this article in hope that it may be of some help in promoting public understanding of the actual manner of review by the Cabinet Legislation Bureau-one step in the drafting process for legislation introduced by the Cabinet-and of the diligent efforts of the r��presentatives of the various ministries with whom we regularly come into contact. It goes without saying that the views and explanations contained herein, along with any inadequacies or inaccuracies in this account, are solely the responsibility of this author.

Compelling Testimony In Alaska: The Coming Rejection Of Use And Derivative Use Immunity, Jeff M. Feldman

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Until 1972, when the Supreme Court upheld a federal use andderivative use immunity statute in Kastigar v. United States, virtually every court that considered the issue of the compulsion of testimony favored transactional immunity. It appears that most courts interpreted the Supreme Court's 1892 decision in Counselman v. Hitchcock as finding only transactional immunity constitutional. Since Kastigar, the Alaska Supreme Court has had several opportunities totake sides in the debate over the grant of immunity constitutionally required to compel testimony. On each such occasion, the court has expressed a preference for transactional immunity, but has carefullyavoided resolving the …

Civil Procedure In Brazil, Keith S. Rosenn

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The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities, Lawrence W. Waggoner

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When the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws recently approved the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities, it may at long last have made perpetuity reform achievable in this country. Coming, as it does, on the heels of the 1981 promulgation of the Restatement (Second) of Property (Donative Transfers), which adopts the same general type of perpetuity reform, and having been unanimously endorsed by the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association, the Board of Regents of the American College of Probate Counsel, and the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, the Uniform …

Judicial Criticism, James Boyd White

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Today I shall talk about the criticism of judicial opinions, especially of constitutional opinions. This may at first seem to have rather little to do with our larger topic, "The Constitution and Human Values," but I hope that by the end I will be seen to be talking about that subject too. In fact I hope to show that in what I call our "criticism" our "values" are defined and made actual in most important ways.

The Supreme Court And State Protectionism: Making Sense Of The Dormant Commerce Clause, Donald H. Regan

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For almost fifty years, scholars have urged the Court to "balance" in dormant commerce clause cases; and the scholars have imagined that the Court was following their advice. The Court has indeed claimed to balance, winning scholarly approval. But the Court knows better than the scholars. Despite what the Court has said, it has not been balancing. It has been following a simpler and better-justified course. In the central area of dormant commerce clause jurisprudence, comprising what I shall call "movement-of-goods" cases), the Court has been concerned exclusively with preventing states from engaging in purposeful economic protectionism. Not only is …

General Principles Of Civil Law Of The People's Republic Of China (Translation), Whitmore Gray, Henry R. Zheng

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(Adopted April 12, 1986, at the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People's Congress, to take effect on January 1, 1987.)'

Dancing On The Edge Of Article 9, James J. White

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Despite the fact that Article 9 is a much more comprehensive personal property security statute than was ever found in American law prior to its enactment, cases continue to present issues on the scope of the Article. Gone are the cases in which a court was called upon to determine whether a "conditional sales contract" could be dealt with under the "factor's lien" law; it is now clear that all such personal property security devices are governed by Article 9. Yet many problems remain for the unwary lawyer. I will identify several and deal in detail with three of these …

Law And Alaska Natives: The Warp And Woof Of A Field Of Law In Transition, Ralph W. Johnson

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Reviewing Alaska Natives and American Laws, by David Case (1984).

Protecting Autonomy And Personhood In Human Subjects Research, Helen Leskovac, Richard Delgado

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Informed Consent In Human Experimentation: Bridging The Gap Between Ethical Thought And Current Practice, Richard Delgado, Helen Leskovac

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Beyond Words Of Exhortation: The Congressional Prescription For Vigorous Federal Enforcement Of The Clean Water Act, William L. Andreen

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The Role Of The Ninth Circuit In The Development Of The Law Of Attempt To Monopolize, Daniel J. Gifford

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The attempt clause 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act deals with unilateral behavior which produces or is likely to produce significant anticompetitive consequences. Justice Holmes, in his classic statement of the attempt offense in Swift & Co. v. United States, 2 identified the elements of the offense as the defendant's intent to monopolize and the dangerous probability that the defendant would succeed. In the classic model of the offense, the defendant's intent resolves the ambiguity of the defendant's present behavior by showing that it is instrumental to the forbidden goal of monopolization.

International Legal Action Against Apartheid, David Weissbrodt, Georgina Mahoney

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Apartheid in Southern Africa represents one of the greatest challenges, one of the greatest success stories, and one of the most frustrating defeats of the international human rights movement. This article first introduces international human rights and the in- ternational law of human rights-particularly as they relate to apartheid.Second, the article sketches the work of the Interna- tional Court of Justice, which has rendered three significant human rights decisions concerning Namibia. Having begun to dis- cuss Namibia, the article also examines the work of the Security Council, General Assembly, and other United Nations bodies con- cerning Namibia.

Criminal Procedure In A Conservative Age: A Time To Rediscover The Critical Nonconstitutional Issues, Richard Frase

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Criminal procedure is changing fast these days, but teachers of criminal procedure are not. Most of us have probably given considerable thought to the philosophical and doctrinal significance of the Supreme Court's increasingly conservative approach to constitutional issues, but have we thought about the broader pedagogic and professional implications of this major doctrinal shift? For me. the current conservative trend raises fundamental questions about the kinds of issues we should be addressing in our teaching, research, and public service activities. In particular. we need to start asking ourselves whether our traditional heavy emphasis on constitutional issues (which has been going …

The Antitrust State-Action Doctrine After Fisher V. Berkeley, Daniel Gifford

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Alternative Methodologies In Contemporary Jurisprudence: Comments On Dworkin, Philip E. Soper

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I have two brief points to make. Both involve recent developments in jurisprudence, by which I mean by and large the subject that Ronald Dworkin has just been discussing. Indeed, the first point is little more than an acknowledgement of the debt that is owed to Dworkin, not only for his specific contributions to this field, but for the implications of his work for law teaching generally.

Depositions Of Corporations: Problems And Solutions-Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(B)(6), M. Minnette Massey

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The Federal Circuit's 1985 Tax Cases: The Exercise Of Equity, William S. Blatt

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Over The Back Fence: Tax Shelters And Other Sales Of Federal Income Tax Reductions, Thomas A. Robinson

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Law-The Last Of The Universal Disciplines, Soia Mentschikoff, Irwin P. Stotzky

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Teaching Philosophy Of Law In Law Schools: Some Cautionary Remarks, Patricia D. White

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Terrorism, Malvina Halberstam

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