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Evaluating The Sex Discrimination Argument For Lesbian And Gay Rights, Edward D. Stein Dec 2001

Evaluating The Sex Discrimination Argument For Lesbian And Gay Rights, Edward D. Stein

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The sex discrimination argument for lesbian and gay rights analyzes laws that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in terms of sex discrimination. For example, sodomy laws that prohibit only same-sex sexual activities are analyzed as discriminating on the basis of sex because they prohibit women from doing something men are permitted to do, that is, have sex with women. This argument has been championed by some scholars and litigators, and it has persuaded some judges. Edward Stein shows that there are sociological, theoretical, moral, and practical problems facing the sex discrimination argument. He suggests that there are better …


The Economic Analysis Of Evidence Law: Common Sense On Stilts, Richard O. Lempert Dec 2001

The Economic Analysis Of Evidence Law: Common Sense On Stilts, Richard O. Lempert

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There was a time when the empire of Law was not overrun by economists. The economists had their own fiefdoms to be sure-there was the Duchy of Antitrust and the Kingdom of Regulatory Law-but the economists lived in peace within these borders, welcoming many unlike themselves into their midst, only gently proselytizing their students in the first few classes of a term, and swearing fealty to the law. It is true that a few marauders from beyond the borders saw the wealth of the empire and sought to colonize it, but even the most daring, Archbishop Coase and Duke Gary …


Introduction To "Books", Margaret A. Leary Dec 2001

Introduction To "Books", Margaret A. Leary

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It's well known that graduate William B. Cook's generosity provided the Law School with its trademark Gothic Law Quadrangle. It is less universally known that Cook endowed the Law School with a trust to support faculty research, and had a strong interest in the nature of that research. He chose to call the library building "Legal Research" and to inscribe above the main entrance "Learned and cultured lawyers are safeguards of the republic." Cook often said that the lack of "intellectual leadership 1s the greatest problem which faces America," and he wanted this Law School to provide that missing leadership. …


College Students’ Perceptions Of The C-Print Speech-To-Text Transcription System, Lisa B. Elliot, Michael Stinson, Barbara G. Mckee, Victoria S. Everhart, Pamela J. Francis Oct 2001

College Students’ Perceptions Of The C-Print Speech-To-Text Transcription System, Lisa B. Elliot, Michael Stinson, Barbara G. Mckee, Victoria S. Everhart, Pamela J. Francis

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C-Print is a real-time speech-to-text transcription system used as a support service with deaf students in mainstreamed classes. Questionnaires were administered to 36 college students in 32 courses in which the C-Print system was used in addition to interpreting and notetaking. Twenty-two of these students were also interviewed. Questionnaire items included student ratings of lecture comprehension. Student ratings indicated good comprehension with C-Print, and the mean rating was significantly higher than that for understanding of the interpreter. Students also rated the hard-copy printout provided by C-Print as helpful, and they reported that they used these notes more frequently than the …


Citizen Participation In Judicial Decision Making: Juries, Lay Judges And Japan, Richard O. Lempert Sep 2001

Citizen Participation In Judicial Decision Making: Juries, Lay Judges And Japan, Richard O. Lempert

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In the late 1920s and 1930s Japan had a jury system. It was suspended in 1943 as a wartime measure, but it had fallen into desuetude long before that. Arguably it was like the Spanish jury, which has several times risen during periods of relative political liberalism or populism and been suppressed during periods of militarism and autocracy. That is, it may be more than a coincidence that use of the Japanese jury fell precipitously during the 1930s as militarism took hold of the Japanese nation. Now the reinstatement of the Japanese jury is again being seriously considered. Similarly it …


Is Cross-Testing A Mistake: Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, And The Incoherence Of The Nondiscrimination Norm, Edward A. Zelinsky Apr 2001

Is Cross-Testing A Mistake: Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, And The Incoherence Of The Nondiscrimination Norm, Edward A. Zelinsky

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The increasing tendency of large employers to convert their traditional defined benefit pension plans to the cash balance format has engendered substantial controversy, both within the qualified plan community and among the general public. The rise of "new comparability" plans has yet to generate the same level of popular or political concern, perhaps because such plans have largely been embraced by smaller employers. However, among pension mavens, new comparability has occasioned strong supporters and equally firm detractors.


Piracy, Prejudice, And Perspectives: An Attempt To Use Shakespeare To Reconfigure The U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate, Peter K. Yu Apr 2001

Piracy, Prejudice, And Perspectives: An Attempt To Use Shakespeare To Reconfigure The U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate, Peter K. Yu

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The Cash Balance Controversy Revisited: Age Discrimination And Fidelity To Statutory Text, Edward A. Zelinsky Apr 2001

The Cash Balance Controversy Revisited: Age Discrimination And Fidelity To Statutory Text, Edward A. Zelinsky

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Law, Economics, And The Skeleton Of Value Fallacy, Kyron Huigens Mar 2001

Law, Economics, And The Skeleton Of Value Fallacy, Kyron Huigens

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Experiments in the last decade or so have demonstrated persistent failures on the part of ordinary individuals rationally to pursue self-interest. The experiments pose serious challenges to economics, rational choice theory, and the law and economics school. Some experiments, for example, suggest an "endowment effect", that contradicts the Coase Theorem; the notion that, in the absence of transaction costs, goods will find their most efficient distribution regardless of their initial assignment. Cass Sunstein has collected a set of essays by economists and legal scholars exploring these challenges, in a volume entitled Behavioral Law and Economics.


Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher Jan 2001

Disintegration And Despair In The Early Fiction Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

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A New Executive Order For Improving Federal Regulation - Deeper And Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass R. Sunstein, Robert W. Hahn Jan 2001

A New Executive Order For Improving Federal Regulation - Deeper And Wider Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass R. Sunstein, Robert W. Hahn

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For over two decades, federal agencies have been required to analyze the benefits and costs of significant regulatory actions and to show that the benefits justify the costs. But the regulatory state continues to suffer from significant problems, including poor priority-setting, unintended adverse side-effects, and, on occasion, high costs for low benefits. In many cases, agencies do not offer an adequate account of either costs or benefits, and hence the commitment to cost-benefit balancing is not implemented in practice. A major current task is to ensure a deeper and wider commitment to cost-benefit analysis, properly understood. We explain how this …


Conjunction And Aggregation, Saul Levmore Jan 2001

Conjunction And Aggregation, Saul Levmore

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The Human Rights Of The Mentally Disabled: Can European Union Law Help?, Elizabeth Duquette Jan 2001

The Human Rights Of The Mentally Disabled: Can European Union Law Help?, Elizabeth Duquette

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Law And The Emotions, Eric A. Posner Jan 2001

Law And The Emotions, Eric A. Posner

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Legal Scholarship Today, Richard A. Posner Jan 2001

Legal Scholarship Today, Richard A. Posner

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Clinical And Theoretical Approaches To The Teaching Of Evidence And Trial Advocacy, Richard A. Posner Jan 2001

Clinical And Theoretical Approaches To The Teaching Of Evidence And Trial Advocacy, Richard A. Posner

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The Market For Federal Judicial Law Clerks, Richard A. Posner, Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Alvin E. Roth Jan 2001

The Market For Federal Judicial Law Clerks, Richard A. Posner, Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Alvin E. Roth

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Signaling Discount Rates: Law, Norms, And Economic Methodology (Reviewing Eric A. Posner, Law And Social Norms (2000)), Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2001

Signaling Discount Rates: Law, Norms, And Economic Methodology (Reviewing Eric A. Posner, Law And Social Norms (2000)), Richard H. Mcadams

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Peonage And Contractual Liberty, Aziz Huq Jan 2001

Peonage And Contractual Liberty, Aziz Huq

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Naturalized Epistemology And The Law Of Evidence, Brian Leiter, Ronald J. Allen Jan 2001

Naturalized Epistemology And The Law Of Evidence, Brian Leiter, Ronald J. Allen

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Comment On Lempert On Posner, Richard A. Posner Jan 2001

Comment On Lempert On Posner, Richard A. Posner

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Cost-Benefit Analysis And Relative Position, Cass R. Sunstein, Robert H. Frank Jan 2001

Cost-Benefit Analysis And Relative Position, Cass R. Sunstein, Robert H. Frank

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Current estimates of regulatory benefits are too low and possibly far too low. This is because the standard economic approach to measuring costs and benefits, which attempts to estimate people's willingness to pay for various regulatory benefits, ignores a central point about valuation, thus producing numbers that systematically understate those benefits. Conventional estimates tell us the amount of income an individual, acting in isolation, would be willing to sacrifice in return for, say, an increase in safety on the job. But while these estimates are based on the implicit assumption that economic well-being depends only on absolute income, considerable evidence …


Cost-Benefit Default Principles, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2001

Cost-Benefit Default Principles, Cass R. Sunstein

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Human Behavior And The Law Of Work, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2001

Human Behavior And The Law Of Work, Cass R. Sunstein

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Is Cost-Benefit Analysis For Everyone?, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2001

Is Cost-Benefit Analysis For Everyone?, Cass R. Sunstein

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On Academic Fads And Fashions 2001 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law: Foreword, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2001

On Academic Fads And Fashions 2001 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law: Foreword, Cass R. Sunstein

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Statistics, Not Experts, Cass R. Sunstein, William Meadow Jan 2001

Statistics, Not Experts, Cass R. Sunstein, William Meadow

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Symposium: Legal Reasoning And Artificial Intelligence: How Computers Think Like Lawyers, Cass R. Sunstein, Kevin Ashley, Karl Branting, Howard Margolis Jan 2001

Symposium: Legal Reasoning And Artificial Intelligence: How Computers Think Like Lawyers, Cass R. Sunstein, Kevin Ashley, Karl Branting, Howard Margolis

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The Arithmetic Of Arsenic, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2001

The Arithmetic Of Arsenic, Cass R. Sunstein

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What does cost-benefit analysis mean, or do, in actual practice? When agencies engage in cost-benefit balancing, what are the interactions among law, science, and economics? This Article attempts to answer that question by exploring, in some detail, the controversy over the EPA's proposed regulation of arsenic in drinking water The largest finding is that often science can produce only "benefit ranges, " and wide ones at that. With reasonable assumptions based on the scientific data before the EPA at the time it made its initial decision, the proposed arsenic regulation can be projected to save as few as 0 lives …


Shifting The Paradigm In E-Commerce: Move Over Inherently Distinctive Trademarks, The E-Brand, I-Brand And Generic Domain Names Ascending To Power?, Xuan-Thao Nguyen Jan 2001

Shifting The Paradigm In E-Commerce: Move Over Inherently Distinctive Trademarks, The E-Brand, I-Brand And Generic Domain Names Ascending To Power?, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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“What's in a name!” laments Juliet at her Shakespearean balcony. Four hundred years later, in the world of e-commerce, Juliet's question would be “What's in a domain name?” After spending all of the Montague's wealth, Romeo might be able to respond, “Call me but love.com.” The price tag for some generic domain names cost a small fortune: Sex.com for $250 million, Business.com for $7.5 million, Broadband.com for $6 million, Loans.com for $3 million, Flu.com for $1.4 million, and Bingo.com for $1.1 million.

In 1995, Procter and Gamble registered hundreds of generic domain names and offered them for sale at auction …