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The Second Wave Of Comparative Law And Economics?, Ralf Michaels
The Second Wave Of Comparative Law And Economics?, Ralf Michaels
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Comment on a text by Gillian Hadfield, The Levers of Legal Design: Institutional Determinants of the Quality of Law, 36 Journal of Comparative Economics 43 (2008)
Political Parties In China’S Judiciary, Jonathan K. Ocko, Zhu Suli
Political Parties In China’S Judiciary, Jonathan K. Ocko, Zhu Suli
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Professor Suli delivered the Fifth Annual Herbert L. Bernstein Memorial Lecture in Comparative Law in 2006 and this article is based on his remarks, with a foreword by Jonathan Ocko. The article is included in the inaugural volume of CICLOPs thatcollects the first six Bernstein lectures. In responding to Sending Law to the Countryside, Professor Frank Upham levied a number of criticisms against Professor Zhu Suli’s book. Of particular importance was Upham’s criticism concerning a lack of attention to the role of politics and political power in the Chinese legal system. Suli finds this criticism to be extremely important because …
Contracts And Friendships, Ethan J. Leib
Contracts And Friendships, Ethan J. Leib
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This Article aims to give the relational theory of contract new life, sharpening some of its claims against its competitors by refracting its theory of relational contracts through an analogy to friendship. In drawing the analogy between friendships and relational contracts and revealing their morphological similarities, this Article offers a provocative window into friendship's contractual structure--and into relational contracts' approximation of friendships. The analogy developed here is poised to replace the “relational contract as marriage” model prevalent among relationalists. This new model is more honest to relational contract theory and to marriage--and helps relational contract theory produce some new insights, …
Teaching Business Lawyering In Law Schools: A Candid Assessment Of The Challenges And Some Suggestions For Moving Ahead, Eric J. Gouvin
Teaching Business Lawyering In Law Schools: A Candid Assessment Of The Challenges And Some Suggestions For Moving Ahead, Eric J. Gouvin
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As a result of several recent studies and changes in the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools, legal education is paying more attention to skills training for law students. The need to bring the skills and values of business lawyers into the classroom has never been greater, yet there remains a real risk that "skills training" may be skewed in favor of litgation skills, with little emphasis given to transactional practice. This Article assesses some of the obstacles that stand in the way of effective integration of transactional skills into the law school curriculum and offers some concrete suggestions …
Remembering Mary C. Daly: A Legal Ethicist Par Excellence, Bruce A. Green
Remembering Mary C. Daly: A Legal Ethicist Par Excellence, Bruce A. Green
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No abstract provided.
Teaching Transactional Skills In A Clinic, Robert Statchen, Serge Martinez
Teaching Transactional Skills In A Clinic, Robert Statchen, Serge Martinez
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In May 2008, the Center for Transactional Law and Practice at Emory University School of Law held a conference entitled “Teaching Drafting and Transactional Skills—The Basics and Beyond.” This Article reflects the Authors’ discussion of teaching drafting and transactional skills to law students in the context of a law school clinic.
"Death Is Different" And A Refugee's Right To Counsel, John Mills, Kristen M. Echemendia, Stephen Yale-Loehr
"Death Is Different" And A Refugee's Right To Counsel, John Mills, Kristen M. Echemendia, Stephen Yale-Loehr
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No abstract provided.
Legal And Managerial "Cultures" In Corporate Representation, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
Legal And Managerial "Cultures" In Corporate Representation, Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
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No abstract provided.
The Challenge Of Democratic Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli
The Challenge Of Democratic Lawyering, Ascanio Piomelli
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Lawyers Without Borders, Catherine A. Rogers
Lawyers Without Borders, Catherine A. Rogers
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Professional regulation of attorneys is still attempting to catch up with the burgeoning international legal profession, which until recently has been wholly unregulated. The primary effort has been through revisions to Model Rule 8.5 to extend the reach of the Rule to international cases and professional activities in foreign countries. Because Rule 8.5 was drafted for domestic multi-jurisdiction practice, however, it is based on assumptions about territoriality and the historical relationship between the jurisdiction of tribunals and the licensing of attorneys that are simply inapposite in international settings. As a result, applying Rule 8.5 to international tribunals and international advocacy …
2009 Survey Of Books Related To Women And The Law: Review: Locked Up, Overlooked: Women Behind Bars: The Crisis Of Women In The U.S. Prison System, Giovanna Shay
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The Author reviews journalist Silja Talvi’s Women Behind Bars: The Growing Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System (“Women Behind Bars”) which presents an engaging overview of issues affecting incarcerated women. It succinctly illustrates some of the important connections involving the War on Drugs, racial disparity, and the high rate of substance abuse and physical and sexual abuse among incarcerated women. Each of the chapters could be assigned on its own to a class or reading group. While Talvi states that she is not trying to write a scholarly book, as a contribution to public discourse, Women Behind Bars …
Locked Up, Overlooked: Women Behind Bars: The Crisis Of Women In The U.S. Prison System, Giovanna Shay
Locked Up, Overlooked: Women Behind Bars: The Crisis Of Women In The U.S. Prison System, Giovanna Shay
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Journalist Silja Talvi’s Women Behind Bars: The Growing Crisis of Women in the U.S. Prison System (“Women Behind Bars”) is an engaging overview of issues affecting incarcerated women. It succinctly illustrates some of the important connections involving the War on Drugs, racial disparity, and the high rate of substance abuse and physical and sexual abuse among incarcerated women. Each of the chapters could be assigned on its own to a class or reading group. While Talvi states that she is not trying to write a scholarly book, as a contribution to public discourse, Women Behind Bars furthers the goal of …
Foreword: Entrepreneurism In A Flat, Green, Cash-Strapped World, Eric J. Gouvin
Foreword: Entrepreneurism In A Flat, Green, Cash-Strapped World, Eric J. Gouvin
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On October 17, 2008, the Western New England College School of Law and School of Business jointly hosted the third annual Conference on Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development (Conference). The Conference was sponsored by the Western New England College Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship (Law and Business Center or Center) as one of its many educational outreach efforts and service projects. This issue of the Western New England Law Review provides a record of the Articles that were presented at the Conference. The Law and Business Center offers students an outstanding opportunity to apply, expand, and refine their …
Challenges And Opportunities For New Lawyers, David Nersessian, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Challenges And Opportunities For New Lawyers, David Nersessian, Maureen A. O'Rourke
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These are challenging times to be a lawyer. They may even be transformational times. Recent upheavals in financial, industrial and real estate markets have many lawyers (and clients) not only cutting back, but also fundamentally re-thinking their business models and the ways in which legal services are provided. Until very recently, hardly a day passed without news of law firm layoffs, deferred start dates, or canceled summer programs. In-house lawyers face substantial budget cuts at the very time their departments must navigate a broader range of legal and organizational challenges. And many government and public interest employers are dealing with …
Choice Of Law For Professional Responsibility Issues In Aggregate Litigation, Nancy J. Moore
Choice Of Law For Professional Responsibility Issues In Aggregate Litigation, Nancy J. Moore
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As the rest of the papers in this symposium issue demonstrate, aggregate litigationi raises difficult, often intractable choice-of-law issues for judges, as well as for litigants and their lawyers. Typically, judges must choose among rules governing not only substantive law, but also statutes of limitations, allocation of damages, and punitive damages. 2 What is less well-recognized is that aggregate litigation may also present difficult choice-of-law issues regarding the ethical conduct of the lawyers involved in these cases. So far, these issues have barely surfaced, not because professional responsibility questions have not been raised with respect to aggregate litigation, but rather …
A Tale Of Two Debtors: Bankruptcy Disparities By Race, Rory Van Loo
A Tale Of Two Debtors: Bankruptcy Disparities By Race, Rory Van Loo
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This article offers the first quantitative evidence on race and bankruptcy. Minority debtors fare worse overall in bankruptcy — blacks are 40% and Hispanics 43% less likely than whites to receive a discharge in Chapter 13 after controlling for variables such as education, income, and employment. While the data do not allow for causal inference, Chapter 13 trustees were twice as likely to have made a motion to dismiss even against black debtors who ultimately completed their multi-year bankruptcy plans than against similar white debtors. The paper also indicates that a lack of attorney representation by minority debtors may make …
The Electronic Lawyer, Richard L. Marcus
The Devil Made Me Do It: The Corporate Purchase Of Insurance, Victor P. Goldberg
The Devil Made Me Do It: The Corporate Purchase Of Insurance, Victor P. Goldberg
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Despite the fact that public corporations ought to be risk neutral, they often carry insurance. This note first considers why insurance (or more precisely, the package of services provided by insurance companies) might create value, regardless of the risk preferences of managers, shareholders, or other corporate stakeholders. One motive is that their contractual counterparties – buyers, lessors, and lenders – require that they carry insurance. Three explanations for why the requirement might be value enhancing are proposed.
Tales Of Two Regimes For Regulating Limited Liability Law Firms In The Us And Australia: Client Protection And Risk Management Lessons, Susan Saab Fortney
Tales Of Two Regimes For Regulating Limited Liability Law Firms In The Us And Australia: Client Protection And Risk Management Lessons, Susan Saab Fortney
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This essay contrasts the regimes that allow limited liability partnerships in the US and fully incorporated legal practices in Australia. The essay argues that Australia has taken advantage of an opportunity to develop innovative and necessary regulation of law firm ethical infrastructure with the introduction of incorporated legal practices, but the United States has not yet adequately addressed the consumer and ethical risks of limited liability partnerships. This essay raises the issue of whether Australia’s requirement that incorporated law firms should implement “appropriate management systems” to ensure ethical conduct is a model that could fruitfully be applied to all law …
Sanctioning The Ambulance Chaser, Anita Bernstein
Sanctioning The Ambulance Chaser, Anita Bernstein
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Punch Lines: Two Tales From A Law Student Intern's Summer In The City, Stacy Caplow
Punch Lines: Two Tales From A Law Student Intern's Summer In The City, Stacy Caplow
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(Presidential) Powers In The European Union, Daniela Caruso
(Presidential) Powers In The European Union, Daniela Caruso
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Presidential Powers and Functional Equivalence The comparative methodology embraced by Jenny Martinez, the first speaker on this panel, is functionalism - a traditional tool for comparative inquiries.' Functionalism starts from the pragmatic assumption that societies sharing similar values will perform identical tasks even if by means of different rules. Functionalism posits the possibility of comparing the relative success of such rules, and hence borrowing useful insights from analogous foreign experiences.2 Accordingly, Professor Martinez has identified functional common ground in various legal systems, analyzed the scope and substance of presidential powers in several European States, and skillfully compared the status of …
Proof Brief Of Professors Of Family Law And Jurisprudence As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellee, Joseph M. Barron, Richard T. Greenberg, Shannon Price Minter, Carlos A. Ball, Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Ann Laquer Estin, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Sarah H. Ramsey, Michael S. Wald
Proof Brief Of Professors Of Family Law And Jurisprudence As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellee, Joseph M. Barron, Richard T. Greenberg, Shannon Price Minter, Carlos A. Ball, Naomi Cahn, June Carbone, Ann Laquer Estin, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Sarah H. Ramsey, Michael S. Wald
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The plaintiffs in this case met their burden of demonstrating the irrationality of Iowa’s statutory exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. They did this, in part, by presenting social science research regarding the irrelevance of sexual orientation to parental ability and the psychological and social well-being of children raised by same-sex parents. In addition to arguing that the marriage exclusion is irrational, the plaintiffs also alleged that the exclusion should be subject to heightened scrutiny because it violates the fundamental right to marry and discriminates on the bases of gender and sexual orientation. Amici agree that the exclusion of same-sex …
Paternalism Or Protection?: Federal Review Of Tribal Economic Decisions In Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn, Barry W. Brandon, Philip N. Hogen, Vanya S. Hogen
Paternalism Or Protection?: Federal Review Of Tribal Economic Decisions In Indian Gaming, Kevin Washburn, Barry W. Brandon, Philip N. Hogen, Vanya S. Hogen
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In a recent Senate hearing, Senator John McCain and Professor Washburn clashed about the federal role in tribal economic decisions involving Indian gaming. Professor Washburn, who was struck by decades of incompetent federal stewardship of tribal trust funds demonstrated so painfully in the Cobell litigation, questioned the wisdom of the existing gaming regulatory structure in which federal officials at the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC) exercise oversight of tribal economic decisions involving tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Senator McCain sharply disagreed. Following his investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, McCain was even more certain that tribes needed federal protection …
Using Actual Legal Work To Teach Legal Research And Writing, Michael A. Millemann
Using Actual Legal Work To Teach Legal Research And Writing, Michael A. Millemann
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Legal research and writing (LRW) teachers should use actual legal work to teach their courses, including (indeed, especially) first-year courses. The legal work might come from a planned or ongoing lawsuit, transaction, or other matter. What is important is that it is real, although in my model, the teacher can add hypothetical features to customize the legal work to the particular LRW course. For example, in an appellate advocacy course, the teacher could present the legal issues arising out of a pretrial matter by summarily “deciding” them in a hypothetical trial court opinion, thus allowing the students to fully explore …
Professional Responsibility In Crisis, Douglas L. Colbert
Professional Responsibility In Crisis, Douglas L. Colbert
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Some rare, often catastrophic, events present in stark terms a need for careful reflection over the role of attorneys in our society and their ethical duties as members of the legal profession. The devastation caused by both Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 certainly falls within this category. Professor Colbert uses these events as a backdrop to examine the legal profession’s ethical obligation when crisis compromises the most basic elements of our system of justice. Acknowledging that numerous members of the bar and thousands of volunteer law students courageously stepped forward in those challenging …
Conversations On "Community Lawyering:" The Newest (Oldest) Wave In Clinical Legal Education, Karen Tokarz, Nancy L. Cook, Susan Brooks, Brenda Bratton Blom
Conversations On "Community Lawyering:" The Newest (Oldest) Wave In Clinical Legal Education, Karen Tokarz, Nancy L. Cook, Susan Brooks, Brenda Bratton Blom
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This Article explores the pedagogical and professional challenges and rewards of community lawyering and clinical legal education. The authors are clinical law faculty who self-identify as community lawyers and teachers of community lawyering clinics. They have gathered in recent years with a larger group of similarly engaged colleagues to discuss what is meant by community lawyering, how it is taught, and how it is practiced. This Article seeks to capture some of those conversations, crystallize some of the ideas that have arisen out of the discussions, and examine the implications of these ruminations for future directions in clinical legal education.
Privatization, Policy Paralysis, And The Poor, David A. Super
Privatization, Policy Paralysis, And The Poor, David A. Super
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No abstract provided.
Are Health Care Conflicts All That Different? A Contrarian View, Diane E. Hoffmann
Are Health Care Conflicts All That Different? A Contrarian View, Diane E. Hoffmann
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No abstract provided.
"Every Day And In Every Way, We Are Becoming Meta And Meta:" Or How Communitarian Bargaining Theory Conquered The World (Of Bargaining Theory), Robert J. Condlin
"Every Day And In Every Way, We Are Becoming Meta And Meta:" Or How Communitarian Bargaining Theory Conquered The World (Of Bargaining Theory), Robert J. Condlin
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Debate over the relative merits of communitarian and adversarial theories of dispute negotiation has pre-occupied legal bargaining scholarship for at least twenty years. Seen as a negotiation, this debate makes it clear that communitarians are by far the better bargainers. In a move one might think more characteristic of adversarial bargainers, communitarians changed the definition of bargaining effectiveness by reconstituting the world in which bargaining operates (the meta move of the title – in communitarian terms they “changed the game by changing the frame”), and in the process made adversarial bargaining obsolete. Many of the arguments and maneuvers used in …