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“Of Law And The River,” And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Paul D. Carrington, Peter W. Martin

Faculty Scholarship

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The Sound Of Silence: An Epistle On Prayer And The Constitution, Walter E. Dellinger Iii

Faculty Scholarship

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Training The Ethical Lawyer: A Rejoinder To Schneyer, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Changing The Rules Of The Game: The New Fcc Regulations On Political Debates, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Doctors On Trial: Steve Biko, Medical Ethics, And The Courts, Lawrence G. Baxter

Faculty Scholarship

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Joseph Story's Commentaries On The Constitution: A Belated Review, H. Jefferson Powell

Faculty Scholarship

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The Military Justice System And Command Accountability, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

The Long Commission, which investigated the terrorist bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, recommended punitive action against officers in the chain of command. The president, however, ruled out courts-martial. This article examines the concept of command accountability and the role of the military justice system.

Professional dereliction and incompetence have rarely been punished since World War II. . . . Failure to do so has bred an atmosphere of professional unaccountability that encourages, because it does not penalize, repetition of failure on the battlefield.

The Alaska Workers’ Compensation Law: Fact-Finding, Appellate Review, And The Presumption Of Compensability, Arthur Larson, John Lewis

Faculty Scholarship

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Ideals And Things: International Legal Scholarship And The Prison-House Of Language, James Boyle

Faculty Scholarship

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Recent Developments In Conflicts Of Law Notes, Michael M. Martin

Faculty Scholarship

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Sociological And Human Developmental Explanations Of Crime: Conflict Or Consensus , Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

This paper examines multidisciplinary correlates of delinquency in an attempt to integrate sociological and environmental theories of crime with human developmental and biological explanations of crime. Structural equation models are applied to assess links among biological, psychological, and environmental variables collected prospectively from birth through age 17 on a sample of 800 black children at high risk for learning and behavioral disorders. Results show that for both males and females, aggression and disciplinary problems in school during adolescence are the strongest predictors of repeat offense behavior. Whereas school achievement and family income and stability are also significant predictors of delinquency …

Trust Termination: Unborn, Living, And Dead Hands–Too Many Fingers In The Trust Pie, Gail Boreman Bird

Faculty Scholarship

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A New Service On The Texas Legal Horizon: Texas Supreme Court Index, James Hambleton, Jim Paulsen

Faculty Scholarship

Since the late 1950's the Texas Supreme Court Journal has been a mainstay of Texas lawyers, offering speedy copies of all supreme court opinions as well as writ dispositions. Though the Texas Supreme Court Journal is invaluable, it does have one major deficiency. Marian Boner's Reference Guide to Texas Law and Legal History puts the problem succinctly: "There is no cumulation, and the cases are not indexed."

A new publication, Texas Supreme Court Index+, is now making a creditable bid to fill that gap. A weekly service originating in Houston, the Index+ contains up-to-date data on the …

Antitrust: Fear Of Fairness, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

In December 1985, a comprehensive Reagan administration plan for both substantive and procedural reform of the antitrust laws was made public. Under the plan, the Justice Department's 1984 merger guidelines would be codified in the Clayton Act; restrictions on interlocking directorates would be relaxed; industries affected by imports could seek antitrust waivers as an alternative to tariffs or quotas; plaintiffs could be assessed attorneys' fees for filing frivolous antitrust suits; treble damages would be eliminated in many cases; and the full share of damages of settling defendants (instead of just the settlement amount) would be deducted from the damages available …

Limits To Attorney-Client Confidentiality: A Philosophically Informed And Comparative Approach To Medical And Legal Ethics, Nancy J. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

The proper limits to attorney-client confidentiality are hotly debated by lawyers and legal scholars. Various drafts of the proposed Model Rules of Professional Conduct have included controversial provisions which call for the disclosure of adverse evidence and client perury, as well as more liberal disclosure of completed and intended client wrongdoing than is currently permitted under the Model Code of Professional Responsibility. This Article takes a comparative approach to the problem, utilizing a body of philosophical literature which explores the principle of confidentiality in the physician-patient context This "philosophically informed" approach sets out an analytical framework in which the controversies …

Semiflexible Self-Avoiding Polymers, Rolfe G. Petschek

Faculty Scholarship

A simple two dimensional model for semiflexible polymers is discussed. A rigorous lower bound is obtained for the free energy and a rigorous upper bound is obtained for the energy. These bounds evaluated for infinite systems are shown to be in serious conflict with results obtained by a Monte Carlo simulation of a finite system.

The Intellectual Development Of The American Doctrine Of Judicial Review, Pnina Lahav

Faculty Scholarship

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Political Interference In Law School Clinical Programs: Reflections On Outside Interference And Academic Freedom, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Defining Filartiga: Characterizing International Torture Claims In United States Courts, James Paul George

Faculty Scholarship

Since the Nuremburg trials and the attendant worldwide reaction to Nazi attrocities, the world has taken an increasing interest in preventing government torture. Whenever legal fictions such as national borders and other sovereignty concepts have acted as barriers to torture prevention, the world has responded, slowly and incrementally, with new legal fictions to overcome those barriers. A recent case in a United States federal court, Filartiga v. Pena-Irala, is a significant new increment toward the prevention of torture and more generally the international protection of human rights. Filartiga holds that torture, long prohibited by virtually all nations' laws and …

Charting The Future Course For Corporate Management Of Health Risks, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

Corporations engage in technological activities of benefit to society, but thereby also create new health risks for workers, consumers, and communities. Government regulatory agencies deal with this chronic problem by conducting risk analyses and imposing various duties on private firms. Despite agency efforts and corporate compliance, health risks continue to arise and take their toll. To what extent will private firms voluntarily assume greater responsibility for preventing these health risks? This question is of increasing social importance, because the limitations of regulatory efforts are now obvious, whereas health risks are now being identified at what appears to be an increasing …

Redeployment Of Tax Expenditures For Housing, Alan L. Feld

Faculty Scholarship

This article assesses housing-related tax expenditures and evaluates some of the proposals for changes in these programs, so as to make better use of tax aids for housing.

The Right To Know And The Duty To Disclose Hazard Information, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

In late 1983, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated its final rule on "hazard communication." This rule establishes for many workers the right to know certain health hazard information held by their employers. Concurrently, the rule imposes on these employers the duty to disclose such privately held information. ^I

The OSHA rule is limited and late, and joins a crowded field. It follows in the wake of several decades of legal developments which have established various rights to know and duties to disclose. Since the latter part of the nineteenth century, state common law for personal injuries has …

Justification And Judicial Responsibility, David B. Lyons

Faculty Scholarship

These Centenary Lectures are devoted to the "tension between rule and policy" in adjudication. The charge to the lecturers suggests it is "naive" to suppose that "the proper function of a court is to apply an established rule of law to the dispute before it." This topic has been a focus of legal theory at least since Holmes delivered his famous lecture, "The Path of the Law"--nearly as long as law has been taught at the University of California. It merits our continuing study.

Psychosocial, Legal, And Ethical Dimensions Of Ultrasound Imaging In Pregnancy, Karen H. Rothenberg

Faculty Scholarship

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Rethinking Novotny In Light Of United Brotherhood Of Carpenters & Joiners V. Scott: The Scope And Constitutionally Permissible Periphery Of Section 1985 (3), Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

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The Equal Credit Opportunity Act's Spousal Cosignature Rules And Community Property States: Regulatory Haywire, Winnie F. Taylor

Faculty Scholarship

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From The Editor: On Legislative History Research, Richard A. Danner

Faculty Scholarship

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Solvency And Survival After The Boom—A Different Perspective, A. Kenneth Pye, John R. Kramer

Faculty Scholarship

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Value Creation By Business Lawyers: Legal Skills And Asset Pricing, Ronald J. Gilson

Faculty Scholarship

What do business lawyers really do? Embarrassingly enough, at a time when lawyers are criticized with increasing frequency as nonproductive actors in the economy, there seems to be no coherent answer. That is not, of course, to say that answers have not been offered; there are a number of familiar responses that we have all heard or, what is worse, that we have all offered at one time or another without really thinking very hard about them. The problem is that, for surprisingly similar reasons, none of them is very helpful.

Some Unwise Reflections About Discretion, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

In listening to discussions about discretion in the criminal process, one has the sense of sharply cut distinctions slipping toward a black hole in our language. All decisions by police, prosecutors, judges and jury are routinely called discretionary. This usage pervades respectable, basically sound papers. In a recent article in the Yale Law Journal, Goldstein and Marcus seek to demonstrate that discretion pervades the decisions of French, German and Italian prosecutors. They write: "Claims that prosecutorial discretion has been eliminated, or is supervised closely, are exaggerated. Discretion is exercised in each of the systems [French, German and Italian] for …