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The Relationship Between Promise And Performance In State Intervention In Family Life, Peter L. Strauss, Millard L. Midonick, Nanette Dembitz, Harriet F. Pilpel, David J. Rothman

Faculty Scholarship

JUDGE MIDONICK: We have a fantastic representation of our alumni here and we've overdone our 10:00 starting time and we're supposed to stop at 12:00 promptly in order for us to go to the Low Memorial Library for lunch, for those who are having lunch with us. In order to be on time for this afternoon's extravaganza we really ought to begin now. You must understand this program is entirely unrehearsed and therefore will be more interesting. We have with us today a panel of four whom I will introduce as they are to speak. The first speaker will speak …

Medical Remedies And Human Rights: Why Civil Rights Lawyers Must Become Involved In Medical Decision-Making, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

As recently as the turn of the century a random patient meeting a random physician had less than a 50:50 chance of benefiting from the encounter. Physicians were just beginning to emerge from the era when they were essentially tradesmen, often with little more to offer their patients than comfort and company during illness and death. The principal causes of mortality were the infectious diseases against which the medical community stood impotent. There were few medical schools, few diagnostic tests, no specific treatment of disease, and no specialization of physicians. In the words of former AMA president Dwight L. Wilbur, …

Fairness And Utility In Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Fletcher challenges the traditional account of the development of tort doctrine as a shift from an unmoral standard of strict liability for directly causing harm to a moral standard based on fault. He then sets out two paradigms of liability to serve as constructs for understanding competing ideological viewpoints about the proper role of tort sanctions. He asserts that the paradigm of reciprocity, which looks only to the degree of risk imposed by the parties to a lawsuit on each other, and to the existence of possible excusing conditions, provides greater protection of individual interests than the paradigm of …

Legal Principles And The Limits Of Law, Joseph Raz

Faculty Scholarship

Most people tend unreflectively to assume that laws belong to legal systems. "Most educated people," writes H. L. A. Hart, "have the idea that the laws in England form some sort of system, and that in France or the United States or Soviet Russia and, indeed, in almost every part of the world which is thought of as a separate 'country' there are legal systems which are broadly similar in structure in spite of important differences." This includes for most people the assumption that laws differ from non-legal rules and principles. There are, for example, moral rules and principles, social …

Reflections On The Tax Legislative Process: Prelude To Reform, Michael J. Graetz

Faculty Scholarship

Tax reform is one of those motherhood issues-everybody's for it. Election year 1972 generated many far-reaching tax reform proposals which, if enacted, would have a profound impact on virtually every segment of American society. Senator McGovern recommended taxing capital gains at the same rates as ordinary income, eliminating almost $7 billion granted to businesses by reducing the investment tax credit and depreciation allowances, and offering state and local governments a 50 percent interest subsidy to encourage them to issue taxable, rather than tax-exempt, bonds. In addition, he proposed eliminating the percentage depletion allowance and the deduction for intangible drilling expenses …

Attempts To Monopolize-Specific Intent As Antitrust’S Ghost In Machine, Barry Hawk

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

First Two Volumes Of Holmes Devise History Of The United States Supreme Court Are Published, George C. Christie

Faculty Scholarship

Article focuses on review of the first volume of the Holmes Devise History, Julius Goebel, Jr., Antecedents and Beginnings to 1801 (1971)

Changing Concepts Of Private Property, Bertel M. Sparks

Faculty Scholarship

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Searching For The Intent Of The Framers Of Fourteenth Amendment , Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

IN 1946 JUSTICE HUGO BLACK DECLARED that one of the objects of the fourteenth amendment was to apply the Bill of Rights to the States. He was confident that an analysis of the intent of the framers of the amendment would support his assertion. A few years later the Supreme Court requested such an investigation, but when the analysis was made and the results presented to it, the Supreme Court concluded that the framers' intent could not be determined. The uncertainty surrounding the intent of the framers of the fourteenth amendment has had profound implications on the application of that …

Part Ii: Procedural Law - Evidence (1972), Frank W. Elliott

Faculty Scholarship

Although no really significant cases on the law of evidence were decided during the past year, there were several interesting developments dealing with impeachment by prior conviction, presumptions, the names of witnesses, and considerations on motions for summary judgment.

Traditional Criminal Procedure In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

In the decade 1955-1965 the Ethiopian government completely revolutionized its legal system by promulgating comprehensive legal codes and a new constitution. These laws have a predominantly Western flavor, and seem to bear little relation to the traditional patterns of life which still prevail in the Empire-one of the least "developed" areas of Africa. This state of affairs has led some to characterize the new codes as "fantasy law," which may serve to put a modern "face" on the country but, at least for some time to come, will not have any serious impact on the conduct of its affairs.

Common Sense And Conflict Of Laws: A Welcome Change, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

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Discovery In Agency Adjudication, Edward A. Tomlinson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Variable Annuities, Variable Insurance And Separate Accounts, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

The variable annuity is a novel retirement plan. It was devised to minimize the inadequacies of a fixed-dollar annuity as a retirement device. Inflation and an accelerating standard of living have left persons receiving fixed-dollar annuities with only a fraction of the income required to meet their needs.

Flights Of The Ant Formica Dakotensis Emery, Mary Talbot

Faculty Scholarship

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Marginal Cost Pricing, Investment Theory And Catv, Victor P. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

In his article, Marginal Cost Pricing, Investment Theory and CATV, James Ohls makes a number of erroneous assertions concerning the optimum pricing of CATV. Most of his problems stem from a failure to properly define the environment in which the optimum price is to be set and the role that an optimum price should play. If one alters Ohls' implicit (and sometimes contradictory) assumptions and if one keeps in mind the purpose prices should serve in an economic system, a number of Ohls' conclusions are altered.

Dean William C. Warren, Michael I. Sovern

Faculty Scholarship

It would be virtually impossible, even if I were to preempt this entire issue of the Columbia Law Review for the purpose, to document fully the monumental contributions William C. Warren made to the Law School during the seventeen years of his deanship. I can hope only to touch lightly upon them, leaving the reader to admire the foresight, the energy, the generosity of spirit, and the long hours of dedicated effort which enabled him to accomplish so much.

Bringing The Vagueness Doctrine On Campus, George A. Bermann, Ballard Jamieson Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Although students have traditionally paid little attention to university disciplinary codes, recent campus disturbances have given these codes unprecedented significance. Those subjected to disciplinary proceedings have charged, among other things, that the provisions which regulate their behavior are too vague to inform them of what they may and may not do. Arguing that a broadly-worded code of conduct is necessary to govern, university administrators, however, have refused to make their regulations more precise.

Part Ii: Procedural Law - Evidence (1971), Frank W. Elliott

Faculty Scholarship

During the year under review the cases of greatest significance for those who seek to remain abreast of current developments were those dealing with impeachment by prior conviction, presumptions, and hearsay evidence.

The Grand Jury As The New Inquisition, Michael E. Tigar, Madeline R. Levy

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Foreign Trade Regime In The Comecon Countries Today, Kazimierz Grzybowski

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Return To Jurisdictional Due Process: The Case For The Vanishing Defendant, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The War In Southeast Asia: A Legal Position Paper, Gordon G. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Securing Courtroom Decorum, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Decision Trees, Peter L. Strauss, Michael R. Topping

Faculty Scholarship

The object of this paper is to inform those concerned with the administration of justice in Ethiopia – particularly, criminal justice – about a new and simple procedure which may assist in procuring uniform interpretation and application of laws and regulations. The problem of uniform interpretation and application is particularly severe where, as in Ethiopia, new laws must be interpreted and applied by persons who have not yet had the opportunity of formal legal education. For these persons the discovery of the relevant code articles and the understanding of their interrelationships and application must be very difficult indeed. One possible …

Range Of Compensable Consequences In Workmen’S Compensation, Arthur Larson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Treating The Untreatable: A Critique Of The Proposed Pennsylvania Right To Treatment Law, Aaron Twerski

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Extemporaneous Comment, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

Well, I think today we have heard two ideas which are intuitive to the emerging role of the law school. One is Arthur Miller's idea of creating centers of policy analysis and the other is what several other speakers have suggested about interdisciplinary and clinical interdisciplinary programs. I would like to speak against the former and for the latter.

The Social Control Of Science And Technology, Michael S. Baram

Faculty Scholarship

Science and technology increasingly work changes in the complex matrix of society. These changes pervade our ecological systems and our physical and psychic health. Less perceptibly, they pervade our culture, our values, and our value based institutions such as the law. In turn, our values and institutions shape the progress and utilization of science and technology.

As we know, science and technology have provided society with enormous material benefits and a higher standard of living and health. But we now realize that this process has been accompanied by alarming rates of resource consumption and many new hazards to ecological systems …

Criminal Procedure For Juvenile Offenders In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this article is to set out, in summary fashion, the law concerning juvenile offenders in Ethiopia. Our focus will be on procedural rather than substantive aspects-insofar as it is possible to separate the two-and particularly upon the enforcement of constitutional guarantees in the process.