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Rediscovering Conservatism: Burkean Political Theory & Constitutional Interpretation, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

Recent decisions of the Rehnquist Court--particularly the Court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey--have caused many to question widely-held assumptions about the meaning of judicial conservatism. In this article, Ernest Young argues that the views of the modern judicial "conservatives" such as Judge Robert Bork and Justice Antonin Scalia are antithetical to classical conservative political theory, as exemplified by the writings and speeches of the eighteenth-century British philosopher/politician Edmund Burke. In particular, Mr. Young argues that strict adherence to the original understanding of the Constitution, judicial deference to democratic majorities, and formulation of legal directives as bright-line rules are …

A Fundamental Inquiry Into The Statutory Rulemaking Process Of Private Legislatures, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the private rulemaking proces under which uniform state laws are formulated. It suggests that deficiencies may arise from the failure of rulemakers to step back and ask fundamental questions about the consequences of the rules being proposed and sets forth a framework for asking these questions. As part of this framework, the Article identifies and explores the meaning of underlying statutory policies, such as consistency and fairness. Although the Article's focus is on private rulemaking, it's conclusions are shown to be relevent to public rulemaking and possibly even to judicial decisionmaking.

Are Juries Competent To Decide Liability In Tort Cases Involving Scientific/Medical Issues? Some Data From Medical Malpractice, Neil Vidmar

Faculty Scholarship

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Only Girls Wear Barrettes: Dress And Appearance Standards, Community Norms, And Workplace Equality, Katharine T. Bartlett

Faculty Scholarship

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Colorblind Remedies And The Intersectionality Of Oppression: Policy Arguments Masquerading As Moral Claims, Jerome M. Culp

Faculty Scholarship

One of the myths we tell children and law students is that the law is or can be colorblind.

Document Delivery In The 1990s And Beyond, Richard A. Danner

Faculty Scholarship

The role of document delivery services in research libraries is a major topic of discussion among librarians in both Canada and the Unitd States.

Do You Have The Right To Remain Silent?: Duties Of Disclosure In Buisness Transactions, Deborah A. Demott

Faculty Scholarship

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An Analysis Of Mass Torts For Judges, Francis Mcgovern

Faculty Scholarship

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The Separation Of The Religious And The Secular: A Foundational Challenge To First Amendment Theory, Laura S. Underkuffler

Faculty Scholarship

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Fiduciary Preludes: Likely Issues For Llcs, Deborah A. Demott

Faculty Scholarship

This article examines selected circumstances likely to give rise to claims of breach of fiduciary duty in the organizational brave new world of the limited liability company ("LLC") and explores likely resolutions under a number of LLC statutory regimes. For purposes of comparison, the article draws on patterns of dispute that are common in the older organizational forms that limited liability companies may supersede, specifically general and limited partnerships and closely held corporations. The article is not comprehensive in its treatment; it concentrates on circumstances that test the force of norms and illustrate interrelationships among bodies of legal doctrine. Despite …

Why Cases Under The Guarantee Clause Should Be Justiciable, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Truth In Savings And The Failure Of Legislative Methodology, Eric J. Gouvin

Faculty Scholarship

The federal Truth in Savings Act (Truth in Savings) provides one example of failed legislative problem solving. On its face, Truth in Savings is a congressional attempt to solve constituents' problems. The statute, however, appears unlikely to resolve the issues presented to Congress and may even create new and unintended problems that will make matters worse. Truth in Savings, like many other legislative efforts, fails adequately to address constituents' problems because the methodology employed by legislative drafters suffers from a fundamental flaw - it has no built-in mechanism to define rigorously the problem being addressed. Without first identifying the problem, …

Representing The Lesbian In Law And Literature, Anne B. Goldstein

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay addresses the question "what is involved in representing a lesbian? in two contexts, law and literature. Its premise is that the work of novelists is enough like the work of lawyers that lawyers can learn how to represent lesbian clients better by studying books with lesbian characters. This is a preliminary, anecdotal, and impressionistic effort. The Author relies upon several systematic surveys of the field and her seven years' experience as a litigator and eight years' further reading and reflection about the problems and strategies of representing lesbians.

The Essay begins by exploring the general problem of representing …

The World Trading System, Jagdish N. Bhagwati

Faculty Scholarship

The Uruguay Round is closing this week after a marathon of negotiations stretching well over seven years; so the timing of this panel is exquisite, from my viewpoint. The ceremony, besides, is in Marrakech, an exotic place that sets our minds racing with thoughts of "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Indeed, one can imagine a movie being made of this historic occasion that will transform the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GAIT) into the World Trade Organization (WTO), with Peter Ustinov cast as Peter Sutherland, the brilliant and portly new director general of the GAIT who finally brought …

Surveying The Borders Of Copyright, Jane C. Ginsburg

Faculty Scholarship

The copyright course I teach at Columbia Law School begins with a survey of what copyright is not: it is not a patent, a trademark, or an object of physical property. Nor, as the course examines a little later on, does copyright protect every object of economic value whose worth might be further enhanced were it to be shielded from unauthorized copying. However, the frontiers between copyright and mere commercial value have never been well defined. Not only may the same item be simultaneously the object of copyright and of other legal rights, but copyright increasingly covers – or is …

Of Laws And Men: An Essay On Justice Marshall's View Of Criminal Procedure, Daniel C. Richman, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

As a general rule, criminal defendants whose cases made it to the Supreme Court between 1967 and 1991 must have thought that, as long as Justice Thurgood Marshall occupied one of the nine seats, they had one vote for sure. And Justice Marshall rarely disappointed them – certainly not in cases of any broad constitutional significance. From his votes and opinions, particularly his dissents, many were quick to conclude that the Justice was another of those "bleeding heart liberals," hostile to the mission of law enforcement officers and ready to overlook the gravity of the crimes of which the defendants …

Nationalism And Internationalism: The Wilsonian Legacy, Lori Fisler Damrosch

Faculty Scholarship

No twentieth-century leader has had greater influence on the parallel development of both nationalism and internationalism than Woodrow Wilson. Wilson gave expression to the nationalist aspirations of peoples around the world, through is endorsement of the principle of self-determination. He also initiated the first institution that had as its objective the organization of the international community to apply concerted power in support of universal values. My task is to examine one contemporary problem – intervention – in the light of some of the themes implicit in the Wilsonian legacy. Among these themes will be the establishment (and now the invigoration) …

Insider Trading Deterrence Versus Managerial Incentives: A Unified Theory Of Section 16(B), Merritt B. Fox

Faculty Scholarship

Part I of this article assesses the social costs of a crude rule of thumb. Because section 16(b) applies to a given class of paired transactions, it deters both transactions based on inside information and transactions not so based. Each time section 16(b) is stretched to include a class of paired transactions, it deters some additional innocent transactions. This side effect will take the form of officers' and directors' purchasing fewer shares in their own companies and refusing to accept as large a portion of their compensation in a form based on share price. There are strong theoretical and empirical …

The Sec And The Institutional Investor: A Half-Time Report, John C. Coffee Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

Nothing that the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") has done in recent years has been as controversial or significant as its efforts to reform the proxy rules to permit greater communication among shareholders. Nothing that it has undertaken recently has also been left as incompletely or equivocally realized as these same efforts. That the SEC's efforts at facilitating shareholder communication have been controversial and significant is by now a commonplace observation. That they are incomplete and equivocal requires more explanation. Although the discovery that an agency is behaving inconsistently is hardly a revelation, more than politics appears to be at …

Reply To Professor Brewbaker, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Brewbaker's thoughtful article on physician price controls raises many issues, large and small. Some – such as the relative merits of the regulatory takings standard and the fair return standard – have been dealt with in my principal article and I will not revisit them here. I will instead address four arguments advanced by Professor Brewbaker that are not anticipated in my article: (1) that the Constitution should not apply to physician price controls because physicians can fend for themselves in the political process; (2) that applying the Takings Clause to physician price controls would be tantamount to reviving …

Constitutional Limits On Physician Price Control, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

Proposals for the reform of the nation's health care system have highlighted the issue of rising health care costs. Concern about rising costs, in tum, has led to talk of imposing price controls on health care providers. Economists and other experts have condemned price controls as a way to control rising health care costs. They argue that price controls do nothing to alleviate the underlying causes of inflation; instead, price controls merely postpone or redirect price increases, and in the process introduce allocational distortions and inefficiencies. This Article will not elaborate on the policy arguments for or against medical price …

Sameness And Subordination: The Dangers Of A Universal Solution, Susan P. Sturm

Faculty Scholarship

Judges, Behavioral Scientists, and the Demands of Humanity grapples with one of the most pressing and difficult challenges of our time – how to overcome deep and enduring conflicts that currently divide our community. Professor Burt offers insights into the importance of empathy and identification in breaking down the categories that we use to distance ourselves from the humanity of others and to justify oppression of those we define as outsiders. His solution is hopeful, almost noble. He exhorts judges, social scientists, and by implication, all of us to be our best selves, to focus on how we are part …

Contract Renegotiation, Mechanism Design, And The Liquidated Damages Rule, Eric L. Talley

Faculty Scholarship

The common law practice of refusing to enforce contractual penalties has long mystified law and economics scholars. After critiquing the prevailing law and economics analyses of the common law rule, Eric L. Talley reevaluates the penalty doctrine using the game theoretic technique of mechanism design, which facilitates the analysis of multiparty bargaining situations under various assumptions. Using this technique to model the allocational consequences of various enforcement regimes that courts might adopt with respect to stipulated damages clauses, Mr. Talley finds that penalty nonenforcement can increase economic efficiency by discouraging strategic behavior by the parties, thereby inducing more efficient contract …

Chief Justice Roger Traynor And The United States Supreme Court: Contrasting Approaches To Search And Seizure, Gordon Van Kessel

Faculty Scholarship

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The Summons Power And Tax Court Discovery: A Different Perspective, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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Of Michelangelo And Roscoe Barrow, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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Taxes, Morals, And Legitimacy, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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Efficiency As Equity: Insights From Comparative Law And Economics, Ugo Mattei

Faculty Scholarship

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Why The Wind Changed: Intellectual Leadership In Western Law, Ugo Mattei

Faculty Scholarship

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Irreconcilable Differences? Divorcing Refugee Protections From Human Rights Norms, Karen Musalo

Faculty Scholarship

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