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Tort Law As Corrective Justice: A Pragmatic Justification For Jury Adjudication, Catharine Pierce Wells Aug 1990

Tort Law As Corrective Justice: A Pragmatic Justification For Jury Adjudication, Catharine Pierce Wells

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this article is to develop a pragmatic analysis of corrective justice that will serve as a partial justification for current practices of tort adjudication. Part I discusses the concept of corrective justice and explores its relationship to the problem of justifying tort law. Part II argues that certain contemporary theories of corrective justice fail to provide an adequate basis for regarding individual tort outcomes as just. Part III develops a pragmatic account of corrective justice and argues that it accurately describes current practices of tort adjudication. Finally, Part IV argues that these practices are justified in the …


Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review Aug 1990

Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Subject Index of Articles, Comments, Notes, and Recent Developments Appearing in Leading Law Reviews


Realization, Recognition, Reconciliation, Rationality And The Structure Of The Federal Income Tax System, Patricia D. White Jun 1990

Realization, Recognition, Reconciliation, Rationality And The Structure Of The Federal Income Tax System, Patricia D. White

Michigan Law Review

There are a few structural requirements that are necessarily common to any tax system. In Part I of this article I examine those requirements. I show that by isolating the necessary structure of a tax system from its particular content or goals, we can better understand the role played within the federal system of certain of its most characteristic features. In particular, I trace the function of the realization requirement for the recognition of income and distinguish it from another sort of function that could lead to the recognition of income within an income tax system. This second function is …


Optimal Antitrust Penalties And Competitors' Injury, William H. Page Jun 1990

Optimal Antitrust Penalties And Competitors' Injury, William H. Page

Michigan Law Review

Herbert Hovenkamp's primary target in Antitrust's Protected Classes is the Chicago School's optimal deterrence model of antitrust penalties. Substantive antitrust rules are often overinclusive prohibiting practices even when they are efficient - in order to avoid the costs of error associated with a more case-specific rule. The optimal deterrence model attempts to correct for this overinclusiveness by setting the penalty for antitrust violations at a level just sufficient to deter only inefficient instances of the violation. The task is complicated by, among other things, the myriad effects antitrust offenses can have on economic actors: allocative inefficiencies and efficiencies (the losses …


Groping And Coping In The Shadow Of Murphy's Law: Bankruptcy Theory And The Elementary Economics Of Failure, James W. Bowers Jun 1990

Groping And Coping In The Shadow Of Murphy's Law: Bankruptcy Theory And The Elementary Economics Of Failure, James W. Bowers

Michigan Law Review

Part I briefly examines the conventional explanation for bankruptcy's defining characteristic, its default distributional rule. It concludes that the conventional explanation is insufficiently informative for us to tell whether the Bankruptcy Code (Code) is actually working or not. Part II argues that the only existing systematic attempt to explain bankruptcy law, the so-called "Creditors' Bargain" Theory, is inadequate for two reasons. First, the predictions it generates are belied by real-world events. Second, it is mistaken on theoretical grounds, primarily because it ignores how debtors are likely to manage their assets. Part III presents the Murphian theory of failing behavior, the …


Adequate Protection And Administrative Expense: Toward A Uniform System For Awarding Superpriorities, Julia A. Goatley Jun 1990

Adequate Protection And Administrative Expense: Toward A Uniform System For Awarding Superpriorities, Julia A. Goatley

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this Note reviews the legislative history of relevant Code sections and the Code language that pertain to the granting of adequate protection. Section 361 of the Code provides for three types of adequate protection. Sections 362, 363, and 364 set out instances when actions by the trustee that result in a decrease in the value of a secured party's interest require the provision of adequate protection. Finally, sections 503 and 507 designate circumstances when prepetition secured creditors are eligible to receive administrative expenses. Section 507(b) authorizes allowance of an administrative expense claim when the adequate protection provided …


Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review Jun 1990

Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Subject Index of Articles, Comments, Notes, and Recent Developments Appearing in Leading Law Reviews


Pure Politics, Girardeau A. Spann Jun 1990

Pure Politics, Girardeau A. Spann

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this article considers the impact that judicial discretion has on the traditional model of judicial review, and that model's reliance on the Supreme Court as the primary guardian of minority interests. Part II argues that the interests of racial minorities can be better advanced through the ordinary political process than through the process of Supreme Court adjudication. Part Ill emphasizes that minority participation in Supreme Court proceedings cannot ultimately be avoided and, accordingly, suggests a political model of the Court that minorities can use in an effort to neutralize the Court's distortion of the political process. Part …


Applying Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act To Single-Member Offices, Edward J. Sebold Jun 1990

Applying Section 2 Of The Voting Rights Act To Single-Member Offices, Edward J. Sebold

Michigan Law Review

This Note questions whether an exemption for single-member offices is justified. Part I provides a brief overview of the Voting Rights Act and the types of discrimination in the political process to which it applies., Part I then reviews the decisions on single-member offices, including the courts' attempts to define single-member offices. This Part concludes neither Congress nor the Supreme Court dictates an exemption for single-member offices. Instead, single-member offices should be open to challenge if they hamper the achievement of section 2's goals. Part II identifies the goals of section 2 by developing a number of theories to give …


Recent Books, Michigan Law Review Jun 1990

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review


A Republican Chief Justice, Mark V. Tushnet May 1990

A Republican Chief Justice, Mark V. Tushnet

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Justice Rehnquist and the Constitution by Sue Davis


Original Intent: "With Friends Like These…", Thomas Gibbs Gee May 1990

Original Intent: "With Friends Like These…", Thomas Gibbs Gee

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Original Intent and the Framer's Constitution by Leonard W. Levy


Political Consensus, Constitutional Formulae, And The Rationale For Judicial Review, Martin H. Redish May 1990

Political Consensus, Constitutional Formulae, And The Rationale For Judicial Review, Martin H. Redish

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutional Cultures; The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review by Robert Nagel


Moralistic Liberalism And Legal Moralism, Robert P. George May 1990

Moralistic Liberalism And Legal Moralism, Robert P. George

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Harmless Wrongdoing: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law by Joel Feinberg


In The Regulation Of Manmade Carcinogens, If Feasibility Analysis Is The Answer, What Is The Question?, Christopher H. Schroeder May 1990

In The Regulation Of Manmade Carcinogens, If Feasibility Analysis Is The Answer, What Is The Question?, Christopher H. Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Environmentally Induced Cancer and the Law by Frank B. Cross


Coup De Grace For Personal Injury Torts?, Alfred F. Conard May 1990

Coup De Grace For Personal Injury Torts?, Alfred F. Conard

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing Away with Personal Injury Law: New Compensation Mechanisms for Victims, Consumers and Business by Stephen D. Sugarman


Re-Vision Of The Bankruptcy System: New Images Of Individual Debtors, Karen Gross May 1990

Re-Vision Of The Bankruptcy System: New Images Of Individual Debtors, Karen Gross

Michigan Law Review

A Review of As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in American by Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrene Westbrook


The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued From The Politics Of State Courts, Matthew Harris May 1990

The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued From The Politics Of State Courts, Matthew Harris

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Product Liability Mess: How Business Can Be Rescued from the Politics of State Courts by Richard Neely


"Aliens Are Coming! Drain The Pool", John D. Ayer May 1990

"Aliens Are Coming! Drain The Pool", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish. And Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation by Richard A. Posner


Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese May 1990

Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Democracy and Its Critics by Robert A. Dahl


Happy Slaves: A Critique Of Consent Theory, Adam C. Sloane May 1990

Happy Slaves: A Critique Of Consent Theory, Adam C. Sloane

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theory by Don Herzog


Meanness As Racial Ideology, Derrick Bell May 1990

Meanness As Racial Ideology, Derrick Bell

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mutiny Trial in U.S. History by Robert L. Allen


The Ethics Of The "Unprofessional Profession", Gerald Caplan May 1990

The Ethics Of The "Unprofessional Profession", Gerald Caplan

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing by Edwin J. Delattre


Family Traits, Inga Markovits May 1990

Family Traits, Inga Markovits

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law and Family in the United States and Western Europe


Women And Contracts: No New Deal, Elizabeth S. Anderson May 1990

Women And Contracts: No New Deal, Elizabeth S. Anderson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman


Lawyer's Justice, William A. Edmundson May 1990

Lawyer's Justice, William A. Edmundson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study by David Luban, and The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers: Case Studies by Philip B. Heymann and Lance Liebman


Sociological Justice, Christopher M. Adams May 1990

Sociological Justice, Christopher M. Adams

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Sociological Justice by Donald Black


History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder May 1990

History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage


Why Holmes?, Mathias Reimann May 1990

Why Holmes?, Mathias Reimann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick


Economic Sanctions: A Look Back And A Look Ahead, Andreas F. Lowenfeld May 1990

Economic Sanctions: A Look Back And A Look Ahead, Andreas F. Lowenfeld

Michigan Law Review

A Review of International Economic Sanctions by Barry E. Carter