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No Link: The Jury And The Origins Of The Confrontation Right And The Hearsay Rule, Richard D. Friedman
No Link: The Jury And The Origins Of The Confrontation Right And The Hearsay Rule, Richard D. Friedman
Book Chapters
The rule against hearsay has long been one of the most distinctive elements of the common law of evidence, and indeed— except for recent changes on the civil side in many jurisdictions— of the common law system of trial. Observers have long believed that the rule, like most of the other exclusionary rules of the common law of evidence, is "the child of the jury system". Though Edmund Morgan argued vigorously to the contrary, the received understanding is that the jury's inability to account satisfactorily for the defects of hearsay explains the rule. A famous, and perhaps seminal, expression of …
Toward A Jurisprudence Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Michael Abramowicz
Toward A Jurisprudence Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Michael Abramowicz
Michigan Law Review
In 1989, Cass Sunstein published an article entitled On the Costs and Benefits of Aggressive Judicial Review of Agency Action. Sunstein apparently meant the words "costs" and "benefits" in an informal sense, as the article considered the advantages and disadvantages of aggressive judicial review without pretense of explicit quantification. That article was several generations ago in Sunstein scholarship, almost 100 articles and over a dozen books. The central concerns of that article, however, are relevant to an assessment of Sunstein's latest book, whose title, The Cost-Benefit State, uses the words "costs" and "benefits" as labels for quantitative assessments of the …