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Twenty Years After Krieger V Law Society Of Alberta: Law Society Discipline Of Crown Prosecutors And Government Lawyers, Andrew Flavelle Martin
Twenty Years After Krieger V Law Society Of Alberta: Law Society Discipline Of Crown Prosecutors And Government Lawyers, Andrew Flavelle Martin
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Krieger v. Law Society of Alberta held that provincial and territorial law societies have disciplinary jurisdiction over Crown prosecutors for conduct outside of prosecutorial discretion. The reasoning in Krieger would also apply to government lawyers. The apparent consensus is that law societies rarely exercise that jurisdiction. But in those rare instances, what conduct do Canadian law societies discipline Crown prosecutors and government lawyers for? In this article, I canvass reported disciplinary decisions to demonstrate that, while law societies sometimes discipline Crown prosecutors for violations unique to those lawyers, they often do so for violations applicable to all lawyers — particularly …
Section 25(6) Of The Judicature Act 1873: A ‘Procedural’ Approach, Chee Ho Tham
Section 25(6) Of The Judicature Act 1873: A ‘Procedural’ Approach, Chee Ho Tham
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Section 25(6) was re-enacted as section 136(1), replacing the law French ‘chose in action’ with the more Anglo-Saxon ‘thing in action’, together with other minor differences, but to no substantial effect. Largely unchanged, the construct now found in section 136(1) has been part of English law for 150 years. However, understanding what section 136(1) does, and how it does it, remains muddled. On the one hand, given Lord Macnaghten’s pointed observation in William Brandt’s Sons v Dunlop Rubber that, ‘[section 25(6)] does not forbid or destroy equitable assignments or impair their efficacy in the slightest degree’, Smith & Leslie takes …
Why Indiana Harbor Is The Worst Torts Decision In American History, Carl T. Bogus
Why Indiana Harbor Is The Worst Torts Decision In American History, Carl T. Bogus
Law Faculty Scholarship
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Tort Theory And The Restatement, In Retrospect, Keith N. Hylton
Tort Theory And The Restatement, In Retrospect, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
This is my third paper on the Restatement (Third) of Torts. In my first paper, The Theory of Tort Doctrine and the Restatement (Third) of Torts, I offered a positive economic theory of the tort doctrine that had been presented in the Restatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles, and also an optimistic vision of how positive theoretical analysis could be integrated with the Restatement project. In my second paper, The Economics of the Restatement and of the Common Law, I set out the utilitarian-economic theory of how the common law litigation process could generate optimal (efficient, wealth-maximizing) rules and compared …
Laws Governing Restrictions On Charitable Gifts: The Consequences Of Codification, Nancy Mclaughlin
Laws Governing Restrictions On Charitable Gifts: The Consequences Of Codification, Nancy Mclaughlin
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
Over the last two decades we have seen marked changes in the laws governing donor-imposed restrictions on charitable gifts. These changes have occurred primarily as a result of the adoption in many states of the Uniform Trust Code (the UTC) and the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA). This Essay explains that codification in the UTC and UPMIFA of liberalized versions of cy pres and deviation, as well as other related changes to the common law, have had unintended negative consequences. Those negative consequences include a lack of coherence in the law, an elevation of form over substance …
Transition-Denial And Structural Adjustment: Causation And Culpability In The Cuban Economy Culpability In The Cuban Economy, Jose Gabilondo
Transition-Denial And Structural Adjustment: Causation And Culpability In The Cuban Economy Culpability In The Cuban Economy, Jose Gabilondo
Faculty Publications
In 2020, Cuba implemented the Tarea Ordenamiento (Tarea), the most significant economic reform since the construction of the socialist economy after the Revolution. Signaling an eclectic brand of Cuban socialism, the Tarea clears away three decades of tried and failed economic doctrines, drawing a new fiscal border around state enterprises, nodding to market realities, and preparing the island for greater insertion into the world economy. While the political economy of post-Castro Cuba has changed in this way, the United States continues to subject the island to an unprecedented program of unilateral sanctions, universally condemned as a breach of human rights, …
By Any Other Name, Shay Elbaum
By Any Other Name, Shay Elbaum
Law Librarian Scholarship
The use of names to refer to individuals is probably as old as language itself, but many features of naming in the United States are much newer. For the most part, our naming laws and norms derive from England, where the use of surnames, for example, can be traced back to the Norman conquest and did not become a common practice until the 13th or 14th century. The idea of a surname as a family name, permanent and hereditary, is even newer.
The common law method of changing one’s name — simply using a different name, for non-fraudulent purposes — …
Idaho's Law Of Seduction, Michael L. Smith
Idaho's Law Of Seduction, Michael L. Smith
Faculty Articles
Seduction is a historical cause of action that permitted women's fathers to bring suit on their daughters' behalf in sexual assault and rape cases. This tort emerged long ago when the law's refusal to recognize women's agency left this as the only means of recovering damages in these cases. As time went on, the tort evolved, and women were eventually permitted to bring lawsuits for seduction on their own behalf. Today, most states have abolished seduction, along with other torts permitting recovery for damages arising from intimate conduct. One could be easily forgiven for thinking that such an archaic tort …
Is, Ought, And The Limited Competence Of Experts, Adam J. Macleod
Is, Ought, And The Limited Competence Of Experts, Adam J. Macleod
Faculty Articles
The moral innovators whom C. S. Lewis criticized in The Abolition of Man supposed that they could draw imperatives out of their superior understanding of sentiment and instinct. They assumed that to know what human beings want to do is to know what human beings should do. But people want to do all sorts of things that are irrational, pointless, harmful, and even downright evil. And people want inconsistent things. So the innovators are incoherent. As Lewis correctly affirmed, no amount of knowledge about nature or the world is sufficient by itself to direct us to do what is good …
Misreading Campbell: Lessons For Warhol, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Peter S. Menell
Misreading Campbell: Lessons For Warhol, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Peter S. Menell
Faculty Scholarship
In Andy Warhol Foundation (AWF) v. Goldsmith, the Supreme Court is set to revisit its most salient fair use precedent that introduced the idea of a “transformative use.” Purporting to rely on the Court’s adoption of “transformative use” as a way of understanding the fair use doctrine in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., many lower courts, including the district court below, have effectively substituted an amorphous “transformativeness” inquiry for the full statutory framework and factors that Congress and Campbell prescribe. At the oral argument in AWF, the Justices focused on how the transformativeness of a work might …
The New Public Nuisance: Illegitimate And Dysfunctional, Thomas W. Merrill
The New Public Nuisance: Illegitimate And Dysfunctional, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
Leslie Kendrick’s defense of the new public nuisance fails to come to terms with legitimacy objections to such actions based on the rule of law and norms of democratic accountability. Nor is the new public nuisance a “second best” solution to widespread social problems. These actions rest on joint ventures between prosecutors and personal-injury lawyers that are likely to generate over- and under-deterrence and risk runaway liability.
Cardozo And Uncertainty In The Common Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Cardozo And Uncertainty In The Common Law, Shyamkrishna Balganesh
Faculty Scholarship
Benjamin Cardozo’s The Nature of the Judicial Process is best understood as one of the most successful contributions to this category of work defending the common law on the basis of its process. In the book, Cardozo offers a spirited and principled defense of the judicial process, all in an effort to highlight the manner in which judges manage the seemingly pervasive uncertainty of the common law method in the discharge of their duties. All the same, it is obvious that he considered the project to be necessarily incomplete. Just a few years after the publication of the Judicial Process …