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Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure. Rule 55 – Default Judgement, Robert Bloom

Robert Bloom

No abstract provided.

Legal Methodologies For Maximizing Freedom Of Scientific Research, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

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Princípios-Tópicos De Hermenêutica Constitucional, Paulo Ferreira Da Cunha

Paulo Ferreira da Cunha

Houve tempo em que a Constituição servia para poisar ou charuto ou tirar um argumento político, como ironicamente afirmaria o grande escritor oitocentista Eça de Queiroz. Hoje a Constituição é a norma das normas. Daí há consequências hermenêuticas. Ao contrário das teorias que importam interpretação tradicional e, por vezes, em grande medida ultrapassada, para o Direito Constitucional, a tendência actual é a inversa: dada a supremacia da Constituição, deve ser a metodologia constitucional a exportar hermenêutica para o todo do Direito. Para isso, começamos neste artigo com grandes princípios de hermenêutica intra-constitucional. Depois se passará à exportação.

Lawyers And Great Expectations In Pakistan, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

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Don’T Tell, Don’T Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter And Gratz, Ian Ayres, Sydney Foster

Ian Ayres

The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger changed the meaning of “narrow tailoring.” While the narrow tailoring requirement has always had multiple dimensions, a central meaning has been that the government must use the smallest racial preference needed to achieve its compelling interest. We might have expected, therefore, that if the Court were to uphold one of the two programs at issue in Grutter and Gratz, it would, all other things being equal, uphold the program with smaller racial preferences. We show, however, that the preferences in the admissions program upheld in Grutter …

When Is Enough Too Much? The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act Of 2005 And The Eighth Amendment’S Prohibition On Excessive Fines, Amy Sanders

Amy Kristin Sanders

A New Era For Corporate Law: Using Corporate Governance Law To Benefit All Stakeholders, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Framing The Dialogue Between Secularists And Theists In The United States Today, Michael Scaperlanda

Michael A. Scaperlanda

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Does Due Process Have An Original Meaning? On Originalism, Due Process, Procedural Innovation . . . And Parking Tickets, Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal

Originalism – the view that constitutional provisions should be interpreted as they were “understood at the time of the law’s enactment” – is the ascendant method of constitutional interpretation. In particular, originalists argue that the Constitution's open-ended provisions should be interpreted in light of their generally understood legal meaning at the time of their framing. An originalist view of due process -- entitling civil and criminal defendants to those procedures considered "due" at the time of framing -- would accordingly condemn any number of innovations in criminal and civil procedures' that alter framing-era procedural rights, such as the novel systems …

Bioethics And Law In The United States: A Legal Process Perspective, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

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New Principles For Company Law, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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Reforming Federal Personal Injury Litigation By Incorporation Of The Procedural Innovations Of Scotland And Ireland: An Analysis And Proposal, Daniel H. Erskine

Daniel H. Erskine

Federal procedure has embraced the referral of civil cases outside the court system to alternative dispute resolution. This article argues that by utilizing courts to settle cases through civil procedure, courts realize their central role in ensuring the quality of settlements produced through the judicial administration of justice. The purpose of this article is to provide litigants an optional procedure to expeditiously resolve federal personal injury cases. The system proposed in this article incorporates Scottish and Irish civil procedural reforms into a coherent method for judicial officers to declare the settlement value of a personal injury action without referring the …

Holding Enemy Combatants In The Wake Of Hamdan, Ronald D. Rotunda

Ronald D. Rotunda

The article offers, inter alia, a succinct survey of the historical and jurisprudential background for the detainee cases and military commissions cases - including a number of important factual details glossed over in most reporting on the cases (e.g., Padilla has stipulated that he was an enemy spy sent to the United States; it was Hamdan's own defense counsel who had asked to exclude him from the voir dire portion of the proceedings) - as well as legal issues that may still arise.

Development And Problems Of Public Interest Litigation In Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis, Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali, Zafrin Andaleeb

Abu Noman Mohammad Atahar Ali

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Contratos De Ejecución De Obras Públicas Y Embargos Contra Las Cuentas Del Estado En Una Reciente Ejecutoria Superior. Una Interpretación Conforme A La Constitución, José Balcázar Quiroz

José Balcázar Quiroz

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Term Limits And Party Loyalty, Tom Campbell, Cameron Doolittle

Tom Campbell

No abstract provided.

Annual Analysis Report Of Supreme People’S Court (2006)【最高人民法院年度分析报告（2006）】, Meng Hou

Hou Meng

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Immigration Reform And The Family Structure, Michael Scaperlanda

Michael A. Scaperlanda

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El Recurso De Queja Y La Acción De Amparo Contra Resoluciones Judiciales. Crítica A Una Nueva Postura Jurisprudencial, José Balcázar Quiroz

José Balcázar Quiroz

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¿Qué Puedo Hacer Si El Padre De Mi Hija O Hijo No Quiere Reconocerlo? Análisis De Constitucionalidad De La Ley Nº 28457 Desde La Perspectiva De Género, Beatriz Ramirez

Beatriz Ramirez

El Futuro Del Enjuiciamiento Penal Argentino, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Advierte las consecuencias negativas del fallo Casal de la Corte Suprema sobre el sistema penal argentino y formula propuestas.

The End Of Nevada's Ban On Partisan Judicial Campaign Speeches, Tuan Samahon

Tuan Samahon

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In Defence Of The Supreme Court: A Conservative View, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

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The Supreme Court And The Hamiltonian Dilemma, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

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The Constitutionality Of The President To Hold Another Office Act, 2004: A View From India, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

No abstract provided.

Política Criminal Y Juicio Penal, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

The Migration Of Constitutional Ideas, Sujit Choudhry

Sujit Choudhry

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. The increasing use of comparative jurisprudence in interpreting constitutions is one example of this. In this 2007 book, leading figures in the study of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics from North America, Europe and Australia discuss the dynamic processes whereby constitutional systems influence each other. They explore basic methodological questions which have thus far received little attention, and examine the complex relationship between national and supranational constitutionalism - an issue of considerable contemporary interest in Europe. The migration of constitutional ideas is …

Epilogue, Randy Lee

Randy Lee

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Fighting For Equality, And Losing, Kent Greenfield

Kent Greenfield

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What Should We Celebrate On Constitution Day?, Alan Garfield

Alan E Garfield

Congress recently created a new national observance, Constitution Day, to be marked each year on September 17th. This observance presents a valuable opportunity for the vastly diverse American populace to celebrate its shared values. But what, exactly, should Americans celebrate about the Constitution? The Constitution’s text is hardly perfect, and judicial interpretations of the Constitution are themselves problematic. To identify what Americans should celebrate on Constitution Day, this article sets out to identify the Constitution’s core meaning for Americans. To do so, it first draws lessons from two contemporary Establishment Clause disputes (one over the teaching of intelligent design and …