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Full-Text Articles in Law
Adapting Private Law For Climate Change Adaptation, Jim Rossi, J. B. Ruhl
Adapting Private Law For Climate Change Adaptation, Jim Rossi, J. B. Ruhl
Vanderbilt Law Review
The private law of torts, property, and contracts will and should play an important role in resolving disputes regarding how private individuals and entities respond to and manage the harms of climate change that cannot be avoided through mitigation (known in climate change policy dialogue as “adaptation”). While adaptation is commonly presented as a problem needing legislative solutions, this Article presents a novel and overdue case for private law to take climate adaptation seriously.
To date, the role of private law is a significant blind spot in scholarly discussions of climate adaptation. Litigation invoking common-law doctrines in climate adaption disputes …
Misreading Menetti: The Case Does Not Help You Avoid Liability For Your Own Fraud, Val D. Ricks
Misreading Menetti: The Case Does Not Help You Avoid Liability For Your Own Fraud, Val D. Ricks
St. Mary's Law Journal
Several decades ago, an incorrect legal idea surfaced in Texas jurisprudence: that business entity actors are immune from liability for fraud that they themselves commit, as if the entity is solely responsible. Though the Supreme Court of Texas has rejected that result several times, it keeps coming back. The most recent manifestation is as a construction of Texas’s unique veil-piercing statute. Many lawyers have suggested that this view of the veil-piercing statute originated in Menetti v. Chavers, a San Antonio Court of Appeals case decided in 1998. Menetti has in fact played a prominent role in the movement to …
The Internet Of Bodies, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
The Internet Of Bodies, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
William & Mary Law Review
This Article introduces the ongoing progression of the Internet of Things (IoT) into the Internet of Bodies (IoB)—a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the Internet and related technologies, such as artificial intelligence. IoB devices will evidence the same categories of legacy security flaws that have plagued IoT devices. However, unlike most IoT, IoB technologies will directly, physically harm human bodies—a set of harms courts, legislators, and regulators will deem worthy of legal redress. As such, IoB will herald the arrival of (some forms of) corporate software liability and a new legal …
Reason And Reasonableness: The Necessary Diversity Of The Common Law, Frederic G. Sourgens
Reason And Reasonableness: The Necessary Diversity Of The Common Law, Frederic G. Sourgens
Maine Law Review
This Article addresses the central concept of “reasonableness” in the common law and constitutional jurisprudence. On the basis of three examples, the common law of torts, the common law of contracts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, the Article notes that different areas of the law follow fundamentally inconsistent utilitarian, pragmatic, and formalist reasonableness paradigms. The significance of this diversity of reasonableness paradigms remains largely under-theorized. This Article submits that the diversity of reasonableness paradigms is a necessary feature of the common law. It theorizes that the utilitarian, pragmatic and formalistic paradigms are structural elements driving the common law norm-generation process. This …
Disentangling Choice Of Law For Torts And Contracts, Rick Kirgis
Disentangling Choice Of Law For Torts And Contracts, Rick Kirgis
Washington and Lee Law Review Online
In a federal system with state lines that are easily crossed, physically and electronically, legal disputes often raise choice-of-law issues. Common among those disputes are torts and contracts cases. The courts have taken a variety of approaches to these cases, leading to inconsistent results that depend largely on which forum the plaintiff selects. Judicial fairness and economy dictate, or should dictate, that the choice-of-law issues be resolvable consistently and without unnecessarily tying up the courts or imposing large litigation costs, if it can be done in a principled manner. This article shows how it could be done.
Celebrity Newsgathering And Privacy: The Transformation Of Breach Of Confidence In English Law, John D. Mccamus
Celebrity Newsgathering And Privacy: The Transformation Of Breach Of Confidence In English Law, John D. Mccamus
Akron Law Review
In recent years, a series of leading cases have returned to consider these questions. The implications of these decisions for the current shape of English law relating to civil redress for privacy invasion are the subject of this article. Surprisingly, perhaps, English courts have remained steadfast in their refusal to recognize invasion of privacy as a tort and in doing so have quite explicitly declined to rely on American experience in this area. Rather, English courts have preferred to resist innovation of this kind and leave the difficult question of privacy law reform to Parliament. On a number of recent …
Prosser's Bait-And-Switch: How Food Safety Was Sacrificed In The Battle For Tort's Empire, Denis W. Stearns
Prosser's Bait-And-Switch: How Food Safety Was Sacrificed In The Battle For Tort's Empire, Denis W. Stearns
Nevada Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Accrual Of Causes Of Action In Virginia, James W. Ellerman
Accrual Of Causes Of Action In Virginia, James W. Ellerman
University of Richmond Law Review
This article will examine major issues in Virginia law affecting the accrual of causes of action, specifically in the contexts of contract, tort, and property. In addition to surveying the basic accrual requirements for each area of law, this article will look more deeply into several specific issues that guide an accrual analysis particularly the distinction between causes and rights of action, as well as the continuous treatment, discovery, and economic loss rules.
Contract Law—The Collision Of Tort And Contract Law: Validity And Enforceability Of Exculpatory Clauses In Arkansas. Jordan V. Diamond Equipment, 2005 Wl 984513 (2005)., John G. Shram
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review
No abstract provided.
Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes
Remedies For Imperfect Transactions In Contracts And Torts, David W. Barnes
San Diego Law Review
The papers by Professors DeLong, Wonnell, and Kelly in this Symposium address different types of imperfect transactions. Promises that are the subject of section 90 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts are imperfect in the sense that they lack consideration or are disclaimed in subsequent, formalized, written contracts.' Section 90 authorizes courts to find remedies for reasonable but fruitless expenditures induced by parties who make promises on which they should reasonably expect others to rely.2 Professor DeLong decries courts' formalist strategies for enforcing disclaimers that eliminate these promisors' potential liability for intentionally imperfect transactions.' Taking Professor DeLong's analysis of imperfect …
Drowning In A Sea Of Contract: Application Of The Economic Loss Rule To Fraud And Negligent Misrepresentation Claims, R. Joseph Barton
Drowning In A Sea Of Contract: Application Of The Economic Loss Rule To Fraud And Negligent Misrepresentation Claims, R. Joseph Barton
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tort In A Contractual Matrix, John G. Fleming
Tort In A Contractual Matrix, John G. Fleming
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article addresses one aspect of the interface between tort and contract: the way tort law is affected, whether by extending or contracting its reach, by the parties coming together against a contractual structure. Two basic situations are considered. The first concerns the effect of a contractual limitation clause on the tort liability of, or to, a third party such as a subcontractor's to the building owner. The second considers what effect to attribute to a plaintiff's failure to protect himself or herself in advance by contracting against the risk
Morguard Investments Limited: Reforming Federalism From The Top, Peter Finkle, Simon Coakeley
Morguard Investments Limited: Reforming Federalism From The Top, Peter Finkle, Simon Coakeley
Dalhousie Law Journal
Nations are not only unified markets, but usually they are at least that. In most discussions about national unity, adequate account is taken of the importance of the free movement of goods, capital and people. Rarely, though, does the discussion encompass the necessity of legally assuring such movement in the domestic marketplace through the practical modality of secure remedies for breaches of obligations in contracts and tort. De Savoye v. Morguard Investments Ltd is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that considers the extent of jurisdiction that provincial courts may exercise and the associated concern with the …
Contracts: Allis-Chalmers V. Lueck: Exposing The Fatal Flaw In The "Christian Principle" Of Tort Liability For Breach Of Good Faith, Carolyn S. Smith
Contracts: Allis-Chalmers V. Lueck: Exposing The Fatal Flaw In The "Christian Principle" Of Tort Liability For Breach Of Good Faith, Carolyn S. Smith
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Contracts: Rodgers V. Tecumseh Bank: Re-Evaluating The Christian Principle Of Tort Liability For Breach Of Good Faith, Carolyn S. Smith
Contracts: Rodgers V. Tecumseh Bank: Re-Evaluating The Christian Principle Of Tort Liability For Breach Of Good Faith, Carolyn S. Smith
Oklahoma Law Review
No abstract provided.
Distributive And Paternalist Motives In Contract And Tort Law, With Special Reference To Compulsory Terms And Unequal Bargaining Power, Duncan Kennedy
Distributive And Paternalist Motives In Contract And Tort Law, With Special Reference To Compulsory Terms And Unequal Bargaining Power, Duncan Kennedy
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Agency -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Elvin E. Overton
Agency -- 1961 Tennessee Survey, Elvin E. Overton
Vanderbilt Law Review
The topic "agency" includes the areas of "master and servant" as well as those of "principal and agent." There were few cases in these areas decided by the Tennessee courts during the period under survey. Generally, basic principles were applied to routine cases.In certain instances the reliance upon a prior fact determination avoided the necessity of an elaborate treatment of the facts. In one or two cases the court reached a result that may not be deemed desirable though supported by much authority. Significant points received less attention than they deserved in certain cases. In one case the basic question …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Recent Cases
Conflict of Laws--Implied Warranties Governed by Law of the State Most Closely Associated with the Contract
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Constitutional Law--Due Process--Absolute Statutory Prohibition of the Use of Contraceptives Not a Violation of Rights Secured by Fourteenth Amendment
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Constitutional Law--Freedoms of Speech and Press--Ordinance Prohibiting Distribution of Handbills Without Identification of Author Violates Fourteenth Amendment
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Contracts--Termination--Employment for Indefinite Duration not Terminable for Refusal of Employee to Commit Perjury
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Evidence--Federal Courts--Evidence Obtained by State Officers Through Unreasonable Search and Seizure Inadmissible in Federal Courts
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Judgments--Limitation of Overruling Decision to Parties Before the Court and to Causes of …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Contracts--Ceiling Price Legislation--Effect upon Performance
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Evidence--Declarations against Interest--Third-Party Confessions
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Family Law--Loss of Consortium of the Parent--Right of Child to Recover Against a Negligent Defendant
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Federal Procedure--Statutory Construction--Meaning of "Mentally Incompetent"
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Income Taxation--Surrender of Lease--Capital Gain to Lessee
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Income Taxation--Taxable Stock Dividend--Treasury Stock Held for Investment
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Judgment--Suit to Vacate--Insufficient Allegations of Cruelty Void Divorce Decree
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Labor Law--Filing Requirements--Noncompliance at Time Charges Filed
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Municipal Corporations--Liability for Negligence--Operation of Swimming Pool for Profit
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Process--Constructive Service--Tort Action Arising Without State
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Torts--Res Ipsa Loquitur--Application To Disappearing Airplane
Claims Against The State In Tennessee -- The Board Of Claims, George H. Cate Jr.
Claims Against The State In Tennessee -- The Board Of Claims, George H. Cate Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The age-old doctrine of governmental immunity from suit seems gradually to be passing into the discard, first in the realm of contract liability, and of late in the field of torts. Recent years have seen its vitality substantially sapped by judicial decisions, and there is a distinct trend among governmental units to do away with it partially or entirely through legislation. Thus, England in the Crown Proceedings Act of 1947, the United States in the Federal Tort Claims Act, and many of the states by similar legislation have renounced their shield of immunity from suit and, by means more regularized …
Torts--Interference With Contracts To Marry, August W. Petroplus
Torts--Interference With Contracts To Marry, August W. Petroplus
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.