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Close Enough For Government Work: The Committee Rulemaking Game, Paul Stancil
Close Enough For Government Work: The Committee Rulemaking Game, Paul Stancil
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Procedural rules in U.S. courts often have predictable and systemic substantive consequences. Yet the vast majority of procedural rules are drafted, debated, and ultimately enacted by a committee rulemaking process substantially removed from significant legislative or executive supervision. This Article explores the dynamics of the committee rulemaking process through a game-theoretical lens. The model reveals that inferior players in the committee rulemaking game - advisory committees, the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, the Judicial Conference and the Supreme Court - are sometimes able to arbitrage Congressional transaction costs to obtain results at odds with the results Congress …
Justice Or Mercy?–A Personal Note On Defending The Guilty, Frederick Mark Gedicks
Justice Or Mercy?–A Personal Note On Defending The Guilty, Frederick Mark Gedicks
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