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Closing Impunity Gaps For The Crime Of Aggression, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Closing Impunity Gaps For The Crime Of Aggression, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
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As stated at Nuremberg, the crime of aggression is the “supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” International instruments clearly and repeatedly have outlawed initiating wars of aggression and other illegal uses of armed force. States parties recently have defined and codified the crime in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and delineated the scope of the ICC’s jurisdiction over aggression. Although the ICC is an important mechanism for accountability and justice, it is not certain when it will be able to adjudicate …
Ip Litigation In U.S. District Courts: 1994-2014, Matthew Sag
Ip Litigation In U.S. District Courts: 1994-2014, Matthew Sag
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This Article undertakes a broad-based empirical review of intellectual property ("IP") litigation in U.S. federal district courts from 1994 to 2014. Unlike the prior literature, this study analyzes federal copyright, patent, and trademark litigation trends as a unified whole. It undertakes a systematic analysis of the records of more than 190,000 cases filed in federal courts and examines the subject matter, geographical, and temporal variation within federal IP litigation over the last two decades.
This Article analyzes changes in the distribution of IP litigation over time and their regional distribution. The key findings of this Article stem from an attempt …
The Day Doctrine Died: Private Arbitration And The End Of Law, Myriam E. Gilles
The Day Doctrine Died: Private Arbitration And The End Of Law, Myriam E. Gilles
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This story begins in 1980, when a budding anti-lawsuit movement found an energetic champion in a new conservative President. Over time, the movement became a dominant feature of political life, as its narrative of activist judges, jackpot justice, and a thriving lawsuit industry stirred partisan passions. And yet, some thirty years on, it is clear that the primary legacy of the anti-lawsuit movement is the movement itself--not legislative achievements, which have been few and far between, but committed adherents, including future Supreme Court Justices, lower court judges, and business leaders.
Meanwhile, and also in the early 1980s, federal courts began …