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The Impossibility Of A Prescriptive Paretian, Robert C. Hockett
The Impossibility Of A Prescriptive Paretian, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Most normatively oriented economists appear to be “welfarist” and Paretian to one degree or another: They deem responsiveness to individual preferences, and satisfaction of one or more of the Pareto criteria, to be a desirable attribute of any social welfare function. I show that no strictly “welfarist” or Paretian social welfare function can be normatively prescriptive. Economists who prescribe must embrace at least one value apart from or additional to “welfarism” and Paretianism, and in fact will do best to dispense with Pareto entirely.
Religious Exemptions And The Common Good: A Reply To Professor Carmella, Laura S. Underkuffler
Religious Exemptions And The Common Good: A Reply To Professor Carmella, Laura S. Underkuffler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Moral Judgment And Professional Legitimation, W. Bradley Wendel
Moral Judgment And Professional Legitimation, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In this essay I would like to consider the nature of the role of lawyers from the point of view of both jurisprudence and the sociology of professions. From this perspective it is apparent that the judgment characteristic of lawyers' expertise is not primarily the exercise of ethical discretion. Rather, it is the application of legal norms, which may incorporate moral principles by reference, but which are analytically distinct from morality. The task of legal education, and specifically of legal ethics education, might include training lawyers to be better at making moral judgments. In fact, there has been a fairly …
Neutral Citation, Court Web Sites, And Access To Authoritative Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Neutral Citation, Court Web Sites, And Access To Authoritative Case Law, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In 1994, the Wisconsin Bar and the Wisconsin Judicial Council together urged the state’s supreme court to take two dramatic steps with the combined aim of improving access to state case law: adopt a new system of neutral format citation and establish a digital archive of decisions directly available to all publishers and the public. The recommendations set off a firestorm, and the court deferred decision on the package. In the dozen or so years since those events, the background conditions have shifted dramatically. Neutral format citation has been endorsed by AALL and the ABA and formally adopted in a …
On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin
On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The phrase "transitional justice" has had an amazingly successful career at an early age. Popularized as an academic concept in the early 1990s in the aftermath of apartheid's collapse in South Africa, the phrase quickly gained traction in a variety of global contexts, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. A sizeable literature has been generated around it, so much so that one might even call it a sub-discipline with inter-disciplinary qualities. Nonetheless, the concept remains an enigma. It defines the contours of an entire field of intellectual inquiry, yet at the same time it hides more than it illuminates. …
Evidence Of The Need For Aggregate Litigation, Theodore Eisenberg
Evidence Of The Need For Aggregate Litigation, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In the experimental game designed by GÜTH et al. [2007], player 1 has promised to render a service to player 2. Player 1 either invests proper effort or shirks and performance may succeed or fail depending on random fluctuation. When player 1 fails to invest proper effort, and performance occurs or not through luck, player 2 must decide whether to punish player 1’s nonperformance. When the transaction fails, punishment may be sought through suing. When the transaction fails, player 2 may seek revenge or punishment though doing so incurs costs to player 2. The game’s design resembles civil enforcement rather …
Transparency And Textuality: Wilkie Collins' Law Books, Bernadette A. Meyler
Transparency And Textuality: Wilkie Collins' Law Books, Bernadette A. Meyler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This article takes as its starting point the priority that Anglo-American legal thought has, in recent centuries, placed upon transparency, a priority that has relied, in large part, on the notion that the law should increasingly be recorded and publicly accessible. Through his representation of trial narratives - an extremely popular quasi-literary form during the nineteenth century - as well as the work of William Blackstone in his supposedly comprehensive Commentaries on the Laws of England, nineteenth-century novelist Wilkie Collins calls into question the idea that simply disseminating textual versions of the law or the records of legal processes will …
Social Science And Legal Policy: The Case Of Heterosexual Cohabitation, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Social Science And Legal Policy: The Case Of Heterosexual Cohabitation, Cynthia Grant Bowman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The rate at which people live together in unmarried unions has increased enormously in recent decades, making this one of the remarkable social changes of our era. The response to this change in the law review literature has been inadequate. Recent articles about cohabitation have argued simply that the institution of marriage is better than cohabitation for both the couple and their children, and the law should therefore be structured so as to discourage this conduct, because to give legal protections to cohabitants will harm the institution of marriage. This article explores the findings of social scientists about cohabitation and …
Legal Change, Gerald Torres
Legal Change, Gerald Torres
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The "demos" in demosprudence is meant to refer to those people who are collectively mobilized to make change. Demosprudence is not "the community" at the micro level. Nor is it the "'polity" writ large whether it acts through representative decision-making or voting in referenda and initiatives. It is not the theory or practice of a riot or a lynch mob. Nor is it the study of elections, whether for representatives or referenda. It is the theory and philosophy of legal meaning making through popular mobilization that engages a "thick" form of participation by people who are pushing for change by …
Economic Emergency And The Rule Of Law, Bernadette Meyler
Economic Emergency And The Rule Of Law, Bernadette Meyler
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Academic work extolling the merits of the "rule of law" both domestically and internationally abounds today, yet the meanings of the phrase itself seem to proliferate. Two of the most prominent contexts in which rule of law rhetoric appears are those of economic development and states of emergency. In the area of private law, dissemination of the rule of law across the globe and, in particular, among emerging market countries is often deemed a prerequisite for enhancing economic development, partly because it ensures that foreign investments will not be summarily expropriated and that contractual rights will not be frustrated by …