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Full-Text Articles in Law
1995 Consumer Legislative Digest, California Department Of Consumer Affairs
1995 Consumer Legislative Digest, California Department Of Consumer Affairs
California Agencies
No abstract provided.
The Limited Relevance Of Plain Meaning, Stephen F. Ross
The Limited Relevance Of Plain Meaning, Stephen F. Ross
Journal Articles
In this essay, the author takes the position that linguists' principal expertise - ascertaining how language is used by ordinary speakers of English - is often of little value in interpreting controversial non-criminal federal statutes. Although linguistic techniques might still aid in understanding their meaning, the author's thesis is that extrinsic evidence that is known and accessible to this small sub-community - such as legislative history, established norms of construction, and other evidence about the context in which the legislation arose - is more likely than linguistic analysis to help an outside judge shed light on what Congress meant and …
The Modern Parol Evidence Rule And Its Implications For New Textualist Statutory Interpretation, Stephen F. Ross, Daniel Trannen
The Modern Parol Evidence Rule And Its Implications For New Textualist Statutory Interpretation, Stephen F. Ross, Daniel Trannen
Journal Articles
Part I of this article focuses on the history of parol evidence in contract interpretation, describing both Williston's and Corbin's definition and application of the parol evidence rule. With the adoption of the UCC and the Second Restatement, we suggest that Corbin's position-that expansion of admissibility of parol evidence will more accurately reflect the drafters' manifest intentions and minimize the judge's personal biases-has been accepted by experts and legislators alike. In Part II, we summarize the use of legislative history in statutory interpretation, focusing on the rise of the New Textualism and its critique of the use of legislative history …
How To Think About The Federal Commerce Power And Incidentally Rewrite United States V. Lopez, Donald H. Regan
How To Think About The Federal Commerce Power And Incidentally Rewrite United States V. Lopez, Donald H. Regan
Articles
Almost sixty years after the "revolution" of 1937, we still do not have an adequate theory of the commerce power. The Court was right to abandon the theory of dual federalism epitomized by Carter v. Carter Coal Co.;' and it has got the right results in the major cases decided since then. But our post-1937 theory, whether before or after Lopez, is a mess. On the one hand, we have a collection of doctrinal rules that, if we take them seriously, allow Congress to do anything it wants under the commerce power. On the other hand, we continue to pay …
Sentencing Guidelines And Prosecutorial Discretion, David Boerner
Sentencing Guidelines And Prosecutorial Discretion, David Boerner
Faculty Articles
This article explores the topic of sentencing guidelines. Specifically, the author weighs the intended role of such guidelines against their role in actuality, noting the discrepancy between the two. The article concludes that it is up to the values and skill of those who implement the sentencing guidelines for their proper manifestation in the legislative process.
Interpreting Tax Legislation: The Role Of Purpose, Deborah A. Geier
Interpreting Tax Legislation: The Role Of Purpose, Deborah A. Geier
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This 1995 article uses tax cases to explore various methods of statutory interpretation.
"Common Sense Legal Reforms Act" Takes Center Stage, Susan J. Becker
"Common Sense Legal Reforms Act" Takes Center Stage, Susan J. Becker
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article discusses the extensive and highly controversial civil litigation reforms in Congress, which have been approved largely along party lines in the House of Representatives.
If Your Grandfather Could Pollute, So Can You: Environmental "Grandfather Clauses" And Their Role In Environmental Inequity, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
If Your Grandfather Could Pollute, So Can You: Environmental "Grandfather Clauses" And Their Role In Environmental Inequity, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
When this country was struggling over voting rights, it adopted what are now called "grandfather clauses" to exclude certain groups from the democratic process. Although various types of laws excluded people from voting, a man could vote if his grandfather had been allowed to vote. [FN3] Applied to modern environmental laws, a grandfather clause, in essence, says, "if your grandfather could pollute, so can you."In the environmental arena, these laws make it much easier for companies or municipalities to expand older, existing facilities than to create new ones. They also make it significantly more difficult for opponents to shut down …
Advising The Neocapitalists, James J. White
Advising The Neocapitalists, James J. White
Articles
I write to reflect on what American lawyers can and will do for these emerging free market economies. I am more skeptical than most.
Report: The Indiana Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act - Introduction, Bruce A. Markell
Report: The Indiana Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act - Introduction, Bruce A. Markell
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Law And Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?, William D. Popkin
Law And Linguistics: Is There Common Ground?, William D. Popkin
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
An Economic Analysis Of Trade Measures To Protect The Global Environment, Howard F. Chang
An Economic Analysis Of Trade Measures To Protect The Global Environment, Howard F. Chang
All Faculty Scholarship
In this article, Professor Howard Chang addresses the role of trade restrictions in supporting policies to protect the global environment and proposes a more liberal treatment of these environmental trade measures than that adopted by dispute-settlement panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The GATT Secretariat has recommended that countries like the United States rely on "carrots" rather than "sticks" in order to induce the participation of other countries in multilateral environmental agreements. Professor Chang defends the use of sticks on the ground that they encourage more restrained exploitation of the environment pending a multilateral agreement. First, …
Fighting Poverty Through Community Empowerment And Economic Development: The Role Of The Community Reinvestment And Home Mortgage Disclosure Acts, Richard D. Marsico
Fighting Poverty Through Community Empowerment And Economic Development: The Role Of The Community Reinvestment And Home Mortgage Disclosure Acts, Richard D. Marsico
Articles & Chapters
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Reflections On Group Action And The Law Of The Workplace Symposium: The Changing Workplace, James J. Brudney
Reflections On Group Action And The Law Of The Workplace Symposium: The Changing Workplace, James J. Brudney
Faculty Scholarship
Sixty years after the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed, collective action appears moribund. Current analysis burying and praising the NLRA has focused primarily on the changed economic realities of the product and labor markets. Yet there is another story to be told involving a comparable transformation of the legal culture. Relying in part on empirical analysis of court decisions, I argue that changes in federal workplace law over the past thirty years have undermined the concept of group action-in particular collective bargaining-as a preferred means of regulating the employment relationship. These changes are the product of leading institutional …
Famous Victory: Collective Bargaining Protections And The Statutory Aging Process, A , James J. Brudney
Famous Victory: Collective Bargaining Protections And The Statutory Aging Process, A , James J. Brudney
Faculty Scholarship
When it enacted the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, Congress gave statutory recognition to collectively bargained terms and conditions of employment. In recent decades, the number of cases in which the Supreme Court has interpreted the NLRA has declined, leaving the Act's interpretation and enforcement primarily to the National Labor Relations Board and the federal courts of appeals. In this Article, Professor Brudney presents the results of his study of 1,224 NLRB adjudications and their fate upon federal court review, from 1986 to 1993. Professor Brudney analyzes the reversal and affirmance data, and identifies areas of general Board-court agreement …
Linguistics And Legal Epistemology: Why The Law Pays Less Attention To Linguists Than It Should, Gary S. Lawson
Linguistics And Legal Epistemology: Why The Law Pays Less Attention To Linguists Than It Should, Gary S. Lawson
Faculty Scholarship
Law and linguistics ought to be natural partners. Modem statutory and constitutional interpretation increasingly focuses on the generally accepted public meaning of legal language. Even persons who do not believe (as I do) that some form of public understanding of the relevant text is the end all, if not quite the be-all, of such interpretation are likely to regard the public understanding of statutory language as at least one relevant factor in legal interpretation. And who better than linguists to inform the law about the true facts regarding public usage and understanding of legal language?
Bankruptcy In Russia: The Evolution Of A Comprehensive Russian Bankruptcy Code, Paul Williams, Paul Wade
Bankruptcy In Russia: The Evolution Of A Comprehensive Russian Bankruptcy Code, Paul Williams, Paul Wade
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article traces the development of the current bankruptcy code, with it origins in the early economic laws of perestroika; explains key provisions of the current law; and comments on the prospects for its effective implementation. The intent of this article is to provide a balanced understanding of the Russian bankruptcy code useful both to the study of the emergence of a market-based economy in Russia and as a bankruptcy primer for individuals or corporations conducting business in Russia.
Did Congress Intend To Give Patients The Right To Demand And Receive Inappropriate Medical Treatments?: Emtala Reexamined In Light Of Baby K, Elizabeth Larson Goldberg
Did Congress Intend To Give Patients The Right To Demand And Receive Inappropriate Medical Treatments?: Emtala Reexamined In Light Of Baby K, Elizabeth Larson Goldberg
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation By William N. Eskridge, Jr., William D. Popkin
Book Review. Dynamic Statutory Interpretation By William N. Eskridge, Jr., William D. Popkin
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
A Beginning And Not An End In Itself: The Role Of Risk Assessment In Environmental Decision-Making, John S. Applegate
A Beginning And Not An End In Itself: The Role Of Risk Assessment In Environmental Decision-Making, John S. Applegate
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Severability In Statutes And Contracts, Mark L. Movsesian
Severability In Statutes And Contracts, Mark L. Movsesian
Faculty Publications
Established doctrine on the severability of unconstitutional statutory provisions has drawn criticism on almost every conceivable basis. Commentators have condemned severability doctrine as too malleable and as too rigid; as encouraging judicial overreaching and as encouraging judicial abdication. They have criticized the doctrine's reliance on legislative intent and its disregard of legislative intent; its excessive attention to political concerns and its inattention to political concerns; its lack of any coherent explanation.
The reasons for this lingering controversy are easy to discern. One is purely pragmatic. "We live in an age of statutes." Legislation provides our primary source of law in …
The Influence Of International Practice On The Revision Of Article 5 Of The Ucc, James J. White
The Influence Of International Practice On The Revision Of Article 5 Of The Ucc, James J. White
Articles
The topic of this symposium is the influence that international law has had on domestic law of the United States. I believe that the story of the revision of Article 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code fits here, but some might dispute that. Although it is certainly fair to say that international practice-in a sense international law-was a powerful influence on the revision of Article 5 of the Uniform Commercial Code, that practice, and the way in which that influence was exerted were almost entirely sui generis to the letter of credit law, practice and history.
Paint-By-Numbers Tax Lawmaking, Michael J. Graetz
Paint-By-Numbers Tax Lawmaking, Michael J. Graetz
Faculty Scholarship
Although their meaning and contours have long been controversial, the general criteria for evaluating changes in tax law enjoy both stability and consensus. At least since Adam Smith, there has been virtually universal agreement that the nation's tax law should be fair, economically efficient, and simple to comply with and to administer. Tax law changes should be designed to make the law more equitable, easier to comply with, more conducive to economic growth, and less likely to interfere with private economic decisionmaking.
Precisely what these criteria imply for policymaking is controversial, however. Fairness is often said to require that people …
On The Topology Of Uniform Environmental Standards In A Federal System And Why It Matters (Symposium: Environmental Federalism), James E. Krier
On The Topology Of Uniform Environmental Standards In A Federal System And Why It Matters (Symposium: Environmental Federalism), James E. Krier
Articles
Uniform standards are much favored among the makers of federal environmental policy in the United States, which is to say, among the members of Congress. By and large-judging at least from the legislation it has enacted-Congress expects the air and water eventually to meet the same minimum levels of quality in every state in the country, and expects each pollution source in any industrial category or subcategory to be controlled just as much as every other such source, notwithstanding the source's location or other peculiar characteristics. There are exceptions to these generalizations, but they are exceptions and not the rule.1 …
Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field
Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field
Articles
Judges make determinations on a daily basis that profoundly affect people's lives. On March 28, 1991, the Michigan legislature enacted a statute entitled The Parental Rights Restoration Act (hereinafter "the Michigan Act" or "the Act"). This statute delegated to probate court judges the extraordinary task of deciding whether a minor girl may have an abortion without the consent of a parent. Nothing in law school and little in an average judge's experience provide a meaningful framework for making such a decision. Although many commentators, including the authors, argue that decisions about abortion should be left to the woman regardless of …
The Four Doctrines Of Self-Executing Treaties, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
The Four Doctrines Of Self-Executing Treaties, Carlos Manuel Vázquez
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
A distinction has become entrenched in United States law between treaties that are "self-executing" and those that are not. The precise nature of this distinction--indeed, its very existence--is a matter of some controversy and much confusion. More than one lower federal court has pronounced the distinction to be the "most confounding" in the United States law of treaties. A tremendous amount of scholarship has sought to clarify this distinction, but the honest observer cannot but agree with John Jackson's observation that " [t]he substantial volume of scholarly writing on this issue has not yet resolved the confusion" surrounding it. The …
Fiduciary Rules And Rupa, J. Dennis Hynes
Foreword, J. Dennis Hynes
Handling Difficult Issues Under The Family Medical Leave Act, Helen Norton
Handling Difficult Issues Under The Family Medical Leave Act, Helen Norton
Publications
No abstract provided.
Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey
Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey
Journal Articles
In any society, the government's ability to interfere with life, liberty or property is always open for full discussion. In this conversation, Professor Blakey discusses property in the context of organized and white-collar crime, in addition to criminal forfeiture, and frames his discussion around his work with Senator John McClellan on drafting the Organized Crime Control Act.