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Some Reflections On Ethics And Plea Bargaining: An Essay In Honor Of Fred Zacharias, R. Michael Cassidy
Some Reflections On Ethics And Plea Bargaining: An Essay In Honor Of Fred Zacharias, R. Michael Cassidy
R. Michael Cassidy
In this article the author explores what it means for a prosecutor to “do justice” in a plea bargaining context. Although the vast majority of criminal cases in the United States are resolved by guilty plea rather than by trial, ABA Model Rule 3.8, the special disciplinary rule applicable to prosecutors, has very little to say about plea bargaining. Scrutinizing the multiplicity of interests at stake in plea bargaining, the author suggests that a prosecutor’s primary objectives during negotiations should be efficiency, equality, autonomy, and transparency. After defining each of these terms, the author identifies several troublesome and recurring practices …
Editorial: Autumn 2011, Tina Hunter, Jodie O'Leary
Editorial: Autumn 2011, Tina Hunter, Jodie O'Leary
Jodie O'Leary
No abstract provided.
Property And Belongingness: Rethinking Gender-Biased Disinheritance, Dr. Shelly Kreiczer Levy, Dr. Meital Pinto
Property And Belongingness: Rethinking Gender-Biased Disinheritance, Dr. Shelly Kreiczer Levy, Dr. Meital Pinto
Dr. Meital Pinto
For centuries, women have been disinherited from family wealth because of cultural traditions and religious rules that suggest their social role does not require an inheritance. Religious or traditionalist testators still adhere to this belief, exercising their testamentary freedom. Moreover, American law respects the testator’s wishes whether they are petty, vindictive or discriminatory. We make the novel argument that the law should not protect gender-biased bequests, as they are contrary to public policy. Our argument centers on a reconfiguration of inheritance in a way that includes its symbolic effect on disinherited relatives, redefining the social, relational and familial role of …
Reasonable Care: Equality As Objectivity, Avihay Dorfman
Reasonable Care: Equality As Objectivity, Avihay Dorfman
Avihay Dorfman
The most compelling defense of the standard of reasonable care in negligence law casts itself in terms of equality. This commitment to equality may paradoxically turn out to be flatly inegalitarian. This is because it discriminates against the less capable through ignoring their deficient capabilities (and so against their chances of meeting the standard of reasonable care successfully). A promising, though still unfamiliar, way to revive the egalitarian aspirations of reasonable care would be to show that imposing the standard of reasonable care even on the less competent expresses, rather than inhibits, a true devotion to equality. I seek to …
Children's Oppression, Rights And Liberation, Samantha Godwin
Children's Oppression, Rights And Liberation, Samantha Godwin
Samantha Godwin
This paper advances a radical and controversial analysis of the legal status of children. I argue that the denial of equal rights and equal protection to children under the law is inconsistent with liberal and progressive beliefs about social justice and fairness. In order to do this I first situate children’s legal and social status in its historical context, examining popular assumptions about children and their rights, and expose the false necessity of children’s current legal status. I then offer a philosophical analysis for why children’s present subordination is unjust, and an explanation of how society could be sensibly and …
Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Linnéa Wegerstad
No abstract provided.
Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Interview With Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Linnéa Wegerstad, Niklas Selberg
Niklas Selberg
No abstract provided.
On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan
On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle, Donald J. Kochan
Donald J. Kochan
This Essay introduces the “Anti-Interference Principle” – a new term on the meaning of equality, or at least one not yet so-named in the equality lexicon – as a necessary foundation for achieving the goal of true equality. Equality has a long-standing place in the discussion of politics and jurisprudence and remains a struggle of definition today. Rather than rehash the mass of scholarship, this Essay seeks to summarize the general equality concept, and propose that the legal discourse on equality center on a requirement that governmental power must protect and respect equal treatment and opportunity, unconstrained, not equal outcomes. …
Notas Sobre El Contenido Del Principio De La Democracia, Pablo Marshall
Notas Sobre El Contenido Del Principio De La Democracia, Pablo Marshall
Pablo Marshall
This paper seeks to expose the substantive aspects of the principle of democracy. It focuses, in the important research, inspired by the methodology of Carl Schmitt, that EW Böckenförde been made about the content and scope of the democratic clause in positive constitutional law. To that objective, was make a brief explanation of the role that have democracy in the theory of forms of government. After that was explain the foundations, role and application of the principle of democracy as a constitutional principle recognized in legal system. It ends with a brief application of this theory to the case of …