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Privatization Of Prisons: An Analysis Of The State Action Requirement Of The Fourteenth Amendment And 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Ira Robbins

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Introduction: The privatization of prisons raises important issues with respect to liability in suits brought by inmates. If a private company operates the prison, the state likely will be directly involved in some aspects of prison life, such as using force when necessary or making quasi-judicial decisions, but it may not be directly involved in the day-to-day operation of the institution. This dichotomy of involvement may lead to con- fusion over responsibility and accountability when a violation of rights is alleged to have occurred. When a private party, as opposed to a government employee, is charged with abridging rights guaranteed …

Lawyers And The Rule Of Law In The Western Hemisphere, Claudio Grossman, Frederick Anderson

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Relations between the United States and Latin America are once again entering a historic phase. How the nations of the Americas handle issues such as the rule of law and the role of judges and lawyers in human rights, trade, immigration, narcotics traffic, security, and natural resources development will shape the future of nations in this hemisphere. Because all of these issues have strong legal content, attorneys in the United States and Latin America have a particular responsibility to address them cooperatively. A history of conflict between north and south, widely varying intellectual and cultural traditions, and numerous differences between …

The Antitrust Analysis Of Hospital Mergers And The Transformation Of The Hospital Industry, Jonathan Baker

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Who Cares Who Wrote "Shakespeare"?, Peter Jaszi

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Obviously, a great many people, on both (or all) sides of the "authorship question," and they care a lot. The real question is why. Proponents of various authorship claimants compete in their protestations of admiration for the plays and poems in controversy. But if these works are in fact so universally and inexhaustibly fertile of significance, why should any admirer of them waste precious time, which might better be devoted to the study of the texts themselves, arguing about an ultimately irresoluble historical puzzle? And why is so much of the discussion conducted at such a relatively high pitch of …

Estimating The Residual Demand Curve Facing A Single Firm, Jonathan Baker, Timothy Bresnahan

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This paper presents an econometric technique for estimating the single firm residual demand curve that does not require the estimation of demand cross-elasticities. The technique is particularly suited for the estimation of firm market power in product differentiated industries, where cross-elasticities are notoriously difficult to measure. One estimated parameter is directly related to a firm's markup of price over marginal cost when product differentiation is extensive, when an industry consists of a dominant firm and a price-taking fringe, when a Consistent Conjectures Equilibrium is the correct oligopoly solution concept, when firms are Stackelberg leaders relative to their environment, or when …

International Commercial Arbitration: Realities And Perspectives, Horacio A. Grigera Naón

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Has The Time Come For Judicial Sabbaticals, Ira P. Robbins

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Reflections On The Meaning Of Life: An Analysis Of Section 7702 And The Taxation Of Cash Value Life Insurance, Andrew Pike

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Vertical Restraints Among Hospitals, Physicians And Health Insurers That Raise Rivals' Costs, Jonathan Baker

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Private Information And The Deterrent Effect Of Antitrust Damage Remedies, Jonathan Baker

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The Contested Merger: Introduction And Fact Summary, Jonathan Baker

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"The Contested Merger" program arranged by the National Institute Committee of the Antitrust Section; and ABA's Division for Professional Education The program began with meetings set in corporate offices, in which the Yankee executives identified the business reasons behind the transaction, then consulted with in-house and outside counsel to assess the deal's antitrust risks and structure it. The transcript of this lesson in client counseling is reprinted following this introduction, as is the transcript of the panel discussion in which program participants offer a "reallife" analysis of the events of the program thus far.

Permanent Counterinsurgency In Guatemala, Kenneth Anderson, Jean-Marie Simon

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This 1987 article in the critical theory journal Telos examined the counterinsurgency carried out in Guatemala during the late 1970s and 1980s by the Guatemalan army and security forces, and the country's transition to civilian democracy in 1986 under the presidency of Vinicio Cerezo. The article, as an exercise in radical sociology of the Left, argues sharply that the transition is little more than the appearance of democracy, while beneath lies a "permanent counterinsurgency" and authoritarian control by the army. Based on extensive interviews by the authors with many actors in Guatemala, including leading military officers, it offers an inside …

Privatizing Corrections: Defining The Issues, Ira Robbins

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Should Prisons Be Privately Run?: No Quick Fixes, Ira Robbins

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Garcia-Mir V. Meese: Reaffirming The Indefinite Detention Of Aliens In The 1980s, Randy Toledo

American University International Law Review

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Who May Wage War? An Examination Of An Old/New Question, Roda Mushkat

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The Sources Of International Law, David Kennedy

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Jurisdiction Over Terrorists Who Take Hostages: Efforts To Stop Terror-Violence Against United States Citizens, Elizabeth R. P. Bowen

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Yossarian's Nightmare: A "Catch-22" Between American Grand Jury Powers And Swiss Nondisclosure Laws - A New Solution, Christopher D. Liguori

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Establishing More Effective Merger Control In The European Community: A Proposed Solution, Thomas B. Mann Ii

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Judicial Treatment Of The Hague Evidence Convention And The Worth Of International Judicial Comity: In Re Anschuetz & Co., Thomas John Percy

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On Doubting Thomas: Judicial Compulsion And Other Controls Of Transboundary Acid Rain, Joseph Macd. Schwartz

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International Humanitarian Law And The Armed Conflicts In El Salvador And Nicaragua, Robert Kogod Goldman

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The Sixth Annual American Red Cross-Washington College Of Law Conference On International Humanitarian Law: A Workshop On Customary International Law And The 1977 Protocols Additional To The 1949 Geneva Conventions, Martin P. Dupuis, John Q. Heywood, Michéle Y. F. Sarko

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The 1986 Provisions To Encourage Foreign Investment In China: Further Evolution In Chinese Investment Laws, Carolyn P. Casey

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Judicial Sabbaticals, Ira Robbins

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Sabbatical leaves have proven to be a useful concept for providing extended periods of time away from the job for individ­uals to pursue other needs or interests. The concept has spread from academic and religious institutions to business and indus­try, law firms, and government.

After surveying these analogies, this staff paper reviews the limited ways in which the concept has been applied to the judiciary. It then discusses the desirability and feasibility of extending judicial sabbaticals further, particularly to the fed­eral judiciary. The principal virtues of such sabbaticals are that they have the potential to improve efficiency and productiv­ity, enhance …

The Political Offense Exception: Is The United States-United Kingdom Supplementary Extraditon Treaty The Beginning Of The End?, James J. Kinneally Iii

American University International Law Review

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Foreign Attorneys In Japan: The International Practice Of Law As A Question Of Unfair Trade Practices, Masako C. Shiono

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The International Leading Supervision Act Of 1983: Has It Had An Effect On The Latin American Debt Crisis?, Lyle B. Vander Schaaf

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Dedication To Waldemar A. Solf, Robert Kogod Goldman, Claudio Grossman, Raymond I. Geraldson, George H. Aldrich, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison

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