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Full-Text Articles in Law
Taxes And Competitiveness, Michael S. Knoll
Taxes And Competitiveness, Michael S. Knoll
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
Around the world, the tax laws are shaped by concerns with competitiveness. This paper provides a general theory of how taxes impact competitiveness. As part of that theory, this paper also introduces the concept of tax-based competitiveness neutrality. A tax system is competitively neutral when taxes do not cause competitors to change their relative valuations of any investments. This paper then uses that theory to evaluate tax policy in two high profile and important areas. The paper begins by describing two models of competitiveness, called the conduit or new money model and the investor or old money model. The central …
Legal Reform In Contemporary Japan, Eric Feldman
Legal Reform In Contemporary Japan, Eric Feldman
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
In this chapter I offer a preliminary assessment of a quickly moving target—legal reform and its impact on rights in Japan. Although a broad consensus has emerged among interested parties that at least some degree of reform is desirable, there is significant disagreement about the goals of reform, and also about the likelihood that it will achieve certain objectives. Some commentators believe that the Japanese legal system is on the cusp of a “revolution” that will shore up long-neglected rights and create new entitlements. Others predict that the consequences of reform will be modest; and they despair that aggrieved individuals …
It's About Time: A System Thinking Analysis Of The Litigation Finance Industry And Its Effect On Settlement, Mariel Rodak
It's About Time: A System Thinking Analysis Of The Litigation Finance Industry And Its Effect On Settlement, Mariel Rodak
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Between Rights And Contract: Arbitration Agreements And Non-Compete Covenants As A Hybrid Form Of Employment Law , Cynthia L. Estlund
Between Rights And Contract: Arbitration Agreements And Non-Compete Covenants As A Hybrid Form Of Employment Law , Cynthia L. Estlund
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Doctrinal Unity Of Alternative Liability And Market-Share Liability, Mark A. Geistfeld
The Doctrinal Unity Of Alternative Liability And Market-Share Liability, Mark A. Geistfeld
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Welfare Polls: A Synthesis, Matthew D. Adler
Welfare Polls: A Synthesis, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
“Welfare polls” are survey instruments that seek to quantify the determinants of human well-being. Currently, three “welfare polling” formats are dominant: contingent-valuation surveys, QALY surveys, and happiness surveys. Each format has generated a large, specialized, scholarly literature, but no comprehensive discussion of welfare polling as a general enterprise exists. This Article seeks to fill that gap. Part I describes the trio of existing formats. Part II discusses the actual and potential uses of welfare polls in government decisionmaking. Part III analyzes in detail the obstacles that welfare polls must overcome to provide useful well-being information, and concludes that they can …
Censorship By Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, And The Problem Of The Weakest Link, Seth F. Kreimer
Censorship By Proxy: The First Amendment, Internet Intermediaries, And The Problem Of The Weakest Link, Seth F. Kreimer
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
The rise of the Internet has changed the First Amendment drama, for governments confront technical and political obstacles to sanctioning either speakers or listeners in cyberspace. Faced with these challenges, regulators have fallen back on alternatives, predicated on the fact that, in contrast to the usual free expression scenario, the Internet is not dyadic. The Internet's resistance to direct regulation of speakers and listeners rests on a complex chain of connections, and emerging regulatory mechanisms have begun to focus on the weak links in that chain. Rather than attacking speakers or listeners directly, governments have sought to enlist private actors …
Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & The Freedom To Invent New Forms, Paul H. Robinson, Adnan Zulfiqar, Margaret Kammerud, Michael Orchowski, Elizabeth A. Gerlach, Adam L. Pollock, Thomas M. O'Brien, John C. Lin, Tom Stenson, Negar Katirai, J. John Lee, Marc Aaron Melzer
Codifying Shari'a: International Norms, Legality & The Freedom To Invent New Forms, Paul H. Robinson, Adnan Zulfiqar, Margaret Kammerud, Michael Orchowski, Elizabeth A. Gerlach, Adam L. Pollock, Thomas M. O'Brien, John C. Lin, Tom Stenson, Negar Katirai, J. John Lee, Marc Aaron Melzer
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
The United Nations Development Program and the Republic of the Maldives, a small Muslim country with a constitutional democracy, commissioned this project to craft the country's first system of codified penal law and sentencing guidelines. This Article describes the special challenges and opportunities encountered while drafting a penal code based on Shari'a (Islamic law). On the one hand, such comprehensive codification is more important and more likely to bring dramatic improvements in the quality of justice than in many other societies, due in large part to the problems of assuring fair notice and fair adjudication in the uncodified Shari'a-based system …
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Policy Analysis For Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
How should agencies and legislatures evaluate possible policies to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural hazards? In particular, should governmental bodies adopt the sorts of policy-analytic and risk assessment techniques that are widely used in the area of environmental hazards (chemical toxins and radiation)? Environmental hazards policy analysis regularly employs proxy tests, in particular tests of technological “feasibility,” rather than focusing on a policy’s impact on well-being. When human welfare does enter the analysis, particular aspects of well-being, such as health and safety, are often given priority over others. “Individual risk” tests and other features of …
On The Supposed Jury-Dependence Of Evidence Law, Frederick Schauer
On The Supposed Jury-Dependence Of Evidence Law, Frederick Schauer
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Tribute To Judge Edward R. Becker, John G. Roberts Jr.
Tribute To Judge Edward R. Becker, John G. Roberts Jr.
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Judge, Teacher, Friend, Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Judge, Teacher, Friend, Samuel A. Alito Jr.
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Edward R. Becker: A Man In Full, Stephen B. Burbank
Edward R. Becker: A Man In Full, Stephen B. Burbank
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
No abstract provided.
Exploding The Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility Of Entrepreneurial Lawyers, Myriam Gilles, Gary B. Friedman
Exploding The Class Action Agency Costs Myth: The Social Utility Of Entrepreneurial Lawyers, Myriam Gilles, Gary B. Friedman
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Towards Environmental Entrepreneurship: Restoring The Public Trust Doctrine In New York, Michael Seth Benn
Towards Environmental Entrepreneurship: Restoring The Public Trust Doctrine In New York, Michael Seth Benn
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Open Door To Ending Exploitation: Accountability For Violations Of Informed Consent Under The Alien Tort Statute, Erin Talati
An Open Door To Ending Exploitation: Accountability For Violations Of Informed Consent Under The Alien Tort Statute, Erin Talati
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
No abstract provided.
Making Sentencing Sensible, Douglas A. Berman, Stephanos Bibas
Making Sentencing Sensible, Douglas A. Berman, Stephanos Bibas
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
This Term, Cunningham v. California offers the Supreme Court a rare opportunity to bring order to its confusing, incoherent, formalistic body of sentencing law. Sentencing law must accommodate many structural and individual constitutional interests: federalism, the separation of powers, democratic experimentation, individualization, consistency, efficiency, and procedural fairness and notice. The Court, however, has lurched from under- to over-regulation without carefully weighing competing principles and tradeoffs. A nuanced, modern sentencing jurisprudence would emphasize that a trial is a backward-looking, offense-oriented event well suited for a lay jury. Sentencing, in contrast, includes forward-looking, offender-oriented assessments and calls upon an expert, repeat-player judge …
Tax Practice In A Circular Revolution: A Review Of Pli's Circular 230 Deskbook, Bridget J. Crawford
Tax Practice In A Circular Revolution: A Review Of Pli's Circular 230 Deskbook, Bridget J. Crawford
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
This short review essay evaluates the Practicing Law Institute's Circular 230 Deskbook by Jonathan G. Blattmachr, Mitchell M. Gans and Damien Rios. For attorneys, accountants and others who "practice" before the IRS, the Circular 230 Deskbook is a masterful analysis and an important guide to the Internal Revenue Service's labyrinthine rules and regulations governing tax penalties, reportable transactions and the conduct of tax practitioners. Most tax attorneys and accountants have reacted to the recent changes to Circular 230 by appending banner notices to all written communications. Without fully understanding the underlying rules, however, a practitioner cannot be sure that a …
The Enumeration Of Rights: "Let Me Count The Ways", John V. Orth
The Enumeration Of Rights: "Let Me Count The Ways", John V. Orth
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Open Source On Pre-Invention Assignment Contracts, Michael R. Mattioli
The Impact Of Open Source On Pre-Invention Assignment Contracts, Michael R. Mattioli
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Sox, Statutory Interpretation, And The Seventh Amendment: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Whistleblower Claims And Jury Trials, Jarod S. Gonzalez
Sox, Statutory Interpretation, And The Seventh Amendment: Sarbanes-Oxley Act Whistleblower Claims And Jury Trials, Jarod S. Gonzalez
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Oakwood Healthcare Inc., 348 N.L.R.B. No. 37 (2006): How Textualism Saved The Supervisory Exemption, Michael W. Hawkins, Shawn P. Burton
Oakwood Healthcare Inc., 348 N.L.R.B. No. 37 (2006): How Textualism Saved The Supervisory Exemption, Michael W. Hawkins, Shawn P. Burton
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Who's Afraid Of Unenumerated Rights?, Randy E. Barnett
Who's Afraid Of Unenumerated Rights?, Randy E. Barnett
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
No abstract provided.
Regime Politics, Jurisprudential Regimes, And Unenumerated Rights, Howard Gillman
Regime Politics, Jurisprudential Regimes, And Unenumerated Rights, Howard Gillman
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
No abstract provided.
Unenumerated Duties, Robin West
Unenumerated Duties, Robin West
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law
No abstract provided.
The Case Against Tipping, Yoram Margalioth
The Case Against Tipping, Yoram Margalioth
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Personality Tests In Jeopardy: An Evaluation Of The Seventh Circuit's Decision In Karraker V. Rent-A-Center And Its Impact On The Future Use Of Personality Tests In Pre-Employment Screening, Jennifer Gonzales-Frisbie
Personality Tests In Jeopardy: An Evaluation Of The Seventh Circuit's Decision In Karraker V. Rent-A-Center And Its Impact On The Future Use Of Personality Tests In Pre-Employment Screening, Jennifer Gonzales-Frisbie
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Our Nation's Forgotten Workers: The Unprotected Volunteers, Mitchell H. Rubinstein
Our Nation's Forgotten Workers: The Unprotected Volunteers, Mitchell H. Rubinstein
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law
No abstract provided.
Carrying A Good Joke Too Far: Trips And Treaties Of Adhesion , Donald P. Harris
Carrying A Good Joke Too Far: Trips And Treaties Of Adhesion , Donald P. Harris
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Of Shrinking Sweatsuits And Poison Vine Wax: A Comparison Of Basis For Excuse Under U.C.C. Sec. 2-615 And Cisg Article 79 , Carla Spivack
Of Shrinking Sweatsuits And Poison Vine Wax: A Comparison Of Basis For Excuse Under U.C.C. Sec. 2-615 And Cisg Article 79 , Carla Spivack
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.