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Which Means To An End Under The Uniform Mediation Act, Andrea Kupfer Schneider Oct 2001

Which Means To An End Under The Uniform Mediation Act, Andrea Kupfer Schneider

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Are Tax "Benefits" For Religious Institutions Constitutionally Dependent On Benefits For Secular Entities?, Edward A. Zelinsky Jul 2001

Are Tax "Benefits" For Religious Institutions Constitutionally Dependent On Benefits For Secular Entities?, Edward A. Zelinsky

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The Supreme Court generally conditions tax exemptions, deductions, and exclusions for religious organizations and activities upon the simultaneous extension of such benefits to secular institutions and undertakings. The Court's position flows logically from its acceptance of the premise that tax exemptions, deductions, and exclusions constitute subsidies. However, the "subsidy" label is usually deployed in a conclusory and unconvincing fashion. The First Amendment is best understood as permitting governments to refrain from taxation to accommodate the autonomy of religious actors and activities; hence, tax benefits extended solely to religious institutions should pass constitutional muster as recognition of that autonomy.


Unfriendly Actions: The Amicus Brief Battle At The Wto, Andrea Kupfer Schneider Apr 2001

Unfriendly Actions: The Amicus Brief Battle At The Wto, Andrea Kupfer Schneider

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Cross-Testing, Nondiscrimination, And New Comparability: A Rejoinder To Mr. Orszag And Professor Stein, Edward A. Zelinsky Apr 2001

Cross-Testing, Nondiscrimination, And New Comparability: A Rejoinder To Mr. Orszag And Professor Stein, Edward A. Zelinsky

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In their response to my article in this symposium issue of the Buffalo Law Review, Peter Orszag and Norman Stein advance their analysis of cross-testing, new comparability and the nondiscrimination norm. I write this brief rejoinder both to clarify the areas of our disagreement and to complete our dialogue.


Is Cross-Testing A Mistake: Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, And The Incoherence Of The Nondiscrimination Norm, Edward A. Zelinsky Apr 2001

Is Cross-Testing A Mistake: Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, And The Incoherence Of The Nondiscrimination Norm, Edward A. Zelinsky

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The increasing tendency of large employers to convert their traditional defined benefit pension plans to the cash balance format has engendered substantial controversy, both within the qualified plan community and among the general public. The rise of "new comparability" plans has yet to generate the same level of popular or political concern, perhaps because such plans have largely been embraced by smaller employers. However, among pension mavens, new comparability has occasioned strong supporters and equally firm detractors.


Reading The Clean Air Act After Brown & Williamson, Michael Herz Feb 2001

Reading The Clean Air Act After Brown & Williamson, Michael Herz

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Hegel’S Theory Of Quality, David G. Carlson Jan 2001

Hegel’S Theory Of Quality, David G. Carlson

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This article assesses the opening three chapters of Hegel's monumental "Science of Logic," a work largely unknown in the United States but recognized in Europe as the foundation of Hegel's impressive philosophical edifice. Hegel's task was to develop a foundation-free philosophy, in which the inherent contradictions in concepts caused the self-destruction of the concept and the generation of a new, improved concept. Hegel begins his work by examining the concept of Pure Being. Being itself shows to be finite, however. Being repeals itself and propels itself into thought. "Reality" therefore gives way to "ideality." Upon entering the realm of the …


Representational Standing: U.S. Ex Rel. Stevens And The Future Of Public Law Litigation, Myriam E. Gilles Jan 2001

Representational Standing: U.S. Ex Rel. Stevens And The Future Of Public Law Litigation, Myriam E. Gilles

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In May 2000, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. U.S. ex rel. Stevens, a seemingly predictable 11th Amendment case. In upholding the plaintiff's Article III standing to bring that case, however, the Court suggested a theory of "representational standing" that holds the potential to radically transform the entire body of law governing the ability of private citizens to seek, through the federal courts, the vindication of broadly-held public interests.


Duncan Kennedy As I Imagine Him: The Man, The Work, His Scholarship, And The Polity, Peter Goodrich Jan 2001

Duncan Kennedy As I Imagine Him: The Man, The Work, His Scholarship, And The Polity, Peter Goodrich

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The Newness Of New Technology, Monroe E. Price Jan 2001

The Newness Of New Technology, Monroe E. Price

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Who Is Entitled To Own The Past, Ashton Hawkins, David Korzenik, David Rudenstine Jan 2001

Who Is Entitled To Own The Past, Ashton Hawkins, David Korzenik, David Rudenstine

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A Tale Of Three Documents: Lord Elgin And The Missing, Historic 1801 Ottoman Document, David Rudenstine Jan 2001

A Tale Of Three Documents: Lord Elgin And The Missing, Historic 1801 Ottoman Document, David Rudenstine

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Just So Stories: Posnerian Methodology, Jeanne L. Schroeder Jan 2001

Just So Stories: Posnerian Methodology, Jeanne L. Schroeder

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Law, Economics, And The Skeleton Of Value Fallacy, Kyron Huigens Jan 2001

Law, Economics, And The Skeleton Of Value Fallacy, Kyron Huigens

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Experiments in the last decade or so have demonstrated persistent failures on the part of ordinary individuals rationally to pursue self-interest. The experiments pose serious challenges to economics, rational choice theory, and the law and economics school. Some experiments, for example, suggest an "endowment effect", that contradicts the Coase Theorem; the notion that, in the absence of transaction costs, goods will find their most efficient distribution regardless of their initial assignment. Cass Sunstein has collected a set of essays by economists and legal scholars exploring these challenges, in a volume entitled Behavioral Law and Economics.


Preventing The Execution Of The Innocent: Testimony Before The Senate Judiciary Committee, Barry C. Scheck Jan 2001

Preventing The Execution Of The Innocent: Testimony Before The Senate Judiciary Committee, Barry C. Scheck

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Liability For Increased Risk Of Harm: A Lawyer's Response To Professor Shafer, Melanie B. Leslie Jan 2001

Liability For Increased Risk Of Harm: A Lawyer's Response To Professor Shafer, Melanie B. Leslie

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Rhetoric And Somatics: Training The Body To Do The Work Of Law, Peter Goodrich Jan 2001

Rhetoric And Somatics: Training The Body To Do The Work Of Law, Peter Goodrich

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Mandatory Fee Arbitration Under New York's Matrimonial Rules, Lester Brickman Jan 2001

Mandatory Fee Arbitration Under New York's Matrimonial Rules, Lester Brickman

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Attorney-client fee arbitration is a subject of burgeoning interest to the bar and to scholars as well. Several years ago, I agreed to write an article on the substantive issues raised by fee arbitration as part of an analysis of New York's then newly adopted mandatory fee arbitration rule. Contacting other mandatory arbitration programs to request copies of the manuals they provided to fee arbitrators, I learned that no such manuals existed. Writing on a tabula rosa, I wrote an analysis of the substantive tasks in fee arbitration that could be adopted for use as part of a training manual …


Avoidance Theory According To Steve Nickles, David G. Carlson Jan 2001

Avoidance Theory According To Steve Nickles, David G. Carlson

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The Rightness And Utility Of Voluntary Repatriation, David Rudenstine Jan 2001

The Rightness And Utility Of Voluntary Repatriation, David Rudenstine

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