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Passport To Toledo: Cuno, The World Trade Organization, And The European Court Of Justice, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah Dec 2005

Passport To Toledo: Cuno, The World Trade Organization, And The European Court Of Justice, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah

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The purpose of this article is to try to place the debate about Cuno v. DaimlerChrysler in a broader perspective by connecting it with the overall discussion of harmful tax competition. It discusses two hypothetical scenarios under which the city of Toledo, Ohio, is (a) a separate country and (b) a member state of the European Union. If the first hypothetical were true, the tax incentives offered by Toledo would violate the rules of the World Trade Organization; if the second hypothetical were true, the tax incentives would also violate the Treaty of Rome, as interpreted by the European Court …


Correspondence: Testing Minimalism: A Reply, Cass R. Sunstein Oct 2005

Correspondence: Testing Minimalism: A Reply, Cass R. Sunstein

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Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler Oct 2005

Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler

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Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen Oct 2005

Reforming The Federal Sentencing Guidelines Misguided Approach To Real-Offense Sentencing, David Yellen

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Offshore Outsourcing And Workers Rights, Theodore J. St. Antoine Sep 2005

Offshore Outsourcing And Workers Rights, Theodore J. St. Antoine

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A Government Of Limited Powers, Carl E. Schneider Jul 2005

A Government Of Limited Powers, Carl E. Schneider

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Roscoe C. Filburn owned a small farm in Ohio where he raised poultry, dairy cows, and a modest acreage of winter wheat. Some wheat he fed his animals, some he sold, and some he kept for his family's daily bread. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 limited the wheat Mr. Filburn could grow without incurring penalties, but his 1941 crop exceeded those limits. Mr. Filburn sued. He said Claude Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture, could not enforce the AAI's limits because Congress lacked authority to regulate wheat grown for one's own use. He reasoned: In our federal system, the states …


Hard Cases And The Politics Of Righteousness, Carl E. Schneider May 2005

Hard Cases And The Politics Of Righteousness, Carl E. Schneider

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The law of bioethics has been the law of cases. Interpreting the common law and the Constitution, judges have written the law of informed consent, abortion, and assisted suicide. Reacting to causes célèbres, legislatures have written the law of advance directives and end of life decisions. The long, sad death of Terri Schiavo eclipsed even the long, sad deaths of Karen Ann Quinlan and Nancy Beth Cruzan in the duration and strength of the attention and passions it evoked. What are Schiavo’s lessons? Hard cases, lawyers say, make bad law. Why? First, hard cases are atypical cases. They present abnormal …


Robert Dahl's How Democratic Is The American Constitution: An Introduction, With Notes On The Electorial College, Michael Herz May 2005

Robert Dahl's How Democratic Is The American Constitution: An Introduction, With Notes On The Electorial College, Michael Herz

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Rendered Impracticable: Behavioral Economics And The Impracticability Doctrine, Aaron Wright Apr 2005

Rendered Impracticable: Behavioral Economics And The Impracticability Doctrine, Aaron Wright

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European Communities - Anti-Dumping Duties On Imports Of Cotton-Type Bed Linen From India - Recourse To Article 21.5 Of The Dsu By India Paper, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman Mar 2005

European Communities - Anti-Dumping Duties On Imports Of Cotton-Type Bed Linen From India - Recourse To Article 21.5 Of The Dsu By India Paper, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman

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United States - Definitive Safeguard Measures On Imports Of Certain Steel Products, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman Mar 2005

United States - Definitive Safeguard Measures On Imports Of Certain Steel Products, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman

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European Communities - Conditions For The Granting Of Tariff Preferences To Developing Countries, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman Mar 2005

European Communities - Conditions For The Granting Of Tariff Preferences To Developing Countries, Alan O. Sykes, Gene M. Grossman

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Revealing Options, Lee Anne Fennell Mar 2005

Revealing Options, Lee Anne Fennell

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Legal scholars are beginning to explore how the options template, borrowed from finance, can be applied to legal problems outside the realm of finance. This Article uses the options framework to add a new, intermediate entitlement form to the property rule/liability rule schema pioneered by Guido Calabresi and Douglas Melamed. Building on a fascinating but underused literature on self-assessed valuation mechanisms, I propose an entitlement form that would require entitlement holders to create options for others (or for their future selves). These "entitlements subject to self-made options," or "ESSMOs," are capable of powerfully and elegantly addressing one of the most …


Solving The Due Process Problem With Military Commissions, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Jan 2005

Solving The Due Process Problem With Military Commissions, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Guaranteed Payments Made In Kind By A Partnership, Douglas A. Kahn, Faith Cuenin Jan 2005

Guaranteed Payments Made In Kind By A Partnership, Douglas A. Kahn, Faith Cuenin

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Guaranteed payments are payments made by a partnership to a partner for services performed in his partnership capacity or for the use of capital to the extent that the amount of the payment is not determined by reference to the partnership's income. In addition, some distributions made by a partnership in liquidation of a partner's interest in the partnership are treated as guaranteed payments. A guaranteed payment constitutes ordinary income to the partner, and the partnership is allowed a deduction for the payment unless it constitutes a capital expenditure. While guaranteed payments typically are made in cash, it is possible …


Stand By Your First Amendment Values - Not Your Ad, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Jan 2005

Stand By Your First Amendment Values - Not Your Ad, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Shareholder Bylaws, Shareholder Nominations, And Poison Pills, Brett Mcdonnell Jan 2005

Shareholder Bylaws, Shareholder Nominations, And Poison Pills, Brett Mcdonnell

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Shareholder bylaws limiting or directing board action raise a tough and fascinating question of statutory interpretation under state law as well as an important policy question. In particular, over the last decade shareholders have sought to use bylaws to limit poison pills and to grant shareholders access to the corporate proxy materials to nominate directors. This paper argues that an expansive, although not unlimited, shareholder power to enact bylaws is both a plausible interpretation of Delaware's statutory scheme and desirable as a policy matter. Shareholder bylaws that set general rules of corporate governance and procedure should be valid unless more …


Intimacy And Economic Exchange, Jill Elaine Hasday Jan 2005

Intimacy And Economic Exchange, Jill Elaine Hasday

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The current legal debate about the regulation of economic exchange between intimates mistakenly assumes that the law does not countenance such exchange to any notable extent. This assumption is so widely held that it unites otherwise disparate anticommodification and pro-market scholars. Both groups agree that the law maintains a strict boundary between economic exchange and intimacy, and disagree only on whether to applaud or criticize that boundary. Both overlook or underemphasize the degree to which the law already permits economic exchange within intimate relationships. The current debate's focus on whether the law should enforce economic exchanges between intimates misses at …


The Value Of Institutions And The Values Of Free Speech, Dale Carpenter Jan 2005

The Value Of Institutions And The Values Of Free Speech, Dale Carpenter

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Should the First Amendment pay attention to the setting in which speech occurs, giving more protection to some institutions than to others? The very suggestion is a heresy. The First Amendment, to a degree unknown elsewhere in American law, has been characterized by a certain kind of blindness. It has largely been blind to the popularity of the speech involved, blind to whether the speech is favored or disfavored by the government, and blind to the identity of the speaker. On the other hand, some institutions - the professional media, libraries, and universities, for example - are especially good at …


Bad Arguments Against Gay Marriage, Dale Carpenter Jan 2005

Bad Arguments Against Gay Marriage, Dale Carpenter

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This article claims that three common arguments against gay marriage - the definitional, procreation, and slippery-slope arguments - are quite bad, the worst of the lot. The definitional argument asserts that marriage just is the union of one man and one woman, and that the definition alone is a sufficient defense against claims for gay marriage. The procreation argument claims that marriage's central public purpose is to encourage procreation, and so the exclusion of same-sex couples is justified. The slippery-slope argument claims that the acceptance of same-sex marriage logically entails the acceptance of other public policy changes - notably the …


State Interests In Marriage, Interstate Recognition, And Choice Of Law, Brian H. Bix Jan 2005

State Interests In Marriage, Interstate Recognition, And Choice Of Law, Brian H. Bix

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One of the great complications of the current marriage debates is the way that federalism and conflict of law issues interact - both at the level of principle and constitutional doctrine - in the area of marriage and divorce. This article begins by looking at federalism in the context of domestic relations at a general level. It then considers how current family law rules and constitutional constraints complicate the analysis. Finally, it considers the way in which recognizing party choice of law might respond to some, but by no means all, of the problems in the area.


Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities, David Weissbrodt Jan 2005

Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities, David Weissbrodt

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This article begins with a discussion of why one should be concerned or at least interested in the human rights conduct of corporations. Hence, the first part of the article presents a couple of historical and current situations which require attention and standard-setting. The second part focuses on past efforts of international law and particularly international human rights law to deal with such non-state actors as corporations. The third part discusses five major attributes of the U.N. Human Rights Norms which built upon the previous efforts to deal with the human rights conduct of corporations. The fourth part traces the …


Contracting Around Finality: Transforming Price V. Neal From Dictate To Default, Christopher M. Grengs, Edward S. Adams Jan 2005

Contracting Around Finality: Transforming Price V. Neal From Dictate To Default, Christopher M. Grengs, Edward S. Adams

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Arguably the most important and problematic area within the entire field of negotiable instruments law is the law relating to forgery, especially the allocation of losses that result from forgery. Forgery is central to negotiable instrument law because a signature typically authenticates the orders and promises to pay on which the entire system is based. Unfortunately, forgery continues to cause substantial losses to American banks and the national economy. "Despite the significance of this problem, many of the legal doctrines governing forgery loss allocation remain quite problematic, even after nearly three centuries of development." To combat the problem of negotiable …


Viewing September 11 Through The Lens Of History, Carol L. Chomsky Jan 2005

Viewing September 11 Through The Lens Of History, Carol L. Chomsky

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Synergy And Serendipity, Joan Howland Jan 2005

Synergy And Serendipity, Joan Howland

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Great events rarely occur without the fortuitous intersection of synergy and serendipity. One of the earliest documented examples of this dynamic is the Greek mathematician Archimedes' (287 B.C.-212 B.C.) discovery of the principle of buoyancy while he was soaking in a hot bath, inspiring him to jump up and run naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka!" 3 This serendipitous discovery may easily have been eclipsed by the public outcry surrounding Archimedes' unconventional behavior. Coincidentally, however, his close friend King Hieron of Syracuse had just been cheated by a goldsmith and was able to use the newly defined principle …


The Dynamics Of Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution: Two Florida Case Studies, Robert Levy Jan 2005

The Dynamics Of Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution: Two Florida Case Studies, Robert Levy

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Criminal justice scholars agree that the process cannot adequately be captured simply by reporting guilty pleas, jury acquittals and convictions. Rather, one must imagine a giant cornucopia, the large end representing the huge mass of unreported and uncleared crimes, the small end representing the small number of convicted felons sentenced to prison. Between these terminal points can be found all those criminals the police decide not to arrest or refer for prosecution, all those cases prosecutors decide not to prosecute, the cases prosecutors decide to dismiss (or "nolle prosequi," often referred to as "nol pros") after they have been filed, …


Sentencing Guidelines In Minnesota, 1978-2003, Richard Frase Jan 2005

Sentencing Guidelines In Minnesota, 1978-2003, Richard Frase

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This article examines the origins, purposes, evolution, and impact of Minnesota's pioneering sentencing guidelines reform. The Guidelines, related sentencing laws, and charging and sentencing practices have evolved considerably since 1980, and so have Minnesota's reform goals. Most of these goals have been achieved: sentences are more uniform and proportionate; policy formulation is more systematic and informed by data; sentencing has been coordinated with available correctional resources, avoiding prison overcrowding and ensuring that space is available to hold the most serious offenders; "truth in sentencing" has been achieved; custodial sanctions have been used sparingly; and the Guidelines remain fairly simple to …


Punishment And Crime Across Space And Time, Michael Tonry, David P. Farrington Jan 2005

Punishment And Crime Across Space And Time, Michael Tonry, David P. Farrington

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Cross-National Measures Of Punitiveness, Alfred Blumstein, Michael Tonry, Asheley Van Ness Jan 2005

Cross-National Measures Of Punitiveness, Alfred Blumstein, Michael Tonry, Asheley Van Ness

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State Sentencing Guidelines: Diversity, Consensus, And Unresolved Policy Issues, Richard Frase Jan 2005

State Sentencing Guidelines: Diversity, Consensus, And Unresolved Policy Issues, Richard Frase

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