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Use It Or Pretenders Will Abuse It: The Importance Of Archival Legal Information, Theodore Eisenberg
Use It Or Pretenders Will Abuse It: The Importance Of Archival Legal Information, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Archival information about the legal system should inform policymaking. Despite claims of soaring civil damages awards, modem historical data show no to little growth in tort awards and no real growth in punitive damages awards. The data also show a dramatic forty-year decline in trial rates from more than ten percent of case dispositions to less than two percent. The decline needs to be explained in part by using archival data. Contrary to perceptions underlying the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, little systematic evidence exists that state and federal courts process class actions significantly different. These results contradict the …
Why (Only) Esops?, Robert C. Hockett
Why (Only) Esops?, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Max Weber, Talcott Parsons And The Sociology Of Legal Reform: A Reassessment With Implications For Law And Development, Chantal Thomas
Max Weber, Talcott Parsons And The Sociology Of Legal Reform: A Reassessment With Implications For Law And Development, Chantal Thomas
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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What's Wrong With Being Creative And Aggressive?, W. Bradley Wendel
What's Wrong With Being Creative And Aggressive?, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
When I tell people that I am a law professor specializing in legal ethics, they usually have one of two reactions: “Legal ethics—that’s an oxymoron!” or “I bet you always have a lot to do.” The second reaction is the more interesting of the two, because it rightly implies that legal ethics is a fascinating field, in part because lawyers are always thinking of new ways to get into trouble. Many run-of-the-mill lawyer disciplinary cases involve simple wrongdoing, such as stealing from client funds, which does not present conceptually interesting issues. Contemporary high-profile legal ethics scandals, by contrast, are made …
Some Observations On The Role Of Social Change On The Courts, Gerald Torres
Some Observations On The Role Of Social Change On The Courts, Gerald Torres
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Institutional Fixes Versus Fixed Institutions, Robert C. Hockett
Institutional Fixes Versus Fixed Institutions, Robert C. Hockett
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
A number of philosophers, policy thinkers and activists have despaired over the prospect that global institutions can bring progressive change to the international order. They advocate that those who would change things should place their hopes in global social movements rather than global institutions. This essay humbly suggests that we ought to do both. Global institutions require an active global civil society that includes social movements if they would not lose their senses of mission and purpose. Global social movements for their part require global institutions to serve as focal points for their efforts, which are otherwise threatened with diffusion …