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Taking The Punishment Out Of The Process: From Substantive Criminal Justice Through Procedural Justice To Restorative Justice, Brenda Sims Blackwell, Clark D. Cunningham
Taking The Punishment Out Of The Process: From Substantive Criminal Justice Through Procedural Justice To Restorative Justice, Brenda Sims Blackwell, Clark D. Cunningham
Law and Contemporary Problems
If the punishment is taken out of the process, and the processes of criminal justice become effective at restoration--and if rigorous empirical research might show that a restorative process costs less money and produces greater public safety--that would be a result everyone would embrace.
Democracy And The Dominance Of Delaware In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield
Democracy And The Dominance Of Delaware In Corporate Law, Kent Greenfield
Law and Contemporary Problems
Delaware has a population less than one-third of one percent of the nation, but it is the state of incorporation for more than fifty percent of US public companies and more than sixty percent of the Fortune 500. Delaware's resulting dominance over the terms of corporate governance in the US has been the subject of one of the grandest debates within corporate law scholarship.
Foreword, Christopher Ryan Hart
Muss Es Sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, Anita Bernstein
Muss Es Sein? Not Necessarily, Says Tort Law, Anita Bernstein
Law and Contemporary Problems
The rule of law helps to check tendencies to excess, aligns remedies with what happened to similarly situated persons in the past, and give both power and accountability to public officials. Asserting its perpetual demand of Muss es sein? in reaction to oppressions, tort law jolts stais into change.
Should Noncommercial Associations Have An Absolute Right To Discriminate?, Andrew Koppelman
Should Noncommercial Associations Have An Absolute Right To Discriminate?, Andrew Koppelman
Law and Contemporary Problems
An association is more likely to win immunity from an antidiscrimination law, the more clearly its message is a discriminatory one. Boy Scouts of America v. Dale is in some tension with this rule, but the opinion is so muddled that it establishes no new rule to displace the old one.
Capitalism And Freedom — For Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law, Kellye Y. Testy
Capitalism And Freedom — For Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory And Progressive Corporate Law, Kellye Y. Testy
Law and Contemporary Problems
Progressive corporate law has the potential to realign corporate activity and market economies with human benefit. The present state of disruption in the economy is a key moment: with disruption comes the opportunity for change.
Corporate Law Or The Law Of Business?: Stakeholders And Corporate Governance At The End Of History, Adam Winkler
Corporate Law Or The Law Of Business?: Stakeholders And Corporate Governance At The End Of History, Adam Winkler
Law and Contemporary Problems
Surely, corporate managers themselves, who must operate within the broader law of business, are aware of the legally imposed duties to protect workders, consumers, and larger communities. Perhaps it is time corporate lawyers caught up to this reality.
International Law, International Relations Theory, And Preemptive War: The Vitality Of Sovereign Equality Today, Thomas H. Lee
International Law, International Relations Theory, And Preemptive War: The Vitality Of Sovereign Equality Today, Thomas H. Lee
Law and Contemporary Problems
The norm of sovereign equality in international law is so resolutely canonical that its precise meaning, origins, and justifications are rarely examined. Whatever the general merits of the norm, its retention seems fairly open to question when one sovereign state appears supremely unequal among 191 states in terms of military power.
The Future And Past Of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Martin S. Flaherty
The Future And Past Of U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Martin S. Flaherty
Law and Contemporary Problems
The increasing role that the US plays in the world can only mean a correspondingly greater role for foreign affairs law in the US legal community. The Supreme Court has recently cited international and comparative law materials to a striking, and all but unprecedented, degree.
Disaggregating U.S. Interests In International Law, Peter J. Spiro
Disaggregating U.S. Interests In International Law, Peter J. Spiro
Law and Contemporary Problems
The Constitution is so central to American identity that any concession of external constitutional constraints may constitute a threat to national self-determination. This explains the relative intensity of objections to international norms and institutions thought to compromise constitutional discretion, at least in the absence of countervailing interests.
The Post-Zelman Voucher Battleground: Where To Turn After Federal Challenges To Blaine Amendments Fail, Luke A. Lantta
The Post-Zelman Voucher Battleground: Where To Turn After Federal Challenges To Blaine Amendments Fail, Luke A. Lantta
Law and Contemporary Problems
Lantta presents information concerning the US Supreme Court decision Zelman v. Simmons-Harris and its impact upon school voucher programs. School voucher proponents are now attempting to bring about the revocation of Blaine amendments to state laws that prohibit the public funding of private schools in one form or another.
Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
Law and Contemporary Problems
Tsai examines the ways in which the US Supreme Court uses language to signal its authority. One technique of the Court is to frequently use the image of institutional conflict within its rulings.
Functional Departmentalism And Nonjudicial Interpretation: Who Determines Constitutional Meaning?, Dawn E. Johnsen
Functional Departmentalism And Nonjudicial Interpretation: Who Determines Constitutional Meaning?, Dawn E. Johnsen
Law and Contemporary Problems
Johnsen examines the roles of nonjudicial entities--especially the Congress and the president--in the development of constitutional meaning. Although the other two branches are fearful of challenging judiciary supremacy, functional departmentalism may offer a certain degree of autonomy from the Court.
Foreword, Christopher H. Schroeder
Foreword, Christopher H. Schroeder
Law and Contemporary Problems
In the summer of 2001, a group of lawyers, law professors, students, and judges formed the American Constitution Society. The organization’s avowed purpose is "to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people’s lives: and to "restore the fundamental principles of respect for human dignity, protection of individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful- and traditionally central-place in American law."1 By spring 2002, the American Constitution Society had formed more than fifty campus chapters, plus lawyer chapters …
Just Do It, Girardeau A. Spann
Left Out, Louis Michael Seidman
Left Out, Louis Michael Seidman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Seidman presents information on the collapse of the progressive left's position on criminal justice. The faltering of the left in this area is due to inherent contradictions in their position which have weakened their stance overall.
Warning: Labeling Constitutions May Be Hazardous To Your Regime, Suzanna Sherry
Warning: Labeling Constitutions May Be Hazardous To Your Regime, Suzanna Sherry
Law and Contemporary Problems
Sherry presents information concerning the labeling of court decisions as being liberal or conservative victories. Because each case can be viewed in different aspects of liberalism and conservatism, it is more appropriate to simply recognize that there are important, non-ideological values at stake on both sides of each case.
Progressive And Conservative Constitutionalism As The United States Enters The 21st Century, Erwin Chemerinsky
Progressive And Conservative Constitutionalism As The United States Enters The 21st Century, Erwin Chemerinsky
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
Law and Contemporary Problems
Devins examines the reasons behind the tendency of the US Supreme Court under William Rehnquist to strike down federal laws. Majoritarian forces, including the use of the Court as a check against Congress, have led to the invalidation of many federal statutes.
The Cycles Of Constitutional Theory, Barry Friedman
The Cycles Of Constitutional Theory, Barry Friedman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Friedman presents information on the cyclical nature of constitutional theory. Because constitutional theory is a reaction to the current developments of constitutional law, it is interesting to view constitutional issues through the framework of different historical circumstances.
The Antebellum Political Background Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps
The Antebellum Political Background Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Garrett Epps
Law and Contemporary Problems
Epps presents information concerning the historical context of the Fourteenth Amendment. Among other implications, the Amendment should be viewed as an effort to defend the national government from control by transient majorities or undemocratic factions in the states.
A Behavioral Analysis Of Private Judging, Christopher R. Drahozal
A Behavioral Analysis Of Private Judging, Christopher R. Drahozal
Law and Contemporary Problems
Businesses cite arbitration as a way to avoid aberrant jury verdicts, implicitly if not explicitly assuming that arbitrators make "better" decisions than juries. By contrast, consumer advocates criticize arbitration as a way for businesses to avoid paying damages to deserving claimants, effectively assuming that juries make better decisions than arbitrators. These conflicting perspectives pose an important question in the debate over predispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts: How do decisions by arbitrators compare to decisions by juries?
Arbitration Clauses, Jury-Waiver Clauses, And Other Contractual Waivers Of Constitutional Rights, Stephen J. Ware
Arbitration Clauses, Jury-Waiver Clauses, And Other Contractual Waivers Of Constitutional Rights, Stephen J. Ware
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Control Over Dispute-System Design And Mandatory Commercial Arbitration, Lisa B. Bingham
Control Over Dispute-System Design And Mandatory Commercial Arbitration, Lisa B. Bingham
Law and Contemporary Problems
This article argues that mandatory arbitration is not itself the problem. The problem is instead that in some instances, one party to the dispute has exclusive control of the design of the dispute-resolution system. Consequently, research on mandatory arbitration should concentrate on who is structuring it, how they structure it, why this is so and how these choices affect dispute outcomes.
Foreword, Thomas B. Metzloff
Correcting Federalism Mistakes In Statutory Interpretation: The Supreme Court And The Federal Arbitration Act, David S. Schwartz
Correcting Federalism Mistakes In Statutory Interpretation: The Supreme Court And The Federal Arbitration Act, David S. Schwartz
Law and Contemporary Problems
The current judicial treatment of the Federal Arbitration Act is an embarrassment to a Supreme Court whose majority is supposed to be leading a federalism revival, if not a federalism revolution. In 1984, in Southland Corp. v. Keating, the Court held that the FAA is substantive federal law that preempts state laws regulating arbitration agreements. The Court thereby transformed a quaint, 60-year-old procedural statute into "a permanent, unauthorized eviction of state-court power to adjudicate a potentially large class of disputes," as well as an eviction of state lawmaking power over the traditional state domain of contract law. Even worse, Southland …
“Volunteering” To Arbitrate Through Predispute Arbitration Clauses: The Average Consumer’S Experience, Linda J. Demaine, Deborah R. Hensler
“Volunteering” To Arbitrate Through Predispute Arbitration Clauses: The Average Consumer’S Experience, Linda J. Demaine, Deborah R. Hensler
Law and Contemporary Problems
This article helps build the empirical foundation necessary for an informed debate regarding arbitration clauses in consumer contracts by providing preliminary insight into how businesses' use of these clauses affects consumers' ability to pursue their legal rights. To this end, the article reports the results of a study investigating, in a wide variety of consumer purchases, the frequency with which the average consumer encounters arbitration clauses, the key provisions of these clauses, and the implications of these clauses for consumers who subsequently have disputes with businesses they patronize.