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Environmental Law For The 21st Century, E. Donald Elliott, Daniel C. Esty
Environmental Law For The 21st Century, E. Donald Elliott, Daniel C. Esty
Pace Environmental Law Review
In this issue, Professors Elliott and Esty expand on their original proposal and respond to critics.2 They apply their perspectives as practitioners, as well as academics, to develop their vision for environmental law in the 21st century. They establish three legal duties that should apply to entities that release potentially harmful materials into the environment. Professors Elliott and Esty contend that such entities have a duty (1) of research and disclosure to assure the public that any environmental releases are not harmful, (2) to minimize harm if they fail to demonstrate the releases are harmless, and (3) to compensate those …
Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals, Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada, Darren Bush
Why Economists Should Support Populist Antitrust Goals, Mark Glick, Gabriel A. Lozada, Darren Bush
Utah Law Review
Antitrust policy can be a powerful tool to tackle important social and economic problems. For decades antitrust enforcement has been shackled by the so-called Consumer Welfare Standard (“CWS”) that has limited the goals considered to be “legitimate.” The CWS limits antitrust goals to those that impact demand in markets, and primarily in output markets. Recently, new voices have come forward to suggest that antitrust policy should address several other important social objectives. Such goals include the traditional antitrust goals that motivated passage of the antitrust statutes, and which were discussed in Pre-Rehnquist Court opinions, including dispersion of economic and political …
Ohio House Bills 168 And 110: Just Another Drop In The Bucket For Brownfield Redevelopment?, Mia Petrucci
Ohio House Bills 168 And 110: Just Another Drop In The Bucket For Brownfield Redevelopment?, Mia Petrucci
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
This article examines Ohio House Bills 168 and 110. These House Bills provide liability protection to purchasers of brownfield sites, allocate $500 million dollars to brownfield funding—with $350 million allotted for investigation, cleanup, and revitalization of brownfield sites and $150 million for demolition of vacant/abandoned buildings—and create a new Building Demolition and Site Revitalization Program, for the revitalization of properties surrounding brownfield sites. In the first three Sections of this article, the concept of brownfield redevelopment is introduced, the associated challenges with brownfield projects are discussed, and attempts by federal and state governments to address brownfield remediation challenges in the …
The World's Most Powerful International Court? The Centrual American Court Of Justice And The Quest For De Facto Authority (1907-2020), Salvatore Caserta, Mikael Rask Madsen
The World's Most Powerful International Court? The Centrual American Court Of Justice And The Quest For De Facto Authority (1907-2020), Salvatore Caserta, Mikael Rask Madsen
American University International Law Review
The original Central American Court of Justice (CACJ) is often referenced as the world’s first international court (IC). Functioning from 1907 to 1918, and commonly known as the Cartago Court, this court was the first-ever IC and a precursor to the Permanent Court of Justice, or “World Court”, established in 1922 in The Hague. The CACJ does, however, hold another record. The current incarnation of the court – established in 1994, in Managua, Nicaragua as the judicial arm of the Central American System of Economic Integration (Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA) – which is the world’s most powerful international …
The Unidentified Wrongdoer, Ronen Perry
The Unidentified Wrongdoer, Ronen Perry
Georgia Law Review
This Article addresses the untheorized and under-researched problem of strong unidentifiability in tort law, namely the victim’s occasional inability to identify the direct wrongdoer, or even an ascertainable group to which the wrongdoer belongs, and bring an action against him or her. This Article offers a systematic analysis and a general theoretical framework for the appraisal of possible solutions to strong unidentifiability problems, which undermine liability and frustrate its goals.
Part I presents the main legal models developed and used to overcome these problems in different contexts and various legal systems: adherence to direct liability with creative procedural identification tools, …
Shareholder Wealth Maximization: A Schelling Point, Martin Edwards
Shareholder Wealth Maximization: A Schelling Point, Martin Edwards
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
Imagine a reality television game show where two contestants begin the game in two different places in New York City. The object of the game is for the two contestants to find each other, but they do not know anything about each other and they have no way of communicating. If they succeed, both contestants win a prize. If they fail, they get nothing. With no ability to explicitly bargain over the meeting, the parties have to make an educated guess about what the other person is most likely to do. Most people, confronted with this sort of tacit …
Property As Rent, Faisal Chaudhry
Property As Rent, Faisal Chaudhry
St. John's Law Review
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What is property? Over the course of the past two decades, legal scholars have reopened this question in a highly visible and often fractious way. On one side of the renewed debate are those who have sought to restore an object-centered model of property as an in rem right to exclude; on the other are those who have sought to reorient the old adage that property is a “bundle of sticks” toward a new emphasis on property’s role in forging social relations and democratic community. Sometimes known as a split between the “ownership” versus “progressive property” models, as fruitful …
Rethinking Appeals, Uri Weiss
Rethinking Appeals, Uri Weiss
Touro Law Review
This paper makes the point that a court decision that is open to an appeal is akin to a take-it-or-leave-it settlement proposal for both parties. For the case to not be appealed, both parties need to “take,” i.e., accept, this proposal. Thus, on one hand, if both parties cannot achieve a settlement by themselves, they usually benefit from the right to appeal. On the other hand, a right to appeal activates the regressive effects that characterize settlements, which also applies to lower-court decisions. For example, legal uncertainty has a regressive effect on lower-court decisions: if the judge wishes to block …
Bankruptcy's Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Distress, Vincent S.J. Buccola
Bankruptcy's Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Distress, Vincent S.J. Buccola
Northwestern University Law Review
What justifies corporate bankruptcy law in the modern economy? For forty years, economically oriented theorists have rationalized bankruptcy as an antidote to potential coordination failures associated with a company’s financial distress. But the sophistication of financial contracting and the depth of capital markets today threaten the practical plausibility, if not the theoretical soundness, of the conventional model. This Article sets out a framework for assessing bankruptcy law that accounts for changes in the technology of corporate finance. It then applies the framework to three important artifacts of contemporary American bankruptcy practice, pointing toward a radically streamlined vision of the field. …
Cost-Benefit Analysis And Human Rights, William J. Aceves
Cost-Benefit Analysis And Human Rights, William J. Aceves
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
This Article considers whether cost-benefit analysis can provide the human rights movement with the answers it seeks. It offers an instrumentalist and empirical approach to complement the normative arguments that are most often used by the human rights movement. If human rights could be fully monetized, states could consider the full range of benefits that arise from protecting rights and the costs that occur when rights are violated. This approach could provide states with a more accurate methodology for making decisions that affect human rights. In fact, protecting human rights may prove to be costeffective, particularly when second order …
The Feel Of A Case: Virtue Decision-Making As The Correct Approach For Deciding Cases In Equity, Diego M. Pestana
The Feel Of A Case: Virtue Decision-Making As The Correct Approach For Deciding Cases In Equity, Diego M. Pestana
St. Thomas Law Review
Section I of this Article will provide a brief history of Law and Economics, beginning with its origins in the judicial philosophy of legal realism as espoused by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Section II will discuss the American Hospital case, where Judge Posner memorialized the Leubsdorf- Posner Formulation for granting preliminary injunctions. Section III examines the effect of American Hospital on the lower courts in the Seventh Circuit. Section IV will discuss how the Supreme Court has dealt with preliminary injunctions as well as the factors the Court provided district courts to consider. Section V will describe Professor Solum's idea of …
Compensation's Role In Deterrence, Russell M. Gold
Compensation's Role In Deterrence, Russell M. Gold
Notre Dame Law Review
There are plenty of noneconomic reasons to care whether victims are compensated in class actions. The traditional law-and-economics view, however, is that when individual claim values are small, there is no reason to care whether victims are compensated. Rather than compensation deterring wrongdoing is tort law’s primary economic objective. And on this score, law-and-economics scholars contend that only the aggregate amount of money that a defendant expects to pay affects deterrence. They say that it does not matter for deterrence purposes how that money is split between victims, lawyers, and charities. This Article challenges that claim about achieving tort law’s …
Socio-Economics: Challenging Mainstream Economic Models And Policies, Stefan J. Padfield
Socio-Economics: Challenging Mainstream Economic Models And Policies, Stefan J. Padfield
Akron Law Review
At a time when many people are questioning the ability of our current system to provide economic justice, the Socio-Economic perspective is particularly relevant to finding new solutions and ways forward. In this relatively short conclusion to the Akron Law Review’s publication, Law and Socio-Economics: A Symposium, I have separated the Symposium articles into three groups for review: (1) those that can be read as challenging mainstream economic models, (2) those that can be read as challenging mainstream policy conclusions, and (3) those that provide a good example of both. My reviews essentially take the form of providing a …
Why Working But Poor? The Need For Inclusive Capitalism, Robert Ashford
Why Working But Poor? The Need For Inclusive Capitalism, Robert Ashford
Akron Law Review
This Article addresses two questions: (1) What other solutions beyond those already tried can and should be employed to reduce poverty? and (2) What can legal scholars, lawyers, law schools, legal clinics, and law students do to reduce poverty? The answer to the first question is to establish an “inclusive capitalism” by democratizing “capital acquisition with the earnings of capital” based on the principles of binary economics. This democratization requires extending to poor and middleclass people competitive access to the same governmentsupported institutions of corporate finance, banking, insurance, reinsurance, and favorable tax and monetary policies that are presently available primarily …
Result Inequality In Family Law, Margaret F. Brinig
Result Inequality In Family Law, Margaret F. Brinig
Akron Law Review
To the extent that family law is governed by statute, all families are treated as though they are the same. This is of course consistent with the equal protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution as well as those of the states. However, in our pluralistic society, all families are not alike. At birth, some children are born to wealthy, married parents who will always put the children’s interests first and will never engage in domestic violence. Many laws benefit these children, while, according to some academics, they either further disadvantage other children or at best ignore their needs.
This Article …
The General Theory Of Second Best And Economic-Efficiency Analysis: The Theory, Its Negative Corollaries, The Appropriate Response To It, And A Coda On The Economic Efficiency Of Reducing Poverty And Income/Wealth Inequality, Richard S. Markovits
Akron Law Review
A great deal of Law & Economics scholarship focuses on the economic efficiency of a legal doctrine, judicial decision, statute, regulation, or proposed change in the law. This Article argues that virtually all such research is flawed (1) by its failure to consider the impact of the “law” it is analyzing on many of the categories of economic inefficiency whose magnitudes the “law” affects and (2) by its assumption that any “law” that reduces the number or magnitude of the (Pareto) imperfections in the economy (types of imperfections one of whose exemplars would cause economic inefficiency if it were the …
"The General Theory Of Second Best" - An Overview, Robert Ashford
"The General Theory Of Second Best" - An Overview, Robert Ashford
Akron Law Review
The following introductory note provides a brief overview of the General Theory of Second Best. This theory is discussed in much greater detail in the essay that follows entitled, The General Theory of Second Best and Economic-Efficiency Analysis: The Theory, its Negative Corollaries, the Appropriate Response to It, and a Coda on the Economic Efficiency of Reducing Poverty and Income/Wealth Inequality written by Professor of law and economics Richard Markovits. This theory, which regrettably is generally ignored in law and economics literature, explains how there is no reason to believe that policy decisions considered in isolation that move a particular …
A Socio-Economic Approach To Antitrust: Unpacking Competition, Consumer Surplus, And Allocative Efficiency, Jeffrey L. Harrison
A Socio-Economic Approach To Antitrust: Unpacking Competition, Consumer Surplus, And Allocative Efficiency, Jeffrey L. Harrison
Akron Law Review
The primary function of socio-economics is to ask questions and broaden the discussion. I have attempted to do that by unpacking and contextualizing the two economic goals of antitrust law - maximizing consumer surplus and allocative efficiency. I have avoided what I believe is today's faith-based approach as exemplified by the Supreme Court. That approach has now gone beyond economics and seems to reveal, in its most benign form, a deep distrust of government.
At its most basic and obvious level the two antitrust goals cede to those with income - earned or not - the right to determine how …
Economic Ideology And The Rise Of The Firm As A Criminal Enterprise, William K. Black, June Carbone
Economic Ideology And The Rise Of The Firm As A Criminal Enterprise, William K. Black, June Carbone
Akron Law Review
Over the last 50 years, the institutions, ideology, nature, and power of firms in the United States have been radically transformed. Neoclassical economics has led that transformation, supplying an ideology that justified a dramatic increase in top executive compensation while dismantling the mechanisms that produced personal accountability tied to anything but relatively short term shifts in share prices. Yet, alongside the rise of the corporation, from the time of Adam Smith forward, has been concern that the separation of ownership and control creates opportunities to use the corporation as a “weapon” of fraud, and with the return of global financial …
Homeschooling's Harms: Lessons From Economics, George Shepherd
Homeschooling's Harms: Lessons From Economics, George Shepherd
Akron Law Review
For more than two centuries, supporters of school choice programs, such as homeschooling, have attempted to invoke economic analysis. They have argued that school choice will cause public schools to improve because the public schools will no longer be monopolies; the new competition will discipline the public schools to improve. The argument is incorrect, as shown by both economic theory and empirical analysis. Economic theory indicates that, because of special characteristics of the market for education, competition will harm public schools, not help them. Likewise, empirical economic analysis confirms that competition will tend to harm public schools. Indeed, earlier school-choice …
Values And The Law: 2010 Aals Annual Meeting Luncheon Keynote Address, The Honorable Guido Calabresi
Values And The Law: 2010 Aals Annual Meeting Luncheon Keynote Address, The Honorable Guido Calabresi
Akron Law Review
Why is the transformative role of law so important? Why is it such an important part of what we do? Why is what law does so crucial, not just in changing rules of law, but in changing underlying values? Law changes values in ways that may be awful or may be glorious or may be prosaic. But everything we do in law does this. One of the reasons this is so is the blessing and curse of human beings . . . we are so adaptable. It is the secret, I think, of our survival, but it is also a …
Introduction To Socio-Economics: An Ethical Foundation For Law-Related Economic Analysis, Robert Ashford
Introduction To Socio-Economics: An Ethical Foundation For Law-Related Economic Analysis, Robert Ashford
Akron Law Review
This introductory Article to the Symposium Issue on Law and Socio-Economics (1) briefly explains the origin of the term “socio-economics,” (2) recounts the history of its formal introduction into legal education in 1997, (3) sets forth its underlying principles as a specific methodological approach to law-related economic analysis, (4) describes in greater detail some of its most important features, (5) compares the socio-economic approach to the narrower, neoclassical economic approach that dominates scholarship in “law and economics,” (6) explains the special connection between socio-economic principles and the ethical responsibilities of lawyers related to competence, candor, and the lawyer’s role as …
Why Law Now Needs To Control Rather Than Follow Neo-Classical Economics, John William Draper
Why Law Now Needs To Control Rather Than Follow Neo-Classical Economics, John William Draper
Pace Environmental Law Review
This article argues that neo-classical economics places an emphasis on short-term gain over precaution, and in doing so, places the lives of a myriad of individual humans—and even the species itself—at risk. Given the foreseeable risks, if humanity wants to survive longer, we need to rethink our economic principles and priorities and the relationship between economics and law.
I begin with a most brief overview of the various sources of risk to the human species and its life support system. Then I will move on to look at how neo-classical economics interacts with significant risk.
Online Sovereignty: The Law And Economics Of Tribal Electronic Commerce, Gavin Clarkson, Katherine A. Spilde, Carma M. Claw
Online Sovereignty: The Law And Economics Of Tribal Electronic Commerce, Gavin Clarkson, Katherine A. Spilde, Carma M. Claw
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
In 1886, the US Supreme Court wrote that, for Indian tribes,"the people of the states where they are found are often their deadliest enemies." Recently, state agencies and regulators have continued that tradition of hostility by improperly attempting to regulate electronic commerce businesses operated by tribal governments that are more properly subject to regulations established by tribal law and subject to federal oversight. Despite the fact that these online businesses operate exclusively under tribal law and make their tribal affiliation clear to customers, certain state regulators have demanded absolute compliance with state law, even when such laws are from states …
Book Review Of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking The American Family, By June Carbone Naomi Cahn, Deborah Zalesne, John Guyette
Book Review Of Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking The American Family, By June Carbone Naomi Cahn, Deborah Zalesne, John Guyette
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Bramble Bush Revisited: Llewellyn, The Great Depression, And The First Law School Crisis, 1929-1939, Anders Walker
Bramble Bush Revisited: Llewellyn, The Great Depression, And The First Law School Crisis, 1929-1939, Anders Walker
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
A Good Lawyer, Brigham A. Fordham
Book Review Of Freedom To Harm: The Lasting Legacy Of The Laissez-Faire Revival, By Thomas O. Mcgarity, Joel A. Mintz
Book Review Of Freedom To Harm: The Lasting Legacy Of The Laissez-Faire Revival, By Thomas O. Mcgarity, Joel A. Mintz
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Simpler: The Future Of Government, By Cass Sunstein, Bernard W. Bell
Book Review Of Simpler: The Future Of Government, By Cass Sunstein, Bernard W. Bell
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Rejecting The Legal Process Theory Joker: Bill Nelson's Scholarship On Judge Edward Weinfeld And Justice Byron White, Brad Snyder
Rejecting The Legal Process Theory Joker: Bill Nelson's Scholarship On Judge Edward Weinfeld And Justice Byron White, Brad Snyder
Chicago-Kent Law Review
My contribution to this tribute places Bill Nelson’s scholarship about Judge Edward Weinfeld and Justice Byron White within several contexts. It is a personal history of Nelson the law student, law clerk, and young scholar; an intellectual history of legal theory since the 1960s; an examination of the influence of legal theory on Nelson’s scholarship based on his writings about Weinfeld and White; and an example of how legal historians contend with the subject of judicial reputation. Nelson was one of many former Warren Court and Burger Court clerks who joined the professoriate and rejected the legal process theory that …