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Solving The Everyday Problem Of Client Identity In The Context Of Closely Held Businesses, Darian M. Ibrahim
Solving The Everyday Problem Of Client Identity In The Context Of Closely Held Businesses, Darian M. Ibrahim
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No abstract provided.
The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, Scott Dodson
The Peculiar Federal Marriage Amendment, Scott Dodson
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In this essay, I discuss the Constitution's commitment to three themes - state power over familial matters, individual liberty, and equality - and then demonstrate how the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment is uniquely contrary to all three. I do not intend to go so far as to suggest that the FMA would be an unconstitutional amendment, if such things are possible, nor do I mean to suggest that same-sex marriage is or should be affirmatively protected by the Constitution. I mean only to suggest that proposed amendments altering the Constitution's commitment to multiple existing themes in the Constitution should be …
Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson
Bankruptcy And Mortgage Lending: The Homeowner Dilemma, A. Mechele Dickerson
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No abstract provided.
Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson
Race Matters In Bankruptcy, A. Mechele Dickerson
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No abstract provided.
The Judicial Safeguards Of Federalism, Neal Devins
The Judicial Safeguards Of Federalism, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
Statutory Interpretation In Econotopia, Nathan B. Oman
Statutory Interpretation In Econotopia, Nathan B. Oman
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Much of the debate in the recent revival of interest in statutory interpretation centers on whether or not courts should use legislative history in construing statutes. The consensus in favor of this practice has come under sharp attack from public choice critics who argue that traditional models of legislative intent are positively and normatively incoherent. This paper argues that in actual practice, courts look at a fairly narrow subset of legislative history. By thinking about the power to write that legislative history as a property right and legislatures as markets, it is possible to use Coase's Theorem and the concept …
Why (Consumer) Bankruptcy?, Richard M. Hynes
Why (Consumer) Bankruptcy?, Richard M. Hynes
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No abstract provided.
Terminating Calder: "Effects" Based Jurisdiction In The Ninth Circuit After Schwarzenegger V. Fred Martin Motor Co., A. Benjamin Spencer
Terminating Calder: "Effects" Based Jurisdiction In The Ninth Circuit After Schwarzenegger V. Fred Martin Motor Co., A. Benjamin Spencer
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In Calder v. Jones, the Supreme Court clearly and succinctly determined that personal jurisdiction is appropriate over a defendant whose only contact with the forum state is its intentional actions aimed at and having harmful "effects" in the forum state. Illustrating the extent to which the law of personal jurisdiction had been relaxed from the time of Pennoyer v. Neff and International Shoe Co. v. Washington, Calder also extended the reach of state courts by permitting jurisdiction over out-of-state defendants on the strength of the plaintiffs' connections with the forum state. Although Calder provided a welcome and much …
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
The Majoritarian Rehnquist Court?, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
The Constitutionality Of The Filibuster, Michael J. Gerhardt
The Constitutionality Of The Filibuster, Michael J. Gerhardt
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No abstract provided.
International Courts And Tribunals, Nancy Amoury Combs, Ucheora O. Onwuamaegbu, Mark B. Rees, Jacqueline Weisman
International Courts And Tribunals, Nancy Amoury Combs, Ucheora O. Onwuamaegbu, Mark B. Rees, Jacqueline Weisman
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This article reviews and summarizes significant developments in 2003 concerning international courts and tribunals, particularly events relating to the International Court of Justice, the United Nations Compensation Commission, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and the Claims Resolution Tribunal. Other articles in this issue detail significant developments relating to the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the proposed additional ad hoc international criminal tribunals, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the World Trade Organization dispute settlement system, and other trade dispute settlement systems.
Judicial Dialogue For Legal Multiculturalism, Charles H. Koch Jr.
Judicial Dialogue For Legal Multiculturalism, Charles H. Koch Jr.
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No abstract provided.
A Politically Viable Approach To Sovereign Debt Restructuring, A. Mechele Dickerson
A Politically Viable Approach To Sovereign Debt Restructuring, A. Mechele Dickerson
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The failure to enact a statutory system to restructure sovereign debt suggests that the international community is still unwilling to adopt a unified global response to insolvency issues. Since nations refused to enact uniform legislation to facilitate more orderly business insolvencies within a sovereign, it is not surprising that recent attempts to create uniform legislation that addresses the insolvency of sovereigns themselves have been unsuccessful. While a comprehensive statutory approach can predictably and efficiently restructure all of a sovereign's debts, the failed experience with uniform cross-border insolvency legislation suggests that sovereigns will not accept an inflexible statutory scheme that contains …
Mistaking Marriage For Social Policy, Vivian E. Hamilton
Mistaking Marriage For Social Policy, Vivian E. Hamilton
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This Article examines the role of marriage in society, focusing on the state's use of marriage as a proxy for desirable outcomes in social policy. Its analytical point of departure is the normative vision of modern marriage embraced by many of its proponents. From there, the idealized marriage is analyzed, not as a monolithic, opaque institution, but as one whose functional components may be identified and examined. The Article identifies the following as the primary functions of the normative marital family: expression; companionship; sex/procreation; caretaking; and economic support or redistribution. Analyzing the roles in society of each of these functions, …
The Many Faces Of Chapter 11: A Reply To Professor Baird, A. Mechele Dickerson
The Many Faces Of Chapter 11: A Reply To Professor Baird, A. Mechele Dickerson
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No abstract provided.
Australia And The United States: Two Common Criminal Justice Systems Uncommonly At Odds, Paul Marcus, Vicki Waye
Australia And The United States: Two Common Criminal Justice Systems Uncommonly At Odds, Paul Marcus, Vicki Waye
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At first glance the criminal justice systems of Australia and the United States look strikingly similar. With common law roots from England, they both emphasize the adversary system, the roleof the advocate, the presumption of innocence, and an appeals process. Upon closer reflection,however, they appear starkly different. From both Australian and U.S. perspectives, the authorsexplore those differences, examining important features such as the exclusion of evidence, rules regarding interrogation, the entrapment defense, and the open nature of trials. The Article concludes with an analysis of the reasons for those differences, reasons that heavily relate back to the founding of the …
The Vienna Convention On The Law Of Treaties In U.S. Treaty Interpretation, Evan J. Criddle
The Vienna Convention On The Law Of Treaties In U.S. Treaty Interpretation, Evan J. Criddle
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No abstract provided.
Book Review Of The Home Office And The Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease In Victorian And Edwardian Britain, Michael Ashley Stein
Book Review Of The Home Office And The Dangerous Trades: Regulating Occupational Disease In Victorian And Edwardian Britain, Michael Ashley Stein
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No abstract provided.
Nietzsche’S Place In Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Michael S. Green
Nietzsche’S Place In Nineteenth Century German Philosophy, Michael S. Green
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No abstract provided.
What Corporate Tax Shelters Can Teach Us About The Structure Of Subchapter C, Glenn E. Coven
What Corporate Tax Shelters Can Teach Us About The Structure Of Subchapter C, Glenn E. Coven
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Coven argues that the rules extending nonrecognition treatment to the incorporation of property never have been properly integrated with the double taxation of corporations. As a result, the duplicate burden or benefit is applied retroactively. That defect, Coven believes, has been long overlooked, but now that it has been exploited by one popular version of the loss replicating corporate tax shelter, it must be addressed. The remedy applied by Congress to the tax shelter in section 358(h) is insufficient, does not operate correctly and undermines the integrity of the code, he says.
This article proposes a more comprehensive solution that …
Sec Debarment Of Officers And Directors After Sarbanes-Oxley, Jayne W. Barnard
Sec Debarment Of Officers And Directors After Sarbanes-Oxley, Jayne W. Barnard
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No abstract provided.
What Brown Teaches Us About The Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revival, Neal Devins
What Brown Teaches Us About The Rehnquist Court's Federalism Revival, Neal Devins
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No abstract provided.
The Ultimate Independence Of The Federal Courts: Defying The Supreme Court In The Exercise Of Federal Common Law Powers, Ronald H. Rosenberg
The Ultimate Independence Of The Federal Courts: Defying The Supreme Court In The Exercise Of Federal Common Law Powers, Ronald H. Rosenberg
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No abstract provided.
School Accountability And ‘High Stakes’ Testing, James G. Dwyer
School Accountability And ‘High Stakes’ Testing, James G. Dwyer
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No abstract provided.
The Entrapment Defense: An Interview, Paul Marcus
The Entrapment Defense: An Interview, Paul Marcus
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No abstract provided.
Basis Shifting - A Radical Approach To An Intractable Problem, Glenn E. Coven
Basis Shifting - A Radical Approach To An Intractable Problem, Glenn E. Coven
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Coven asserts that one of the lingering ambiguities in subchapter C is how an appropriate tax benefit can be obtained from the tax basis that "disappears" when a shareholder's interest is completely redeemed but the transaction is treated as a dividend because stock held by others is attributed to the former shareholder. He believes that Treasury was content to rely on manifestly inadequate regulations to resolve that issue until taxpayers discovered how to convert those regulations into a potent tax shelter. The amendment to those regulations, proposed in 2002, however, was fatally flawed, according to Coven.
In this article, Coven …
Non-Procrustean Bankruptcy, Richard M. Hynes
Non-Procrustean Bankruptcy, Richard M. Hynes
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Many advocates of bankruptcy reform bristle at aspects of the bankruptcy system they find distributively "unfair." These scholars point to the instances in which wealthy debtors have been able to retain million-dollar homes and luxury items, examples which at first glance might offend any reasonable sense of decency or fairness. Yet if bankruptcy provides insurance otherwise unavailable because of market failures, then an ideal bankruptcy system would embrace much of this inequality in post-bankruptcy standards of living. The wealthy generally choose private contracts that ensure their high standards of living. Though others envy these benefits, they do not wish to …
Same Struggle, Different Difference: Ada Accommodations As Antidiscrimination, Michael Ashley Stein
Same Struggle, Different Difference: Ada Accommodations As Antidiscrimination, Michael Ashley Stein
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was heralded as an "emancipation proclamation" for people with disabilities, one that would achieve their equality primarily through its reasonable accommodation requirements. Nevertheless, both legal commentators and Supreme Court Justices assert that the ADA's employment mandates distinguish the ADA from earlier antidiscrimination measures, most notably Title VII, because providing accommodations results in something more than equality for the disabled. The Article challenges this prevalent belief by arguing that ADA-mandated accommodations are consistent with other antidiscrimination measures in that each remedies exclusion from employment opportunity by questioning the inherency of established workplace norms, and by …
The Political Economy Of Property Exemption Laws, Richard M. Hynes, Anup Malani, Eric A. Posner
The Political Economy Of Property Exemption Laws, Richard M. Hynes, Anup Malani, Eric A. Posner
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Exemption laws enable people who default on loans to protect certain assets from liquidation. Every state has its own set of exemption laws, and they vary widely. The 1978 federal bankruptcy law contains a set of national exemptions, which debtors in bankruptcy are permitted to use instead of their state's exemptions unless the state has formally "opted out" of the federal system. We contend that states' decisions to opt out shed light on their exemption levels. We find that states are more likely to opt out if their state exemption is lower than the federal exemption and that states are …
Better Lucky Than Good, Neal Devins