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Full-Text Articles in Law
Stargazing: The Future Of American Products Liability Law, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski
Stargazing: The Future Of American Products Liability Law, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Closing The American Products Liability Frontier: The Rejection Of Liability Without Defect, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski
Closing The American Products Liability Frontier: The Rejection Of Liability Without Defect, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
For over one hundred years American courts expanded the rights of plaintiffs in products liability cases. First the courts eliminated the privity requirement, next the necessity of proving fault, and finally, the necessity of proving a production defect. The next logical step in this progression would be to eliminate the need to show any type of defect at all. In this Article, Professors Henderson and Twerski assert that this step cannot and will not be taken. They explore both the possibility of across-the-board liability without defect and the more limited idea of product-category liability without defect. They describe how a …
The Public Interest: A Matter Of Discretion?, R. Keith Higginson
The Public Interest: A Matter Of Discretion?, R. Keith Higginson
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
15 pages.
Federal Regulatory Interests In Water, Patricia Sanderson Port
Federal Regulatory Interests In Water, Patricia Sanderson Port
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
39 pages.
Contains references.
Dam Fights And Water Policy In California: 1969-1989, Harrison C. Dunning
Dam Fights And Water Policy In California: 1969-1989, Harrison C. Dunning
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
49 pages (includes illustrations and maps).
Contains references.
Big Horn River Litigation Experience: The Second Generation – Post Decree Administration, Gordon W. Fassett
Big Horn River Litigation Experience: The Second Generation – Post Decree Administration, Gordon W. Fassett
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
5 pages.
Negotiating An Indian Water Rights Settlement: The Colorado Ute Indian Experience, Lois G. Witte
Negotiating An Indian Water Rights Settlement: The Colorado Ute Indian Experience, Lois G. Witte
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
28 pages.
Pyramid Lake Negotiated Settlement: Overview And Perspective, Joe Ely
Pyramid Lake Negotiated Settlement: Overview And Perspective, Joe Ely
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
20 pages.
The 1990 Fort Hall Water Rights Agreement: A Study In The Federal Trust Responsibility, Indian Self-Determination, And Water Rights Settlement, John S. Bushman
The 1990 Fort Hall Water Rights Agreement: A Study In The Federal Trust Responsibility, Indian Self-Determination, And Water Rights Settlement, John S. Bushman
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
171 pages.
Coordinated Water Management Under The Prior Appropriation Doctrine In New Mexico: The Rio Grande Case – The Pecos River Case, Eluid L. Martinez
Coordinated Water Management Under The Prior Appropriation Doctrine In New Mexico: The Rio Grande Case – The Pecos River Case, Eluid L. Martinez
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
26 pages.
Colorado’S Law Of “Underground Water”: A Look At The South Platte Basin & Beyond, Lawrence J. Macdonnell
Colorado’S Law Of “Underground Water”: A Look At The South Platte Basin & Beyond, Lawrence J. Macdonnell
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
50 pages (includes illustrations and maps).
Contains footnotes.
Agenda: Innovation In Western Water Law And Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Innovation In Western Water Law And Management, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors Lawrence J. MacDonnell, David H. Getches, Charles F. Wilkinson and Richard B. Collins.
Pressures of population, drought, and changing water use have provided the impetus for numerous innovations in water law and management in recent years. The Center's annual conference June 5-7, 1991, will look at innovation and change in five areas--water planning, special water management areas, negotiated settlements of tribal water rights, conjunctive use of ground and surface water, and public values in water decision making. Each session will begin with talks by experts from several western …
Kansas Intensive Groundwater Use Control Areas, David L. Pope
Kansas Intensive Groundwater Use Control Areas, David L. Pope
Innovation in Western Water Law and Management (Summer Conference, June 5-7)
22 pages (includes maps).
Contains references.
Judicial Reliance On Public Policy: An Empirical Analysis Of Products Liability Decisions, James A. Henderson Jr.
Judicial Reliance On Public Policy: An Empirical Analysis Of Products Liability Decisions, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The American Jury At Twenty-Five Years, Valerie P. Hans, Neil Vidmar
The American Jury At Twenty-Five Years, Valerie P. Hans, Neil Vidmar
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The year 1991 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Hans Zeisel's classic work, The American Jury. Arguably one of the most important books in the field of law and social science, this research monograph began the modrn field of jury studies and deeply influenced contemporary understanding of the jury as an institution.
In this essay we assess the book from the vantage point of a quarter- century. First, we provide a historical backdrop by reviewing the activities of the University of Chicago's Jury Project that led to the publication of The American Jury …
The Rehnquist Court, Statutory Interpretation, Inertial Burdens, And A Misleading Version Of Democracy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
The Rehnquist Court, Statutory Interpretation, Inertial Burdens, And A Misleading Version Of Democracy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
No one theory or school of thought consistently dominates judicial application of statutes, but the basic methodology employed by courts seems well-established if not always well-defined. Most mainstream judges and lawyers faced with a statutory construction task will look at (although with varying emphasis) the text of the statute, the legislative history of the provision, the context of the enactment, evident congressional purpose, and applicable agency interpretations, often employing the canons of construction for assistance. Although orthodox judicial thought suggests that the judge's role is confined to discerning textual meaning or directives of the enacting legislature, courts also often examine …
The Expert In U.S. And German Patent Litigation, James Maxeiner
The Expert In U.S. And German Patent Litigation, James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
The expert often plays a crucial role in patent litigation in both Germany and the United States. Determination of facts and application of law to facts frequently require a technical understanding that only an expert can provide. Despite the similarity of the problem of conveying information to the decision-maker, the role of the expert in the two systems and the manner in which the problem of providing technical knowledge necessary for the decision is solved are so very different, that German jurists who transfer their German experiences and expectations over to US procedures, are in danger of experiencing great disappointment …
Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, Jill E. Fisch
Start Making Sense: An Analysis And Proposal For Insider Trading Regulation, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Preventive Law And The Legal Autopsy: For Legal Profession As A Whole, It's A Learning And Research Tool, Robert M. Hardaway
Preventive Law And The Legal Autopsy: For Legal Profession As A Whole, It's A Learning And Research Tool, Robert M. Hardaway
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
The legal autopsy can be a careful learning and research tool, not only for the individual practitioner, but for the legal profession as a whole. A complete (or "horizontal") autopsy which includes an investigation of both sides of a case can be expensive and time-consuming to prepare. In many cases, practical consideration may dictate a more limited (or "vertical")-but also useful-autopsy investigating only one side of the case.
The Relationship Between Plaintiff Sucess Rates Before Trial And At Trial, Theodore Eisenberg
The Relationship Between Plaintiff Sucess Rates Before Trial And At Trial, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Legal cases that reach trial are a biased subset of underlying disputes. This makes it difficult to study the legal system by observing tried cases. This paper examines the relationship between plaintiff success at pretrial motion and trial stages across many categories of cases. The large, significant positive relationship between plaintiff success rates at these two procedural stages suggests that characteristics of case categories influence outcomes at both stages. Observers of a category of tried cases or cases resolved by motion can make informed judgments about how that category of cases fares at the other procedural stage.
Citizen Comprehension Of Difficult Issues: Lessons From Civil Jury Trials, Joe S. Cecil, Valerie P. Hans, Elizabeth C. Wiggins
Citizen Comprehension Of Difficult Issues: Lessons From Civil Jury Trials, Joe S. Cecil, Valerie P. Hans, Elizabeth C. Wiggins
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Lay participation in debates concerning public policies is a touchstone of a democracy. The Constitution enshrines this value not only by providing for a system of elected representatives, but also by recognizing the right to trial by jury. When a democratic society seeks to impose the rigors of the law on an individual, it must justify those standards to a panel of citizens and allow the austere expression of the law to become infused with the values of the community. Through this process, the vision of justice shared by members of the community informs the dialogue of adjudication.
The increasing …
The First Amendment In Litigation: The Law Of The First Amendment, Robert Allen Sedler
The First Amendment In Litigation: The Law Of The First Amendment, Robert Allen Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Der Sachverständige In Patentrechtsstreitigkeiten In Den Usa Und Deutschland (The Expert In U.S. And German Patent Litigation), James Maxeiner
Der Sachverständige In Patentrechtsstreitigkeiten In Den Usa Und Deutschland (The Expert In U.S. And German Patent Litigation), James Maxeiner
All Faculty Scholarship
Ob in Deutschland oder in den Vereinigten Staaten, der Sachverstaendige spielt haeufig eine entscheidende Rolle in einem Patentrechtsstreit. Die Erforschung der Tatsachen wie auch die Anwendung des Rechts erfordern oft ein technisches Verstaendnis, das nur ein Experte liefern kann. Das Problem, wie diese Informationen demjenigen, der das Urteil faellen muss, nahegebracht werden koennen, stellt sich in beiden Systemen gleichermassen. Allerdings sind die Rolle des Sachverstaendigen und die Art, wie diese Informationen uebertragen werden, hier und dort so verschieden, dass deutsche Juristen schwere Enttaeuschungen, wenn nicht sogar empfindliche Niederlagen befuerchten muessen, wenn sie ihre Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen auf den amerikanischen Prozess …
Rule 11 Recalibrated In Civil Rights Cases, Carl W. Tobias
Rule 11 Recalibrated In Civil Rights Cases, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
The United States Supreme Court promulgated the 1983 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure out of growing concern about abuse of the civil litigation process. The most controversial aspect of the implementation of these revisions has been judicial enforcement of amended Rule 11 (the Rule) in ways that disadvantage or "chill" civil rights plaintiffs and attorneys. As the federal judiciary enters its eighth year of implementing the Rule, courts apparently have improved their application of it by becoming more solicitous of the needs of civil rights plaintiffs and their counsel, in recognition of the important social function that …
New York Civil Practice, Jay C. Carlisle
New York Civil Practice, Jay C. Carlisle
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
During the Survey year, the New York Court of Appeals issued important opinions with respect to strict compliance for service of process, the foreign object exception under CPLR 214-a, and disclosure against corporate employees. The Court also imposed sanctions for the first time under Part 130 of the Uniform Rules, and ruled that issue preclusion could be given to a criminal conviction to preclude subsequent civil litigation. In addition the Court recognized that substituted service could be used against a criminal contemnor. New York appellate courts issued instructive decisions regarding long-arm jurisdiction, forum non conveniens, and discovery of surveillance videos. …
Who's Zoomin' Who?: Comments On Liability For Pharmaceutical Products In Canada, Allan C. Hutchinson, Sue Hodgson
Who's Zoomin' Who?: Comments On Liability For Pharmaceutical Products In Canada, Allan C. Hutchinson, Sue Hodgson
Articles & Book Chapters
A collection of papers from the ninth Fulbright Colloquium held in September 1989. The papers compare legal practices and procedures in North America and Europe and the barriers to drug development caused by increased litigation in cases involving pharmaceutical products.
Expert Evidence, Samuel R. Gross
Expert Evidence, Samuel R. Gross
Articles
It seems that the use of expert witnesses in common law courts has always been troublesome. In his Treatise on the Law of Evidence, first published in 1848, Judge John Pitt Taylor describes several classes of witnesses whose testimony should be viewed with caution, including: enslaved people (which accounts for "the lamentable neglect of truth, which is evinced by most of the nations of India, by the subjects of the Czar, and by many of the peasantry in Ireland"); women (because they are more susceptible to "an innate vain love of the marvelous"); and "foreigners and others ... living out …
Community Institution Building: A Response To The Limits Of Litigation In Addressing The Problem Of Homelessness, Ronald Slye
Community Institution Building: A Response To The Limits Of Litigation In Addressing The Problem Of Homelessness, Ronald Slye
Faculty Articles
This article draws upon the experiences of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization at Yale Law School to argue that, while litigation has a place in addressing both the problem of homelessness and the problems of the homeless, it must be placed within a broader context and supplemented by other, non-litigious, legal activity. Using as an example a lawsuit brought on behalf of homeless families in Connecticut, this article makes four observations which support the conclusion that litigation, used alone, is an ineffective means of addressing the problem of homelessness.
Rules Of Evidence Amendments, Paul C. Giannelli
Rules Of Evidence Amendments, Paul C. Giannelli
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Best Evidence Rule, Paul C. Giannelli