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The Reluctant Partner: Making Procedural Law For International Civil Litigation, Stephen B. Burbank Jul 1994

The Reluctant Partner: Making Procedural Law For International Civil Litigation, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

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Rights And Irresponsibility, Linda C. Mcclain Mar 1994

Rights And Irresponsibility, Linda C. Mcclain

Faculty Scholarship

There can be little doubt that a marked discontent with rights and "rights talk" is in the air, as are calls for a turn to responsibility and "responsibility talk."' In a broad range of contemporary discourses, rights are juxtaposed against responsibility as if the two were inversely or even perversely related to one another. Indeed, rights are said to license irresponsibility. Academics, politicians, and the popular media claim that Americans increasingly invoke rights talk and shrink from responsibility talk and that as a result America suffers from an explosion of frivolous assertions of rights' and a breakdown of responsible conduct. …


Ancient Law And Modern Eyes, David Snyder Jan 1994

Ancient Law And Modern Eyes, David Snyder

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Appellate Court Reform In Ontario: A Consultation Paper, John D. Mccamus, D. F. Bur Jan 1994

Appellate Court Reform In Ontario: A Consultation Paper, John D. Mccamus, D. F. Bur

Commissioned Reports, Studies and Public Policy Documents

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Joinder Of Tort Claims In Divorce Actions, Barbara Glesner Fines Jan 1994

Joinder Of Tort Claims In Divorce Actions, Barbara Glesner Fines

Faculty Works

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Pretrial Case Management Under The Amended Rules: Too Many Words For A Good Idea, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1994

Pretrial Case Management Under The Amended Rules: Too Many Words For A Good Idea, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

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Arbitrability In Recent Federal Civil Rights Legislation: The Need For Amendment, Douglas E. Abrams Jan 1994

Arbitrability In Recent Federal Civil Rights Legislation: The Need For Amendment, Douglas E. Abrams

Faculty Publications

This Article discusses the shortcomings inherent in the consideration and enactment of the arbitrability provisions of the ADA and the 1991 Civil Rights Act. As a threshold matter, Part II demonstrates that the latter Act's textual encouragement of arbitration indicates that Congress misapprehended the effect of Gilmer, which the Supreme Court had decided barely six months before the Act's passage. Specifically, this Part will argue that after Gilmer, textual encouragement of arbitration has little or no greater legal significance than textual silence would have. In the few decades before the decision, textual encouragement would have had significant impact because particular …