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A Most Useful Ball Of Thread, Review Of Navigating Hud Programs: A Practitioner's To The Labyrinth By George Weidenfeller & Julie S. Mcgovern, Eds., Nestor M. Davidson Jan 2013

A Most Useful Ball Of Thread, Review Of Navigating Hud Programs: A Practitioner's To The Labyrinth By George Weidenfeller & Julie S. Mcgovern, Eds., Nestor M. Davidson

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This book review of Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Labyrinth (George Weidenfeller & Julie McGovern eds., 2012) discusses the approach the book takes to a range of HUD programs, discusses some intimations of reform efforts suggested by the authors, and explores ways in which the book’s guidance reflects potential benefits in nascent HUD efforts at programmatic consolidation and modernization.


According To Our Hearts And Location: Toward A Structuralist Approach To The Study Of Interracial Families, Robin A. Lenhardt Jan 2013

According To Our Hearts And Location: Toward A Structuralist Approach To The Study Of Interracial Families, Robin A. Lenhardt

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This Article offers a review of Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s wonderful book, According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family. Race scholars have begun to productively deploy structuralism to discuss cumulative racial disadvantage and the ongoing, racially segregative effects of government systems and policies.
of such systems on intimate choice and family formation. Likewise, some scholars have employed structuralism to explore how law shapes our intimate preferences and opportunities for intimate engagements.
 Still, scholars of this very exciting work have not yet engaged as fully as they might regarding questions of race. This Article contends that …


Gideon’S Amici, Why Do Prosecutors So Rarely Defend The Rights Of The Accused?, Bruce A. Green Jan 2013

Gideon’S Amici, Why Do Prosecutors So Rarely Defend The Rights Of The Accused?, Bruce A. Green

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In Gideon v. Wainwright, twenty-three state attorneys general, led by Walter F. Mondale and Edward McCormack, joined an amicus brief on the side of the criminal accused, urging the Supreme Court to recognize indigent defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to appointed counsel in felony cases. This was a unique occurrence. Although amicus filings by public entities have increased significantly since then, including in criminal cases, government lawyers rarely submit amicus briefs in the Supreme Court supporting criminal defendants’ procedural rights, and never en masse as in Gideon. The states’ public support for Gideon’s position points up the special nature of the …


Waylaid By A Metaphor: A Deeply Problematic Account Of Prison Growth. Review Of Plague Of Prisons: The Epidemiology Of Mass Incarceration In America By Ernest Drucker, John F. Pfaff Jan 2013

Waylaid By A Metaphor: A Deeply Problematic Account Of Prison Growth. Review Of Plague Of Prisons: The Epidemiology Of Mass Incarceration In America By Ernest Drucker, John F. Pfaff

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This article reviews Ernest Drucker's recent book, "A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America," which attempts to explain the causes behind the explosion in prison growth over the past several decades. The account proves to be unsatisfying, and this review highlights four major flaws with Drucker's work. First, Drucker places too much weight on the war on drugs. While he argues it is the primary engine of prison growth, the increase in drug incarcerations explains only about 25% of the total growth since the 1970s. Second, he significantly underplays the importance of soaring crime rates between …


The Fraud-On-The-Market Tort, John C.P. Goldberg, Benjamin C. Zipursky Jan 2013

The Fraud-On-The-Market Tort, John C.P. Goldberg, Benjamin C. Zipursky

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Fraud on the market is at the core of contemporary securities law, permitting 10b-5 class actions to proceed without direct proof of investor reliance on a misrepresentation. Yet the ambiguities of this idea have fractured the Supreme Court from its initial recognition of the doctrine in Basic v. Levinson to its recent decision in Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds. Amidst divergent views of the coherence and advisability of liability for fraud on the market a fundamental question lurks: is a suit for damages that invokes the fraud-on-the-market theory a claim for common law deceit, such that …


The Market For Preclusion In Merger Litigation, Sean J. Griffith, Alexandra D. Lahav Jan 2013

The Market For Preclusion In Merger Litigation, Sean J. Griffith, Alexandra D. Lahav

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The recent finding that corporate litigation involving Delaware companies very often takes place outside of Delaware has disturbed the long-settled understanding of how merger litigation works. With many, even most, cases being filed and ultimately resolved outside of Delaware, commentators warn that the trend is a threat to shareholders, to Delaware, and to the integrity of corporate law generally. Although the out-of-Delaware trend suggests that litigants are seeking to use the procedural rules of other jurisdictions to their advantage, we argue that the result need not threaten the interests of any of the stakeholders in deal litigation. We reframe the …


Why Strickland Is The Wrong Test For Assessing Violations Of The Right To Testify, Daniel J. Capra, Joseph Tartakovsky Jan 2013

Why Strickland Is The Wrong Test For Assessing Violations Of The Right To Testify, Daniel J. Capra, Joseph Tartakovsky

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A criminal accused has a constitutional right to testify in his own defense. The right has an undisputed place alongside the most important "personal" rights, like the right to remain silent or the right to represent oneself. But in the 1990s, courts began to apply the ineffective-assistance test of Strickland v. Washington to evaluate claims by a defendant that his right to testify was abridged. In practice this nullifies the right. Moreover, the Strickland test is inapposite because it focuses on counsel and not the defendant's right to testify. This Article proposes a new test to better secure and enforce …


China At The Tipping Point? The Tum Against Legal Reform, Carl F. Minzner Jan 2013

China At The Tipping Point? The Tum Against Legal Reform, Carl F. Minzner

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No abstract provided.


The Trojan Horse Revisited, Constantine N. Katsoris Jan 2013

The Trojan Horse Revisited, Constantine N. Katsoris

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No abstract provided.


What Is Philosophy Of Criminal Law?, Youngjae Lee Jan 2013

What Is Philosophy Of Criminal Law?, Youngjae Lee

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No abstract provided.


A Fiduciary Theory Of Judging, Ethan J. Leib, David L. Ponet, Michael Serota Jan 2013

A Fiduciary Theory Of Judging, Ethan J. Leib, David L. Ponet, Michael Serota

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For centuries, legal theorists and political philosophers have unsuccessfully sought a unified theory of judging able to account for the diverse, and oftentimes conflicting, responsibilities judges possess. This paper reveals how the law governing fiduciary relationships sheds new light on this age-old pursuit, and therefore, on the very nature of the judicial office itself. The paper first explores the routinely overlooked, yet deeply embedded historical provenance of our judges-as-fiduciaries framework in American political thought and in the framing of the U.S. Constitution. It then explains why a fiduciary theory of judging offers important insights into what it means to be …


Judicial Review Of Mediated Settlement Agreements: Improving Mediation With Consent, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley Jan 2013

Judicial Review Of Mediated Settlement Agreements: Improving Mediation With Consent, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

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No abstract provided.


Who Is Responsible For Libor Rate-Fixing?, Mark R. Patterson Jan 2013

Who Is Responsible For Libor Rate-Fixing?, Mark R. Patterson

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No abstract provided.


The Pension System And The Rise Of Shareholder Primacy, Martin Gelter Jan 2013

The Pension System And The Rise Of Shareholder Primacy, Martin Gelter

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No abstract provided.


Language, Legal Origins, And Culture Before The Courts: Cross-Citations Between Supreme Courts In Europe, Martin Gelter, Mathias M. Siems Jan 2013

Language, Legal Origins, And Culture Before The Courts: Cross-Citations Between Supreme Courts In Europe, Martin Gelter, Mathias M. Siems

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Should courts consider cases from other jurisdictions? The use of foreign law precedent has sparked considerable debate in the United States, and this question is also controversially discussed in Europe. In this article and within the larger research project from which it has developed, we study the dialogue between different European supreme courts quantitatively. Using legal databases in Austria, Belgium, England and Wales, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland, we have hand-collected a dataset of transnational citations between the highest courts of these countries for the time between 2000 and 2007. In the present article we show …


What Is Constitutional Obligation?, Abner S. Greene Jan 2013

What Is Constitutional Obligation?, Abner S. Greene

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Mike Seidman’s book, On Constitutional Disobedience, offers an impressive challenge to constitutional fidelity. With much of it, my book Against Obligation is on all fours – we both share the view that our Constitution’s meaning should not be bound by past sources. Seidman seems to go further, though, and reject the bindingness of the Constitution as a text. What does it mean to ask whether the Constitution itself obligates? Most of the Constitution doesn’t set rules for citizens; rather, it establishes powers, and what we might consider conditional obligations, for officials. All government officials in the United States swear an …


Firearms Policy And The Black Community: An Assessment Of The Modern Orthodoxy, Nicholas J. Johnson Jan 2013

Firearms Policy And The Black Community: An Assessment Of The Modern Orthodoxy, Nicholas J. Johnson

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The heroes of the modern civil rights movement were more than just stoic victims of racist violence. Their history was one of defiance and fighting long before news cameras showed them attacked by dogs and fire hoses. When Fannie Lou Hamer revealed she kept a shotgun in every corner of her bedroom, she was channeling a century old practice. And when delta share cropper Hartman Turnbow, after a shootout with the Klan, said “I don’t figure I was being non-nonviolent, (yes non-nonviolent) I was just protecting my family”, he was invoking an evolved tradition that embraced self-defense and disdained political …