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"We Don't Want Anybody Anybody Sent": The Death Of Patronage Hiring In Chicago, Cynthia Grant Bowman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Why Law Teachers Should Teach Undergraduates, Kevin M. Clermont, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

For many years, members of the law school faculty at Cornell have taught an introduction to law course that is offered by the government department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The course has surveyed law in general, structured thematically around what law is and what law can and cannot do. Although its teachers have used law school pedagogic techniques in the undergraduate setting, they certainly have not intended the course to be a prelaw practice run. In short, the course--The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law--is a general education course about law. Our experience leads us to believe …

Understanding Teague V. Lane, John H. Blume, William Pratt

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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.

The Quiet Revolution In Products Liability, James A. Henderson Jr., Theodore Eisenberg

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Most revolutions are noisy, tumultuous affairs. This is as true of significant shifts in legal doctrine as it is of shifts of political power through force of arms. Indeed, the pro-plaintiff revolution in American products liability in the early 1960s will forever be associated with heroic, martial images, epitomized in Prosser's description of the assault upon, and fall of, the fortress citadel of privity. The same sort of terminology aptly could be used to describe the last five or ten years of legislative reform activity in the various states. Reacting to what many see as "crises" brought on by courts …

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 Lawyer As Whistleblower: Confidentiality And The Government Lawyer, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Prisoners Dilemma Meets Glasnost: A Comparative Advantage Solution To The United States Prison Crisis, Tahirih V. Lee, Joshua Searle-White

Cornell International Law Journal

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Promoting International Environmental Protections Through Foreign Debt Exchange Transactions, David Barrans

Cornell International Law Journal

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Book Review

Cornell International Law Journal

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The December 1989 European Community Merger Control Regulation: A Non-Ec Perspective, Paul D. Callister

Cornell International Law Journal

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New Direction In Choice Of Law: Alternatives To Interest Analysis, Gary J. Simson

Cornell International Law Journal

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Mandatory Retirement Of State-Appointed Judges Under The Age Discrimination In Employment Act , Alan L. Bushlow

Cornell Law Review

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The Mozambique Crisis: A Case For United Nations Military Intervention, William Gehrke

Cornell International Law Journal

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The International Dimension Of Title Vii, Janice R. Bellace

Cornell International Law Journal

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Antitrust Policy And Monopsony , Roger D. Blair, Jeffrey L. Harrison

Cornell Law Review

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Uncertainty Chaos And The Torts Process: An Economic Analysis Of Legal Form , Jason Scott Johnston

Cornell Law Review

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Copyright Royalties For Visual Artists: A Display-Based Alternative To The Droit De Suite , William A. Carleton Iii

Cornell Law Review

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Compensation For Harm From Charitable Activity , Charles Robert Tremper

Cornell Law Review

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