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Dances With Nonlawyers: A Perspective On Law Firm Diversification, Gary A. Munneke

Fordham Law Review

In this Article, Professor Munneke continues the debate over ethical rules governing lawyers' professional affiliations with nonlawyers, arguing in favor of the adoption of uniform rules that regulate lawyers' conduct in the context of specific ethical issues, such as confidentiality and conflicts of interest. In Professor Munneke's view, the retention of ethical rules that prohibit law firm diversification impedes the ability of lawyers to compete effectively in today's rapidly changing marketplace of professional services. Professor Munneke moreover questions whether state bar association rules that prohibit law firm diversification are capable of withstanding judicial scrutiny under the federal antitrust laws and …

The Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust: Paradigm Lost (Or Found)?, Georgene M. Vairo

Fordham Law Review

In this Essay, Dean Vairo discusses the policies and procedures governing the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust After raising questions about the Trust's experience in a theoretical and jurisprudential context Dean Vairo describes the historical development of the Trust and provides a preliminary aosesment of the Trust's performance. Dean Vairo addresses various criticisms of the Trust and calls for a reasoned analysis of the Trust's policies in light of the theoretical questions raised in this Essay to determine whether the Trust should be considered as a model for resolving other mass tort cases.

Time Present, Time Past, Time Future: Understanding The Scope Of Discovery In Texas Courts, William V. Dorsaneo Iii, Elizabeth Thornburg

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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Internal Tribal Fragmentation: An Examination Of A Normative Model Of Democratic Decision-Making, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

A recent commentary by Gerald A. Alfred in the spring 1991 edition of the Northeast Indian Quarterly dealt with a subject matter which is either ignored or radically exaggerated when it is broached in Indian Country: political fragmentation (or segments or cleavages) and ideological conflict within North American Indian tribes and the ramifications of such internal conflict on tribal identity.

This paper, after restating Alfred's major points about Mohawk segmentation at Kahnawake, describes and then analyzes a viable alternative democratic decision-making model which has been specifically designed to address the problems of how not only to restore, but also to …

The Forgotten Victims, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The attention and hand-wringing lavished on race relations by Aleinikoff and many others obscures the fact that by every measurement of formal equality, and by many measures of substantive equality, white women are further behind than black men (black women, unsurprisingly, are on the bottom). It leads us to focus our energies, our remedies, and our scarce resources on race discrimination, often at the direct expense of women. I hope to do three things in my brief remarks today. First, I will suggest that Professor Aleinikoff's paper exaggerates the problem it addresses. Second, I will explain what I mean when …

Before Guardianship: Abuse Of Patient Rights Behind Closed Doors, Peter J. Strauss

Articles & Chapters

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Book Review: U.S. Energy And Environmental Interest Groups By Lettie Wenner, Tracey E. George

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Interest groups have played a dominant if not determinative role in the "greening of America." Thus, that Lettie Wenner, a political scientist who has devoted much of her career to studying environmental issues (The Environmental Decade (1982) and One Environment Under Law (1976)), should publish a compendium describing such groups is an occasion for optimism. And, indeed, she does provide a useful reference tool for those seeking basic descriptions of these groups; yet, unfortunately, she does not offer a thorough or critical understanding of how they operate.

Lee V. Weisman: Paradox Redux, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

For more than two decades, the Supreme Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence was "at war with" its Free Exercise jurisprudence. In recent years, however, two major decisions--"Employment Division v. Smith" and "Lee v. Weisman"--have effected a significant shift in our religion clause jurisprudence. In this article I will suggest that, considered together, these two decisions have merely replaced one form of incoherence with another. In particular, I will suggest that either decision could be justified alone--and indeed, that either standing alone would be an improvement on the Court's previous religion clause doctrine--but that together they make little sense.

Natural Law In The States, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Two of our most cherished constitutional myths are that we are, more or less, carrying on the constitutional traditions of the framers, and that the framers' most significant innovation was the invention of a written constitution. Neither belief is true. This article is the second in a series suggesting that our vision of the Constitution differs in a particular and important way from that of the framers: for us, it is the sole source of fundamental law, while for the framers it was only one source among many.

Rights Talk: Must We Mean What We Say?, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Mary Ann Glendon has written a powerful and persuasive diagnosis of the ills besetting modern American society. Unlike many other commentators, Glendon refuses to lay the blame on any single group or institution but spreads her accusations widely across society. For that reason, this book is sure to displease ideologues and fellow travelers on both the left and the right, but it is her impartial and relatively apolitical stance that gives the book its major strengths.

The Ghost Of Liberalism Past, Suzanna Sherry

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

We the People is an ambitious book by one of our best constitutional theorists. Part one of a projected three-volume series, it aims at nothing less than a re-envisioning of American constitutional history and promises a new synthesis of law, politics, and history. Ackerman weaves an intriguing story about who we are and who we might be as a people. Unfortunately, Ackerman's tale fails to inspire, because it is mired in a fictional past and envisions a utopian future. In addition, the book ultimately raises more questions than it answers because it provides inadequate criteria to identify the moments in …

Multijurisdictional Estates And Article Ii Of The Uniform Probate Code, Jeffrey Schoenblum

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The prefatory note to the 1990 revisions of article II of the Uniform Probate Code ("UPC") indicates that the changes wrought are a response to several developments since the promulgation of the UPC in 1969. The prefatory note emphasizes the decline of formalism, the proliferation of will substitutes, the multiple-marriage society, and the rise of the partnership/marital sharing theory as stimulative of the revisions introduced. The theme of this article is that one other crucial development has been essentially ignored. No serious attempt has yet been made by the drafters to address the immensely complex yet commonplace issues associated with, …

Taxation, Cynthia M. Ohlenforst, Jeff W. Dorrill

SMU Law Review

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Can We Express Ourselves Dancing Naked - Barnes V. Glen Theatre, Inc. - The First Amendment And Freedom Of Expression, Chris Joe

SMU Law Review

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Income Tax Rhetoric (Or Why Do We Want Tax Reform?), Beverly I. Moran

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The 1992 presidential election is over but the United States economy still faces hard times. Each man who hoped to lead us promised to revive our sick economy, and each cure promised included a strong dose of tax reform. At no time during the campaign or the transition did anyone seem to ask: Can tax reform actually increase employment, lower the deficit, nwerse our trade imbalance, or provide any other boost out of the recession? Why do Americans accept the notion that economic recovery requires tax reform? We did not always think this way. Why does it seem so natural …

Market Power In Antitrust, George A. Hay

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The concept of market power is at the core of antitrust. Philosophically, antitrust policy is aimed primarily at preventing firms from achieving, retaining, or abusing market power. Operationally, assessing whether a firm or firms have market power or any reasonable prospect for achieving it is often the first (and sometimes, the only) step in performing an antitrust analysis.

Few would dispute that market power should play a prominent role in antitrust analysis. Nevertheless, important questions remain. Some of these questions quite naturally focus on the precise degree of importance given to market power. Is it an essential ingredient in antitrust …

Death-Innocence And The Law Of Habeas Corpus, Stephen P. Garvey

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The legal space between a sentence of death and the execution chamber is occupied by an intricate network of procedural rules. On average, it currently takes between six and seven years to traverse this space, but this interval is expected to shrink. Federal habeas corpus, an important part of this space, is studded more and more with procedural obstacles that bar the federal courts from entertaining the merits of a defendant's claims. By design, these barriers foreclose federal review in order to protect the state's interests in the finality of its criminal convictions, as well as to display healthy respect …

Recent Developments: King V. St. Vincent's Hospital: Members Of The Armed Forces Retain The Right To Civilian Reemployment Under 38 U.S.C. § 2024(D) Regardless Of The Duration Of Active Duty, Shawn Gritz

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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The Evolving Framework Of The United States Export Control System: A Case Study In Exporting Fiber Optic Telecommunications Systems To The Former Soviet Union, Linda M. Googins

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Recent Developments: 3011 Corp. V. District Court: Corporations Charged With A Criminal Offense Have A Right To A Jury Trial, Kenneth A. Brown

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Recent Developments: Lee V. Weisman: Court Holds Non-Sectarian Prayer At Secondary School Graduation Ceremony Violates Establishment Clause Of The First Amendment To The Constitution, David E. Canter

University of Baltimore Law Forum

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Corporate Culpability Under The Federal Sentencing Guidelines, Jennifer Moore

Faculty Scholarship

This Article examines the use of corporate culpability in the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and addresses three major questions: In light of the traditional unimportance of culpability in corporate criminal law, is corporate culpability an appropriate concern of the Guidelines? If so, how is corporate culpability best conceptualized? Finally, how do the Guidelines understand corporate culpability, and how close do they come to embodying this most satisfying theory? Part I of the Article discusses the principal reasons why culpability has been important at the trial and sentencing of individual criminals, and argues that similar reasons justify concern with culpability in the …

Opic Insures Investment In Central And Eastern Europe And The Baltic States, Randi S. Cohen

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Reflections Upon The Federal Administrative Judiciary, Paul R. Verkuil

Faculty Publications

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Second Thoughts On Rust V. Sullivan And The First Amendment, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Publications

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Foreword: O Canada, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Publications

This forward, written ten years after the adoption of the Constitution of Canada, draws sharp comparisons between Canada’s constitution and the United States’ original governing document, the Articles of Confederation.

Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

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Problems With The International Definition Of A Refugee And A Possible Solution, Toby D.J. Mendel

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees' definition of a refugee is no longer viable. It was originally designed to deal with the limited refugee situation that existed forty years ago. Both the passage of time and the internationalization of refugee problems have weakened the effect of the definition to the point where a majority of de facto refugees do not even come within its ambit. Many of those who should be covered by the definition are not afforded protection under the national schemes designed in accordance with the Convention's provisions. The UNHCR tries to deal with refugee situations …

Anatomy Of A Trade Dispute: The Question Of Softwood Lumber, Peter Piliounis

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

It has been called "the longest and messiest trade war Canada and the United States have ever had." Without a doubt, the issue of softwood lumber pricing has long been a major irritant in Canada-United States trade relations. On three separate occasions, the United States has launched a countervailing duty investigation into Canadian timber pricing practices. Softwood lumber plays a key role in the economies of several Canadian provinces and American states. The stakes are not only high for softwood lumber products, but any decision made on softwood lumber could also have an enormous impact on other forest products and …

When Is A Corporate Executive "Substantially Unfit To Serve"?, Jayne W. Barnard

Faculty Publications

The recently enacted Securities Enforcement Remedies and Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 provides that, in an SEC enforcement action, a federal court may enjoin or "disbar" the defendant from serving in the future as an officer or director of a public company. A court may enter such an order if it finds that the defendant is "substantially unfit" to serve as a corporate executive; the Act, however, does not define "substantial unfitness." In this Article Professor Jayne Barnard provides a framework for defining this term and identifying the defendants to which the Remedies Act should apply. Professor Barnard begins …