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Is Adequacy A More Political Question Than Equality: The Effect Of Standards-Based Education On Judicial Standards For Education Finance, Avidan Y. Cover
Is Adequacy A More Political Question Than Equality: The Effect Of Standards-Based Education On Judicial Standards For Education Finance, Avidan Y. Cover
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
No abstract provided.
Knowledge At Work: Disputes Over The Ownership Of Human Capital In The Changing Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone
Knowledge At Work: Disputes Over The Ownership Of Human Capital In The Changing Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
International Law And The Use Of Force: America’S Response To September 11, Muna Ndulo
International Law And The Use Of Force: America’S Response To September 11, Muna Ndulo
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
"Speaking Rights": Evaluating Juror Discussions During Civil Trials, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, G. Thomas Munsterman
"Speaking Rights": Evaluating Juror Discussions During Civil Trials, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, G. Thomas Munsterman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Permitting jurors to discuss evidence during civil trials may facilitate understanding and provide an outlet for their thoughts and questions, and does not appear to lead to prejudgment or prejudice.
Juries, Judges, And Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg, Neil Lafountain, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman, Martin T. Wells
Juries, Judges, And Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg, Neil Lafountain, Brian Ostrom, David Rottman, Martin T. Wells
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This Article, the first broad-based analysis of punitive damages in judge-tried cases, compares judge and jury performance in awarding punitive damages and in setting their levels. Data covering one year of judge and jury trial outcomes from forty-five of the nation's largest counties yield no substantial evidence that judges and juries differ in the rate at which they award punitive damages or in the central relation between the size of punitive awards and compensatory awards. The relation between punitive and compensatory awards in jury trials is strikingly similar to the relation in judge trials. For a given level of compensatory …
Judges As Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout
Judges As Altruistic Hierarchs, Lynn A. Stout
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Past, Present, And Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Judicial Decision Making And The New Empiricism, Michael Heise
The Past, Present, And Future Of Empirical Legal Scholarship: Judicial Decision Making And The New Empiricism, Michael Heise
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Over the last century, empirical legal scholarship has joined the ranks of the mainstream within the legal academy. In this article, Professor Heise traces the history of legal empiricism and discusses its growing role within the legal academy. First, the article traces legal empiricism through the twentieth century from the legal empiricism movement of the early twentieth century, to post-World War II efforts to revive legal empiricism, including the Chicago Jury Project and large-scale foundational support for empirical legal research, through current support for legal empirical research from both the law schools and other research centers. The article then discusses …
Quiet Rebellion Ii: An Empirical Analysis Of Declining Federal Drug Sentences Including Data From The District Level, Frank O. Bowman, Michael Heise
Quiet Rebellion Ii: An Empirical Analysis Of Declining Federal Drug Sentences Including Data From The District Level, Frank O. Bowman, Michael Heise
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
This is the second of two articles in which we seek an explanation for the hitherto unexamined fact that the average length of prison sentences imposed in federal court for narcotics violations declined by more than 15% between 1991-92 and 2000.
Our first article, Quiet Rebellion? Explaining Nearly a Decade of Declining Federal Drug Sentences, 86 Iowa Law Review 1043 (May 2001) ( "Rebellion I" ), examined national sentencing data in an effort to determine whether the decline in federal drug sentences is real (rather than a statistical anomaly), and to identify and analyze possible causes of the decline. We …
Cognitive Psychology And Optimal Government Design, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cynthia R. Farina
Cognitive Psychology And Optimal Government Design, Jeffrey J. Rachlinski, Cynthia R. Farina
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In Praise Of Procedure: An Economic And Behavioral Defense Of Smith V. Van Gorkom And The Business Judgment Rule, Lynn A. Stout
In Praise Of Procedure: An Economic And Behavioral Defense Of Smith V. Van Gorkom And The Business Judgment Rule, Lynn A. Stout
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
U.S. Jury Reform: The Active Jury And The Adversarial Ideal, Valerie P. Hans
U.S. Jury Reform: The Active Jury And The Adversarial Ideal, Valerie P. Hans
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In many countries, lay people participate as decision makers in legal cases. Some countries include their citizens in the justice system as lay judges or jurors, who assess cases independently. The legal systems of other nations combine lay and law-trained judges who decide cases together in mixed tribunals. The International Conference on Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial in the 21st Century provided useful contrasts among different methods of incorporating lay voices into criminal justice systems worldwide. Systems with inquisitorial methods are more likely to employ mixed courts, whereas adversarial systems more often use juries. Research presented at the Conference …
Playing With Fire, Gregory S. Alexander
Narco-Terrorism: The New Discovery Of An Old Connection, Donnie Marshall
Narco-Terrorism: The New Discovery Of An Old Connection, Donnie Marshall
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
World Trade After September 11, 2001: The U.S. Response, Leslie Alan Glick
World Trade After September 11, 2001: The U.S. Response, Leslie Alan Glick
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Limiting Attacks On Dual-Use Facilities Performing Indispensable Civilian Functions, Henry Shue, David Wippman
Limiting Attacks On Dual-Use Facilities Performing Indispensable Civilian Functions, Henry Shue, David Wippman
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Comments On The Use Of Force In Afghanistan, Judith Miller
Comments On The Use Of Force In Afghanistan, Judith Miller
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
9/11 And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Gwyn Prins
9/11 And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Gwyn Prins
Cornell International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Playing With Fire, Gregory S. Alexander
This Might Sting A Bit: Policing Skin Care In Nursing Facilities By Litigating Fraud, Michael Stockham
This Might Sting A Bit: Policing Skin Care In Nursing Facilities By Litigating Fraud, Michael Stockham
Cornell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Echoes Of Enterprise Liability In Product Design And Marketing Litigation, James A. Henderson Jr.
Echoes Of Enterprise Liability In Product Design And Marketing Litigation, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Rule Unfit For All Seasons: Monitoring Attorney-Client Communications Violates Privilege And The Sixth Amendment, Avidan Y. Cover
A Rule Unfit For All Seasons: Monitoring Attorney-Client Communications Violates Privilege And The Sixth Amendment, Avidan Y. Cover
Cornell Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Social History Of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander And The Incorporation Of Black Women Into The American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, Kenneth Walter Mack
A Social History Of Everyday Practice: Sadie T.M. Alexander And The Incorporation Of Black Women Into The American Legal Profession, 1925-1960, Kenneth Walter Mack
Cornell Law Review
No abstract provided.
Information Technology And U.S. Legal Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Threats, Peter W. Martin
Information Technology And U.S. Legal Education: Opportunities, Challenges, And Threats, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Disease Management And Liability In The Human Genome Era, Larry I. Palmer
Disease Management And Liability In The Human Genome Era, Larry I. Palmer
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The completion of a rough draft of the Human Genome presents both tremendous potential for improvements in health care delivery and challenges to providing appropriate incentives that will bring forth new treatments while protecting individuals and groups from genetic discrimination. As "genetics" becomes an integral part of health care delivery, there are no existing coherent legal doctrines for balancing the risks and benefits of this technological and scientific achievement. Developing a coherent legal approach to these risks and benefits requires a reexamination of the purposes of the liability doctrines that govern the management of disease processes. At the moment, a …
The Investor Confidence Game, Lynn A. Stout
The Investor Confidence Game, Lynn A. Stout
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Academic discussions of securities policy often assume that investors are hyperrational and distrustful actors who do not need the protections of the securities laws to avoid being defrauded. The time has come to recognize the limitations of this assumption and to consider as well the possibility and implications of investor trust. Experienced policymakers and businesspeople (and certainly experienced con artists) have long known that trust is a potent force in explaining and manipulating investor behavior. They are right. They are right to believe that investor confidence-meaning investor trust-is important to the market. They are right to think that trust has …
Employee Representation In The Boundaryless Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone
Employee Representation In The Boundaryless Workplace, Katherine V.W. Stone
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
A Partial Defense Of An Anti-Discrimination Principle, Michael C. Dorf
A Partial Defense Of An Anti-Discrimination Principle, Michael C. Dorf
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Over a quarter century ago, Professor Fiss proposed that the constitutional principle of equal protection should be interpreted to prohibit laws or official practices that aggravate or perpetuate the subordination of specially disadvantaged groups. Fiss thought that the anti-subordination principle could more readily justify results he believed normatively attractive than could the rival, anti-discrimination principle. In particular, anti-subordination would enable the courts to invalidate facially neutral laws that have the effect of disadvantaging a subordinate group and also enable them to uphold facially race-based laws aimed at ameliorating the condition of a subordinate group. Since Fiss’s landmark article appeared, Supreme …
Plaintiphobia In The Appellate Courts: Civil Rights Really Do Differ From Negotiable Instruments, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Plaintiphobia In The Appellate Courts: Civil Rights Really Do Differ From Negotiable Instruments, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Professors Clermont and Eisenberg conducted a systematic analysis of appellate court behavior and report that defendants have a substantial advantage over plaintiffs on appeal. Their analysis attempted to control for different variables that may affect the decision to appeal or the appellate outcome, including case complexity, case type, amount in controversy, and whether there had been a judge or a jury trial. Once they accounted for these variables and explored and discarded various alternate explanations, they came to the conclusion that a defendants' advantage exists probably because of appellate judges' misperceptions that trial level adjudicators are pro-plaintiff.
Judge Harry Edwards: A Case In Point!, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Judge Harry Edwards: A Case In Point!, Kevin M. Clermont, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Judge Harry Edwards dislikes empirical work that is not flattering to federal appellate judges. A few years ago Dean Richard Revesz published an empirical study of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit providing further support for the rather tame proposition that judges’ political orientation has some effect on outcome in some politically charged cases. A year later Judge Edwards published a criticism phrased in extreme terms. Dean Revesz then wrote a devastating reply by which he demonstrated that Judge Edwards “is simply wrong with respect to each of the numerous criticisms that he levels.” We believe …
Twenty-Five Years Of Death: A Report Of The Cornell Death Penalty Project On The "Modern" Era Of Capital Punishment In South Carolina, John H. Blume
Twenty-Five Years Of Death: A Report Of The Cornell Death Penalty Project On The "Modern" Era Of Capital Punishment In South Carolina, John H. Blume
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In 1972, the United States Supreme Court determined that the death penalty, as then administered in this country, violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Many states, including South Carolina, scurried to enact new, "improved" capital punishment statutes which would satisfy the Supreme Court's rather vague mandate. In 1976, the High Court approved some of the new laws, and the American death penalty was back in business. After a wrong turn or two, including a statutory scheme which did not pass constitutional muster, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the current death penalty statute in 1977. The …