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Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson, Steven D. Smith
Lessons From Lincoln: A Comment On Levinson, Steven D. Smith
Pepperdine Law Review
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Constitutional Democracy, Human Dignity, And Entrenched Evil, Mark A. Graber
Constitutional Democracy, Human Dignity, And Entrenched Evil, Mark A. Graber
Pepperdine Law Review
The following essay pays tribute to Sandy Levinson's thoughts on constitutional compromises by paying tribute to the thoughts on constitutional compromises by our common mentor, Walter Murphy. Rather than directly engage in a dialogue with Compromise and Constitutionalism, the analysis below joins the preexisting dialogue between Professors Levinson and Murphy on how to construct a decent polity among people who have deep disputes over what constitutes political decency. Walter Murphy is unfortunately largely known to legal audiences only through the work of such outstanding mentees as Sandy Levinson, Jim Fleming, Christopher Eisgruber, Andrew Koppelman, Jennifer Nedelsky, and Robert George. Walter …
Compromise And Constitutionalism, Sanford Levinson
Compromise And Constitutionalism, Sanford Levinson
Pepperdine Law Review
Professor Levinson explores compromises (1) that went into the making of the United States Constitution, and (2) that have occurred in the Supreme Court's constitutional interpretation. He explores these compromises in light of Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit's distinction between bad compromises and rotten compromises. "Rotten compromises" are indefensible except, perhaps, in the most exceptional of conditions. A "rotten political compromise" is one that agrees "to establish or maintain an inhuman regime, a regime of cruelty and humiliation, that is, a regime that does not treat humans as humans." Under this standard, Levinson identifies as rotten compromises the Constitution's protection of …
The Cost Of Compromise And The Covenant With Death, Paul Finkelman
The Cost Of Compromise And The Covenant With Death, Paul Finkelman
Pepperdine Law Review
This article is a rebuttal to the writings of those advocating the view that America was formed through compromise and that compromise in modern constitutional law is, therefore, necessary and beneficial. A recount of the “compromises” at the Constitutional Conventional that eventually led to the approval and protection of slavery begins the analysis establishing the danger of Americans compromising over constitutional protections. The article continues on, discussing the Compromise of 1850 and its drafters whom others have considered “passionately devoted to the Union”, like John Calhoun, who would later assert that the Constitution was expendable. The Compromise of 1850 did …
Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?, Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Introduction: Blessed Are The Compromisers?, Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beyond The Executive Agreement: The Foreign Policy Preference Under Movsesian And The Return Of The Dormant Foreign Affairs Power In Norton Simon, Amir M. Tikriti
Beyond The Executive Agreement: The Foreign Policy Preference Under Movsesian And The Return Of The Dormant Foreign Affairs Power In Norton Simon, Amir M. Tikriti
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Auditor For The Auditors' Auditor: Accounting For The Unitary Executive In Free Enterprise Fund V. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Kelsey Elizabeth Stapler
The Auditor For The Auditors' Auditor: Accounting For The Unitary Executive In Free Enterprise Fund V. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Kelsey Elizabeth Stapler
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Lawyers Judging Experts: Oversimplifying Science And Undervaluing Advocacy To Construct An Ethical Duty?, David S. Caudill
Lawyers Judging Experts: Oversimplifying Science And Undervaluing Advocacy To Construct An Ethical Duty?, David S. Caudill
Pepperdine Law Review
My focus is on an apparent trend at the intersection of the fields of evidentiary standards for expert admissibility and professional responsibility, namely the eagerness to place more ethical responsibilities on lawyers to vet their proffered expertise to ensure its reliability. My reservations about this trend are not only based on its troubling implications for the lawyer’s duty as a zealous advocate, which already has obvious limitations (because of lawyers’ conflicting duties to the court), but are also based on the problematic aspects of many reliability determinations. To expect attorneys - and this is what the proponents of a duty …
The Torts Restatement's Inchoate Definition Of Intent For Battery, And Reflections On The Province Of Restatements, Joseph H. King
The Torts Restatement's Inchoate Definition Of Intent For Battery, And Reflections On The Province Of Restatements, Joseph H. King
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Compensation For Accidental Personal Injury: What Nations Might Learn From Each Other, Stephen D. Sugarman
Compensation For Accidental Personal Injury: What Nations Might Learn From Each Other, Stephen D. Sugarman
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
An Essay On Torts: States Of Argument, Marshall S. Shapo
An Essay On Torts: States Of Argument, Marshall S. Shapo
Pepperdine Law Review
This essay summarizes high points in torts scholarship and case law over a period of two generations, highlighting the “states of argument” that have characterized tort law over that period. It intertwines doctrine and policy. Its doctrinal features include the traditional spectrum of tort liability, the duty question, problems of proof, and the relative incoherency of damages rules. Noting the cross-doctrinal role of tort as a solver of functional problems, it focuses on major issues in products liability and medical malpractice. The essay discusses such elements of policy as the role of power in tort law, the tension between communitarianism …
Exporting United States Tort Law: The Importance Of Authenticity, Necessity, And Learning From Our Mistakes, Victor E. Schwartz, Christopher E. Appel
Exporting United States Tort Law: The Importance Of Authenticity, Necessity, And Learning From Our Mistakes, Victor E. Schwartz, Christopher E. Appel
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Torts As Public Wrongs, Michael L. Rustad
Torts As Public Wrongs, Michael L. Rustad
Pepperdine Law Review
This Article is a rejoinder to the civil recourse theorist's claim that tort law will be better served by retreating to the philosopher's prefecture of private wrongs. A subsidiary goal of this Article is to refute John Goldberg's claim that my sociologically-inspired theory of torts as public wrongs serves the interests of tort reformers rather than American consumers. In a nutshell, civil recourse theory is "tort reform in disguise," not the concept of torts as fulfilling wide-ranging purposes such as the social control of corporations. If judges adopt civil recourse theory, they will be less inclined to recognize new causes …
Harms From Exposure To Toxic Substances: The Limits Of Liability Law, Robert L. Rabin
Harms From Exposure To Toxic Substances: The Limits Of Liability Law, Robert L. Rabin
Pepperdine Law Review
n the early 1980s, there was great optimism about the prospects for a dawning era of toxic harms litigation, arising out of a heightened sensitivity to public health and safety concerns. This new sensitivity had been manifested in the preceding decade through a whirlwind of political activity, highlighted by such landmark Congressional legislation as the Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and by the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. Along parallel lines, a singularly proactive judicial framework for strict products liability emerged in the mid-1960s from a series of …
Peculiar Risk In American Tort Law, Ellen S. Pryor
Peculiar Risk In American Tort Law, Ellen S. Pryor
Pepperdine Law Review
American tort law includes a significant strand of liability tied to an intriguing concept variously termed “peculiar risk,” “special danger,” and “special risk inherent in the work,” among others. Peculiar risk presents a basis for liability different from other standards or actions that trigger liability in tort law - it is different from intent, recklessness, negligence, nuisance, and abnormally dangerous activity. Both England and the United States endorsed versions of the doctrine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, by 1965, American and English tort law had sharply diverged on the doctrine. American courts continued to apply it; …
Some Thoughts On Libel Tourism , Andrew R. Klein
Some Thoughts On Libel Tourism , Andrew R. Klein
Pepperdine Law Review
This paper addresses the topic of “libel tourism,” a phrase used to describe cases where plaintiffs sue for defamation in a foreign jurisdiction and then seek to enforce judgments in the U.S., where the outcome might have been different because of protections for speech embodied in the United States Constitution. A number of commentators have discussed libel tourism at length, and this paper does not provide a treatise on the topic. Rather, it reviews recent reactions from legislators, courts, and commentators, and then offer some thoughts about whether these reactions appropriately balance concerns of comity and free speech. Ultimately, the …
The Impact Of U.S. Tort Law In Canada, Lewis N. Klar
The Impact Of U.S. Tort Law In Canada, Lewis N. Klar
Pepperdine Law Review
This paper briefly summarizes some of the reasons offered by Professor Peter Cane for the minimal impact that U.S. tort law has had on the tort law of Australia and New Zealand. It discusses this matter from the perspective of Canadian tort law. It suggests that, for a variety of reasons, Canada is in a unique position; it shares some of the same characteristics of the Commonwealth countries which discourage the adoption of U.S. tort law, but at the same time is exposed to countervailing factors which tend to bring Canadian and U.S. tort laws closer together. It illustrates this …
The Impact Of The Civil Jury On American Tort Law, Michael D. Green
The Impact Of The Civil Jury On American Tort Law, Michael D. Green
Pepperdine Law Review
This article, a contribution to a symposium on the what American tort law can contribute to the rest of the world expresses skepticism that a considerable swath of U.S. tort law would be of interest to the rest of the world. The thesis is that American tort law has been shaped by the existence of the civil jury, unique to the U.S, and areas of domestic tort law so influenced have no utility internationally. The article catalogues many such areas and discusses several of them.
Tort In Three Dimensions, John C.P. Goldberg
Tort In Three Dimensions, John C.P. Goldberg
Pepperdine Law Review
Should our tort law serve as a model for other nations? The answer depends in part on what one understands it to be. Since the mid-Twentieth Century, progressives have favored 'thin' accounts that treat tort law as having but two dimensions: forum and function. Tort, they say, provides a general forum for grievances and, by doing so, performs certain governmental functions, such as deterrence of anti-social conduct, compensation of injury victims, and the bringing to light of abuses of power. Progressives have favored thin accounts mainly because those accounts emphasize the extent to which tort law enables courts to achieve …
What The United States Taught The Commonwealth About Pure Economic Loss: Time To Repay The Favor, Bruce Feldthusen
What The United States Taught The Commonwealth About Pure Economic Loss: Time To Repay The Favor, Bruce Feldthusen
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
International Tobacco Litigation's Evolution As A United States Torts Law Export: To Canada And Beyond?, Richard L. Cupp Jr.
International Tobacco Litigation's Evolution As A United States Torts Law Export: To Canada And Beyond?, Richard L. Cupp Jr.
Pepperdine Law Review
In the late 1990’s, the states’ healthcare reimbursement lawsuits against the tobacco industry were settled for approximately $246 billion. In the wake of this enormous settlement, many similar lawsuits were initiated in other nations or by other nations. Most of these early healthcare reimbursement lawsuits failed. However, in 2005, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was finalized by over 150 nations, and today has been ratified by 168 nations. The Framework encourages nations to consider tort litigation against tobacco sellers as a way to limit tobacco usage. Canada’s provinces have been particularly aggressive in seeking to use …
Searching For United States Tort Law In The Antipodes, Peter Cane
Searching For United States Tort Law In The Antipodes, Peter Cane
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Apportioning Responsibility Among Joint Tortfeasors For International Law Violations, Roger P. Alford
Apportioning Responsibility Among Joint Tortfeasors For International Law Violations, Roger P. Alford
Pepperdine Law Review
With the new wave of claims against corporations for human rights violations – particularly in the context of aiding and abetting government abuse – there are unusually difficult problems of joint tortfeasor liability. In many circumstances, one tortfeasor – the corporation – is a deep-pocketed defendant, easily subject to suit, but only marginally involved in the unlawful conduct. Another tortfeasor – the sovereign – is a central player in the unlawful conduct, but, with limited exceptions, is immune from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. A third tortfeasor – the low-level security personnel – accused of actually committing the …
American Tort Law: Shining Beacon?, Allen Linden
American Tort Law: Shining Beacon?, Allen Linden
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introduction Of Allen Linden, Lewis N. Klar
Introduction Of Allen Linden, Lewis N. Klar
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Marriage In California: Is The Federal Lawsuit Against Proposition 8 About Applying The Fourteenth Amendment Or Preserving Federalism? , Charles M. Cannizzaro
Marriage In California: Is The Federal Lawsuit Against Proposition 8 About Applying The Fourteenth Amendment Or Preserving Federalism? , Charles M. Cannizzaro
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
In Defense Of Plausibility: Ashcroft V. Iqbal And What The Plausibility Standard Really Means , Daniel W. Robertson
In Defense Of Plausibility: Ashcroft V. Iqbal And What The Plausibility Standard Really Means , Daniel W. Robertson
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Religion-Free Environments In Common Interest Communities, Angela C. Carmella
Religion-Free Environments In Common Interest Communities, Angela C. Carmella
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bankruptcy Federalism: A Doctrine Askew , Margaret Howard
Bankruptcy Federalism: A Doctrine Askew , Margaret Howard
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.