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A Suggestion For The Renewal Of The Canon Law, Robert E. Rodes
A Suggestion For The Renewal Of The Canon Law, Robert E. Rodes
Robert Rodes
No abstract provided.
Nonsuit In Virginia Civil Trials, Richard G. Moore
Nonsuit In Virginia Civil Trials, Richard G. Moore
University of Richmond Law Review
No abstract provided.
Sosa, Federal Question Jurisdiction, And Historical Fidelity, Anthony J. Bellia
Sosa, Federal Question Jurisdiction, And Historical Fidelity, Anthony J. Bellia
Anthony J. Bellia
In his paper "International Human Rights in American Courts," Judge Fletcher concludes that Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain “has left us with more questions than answers.” Sosa attempted to adapt certain principles belonging to the "general law" to a post-Erie positivistic conception of common law while maintaining fidelity to certain historical expectations. “[I]t would be unreasonable,” the Court thought, “to assume that the First Congress would have expected federal courts to lose all capacity to recognize enforceable international norms simply because the common law might lose some metaphysical cachet on the road to modern realism.” The Court was unwilling, however, out …
The Alien Tort Statute And The Law Of Nations, Bradford R. Clark, Anthony J. Bellia Jr.
The Alien Tort Statute And The Law Of Nations, Bradford R. Clark, Anthony J. Bellia Jr.
Anthony J. Bellia
Courts and scholars have struggled to identify the original meaning of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). As enacted in 1789, the ATS provided "[t]hat the district courts... shall... have cognizance... of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States." The statute was rarely invoked for almost two centuries until, in the 1980s, lower federal courts began reading the statute expansively to allow foreign citizens to sue other foreign citizens for violations of modern customary international law that occurred outside the United States. In 2004 …
Addressing The Incoherency Of The Preemption Provision Of The Copyright Act Of 1976, Joseph P. Bauer
Addressing The Incoherency Of The Preemption Provision Of The Copyright Act Of 1976, Joseph P. Bauer
Joseph P. Bauer
Section 301 of the Copyright Act of 1976 expressly preempts state law actions that are within the "general scope of copyright" and that assert claims that are "equivalent to" the rights conferred by the Act. The Act eliminated the previous system of common law copyright for unpublished works, which had prevailed under the prior 1909 Copyright Act. By federalizing copyright law, the drafters of the statute sought to achieve uniformity and to avoid the potential for state protection of infinite duration. The legislative history of § 301 stated that this preemption provision was set forth "in the clearest and most …
The Evolution Of The Common Law And Efficiency, Nuno Garoupa, Carlos I. Gómez Ligüerre
The Evolution Of The Common Law And Efficiency, Nuno Garoupa, Carlos I. Gómez Ligüerre
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Apportioning Liability In Maryland Tort Cases: Time To End Contributory Negligence And Joint And Several Liability, Donald G. Gifford, Christopher J. Robinette
Apportioning Liability In Maryland Tort Cases: Time To End Contributory Negligence And Joint And Several Liability, Donald G. Gifford, Christopher J. Robinette
Donald G Gifford
The Article presents a comprehensive proposal for assigning liability in tort cases according to the parties’ respective degrees of fault. The authors criticize the Court of Appeals of Maryland’s recent decision in Coleman v. Soccer Association of Columbia declining to abrogate contributory negligence, particularly the court’s notion that it should not act because of the legislature’s repeated failure to do so. The Article provides a comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of comparative fault, including its effect on administrative costs, claims frequency, claims severity, insurance premiums, and economic performance. The authors propose the legislative enactment of comparative fault and …
Private Enforcement, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang, Herbert Kritzer
Private Enforcement, Stephen B. Burbank, Sean Farhang, Herbert Kritzer
All Faculty Scholarship
Our aim in this Article is to advance understanding of private enforcement of statutory and administrative law in the United States and to raise questions that will be useful to those who are concerned with regulatory design in other countries. To that end, we briefly discuss aspects of American culture, history, and political institutions that reasonably can be thought to have contributed to the growth and subsequent development of private enforcement. We also set forth key elements of the general legal landscape in which decisions about private enforcement are made, aspects of which should be central to the choice of …
An Empirical Look At Trade Secret Law's Shift From Common To Statutory Law, Michael Risch
An Empirical Look At Trade Secret Law's Shift From Common To Statutory Law, Michael Risch
Michael Risch
Like many of its unfair competition brethren, trade secret law developed in the courts of England and the United States. In 1979, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, affectionately known as the UTSA, was introduced. The UTSA has since become widely adopted - forty-six states now follow it. The UTSA did not represent a complete break from the common law, and there is a lingering influence of the common law over core aspects of trade secret law, even when that law conflicts with newer statutory provisions. Anecdotal studies have considered the continuing influence of the common law, but, to date, no …
Following English Footsteps? An Empirical Study Of Singapore's Reported Insurance Judgments And Disputes Between 1965 And 2012, Christopher C. H. Chen
Following English Footsteps? An Empirical Study Of Singapore's Reported Insurance Judgments And Disputes Between 1965 And 2012, Christopher C. H. Chen
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
This article presents an empirical study of the development of Singapore’s insurance contract law in relation to English law. The gene of Singapore’s insurance law is very English. The empirical data show a lack of momentum in driving insurance law forward by case law. This may justify further legislative reform to address not only the known doctrinal issues inherited from English law but also the specific problems facing consumer insurance. Singapore’s competitiveness in the global insurance market will be an instrumental factor to determine how far Singapore continues to follow English law in the future.
Draft Of The Concept Of "Harm" In Copyright - 2013, Wendy J. Gordon
Draft Of The Concept Of "Harm" In Copyright - 2013, Wendy J. Gordon
Scholarship Chronologically
This essay examines the tort of copyright infringement. It argues that the ideas of "harm" and "fault" already play a role in the tort’s functioning, and that an ideally reformulated version of the tort should perhaps give a more significant role to “harm.” The essay therefore examines what “harm” can or should mean, reviewing four candidates for cognizable harm in copyright law (rivalry-based losses, foregone fees, loss of exclusivity, and subjective distress) and canvassing three philosophical conceptions of “harm” (counterfactual, historical-worsening, and noncomparative). The essay identifies the appropriateness vel non of employing, in the copyright context, each harm-candidate and each …
The Unwritten Law And Its Writers, Frederick J. Moreau
The Unwritten Law And Its Writers, Frederick J. Moreau
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Who’S Who In The Legal Zoo: The Jury, Jodie O'Leary
Who’S Who In The Legal Zoo: The Jury, Jodie O'Leary
Jodie O'Leary
Extract: Juries have been portrayed in movies, such as The Juror and the much earlier 12 Angry Men, depicted in books (particularly by John Grisham), such as The Last Juror or Runaway Jury, and featured in television programs like Law and Order. Most of us in the common law world know someone who served on one (or at least got a notice to attend jury duty). But what do you really know about this institution that has been described as ‘the lamp that shows that freedom lives’ or the ‘sacred bulwark’ of liberty?
Combating Obesity With A Right To Nutrition, Paul Diller
Combating Obesity With A Right To Nutrition, Paul Diller
Paul Diller
Domestic and international law have, in different ways, recognized a human right to food since the twentieth century. The original reason for this recognition was the need to alleviate a particular type of food insecurity—“traditional” hunger, as manifested in conditions like malnutrition and underweight. The current public-health crisis of obesity, however, demands a reconsideration of this right. The food environment in the United States today is awash in high-calorie, low-nutrient food products that are often cheaper, on a relative basis, than more nutritious foods, leading to the overconsumption of the former by much of the American population. Merely ensuring a …
Remedies: A Guide For The Perplexed, Doug Rendleman
Remedies: A Guide For The Perplexed, Doug Rendleman
Scholarly Articles
Remedies is one of a law student’s most practical courses. Remedies students and their professors learn to work with their eyes on the question at the end of litigation: what can the court do for the successful plaintiff? Remedies develops students’ professional identities and broadens their professional horizons by reorganizing their analysis of procedure, torts, contracts, and property around choosing and measuring relief - compensatory damages, punitive damages, an injunction, specific performance, disgorgement, and restitution. This article discusses the law-school course in Remedies - the content of the Remedies course, the Remedies classroom experience, and Remedies outside the classroom through …
Thresholds Of Actionable Mental Harm In Negligence: A Policy-Based Appraisal, Louise Bélanger-Hardy
Thresholds Of Actionable Mental Harm In Negligence: A Policy-Based Appraisal, Louise Bélanger-Hardy
Dalhousie Law Journal
Common law courts, in Canada and elsewhere, currently insist on proof of a recognizable psychiatric illness (RPI) before granting damages to plaintiffs seeking compensation for stand-alone mental harm caused by negligent acts. This article argues that the time has come to revisit this well-entrenched principle. The inquiry focuses specifically on the policy concerns underlying the current rule. As a first step, policy considerations for and against limiting the extent of actionable mental harm are canvassed and assessed. The author concludes that some of the perceived advantages of the RPI rule, in particular predictability,are debatable and that insistence on the traditional …
Holmes And The Common Law: A Jury's Duty, Matthew P. Cline
Holmes And The Common Law: A Jury's Duty, Matthew P. Cline
Matthew P Cline
The notion of a small group of peers whose responsibility it is to play a part in determining the outcome of a trial is central to the common conception of the American legal system. Memorialized in the Constitution of the United States as a fundamental right, and in the national consciousness as the proud, if begrudged, duty of all citizens, juries are often discussed, but perhaps not always understood. Whatever misunderstandings have come to be, certainly many of them sprang from the juxtaposition of jury and judge. Why do we have both? How are their responsibilities divided? Who truly decides …
Nlra Preemption Of State Common Law Wrongful Discharge Claims: The Bhopal Brigade Goes Home , Joseph R. Weeks
Nlra Preemption Of State Common Law Wrongful Discharge Claims: The Bhopal Brigade Goes Home , Joseph R. Weeks
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Restatement (Second): Its Misleading Quality And A Proposal For Its Amelioration, W. Noel Keyes
The Restatement (Second): Its Misleading Quality And A Proposal For Its Amelioration, W. Noel Keyes
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Restatement (Second): A Tribute To Its Increasingly Advantageous Quality, And An Encouragement To Continue The Trend, John W. Wade
The Restatement (Second): A Tribute To Its Increasingly Advantageous Quality, And An Encouragement To Continue The Trend, John W. Wade
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
David K. Millon
A great deal of important legal historical scholarship is doctrinal in focus, its objective being to chart the history of substantive common law rules. In this Article, Professor Millon suggests that doctrinal legal history is based implicitly on the modern positivist theory of law as a system of state-endorsed rules designed to resolve disputes in a consistent, predictable manner. He questions the validity of efforts to write the history of the premodern common law from this theoretical point of view. Focusing on pre-seventeenth century civil cases, he finds that trial procedure seems to have allowed or even encouraged juries to …
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
Although possession has long been intimately linked to labor, recent historical work on land claims during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggests that the clash of divergent legal cultures of possession drove the two apart. This clash yielded an American concept of possession much more deeply connected to industrialization than the traditional understanding of labor. By providing evidence of how our concept of labor was industrialized, this article questions the outcomes in modem possession cases, particularly as they impact development and environmental preservation in rural areas.
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
David K. Millon
A great deal of important legal historical scholarship is doctrinal in focus, its objective being to chart the history of substantive common law rules. In this Article, Professor Millon suggests that doctrinal legal history is based implicitly on the modern positivist theory of law as a system of state-endorsed rules designed to resolve disputes in a consistent, predictable manner. He questions the validity of efforts to write the history of the premodern common law from this theoretical point of view. Focusing on pre-seventeenth century civil cases, he finds that trial procedure seems to have allowed or even encouraged juries to …
The Necessary Opportunism Of The Common Law First Amendment, Chris Stangl
The Necessary Opportunism Of The Common Law First Amendment, Chris Stangl
Chris Stangl
The First Amendment historically has been interpreted to provide greater and greater protection to more and more forms of expression. The notion of an originalist First Amendment has never commanded a majority of the Supreme Court and is unlikely to do so. Instead the development of the First Amendment has followed a common law trajectory. As the reach of its protections expands, so to do its attractiveness for arguments that may be more accurately located elsewhere in the Constitution’s text. Such opportunism is a predictable, even necessary consequence of the First Amendment’s common law development and the Supreme Court tacitly …
Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, And The Challenge Of Kiobel V.Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Vivian Grosswald Curran
Extraterritoriality, Universal Jurisdiction, And The Challenge Of Kiobel V.Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Vivian Grosswald Curran
Maryland Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum: A Practitioner's Viewpoint, Marco Simons
Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum: A Practitioner's Viewpoint, Marco Simons
Maryland Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Kiobel: Muddling The Distinction Between Prescriptive And Adjudicative Jurisdiction, Anthony J. Colangelo
Kiobel: Muddling The Distinction Between Prescriptive And Adjudicative Jurisdiction, Anthony J. Colangelo
Maryland Journal of International Law
No abstract provided.
Interpretive Methodology And Delegations To Courts: Are ‘Common-Law Statutes’ Different?, Margaret H. Lemos
Interpretive Methodology And Delegations To Courts: Are ‘Common-Law Statutes’ Different?, Margaret H. Lemos
Faculty Scholarship
It is hard to find consensus on questions of statutory interpretation. Debates rage on about the appropriate goals of interpretation and the best means of achieving those ends. Yet there is widespread agreement, even among traditional combatants on the statutory interpretation field, when it comes to so-called “common-law statutes.” Textualists concede that text is not controlling; originalists admit that judicial construction of common-law statutes need not be keyed to the specific intent of the enacting Congress; and staunch defenders of strict statutory stare decisis allow frequent departures from precedent.
So what are common-law statutes? It is easy enough to name …
The “Unwritten Constitution” And Unwritten Law, Stephen E. Sachs
The “Unwritten Constitution” And Unwritten Law, Stephen E. Sachs
Faculty Scholarship
America’s Unwritten Constitution is a prod to the profession to look for legal rules outside the Constitution’s text. This is a good thing, as outside the text there’s a vast amount of law—the everyday, nonconstitutional law, written and unwritten, that structures our government and society. Despite the book’s unorthodox framing, many of its claims can be reinterpreted in fully conventional legal terms, as the product of the text’s interaction with ordinary rules of law and language.
This very orthodoxy, though, may undermine Akhil Amar’s case that America truly has an “unwritten Constitution.” In seeking to harmonize the text with deep …
Penalty Clauses As Remedies: Exploring Comparative Approaches To Enforceability, Jack Graves
Penalty Clauses As Remedies: Exploring Comparative Approaches To Enforceability, Jack Graves
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.