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Afterword: Studying Litigation And Social Change, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

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Urban Air Quality Litigation Under The Clean Air Act: Past, Present And Future, David S. Baron

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

20 pages.

Contains footnotes.

Agenda: Air Quality Protection In The West, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

Conference organizers, session moderators and/or speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professor Mark S. Squillace.

Visibility, acid rain, air toxics, and urban air pollution are the topics of an upcoming Center conference on air quality in the West. The conference will be held at the School of Law in Boulder on November 27-28, 1989. Presentations will describe the nature and scope of the issues, the existing legal framework and experience with its implementation, and proposed changes in the law. Emphasis will be placed on air quality issues in the West and efforts underway to address these problems. Special …

Who’S Afraid Of The Sanction Wolf: Imposing Sanctions On Pro Se Litigants, Donalda Gillies

Cardozo Law Review

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Agenda: Boundaries And Water: Allocation And Use Of A Shared Resource, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Boundaries and Water: Allocation and Use of a Shared Resource (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Charles F. Wilkinson.

Boundaries and Water: Allocation and Use of a Shared Resource is the topic of the Center's annual summer program on water this June. Most of the major rivers in the western United States are shared between two or more states. Often tribal governments play an important role in water allocation and use decisions. International considerations also may be involved in some cases. These interjurisdictional issues extend to groundwater as well as surface water.

This conference will provide the …

Federal Jurisdiction To Enforce A Settlement After Vacating A Dismissal Order Under Rule 60(B)(6), Alyson M. Weiss

Cardozo Law Review

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The Use Of History In Canadian Constitutional Adjudication, Frederick Vaughan

Dalhousie Law Journal

It is only in recent years that the use by judges of extrinsic materials has become an issue openly discussed in Canadian legal periodicals. Chief Justice Brian Dickson virtually occasioned a debate on the question in a public address in 1979. The Chief Justice said: ". . . the Supreme Court of Canada recently signalled an increasing receptiveness to the use of extrinsic materials in the Anti-Inflation Reference. Accordingly, I expect that we will see an increasing use by appellate courts of extrinsic evidence". Dickson gave the impression that extrinsic material was not widely used by Canadian courts prior to …

The Impact Of Substantive Interests On The Law Of Federal Courts, Michael L. Wells

Scholarly Works

The thesis of this Article is that substantive factors exert a powerful and often unrecognized influence over the resolution of jurisdictional issues, and have done so throughout our history. The chief substantive factors at issue are the government's interest iin regulating behavior on the one hand, and the individual's interest in enforcing constitutional restraints upon government on the other. Part I of this Article examines the relationship between jurisdictional rules and substantive consequences, Part II describes the Court's conventional account of federal courts doctrine in terms of jurisdictional policy and institutional roles, and Part III shows that the reasons set …

Choosing Judges The Democratic Way, Larry Yackle

Faculty Scholarship

A generation ago, the pressing question in constitutional law was the countermajoritarian difficulty.' Americans insisted their government was a democratic republic and took that to mean rule by a majority of elected representatives in various offices and bodies, federal and local. Yet courts whose members had not won election presumed to override the actions of executive and legislative officers who had. The conventional answer to this apparent paradox was the Constitution, which arguably owed its existence to the people directly. Judicial review was justified, accordingly, when court decisions were rooted firmly in the particular text, structure, or historical backdrop of …

Future Disabilities Under New York’S Human Rights Law, Andrea Lisa Leeb

Cardozo Law Review

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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act And Act Of State, Malvina Halberstam

Articles

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Aliens' Right To Seek Asylum: The Attorney General's Power To Exclude "Security Threats" And The Role Of The Courts, Mary S. Miller

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is the only circuit court to analyze the relationship between section 235(c) and section 243(h), as amended by the Refugee Act. In "Azzouka v. Sava," the court resolved the apparent conflict between the two acts by holding that if the Attorney General determines that an alien is a security threat, that alien may be excluded without a hearing before an immigration judge despite the fact that the alien has requested political asylum."

This Note examines the interrelationship between sections 235(c) and 243(h) by analyzing the legislative, judicial, and administrative interpretations …

Justice Brennan, Natural Right, And Constitutional Interpretation, George Anastaplo

Cardozo Law Review

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Justice Brennan: The Heart Has Its Reasons, Richard D. Cudahy

Cardozo Law Review

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A Justice's Passion, David Cole

Cardozo Law Review

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Passion For Justice, Martha L. Minow, Elizabeth V. Spelman

Cardozo Law Review

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Increased And Accessible Illinois Judicial Rulemaking, Jeffrey A. Parness, Bruce Elliot Keller

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This Article discusses the problems which result from vesting the authority for making procedural rules governing the Illinois courts in both the General Assembly and the Illinois Supreme Court. After examining the constitutional history and applying policy rationales, the Article suggests that the constitution should give various types of primary authority for judicial rulemaking to the judiciary, with only secondary authority afforded to the legislature.

Interjurisdictional Certification And Choice Of Law, Ira Robbins

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Government Official Torts And The Takings Clause: Federalism And State Sovereign Immunity, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, I argue that state sovereign and official immunities, insofar as they bar recovery when private parties would be liable for similar conduct, are unconstitutional under the takings clause of the fifth amendment, as applied to the states under the fourteenth.²² A state's refusal to compensate plaintiffs for the tortious damage or destruction of property should be redressed by the federal courts in civil actions brought under § 1983.

Section I of this article provides background through a discussion of the Supreme Court's treatment of the problem of torts committed by government officials, primarily in procedural due …

What The Constitution Means By Executive Power, Charles J. Cooper, Orrin Hatch, Eugene V. Rowstow, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

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Judicial Enforcement Of Nlrb Bargaining Orders: What Influences The Courts?, Terry A. Bethel, Catherine A. Melfi

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Parity Reconsidered: Defining A Role For The Federal Judiciary, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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"Institutional Relationships Between Tribunals And Courts" Book Review Of Recent Developments In Administrative Law, Dianne Pothier

Dianne Pothier Collection

If one brings together 14 experts on administrative law to participate in a continuing legal education program on "Administrative Law": Recent Developments and Emerging Trends," there is the potential for either stimulating critical analyses or humdrum descriptive update. On reading the preface to this book, the product of such a program held at Toronto and Ottawa in November 1986, I was expective the former. In large measure, I was disappointed.

The Public Policy Exception To Judicial Deferral Of Labor Arbitration Awards--How Far Should Expansion Go, James Michael Magee

South Carolina Law Review

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Federal Courts, State Courts, And The Constitution: A Rejoinder To Professor Redish, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Civil Rights In Transition: Sections 1981 And 1982 Cover Discrimination On The Basis Of Ancestry And Ethnicity, Eileen Kaufman, Martin A. Schwartz

Touro Law Review

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The Preiser Puzzle: Continued Frustrating Conflict Between The Civil Rights And Habeas Corpus Remedies For State Prisoners, Martin A. Schwartz

Scholarly Works

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The Dilution Of The First Amendment And The Equality Of Ideas, William P. Marshall

Faculty Publications

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A Distorted Mirror: The Supreme Court's Shimmering View Of Summary Judgment, Directed Verdict, And The Value Of Adjudication, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

As almost anyone alive during the past decade knows, this is the era of the ‘litigation explosion,’ or there is at least the perception that a litigation explosion exists. Although all agree that the absolute number of lawsuits has increased in virtually every corner of the state and federal court systems, there exists vigorous debate about whether the increase is unusual in relative or historical terms and even more vigorous debate about whether the absolute increase in cases symbolizes the American concern for fairness and justice or represents a surge in frivolous or trivial disputes needlessly clogging the courts. As …

Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

This article examines the theory and empirical methods of recent studies of law and litigation. It argues that the recent interest in longitudinal studies of trial court dockets proceeds from a deeply rooted functionalist theoretical tradition in empirical work on courts. Functionalist theory, through its sophisticated application in the work of James Willard Hurst, is described as the direct or indirect source of theory for longitudinal litigation studies. Though there are many reasons for suspecting that fuctionalist theory is inadequate, it has seldom been rejected through proper empirical testing of its hypotheses. The theory, often poorly conceptualized, is discussed here …