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The Model Business Corporation Act And Corporate Governance: An Enabling Statute Moves Toward Normative Standards, John Olson, Aaron Briggs Dec 2015

The Model Business Corporation Act And Corporate Governance: An Enabling Statute Moves Toward Normative Standards, John Olson, Aaron Briggs

John Olson

No abstract provided.


Mental Disabilities And Duty In Negligence Law: Will Neuroscience Reform Tort Doctrine?, Jean Eggen Sep 2014

Mental Disabilities And Duty In Negligence Law: Will Neuroscience Reform Tort Doctrine?, Jean Eggen

Jean M. Eggen

Recent developments in neuroscience may contribute to some long-needed changes in negligence law. One negligence rule in need of reform is the duty rule allowing physical disabilities to be considered in determining whether a party acted negligently, but disallowing mental disabilities for adult tortfeasors. Further, this bifurcated rule applies imposes an objective standard only on adults alleged to have acted negligently. A subjective standard applies to all parties in intentional torts and to children in negligence actions. Courts justify the bifurcated rule for adults on policy grounds, but these policy underpinnings are no longer valid in contemporary society. More accurate …


Reason Versus Rule In Louisina Tort Law: Dialogues On Hill V. Lundin & Associates, Inc., David Robertson Dec 2012

Reason Versus Rule In Louisina Tort Law: Dialogues On Hill V. Lundin & Associates, Inc., David Robertson

Dr David Robertson

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Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living And Tort Law Incentives, Holly Lynch, Michele Mathes, Nadia Sawicki Feb 2011

Compliance With Advance Directives: Wrongful Living And Tort Law Incentives, Holly Lynch, Michele Mathes, Nadia Sawicki

Nadia N. Sawicki

Modern ethical and legal norms generally require that deference be accorded to patients' decisions regarding treatment, including decisions to refuse life-sustaining care, even when patients no longer have the capacity to communicate those decisions to their physicians. Advance directives were developed as a means by which a patient's autonomy regarding medical care might survive such incapacity. Unfortunately, preserving patient autonomy at the end of life has been no simple task. First, it has been difficult to persuade patients to prepare for incapacity by making their wishes known. Second, even when they have done so, there is a distinct possibility that …


Discrimination And Business Regulation (The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1999-2000 Term), Eileen Kaufman Dec 2010

Discrimination And Business Regulation (The Supreme Court And Local Government Law: The 1999-2000 Term), Eileen Kaufman

Eileen Kaufman

No abstract provided.


Misrepresentation - Part I, Fleming James, Oscar Gray Mar 2010

Misrepresentation - Part I, Fleming James, Oscar Gray

Oscar S. Gray

No abstract provided.