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The Second Canonization Of The Talmud, Hanina Ben-Menahem Oct 2006

The Second Canonization Of The Talmud, Hanina Ben-Menahem

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Article Five Of The Utc And The Future Of Creditors' Rights In Trusts, Robert T. Danforth Apr 2006

Article Five Of The Utc And The Future Of Creditors' Rights In Trusts, Robert T. Danforth

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Perpetual Trusts, Conservation Servitudes, And The Problem Of The Future, Susan F. French Apr 2006

Perpetual Trusts, Conservation Servitudes, And The Problem Of The Future, Susan F. French

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Common Law, Common Sense: Fiduciary Standards And Trustee Identity, Melanie B. Leslie Apr 2006

Common Law, Common Sense: Fiduciary Standards And Trustee Identity, Melanie B. Leslie

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Surviving Common Law: Silence And The Violence Internal To The Legal Sign, Peter D. Rush Nov 2005

Surviving Common Law: Silence And The Violence Internal To The Legal Sign, Peter D. Rush

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why Do Plaintiffs Sue Private Parties Under Section 1983?, Jack M. Beermann Nov 2004

Why Do Plaintiffs Sue Private Parties Under Section 1983?, Jack M. Beermann

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Quebec's Municipal Merger Law On Montreal: Mega-City Or Mega-Blunder?, Chad E. Tepper Apr 2004

The Effects Of Quebec's Municipal Merger Law On Montreal: Mega-City Or Mega-Blunder?, Chad E. Tepper

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The note examines the impact of Quebec's Municipal Merger Law, enacted in 2000, on the Anglophone community, arguing that the law has eroded Anglophone rights, reduced political representation, and exacerbated linguistic tensions. The law, upheld by courts as constitutional, amalgamated 64 municipalities into five megacities, including Montreal, and designated Montreal as unilingually French, contrary to prior bilingual frameworks. The merger process was criticized for its undemocratic nature, lack of public consultation, and disproportionate harm to Anglophone civil service employment. The analysis highlights the long-standing tensions between Anglophone and Francophone communities and explores the high costs and political challenges of reversing …


Reading The Fossil Record: A New Look At Old Law, Elliot Gardner Feb 2004

Reading The Fossil Record: A New Look At Old Law, Elliot Gardner

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Immense Rumor, Peter Goodrich Jan 2004

The Immense Rumor, Peter Goodrich

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The article explores the intersection of friendship and law, particularly through the lens of Jacques Derrida's theory, which posits that the concept of friendship is inherently paradoxical and shaped by legal and theological frameworks. Derrida argues that the "immense rumor" of friendship reflects a historical inability to articulate amity publicly, leading to a repression of friendship in the public sphere. This repression is rooted in the humanist tradition, which draws from Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian influences, emphasizing the primacy of political or communal bonds over individual friendships. The analysis reveals that legal discourses have imposed prohibitions on the role of friendship, …


State Doctrines Of Substantial Compliance: A Call For Erisa Preemption And Uniform Federal Common Law Doctrine, Meridith H. Bogart Nov 2003

State Doctrines Of Substantial Compliance: A Call For Erisa Preemption And Uniform Federal Common Law Doctrine, Meridith H. Bogart

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Light, Less-Filling, It's Blue-Ribbon!, Stephen F. Ross May 2002

Light, Less-Filling, It's Blue-Ribbon!, Stephen F. Ross

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Writs To Rights: "Navigability" And The Transformation Of The Common Law In The Nineteenth Century, Daniel J. Hulsebosch Feb 2002

Writs To Rights: "Navigability" And The Transformation Of The Common Law In The Nineteenth Century, Daniel J. Hulsebosch

Cardozo Law Review

This Article argues that nationalist jurists in the early nineteenth century attempted to replace the dominant procedural conception of the common law with a substantive one. Their purpose was to ameliorate the effects of legal federalism. They hoped that the creation of a national body of private law in treatises and judicial reports would encourage legal uniformity among the states. The reorientation of waterway law around the keyword "navigability" offers one example. As this example demonstrates, the project of forging a national jurisprudence was not entirely successful. But it did, indirectly, generate a way for the Supreme Court to extend …


Do Judges Deploy Policy?, Mitchel De S.-O.-L'E. Lasser Mar 2001

Do Judges Deploy Policy?, Mitchel De S.-O.-L'E. Lasser

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rhetoric And Somatics: Training The Body To Do The Work Of Law, Peter Goodrich Jan 2001

Rhetoric And Somatics: Training The Body To Do The Work Of Law, Peter Goodrich

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The article explores the intersection of law, rhetoric, and corporeality, arguing that law is deeply embedded in the human body and its emotional and sensory experiences. It posits that legal dogmatics, while often seen as abstract, is shaped by the body's characteristics and movements, which serve as a substrate for legal logic. The analysis centers on Abraham Fraunce and his contemporaries, who critique the strict legality by emphasizing rhetoric, decorum, and the form of life that rhetoric implies. This critique challenges the notion of law as a detached, abstract system by highlighting its corporeal and emotional dimensions.


Business Partners As Fiduciaries: Reflections On The Limits Of Doctrine, Robert W. Hillman Nov 2000

Business Partners As Fiduciaries: Reflections On The Limits Of Doctrine, Robert W. Hillman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Franchisor Liability For The Torts Of Its Franchisees: The Case For Substituting Liability As A Guarantor For The Current Vicarious Liability, John L. Hanks Apr 1999

Franchisor Liability For The Torts Of Its Franchisees: The Case For Substituting Liability As A Guarantor For The Current Vicarious Liability, John L. Hanks

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The author reviews the justifications for applying the law of vicarious liability in the franchising context and concludes that its application is often inefficient and arbitrary. He argues that the employee-independent contractor dichotomy used by courts to determine franchisor liability is not well-suited to franchising, where the relationship encompasses both concepts. He proposes that vicarious liability not be applied in the franchising context. Instead, the courts by case law or state legislatures by statute should impose a guarantor status on franchisors that would expose them to liability for the torts of the franchisees only if the franchisee was unavailable to …


The Board Of Directors And Internal Control, Melvin A. Eisenberg Sep 1997

The Board Of Directors And Internal Control, Melvin A. Eisenberg

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Hazards Of Tinkering With The Common Law Of Future Interests: The California Experience, Laura E. Cunningham Apr 1997

The Hazards Of Tinkering With The Common Law Of Future Interests: The California Experience, Laura E. Cunningham

Articles

No abstract provided.


The Duration Of Copyright And The Limits Of Cultural Policy, J. H. Reichman Jan 1996

The Duration Of Copyright And The Limits Of Cultural Policy, J. H. Reichman

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Back To The Parent: Holding Company Liability For Subsidiary Banks - A Discussion Of The Net Worth Maintenance Agreement, The Source Of Stength Doctrine, And The Prompt Corrective Action Provision, Cassandra Jones Havard Apr 1995

Back To The Parent: Holding Company Liability For Subsidiary Banks - A Discussion Of The Net Worth Maintenance Agreement, The Source Of Stength Doctrine, And The Prompt Corrective Action Provision, Cassandra Jones Havard

Cardozo Law Review

The unprecedented number of bank failures in the past several years has spawned a crisis in the industry and fueled an extensive debate about how federal regulators can effectively make banks more responsible for guaranteeing the soundness of their operations. For the federal regulators most involved-the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC"), Office of Thrift Supervision ("OTS"), and the Federal Reserve Board ("FRB") -Congress is directing the effort to enhance the banks' guarantees of self-policing. Congress's basic response to the crisis has been to heighten the minimum capital levels the banks must maintain to avoid direct corrective intervention by the federal …


Benjamin Nathan Cardozo The Teacher, Joseph W. Bellacosa Apr 1995

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo The Teacher, Joseph W. Bellacosa

Cardozo Law Review

The forty-seventh Cardozo Memorial Lecture, delivered in memory of Benjamin N. Cardozo at the House of the Association on November 9, 1994.


Critiquing The Legal Order In The Name Of “Critical Morality”, Julius Cohen Mar 1995

Critiquing The Legal Order In The Name Of “Critical Morality”, Julius Cohen

Cardozo Law Review

The moral criticism of the legal order has been a longtime sport (serious), if not an industry, for law teachers, theorists, judges, and other legal functionaries. In the process, they often reach for criteria beyond those utilized in conventional morality. Sometimes the reach "beyond" is ad hoc; sometimes it is accompanied by an awareness that it is toward a pattern of a higher-level, critical morality. The reach beyond is often triggered by a need to resolve conflicts within conventional morality. Or it is a function of the distrust of some of the sources of conventional morality, such as prejudice, unrefined …


Consent To Marital Rape: Common Law Oxymoron?, Katherine O'Donovan Jan 1995

Consent To Marital Rape: Common Law Oxymoron?, Katherine O'Donovan

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article critically examines the historical and legal underpinnings of the marital rape exemption in common law, arguing that the concept of consent within marriage has been used to undermine women's autonomy and perpetuate gender inequality. It traces the evolution of this exemption from its roots in Sir Matthew Hale's 17th-century legal writings to its eventual abolition in England and Australia, highlighting the broader implications for women's citizenship and bodily integrity.


German Constitutional Culture In Transition, Bernhard Schlink Jan 1993

German Constitutional Culture In Transition, Bernhard Schlink

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Philosophical Reconstruction Of Judicial Review, Carlos Santiago Nino Jan 1993

A Philosophical Reconstruction Of Judicial Review, Carlos Santiago Nino

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Court’S Role In Interbranch Disputes Over Oversight Of Agency Rulemaking, John J. Gibbons Jan 1993

The Court’S Role In Interbranch Disputes Over Oversight Of Agency Rulemaking, John J. Gibbons

Cardozo Law Review

This paper is adapted from the Uri and Caroline Bauer Memorial Lecture delivered at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, on March 10, 1992.


The Development Of Common Law Defamation Privileges: From Communitarian Society To Market Society, M. M. Slaughter Nov 1992

The Development Of Common Law Defamation Privileges: From Communitarian Society To Market Society, M. M. Slaughter

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Open Justice In A Closed Legal System?, Bernhard Schlink Mar 1992

Open Justice In A Closed Legal System?, Bernhard Schlink

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Rights In Copies To Copyright: The Recognition Of Authors' Rights In English Law And Practice In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, John Feather Jan 1992

From Rights In Copies To Copyright: The Recognition Of Authors' Rights In English Law And Practice In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, John Feather

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Comment On Fenves And Heller, M. M. Slaughter Dec 1991

Comment On Fenves And Heller, M. M. Slaughter

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.