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Birthright Citizenship On Trial: Elk V. Wilkins And United States V. Wong Kim Ark, Bethany R. Berger Apr 2016

Birthright Citizenship On Trial: Elk V. Wilkins And United States V. Wong Kim Ark, Bethany R. Berger

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In the summer of 2015, the majority of Republican candidates for president announced their opposition to birthright citizenship. The constitutional dimensions of that right revolve around two cases decided at the end of the nineteenth century, Elk v. Wilkins (1884) and United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898). The first held that an American Indian man born in the United States was not a citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment; the second, that a Chinese American man born in the United States was indeed a citizen under the amendment. This Article juxtaposes the history of these decisions. By showing the distinctive …


Obesity Regulation Under Home Rule: An Argument That Regulation By Local Governments Is Superior To Administrative Agencies, Patrick M. Steel Feb 2016

Obesity Regulation Under Home Rule: An Argument That Regulation By Local Governments Is Superior To Administrative Agencies, Patrick M. Steel

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Towards The Law Of Legal Services, Andrew M. Perlman Oct 2015

Towards The Law Of Legal Services, Andrew M. Perlman

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Exodus: Structuring Redemption Of Captives, Rivka Weill Oct 2014

Exodus: Structuring Redemption Of Captives, Rivka Weill

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The question of how to react to ransom demands in kidnap situations is ancient and persistent. It was asked as far back as Biblical times, and yet modern states have still not found answers. In terrorist kidnapping scenarios, the private victims, including the families, are often used as leverage to pressure the authorities, with the anticipation that the combination of public sympathy and private lobbying will result in excessive concessions. In the kidnap game, the victim's family is a single-game player and thus operates under a completely different set of considerations than the repeat player: the state. The question is …


The Truth About Truth Commissions: Why They Do Not Function Optimally In Post-Conflict Societies, Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf Aug 2014

The Truth About Truth Commissions: Why They Do Not Function Optimally In Post-Conflict Societies, Matiangai V.S. Sirleaf

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Almost forty years after the first truth commission convened and more than sixty-seven others have been employed, there is little clarity on how they contribute to their stated objectives and in which transitional contexts they succeed or fail. This Article uses data gathered from my field research in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to develop a theoretical framework for understanding in which contexts truth commissions may be the most effective. Using insights from the legal transplant literature and applying it to the diffusion of truth commissions, this Article finds that truth commissions face greater challenges carrying out their mandates in …


Remaking Mexico: Law Reform As Foreign Policy, Deborah M. Weissman Apr 2014

Remaking Mexico: Law Reform As Foreign Policy, Deborah M. Weissman

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Uncertainty As Enforcement Mechanism: The New Expansion Of Secondary Copyright Liability To Internet Platforms, John Blevins Jun 2013

Uncertainty As Enforcement Mechanism: The New Expansion Of Secondary Copyright Liability To Internet Platforms, John Blevins

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This Article examines the role that legal uncertainty plays as a copyright enforcement mechanism against Internet platforms. In recent years, Internet platforms have faced a new wave of copyright enforcement actions arising from their users' activity. These actions include both civil secondary liability claims and public enforcement actions such as domain name seizures and criminal prosecution. In these enforcement actions, content owners understandably prefer broad secondary liability standards, but these standards remain subject to statutory and doctrinal constraints such as the DMCA safe harbor. Copyright owners, accordingly, are attempting to increase the breadth and expense of secondary copyright liability for …


Classifying Constitutions: Preliminary Conceptual Analysis, Pasquale Pasquino Feb 2013

Classifying Constitutions: Preliminary Conceptual Analysis, Pasquale Pasquino

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The Constitutional Subject And Its Identity: My German Experience, Bernhard Schlink Jun 2012

The Constitutional Subject And Its Identity: My German Experience, Bernhard Schlink

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A Short History Of "Intellectual Property" In Relation To Copyright, Justin Hughes Apr 2012

A Short History Of "Intellectual Property" In Relation To Copyright, Justin Hughes

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Fame Law: Requiring Proof Of National Fame In Trademark Law, Xuan-Thao Nguyen Oct 2011

Fame Law: Requiring Proof Of National Fame In Trademark Law, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

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The public has always been infatuated with fame. Trademark law likewise has a long history of infatuation with fame. Protecting the fame embodied in a trademark against dilutive use by others has not been easy. The difficulty stems from the wording of the statute and judicial failure to understand the "fame" requirement. The fundamental question centers on what level of fame is required for the property-like protection against subsequent uses that dilute the famous trademark. This Article argues for national fame to be the requisite requirement for property-like anti-dilution protection under trademark law. The Article recommends that the proof of …


Judicial Review, A Comparative Perspective: Israel, Canada, And The United States, Malvina Halberstam Jun 2010

Judicial Review, A Comparative Perspective: Israel, Canada, And The United States, Malvina Halberstam

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Transitioning To Free Speech: A Case Study On Legal Transfers In Jordanian Jurisprudence, Sarah Joy Gregory Jun 2010

Transitioning To Free Speech: A Case Study On Legal Transfers In Jordanian Jurisprudence, Sarah Joy Gregory

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No abstract provided.


Intimate Enunciations: Carnival And Apocalypse In Fellini, Lior Barshack Mar 2010

Intimate Enunciations: Carnival And Apocalypse In Fellini, Lior Barshack

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No abstract provided.


Law And Humor In Johnnie To's Justice, My Foot!, Marco Wan Mar 2010

Law And Humor In Johnnie To's Justice, My Foot!, Marco Wan

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No abstract provided.


To Disclose Or Not To Disclose? Csx Corp., Total Return Swaps, And Their Implications For Schedule 13d Filing Purposes, Daniel Bertaccini Sep 2009

To Disclose Or Not To Disclose? Csx Corp., Total Return Swaps, And Their Implications For Schedule 13d Filing Purposes, Daniel Bertaccini

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Veiling And Women's Intelligibility, John Borneman Jun 2009

Veiling And Women's Intelligibility, John Borneman

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Changing The Lebanese Constitution: A Postmodern History, John J. Donohue Jun 2009

Changing The Lebanese Constitution: A Postmodern History, John J. Donohue

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The European Convention On Human Rights And Church-State Relations: Pluralism Vs. Pluralism, Françoise Tulkens Jun 2009

The European Convention On Human Rights And Church-State Relations: Pluralism Vs. Pluralism, Françoise Tulkens

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No abstract provided.


Religious Marriage In A Liberal State, Gidi Sapir, Daniel Statman Jun 2009

Religious Marriage In A Liberal State, Gidi Sapir, Daniel Statman

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No abstract provided.


Feminism And Its "Other": Female Autonomy In An Age Of "Difference", Maleiha Malik Jun 2009

Feminism And Its "Other": Female Autonomy In An Age Of "Difference", Maleiha Malik

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No abstract provided.


Why The French Laïcité Is Liberal, Patrick Weil Jun 2009

Why The French Laïcité Is Liberal, Patrick Weil

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The Market For Contracts, Geoffrey P. Miller, Theodore Eisenberg May 2009

The Market For Contracts, Geoffrey P. Miller, Theodore Eisenberg

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Recent empirical work has established that New York supplies the law and forum in nearly half the material commercial contracts of public firms. In this respect New York plays a role for commercial contracts analogous to the role played by Delaware with respect to corporate charters. Is the revealed preference for New York law and forum merely the result of choices made by the contracting parties, or does New York actively compete for this business? This paper describes ways in which New York seeks to attract and retain corporate contracts in competition with other potential providers of law and forum. …


Not Confused? Don't Be Troubled: Meeting The First Amendment Attack On Protection Of "Generic" Foreign Geographical Indications, Scott Danner May 2009

Not Confused? Don't Be Troubled: Meeting The First Amendment Attack On Protection Of "Generic" Foreign Geographical Indications, Scott Danner

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The Sec's 2006 Soft Dollar Guidance: Law And Economics, D. Bruce Johnsen Mar 2009

The Sec's 2006 Soft Dollar Guidance: Law And Economics, D. Bruce Johnsen

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After some two years of deliberations, in July 2006 the SEC released its long-awaited Guidance on the scope of the "soft dollar safe harbor." Passed as part of the Securities Acts Amendments in May, 1975, the safe harbor has protected fund advisers and other money managers for over 30 years from criminal actions and civil suits for breach of fiduciary duty when they use client assets to pay more than the lowest available brokerage commissions in exchange for "brokerage and research services." During this time, the SEC has interpreted and reinterpreted the safe harbor's scope, largely owing to the public …


The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein Dec 2008

The Right To Silence Helps The Innocent: A Response To Critics, Alex Stein

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This Article responds to the numerous critics of Daniel J Seidmann & Alex Stein, The Right to Silence Helps the Innocent: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Fifth Amendment Privilege, 114 HARV. L. REV. 430 (2000). Under Seidmann and Stein's theory, the right to silence protects innocents who find themselves unable to corroborate their self-exonerating accounts by verifiable evidence. Absent the right, guilty criminals would pool with innocents by making false self-exonerating statements. Factfinders would consequently discount the probative value of all uncorroborated exculpatory statements, at the expense of those innocents who cannot corroborate their true accounts. The right to …


Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture Of The Criminal System, Alexandra Natapoff Dec 2008

Deregulating Guilt: The Information Culture Of The Criminal System, Alexandra Natapoff

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The criminal system has an uneasy relationship with information. On the one hand, the criminal process is centrally defined by stringent evidentiary and information rules and a commitment to public transparency. On the other, largely due to the dominance of plea bargaining, criminal liability is determined by all sorts of unregulated, non-public information that never pass through the quality control of evidentiary, discovery, or other criminal procedure restrictions. The result is a process that generates determinations of liability that are often unmoored from systemic information constraints. This phenomenon is exemplified, and intensified, by the widespread use of criminal informants, or …


Theorizing About Self-Incrimination, Ronald J. Allen Dec 2008

Theorizing About Self-Incrimination, Ronald J. Allen

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Introduction: Wherefor The Privilege?, Kate Stith Dec 2008

Introduction: Wherefor The Privilege?, Kate Stith

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One Share, One Vote And The False Promise Of Shareholder Homogeneity, Grant M. Hayden, Matthew T. Bodie Nov 2008

One Share, One Vote And The False Promise Of Shareholder Homogeneity, Grant M. Hayden, Matthew T. Bodie

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No abstract provided.