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A Real World Perspective On Choice Of Law, Robert A. Sedler Jan 1997

A Real World Perspective On Choice Of Law, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


Romer V. Evans And The Constitutionality Of Higher Lawmaking, Anthony M. Dillof Jan 1996

Romer V. Evans And The Constitutionality Of Higher Lawmaking, Anthony M. Dillof

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.


The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Equitable Remedies And Other Types Of Non-Money Judgments In United States And French Courts: A Comparative Analysis, Noele Sophie Rigot Jan 1996

The Recognition And Enforcement Of Foreign Equitable Remedies And Other Types Of Non-Money Judgments In United States And French Courts: A Comparative Analysis, Noele Sophie Rigot

LLM Theses and Essays

Courts of industrialized nations are often faced with adjudication of cases which involve foreign components. It is common for those courts to be asked by individuals or legal entities from a transnational environment to adjudicate with regard to some elements already adjudged in a different legal system as if it were a local judgment. The question that arises is how effects should be given when dealing with prior adjudications. Most countries agree to recognize some effects determined by foreign jurisdictions, as long as those determinations meet standards that guarantee proper integration of the foreign decision into the domestic setting. These …


Tragic Irony Of American Federalism: National Sovereignty Versus State Sovereignty In Slavery And In Freedom, The Federalism In The 21st Century: Historical Perspectives, Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1996

Tragic Irony Of American Federalism: National Sovereignty Versus State Sovereignty In Slavery And In Freedom, The Federalism In The 21st Century: Historical Perspectives, Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

A plurality on the Supreme Court seeks to establish a state-sovereignty based theory of federalism that imposes sharp limitations on Congress's legislative powers. Using history as authority, they admonish a return to the constitutional "first principles" of the Founders. These "first principles," in their view, attribute all governmental authority to "the consent of the people of each individual state, not the consent of the undifferentiated people of the Nation as a whole." Because the people of each state are the source of all governmental power, they maintain, "where the Constitution is silent about the exercise of a particular power-that is, …


Judicial Jurisdiction In The Conflict Of Laws Course: Adding A Comparative Dimension, Linda J. Silberman Jan 1995

Judicial Jurisdiction In The Conflict Of Laws Course: Adding A Comparative Dimension, Linda J. Silberman

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In this Article, Professor Silberman suggests that comparative law materials can usefully be introduced in the conflict of laws course. She proposes the subject of adjudicatory jurisdiction as a good place to start. She argues that a comparison of the U.S. approach with the English and European approaches (particularly under the Brussels Convention) is evidence of the desirability of a jurisdictional system grounded more on rules and/or discretion rather than on a constitutional standard of reasonableness. She takes issue with the contention of her colleague Professor Andreas Lowenfeld that "reasonableness" has been accepted as an international standard for the assertion …


A Conflict Of Laws And Morals: The Choice Of Law Implications Of Hawaii's Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriages, Joseph W. Hovermill Jan 1994

A Conflict Of Laws And Morals: The Choice Of Law Implications Of Hawaii's Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriages, Joseph W. Hovermill

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Interstate Preemption: The Right To Travel, The Right To Life, And The Right To Die, Lea Brilmayer Mar 1993

Interstate Preemption: The Right To Travel, The Right To Life, And The Right To Die, Lea Brilmayer

Michigan Law Review

State laws differ, and they differ on issues of tremendous importance to the ways that we conduct our lives. Abortion and the right to die are two issues on which state law intersects with deeply held moral convictions, and on which state laws vary. With so much hanging in the balance, it is not surprising that those who find themselves outvoted or outmaneuvered in local political processes sometimes seek a legal climate more compatible with their beliefs about human decency and dignity. The right to "vote with one's feet" - to travel or move to another state and trade a …


"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer Mar 1993

"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer

Michigan Law Review

In a prior article, I addressed the problem of extraterritorial abortions under the assumption that the federal constitutional right of reproductive choice would be repudiated by the Supreme Court on Justice Scalia's theory that such rights lack sufficiently deep roots in the history and traditions surrounding the framing of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. I argued there that a constitutional methodology that relied on traditions and expectations of the Framers would provide a strong basis for concluding that the Constitution imposes severe limits on states' power to project their moralities extraterritorially. If Justice Scalia is serious about a regard …


Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman Mar 1993

Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman

Michigan Law Review

This colloquy was organized around the unpleasant hypothesis that the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade and that Congress would not fill the resulting void with federal legislation. The abortion debate would then move to the states, where local majorities could enact their own resolutions. If the local majorities were large enough, they could even write their local resolutions into their state constitutions. The contrasting state constitutions that could result might then replicate the comparativists' current juxtaposition between the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of Germany and Ireland. In some states, prohibition of abortion would be constitutionally required, while …


Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 1993

Identifying, Protecting And Preserving Individual Rights: Traditional Federal Court Functions, Roger J. Miner '56

Constitutional Law

No abstract provided.


Historical Framework For Reviving Constitutional Protection For Property And Contract Rights , James L. Kainen Jan 1993

Historical Framework For Reviving Constitutional Protection For Property And Contract Rights , James L. Kainen

Faculty Scholarship

Post-New Deal constitutionalism is in search of a theory that justifies judicial intervention on behalf of individual rights while simultaneously avoiding the charge of "Lochnerism."' The dominant historical view dismisses post-bellum substantive due process as an anomalous development in the American constitutional tradition. Under this approach, Lochner represents unbounded protection for economic rights that permitted the judiciary to read laissez faire, pro-business policy preferences into the constitutional text. Today's revisionists have mounted a substantial challenge to the dismissive views of traditionalists. Indeed, some claim Lochner reached the right result, but for the wrong reason. The revisionists characterize substantive due process …


Imbalance Of Powers: Can Congressional Lawsuits Serve As Counterweight?, Carlin Meyer Jan 1992

Imbalance Of Powers: Can Congressional Lawsuits Serve As Counterweight?, Carlin Meyer

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.


Impeachment Exception To The Exclusionary Rules: Policies, Principles, And Politics, The , James L. Kainen Jan 1991

Impeachment Exception To The Exclusionary Rules: Policies, Principles, And Politics, The , James L. Kainen

Faculty Scholarship

The exclusionary evidence rules derived from the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments continue to play an important role in constitutional criminal procedure, despite the intense controversy that surrounds them. The primary justification for these rules has shifted from an "imperative of judicial integrity" to the "deterrence of police conduct that violates... [constitutional] rights." Regardless of the justification it uses for the rules' existence, the Supreme Court continues to limit their breadth "at the margin," when "the acknowledged costs to other values vital to a rational system of criminal justice" outweigh the deterrent effects of exclusion. The most notable limitation on …


Carnegie-Mellon University V. Cohill: The United States Supreme Court Upholds The Authority Of Federal Courts To Remand Properly Removed Pendent Jurisdiction Claims, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 389 (1988), William Barrett Jan 1988

Carnegie-Mellon University V. Cohill: The United States Supreme Court Upholds The Authority Of Federal Courts To Remand Properly Removed Pendent Jurisdiction Claims, 22 J. Marshall L. Rev. 389 (1988), William Barrett

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1988

Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this Comment is to examine the history of the enactment and early enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 from the perspective of the remedies Congress sought to provide to meet the problems that necessitated the legislation. Its main foci are the statute's enforcement provisions and their early implementation, an aspect of the history of the statute that has not been fully considered in relation to section one, the provision that has received the most scholarly attention. The occasion of this study is the Supreme Court's reconsideration of Runyon v. McCrary' in Patterson v. McLean Credit …


Response, Lea Brilmayer Oct 1987

Response, Lea Brilmayer

Florida State University Law Review

Professor Brilmayer responds to the commentaries of Professors Laycock, Tushnet, and George.


Asking The Right Questions, Lawrence C. George Oct 1987

Asking The Right Questions, Lawrence C. George

Florida State University Law Review

Professor George analyzes what he sees as Professor Brilmayer's major thesis: that neither modern choice of law nor equal protection principles provide a sound basis for jurisdictional doctrine. Concluding that she has failed to consider a possible Critical Legal Studies approach to the problems she poses, he suggests one.


Equality And The Citizens Of Sister States, Douglas Laycock Oct 1987

Equality And The Citizens Of Sister States, Douglas Laycock

Florida State University Law Review

Professor Laycock's commentary is written in response to Lea Brilmayer's article in this edition. Brilmayer and Laycock agree that states owe equal treatment to citizens of sister states, and that the obligation does not extend to the exercise of government power. But Laycock would derive these rules from constitutional text and structural needs of the federal union. He think that Brilmayer's broader political theory is only marginally relevant to their shared conclusion.


Interstate Federalism, Lea Brilmayer Sep 1987

Interstate Federalism, Lea Brilmayer

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Protection Limitations On Choice Of Law Decisions, Anne-Marie Witters Jan 1987

Equal Protection Limitations On Choice Of Law Decisions, Anne-Marie Witters

LLM Theses and Essays

In this paper, the author seeks to clarify the implications of contemporary Fourteenth Amendment theory for state autonomy in deciding conflict cases, concentrating on state discrimination against non-residents and aliens. The author argues that laws which distinguish locals from residents of other states should be reviewed under strict scrutiny, just as laws that discriminate against aliens. Also U.S. choice of law methodologies from both past and present are discussed, with the conclusion that modern theories violate the Equal Protection Clause of their systematic preference for forum residents and parochial results. After a review of the European conflicts system, the choice …


Interest Analysis As Constitutional Law, Gene R. Shreve Jan 1987

Interest Analysis As Constitutional Law, Gene R. Shreve

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Criminal Evidence And The Ear Of The Law, Daniel H. Derby Jan 1986

Criminal Evidence And The Ear Of The Law, Daniel H. Derby

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Revolutionary Constitutionalism In The Era Of The Civil War And Reconstruction , Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1986

Revolutionary Constitutionalism In The Era Of The Civil War And Reconstruction , Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

The meaning and scope of the fourteenth amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 remain among the most controversial issues in American constitutional law. Professor Kaczorowski contends that the issues have generated more controversy than they warrant, in part because scholars analyzing the legislative history of the amendment and statute have approached their task with preconceptions reflecting twentieth century legal concerns. He argues that the most important question for the framers was whether national or state governments possessed primary authority to determine and secure the status and rights of American citizens. Relying on records of the congressional debates as …


Duties And Powers Respecting Foreign Crimes, Daniel H. Derby Jan 1982

Duties And Powers Respecting Foreign Crimes, Daniel H. Derby

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Nevada V. Hall, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1978

Nevada V. Hall, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Through A Glass Darkly: Equal Protection For Home Rule Units In Illinois – Urbana V. Houser, Daniel H. Derby Jan 1978

Through A Glass Darkly: Equal Protection For Home Rule Units In Illinois – Urbana V. Houser, Daniel H. Derby

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Foley V. Connelie, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1977

Foley V. Connelie, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1975-1976, Lloyd George Jackson Ii, John Burdick Koch, Alan Dale Moats, Thomas A. Vorbach Jun 1976

Survey Of Developments In West Virginia Law: 1975-1976, Lloyd George Jackson Ii, John Burdick Koch, Alan Dale Moats, Thomas A. Vorbach

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Examining Board Of Engineers V. Flores Deotero, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1975

Examining Board Of Engineers V. Flores Deotero, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Zicarelli V. New Jersey State Commission Of Investigation, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1971

Zicarelli V. New Jersey State Commission Of Investigation, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.