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Evaluating Work: Enforcing Occupational Safety And Health Standards In The United States, Canada And Sweden, Daniel B. Klaff

ExpressO

The United States’ occupational safety and health enforcement system is breaking down. Klaff argues that much of this breakdown has to do with a fundamental lack of worker participation in the United States’ safety and health system. Klaff makes his case by comparing and contrasting the history and enforcement schemes of the United States, Canada, and Sweden. After arguing for economic rights as human rights, Klaff concludes by offering a set of recommendations for the United States’ occupational safety and health system based upon his value-centered analysis.

Clasificación De Las Causas De La Revocación De Sentencias Por Operación Del Recurso Extraordinario (Gráficos), Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

No abstract provided.

The Dilution Effect: Federalization, Fair Cross-Sections, And The Concept Of Community, Laura G. Dooley

ExpressO

The question of the relevant community from which a fair cross-section of jurors should be drawn has received little theoretical attention. This article seeks to fill that gap by using communitarian and postmodern theory to give content to the idea of "community" in the fair cross-section context. This analysis is timely and has grave practical importance, given that the federal government is increasingly assuming the prosecution of crime previously dealt with at the state level. This "federalization" of criminal enforcement has the second-order effect of changing the "community" from which criminal juries will be drawn, particularly in urban areas surrounded …

Amicus Curiae: Intervención De Amigos Del Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Cuadro realizado en base a la Acordada 28/2004 (14Jul04) de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación.

Reingeniería De La Corte Suprema De La Nación 2: Información Sobre La Tarea Del Alto Tribunal, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

La información es clave para tomar decisiones. En el trabajo REINGENIERÍA (1) hicimos amplia referencia a la información en general (para el tribunal, las partes, el público, el extranjero). En este caso nos limitamos a uno sólo de estos aspectos: la información sobre la tarea de la Corte con el exclusivo propósito de dar fundamentos a las propuestas de cambio que se sugieran.

Mesa Del Diálogo Argentino - Sector Justicia - Comisión Para El Tratamiento De La Jurisdicción De La Corte Suprema - Síntesis Propositiva - Acuerdo Unánime: Formulación De Una Agenda, Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Recopilación de las propuestas y opiniones de los integrantes de la Comisión.

Plea Bargaining Outside The Shadow Of Trial, Stephanos Bibas

All Faculty Scholarship

Plea-bargaining literature predicts that parties strike plea bargains in the shadow of expected trial outcomes. In other words, parties forecast the expected sentence after trial, discount it by the probability of acquittal, and offer some proportional discount. This oversimplified model ignores how structural distortions skew bargaining outcomes. Agency costs; attorney competence, compensation, and workloads; resources; sentencing and bail rules; and information deficits all skew bargaining. In addition, psychological biases and heuristics warp judgments: overconfidence, denial, discounting, risk preferences, loss aversion, framing, and anchoring all affect bargaining decisions. Skilled lawyers can partly counteract some of these problems but sometimes overcompensate. The …

Los Tribunales Supremos Y Un Plan De Reingeniería Para La Corte Suprema De La Argentina, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Versión depurada del informe REINGENIERÍA - Se exponen los objetivos, principios, criterios y finalidad de un proyecto de reingeniería en la Corte Suprema de la Argentina. REINGENIERÍA DE LA CORTE SUPREMA DE LA NACIÓN – Aspectos organizativos, funcionales y de gobierno del Alto Tribunal (Guía de trabajo) También se reflexiona sobre la repercusión sobre la labor institucional del Alto Tribunal así como también sobre otras cualidades como su independencia y especialmente en su transparencia.

Beyond Reparations: An American Indian Theory Of Justice, William C. Bradford

ExpressO

The number of states, corporations, and religious groups formally disowning past records of egregious human injustice is mushrooming. Although the Age of Apology is a global phenomenon, the question of reparations—a tort-based mode of redress whereby a wrongdoing group accepts legal responsibility and compensates victims for the damage it inflicted upon them—likely consumes more energy, emotion, and resources in the U.S. than in any other jurisdiction. Since the final year of the Cold War, the U.S. and its political subdivisions have apologized or paid compensation to Japanese-American internees, native Hawaiians, civilians killed in the Korean War, and African American victims …

Beyond Rights: Legal Process And Ethnic Conflicts, Elena A. Baylis

ExpressO

Unresolved ethnic conflicts threaten the stability and the very existence of multi-ethnic states. The realities of ethnic conflict are daunting: ethnic disputes tend to be both persistent and complex, and efforts to use democracy or ethnic-blind policies to deal with those conflicts tend to fail. While multi-ethnic states have struggled to devise political solutions for ethnic conflict, they have largely ignored the role that legal processes might play in resolving ethnic discord. But at certain crucial moments in the development of ethnic conflicts, legal processes such as mediation, adjudication, and constitutional interpretation might effectively address these disputes.

This article explores …

Agenda Para El Tratamiento De Los Problemas De La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Una propuesta para el tratamiento orgánico de los problemas de la Corte Suprema.

Corte Suprema : Carga De Trabajo Y Producción, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Para proponer cambios en el Alto Tribunales es fundamental conocer el trabajo que le llega, los recursos con que cuenta, cómo se organiza, cuánto produce. El presente estudio - efectuado en el marco del proyecto “Reingeniería de la Corte Suprema” - se ha basado en (a) información de la Oficina de Estadística de la Corte (correspondiente al año 2002) y (b) datos del Presupuesto Nacional del año ___, (c) información sobre salarios obtenidos también del Presupuesto, junto con información propia.

Terminating Public School Teachers For Cause Under Minnesota Law, Christine D. Ver Ploeg

William Mitchell Law Review

It is important to understand the realities that surround the discharge of a teacher, for embarking upon this path promises to be painful for everyone involved. Teachers who challenge allegations that they are personally or professionally unworthy of continuing to teach in their districts--or perhaps to continue to teach at all--understandably experience extraordinary trauma and anxiety. By the same token, districts that ultimately fail to prove the case for discharge can face significant financial liability and may even be forced to reinstate teachers who have been found to be deficient. Finally, these efforts often divide schools and communities because teachers, …

Courts As Forums For Protest, Jules Lobel

Articles

For almost half a century, scholars, judges and politicians have debated two competing models of the judiciary's role in a democratic society. The mainstream model views courts as arbiters of disputes between private individuals asserting particular rights. The reform upsurge of the 1960s and 1970s led many to argue that courts are not merely forums to settle private disputes, but can also be used as instruments of societal change. Academics termed the emerging model the hein"public law" or "institutional reform" model.

The ongoing debate between these two views of the judicial role has obscured a third model of the role …

The Pervasiveness Of Culture In Conflict, Pat K. Chew

Articles

Law faculty and scholars are increasingly cognizant of the role of culture in dispute resolution. This essay offers a beginning roadmap for exploring the cultural context of conflict. It begins by considering how to assess our own cultural profiles, highlighting some useful social science constructs for this purpose. It then discusses how our interactive perception of others' cultural profiles makes a difference. The essay also explores the tensions between, on one hand, the pervasiveness of culture in conflict and, on the other hand, American legal traditions that appear contrary to the incorporation of culture into dispute resolution processes.

A Global Convention On Choice Of Court Agreements, Ronald A. Brand

Articles

This article reviews the work of the Special Commission of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, which meet during the first nine days of December 2003 to consider a Draft Text on Choice of Court Agreements. Negotiations originally sought a rather comprehensive convention on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments, with a preliminary draft convention being prepared in October 1999, and further revised at the first part of a Diplomatic Conference in June 2001. When it became clear that some countries, particularly the United States, could not agree to the convention being considered, negotiations were redirected at …

La Competencia De La Corte Suprema, Horacio M. Lynch, María Clara Pujol

Horacio M. LYNCH

Ingresos de causas a la Corte - Distribución interna de las causas en la Corte – Presupuesto - Producción.