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Amending The Exceptions Clause, Joseph Blocher Jan 2008

Amending The Exceptions Clause, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Scholarship

Jurisdiction stripping is the new constitutional amendment, and the Exceptions Clause is the new Article V. But despite legal academia’s long-running obsessions with the meaning of constitutional amendment and the limits (if any) on Congress’s power to control federal jurisdiction, we still lack even a basic understanding of how these two forms of constitutional politicking interact. As legislators increasingly propose and pass jurisdiction-stripping legislation and pursue politically charged constitutional amendments, these constitutional processes have begun to step off of the pages of law reviews and into the halls of Congress. The looming collision between them makes it all the more …


Taking Liberties: The Personal Jurisdiction Of Military Commissions, Madeline Morris Jan 2008

Taking Liberties: The Personal Jurisdiction Of Military Commissions, Madeline Morris

Faculty Scholarship

On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda operatives attacked civilian and military targets on US territory, causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars of economic loss. The next day, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1368 characterizing the attack by Al Qaeda as a "threat to international peace and security" and recognizing the right of states to use armed force in self defense.


Why John Mccain Was A Citizen At Birth, Stephen E. Sachs Jan 2008

Why John Mccain Was A Citizen At Birth, Stephen E. Sachs

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Sosa And The Retail Incorporation Of International Law, Ernest A. Young Jan 2007

Sosa And The Retail Incorporation Of International Law, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

Since its release in 2004, Justice Souter’s majority opinion in Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain has become something of a Rorschach blot, in which each of the contending sides in the debate over the domestic status of customary international law (CIL) sees what it was predisposed to see anyway. Neither the thoughtful article by Professors Curtis Bradley, Jack Goldsmith, and David Moore, nor this comment upon that article, is any exception to that tendency: we, too, read Sosa as vindicating our previously expressed positions on this debate. That is an embarrassing situation for scholars all round, and it counsels caution in interpreting …


The Federal Judicial Power And The International Legal Order, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2007

The Federal Judicial Power And The International Legal Order, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Geographic Variation In Informed Consent Law: Two Standards For Disclosure Of Treatment Risks, David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Marin K. Levy, Russell L. Gruen, Edward J. Dunn, E. John Orav, Troyen A. Brennan Jan 2007

Geographic Variation In Informed Consent Law: Two Standards For Disclosure Of Treatment Risks, David M. Studdert, Michelle M. Mello, Marin K. Levy, Russell L. Gruen, Edward J. Dunn, E. John Orav, Troyen A. Brennan

Faculty Scholarship

We analyzed 714 jury verdicts in informed consent cases tried in 25 states in 1985–2002 to determine whether the applicable standard of care (“patient” vs. “professional” standard) affected the outcome. Verdicts for plaintiffs were significantly more frequent in states with a patient standard than in states with a professional standard (27 percent vs. 17 percent, P = 0.02). This difference in outcomes did not hold for other types of medical malpractice litigation (36 percent vs. 37 percent, P = 0.8). The multivariate odds of a plaintiff’s verdict were more than twice as high in states with a patient standard than …


Toward A Framework Statute For Supranational Adjudication, Ernest A. Young Jan 2007

Toward A Framework Statute For Supranational Adjudication, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Stalking The Yeti: Protective Jurisdiction, Foreign Affairs Removal, And Complete Preemption, Ernest A. Young Jan 2007

Stalking The Yeti: Protective Jurisdiction, Foreign Affairs Removal, And Complete Preemption, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

Symposium dedicated to the work of Professor Paul J. Mishkin. This essay explores the Mishkin's theory of protective jurisdiction and applyies it to contemporary controversies.


Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young Jan 2007

Federal Suits And General Laws: A Comment On Judge Fletcher's Reading Of Sosa V. Alvarez-Marchain, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Preclearance, Discrimination, And The Department Of Justice: The Case Of South Carolina, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer Jan 2006

Preclearance, Discrimination, And The Department Of Justice: The Case Of South Carolina, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Federalism Cases In The October 2004 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 2006

Federalism Cases In The October 2004 Term, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Reconceptualizing Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 2006

Reconceptualizing Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Enforcing The Avena Decision In U.S. Courts, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2006

Enforcing The Avena Decision In U.S. Courts, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part I: The Fda, The Courts, And The Regulation Of Tobacco, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins Jan 2006

Courts, Congress, And Public Policy, Part I: The Fda, The Courts, And The Regulation Of Tobacco, Jeffrey R. Lax, Mathew D. Mccubbins

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Commerce Power And Criminal Punishment: Presumption Of Constitutionality Or Presumption Of Innocence?, Margaret H. Lemos Jan 2006

The Commerce Power And Criminal Punishment: Presumption Of Constitutionality Or Presumption Of Innocence?, Margaret H. Lemos

Faculty Scholarship

The Constitution requires that the facts that expose an individual to criminal punishment be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. In recent years, the Supreme Court has taken pains to ensure that legislatures cannot evade the requirements of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and jury presentation through artful statutory drafting. Yet current Commerce Clause jurisprudence permits Congress to do just that. Congress can avoid application of the reasonable-doubt and jury-trial rules with respect to certain critical facts-the facts that establish the basis for federal action by linking the prohibited conduct to interstate commerce-by finding those facts itself rather …


Globalizing Savigny: The State In Savigny’S Private International Law, And The Challenge Of Europeanization And Globalization, Ralf Michaels Jan 2005

Globalizing Savigny: The State In Savigny’S Private International Law, And The Challenge Of Europeanization And Globalization, Ralf Michaels

Faculty Scholarship

How can conflict of laws respond to the challenges from globalization? Some argue that state-based approaches like governmental interest analysis are inadequate, and advocate a return to the approach taken by the German scholar Savigny in the 19th century. The article shows that the assumption is correct: state-based approaches have indeed become problematic. However, a return to Savigny's approach will not help: While Savigny's approach is multilateral and pays little regard to governmental interest, closer analysis reveals how central the state is to his theory. The consequences are shown in an analysis of a recent European case. It follows that …


Terrorism: The Politics Of Prosecution, Madeline Morris Jan 2005

Terrorism: The Politics Of Prosecution, Madeline Morris

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Medellin V. Dretke: Federalism And International Law, Curtis A. Bradley, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Martin Flaherty Jan 2005

Medellin V. Dretke: Federalism And International Law, Curtis A. Bradley, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Martin Flaherty

Faculty Scholarship

This is an edited version of a debate held at Columbia Law School on February 21, 2005.


Is The Sky Falling On The Federal Government? State Sovereign Immunity, The Section Five Power, And The Federal Balance, Ernest A. Young Jan 2003

Is The Sky Falling On The Federal Government? State Sovereign Immunity, The Section Five Power, And The Federal Balance, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

reviewing John T. Noonan, Jr., Narrowing the Nation's Power: The Supreme Court Sides with the States (2002)


U.S. Announces Intent Not To Ratify International Criminal Court Treaty, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2002

U.S. Announces Intent Not To Ratify International Criminal Court Treaty, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Universal Jurisdiction And U.S. Law, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2001

Universal Jurisdiction And U.S. Law, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Dual Federalism, Concurrent Jurisdiction, And The Foreign Affairs Exception, Ernest A. Young Jan 2001

Dual Federalism, Concurrent Jurisdiction, And The Foreign Affairs Exception, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


State Sovereign Immunity And The Future Of Federalism, Ernest A. Young Jan 1999

State Sovereign Immunity And The Future Of Federalism, Ernest A. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


International Contracts In European Courts: Jurisdiction Under Article 5(1) Of The Brussels Convention, Herbert Bernstein Jan 1996

International Contracts In European Courts: Jurisdiction Under Article 5(1) Of The Brussels Convention, Herbert Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act And The Pursued Refugee: Lessons From Letelier V. Chile, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1982

The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act And The Pursued Refugee: Lessons From Letelier V. Chile, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Use Of Social Science Data In A Change Of Venue Application: A Case Study, Neil Vidmar, John W. T. Judson Jan 1981

The Use Of Social Science Data In A Change Of Venue Application: A Case Study, Neil Vidmar, John W. T. Judson

Faculty Scholarship

This article describes how social science data and professional testimony were used to assist judicial decision-making in an application to have a criminal fraud trial moved from Middlesex County, Ontario, because of prejudicial attitudes extant in the community. Typically, in such applications, tenuous documentation of pre-trial publicity and perhaps some unsubstantiated "opinion" testimony by persons purportedly in touch with the pulse of the community are the only evidence introduced . The presiding judge is required to consider this circumstantial, indirect, evidence and draw a conclusion about the level and extent of public prejudice as the merits of the application are …


The Conflicts Problem Between The Longshoremen’S Act And State Workmen’S Compensation Acts Under The 1972 Amendments, Arthur Larson Jan 1977

The Conflicts Problem Between The Longshoremen’S Act And State Workmen’S Compensation Acts Under The 1972 Amendments, Arthur Larson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.