Identity, Effectiveness, And Newness In Transjudicialism's Coming Of Age,
2010
University of Ottawa
Identity, Effectiveness, And Newness In Transjudicialism's Coming Of Age, Mark Toufayan
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Article attempts to expose and problematize the ideological connections and normative commitments between these theoretical explanations of effectiveness and the pragmatic process-oriented proposals made in the 1990s when the United Nations was searching for ways to renew the discipline of international human rights law while avoiding the dual risks of politicization and Third World normative fragmentation. The liberal theory of effective supranational adjudication was the culmination of decade-long efforts by American liberal internationalists to provide a theoretical basis for and programmatic proposals towards achieving a more "effective" international human rights regime. Their theory aims at structuring the interface between …
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting Rluipa Where Religious Land Uses And Community Interests Meet,
2010
St. Mary’s University School of Law,
A Non-Fatal Collision: Interpreting Rluipa Where Religious Land Uses And Community Interests Meet, Adam J. Macleod
Faculty Articles
Imagine a large church located in a multi-family residential zoning district, where commercial uses are not permitted and religious uses are permitted by special use permit. The church applies for a special use permit to open a coffee shop, which would operate throughout the week during normal business hours and would supplement and support the church's other ministries. At the hearing on the permit application, many neighbors object. They fear increased traffic, visual blight, and safety hazards for their children. The city denies the permit. The church files an action against the city, alleging that the city has substantially burdened …
Blackwell V. Wyeth: It’S Our Courtroom And We’Ll Frye (Only) If We Want To—The Maryland Court Of Appeals’S Unstated Adoption Of Daubert,
2010
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Blackwell V. Wyeth: It’S Our Courtroom And We’Ll Frye (Only) If We Want To—The Maryland Court Of Appeals’S Unstated Adoption Of Daubert, Nancy E. Bonifant
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Argument, Analogy, And Audience: Using Persuasive Comparisons While Avoiding Unintended Effects,
2010
University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law
Argument, Analogy, And Audience: Using Persuasive Comparisons While Avoiding Unintended Effects, Bruce Ching
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Stories Told And Untold: Confidentiality Laws And The Master Narrative Of Child Welfare,
2010
University of the District of Columbia
Stories Told And Untold: Confidentiality Laws And The Master Narrative Of Child Welfare, Matthew I. Fraidin
Journal Articles
In most states, child welfare hearings and records are sealed or confidential. This means that by law, court hearings and records may not be observed. The same laws and court rules also preclude those who are authorized to enter and watch from discussing anything learned or observed in a closed courtroom or from a sealed court record with anyone not involved in the case. It is the restriction on speech—on telling stories about child welfare—with which this Article is concerned. I will argue in this Article that the insights of narrative theory and agenda-setting studies help us understand the damaging …
Federal Courts Not Federal Tribunals,
2010
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Federal Courts Not Federal Tribunals, Lumen N. Mulligan
Faculty Works
The Court has employed inferred-cause-of-action doctrine to foster the rights of individuals, from injured workers to female college applicants to defrauded investors and targets of racial discrimination. Although the question of whether the federal courts ought to infer causes of action from federal statutes is an old chestnut in the federal-courts field, a new basis for barring such a practice has arisen, requiring fresh attention to the Court's inferred-cause-of-action doctrine. This new position asserts that inferring a cause of action is not merely poor judicial policy but extra-jurisdictional under either 28 U.S.C. - 1331 or Article III. Borrowing a phrase …
Judicial Independence And Company Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008,
2010
University of Michigan School of Law
Judicial Independence And Company Law In The Shanghai People's Courts, 1992-2008, Nicholas C. Howson
Book Chapters
This chapter draws on a detailed study of corporate law adjudication in Shanghai from 1992 to 2008. The purpose of the study was to better understand the demonstrated technical competence, institutional autonomy, and political independence of one court system in the People's Republic of China ("PRC") in a sector outside of the criminal law. The study consisted of a detailed examination and comparison of full-length corporate law opinions for more than 200 reported cases, a 2003 Shanghai High Court opinion on the 1994 Company Law (describing a decade of corporate case outcomes), a 2007 report on cases implementing the Company …
The Prop 8 Decision And Courtroom Drama In The Youtube Age: Why Camera Use Should Be Permitted In Courtrooms During High Profile Civil Cases,
2010
Georgetown University Law Center
The Prop 8 Decision And Courtroom Drama In The Youtube Age: Why Camera Use Should Be Permitted In Courtrooms During High Profile Civil Cases, Matthew E. Feinberg
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Good But Not Great: Improving Access To Public Records Under The D.C. Freedom Of Information Act, 13 D.C. L. Rev. 359 (2010),
2010
UIC School of Law
Good But Not Great: Improving Access To Public Records Under The D.C. Freedom Of Information Act, 13 D.C. L. Rev. 359 (2010), Margaret B. Kwoka, Melissa Davenport
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Illinois Courts And The Law Of Miranda Waivers: A Policy Worth Preserving, 30 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 429 (2010),
2010
The John Marshall Law School, Chicago
Illinois Courts And The Law Of Miranda Waivers: A Policy Worth Preserving, 30 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 429 (2010), Timothy P. O'Neill
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Informed Consent: No Longer Just What The Doctor Ordered - The Contributions Of Medical Associations And Courts To A More Patient Friendly Doctrine, 15 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 17 (2010),
2010
The John Marshall Law School
Informed Consent: No Longer Just What The Doctor Ordered - The Contributions Of Medical Associations And Courts To A More Patient Friendly Doctrine, 15 Mich. St. U. J. Med. & L. 17 (2010), Marc Ginsberg
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Judicial Case Management: Caught In The Crossfire,
2010
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
Judicial Case Management: Caught In The Crossfire, Steven S. Gensler
Faculty Articles
No abstract provided.
Saving Civil Justice: Judging Civil Justice,
2010
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Saving Civil Justice: Judging Civil Justice, Elizabeth G. Thornburg
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
Adaptive Management In The Courts,
2010
Vanderbilt University Law School
Adaptive Management In The Courts, J.B. Ruhl, Robert Fischman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Adaptive management has become the tonic of natural resources policy. With its core idea of "learning while doing," adaptive management has infused the natural resources policy world to the point of ubiquity, surfacing in everything from mundane agency permits to grand presidential proclamations. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that these days adaptive management is natural resources policy. But is it working? Does appending "adaptive" in front of "management" somehow make natural resources policy, which has always been about balancing competing claims to nature’s bounty, something more and better? Many legal and policy scholars have asked that question, with …
Limiting Article Iii Standing To "Accidental" Plaintiffs: Lessons From Environmental And Animal Law Cases,
2010
Pepperdine University School of Law
Limiting Article Iii Standing To "Accidental" Plaintiffs: Lessons From Environmental And Animal Law Cases, Robert J. Pushaw Jr.
Georgia Law Review
According to the Supreme Court, Article III's extension
of "judicialPower" to "Cases" and "Controversies"limits
standing to plaintiffs who can demonstrate an
individualized "injury in fact" that was caused by the
defendant and that is judicially redressable. Article III's
text and history, however, do not mention "injury,"
"causation,"or "redressability."
Furthermore, these standards are malleable and have
been applied to achieve ideological goals, especially in
cases involving environmental and animal-welfare laws.
Most notably, the Court has recognized an "injury in fact"
to one's aesthetic enjoyment of nature, but determining
such an injury is arbitrarybecause "aesthetics"is a matter
of personal taste. Judges have …
Prosecution Of Genocide V. The Fair Trial Principle: Comments On Brown And Others V. The Government Of Rwanda And The Uk Secretary Of State For The Home Department,
2010
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Prosecution Of Genocide V. The Fair Trial Principle: Comments On Brown And Others V. The Government Of Rwanda And The Uk Secretary Of State For The Home Department, Mark A. Drumbl
Scholarly Articles
The article examines the 2009 decision of the United Kingdom High Court of Justice to deny the extradition of four genocide suspects to Rwanda owing to fair trial and partiality concerns with the Rwandan judiciary. It begins by reviewing the relevant UK extradition legislation, the pertinent facts and the rationale for the judgment and proceeds to situate this decision within the broader transnational judicial scepticism about the extradition or transfer of genocide suspects to Rwanda. While this scepticism arises from valid concerns regarding the contemporary state of human rights in Rwanda, it nevertheless contributes to the perpetuation of impunity surrounding …
Compelling The Courts To Question Gonzalez V. O Centro: A Public Harms Approach To Free Exercise Analysis,
2010
University of Richmond
Compelling The Courts To Question Gonzalez V. O Centro: A Public Harms Approach To Free Exercise Analysis, Ari B. Fontecchio
Richmond Public Interest Law Review
Part I will set forth the analytical framework established by the Supreme Court in the RFRA and RLUIPA contexts before 0 Centro." This Part will provide a brief background to RFRA and RLUIPA and set forth the definition of "compelling interest" before 0 Centro. Part II will focus on the decision in 0 Centro; specifically, how the Supreme Court's redefinition of "compelling interest" significantly elevates the government's burden. Part III will compare the government's chance of winning on a "compelling interest" argument before 0 Centro" with the chance of winning in its wake. This Part will discuss the merits, flaws, …
Book Review: Bob Rains, True Tales Of Trying Times: Legal Fables For Today (2008),
2010
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Book Review: Bob Rains, True Tales Of Trying Times: Legal Fables For Today (2008), Erik M. Jensen
Nevada Law Journal
In this jewel of a book, Rains presents a collection of fifty-two fabulous "legal fables," each describing real judicial decisions from the last four or five years- in that respect, not fables at all. Unlike the typical law review article, his book actually deals with the law. And Rains's poetic commentary accompanies all the fables. Like much of Rains's work, the book has both rhyme and reason.
Judges And Their Editors,
2010
University of Missouri School of Law
Judges And Their Editors, Douglas E. Abrams
Faculty Publications
This essay discusses the roles of personal law clerks, central staff clerks, and Reporters of Decisions in editing judges’ opinions at the drafting stage. “The overarching lesson [is] that by submerging pride of authorship during an opinion’s gestation and by weighing editorial input with an open mind, judges secure in their craft advance the interests of justice.” The essay also discusses the constraints imposed by the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct on the circle of persons a judge may consult without giving the parties advance notice. The essay is adapted from Prof. Abrams’ address to the international meeting of …
Coconspirators, “Coventurers,” And The Exception Swallowing The Hearsay Rule,
2010
University of Missouri School of Law
Coconspirators, “Coventurers,” And The Exception Swallowing The Hearsay Rule, Ben L. Trachtenberg
Faculty Publications
In recent years, prosecutors - sometimes with the blessing of courts - have argued that when proving the existence of a “conspiracy” to justify admission of evidence under the Coconspirator Exception to the Hearsay Rule, they need show only that the declarant and the defendant were “coventurers” with a common purpose, not coconspirators with an illegal purpose. Indeed, government briefs and court decisions specifically disclaim the need to show any wrongful goal whatsoever. This Article contends that such a reading of the Exception is mistaken and undesirable. Conducted for this article, a survey of thousands of court decisions, including the …
