Truth And Legitimacy (In Courts),
2016
California Western School of Law
Truth And Legitimacy (In Courts), Kenneth S. Klein
Faculty Scholarship
This Article draws upon empirical and theoretical scholarship from philosophy, economics, social science, psychology, political science, ethics, and jurisprudence, in addition to more traditional legal sources such as Supreme Court decisions, to develop an articulation of the meaning, role, and importance of truth in courts. It is frequently articulated that trials are a search for truth. But as insiders to the judicial system know, if this is so then it is a meaning of truth that differs what truth means in any other context. And exposing this definitional dissonance in turn exposes that the legitimacy of the courts rests on …
From Jones To Jones: Fifteen Years Of Incoherence In The Constitutional Law Of Sentencing Factfinding,
2016
FAMU College of Law
From Jones To Jones: Fifteen Years Of Incoherence In The Constitutional Law Of Sentencing Factfinding, Benjamin Priester
Journal Publications
For over 15 years, the United States Supreme Court has struggled to define the constitutional constraints upon a ubiquitous practice in contemporary American criminal justice: the exercise of factfinding authority by sentencing judges in the course of determining the specific punishment to be imposed upon an individual convicted of a criminal offense. While the Court has permitted much sentencing factfinding to continue unabated, its decisions have identified certain scenarios in which an offender's constitutional rights are violated when a fact found at sentencing creates particular impacts on the punishment. Unfortunately, from the beginning this new constitutional doctrine in criminal procedure …
When Fantasy Becomes Reality: Attempts To Regulate The Highly Unregulated Daily Fantasy Sports Industry.,
2016
St. Mary's University
When Fantasy Becomes Reality: Attempts To Regulate The Highly Unregulated Daily Fantasy Sports Industry., Garrett Greene
St. Mary's Law Journal
Legislation is beginning to creep into the once safeguard-devoid sphere of the daily fantasy sports industry. Daily fantasy sports are a subset of traditional season-long fantasy sports and are immensely lucrative, yet there are hardly any standard regulations. Ironically, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006, which was used to outlaw online poker gambling, paved the way for daily fantasy sports, because it federally exempted fantasy sports from being classified as illegal sports gambling. The UIGEA further protects daily fantasy sports from the Professional and Amateur Sports Prohibition Act (PASPA) of 1992 which prohibits states from sponsoring sports …
Zero-Tolerance Comes To International Law,
2016
University of Colorado Law School
Zero-Tolerance Comes To International Law, Aya Gruber
Publications
No abstract provided.
Institutional Competence And Civil Rules Interpretation,
2016
University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Law
Institutional Competence And Civil Rules Interpretation, Lumen N. Mulligan, Glen Staszewski
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Assimilation Of Patent Law,
2016
University of California, Davis, School of Law
The Supreme Assimilation Of Patent Law, Peter Lee
Michigan Law Review
Although tensions between universality and exceptionalism apply throughout law, they are particularly pronounced in patent law, a field that deals with highly technical subject matter. This Article explores these tensions by investigating an underappreciated descriptive theory of Supreme Court patent jurisprudence. Significantly extending previous scholarship, it argues that the Court’s recent decisions reflect a project of eliminating “patent exceptionalism” and assimilating patent doctrine to general legal principles (or, more precisely, to what the Court frames as general legal principles). Among other motivations, this trend responds to rather exceptional patent doctrine emanating from the Federal Circuit in areas as varied as …
Land Use Consultations Advancing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Ripe For Clinical Trials,
2016
Bonnett, Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint, P.C.
Land Use Consultations Advancing Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Ripe For Clinical Trials, Michael N. Widener
Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
This paper proposes educating law students in the processes of therapeutic justice through service as a neutral in land use controversies, and in the process, improving law student dispute resolution skills and enabling them to promote therapeutic outcomes.
Realising The Promise Of Costs Budgets: An Economic Analysis,
2016
Notre Dame Law School
Realising The Promise Of Costs Budgets: An Economic Analysis, Jay Tidmarsh
Journal Articles
The costs-budget system implemented in the Jackson reforms promises to keep litigation costs within socially appropriate bounds. To realise this promise fully however; the goal of this reform must be reoriented. Using real-options analysis, this article demonstrates that costs budgeting in its present form often fails to achieve a reduction of litigation costs to the socially appropriate level–defined to be the point at which the social benefits of litigation exceeds its costs–because parties may have a private incentive to invest socially excessive amounts on litigation. This result is true under both the English ("loser pays") and the American ("bear your …
The Sherlock Holmes Canon,
2016
St. John's University School of Law
The Sherlock Holmes Canon, Anita S. Krishnakumar
Faculty Publications
Many of the Supreme Court’s statutory interpretation cases infer meaning from Congress’s failure to comment in the legislative record. Colorfully referred to as the “dog that did not bark” canon, after a Sherlock Holmes story involving a watchdog that failed to bark while a racehorse was being stolen, the interpretive presumption holds as follows: if a new law or statutory amendment would significantly change the existing legal landscape, Congress can be expected to comment on that change in the legislative record; thus, a lack of congressional comment regarding a significant change can be taken as evidence that Congress did not …
Dueling Canons,
2016
St. John's University School of Law
Dueling Canons, Anita S. Krishnakumar
Faculty Publications
This Article offers the first targeted study of the Supreme Court’s use of canons and other tools of statutory interpretation in a “dueling” manner—that is, in both the majority and dissenting opinions in the same case, to support opposing outcomes. Taking its inspiration from Karl Llewellyn’s celebrated list of canons and countercanons, this Article examines how often and in what ways the members of the Roberts Court counter each other’s references to particular interpretive tools when disagreeing about the proper reading of a statute. Many of the Article’s findings are unexpected and undermine the assumptions made by some of the …
Offensive Linemen: How Pro Football, Inc.'S Responses To The Cancellation Of The Redskins Registrations Should Be Incorporated Into The Uspto's Future Analyses Of Disparaging Trademarks,
2016
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Offensive Linemen: How Pro Football, Inc.'S Responses To The Cancellation Of The Redskins Registrations Should Be Incorporated Into The Uspto's Future Analyses Of Disparaging Trademarks, Stella Silverstein
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Terrorists And Antiquities: Lessons From The Destruction Of The Bamiyan Buddhas, Current Isis Aggression, And A Proposed Framework For Cultural Property Crimes,
2016
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Terrorists And Antiquities: Lessons From The Destruction Of The Bamiyan Buddhas, Current Isis Aggression, And A Proposed Framework For Cultural Property Crimes, Whitney Bren
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Tweeting #Justice: Audio-Visual Coverage Of Court Proceedings In A World Of Shifting Technology,
2016
Stanford Law School
Tweeting #Justice: Audio-Visual Coverage Of Court Proceedings In A World Of Shifting Technology, Itay Ravid
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
The debate over whether to allow cameras into courtrooms refuses to fade away. In 2015 alone, U.S. federal courts completed a five-year experiment with cameras in courts, New Zealand published new guidelines for audio-visual coverage, and Scotland completely revised its former broadcast policy. These jurisdictions, and others around the globe, constantly struggle to design model practices that successfully balance freedom of the press, transparency, and public access to information, with rights to a fair trial and privacy. The constant need to rethink coverage policies can be attributed in large part to the advancement of technology, providing the media innovative tools …
International Legal Structuralism: A Primer,
2016
University of Colorado Law School
International Legal Structuralism: A Primer, Justin Deystone
Publications
International legal structuralism arrived on the shores of international thought in the 1980s. The arrival was not well-received, perhaps in part, because it was not well-understood. This essay aims to reintroduce legal structuralism and hopefully pave the way for new, and more positive, receptions and understandings. This reintroduction is organized around two claims regarding the broader encounter between international lawyers and critical theory in the ‘80s. The first was a jurisprudential claim about how the critics sought to show how international law was nothing more than a continuation of international politics by other means. The second was a historical claim …
The Ethics Of Inter Partes Review Before The Uspto.,
2016
St. Mary's University
The Ethics Of Inter Partes Review Before The Uspto., Dorian Ojemen
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Texas's Excessive Demand Doctrine Impacts Recoveries In Litigation.,
2016
St. Mary's University
Texas's Excessive Demand Doctrine Impacts Recoveries In Litigation., Stephanie M. Green
St. Mary's Law Journal
A party demanding money they are not entitled to becomes subject to the excessive demand doctrine. Because the excessive demand doctrine is an affirmative defense, a defending party must allege its claim of excessive demand in its pleadings. A party must “plead it, prove it, and obtain findings of fact on its essential elements.” To obtain findings on the issue, both the pleadings and the evidence are required to put a question or instruction before the jury. Ensuring that the evidence is enough depends upon the trial court—whose judgment will only be overturned upon a showing of an abuse of …
A Tribute To Judge Kaye,
2016
Brooklyn Law School
A Tribute To Judge Kaye, Nicholas W. Allard
Brooklyn Law Review
This collection of remarks from scholars, practitioners, and judges serves as a tribute to the life of the beloved and esteemed Judge Kaye and her commitment to the New York State Constitution. The collection culminates with Judge Kaye’s final essay, written for the Brooklyn Law Review, with her reflections on opportunity in life and law and New York’s State Constitution.
Confounding Ockham's Razor: Minilateralism And International Economic Regulation,
2016
Brooklyn Law School
Confounding Ockham's Razor: Minilateralism And International Economic Regulation, Eric C. Chaffee
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
In Minilateralism: How Trade Alliances, Soft Law, and Financial Engineering Are Redefining Economic Statecraft, Professor Chris Brummer embraces the complexity of the global economic system and its regulation by exploring the emerging role and dominance of varying strands of economic collaboration and regulation that he collectively refers to as “minilateralism.” In describing the turn toward minilateralism, Brummer notes a number of key features of this new minilateral system, including a shift away from global cooperation to strategic alliances composed of the smallest group necessary to achieve a particular goal, a turn from formal treaties to informal non-binding accords and other …
Regulatory Incentive Realignment And The Eu Legal Framework Of Bank Resolution,
2016
Brooklyn Law School
Regulatory Incentive Realignment And The Eu Legal Framework Of Bank Resolution, Andromachi Georgosouli
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Risks associated with incentive misalignment are liable to seriously jeopardize the effectiveness of bank resolution, when not properly contained. This Article considers the management of misaligned incentives between regulators that are found in a vertical relationship of public governance. Using the EU legal framework of bank resolution as its case study, this Article explores the effectiveness of the quasi-enforcement powers of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) and, where relevant, of the European Banking Authority (EBA) as an incentive realignment legal technique. Two principal difficulties are identified: on the one hand, the problematic interinstitutional dynamic of the SRB and the EBA …
A Cautionary Look At A Cautionary Doctrine,
2016
Brooklyn Law School
A Cautionary Look At A Cautionary Doctrine, Andrew W. Fine
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
Optimism is an indispensable element of effective salesmanship. It is therefore quite natural for the directors of public companies to want to optimistically tout the potential long-term benefits of investing in their companies. After all, directors of public companies must be empowered to attract the attention and money of American investors. But what happens if these long-term projections fail to come true? Who is to blame for long-term projections that are simply unrealistic? A doctrine called the “bespeaks caution” doctrine has emerged in order to govern these inquiries, and holds that these optimistic forward-looking statements are legally immunized provided that …
