Legal Interpretation: The Window Of The Text As Transparent, Opaque, Or Translucent,
2010
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Legal Interpretation: The Window Of The Text As Transparent, Opaque, Or Translucent, George H. Taylor
Nevada Law Journal
It is a common metaphor that the text is a window onto the world that it depicts. I want to explore this metaphor and the insights it may offer us for better understanding legal interpretation. As in the opening epigraph from James Boyd White, I shall develop the metaphor of the text as window in three ways: the text may be transparent, opaque, or translucent. My goal will be to argue that the best way to understand legal interpretation is to conceive of the legal text as translucent, but along the way I will compare the merits also of considering …
As Time Goes By: Hermeneutics And Originalism,
2010
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
As Time Goes By: Hermeneutics And Originalism, John T. Valauri
Nevada Law Journal
What is the continuing relevance of hermeneutics to legal theory in general and to constitutional theory in particular if we are all originalists now? Both seem to be vital despite the decline of interest in hermeneutics recently. This article argues for the continuing relevance of hermeneutics to both fields because of the centrality of issues of application and practical reasoning in both. Law seeks for find the meaning of texts applied over time; legal texts are truly letters of transit. That we are all originalists, yet still have the same sort of interpretive debates we have always had, only indicates …
Introduction To The South Dakota Law Review's 2010 Symposium Issue,
2010
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Introduction To The South Dakota Law Review's 2010 Symposium Issue, Marci A. Hamilton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Fiqh And Canons: Reflections On Islamic And Christian Jurisprudence,
2010
St. John's University School of Law
Fiqh And Canons: Reflections On Islamic And Christian Jurisprudence, Mark L. Movsesian
Faculty Publications
Although American scholarship has begun to address both Christian and Islamic jurisprudence in a serious way, virtually none of the literature attempts to compare the place of law in these two world religions. This Essay begins to compare Islamic and Christian conceptions of law and suggests some implications for contemporary debates about religious dispute settlement. Islam and Christianity are subtle and complex religions. Each has competing strands; each has evolved over millennia and expressed itself differently over time. Moreover, although systematic treatments of Islamic law are beginning to appear in English, much remains available only in languages, like Arabic, that …
When Indigenous Communities Go Digital: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions Through Integration Of Ip And Customary Law,
2010
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
When Indigenous Communities Go Digital: Protecting Traditional Cultural Expressions Through Integration Of Ip And Customary Law, Stephanie Spangler
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Isu-Isu Pemelukan Islam Menurut Undang-Undang Negara Brunei Darussalam.,
2010
Universiti Malaya
Isu-Isu Pemelukan Islam Menurut Undang-Undang Negara Brunei Darussalam., Muhammad Bahrin Haji Alias
Student Works (2010-2019)
The number of conversion to Islam cases in Brunei Darussalam has arisen yearly. However, due to incompetency or legal infrastructure, any issue relating to the conversion cases, could not be handled and administered efficiently. Such weakness in legal aspect has affected the court‟s reputation and sometimes conflicts especially Syariah Court to discharge their duty effectively. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify and discuss to what extent current legal structures able resolve cases relating to conversion to Islam. To achieve this, the research is enhanced by the library research and field study in order to obtain relevant data. …
Pemakaian Maqasid Al-Shari'ah Dalam Produk Takaful Keluarga Di Etiqa Takaful Berhad.,
2010
Universiti Malaya
Pemakaian Maqasid Al-Shari'ah Dalam Produk Takaful Keluarga Di Etiqa Takaful Berhad., Che Ismail Che Othaman
Student Works (2010-2019)
Takaful is one of the financial instruments that has its own importance. It is the fundamental to Islamic insurance and its existence is as an alternative to the present conventional insurance in the conventional world of banking and finance. Al-Takaful which is based on al-mudarabah, at-tabarru’ and al-wakalah is very supportive towards syara’ in facing the conventional insurance which contains the element of gharar, usury and gambling element. The existence of takaful has aroused various issues, among them is to what extend is the application of maqasid al-shari‘ah in all of the products offered either in Family Takaful or General …
Capteton V. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: The Texas Implications.,
2010
St. Mary's University
Capteton V. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: The Texas Implications., Catherine Stone, Wendy Martinez
St. Mary's Law Journal
In Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., the United States Supreme Court addressed whether the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution was violated by the denial of a motion to recuse. The motion sought to recuse a Supreme Court of Appeals Justice from West Virginia. The justice received an extraordinary campaign contribution from the chief officer of a corporate party to a case pending before the court. Several Texas courts addressed whether recusal was necessary based on campaign contributions prior to the decision in Caperton. Texas courts have universally held that recusal was not required. The United States …
Integration Matters: Rethinking The Architecture Of International Dispute Resolution,
2010
University of Colorado Law School
Integration Matters: Rethinking The Architecture Of International Dispute Resolution, Anna Spain
Publications
International law promotes global peace and security by providing mechanisms for the pacific settlement of international disputes. This Article examines these mechanisms and their place in the architecture of the international dispute resolution ("IDR") system. The Article identifies three core deficiencies of the IDR system that limit its effectiveness and capacity. First, the international legal system has prioritized the development of adjudication over other forms of dispute resolution; the judicialization of international disputes and the proliferation of courts and tribunals evidence this. However, adjudication is limited in its capacity to resolve disputes that involve non-state parties and extra-legal issues. This …
Converging Trajectories: Interest Convergence, Justice Kennedy, And Jeannie Suk's "The Trajectory Of Trauma",
2010
University of Colorado Law School
Converging Trajectories: Interest Convergence, Justice Kennedy, And Jeannie Suk's "The Trajectory Of Trauma", Jennifer S. Hendricks
Publications
This essay responds to Jeannie Suk's recent article in the Columbia Law Review, The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse. Suk argues that feminists are responsible for legitimizing a paternalistic attitude towards women that came home to roost in Gonzales v. Carhart. This essay argues that Suk's critique of feminist paternalism needs to be supplemented with a discussion of traditional paternalism and its influence on how feminist advocacy enters the law. In particular, it suggests that Derrick Bell's theory of interest convergence provides a useful framework for understanding the cultural, legal, and rhetorical evidence adduced …
Legal Transitions And The Problem Of Reliance,
2010
University of Colorado Law School
Legal Transitions And The Problem Of Reliance, David M. Hasen
Publications
This Article analyzes the literature on legal transitions. The principal focus is taxation, but the analysis generalizes to other areas. I argue that the theoretical apparatus developed by scholars active in the legal transitions area suffers from significant conceptual shortcomings. These shortcomings include the unwarranted assimilation of legal to factual change, the naturalization of conventional arrangements, and the disregard of the distinction between making law and finding it. As a consequence, the recent literature offers an analysis that is unable either to explain actual transitions or to provide an adequate theory of how legal change should take place. In the …
Square Peg In A Round Hole: Government Contractor Battlefield Tort Liability And The Political Question Doctrine,
2010
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Square Peg In A Round Hole: Government Contractor Battlefield Tort Liability And The Political Question Doctrine, Chris Jenks
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Recent assertions of the political question doctrine by battlefield contractor defendants in tort litigation have brought new life to the doctrine while raising new questions. The lawsuits stem from incidents in both Iraq and Afghanistan and include plaintiffs ranging from local nationals suing contract interrogators and interpreters, to contract employees suing another contractor following insurgent attacks, to U.S. service members suing contractors after vehicle and airplane crashes. The lawsuits involve tort claims, which on their face do not conjure up images of a constitutional power struggle, but in at least fifteen cases thus far contractor defendants have asserted the political …
Abstention: The Unexpected Power Of Withholding Your Vote,
2010
Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law
Abstention: The Unexpected Power Of Withholding Your Vote, Grant M. Hayden
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Article examines the effect of abstentions on the outcome of votes. Scholars (and voters) operate under two basic assumptions about the nature of abstention. First, they assume that an abstention affects all alternatives in equal measure. Second, and relatedly, people assume that a voter’s preferred alternative will be less likely to win if that voter abstains (and, of course, more likely to win if she votes). Removing the potential full support of a vote and replacing it with the fifty-fifty proposition of an abstention should hurt the chances of a voter’s preferred alternative. These two assumptions guide the thinking …
Comparative Tales Of Origins And Access: Intellectual Property And The Rhetoric Of Social Change,
2010
Boston University School of Law
Comparative Tales Of Origins And Access: Intellectual Property And The Rhetoric Of Social Change, Jessica Silbey
Faculty Scholarship
This Article argues that the open-source and anti-expansionist rhetoric of current intellectual-property debates is a revolution of surface rhetoric but not of deep structure. What this Article terms “the Access Movements” are, by now, well-known communities devoted to providing more access to intellectual-property-protected goods, communities such as the Open Source Initiative and Access to Knowledge. This Article engages Movement actors in their critique of the balance struck by recent law (statutes and cases) and asks whether new laws that further restrict access to intellectual property “promote the progress of science and the useful arts.” Relying on cases, statutes and recent …
Constitutional Borrowing,
2010
Boston University School of Law
Constitutional Borrowing, Nelson Tebbe, Robert L. Tsai
Faculty Scholarship
Borrowing from one domain to promote ideas in another domain is a staple of constitutional decisionmaking. Precedents, arguments, concepts, tropes, and heuristics all can be carried across doctrinal boundaries for purposes of persuasion. Yet the practice itself remains underanalyzed. This Article seeks to bring greater theoretical attention to the matter. It defines what constitutional borrowing is and what it is not, presents a typology that describes its common forms, undertakes a principled defense of borrowing, and identifies some of the risks involved. Our examples draw particular attention to places where legal mechanisms and ideas migrate between fields of law associated …
Locke's 1694 Memorandum (And More Incomplete Copyright Historiographies),
2010
Yeshiva University, Cardozo School of Law
Locke's 1694 Memorandum (And More Incomplete Copyright Historiographies), Justin Hughes
Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Decisional Sequencing,
2010
University of Georgia Law School
Decisional Sequencing, Peter B. Rutledge
Scholarly Works
Judicial decisionmaking consists of two sets of choices – (1) how to resolve the issues in a case and (2) how to decide the order in which those issues will be resolved. Much legal scholarship focuses on the first question; too little focuses on the second. This Article aims to fill that gap. Drawing across disciplines – philosophy, economics and political science – this Article articulates a theory of “decisional sequencing.” Decisional sequencing concerns the extent to which legal rules constrain – and do not constrain – the order in which judges and other quasi-judicial actors (like arbitrators) decide matters …
Science, Public Bioethics, And The Problem Of Integration,
2010
Notre Dame Law School
Science, Public Bioethics, And The Problem Of Integration, O. Carter Snead
Journal Articles
Public bioethics — the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology in the name of ethical goods — is an emerging area of American law. The field uniquely combines scientific knowledge, moral reasoning, and prudential judgments about democratic decision making. It has captured the attention of officials in every branch of government, as well as the American public itself. Public questions (such as those relating to the law of abortion, the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, and the regulation of end-of-life decision making) continue to roil the public square.
This Article examines the question of how scientific methods and …
Informed Choices And Uniform Decisions: Adopting The Aba's Self-Enforcing Administrative Model To Ensure Successful Surrogacy Arrangements,
2010
Southwestern Law School
Informed Choices And Uniform Decisions: Adopting The Aba's Self-Enforcing Administrative Model To Ensure Successful Surrogacy Arrangements, Christine Metteer Lorillard
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
Non-traditional families are on the rise in America today, with more and more same-sex couples raising families together. Yet, all same-sex partners seeking to become parents must make use of some assisted reproductive technique ("ART'), as must some heterosexual married couples. Despite the growing number of people who want to create families, including those that resort to ARTs to have genetically-related children, there are significant moral, economic, and legal obstacles in their way. What has long been needed is a codified roadmap for a successful surrogacy agreement that delineates the rights and obligations of the parties involved, as well as …
Drawing Bisexuality Back Into The Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into Lgbt Legal Strategy Ten Years After Bisexual Erasure,
2010
Family Equality Counsel
Drawing Bisexuality Back Into The Picture: How Bisexuality Fits Into Lgbt Legal Strategy Ten Years After Bisexual Erasure, Heron Greenesmith
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
The article argues that bisexuality remains legally invisible, both in legal culture and jurisprudence, due to its inherent complexity and the reliance of legal arguments on a binary understanding of sexual orientation. It extends Kenji Yoshino's theory of bisexual erasure into the legal context, proposing that bisexuality is not just socially invisible but also legally inconspicuous. The analysis focuses on two main hypotheses: first, that bisexuality is inherently invisible to the law beyond deliberate erasure, and second, that where bisexuality is legally relevant, it complicates legal arguments that depend on the binary of sexuality. The article concludes by advocating for …
