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What's a Name Worth? Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property (with C. Sprigman & Z. Burns) 一个名字值多少钱?知识产权归属价值的实验检验(与C. Sprigman & Z. Burns合著)
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2013-01-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2109917
Christopher Buccafusco
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Class Actions, Heightened Commonality, and Declining Access to Justice 集体诉讼,共性增强,诉诸司法机会减少
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2012-07-19 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2113374
Mary Law School, William, Justice, A. Spencer, spencer
A prerequisite to being certified as a class under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is that there are "questions of law or fact common to the class." Although this “commonality” requirement had heretofore been regarded as something that was easily satisfied, in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes the Supreme Court gave it new vitality by reading into it an obligation to identify among the class a common injury and common questions that are "central" to the dispute. Not only is such a reading of Rule 23’s commonality requirement unsupported by the text of the rule, but it also is at odds with the historical understanding of commonality in both the class action and joinder contexts. The Court’s articulation of a heightened commonality standard can be explained by a combination of its negative view of the merits of the discrimination claims at issue in Dukes, the conflation of the predominance requirement with commonality, and the Court’s apparent penchant for favoring restrictive interpretations of procedural rules that otherwise promote access. Although an unfortunate consequence of the Dukes Court’s heightening of the commonality standard will be the enlivening of challenges to class certifications that otherwise would never have been imagined, this Article urges the Court to reject heightened commonality and read Rule 23 in a manner that remains true to the language and history of the common question requirement.
根据《联邦民事诉讼规则》第23条,被认定为集体的先决条件是存在“集体共有的法律或事实问题”。尽管这一“共性”要求在此之前一直被认为是很容易满足的,但在沃尔玛商店公司诉杜克斯案中,最高法院赋予了它新的活力,将其解读为有义务在集体中确定一种共同的伤害和争议的“核心”共同问题。这种对规则23的共同性要求的解读不仅没有得到规则文本的支持,而且也与集体诉讼和合并案件背景下对共同性的历史理解不一致。法院对提高共性标准的表述可以由以下几个因素来解释:法院对Dukes案中争议的歧视主张的是非事实持否定看法,将优势要求与共性混为一谈,以及法院明显倾向于对程序规则作出限制性解释,否则会促进获取。尽管公爵法院提高共同性标准的不幸后果将是对集体证明的挑战变得生动起来,否则这是从未想象过的,但本条敦促法院拒绝提高共同性,并以忠于共同问题要求的语言和历史的方式解读规则23。
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引用次数: 7
In Medias Res 在媒体界
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.1002/9781118351352.wbve1099
Larry W. Yackle
It's common in academic circles to distinguish between positive arguments (which describe things as they are) and normative arguments (which prescribe the way things ought to be). The distinction dissolves as soon as accounts of how the world works spill over into justifications for the status quo. That happens a lot, especially in discussions of theory. It happens again in David Strauss' wonderful monograph.1 Strauss offers a succinct exposition of the constitutional system we actually observe, coupled with a powerful explanation of how and why the scheme functions as it does and genuine reassurance that, on the whole, we can and should be satisfied.I am convinced Strauss has all this about right. In the main, I come to praise him. I will make this clear in Part I. We have a living Constitution. We make it up as we go along, according to a frame of reference that both enables and curbs our appetite for change and, into the bargain, holds us together as a people. I do have reservations about some aspects of his case, though, and I will sketch them in Part II. I also wonder what implications Strauss' theory may have for a purely normative question he doesn't address - namely, how an original document should be drafted for the purpose of fostering a living Constitution over time. I offer some thoughts along those lines in Part III.ILegal theorists can't muddle along like real people, operating within the constitutional system, never pausing to reflect on the whole of which they and their actions are a part. Theorists are supposed to explain stuff. They are supposed to connect the dots, or at least to try. Professor Strauss carries this burden as well as anyone writing in the field today. He imposes no deep philosophical concepts on the Constitution; he reads no contested political values into it. Instead, he offers a down-to-earth, objective, and above all wise appraisal of what we are doing and where we may be going. His analysis entails all the judgment, humility, and caution he associates with the common law method on which, in his view, we rely for the living Constitution.The first hundred pages of this book are a tour de force. Strauss initially identifies the challenges the Constitution poses for the evolving American society. He next demolishes the appeal of originalism as a plausible account of our national experience - originalism, at least, in any of its familiar forms. He then introduces common law methodology as a theoretical explanation that better fits the facts. His treatment is sophisticated, yet free of legal jargon (and distracting citations) that can discourage even serious readers. To make his case even more accessible to a general audience, Strauss illustrates the common law method at work in two celebrated contexts - the Supreme Court's incremental development of now-settled principles touching free speech and racial equality. This is a masterful academic achievement. I would not have dreamed that so much crucial ground could
在学术界,区分积极论证(描述事物本来的样子)和规范论证(规定事物应该是什么样子)是很常见的。一旦对世界运行方式的解释变成维持现状的理由,这种区别就会消失。这种情况经常发生,尤其是在理论讨论中。这在大卫·施特劳斯的精彩专著中再次出现施特劳斯对我们实际观察到的宪法体系进行了简洁的阐述,同时有力地解释了该体系是如何以及为何如此运作的,并真诚地保证,总的来说,我们能够而且应该感到满意。我相信施特劳斯说的都是对的。总的来说,我是来赞美他的。我将在第一部分阐明这一点。我们有一部活生生的宪法。我们在前进的过程中,根据一个既能促进也能抑制我们变革欲望的参照系,把我们作为一个民族团结在一起。不过,我确实对他的案例的某些方面有所保留,我将在第二部分中概述它们。我也想知道施特劳斯的理论对于一个他没有提到的纯粹规范性问题可能有什么含义——即,一份原始文件应该如何起草,以便随着时间的推移培育一个活生生的宪法。我在第三部分中提出了一些类似的想法。非法理论家不能像真正的人一样混日子,在宪法体系内运作,从不停下来反思他们和他们的行为是整体的一部分。理论家应该解释事物。他们应该把这些点联系起来,或者至少尝试一下。斯特劳斯教授和今天在这个领域写作的任何人一样肩负着这个重担。他没有给宪法强加深刻的哲学概念;他没有从中解读出有争议的政治价值观。相反,他对我们正在做的事情和可能要去的地方给出了一个实际的、客观的、最重要的是明智的评价。他的分析包含了他与普通法方法相关的所有判断、谦逊和谨慎,在他看来,我们赖以形成现行宪法的是普通法方法。这本书的前一百页是一部杰作。施特劳斯首先指出了宪法给不断发展的美国社会带来的挑战。接下来,他推翻了原旨主义作为对我们国家经验的合理解释的吸引力——原旨主义,至少,在其任何熟悉的形式中。然后,他介绍了普通法方法论,作为一种更符合事实的理论解释。他的论述是复杂的,但没有法律术语(和分散注意力的引用),即使是严肃的读者也会气馁。为了让普通读者更容易理解他的案例,施特劳斯在两个著名的背景下说明了普通法方法的作用——最高法院对现已确定的涉及言论自由和种族平等的原则的逐步发展。这是一项了不起的学术成就。我做梦也没想到,这么多重要的领域可以如此经济地涵盖而不牺牲准确性。我被施特劳斯教授的主要论点所说服,即我们有一个活生生的普通法宪法,我对他在第五章中的其他论点有一些(适度的)担忧。在那里,他认为,历史的、纪实的宪法“与由先例和传统构成的活生生的宪法一样重要”。我必须说,我不确定这是怎么回事,因为普通法的方法承担了繁重的工作。施特劳斯显然不相信成文宪法因其起源而受到尊重的任何观点。对于杰斐逊,他驳斥了我们必须遵循别人很久以前做出的决定的任何说法——因为他们比我们更聪明,或者因为他们在几个世纪后断言了统治我们的权威。当然,施特劳斯反对该文件享有民主善意的观点。即使1789年的文件是民主通过的(当然不是,但即使是民主通过的),我们也没有义务把它置于我们这一代人认为适合制定的法规之上。...
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The Necessary and Proper Clause and Its Legal Antecedents 必要与适当条款及其法律先行词
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2012-07-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2852100
J. Manning
This essay reviews The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause — a book by Gary Lawson, Geoffrey P. Miller, Robert G. Natelson, and Guy I. Seidman. In the book the authors contest the conventional wisdom that there is no firm historical basis for understanding the Necessary and Proper Clause. Professor Natelson contends that the clause picked up incidental powers principles of agency law, including a general requirement of reasonableness and more detailed fiduciary duties of impartiality, good faith, and due care. Professors Lawson and Seidman trace the Necessary and Proper Clause to traditions of English administrative law that imposed “reasonableness” requirements on official decision-makers. Finally, Professor Miller reads the clause in light of analogous language in eighteenth-century corporate charters that reflected a reasonably close means-ends requirement and an anti-discrimination principle. Rather than try to draw any definite conclusions about the meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause, the essay examines, more generally, how to make sense of the nitty-gritty details of the private or public law backgrounds of an important constitutional clause. First, starting from the premise that interpreters should ask what legal conventions a “reasonable” lawmaker might be expected to know, the essay explains why we might care about the private or public law backdrops to the clause even if we have no proof that any of those frameworks subjectively influenced a constitutionally sufficient majority of ratifiers. Second, the essay differentiates, for interpretative purposes, between adopting a term of art and merely borrowing an off-the-rack legal construct from a particular legal context. When drafters borrow a widely used legal construct (such as an incidental powers clause), it may not make sense to import all of its associated obligations into a new and different area of law, especially when the same type of construct is common to many diverse legal frameworks. Third, the essay suggests a way for thinking about the burden of persuasion when legal scholars uncover lost constitutional meanings, as the book does.
本文回顾了加里·劳森、杰弗里·p·米勒、罗伯特·g·纳特尔森和盖伊·i·塞德曼合著的《必要和适当从句的起源》一书。在书中,作者质疑传统的智慧,没有坚实的历史基础来理解必要和适当的条款。纳特尔森教授认为,该条款采纳了代理法的附带权力原则,包括合理的一般要求和更详细的公正、诚信和适当注意的信义义务。劳森和塞德曼教授将必要和适当条款追溯到英国行政法的传统,即对官方决策者施加“合理性”要求。最后,米勒教授根据18世纪公司章程中的类似语言来解读这一条款,后者反映了相当接近的手段-目的要求和反歧视原则。本文不是试图对必要和适当条款的含义得出任何明确的结论,而是更广泛地探讨如何理解重要宪法条款的私法或公法背景的基本细节。首先,从解释者应该问一个“合理的”立法者应该知道什么法律惯例这一前提出发,本文解释了为什么我们可能会关心该条款的私法或公法背景,即使我们没有证据表明这些框架中的任何一个在主观上影响了宪法上足够多数的批准者。其次,为了解释的目的,本文区分了采用艺术术语和仅仅从特定法律语境中借用现成的法律结构之间的区别。当起草者借用一个广泛使用的法律结构(如附带权力条款)时,将其所有相关义务引入一个新的和不同的法律领域可能是没有意义的,特别是当同一类型的结构在许多不同的法律框架中都很常见时。第三,这篇文章提出了一种思考方式,当法律学者发现失去的宪法意义时,就像这本书所做的那样,可以思考说服的负担。
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The Slayer Rule 杀手规则
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2012-05-01 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2141336
N. Cohen
The nowadays universal 'slayer rule' is based on considerations of autonomy and public policy. It is the subject of the detailed and thoughtful section 45 of Restatement Third Restitution. Different answers were given in different periods, among them biblical times, to the question whether a slayer could inherit the testator he had killed. The complexity of the matter is rooted in the different perceptions regarding the limits of law, the relations between the legislator and the judiciary, the tensions between text and context; rules and standards; public and private spheres and criminal and private sanctions. The contradictory considerations behind the rule lead to conflicting proposals either to expand or to restrict its application. But the whole question is much wider. It concerns the proper scope of the principle of 'ex turpi causa' in private law and the need to regulate by rules some intriguing questions of corrective, distributive and retributive justice.
现在普遍的“杀手规则”是基于自治和公共政策的考虑。这是《重述第三次赔偿》第45条详细而深思熟虑的主题。在不同的时期,其中包括圣经时代,对于一个杀手是否能继承他所杀死的遗嘱人的问题,给出了不同的答案。问题的复杂性源于对法律的限制、立法者与司法机构之间的关系、文本与上下文之间的紧张关系的不同看法;规则和标准;公共和私人领域以及刑事和私人制裁。这一规则背后相互矛盾的考虑导致了扩大或限制其适用的相互矛盾的建议。但整个问题要广泛得多。它涉及私法中“事由”原则的适当范围,以及通过规则规范纠正正义、分配正义和报应正义等一些有趣问题的必要性。
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Veil-Piercing Unbound Veil-Piercing释放
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2012-04-08 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1925009
Peter B. Oh
Veil-piercing is an equitable remedy. This simple insight has been lost over time. What started as a means for corporate creditors to reach into the personal assets of a shareholder has devolved into a doctrinal black hole. Courts apply an expansive list of amorphous factors, attenuated from the underlying harm, that engenders under-inclusive, unprincipled, and unpredictable results for entrepreneurs, litigants, and scholars alike. Veil-piercing is misapplied because it is misconceived. The orthodox approach is to view veil-piercing as an exception to limited liability that is justified potentially only when the latter is not, a path that invariably leads to examining scenarios based on different types of creditors/claims, corporations, and shareholders. But the occasion to seek derivative relief from a shareholder arises only when a claim cannot be enforced against a defendant corporation. Veil-piercing is thus a secondary remedy, detached from limited liability and its rationales. To fix veil-piercing, corporate law must look beyond itself. For centuries the law of restitution has featured the constructive trust, an equitable remedy that disgorges misappropriated assets from unjustifiably enriched parties. This Article novelly re-conceives veil-piercing as constructive trust and demonstrates how its application to judgment-proof corporations can yield more coherent and effective results.
穿面纱是一种公平的补救办法。随着时间的推移,这种简单的洞察力已经消失了。最初作为企业债权人染指股东个人资产的一种手段,已演变成一个理论黑洞。法院应用了大量的无形因素,从潜在的伤害中减弱,这给企业家、诉讼当事人和学者等人带来了包容性不足、无原则和不可预测的结果。穿面纱被误用是因为它被误解了。正统的做法是将穿面纱视为有限责任的例外,只有在后者不合理的情况下才有可能合理,这条道路总是导致基于不同类型的债权人/债权、公司和股东来审查各种情况。但是,只有当不能对被告公司执行索赔时,才有机会向股东寻求派生救济。因此,穿面纱是一种次要的补救措施,脱离了有限责任及其基本原理。为了解决穿面纱问题,公司法必须超越自身。几个世纪以来,赔偿法一直以建设性信托为特色,这是一种公平的补救措施,可以将被挪用的资产从不合理富裕的当事人手中解除。本文将穿透面纱重新定义为一种建设性的信任,并论证了如何将其应用于无判断力的企业可以产生更连贯和有效的结果。
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引用次数: 12
Restitution and Relationships 赔偿和关系
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2011-07-28 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1906659
Hanoch Dagan
This Essay examines how restitutionary doctrines protect the integrity of certain types of relationships by providing guarantees against betrayal of trust and by making free-riding a losing proposition. It also considers contexts wherein restitution serves to recruit third parties, meaning parties external to the relationship the law seeks to safeguard, as indirect guardians. More broadly, this Essay challenges the schism between autonomy-based and utility-based accounts of restitution or of private law more generally, and explains how a pluralist theory may help to address this flaw.
本文考察了恢复性原则是如何通过提供防止背叛信任的保证和使搭便车成为一种失败的主张来保护某些类型关系的完整性的。它还考虑了赔偿用于招募第三方的情况,即法律寻求保护的关系之外的各方作为间接监护人。更广泛地说,本文挑战了基于自治和基于效用的赔偿或私法解释之间的分裂,并解释了多元主义理论如何有助于解决这一缺陷。
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引用次数: 1
Trail Smelter Deja Vu: Extraterritoriality, International Environmental Law, and the Search for Solutions to Canada-U.S. Transboundary Water Pollution Disputes 冶炼厂的似曾相识:治外法权、国际环境法以及对加拿大-美国解决方案的探索。跨界水污染纠纷
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2007-10-14 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.588448
Austen L. Parrish
In the 1930s, a privately owned smelting plant in Trail, Canada was the focus of the most famous case in international environmental law: the Trail Smelter Arbitration. But the subject of that landmark case has not gone away. Over the last seventy years, the Trail smelter dumped millions of tons of mercury, arsenic, and toxic waste into the Columbia River. The dumping's effects have been felt in neighboring Washington State, where the toxic discharges have caused environmental harm. In 2003, the EPA began investigating the Washington border area for designation as a Superfund (CERCLA) site, and controversially demanded that the Trail smelter, which operates solely in Canada, submit to EPA jurisdiction and pay for cleanup costs. In July 2004, a Native American tribe filed a citizen's suit: the first time ever Americans have sued a Canadian company under the U.S. Superfund laws. This article explores the United States's unprecedented attempt to apply its Superfund laws extraterritorially and to use domestic courts to resolve U.S.-Canadian transboundary water pollution disputes. In recent years, traditional barriers to relief in domestic courts have vanished. But using U.S. courts to solve international disputes is problematic for a variety of reasons. If transboundary disputes can not be solved diplomatically, the U.S. and Canada would be wise to resolve their transboundary pollution problems through international arbitration. This article analyzes the limitation of domestic law, and argues that the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty and the landmark Trail Smelter Arbitration provides an appropriate framework to do so successfully.
在20世纪30年代,加拿大Trail的一家私营冶炼厂是国际环境法中最著名的案例:Trail冶炼厂仲裁案的焦点。但这个具有里程碑意义的案件的主题并没有消失。在过去的70年里,Trail冶炼厂向哥伦比亚河倾倒了数百万吨汞、砷和有毒废物。邻近的华盛顿州也感受到了倾倒的影响,有毒物质的排放已经造成了环境危害。2003年,美国环保署开始调查华盛顿边境地区是否被指定为超级基金(CERCLA),并有争议地要求仅在加拿大运营的Trail冶炼厂接受美国环保署的管辖,并支付清理费用。2004年7月,一个美国土著部落提起了公民诉讼:这是美国人第一次根据美国超级基金法起诉加拿大公司。本文探讨了美国史无前例地尝试将其超级基金法适用于域外,并利用国内法院解决美加跨境水污染争端。近年来,在国内法院寻求救济的传统障碍已经消失。但由于种种原因,利用美国法院解决国际争端存在问题。如果跨界争端不能通过外交途径解决,美国和加拿大通过国际仲裁解决其跨界污染问题将是明智的。本文分析了国内法的局限性,并认为1909年的《边界水域条约》和具有里程碑意义的Trail Smelter仲裁案为成功解决这一问题提供了适当的框架。
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引用次数: 13
Women and Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender and Citizenship 妇女与反战抗议:重新阐释性别与公民身份
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2007-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511627095.008
Kathryn Abrams
INTRODUCTION 849 I. PROTEST AND WARTIME CITIZENSHIP 851 A. The Ambivalent Status of Protest 851 B. Wartime Citizenship 852 C. The Contemporary Context of Women’s Antiwar Protest 856 II. THREE WOMEN’S ANTIWAR MOVEMENTS 858 A. Cindy Sheehan and the Camp Casey Vigil 858 B. CODEPINK for Peace 863 C. Women in Black 865 III. REARTICULATING GENDER, RECREATING CITIZENSHIP 868 A. Gender and the Body Politic 868 1. The Angry Mother 869 2. The Gendered Direct-Action Performer 871 3. The Woman as Witness 872 B. Gendered Antiwar Protest and Political Efficacy 872 C. Gendered Antiwar Protest and the Paradoxes of Women’s Citizenship 876 CONCLUSION 880
1 .抗议与战时公民身份B.战时公民身份C.妇女反战抗议的当代语境三次妇女反战运动Cindy Sheehan和Camp Casey守夜858 . C. CODEPINK for Peace 863 . C. Women in Black;重新定义性别,重新创造公民身份。性别与政治体[68]《愤怒的母亲》性别化的直接行动表演者B.性别化的反战抗议与政治效能C.性别化的反战抗议与妇女公民权的悖论
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引用次数: 10
Role of Law in Close Cases: Some Evidence from the Federal Courts of Appeal 法律在结案中的作用:来自联邦上诉法院的一些证据
IF 1.7 3区 社会学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2006-08-24 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.926316
W. Farnsworth
This article is an empirical study of the voting behavior of 30 federal appellate judges in criminal cases that weren't decided unanimously. The cases were divided into two sets: those that involved disputes over constitutional law and those that involved disputes over other kinds of legal materials (e.g., statutes and rules). The basic results are that (a) judges vary widely in how often they vote for the government in non-unanimous cases, but (b) any given judge votes for the government about as often in such cases regardless of whether they involve debates over the Constitution or other sources of law. The most plausible reason for the tight correlation is that in close cases of any kind judges use the same policy preferences or views of human behavior as their sources of decision.
本文对30名联邦上诉法官在非一致判决刑事案件中的投票行为进行了实证研究。这些案件分为两组:一组涉及宪法纠纷,另一组涉及其他类型的法律材料(如法规和规则)纠纷。基本结果是:(a)法官在非一致意见的案件中投票支持政府的频率差别很大,但是(b)在这些案件中,无论是否涉及宪法或其他法律来源的辩论,任何法官投票支持政府的频率都是一样的。这种紧密关联的最合理的原因是,在任何类型的密切案例中,法官都使用相同的政策偏好或对人类行为的看法作为其决策的来源。
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