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Luz Estella Nagle, Entrevista con una experta sobre las extradiciones de Colombianos a EE.UU., politica contra el narcotrafico de Colombia, y otros temas, (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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James W. Fox, Relational Contract Theory and Democratic Citizenship, 54 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 1 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
In this article I engage Relational Contract Theory ("RCT"), with a focus on the theory of Ian Macneil. I argue that while RCT is a valuable approach to contract and contract law, it has an impoverished approach to the role of the democratic state in contract law. I then contend that by mining some political theories which parallel RCT, particularly the work of Michael Walzer and David Miller, we can construct a relational approach to contract law that credits the democratic state with a significant role in contract law. Such an approach, I argue, provides a more compelling theoretical justification for integrating democratic and dignity-based rights and protections, such as protections against gender and racial discrimination, into contract law. Moreover, a Walzerian approach allows us to view contract law and contract generally as one aspect, or "sphere", of an integrated democratic pluralism and so enables challenges to the colonization of all activities by contract and contract ideology. Ultimately it is the hope of this article to reinvigorate discussions of the role of contract and contract law in democratic society. Along the way I also explore, among other things, the strong links between contract and democracy during the American Reconstruction period, modern issues such as consumer form contracting and unconscionability, and the problem of anormativity in relational contract and other "norms"-oriented theories.
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Joseph F. Morrissey, Catching the Culprits: Is Sarbanes-Oxley Enough?, 2003 Colum. Bus. L. Rev. 801 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Catching the Culprits: Is Sarbanes-Oxley Enough discusses the fact that three major events occurred in the mid to late 1990s to make the securities fraud regulatory regime more lax. Those three events were: the elimination of a private right of action for aiding and abetting securities fraud, the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the PSLRA) and the passage of Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998 (the SLUSA). My conclusion is that while the Sarbanes-Oxley Act does create certain safeguards for investors, it does not undo the harm that those three events of the 1990s caused. My article argues that what is needed is for aiding and abetting liability to be revived and for the harsh anti-liability provisions of the PSLRA and the SLUSA to be rescinded.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Counterfeit Access Device and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, in Major Acts of Congress (B. Landsberg ed., Macmillan Reference Books, 2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ann Piccard, Direct Appeal Jurisdiction of Florida’s District Courts of Appeal, 33 Stetson L. Rev. 152 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, “Defensive Territoriality”: A New Paradigm for the Prosecution of Extraterritorial Business Crimes, 31 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 1 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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James W. Fox, Naturalization Acts (1790), in Major Acts of Contress (Macmillan Reference Books, 2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Ellen S. Podgor, Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction: Replacing “Objective Territoriality with “Defensive Territoriality”, 28 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 117 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The "objective territorial principle" is a common jurisdiction base used in the United States for the prosecution of extraterritorial crimes. With increased globalization, it becomes easier for a prosecutor to demonstrate that conduct occurring outside the United States is having a substantial effect in this country. Although "objective territoriality" expands the limits of extraterritorial jurisdiction, it sometimes fails to offer jurisdiction for conduct directly targeting the United States government. This article suggests that "objective territoriality" needs to be reconfigured to provide more respect for the laws of other countries. Likewise, in keeping with the decision of United States v. Bowman, it is important to provide extraterritorial jurisdiction when necessary to protect government processes of the United States. This article offers the concept of "defensive territoriality" as an alternative to "objective territoriality." It distinguishes this new concept from the "protective principle" and presents contextual application of how this new principle might operate in determining issues of extraterritoriality.
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Ellen S. Podgor and John Wesley Hall, Government Surveillance of Attorney-Client Communications: Invoked in the Name of Fighting Terrorism, 17 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 145 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This essay provides a critical analysis of Attorney General Ashcroft's Order permitting the government to monitor attorney-client conversations in prison. It provides a summary of the Order, the responses to the Order, and discusses ongoing litigation that contests the Order. The Essay also provides, as background, the contextual setting that allows for monitoring under existing provisions in Title III and FISA. After examining the constitutional issues emanating from Ashcroft's Order permitting attorney-client monitoring in prison, there is a discussion of the implications to the Attorney-Client and Work Product Privileges. Of particular focus is the ethical responsibilities of counsel when maintaining contact with a client when monitoring may be occurring. The Essay considers the importance of finding an appropriate balance between civil liberties and national security, but maintains that the Attorney General should not be permitted to disregard constitutional rights, the attorney-client privilege and the ethical responsibilities of attorneys, claiming that these measures are necessary to fight terrorism.
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Roberta Flowers, Litigating with the Elderly Client, 16 National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Quarterly 2 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.