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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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Brooke J. Bowman, Our Extended Family, 17 Second Draft 16 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Luz Estella Nagle, Foreward, 32 Stetson L. Rev. 725 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Kirsten K. Davis, Designing and Using Peer Review in a First-Year Legal Research and Writing Course, 9 Legal Writing 1 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Using peer review in a first-year legal research and writing course has advantages. A peer review exercise encourages cooperation, puts students in the audience role, reinforces basic writing skills, and gives students experience with giving constructive feedback. This article provides information about designing an effective in-class peer review and reports how students responded to the exercise.
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Luz Estella Nagle, The Challenges of Fighting Global Organized Crime in Latin America, 26 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1649 (2003)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
Latin American states have long been fertile ground for organized crime. Some of the world’s busiest corridors for trafficking in drugs, weapons, documents, and human beings run between and through Latin America and the United States and Canada. While Latin American states are signatories to many conventions and international agreements to fight organized crime, endemic corruption and the inability to Latin American states to enforce domestic law and honor international agreements hinders the capacity of international law enforcement partnerships to address transborder crime. This article looks as the duties of Latin American states to fight organized crime and the difficulties the states have in honoring is international responsibilities.
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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.