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Introduction. II. Background. A. Roman Law: The Birth of the Modern Civil Law Approach. B. French Law: Focus on the Underlying Disposition. III. Louisiana's Approach And Its Problems. A. Determining Whether the Suit Is a Contest. B. Ascertaining the Testator's Intent. C. Exceptions to the Rule of Validity. D. The Effect of Invalidating the Penalty Clause. E. The Problem of Validity and Enforceability. F. The Confusion of Louisiana's Approach and the Need to Find a Solution. IV. Common Law Approach And History. A. British Common Law: The Emergence of the Good Faith, Probable Cause Exception. B. The American Common Law History. C. The American Common Law Today. V. Solution For Louisiana: A Framework For Analysis Of Penalty Clauses. A. Step One: Determining Whether the Lawsuit Is a Cont...
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The common-law rule of consistency prevented a defendant's conviction upon the acquittal of all confederates for a crime requiring multiple parties. Though most federal circuit courts of appeal pronounced the rule dead after a series of Supreme Court decisions ending in United States v. Powell, the Sixth Circuit recently invoked the rule in Getsy v. Mitchell to reverse a death sentence returned against a hired murderer-a decision subsequently reversed on en banc review. This Note highlights the ways in which the common-law rule, as well as variations of the type presented in Getsy, are ill-suited to today's sentencing system-problems that result chiefly from the rule's ability to operate on partially inconsistent verdicts. This Note concludes with a proposal for a "clear-inconsistency r...
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[...] there is no practical alternative to the "common law constitution." In the late 19th century and well into the 20th, progressives decried (with good cause) the "activist" Court ofthat day for striking down social and labor legislation, while conservatives at that time proudly defended the justices for making bold decisions that warded off radicalism and reaffirmed the old economic values. [...] his book is also a brief.
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Introduction. II. The Enemy Combatant Triad and the Youngstown Baseline. III. Boumediene's Conclusive Assertion of Judicial Preeminence. .A. The Geographical Scope of the Writ: Rebuke of the Executive. 1. Separation of Powers. 2. Functional Jurisdictional Rules. a. History. b. Precedent. 3. An Anti-Manipulation Principle. B. The Inadequacy of the DTA: Rebuke of Congress. 1. Honoring Congress's Will in Order to Reject Its Judgment. 2. The Scope of the Writ at Common Law. 3. Inadequacy of the DTA Remedy. 4. Rushing to Judgment?. IV. Development of Legal Rules: The Substantive Scope of the Writ. A. Beyond Guantanamo: The Geographic Rea ch of the Writ. 1. The Bagram Airfield. 2. A Suspension Clause Puzzle. 3. The Habeas Statute and the MCA. 4. Application of the Suspension Clause to Bagr...
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[...] nearly all the scholarship about Blackstone's views on law has relied solely on a work he originally drafted when he was no older than thirty and had spent only seven unsuccessful years at the bar. Unlike men who had spent decades in practice, Blackstone permitted the principles of the common law orthodoxy to determine his decisionmaking and did not discard the theories he had taught when they became inconvenient.13 Sitting in an age when Lord Mansfield had freed judges to loosen the hold of traditional views of law, Blackstone's professorial devotion to the common law orthodoxy at times made him an outlier on his own court, and ended up guaranteeing that while his name would live on through the Commentaries, his judicial decisions would be mostly forgotten.
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In a previous article, I wrote that the New York Court of Appeals had been presented with an opportunity to limit or abandon the so- called Mohawk doctrine. In Bessemer Trust Co, N.A. v. Branin, the court of appeals addressed the implied covenant, under common law, which prohibits solicitation of customers by the seller of a business. The court of appeals came to address this case by way of a certified question from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which found New York law to be unsettled on the question before it. In Bessemer Trust, the plaintiff purchased the goodwill (including client relationships) of an investment management firm from Branin and seven other principals for a purchase price totalling $75 million. Branin was initially employed by the plaintiff but eventually beca...
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This article examines the two main legal systems in the world -- the civil law and the common law -- and their impact on international arbitration. The majority of the world's population lives under the civil law, but the influence of the common law is significant. The common and civil law differ in numerous ways apart from arbitration procedure. In general, common law jurisdictions take an adversarial approach to litigation and arbitration. Civil law jurisdictions use the inquisitorial method. Discovery is a key feature in pre-trial litigation in common law countries. In contrast, civil law jurisdictions do not allow discovery. Although the civil and common law systems represent fundamentally contrasting approaches to dispute resolution, counsel, arbitrators and arbitration providers a...
