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Law.com - FRCP Changes on the Horizon
The majority of the amendments affect various timing requirements and change how some deadlines are calculated.
Law.com - Plaintiffs Groups Mount Effort to Undo Supreme Court's 'Iqbal' Ruling
On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court gave corporate defendants a gift that keeps on giving: the Iqbal decision, which has made it easier than ever for defendants to shut down lawsuits before they get to the costly discovery stage. Now, four months later, civ
SSRN-Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling by Robert Deal
Anglo-American whalemen in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries used customs largely of their own creation to resolve disputes at sea over contested whales. These customs were remarkably effective as litigation was rare and violence even rarer. Legal s
SSRN-Defining and Measuring Judicial Activism: An Empirical Study of Judges on the United States Courts of Appeals by Corey Yung
Existing empirical scholarship about judicial activism has almost exclusively focused on the United States Supreme Court and actions by the judiciary that invalidate legislative, executive, and state actions. This article contends that such limitations gi
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SSRN-Between Cases and Classes: The Decision to Consolidate Multidistrict Litigation by Margaret Williams, Tracey George
This paper provides the preliminary results of a convenience sample of ninety MDL orders from 2003 to 2009. The study investigates the rationale for transfer of federal civil litigation by the Panel, where cases are assigned, and to whom. The purpose of t
SSRN-Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a Law and Economics Approach to Standard Form Contracts by Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, David Trossen
A cornerstone of the law and economics approach to standard form contracts is the 'informed minority' hypothesis: in competitive markets, a minority of term-conscious buyers is enough to discipline sellers from offering unfavorable boilerplate terms. The
SSRN-Do Statutory Rape Laws Work? by Matthew Henry, Scott Cunningham
Every state in the United States has laws which prohibit sexual activity with individuals under a certain age. These laws are typically strict liability. Generally, they are justifed under the auspice of protecting young women from 'predatory' older males
SSRN-Making Globalism Work for Employees by Jeffrey Hirsch
The rise of globalism has allowed businesses to expand their chains of production across the world and forced them to compete internationally. This expansion of competition has also extended to the labor market, as workers must now often compete with othe
Australian Institute of Criminology - View paper
Using jurors to ascertain public opinion on sentencing has a number of advantages over other methods. Jurors' opinions are based on informed judgements rather than uninformed, intuitive responses and they have detailed knowledge of the offence and a sense
In These Times > Dixie Media Versus Unions
"A new book reveals how Southern media have strengthened the region's corporatocracy." Review of Joseph Atkins, Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press
The New Yorker > Atticus Finch and Southern liberalism
Malcolm Gladwell takes a critical look at the popular Southern
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