Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Key Terms |
Christopher Todd Roper |
Is Preferential Treatment Justified in Voluntary Affirmative Action Programs? |
12 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 99 (Summer, 1988) |
This Note discusses some of the decisions by the United States Supreme Court concerning governmental affirmative action programs that discriminate in favor of a person based on his race or sex. The Supreme Court realizes the important governmental objective in establishing a society free of racial or sexual discrimination. In order to achieve this... |
1988 |
|
Thomas M. Clark |
More Plenary than Thou: a Post-welch Compromise Theory of Congressional Power to Abrogate State Sovereign Immunity |
88 Columbia Law Review 1022 (June, 1988) |
The eleventh amendment states that the judicial power shall not extend to any suit against a state commenced by citizens of another state. Yet despite the language of the amendment, the Supreme Court has held that states enjoy immunity not only in diversity actions and federal question suits brought by noncitizens, but also in federal question... |
1988 |
|
Patricia A. Trujillo |
Municipal Bond Financing after South Carolina v. Baker and the Tax Reform Act of 1986: Can State Sovereignty Reemerge? |
42 Tax Lawyer 147 (Fall, 1988) |
Federal control over states and municipalities increased substantially with Congress' sweeping revisions to the state and local bond financing provisions in the Tax Reform Act of 1986. New sections 141 through 149 impose stringent requirements on municipal obligations in order for bonds to qualify for tax exemption. These limitations on tax-exempt... |
1988 |
|
Detlev Vagts, Thomas W. Walde , United Nations |
Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in International Law: Principle and Practice. Edited by Kamal Hossain and Subrata Roy Chowdhury. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. Pp. Xx, 194. Index. $27.50. |
82 American Journal of International Law 405 (April, 1988) |
Permanent sovereignty over natural resources was a leading theme of the debate about the New International Economic Order (NIEO) and the legal articulation of the Third World's goals of economic and political emancipation, revision of the international economic law formulated by the Western powers and acquisition of control over, and a maximal... |
1988 |
|
David R. E. Aladjem |
Public Use and Treatment as an Equal: an Essay on Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit and Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff |
15 Ecology Law Quarterly 671 (1988) |
[N]or shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. An ACT of the Legislature (for I connot call it a law), contrary to the great first principles of the social compact, cannot be considered a rightful exercise of legislative authority. The obligation of a law in governments established on express compact, and on... |
1988 |
|
Tracie A. Sundack |
Republic of Philippines v. Marcos: the Ninth Circuit Allows a Former Ruler to Invoke the Act of State Doctrine Against a Resisting Sovereign |
38 American University Law Review 225 (Fall, 1988) |
Article II of the United Sttaes Constitution grants the executive branch power to conduct foreign relations. United States courts adjudicating disputes in which a foreign official is a defendant, however, may interfere with the executive's efforts to convey a unified foreign policy by ruling contrary to the executive's wishes. The act of state... |
1988 |
|
Jordan J. Paust |
Self-executing Treaties |
82 American Journal of International Law 760 (October, 1988) |
The distinction found in certain cases between self-executing and non-self-executing treaties is a judicially invented notion that is patently inconsistent with express language in the Constitution affirming that all Treaties . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land. Indeed, such a distinction may involve the most glaring of attempts to... |
1988 |
|
George F. Carpinello |
State Protective Legislation and Nonresident Corporations: the Privileges and Immunities Clause as a Treaty of Nondiscrimination |
73 Iowa Law Review 351 (January, 1988) |
Economic union requires more than the elimination of barriers to the movement of goods; it also requires the free movement of business enterprise itself. This is especially true in an economy in which service industry plays an important role. Most consumers are unable to benefit from the services provided by banks, professionals, or unsurance... |
1988 |
|
John E. Noyes , Brian D. Smith |
State Responsibility and the Principle of Joint and Several Liability |
13 Yale Journal of International Law 225 (Summer, 1988) |
The law of multiple state responsibility is undeveloped. The scholarly literature is surprisingly devoid of reference to the circumstances or consequences of multiple state responsibility. Judicial or arbitral decisions addressing a state's assertions that other states share responsibility are essentially unknown. Given this lack of attention to... |
1988 |
|
None |
The Abm Treaty Interpretation Resolution |
82 American Journal of International Law 151 (January, 1988) |
On September 22, 1987, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate filed its report on The ABM Treaty Interpretation Resolution. This followed publication of the 828-page volume of joint hearings before the Committees on Foreign Relations and on the Judiciary, The ABM Treaty and the Constitution. The resolution on interpreting the Treaty,... |
1988 |
|
Michael D. Vhay |
The Harms of Asking: Towards a Comprehensive Treatment of Sexual Harassment |
55 University of Chicago Law Review 328 (Winter, 1988) |
Commentators have discussed the legal consequences of acts constituting sexual harassment for some time, albeit with less concern than that shown by many writers on the subject today. In an article that appeared fifty years ago, Calvert Magruder wrote that women have occasionally sought damages for mental distress and humiliation on account of... |
1988 |
|
James C. Wolf |
The Jurisprudence of Treaty Interpretation |
21 U.C. Davis Law Review 1023 (Spring, 1988) |
The interpretation of treaties has been the dispositive question in cases both sacred and profane: from litigation over fundamental human rights to litigation over payroll taxes; from debate over anti-ballistic missile systems to debate over capitalist ethics. Unfortunately, such interpretation is not easily predictable. For treaty interpretation... |
1988 |
|
Ndiva Kofele-Kale |
The Principle of Preferential Treatment in the Law of Gatt: Toward Achieving the Objective of an Equitable World Trading System |
18 California Western International Law Journal 291 (1987/1988) |
This Article examines the world trading system as embodied in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the degree to which I shall refer to these derogations from GATT law as the principle of preferential treatment. The first indication that the developing countries (DCs) were completely dissatisfied with the GATT framework of trade rules... |
1988 |
|
Vicki C. Jackson |
The Supreme Court, the Eleventh Amendment, and State Sovereign Immunity |
98 Yale Law Journal L.J. 1 (November, 1988) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE PRESENT FRAMEWORK 8 II. COHENS V. VIRGINIA, THE ELEVENTH AMENDMENT AND THE SUPREME COURT'S APPELLATE JURISDICTION: AN ANOMALY 13 A. Cohens v. Virginia 15 1. Facts 16 2. Counsels' Argument 16 3. The Court's Opinion 19 B. Supreme Court Review of State Court Judgments in Actions against States: From Cohens to the Present... |
1988 |
|
Brice M. Clagett , Daniel B. Poneman |
The Treatment of Economic Injury to Aliens in the Revised Restatement of Foreign Relations Law |
22 International Lawyer 35 (Spring, 1988) |
The American Law Institute (ALI) approved the Restatement of the Law: Foreign Relations Law of the United States (Revised) (Revised Restatement; Restatement) in May 1986. The ALI is to be commended for a generally creditable treatment of economic injury to aliens. While the text omits some pertinent issues altogether and deals inadequately with... |
1988 |
|
Maria Frankowska |
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties Before United States Court |
28 Virginia Journal of International Law 281 (Winter, 1988) |
The role of national courts in the application, enforcement, and development of international law has been somewhat obscure. According to Richard Falk, domestic courts operate[ ] at that peculiarly sensitive point where national and international authority intersect. The character of this intersection is closely connected with the role that can be... |
1988 |
|
W.B. Dehan |
Welch v. Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation: Eleventh Amendment Requires Express Abrogation of Sovereign Immunity |
62 Tulane Law Review 670 (February, 1988) |
The Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation operates a free automobile and passenger ferry between Point Bolivar and Galveston, Texas. Plaintiff, Jean Welch, was injured in the course of her employment as a marine technician for the Texas Highway Department while working on the ferry dock in Galveston. She filed suit under the Jones... |
1988 |
|
Anne Loughran Rubin, Mary E. Scrupski |
When Ethics Collide: Enforcement of Institutional Policies of Nonparticipation in the Termination of Life-sustaining Treatment |
41 Rutgers Law Review 399 (Fall, 1988) |
With increasing frequency, courts and legislatures are recognizing a patient's right to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. Recognition of this basic right, however, does not guarantee that a patient's wishes will prevail in the decision whether to continue life-sustaining treatment. It is also widely acknowledged that a patient's right is... |
1988 |
|
Colonel Ned E. Felder , Senior Judge, Panel 5, United States Army Court of Military Review |
A Long Way since Houston: the Treatment of Blacks in the Military Justice System |
1987-OCT Army Lawyer Law. 8 (October, 1987) |
I deem it a high honor to participate in this Eighth Annual JAG Training School and CLE Seminar. Neither the death of a close relative this week nor a severe sore throat could prevent me from attending this conference. Although I was graduated from a law school in South Carolina, this is my first visit to this illustrious law school. I attended a... |
1987 |
|
Brian Whiteley |
Avoiding the Perils of Judicial Treatywriting: in re Korean Air Lines Disaster |
62 Saint John's Law Review 156 (Fall, 1987) |
Two years after Charles Lindbergh's historic flight across the Atlantic, the second of two international conferences completed work on an equally historic aviation treaty known as the Warsaw Convention (the Convention). The goal of the conferences had been twofold: first, to establish uniformity in documentation and legal procedure; and second,... |
1987 |
|
Deborah L. Zimic |
Foreign Sovereign Immunity-exceptions to Foreign Sovereign Immunity-the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Does Not Prohibit Invocation of the Alien Tort Claims Act to Exercise Federal Court Jurisdiction over a Foreign Nation's Non-commercial Tort in Violat |
28 Virginia Journal of International Law 221 (Fall, 1987) |
Without provocation or advance notice, Argentine military aircraft repeatedly attacked the Hercules, an oil tanker, on June 8, 1982, as the ship attempted to navigate around the war zones established by Great Britain and Argentina during the Falklands War. Following an assessment that removal of an undetonated bomb lodged in its side presented too... |
1987 |
|
Arvid Anderson , Loren A. Krause |
Interest Arbitration: the Alternative to the Strike |
56 Fordham Law Review 153 (November, 1987) |
THE right to bargain collectively has been so connected with the right to strike in this country that legitimate questions arise as to whether genuine collective bargaining can occur without the right to strike. The thesis of this Article is that an alternative to the right to strike exists and that that alternative is final and binding interest... |
1987 |
|
Donald G. Gross |
Negotiated Treaty Amendment: the Solution to the Sdi-abm Treaty Conflict |
28 Harvard International Law Journal 31 (Winter, 1987) |
THE ADVOCATERS OF PRESIDENT REAGAN'S STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE (SDI) ARGUE THAT THE UNITED STATES MUST DEVELOP A SPACE-BASED DEFENSE AGAINST SOVIET BALLISTIC MISSILES DURING THE 1990'S. THEIR AIM IS NO LESS THAN TO CONSTRUCT A TOTAL SHIELD OVER THE UNITED STATES TO PROTECT AGAINST A SOVIET ATTACK. YET BEFORE THESE SDI ADVOCATES CAN EXCEED THE... |
1987 |
|
Akhil Reed Amar |
Of Sovereignty and Federalism |
96 Yale Law Journal 1425 (June, 1987) |
Victims of government-sponsored lawlessness have come to dread the word federalism. Whether emblazoned on the simple banner of Our Federalism or invoked in some grander phrase, the word is now regularly deployed to thwart full remedies for violations of constitutional rights. Consider, for example, the Burger Court. Rallying under flags of... |
1987 |
|
D. Don Welch |
Removing Discriminatory Barriers: Basing Disparate Treatment Analysis on Motive Rather than Intent |
60 Southern California Law Review 733 (March, 1987) |
I. DISTINGUISHING MOTIVE FROM INTENT. 736 II. THE PLACE FOR MOTIVE IN DISCRIMINATION THEORY. 740 A. MOTIVE AND THE CONCEPT OF DISCRIMINATION. 740 B. MOTIVE AND INTENT IN TITLE VII DISPARATE TREATMENT THEORY. 748 1. Title VII and Statutory Purpose. 750 2. Title VII and Statutory Language. 753 3. Title VII and Constitutional Standards. 759 III.... |
1987 |
|
David Lyons |
Substance, Process, and Outcome in Constitutional Theory |
72 Cornell Law Review 745 (May, 1987) |
Scholarship in philosophy proceeds at a slower pace than in the law. As Tom Lehrer, the poet laureate of a recent generation, might have said, the law biz travels on a faster track. Or so it seems to a philosopher who has recently been treading the tracks of constitutional lawyers. And so it is with apprehension that I take as my text a book that... |
1987 |
|
Eric L. Richards |
The Jurisprudential Sin of Treating Differents Alike: Emergence of Full First Amendment Protection for Corporate Speakers |
17 Memphis State University Law Review 173 (Winter, 1987) |
Perhaps more than any other legal development the rise of the business corporation will be remembered as the fundamental force shaping twentieth century life. This champion of material growth has demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt to its environment and overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, thereby spurring tremendous advances in the... |
1987 |
|
Joy A. Yanagida |
The Pacific Salmon Treaty |
81 American Journal of International Law 577 (July, 1987) |
At the Shamrock Summit on March 18, 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney exchanged instruments of ratification bringing the United States-Canada Pacific Salmon Treaty into force. The event ended 14 years of bilateral negotiations, culminating in a treaty that represents a balance of the fishing and conservation... |
1987 |
|
Peter Westen |
The Place of Foreign Treaties in the Courts of the United States: a Reply to Louis Henkin |
101 Harvard Law Review 511 (December, 1987) |
A policeman orders an innocent person, Cort, to submit to arrest. Cort knows that the policeman's order is unlawful under the state law governing arrests. He also knows that state law provides that it is no defense to a charge of resisting an arrest by a police officer to show that the arrest was illegal. With respect to the state's view of legal... |
1987 |
|
Michael G. Colantuono |
The Revision of American State Constitutions: Legislative Power, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Change |
75 California Law Review 1473 (July, 1987) |
This Comment argues that revision of state constitutions ought to proceed slowly to promote stability in constitutional law. Such stability is valuable because it fosters popular sovereignty, pluralism, and limited constitutional government. This Comment thus criticizes judicial decisions upholding constitutional revision by extratextual means and... |
1987 |
|
Michael S. Levine |
United States v. James: Expanding the Scope of Sovereign Immunity for Federal Flood Control Activities |
37 Catholic University Law Review 219 (Fall, 1987) |
The doctrine of sovereign immunity, rooted in the feudal theory of kingship, effectively bars suit against the sovereign absent its consent. The early American judiciary accepted sovereign immunity because it feared government would be incapable of preforming its duties and functions without the protection immunity offered. At the same time, it was... |
1987 |
|
Martha Minow |
When Difference Has its Home: Group Homes for the Mentally Retarded, Equal Protection and Legal Treatment of Difference |
22 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 111 (1987) |
Introduction I. City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center: Three Modes of Analysis A. The Abnormal Persons Approach B. The Rights Analysis Approach C. The Social Relations Approach 1. A Definition 2. Social Relations in Cleburne II. Histories and Critiques A. Abnormal Persons and Two Tracks of Legal Treatment 1. From Status to Contract: But Not... |
1987 |
|
Frederico M. Cheever |
A New Approach to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants and the Public Trust Doctrine: Defining the Property Interest Protected by the Treaty of Guadalupe-hidalgo |
33 UCLA Law Review 1364 (June, 1986) |
The American Southwest is changing. Growing population and accelerated resource exploitation are putting unprecedented pressure on its environment. As the pressures from development escalate, government is using a variety of legal tools to preserve important environmental resources and public values. One of these tools is the ancient common-law... |
1986 |
|
Richard J. Lazarus |
Changing Conceptions of Property and Sovereignty in Natural Resources: Questioning the Public Trust Doctrine |
71 Iowa Law Review 631 (March, 1986) |
With th[e public trust doctrine], the California Supreme Court appears enthusiastically to have embraced a new legal Renaissance, in which modern humanists' rediscover old texts and invoke the distant past to liberate the spirit from the confining shackles' of a more conventional era. But we are not witnessing Petrarch, mildly unorthodox in... |
1986 |
|
Jesse Michael Feder |
Congressional Abrogation of State Sovereign Immunity |
86 Columbia Law Review 1436 (November, 1986) |
Author agrees to write an advertising slogan for State. After submitting his copy, Author discovers that State has employed his slogan as the centerpiece of its new tourism campaign without paying him for it. Author sues State for the value of his copyright in the advertising slogan. Although the Copyright Act provides that anyone who violates... |
1986 |
|
Dominic T. Holzhaus |
Double Jeopardy and Incremental Culpability: a Unitary Alternative to the Dual Sovereignty Doctrine |
86 Columbia Law Review 1697 (December, 1986) |
A defendant agrees to plead guilty to murder in one state and in exchange is sentenced to life imprisonment. Subsequently, he is tried for the same murder in another state before a jury tainted by the knowledge of the prior guilty plea and is sentenced to die in the electric chair. A paradigm for double jeopardy? Not according to the recent United... |
1986 |
|
Monroe Leigh |
Extradition - Universal Jurisdiction - "War Crimes" - U.s.-israel Extradition Treaty - "Double Criminality" Requirement |
80 American Journal of International Law 656 (July, 1986) |
Appellant, John Demjanjuk, appealed the denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus which he had filed after a court had certified that he was subject to extradition to Israel. A native of the USSR, appellant was admitted to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1958. In 1981, after finding that appellant had... |
1986 |
|
Lawrence J. Nelson , Brian P. Buggy , Carol J. Weil |
Forced Medical Treatment of Pregnant Women: 'Compelling Each to Live as Seems Good to the Rest' |
37 Hastings Law Journal 703 (May, 1986) |
For reasons ranging from fear of surgery to religious belief, competent pregnant women sometimes refuse medical treatment that a physician considers beneficial to the woman, the fetus, or both. If the woman intends to bring the fetus to term, the attending physician and other health care practitioners involved in the woman's care may find her... |
1986 |
|
Joel R. Paul |
Images from Abroad: Making Direct Broadcasting by Satellites Safe for Sovereignty |
9 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 329 (Winter, 1986) |
The advent of communications satellites will mean the end of present barriers to the free flow of information; no dictatorship can build a wall high enough to stop its citizens [from] listening to the voices from the stars. Arthur C. Clarke Our peoples are constantly subjected to the uncontrolled invasion of news that inculcates in our masses... |
1986 |
|
Matthew Orebic |
Japanese Companies on United States Soil: Treaty Privileges v. Title Vii Restraints |
9 Hastings International and Comparative Law Review 377 (Winter, 1986) |
Affiliates of foreign companies currently employ nearly two million people in the United States. Yet basic questions concerning whose law controls employment discrimination suits brought by these employees remain unresolved. In the case of Japanese companies doing business in the United States, lawsuits in which American employees have asserted... |
1986 |
|
Shannon K. Such |
Lifesaving Medical Treatment for the Nonviable Fetus: Limitations on State Authority under Roe v. Wade |
54 Fordham Law Review 961 (April, 1986) |
Over a decade ago, the Supreme Court established that a woman has a constitutional right to decide whether to conclude or continue her pregnancy. The decision has provoked myriad challenges testing the perimeters of this right. These challenges are grounded, for the most part, on the underlying belief that the unborn child is a person who... |
1986 |
|
FLETCHER N. BALDWIN, JR. |
Some Observations Concerning External Power of Decentralized Units Within the Context of the Treaty Making Powers of Article Ii and Corresponding Transnational Implications |
2 Florida International Law Journal 159 (Fall, 1986) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 160 II. GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 163 A. International. 163 B. Domestic Structure. 167 III TREATIES. 169 A. General International Interpretations. 169 1. General Obligations: Clarification of Goals and Strategies. 169 2. Extradition. 171 B. Domestic Interpretations. 172 1. Function and Character of Extradition Treaties. 172 2. Treaty... |
1986 |
|
Nobuhisa Ishizuka |
Subsidiary Assertion of Foreign Parent Corporation Rights under Commercial Treaties to Hire Employees "Of Their Choice" |
86 Columbia Law Review 139 (January, 1986) |
Foreign and United States corporations doing business abroad may desire the discretion to staff their overseas operations with managerial or technical personnel from their home country. To encourage and protect foreign investment in this country, and United States investment abroad, the United States has signed over two dozen bilateral commercial... |
1986 |
|
Kenneth M. Murchison |
The Dual Sovereignty Exception to Double Jeopardy |
14 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 383 (1986) |
C1-5TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-5Part One: The Forgotten Legacy of the Eighteenth Amendment L2-4,T2Introduction. .383 I. L2-4,T2Supreme Court Decisions Prior to Prohibition. .384 II. L2-4,T2Prohibition Reforms: The Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. .388 III. L2-4,T2The Judicial Response During the Prohibition Era. .391 A. L3-4,T3Acceptance of the... |
1986 |
|
Alan E. Lipkind |
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 and Jurisdiction under the Commercial Activities Exception: Vencedora Oceanica Navegacion, S.a. v. Compagnie Nationale Algerienne De Navigation |
4 Boston University International Law Journal 125 (Winter, 1986) |
Clause one of the commercial activities exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 permits American courts to exercise jurisdiction over actions based upon a foreign sovereign's commercial activities in the United States. The scope of clause one is uncertain and the cases construing it appear inconsistent. A dispute exists over... |
1986 |
|
Jonathan Glasser |
The Government Contract Defense: Is Sovereign Immunity a Necessary Prerequisite? |
52 Brooklyn Law Review 495 (1986) |
The government contract defense is an affirmative defense that can shield military contractors from liability for injuries resulting from design defects in goods they manufacture for the government. To successfully invoke the defense in its modern form, a defendant contractor has to prove that (1) the government designed the product, (2) the... |
1986 |
|
James E. Castello |
The Limits of Popular Sovereignty: Using the Initiative Power to Control Legislative Procedure |
74 California Law Review 491 (March, 1986) |
At least since the seventeenth century, when political upheaval forced a broad inquiry into the principles of government, English-speaking society has struggled to reconcile two sovereignties: the supremacy of representative government and the supremacy of the people themselves. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government framed the dilemma. After... |
1986 |
|
Dynda L. Artz |
The Noncorporate Plaintiff: Hostage to the Gordian Knot of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 |
54 University of Cincinnati Law Review 907 (1986) |
The passage of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA or the Act) has been a mixed blessing. While it has been a boon to corporations by allowing them to sue foreign sovereigns in United States courts, it has been a bane to noncorporate plaintiffs with the same objective. Since the passage of the FSIA in 1976, the Act has enabled American... |
1986 |
|
Mark Sagoff |
The Principles of Federal Pollution Control Law |
71 Minnesota Law Review 19 (October, 1986) |
Environmentalism at its inception was a grand vision, one that nearly all Americans willingly shared. Somehow that vision of the essential unity of nature and of the need for bringing industrial society into harmony with it has been lost among the parts per billion, and with it we have lost the capacity to reach social consensus on environmental... |
1986 |
|
Ethel R. Theis , Reporter |
The United Nations and the Antarctic Treaty System |
80 American Society of International Law Proceedings 269 (April 9-12, 1986) |
The panel was convened at 10:00 a.m., April 11, 1986, Christopher C. Joyner presiding. At the outset I think it bears mentioning that Antarctica represents nearly onetenth of the earth's land surface, although land may be a misnomer since about 98 percent of the continent is buried beneath a mantle of ice some one to three miles in thickness. Today... |
1986 |
|