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Documents from 2015
Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority, William A. Edmundson
Transparency and Indeterminacy in the Liberal Critique of Critical Legal Studies, William A. Edmundson
"When is Using a Firearm Not Really?" - An Eminent Philosopher Helps Us Decide, William A. Edmundson
When Reasons Obligate, William A. Edmundson
Why Legal Theory is Political Philosophy, William A. Edmundson
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, William A. Edmundson and Martin P. Golding
Of Truth, Pragmatism, and Sour Grapes: The Second Circuit's Decision in SEC v. Citigroup Global Markets, Theodore D. Edwards
OF TRUTH, PRAGMATISM, AND SOUR GRAPES: THE SECOND CIRCUIT’S DECISION IN SEC V. CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, Theodore D. Edwards
Mental Disabilities and Duty in Negligence Law: Will Neuroscience Reform Tort Doctrine?, Jean M. Eggen
Toxic Torts in a Nutshell, Jean M. Eggen
America's Magisterium, John Ehrett
Hayekian Statutory Interpretation: A Response to Professor Bhatia, John Ehrett
Opportunism as Crucible: Rethinking Equity in View of Reliance Interests and Legal Evolution, John Ehrett
The Exorcism Motif in the Philosophy of Sovereign Citizen Movements, John Ehrett
Toward a Textualist Paradigm for Interpreting Emoticons, John Ehrett
Toward a Textualist Paradigm for Interpreting Emoticons, John Ehrett
A Discussion of Major Current Challenges Facing Oil and Gas Producing States in Latin America, Monika Ehrman
Shifting the Paradigm of the Debate: A Proposal to Eliminate At-Will Employment and Implement a "Mandatory Arbitration Act", Zev J. Eigen, Nicholas F. Menillo, and David S. Sherwyn
Post-Racial Hydraulics: The Hidden Dangers of the Universal Turn, Zev J. Eigen, Camille Gear Rich, and Charlotte S. Alexander
Using the Ethical Principles of Union Organizing to Avoid Card-Check Neutrality and Corporate Campaigns, Zev J. Eigen and David Sherwyn J.D.
A Moral Contractual Approach to Labor Law Reform: A Template for Using Ethical Principles to Regulate Behavior Where Law Failed to do so Effectively, Zev J. Eigen and David S. Sherwyn
When Rules are Made to Be Broken, Zev J. Eigen, David S. Sherwyn, and Nicholas F. Menillo
ESSAY: Training a New Breed of Lawyer: California Western's Advanced Mediation Program in Juvenile Hall, Floralynn Einesman and Linda Morton
Training a New Breed of Lawyer: California Western's Advanced Mediation Program in Juvenile Hall, Floralynn Einesman and Linda H. Morton
Recognition Versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics, Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle
Actual and Virtual Specific Performance, the Theory of Efficient Breach, and the Indifference Principle in Contract Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Corporate Law and Social Norms, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Disclosure in Contract Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Impossibility, Impracticability, and Frustration - Professor Goldberg Constructs an Imaginary Article, Attributes It to Me, and then Criticizes It, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Legal Reasoning: The Simultaneous Equation (Program), Melvin A. Eisenberg
Mistake in Contract Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Shortcomings of the Arguments against Modernizing Corporate Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Board of Directors and Internal Control, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Conception That the Corporation Is a Nexus of Contracts, and the Dual Nature of the Firm, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Concept of National Law and the Rule of Recognition, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Disgorgement Interest in Contract Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Duty of Care of Corporate Directors and officers, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Duty of Good Faith in American Corporate Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Duty of Good Faith in Corporate Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Duty to Rescue in Contract Law, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Revocation of offers, Melvin A. Eisenberg
Why There Is No Law of Relational Contracts, Melvin A. Eisenberg
The Legal Roles of Shareholders and Management in Modern Corporate Decisionmaking, Melvin Aaron Eisenberg
Expectation Damages and the Theory of Overreliance, Melvin A. Eisenberg and Brett H. McDonnell
Access to the Corporate Proxy Machinery, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
An Introduction to the American Law Institute's Corporate Governance Project, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
An Overview of the Principles of Corporate Governance, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Bad Arguments in Corporate Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Contractarianism without Contracts: A Response to Professor McChesney, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Corporate Conduct That Does Not Maximize Shareholder Gain: Legal Conduct, Ethical Conduct, the Penumbra Effect, Reciprocity, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Sheep's Clothing, Social Conduct, and Disclosure, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Corporate Legitimacy, Conduct, and Governance - Two Models of the Corporation, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Donative Promises, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Expression Rules in Contract Law and Problems of Offer and Acceptance, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Legal Models of Management Structure in the Modern Corporation: Officers, Directors, and Accountants, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Megasubsidiaries: The Effect of Corporate Structure on Corporate Control, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
New Modes of Discourse in the Corporate Law Literature, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Participation, Responsiveness, and the Consultative Process: An Essay for Lon Fuller, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Principles of Consideration, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Private Ordering Through Negotiation: Dispute-Settlement and Rulemaking, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Probability and Chance in Contract Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Self-Interested Transactions in Corporate Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Strict Textualism, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Text Anxiety, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Architecture of American Corporate Law: Facilitation and Regulation, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Bargain Principle and Its Limits, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Director's Duty of Care in Negotiated Dispositions, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Divergence of Standards of Conduct and Standards of Review in Corporate Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Emergence of Dynamic Contract Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Limits of Cognition and the Limits of Contract, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Modernization of Corporate Law: An Essay for Bill Cary, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Principle of Hadley v. Baxendale, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Responsive Model of Contract Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Role of Fault in Contract Law: Unconscionability, Unexpected Circumstances, Interpretation, Mistake, and Nonperformance, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The World of Contract and the World of Gift, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Third-Party Beneficiaries, Melvin Aron Eisenberg
The Structure of Corporation Law, Melvin Aron Eisenberg, Ralph K. Winter, and Fred S. McChesney
Opinion Letter as to the Patentability of Certain Inventions Associated with the Identification of Partial DNA Sequences, Rebecca S. Eisenberg and Robert P. Merges
Reply to Comments on the Patentability of Certain Inventions Associated with the Identification of Partial cDNA Sequences, Rebecca S. Eisenberg and Robert P. Merges
Victim Characteristics and Victim Impact Evidence in South Carolina Capital Cases, Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
Victim Characteristics and Victim Impact Evidence in South Carolina Capital Cases, Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells
Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury, Theodore Eisenberg, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Waters, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab, and Martin T. Wells
Judge-Jury Agreement in Criminal Cases: A Partial Replication of Kalven and Zeisel's The American Jury, Theodore Eisenberg, Paula L. Hannaford-Agor, Valerie P. Hans, Nicole L. Waters, G. Thomas Munsterman, Stewart J. Schwab, and Martin T. Wells
Taking a Stand on Taking the Stand: The Effect of a Prior Criminal Record on the Decision to Testify and on Trial Outcomes, Theodore Eisenberg and Valerie P. Hans
Judge-Jury Difference in Punitive Damages Awards: Who Listens to the Supreme Court?, Theodore Eisenberg and Michael Heise
The Decision to Award Punitive Damages: An Empirical Study, Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, Nicole L. Waters, and Martin T. Wells
Variability in Punitive Damages: Empirically Assessing Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, Theodore Eisenberg, Michael Heise, and Martin T. Wells
Mandatory Arbitration for Customers But Not for Peers: A Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Non-Consumer Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller, and Emily Sherwin
Arbitration's Summer Soldiers: An Empirical Study of Arbitration Clauses in Consumer and Nonconsumer Contracts, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller, and Emily Sherwin
The Importance of Section 1981, Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
The Reality of Constitutional Tort Litigation, Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
What Shapes Perceptions of the Federal Court System?, Theodore Eisenberg and Stewart J. Schwab
Türkiye'de Terörizmin Uyuşturucudan Finansmanı: 2000 yılı Öncesi ve Sonrasının Karşılaştırılması, Doç.Dr. Behsat Ekici
Earthquake nucleation and propagation on rate and state faults: single versus two state variables formulation and evolution by Kato–Tullis law, Ahmed Elbanna and Xiao Ma
Towards a unified framework for modeling fault zone evolution: From particles comminution to secondary faults branching, Ahmed Elbanna and Xiao Ma
The Death Penalty Between International Guarantees and Moroccan Law, Fatima Zahra El hajraoui
Settlement Advocacy, Kay Elkins-Elliott and Frank W. Elliott