Influential theories of law have celebrated judicial reasongiving as furthering a host of democratic values, including judges' accountability, citizens' participation in adjudication …
M Abramowicz, M Stearns - Stan. L. Rev., 2004 - HeinOnline
In recent decades, legal scholars have devoted substantially greater attention to studying the origin and nature of stare decisis than to defining the distinction between holding and …
As the commodity of information has become increasingly vital to the national and global economy, intellectual property has elbowed its way from the legal periphery to center stage …
When anthrax attacks recently led to a run on the patented antibiotic drug Cipro, 1 politicians and commentators suggested that the government consider purchasing generic alternatives …
Although good information is critical to effective decisionmaking, public agents' private incentives to invest in gathering information may not align with the social interest in their …
ENSURING the uniform interpretation of federal law has long been considered one of the federal courts' primary objectives, and uniformity is regularly cited in some of the most …
The traditional definition of torts involves bizarre, idiosyncratic events where a single plaintiff with a physical impairment sues the specific defendant he believes to have wrongfully …
While circuit courts are bound to follow circuit precedent under" law of the circuit" the practice among federal district courts is more varied and uncertain, routinely involving little …