Plato on the Corruption of Democracies: Democratic governments start out idealistic, but inevitably decay into corruption because the demos seizes…

Optional: My article comparing Marbury and Van Gend http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1331505 Three models of the state:*the state as family (corresponds to sovereignty…

Van Horne’s Lessee v. Dorrance http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/us/vol/getcase/US/2/304.html Marbury v. Madison http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0005_0137_ZO.html Search engines: http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~engleeri/ Yesterday I talked briefly about vested rights.…

Our book: http://www.amazon.de/U-S-Contract-Law-German-Jurists/dp/1492860379/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1382516335&sr=8-2&keywords=eric+engle It is required. You need that book for this course. We will do all the cases in…

Bonham’s Case (scroll down the page for the text). http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=911&chapter=106343&layout=html&Itemid=27 Van Horne’s Lessee: http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/getcase/us/vol/getcase/US/2/304.html “An act of Parliament can do no…

Market Manipulation Insider Trading  -What is insider trading?“To use or employ, in connection with the purchase or sale of any…

Action at law Action in equity Quasi Contract Promissory Estoppel Action in Reliance / Detrimental Reliance Replevin Specific Performance Liquidated…
Syllabus

Syllabus

Antitrust (Sherman Act, OECD model treaty)(competition law)Taxation (taxation of multinational corporate groups; problems of double taxation; OECD tax convention= Anti-corruption…
More vocabulary

More vocabulary

Organstreitverfahren – Procedure for constitutional adjudication among state organs Abstraktnormenkontrolle – Abstract constitutional review; advisory opinion Parliamentsvorbehalt – Reservation of…
German Legal Dictionaries

German Legal Dictionaries

http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQueryLoad.do;jsessionid=9ea7991930d6b500ecd332a446118d27d31a7ef1cbf6.e38KbN4MchyMb40SbxyRaN0LbNj0?method=load https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjLPEKGFyiCCdFdOQjYwT1cwRkszeG5UQXN2dE5zZEE&hl=en#gid=0http://www.lexexakt.de/indexv.php?gebiet=en-law?buchstabe=a http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/59088 paywall but Humboldt access.http://wicourts.gov/services/interpreter/docs/germanglossary.pdfhttp://www.online-recht.de/vorgl.html?introhttp://web.archive.org/web/20011018030944/http://www.heymanns.com/html/recht/ratgeber_recht/rechtslexikon/Lexikon.htmhttp://web.archive.org/web/20020215203601/http://www.hamburg.de/StadtPol/Gerichte/VG/rechtslexikon.htm

UnEnumerated rights: when may we imply a constitutional right? a federal power? [1] Fundamental right=Ordered Liberty=Life or Liberty or property…
Cases for Saturday

Cases for Saturday

Boumedien v. Bush (Guantanamo)http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/06-1195.ZS.html DC v. Heller (Guns)http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.htmlSan Antonio (it is linked a few posts down). LECTURE NOTES FactsU.S. Establishes…
Vocabulary List and Model Exam

Vocabulary List and Model Exam

jurisdiction to adjudicatejurisdiction to prescribejurisdiction to enforcediversity jurisdictioninterstate commerce clausefederal supremacymandamusaffidavitequity jurisdictionequitable maximsseparation of powerschecks and balancesfederalism bill of rightsarticles…
Christmas Readings

Christmas Readings

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1020509 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1125742 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1434045 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1424691 Enjoy!
Readings for next time.

Readings for next time.

They are brief! Education and social rights are the topics. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=U10314 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&friend=%3C%25FRIEND%25%3E&linkurl=%3C%25LINKURL%25%3E&graphurl=%3C%25GRAPHURL%25%3E&court=US&case=/data/us/482/578.htmlhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=319&invol=624 http://www.law.msu.edu/king/2007/Urchick.pdf
Readings for the next time.

Readings for the next time.

http://latindispatch.com/2011/06/09/text-of-alabama-immigration-law-hb-56/http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/wbrc/docs/immigration_ruling.pdfSame document, but in case that link doesn’t work. http://www.myfoxal.com/link/514766/judges-ruling-on-alabama-immigration-law you can extract the pdf with down them all addon…
Readings

Readings

Here are the readings for the next lecture in order. Shelley v. Kramer (or, how to end apartheid)http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/shelley.html Drittwirkunghttp://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1481552 Viking…
Another reading for next class.

Another reading for next class.

Please read and brief this case for next class.http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=182&invol=244#251 Then, read this.http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment14/39.html#t90This is the closest you will come to seeing…

One student had asked about texts on constitutional law. This link has constitutional law outlines (Skript)http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/study/outlines/the first link — constitutional…
Readings for next time

Readings for next time

First please read this, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1431178 Then WICKARD v. FILBURN, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=317&invol=111 Then http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1335088 Then Case C-2/90 (Walloon…