Digital Commons @ Touro Law Center Copyright (c) 2012 Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu Recent documents in Digital Commons @ Touro Law Center en-us Tue, 15 May 2012 04:56:04 PDT 3600 A Comparative Analysis of the Jewish Law and the Secular Perspective on International Human Rights (part of the article, “Human Rights in the Bible, an Exchange of Ideas”). http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/425 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/425 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:13:19 PDT Richard Klein et al. The Indigent Defense Crisis http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/424 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/424 Tue, 08 May 2012 10:14:52 PDT Richard Klein et al. Race and the Doctrine of Self Defense: The Role of Race in Determining the Proper Use of Force to Protect Oneself http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/423 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/423 Tue, 08 May 2012 09:54:36 PDT Richard Klein Constitutional Concerns About Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Statute in New York State http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/422 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/422 Tue, 08 May 2012 09:34:35 PDT Richard Klein Bob Dylan on Lenny Bruce: More of an Outlaw Than You Ever Were http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/421 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/421 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:40:15 PDT Louise Harmon Symposium: Bob Dylan and the Law, Foreword http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/420 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/420 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:03:00 PDT Samuel J. Levine The New York State Bar Exam by the Issue http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/419 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/419 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:22:41 PDT

This book tells you how to use it to pass the New York bar exam. It presents every issue tested on the exam essays for the past 10 years in a concise chart, identifies the frequency with which these issues have been tested, and provides a rule of law for every identified issue. The paragraphs of law track the released NY essays and show how to tailor a paragraph of law to respond to the issue in the question. This book is unique in its detailed attention to the New York essays, providing a comprehensive resource for that portion of the exam by offering a step-by-step approach for reading, outlining, and writing essays, plus a side-by-side comparison between the New York Board of Law Examiners' Content Outline and the Table of Issues to show exactly which issues have been tested – and how often they have been tested.

]]> Suzanne Darrow Kleinhaus et al. RLT: A Preliminary Examination of Religious Legal Theory as a Movement http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/417 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/417 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:15:47 PDT Samuel J. Levine Rethinking Self-Incrimination, Voluntariness, and Coercion, Through a Perspective of Jewish Law and Legal Theory http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/416 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/416 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:15:42 PDT Samuel J. Levine September 11th: Pro Bono and Trauma http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/418 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/418 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:45:55 PDT Marjorie A. Silver Penalty Clauses and the CISG http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/414 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/414 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:20:42 PDT Commercial agreements often provide for “fixed sums” payable upon a specified breach. Such agreements are generally enforced in civil law jurisdictions. In contrast, the common law distinguishes between “liquidated damages” and “penalty” clauses, enforcing the former, while invalidating the latter as a penalty. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) does not directly address the payment of “fixed sums” as damages, and the validity of “penalty” clauses has, traditionally, been relegated to otherwise applicable domestic national law under CISG Article 4. This traditional orthodoxy has recently been challenged—suggesting that the fate of a penalty clause should be determined by reference to the general principles of the CISG and that such a clause should generally be enforced. The validity of fixed sums, as penalties, is currently under consideration by the CISG Advisory Council, so further exploration of the issue would seem particularly timely. This article examines the basis for the traditional view, along with two distinct challenges to that view—ultimately concluding that these challenges fail to support their respective solutions to the issue and suggesting the continuing vitality of the traditional view.

]]> Jack Graves The Last Common Law Justice: The Personal Jurisdiction Jurisprudence of Justice John Paul Stevens http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/415 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/415 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:28:03 PDT Rodger D. Citron Table of Contents http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol26/iss4/10 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol26/iss4/10 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:40:36 PDT Masthead http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol26/iss4/9 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol26/iss4/9 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:43:49 PDT Table of Contents http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss1/10 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss1/10 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:02:06 PDT Court Litigation over Arbitration Agreements: Is it Time for a New Default Rule? http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/413 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/scholarlyworks/413 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:17:03 PST Court litigation over the existence or validity of arbitration agreements is a major threat to the efficacy of international commercial arbitration. While New York Convention Article II(3) requires a court to “refer the parties to arbitration” when faced with a valid and effective arbitration agreement, it fails to provide any guidance with respect to the process for answering that question, thus leaving the issue to national law. A recalcitrant respondent may, therefore, have a variety of options for court challenges—based on a disparate array of national laws—in seeking to delay or at least complicate any claims subject to arbitration. This paper briefly surveys the problem, as well as a few current proposed solutions, and then proposes its own novel solution in the form of a new convention making arbitration the default legal rule for resolution of international commercial disputes.

]]> Jack Graves Masthead http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss1/9 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss1/9 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:29:44 PST Table of Contents http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss2/13 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss2/13 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:56:50 PST Masthead http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss2/12 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss2/12 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:56:48 PST Table of Contents http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss3/26 http://digitalcommons.tourolaw.edu/lawreview/vol27/iss3/26 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:51:42 PST