Lawyering Within the Domain of Expertise

This Article uses the history of patent prosecution to assess the relationship between the practice of law and the claim of an administrative agency to possess and to employ expertise

Introduction:Entrepreneurship education and learning and the real world

It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue of Industry and Higher Education. The papers that follow have been selected, reviewed and developed for publication following their original presentation in the ‘Enterprise Education and Entrepreneurial Learning’ tracks of the 36th Annual Conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) held in Cardiff in November 2013

Country Trade Costs, Comparative Advantage and the Pattern of Trade: Multi-Country and Product Panel Evidence

This paper investigates whether differences across countries in overall country-specific trade costs affect comparative advantage. It does so by examining whether the commodity composition of countries’ trade is driven by differences in countries’ trade costs, as well as by differences in traditional factor endowments. Industry export shares across up to 71 countries and 158 manufacturing industries for five year periods over the period 1972 to 1992 are shown to be greater in trade cost sensitive industries for countries with relatively low national trade costs. This is after controlling for factor-intensity differences across industries and for endowment differences (physical and human capital) between countries. Further, these relationships are more evident in exporting to global markets than to local or regional markets.Trade costs, comparative advantage

Experimental evaluation of small-scale erectable truss hardware

To aid in the prediction of the dynamic behavior of the space station, a one-tenth scale dynamic test model is to be constructed of commercially available, small scale truss hardware. Tests have been performed to determine the axial stiffness characteristics and failure loads of the truss joint. A parametric study has shown that the stiffness of the joint increases as the attachment bolt torque value is increased. Furthermore, at torque values equal to or higher than 250 in-lbs, hysteresis in the load-deflection curve is essentially eliminated. Also, the joint stiffness remained relatively constant between specimens. The effective stiffness of a joint subassembly tested is 76 percent that of the strut. Tensile and compressive failure occurred in the region of the bonded plug, with lower failure loads corresponding to compressive loadings

Copyright Nonconsequentialism

This Article explores the foundations of copyright law. It tries to explain why those who debate copyright often seem to talk past each other. I contend the problem is that copyright scholars pay too much attention to instrumental arguments, which are often indeterminate, and too little to the first principles that affect how one approaches copyright law

Telling Stories for Liberty. Book Review Of: You Can\u27t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws. by David Bernstein

Book review: You Can\u27t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws. By David Bernstein. Washington, D.C. Cato Institute. 2003. Pp. 198. Reviewed by: David McGowa

Recognizing Usages of Trade: A Case Study from Electronic Commerce

Part I of this Essay briefly discusses the usage of trade concept. Part II discusses the shift in judicial approaches to shrinkwrap licenses from Step-Saver to Mortenson. Part III discusses the lessons of these cases in considering the judicial role in recognizing usages of trade. Part III also considers the warranty of non-infringement and the possibility of disclaiming it by trade usage as an example of the type of analysis courts should engage in when considering usages in the future

Responsibility, Lawyering, Justice

Between 1942 and 1946, approximately 112,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were ordered to leave their homes and were transported to internment camps where they were held under armed guard. Four cases litigated before the United States Supreme Court dealt with orders related to this policy: Hirabayishi v. United States, Yasui v. United States, Korematsu v. United States, and ex parte Endo. Property deprivation related to internment was at issue in Oyama v. California. This note discusses whether the Solicitor General of the United States violated a duty of candor in Hirabayashi and Yasui or in Korematsu. That question requires analysis of subsidiary questions relating to representation of entity clients generally, and of government clients in particular. It also provides opportunity for analysis of broader questions regarding the extent of the duty of loyalty