Discrimination Statutes, the Common Law, and Proximate Cause

The Federal Common Law of Statutory Interpretation: Erie for the Age of Statutes

The Proximate Cause of Fever

IN selecting a subject for the present discourse, I have been more influenced by attachment to certain early opinions, than by confidence of abili ty to defend them. Such is the diversity of symptoms, and so varied are the conditions of the system, under which fever is acknowledged to exist, that no definition has yet been settled to which some objection might not be offered. Still less stable ...

Proximate cause and traumatic neurosis.

Because there is not definite scientific knowledge about posttraumatic neurosis, a psychiatrist involved in evaluating allegations of psychiatric impairment in negligence law cases can make only a circumscribed contribution. Nevertheless, the contribution can be an important one.

Choking on Statutes Revisited: A History of Legislative Preemption of Common Law Regarding Child Custody

In 1982, Professor (later Dean, and still later Judge) Guido Calabresi, published a book entitled A Common Law for the Age of Statutes.' The book deservedly achieved wide recognition in the academic world, netting 1,253 citations in a recent Westlaw search.2 Surprisingly, acceptance by the intended audience, i.e., the judiciary, was significantly more mutedonly nineteen citations of the book co...

The Proximate Causes of Employment Discrimination

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