Roger C. Cramton

DRIVER BEHAVIOR AND LEGAL SANCTIONS: A STUDY OF DETERRENCE

IN THE LIMITED FIELD OF HIGHWAY SAFETY THE CONSEQUENCES OF LEGAL SANCTIONS AND DETERMINATION OF THE CONSEQUENCES ARE EXPLORED. THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE THAT HUMAN BEHAVIOR CAN BE INFLUENCED BY THE APPLICATION OF LEGAL SANCTIONS. LEGAL NORMS HAVE A MORAL AND EDUCATIVE INFLUENCE: THE POTENTIAL OFFENDER FEARS THE CONSEQUENCES ATTENDANT UPON VIOLATIONS; INCULCATION OF NORMS - ESPECIALLY AT AN EARLY AGE AND WHEN PERIODICALLY RE-INFORCED - RESULTS IN HABITUAL AND UNCONSCIOUS BEHAVIOR CONFORMING TO THESE NORMS. PARKING AND MOVING VIOLATIONS AS WELL AS DRUNK DRIVING CONSTITUTE THE MAJOR ASPECTS OF THIS REVIEW. /AUTHOR/

Regulatory Structure and Regulatory Performance: A Critique of the Ash Council Report

To shift our concentration from matters of internal organization to those of the political setting moves us toward a long-needed reintegration between professional analysis of regulatory administration and the liveliest currents of general empirical political theory. Among the latter currents, one of the most promising consists of Theodore J. Lowis categorization of policies and related political processes into distributive, regulatory, constituency, and redistributive types. According to Lowi, each of these types carries with it a distinctive pattern of political activity. In the legislative arena, for example, he finds that regulatory measures are much more amended on the floor of both House and Senate than those of the other

Citizen Suits in the Environmental Field – Peril or Promise?

Private citizen litigation has often been mentioned as the most direct method of allowing citizens actively to pursue a quality environment. A variety of proposals have been introduced and attempted both in state legislatures and in Congress. With the proposed House and Senate legislation in mind, this Article warns that the major proposals presently being considered may ultimately prove to be detrimental rather than beneficial to the cause of environmental preservation.

Conflict of Laws. Cases-Comments-Questions

The new edition of the popular Conflicts book (formerly Currie, Kay, Kramer and Roosevelt) contains two new main cases for personal jurisdiction, one for extraterritorial application of US law, and one for the New York choice of law approach. In addition, the latest edition features revised materials on the European legal approach to include recent codifications in the Rome I and II conventions. This edition continues the tradition of organizing the teaching of conflicts around the broad themes reflected in different intellectual approaches to the problem.