Four theses: preliminary to an appeal to equity.

From: Stanford Law Review | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Shanske, Darien | Copyright information 
 
INTRODUCTION 
I. ARISTOTLE ON EPIEIKEIA 
II. THESIS 1: ARISTOTELIAN EQUITY HAS BEEN RECEIVED INTO WESTERN 
LAW NUMEROUS TIMES, AND THIS RECEPTION IS ONGOING 
III. THESIS 2: ARISTOTELIAN EQUITY IS NOT PRIMARILY LEGAL 
IV. THESIS 3: THERE IS NO UNIFIED CONCEPT OF EQUITY 
  A. Equity and Logic 
  B. Equity and Process 
  C. Equity and Substance 
  D. Equity and Politics 
  E. Equity in History 
  F. Equity as Metaphysical 
V. THESIS 4: THE PRIMARY ASPECTS OF EQUITY HAVE METAPHYSICAL 
GROUN...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

The thorny path to Thornhill: the origins at equity of the free speech overbreadth doctrine.
Yale Law Journal ; ... amp; Mach. Works, 62 S.E. 236, 239 (Ga. 1908); Hotel & R.R. News Co. v. Leventhal, 137 N.E. 534, 537 (Mass. 1922); Plant v. Woods ... limiting it to conduct as alleged in bill); Hotel & R.R. News Co. v. Leventhal, 137 N.E. 534, 537 (Mass. 1922) ( The decree ...
Lifting the veils of equity in maritime entitlements: equidistance with proportionality around the islands.
Denver Journal of International Law and Policy ; I. INTRODUCTION The modern maritime entitlements over vast oceanic spaces over the continental shelf and over the exclusive economic zone have produced sharp disagreements among neighboring nations about their delimitation, the definition of their borders, many of which remain unresolved. Economic
Addressing urban transportation equity in the United States.
Fordham Urban Law Journal ; ... available at http://www.usmayors.org/ uscm/news/press_releases/documents/ashetrans_O50703 ... Bus System Advances, GREAT LAKES BULk. NEWS SERV., Jan. 4, 2002, available at http ... Release], available at http://media.gm.com/news/releases/010920transit.html (last visited ...
Making the Line a Gap: Edgar's Treatment of the Debt-Equity Boundary
Canadian Tax Journal ; Introduction This article examines the argument made by Tim Edgar in his book The Income Tax Treatment of Financial Instruments: Theory and Practice[1] concerning the correct tax treatment of debt-equity hybrid instruments.[2] After a brief examination of Edgar's discussion, the article takes up
HOUSING AND WEALTH INEQUALITY: RACIAL-ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN HOME EQUITY IN THE UNITED STATES*
Demography ; In our study, we took a first step toward broadening our understanding of the sources of both housing and wealth inequality by studying differences in housing equity among blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and non-Hispanic whites in the United States. Using data from the American Housing Survey, we found
Examine the Equity Swap Stakes.(Industry Trend or Event)
e-Business Advisor ; Many firms barter equity in exchange for everything from salaries to legal services. What are the pitfalls? There's a new type of legal tender in the marketplace that's an outgrowth of the dot-com economy, and it's being used in nearly every type of industry from retailing to insurance. Companies
Renegotiation and secured credit: Explaining the equity of redemption
Vanderbilt Law Review ; The prohibition against "clogging the equity of redemption" has been enforced by the courts for centuries. Yet the traditional justifications (invoking fairness or unfair bargaining power) offered for this central premise of mortgage law are rather unconvincing, particularly in the commercial
Constitutional equity.
Yale Law Journal ; Working with Justice Blackmun exposed some habits a New Yorker could learn to share. He loved politics, baseball, 8 a.m. breakfasts, afternoons in the library editing opinions with freshly sharpened pencils, and evenings at home with Dottie. He lingered over stories of his days at Harvard, as
HILLS ALIVE WITH SOUNDS OF STRIFE.(Barry Williams and Actors' Equity strike)
Variety ; Equity protests non-union `Music' tour When former Brady Bunch star Barry Williams signed up for Troika Entertainment's road production of The Sound of Music, he expected to be giving lots of soft interviews -- in major markets -- in which he could also promote his new CD and his book, Growing Up
The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century: the failure of metropolitan planning organizations to reform federal transportation policy in metropolitan areas.
Transportation Law Journal ; ABSTRACT Transportation planning decisions in metropolitan areas involving the use of federal funds are made by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in cooperation with state governments and pursuant to federal requirements. This planning system is the result of two federal statutes -- the