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Because of corruption during the bid to host the 2022 World Cup, FIFA awarded the rights to the Qatar Football Association over the U.S. Soccer Federation. Economics studies Of European soccer show that, when a nation hosts a soccer mega-event, its Tier One professional soccer league has a signijicant boost in attendance in the years before and after that event. In prior articles, these authors applied those studies to argue that Major League Soccer could win and enforce a sizeable money judgment against the mastermind Of the corrupt 2022 bidding for lost profits and diminution in value related to the loss of a "World Cup bump" in attendance. Because of questions about the admissibility of econometric testimony that applies models of European soccer attendance to predict how American.fans would respond to a soccer mega-event, the authors gathered data about MLS and French Ligue 1 attendance in the years before and after the Copa America Centenario and European Championship, which in 2016 were hosted by the U.S. and France, respectively. Controlling for other factors that affect attendance, a statistical analysis reveals that the European Championship had a significant impact on Ligue 1 attendance both before and after the event while the Copa America had only a slight impact on MLS attendance before the event and none after. These results call into question the viability of an MLS lawsuit for money damages related to the 2022 World Cup. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its laudable goals, sustainable development has been criticized for its discursive aspects. These include that the vagueness of the term combined with the lack of embodiment in law allow numerous private governance standards to support almost any company or project as "sustainable"; that the positive of bringing numerous stakeholders with divergent interests together becomes a negative because it is difficult to set and enact specific priorities; and that generalized agreement with the goals of sustainable development can mask the causes of problems and the potential for novel solutions. These criticisms suggest that commentators should explore discrete areas of law that have not yet been considered in the context of sustainable development. For example, no one has considered the role of money (and laws about money) despite the considerable attention paid to issues of finance and investing. This Article is therefore the first to survey money laws like gold and silver bans, relaxed usury laws and extensive government incentives for lenders to charge interest, fractional-reserve banking, legal tender, and functional currency. Collectively, these laws render money into inflationary governmental credit so that modern money itself is unsustainable and therefore contributes to harming the economy, environment, and society. The Article closes with recommendations for additional study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although Kenneth Burke is the preeminent rhetorician of the modern era, and his theories have been applied to issues of social change and the environment (including by legal scholars), the role of "justice" and "law" in his critical method of dramatism have received only passing treatment. This Article is therefore the first in any discipline to consider what Burke means when he defines law as the "efficient codification of custom"-as the law develops, it moves farther away from material conditions by stretching concepts in ways that lead to abstract legal fictions. The legal system thereby directs attention toward dubious identifications between the government and the governed and emphasizes ways in which the needs of both are unified. This rhetorical compensation for disunity actually "mystifies" injustice in subtle ways that reinforce the social status quo to the detriment of racial minorities, indigenous people, and the poor. The Article shows this mystification by analyzing transnational and international law and global issues related to environmental justice before concluding with suggestions for further research on how dramatism can provide a theoretical basis for effective social (and legal) change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AN courtroom evidence must be legally relevant to be admissible. A consensus among contemporary economists is that econometric modeling has successjully created a vast web of interrelated causal inferences that collectively constitute "economic theory." Econometric models have become an important part of complex litigation involving employment, antitrust, and the measurement of damages, Although judicial opinions exhibit considerable inconsistency and incoherence with respect to the admissibility of this testimony under the Daubert trilogy, judges typically defer to professional consensus and jind the evidence relevant. Forms of economic testimony other than econometrics are almost nonexistent. However, the mainstream adulation among pro®ssional economists for "orthodox" econometric modeling conceals noteworthy. outlier, "heterodox" economists who reject econometrics as a valid method of scientific inquiry. Given outlier economists' disdain for the vast body of mainstream economic theory and inferences derived from econometrics, the proper processes for deciding which economic theories are legally relevant, and which are not, are far murkier than previously contemplated. Because scholars call Jor a conversation among diferent schools of economics, and jurors, in ascertaining truth, reason about the relevance of even conflicting expert testimony, this Article argues that judges should admit as legally relevant any proposed economic testimony-whether econometric or heterodox, Jzidges should, however, fashion jury instructions describing (but not advocating or criticizing) the witness's "type" or "camp" Oj economic beliefs to ensure the economic testimony's legal relevance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines a sense of equity in environmental justice litigation in the U.S. by presenting the cases Juliana v. U.S. and Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. Also cited are the justiciability doctrine, the duty of government under public trust doctrine, and the rhetoric of Chaim Perelman on how to analyze said litigation and the procedure for the adjudication of legal disputes.

The article focuses on methodological scholarship to identify different types of assumptions in which realisticness does or does not affect the reliability of an economic model. Topics discussed include role of the jury in assessing evidence; model-based economics expert testimony; and purpose of the first-order assumption.

The article discusses the authors' views about how to prove harm and recover damages in corruption-based litigation involving Major League Soccer and the bidding process for the 2022 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. U.S. indictments against officials from the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) are examined, along with alleged corruption by then-soccer executive Mohamen Bin Hammam in 2010. Tortious interference claims and New York's statute of limitations are assessed.

The article explores the rhetorical genre theory for product instructions and warnings related liabilties. Topic discussed include treatments of the U.S. courts of product defects based upon instructions and warnings, the ways courts find genres rhetorical, and separate and distinct duties related to nonobvious dangers in their products.

The article offers information on the views presented by several rhetorical scholars regarding the judicial opinion based on the practice of litigation. Topics discussed include the is rationality in decision-making process, second circuit case Chevron Corp. v. Camacho Naranjo, in which the plaintiff seeks preemptive nonrecognition , and Lago Agrio litigation. It also discussed the Osorio v. Dole Food Company based on judgment over chemical compound dibromochloropropane (DBCP).

The article focuses on the importance of tropes in defining the concept of negligence associated with almost all torts and laws. Topics discussed include role of juries and law scholars in defining the significance of negligence in law, importance of duty and breach for the legal scholars and role of poetic language in defining the significance of negligence among the audience. It further discusses the use of different fundamental tropes like metaphor, metonymy and personification in law.