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202 (1965). The Yale Law Journal [Vol. 99: 187 Court stated that this requirement had placed a "crippling burden of proof"6 on defendants, rendering
† Harvard Law School and National Bureau of Economic Research. We thank the John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business at Harvard Law School for
consolidate certain classes of state law claims.12 Federal laws regulating state court procedures stand at the next frontier of federalism. In hearings on
pertain to environmental matters.3 Laws usually aim to improve the condition of a class of people. To violate the law is to hurt a member of this class
secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress
VARADARAJANFINAL.DOC NOVEMBER 28, 2001 11/28/01 6:24 PM 735 Note Tortious Interference and the Law of Contract: The Case for Specific Performance
Stigler, The Optimum Enforcement of Laws, 78 J. POL. ECON. 526 (1970). PARCHFINAL.DOC NOVEMBER 28, 2001 11/28/01 5:51 PM 592 The Yale Law Journal
laws” ); Yoo, supra note 94, at 2000 (noting the English monarch’s inability to make law through treaties). In the U.S. system, some lawmaking can be
also led to an assumption that the law adjusts in some natural way to changing economic and cultural climates. According to this view, lawsuits are an
THIRD) OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW OF THE UNITED STATES § 442, Reporters’ Notes 1, at 354 (1990) [hereinafter RESTATEMENT]. 2. Convention on the