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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2025
It is a real pleasure for Mrs Seitz and me to come to Melbourne, one of the truly great cities of the world. I am especially gratified to be speaking in the city where Prime Minister Robert Menzies resided.
I express my gratitude to the University of Virginia for affording me the opportunity and honour of delivering the first Menzies lectures in Australia. By the same token, I thank the Australian National University and the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust for their support of a lecture program designed to further enhance the understanding of our legal systems.
I have read a good deal of material about your country over the past few months. Much of it stressed that we share the English language. That is certainly true but, if Australia is anything like the United States, while we share the same general vocabulary, the younger generation has its own unique language. Fortunately, our legal language is largely interchangeable.
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2 Meritor Savings Bank v Vinson 106 S Ct 2399 (1986).
3 Annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (1984)131.
4 In re Japanese Electronic Products Antitrust Litigation 631 F2d 1069 (3d Cir 1980).
5 A De Toqueville, Democracy in America (P. Bradley ed 1945) ch 16, 290.
6 Eg 42 Pa Cons Stat Ann §§ 7361(a)(b) (Purdon 1982); ED Pa Rule 8.
7 See M Breger, “The Justice Conundrum”, (1982-1983) 28 Viii L Rev 923; W Burger, “Annual Report on the State of the Judiciary” (1983) 69 ABAJ 442.
8 Moloney, (ed), Seminar on Constitutional and Administrative Responsibilities for the Administration of Justice: The PartnerShip of Judiciary and Executive (1985)Google Scholar.
9 Eg Ross v Johns-Manville Corp et al 766 F2d 823 (3d Cir 1985) (Pennsylvania and New Jersey law governing);Jackson v Johns-Manville Sales Corp 727 F2d 506 (5th Cir 1984) (Mississippi law governing);Clutter v Johns-Manville Sales Corp 646 F2d 1151 (6th Cir 1981) (Ohio law governing).
10 Eg Wilson v Johns-Manville Corp. 684 F2d 111 (DC Cir 1982).
11 Eg McKenna v Orthopharmaceutical Corp 622 F2d 657 (3d Cir 1980).
12 Do Carma v Ford Excavations Proprietary ltd (1984) 154 CLR 234.
13 The leading case on market share liability is Sindell v Abbott Laboratories 607 P2d 924 (Cal 1980).
14 Eg Andrus v Trailers Unlimited 647 F2d 556 (5th Cir 1981) (suit brought against trailer manufacturer for defective coupling mechanism);Gracyalny v Westinghouse Electric Corp 723 F2d 1311 (7th Cir 1983) (failure of manufacturer to provide adequate warnings can form basis of liability under Wisconsin law).
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16 In re School Asbestos Litigation789 F2d 996 (3d Cir 1986).
17 For a description of corporate litigation in Delaware during my tenure with Chancery, see L Nizer, My Life in Court (1961) 427-524.
18 See generally M Johnston, Takeover: The New Wall Street Warriors (1986).
19 See Comment on Unocal Corp v Mesa Petroleum Co (1986) 72 Va LRev 851.
20 M Johnston, supra n 18, 46.
21 Ibid, 5-7.
22 For a discussion of the impact of one significant Delaware case, see Comment, supra n 19.
23 Eg Volkman v Miller 363 NE2d 355 (NY 1977) (challenge to state practice of storing information on all mental patients on a central computer).
24 42 USC §§ 4331 et seq (1982).
25 American Iron and Steel Institute et al v EPA 568 F2d 284 (3d Cir 1978).
26 The Conservation Council of Western Australia Inc v Aluminium Co of America 518 F Supp 270 (WO Pa 1981).
27 Kiick v Metropolitan Edison Co 784 F2d 490 (3d Cir 1986);In re Three Mile Island Inc 771 F2d 720 (3d Cir 1985);Stibitz et al v General Public Utilities Corp 746 F2d 993 (3d Cir 1984).
28 Atomic Energy Act 1954, as amended 42 USC §§ 2201 et seq (1982).
29 Judicial Conduct and Disability Act 1980, 42 USC § 372 (1982).