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94 Geo. L.J. 1015 (2005-2006)
Public Rights, Private Rights, and Statutory Retroactivity

handle is hein.journals/glj94 and id is 1027 raw text is: Public Rights, Private Rights, and Statutory Retroactivity ANN WOOLHANDLER* TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .......................................... 1016 I. THE GENERAL RETROACTIVITY PRINCIPLE AND SOME DEFINITIONS ... 1019 A. THE GENERAL NONRETROACTIVITY PRINCIPLE AS AN ASPECT OF SEPARATION OF POWERS ............................. 1019 B. DEFINITIONS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RIGHTS .................. 1020 C. DEFINING RETROACTIVITY ............................ 1022 II. THE NONRETROACTIVITY PRINCIPLE AND ITS APPLICATION TO PRIVATE AND PUBLIC RIGHTS .................................. 1023 A. DISALLOWANCE OF RETROACTIVE LEGISLATION DIVESTING PRIVATE RIGHTS ........................................ 1023 B. ALLOWANCE OF RETROACTIVITY FOR PUBLIC RIGHTS ............ 1027 1. Governmental Proprietary Rights ..................... 1027 2. Interests in Exercising Delegated Government Power ... 1028 3. Governmental Enforcement Interests .................. 1031 4. Statutorily Created Interests More Generally ........... 1035 III. SEEMING EXCEPTIONS ................................. 1036 A. REINSTATING DEFECTIVE CONTRACTUAL LIABILITIES ............ 1037 B. LEGISLATIVE GRANTS OF NEW TRIALS ....................... 1041 C. TAXATION AND PUBLIC RIGHTS ......................... 1043 * William Minor Lile Professor of Law and Class of 1948 Professor in Scholarly Research in Law, University of Virginia. B.A. Yale, 1975; J.D. Harvard, 1978. © 2006, Ann Woolhandler. For comments on earlier drafts, thanks to Michael Collins, John Colombo, Barry Cushman, Mitch Kane, Kyle Logue, Julia Mahoney, Jonathan Nash, George Rutherglen, and the participants in the University of Illinois Law School faculty workshop. Special thanks to Caleb Nelson, who for a time co-authored this work. This Article contains research, text, and ideas he contributed, including the emphasis on separation of powers' requiring attention to the substantive rights at issue. 1015

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