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Substantive Corrective Justice, In Symposium, Corrective Justice And Formalism, Richard W. Wright Dec 1992

Substantive Corrective Justice, In Symposium, Corrective Justice And Formalism, Richard W. Wright

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Incommensurability As A Jurisprudential Puzzle, Richard Warner Mar 1992

Incommensurability As A Jurisprudential Puzzle, Richard Warner

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Aristotle On Political Justice (Symposium), Steven J. Heyman Feb 1992

Aristotle On Political Justice (Symposium), Steven J. Heyman

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Positive And Negative Liberty, Steven J. Heyman Feb 1992

Positive And Negative Liberty, Steven J. Heyman

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Conviction Without Imposition: A Response To Professor Greenawalt, Samuel W. Calhoun Jan 1992

Conviction Without Imposition: A Response To Professor Greenawalt, Samuel W. Calhoun

Scholarly Articles

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Objectivity And Democracy, David K. Millon Jan 1992

Objectivity And Democracy, David K. Millon

Scholarly Articles

As a response to skepticism about the possibility of objectivity in legal decisionmaking conventionalism posits the shared understandings of the legal profession (about method and the implications of doctrine) as the source of constraint in legal interpretation. In this Article, Professor Millon argues that conventionalism's proponents have failed to offer an adequate account of interpretive constraint, but that conventionalism properly understood can nevertheless provide a useful perspective on the possibility of objectivity in legal interpretation. This account locates interpretive constraint in the practices of the legal profession as a whole, acting as an "interpretive community" or constituting a distinctive "language-game" …


A Meditation On The Theoretics Of Practice, Robert Dinerstein Jan 1992

A Meditation On The Theoretics Of Practice, Robert Dinerstein

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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From Righteousness To Beauty: Reflections On Poethics And Justice As Translation, Emily A. Hartigan Jan 1992

From Righteousness To Beauty: Reflections On Poethics And Justice As Translation, Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

Both Richard Weisberg and James Boyd White are eminent figures in the academic field of law and literature. As lines between philosophy and literature blur, the stance of “judgment” becomes more like a reflective aesthetic evaluation than a critique through formal logic. Law is, as Weisberg and White agree, more art than science. Yet, for all their contributions to the study of law, including their ostensibly shared realm of mediation, the two create a combative, hierarchic tone of discourse by the near-total exclusion of women from their texts.

Law as conversation is not primarily war through or with words. Rather, …


The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery Jan 1992

The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery

Articles & Book Chapters

In fairy tales, villains usually come to a bad end, snared in a trap of their own making, or visited with a disaster nicely suited to their particular villainy. Read a story of this kind to children and you will be struck by the profound satisfaction with which this predictable of events is greeted. Yet, if children cheer when the villain is done in, they are just as satisfied when the hero manages to get the villain by the throat but takes pity and spares him. These tales of retribution and mercy, even reduced to their barest bones, seem to …


The Last Emperor?, Allan C. Hutchinson Jan 1992

The Last Emperor?, Allan C. Hutchinson

Articles & Book Chapters

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One Hundred Years Of Harmful Error: The Historical Jurisprudence Of Medical Malpractice, Theodore Silver Jan 1992

One Hundred Years Of Harmful Error: The Historical Jurisprudence Of Medical Malpractice, Theodore Silver

Scholarly Works

In this Article, Professor Silver examines the origins of present-day malpractice law. He begins by noting that negligence and medical malpractice as the common law now knows them made their debut in the nineteenth century although their roots lie deep in the turf of trespass and assumpsit. He argues, however, that toward the turn of the century several episodes of linguistic laziness purported to produce a separation between negligence and medical malpractice so that the two fields are conventionally thought to rest on separate doctrinal foundations. According to Professor Silver, historically based scrutiny of medical malpractice and its ties to …


Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller Jan 1992

Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller

Publications

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The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen Jan 1992

The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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Law, Order And Democracy: An Analysis Of The Judiciary In A Progressive State--The Saskatchewan Experience, David S. Cohen Jan 1992

Law, Order And Democracy: An Analysis Of The Judiciary In A Progressive State--The Saskatchewan Experience, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Current legal debates on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada have focused on the apparent shift in the location of power from elected representatives to the judiciary since 1982. In this paper, I take an historical perspective on that issue. I will explore the relationship of political power, as exercised by the judiciary through the interpretation of legislation, with concepts of parliamentary supremacy in Saskatchewan during the fist half of this century.

The paper first describes the political character of the judiciary in Saskatchewan from 1905 until 1941, and then describes the political movements which gave rise to …


Autopoiesis And Justice, Michel Rosenfeld Jan 1992

Autopoiesis And Justice, Michel Rosenfeld

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Autopoiesis And Positivism, Richard H. Weisberg Jan 1992

Autopoiesis And Positivism, Richard H. Weisberg

Articles

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A Mirror For The Magistrate, Paul Campos Jan 1992

A Mirror For The Magistrate, Paul Campos

Publications

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The Paradox Of Punishment, Paul Campos Jan 1992

The Paradox Of Punishment, Paul Campos

Publications

Retribution demands reciprocity. In this Essay, Professor Campos contends that classic retributive theory encounters a logical paradox when it attempts to equalize the status of criminal and victim through the institution of punishment. This paradox arises out of a clash between the deontological requirements of equality and justice. He concludes by speculating on the historical relationship between rationalist justifications for vengeance and the elimination of punishment as public spectacle.


Writing For Judges, Pierre Schlag Jan 1992

Writing For Judges, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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Tort Law As A Comparative Institution, Claire Oakes Finkelstein Jan 1992

Tort Law As A Comparative Institution, Claire Oakes Finkelstein

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The Idea Of A Legal Unconscious, Arthur J. Jacobson Jan 1992

The Idea Of A Legal Unconscious, Arthur J. Jacobson

Articles

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Timeless Rules: Can Normative Closure And Legal Indetermincy Be Reconciled?, Charles M. Yablon Jan 1992

Timeless Rules: Can Normative Closure And Legal Indetermincy Be Reconciled?, Charles M. Yablon

Articles

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