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Patron Expectations About Collocation: Measuring The Difference Between The Psychologically Real And The Really Real, James M. Donovan
Patron Expectations About Collocation: Measuring The Difference Between The Psychologically Real And The Really Real, James M. Donovan
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Library patrons have innate expectations about how documents should be arranged. Useful classification schemes are those which conform to these expectations and are thereby psychologically comfortable. All schemes necessarily deviate from these expectations, but not to the same degree. The greater the divergence from this mental standard within a scheme, the greater the psychological discomfort the patron will experience and the less useful the patron will find it. Using as an example the discipline of anthropology, this article develops a measure of the deviation of library classifications from collocation in mental space.
Book Review | Adding Commercial Fundamentals, Terms And Transactions To Contract And Commercial Law, Harold R. Weinberg
Book Review | Adding Commercial Fundamentals, Terms And Transactions To Contract And Commercial Law, Harold R. Weinberg
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Book review of the following two resources: (a) John F. Dolan, Fundamentals of Commercial Activity: A Lawyer’s Guide (1991) and (b) John F. Dolan, Uniform Commercial Code: Terms and Transactions in Commercial Law (1991).
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
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Possibly the most unsettling phenomenon in the Supreme Court's 1988 term was Justice White's decision to vote contrary to his own exhaustively stated reasoning in Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co. His unexplained decision to vote against the result of his own analysis lends support to those who argue that law, or at least constitutional law, is fundamentally indeterminate. Proponents of the indeterminacy argument sometimes base their position on the allegedly inescapable inconsistency of decisions made by a multi-member court. There is an answer to the inconsistency argument, but it founders if justices sometimes vote, without explanation, on the basis of …
Confessions Of An Ethics Chairman, Richard H. Underwood
Confessions Of An Ethics Chairman, Richard H. Underwood
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This article responds to the critics of state bar ethics committees. Indirectly, it raises some questions about the need, or at least the extent of the need, for yet another law-related cottage industry (the for hire legal ethics consultant). It also provides some friendly advice for those well-meaning types in every jurisdiction who are perennially "reforming" or "energizing" their bar associations and demanding for the "membership" a dazzling new array of services. It discusses practical problems that have gone unmentioned in the limited literature, just as it takes issue with many of the assertions that have been made in that …