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Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai
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The essay strives for a better understanding of the myths, symbols, categories of power, and images deployed by the Supreme Court to signal how we ought to think about its authority. Taking examples from free speech jurisprudence, the essay proceeds in three steps. First, Tsai argues that the First Amendment constitutes a deep source of cultural authority for the Court. As a result, linguistic and doctrinal innovation in the free speech area have been at least as bold and imaginative as that in areas like the Commerce Clause. Second, in turning to cognitive theory, he distinguishes between formal legal argumentation …
Earned Sovereignty: Bridging The Gap Between Sovereignty And Self-Determination, Paul Williams
Earned Sovereignty: Bridging The Gap Between Sovereignty And Self-Determination, Paul Williams
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In Bosnia, 250,000 civilians were killed and over one million displaced in a campaign of genocide carried out by Serbia in response to Bosnia's declaration of independence from the former Yugoslavia. ... Each case of earned sovereignty is characterized by an initial stage of shared sovereignty, whereby the state and substate entity may both exercise some sovereign authority and functions over a defined territory. ... Phased sovereignty entails the accumulation by the substate entity of increasing sovereign authority and functions over a specified period of time prior to the determination of final status. ... While Serbia and Montenegro, Northern Ireland, …
Connection, Capacity And Morality In Lawyer-Client Relationships: Dialogues And Commentary, Ann Shalleck, Robert Dinerstein, Stephen Ellmann, Isabelle Gunning
Connection, Capacity And Morality In Lawyer-Client Relationships: Dialogues And Commentary, Ann Shalleck, Robert Dinerstein, Stephen Ellmann, Isabelle Gunning
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As important, and difficult, as it is to offer new law students clear and helpful frameworks for the interpersonal work of lawyering, doing so is only part of what a clinical textbook may aspire to. In our textbook-in-progress, we hope to offer both frameworks and support for students' sense of the incompleteness of every framework and for their recognition of the need for careful, flexible response to each individual client. Even care and flexibility by themselves are not enough, however, and every text must choose which aspects of lawyer-client relationships it will emphasize most. In the sections that follow, we …