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Holmes And Dissent, Allen P. Mendenhall Nov 2011

Holmes And Dissent, Allen P. Mendenhall

Allen Mendenhall

Holmes saw the dissent as a mechanism to advance and preserve arguments and as a pageant for wordplay. Dissents, for Holmes, occupied an interstitial space between law and non-law. The thought and theory of pragmatism allowed him to recreate the dissent as a stage for performative text, a place where signs and syntax could mimic the environment of the particular time and place and in so doing become, or strive to become, law. Holmes’s dissents were sites of aesthetic adaptation. The language of his dissents was acrobatic. It acted and reacted and called attention to itself. The more provocative and …


"A" Students Go To Court: Is Membership In The National Honor Society A Cognizable Legal Right?, Thomas A. Schweitzer Apr 2011

"A" Students Go To Court: Is Membership In The National Honor Society A Cognizable Legal Right?, Thomas A. Schweitzer

Thomas A. Schweitzer

No abstract provided.


Further Reflections On The Role Of Religion In Lawyering And In Life, Samuel J. Levine Feb 2011

Further Reflections On The Role Of Religion In Lawyering And In Life, Samuel J. Levine

Samuel J. Levine

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Further Reflections On The Role Of Religion In Lawyering And In Life, Samuel J. Levine Feb 2011

Further Reflections On The Role Of Religion In Lawyering And In Life, Samuel J. Levine

Samuel J. Levine

No abstract provided.