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Toward A Rational Scheme Of Interstate Water Compact Adjudication, Joseph W. Girardot
Toward A Rational Scheme Of Interstate Water Compact Adjudication, Joseph W. Girardot
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note argues that the current method of resolving interstate water compact disputes is seriously flawed and that the current practice of invoking the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction to resolve these cases should be altered. This Note contends that the compact itself should contain structural dispute resolution procedures insisted upon by Congress before any grant of approval is given to the agreement. Part I of this Note examines the history of the compact clause of the Constitution and its application in interstate relations. Part II explores how a poorly drafted, yet fairly representative, water allocation compact led two states to …
Stories Of Origin And Constitutional Possibilities, Milner S. Ball
Stories Of Origin And Constitutional Possibilities, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
Robert Cover once observed how "[n]o set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture." Stories of origin locate law, invest it with legitimacy, and so lend it stability. As Cover went on to note, however, the narratives that legitimate a legal order also retain revolutionary force, for a return to the originating acts recounted in the narratives is always possible. A polity begun in revolution remains subject to revolution.
There is an American story of origins. It is …
Constitutional Conventions, Frederick Schauer
Constitutional Conventions, Frederick Schauer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Constitutional Law Second Edition, by Laurence H. Tribe
Philosophy, The Federalist, And The Constitution, Edward J. Sebold
Philosophy, The Federalist, And The Constitution, Edward J. Sebold
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution by Morton White
Outlaw Blues, Suzanna Sherry
Outlaw Blues, Suzanna Sherry
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Red, White, and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law by Mark Tushnet
Onward Constitutional Soldiers, Milner S. Ball
Onward Constitutional Soldiers, Milner S. Ball
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Constitutional Faith by Sanford Levinson
Ultra-Wrong About The "Ultra-Right", Terry Eastland
Ultra-Wrong About The "Ultra-Right", Terry Eastland
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Packing the Courts: The Conservative Campaign to Rewrite the Constitution by Herman Schwartz
Judicial Review And American Democracy, Stanley S. Sokul
Judicial Review And American Democracy, Stanley S. Sokul
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Judicial Review and American Democracy by Albert P. Melone and George Mace
Police-Obtained Evidence And The Constitution: Distinguishing Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence From Unconstitutionally Used Evidence, Arnold H. Loewy
Police-Obtained Evidence And The Constitution: Distinguishing Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence From Unconstitutionally Used Evidence, Arnold H. Loewy
Michigan Law Review
The article will consider four different types of police-obtained evidence: evidence obtained from an unconstitutional search and seizure, evidence obtained from a Miranda violation, confessions and lineup identifications obtained in violation of the sixth amendment right to counsel, and coerced confessions. My conclusions are that evidence obtained from an unconstitutional search and seizure is excluded because of the police misconduct by which it was obtained. On the other hand, evidence obtained from a Miranda violation is (or ought to be) excluded because use of that evidence compromises the defendant's procedural right not to be compelled to be a witness against …
Publish And Perish: Congress's Effort To Snip Snepp (Before And Afsa), Michael J. Glennon
Publish And Perish: Congress's Effort To Snip Snepp (Before And Afsa), Michael J. Glennon
Michigan Journal of International Law
Over three million present and former federal employees, of the Executive as well as the Congress, are parties to so-called "pre-publication review agreements," which require that they submit any writings on topics related to their employment for Executive review prior to publication. In Section 630 of the Omnibus Continuing Resolution for Fiscal Year 1988, Congress attempted to restrict the use of funds to implement or enforce certain of those agreements. On May 27, 1988, however, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, in American Foreign Service Association v. Garfinkel ("AFSA "), struck that section down, …
Patents And The Progress Of Science: Exclusive Rights And Experimental Use, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Patents And The Progress Of Science: Exclusive Rights And Experimental Use, Rebecca S. Eisenberg
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In this article I analyze the proper scope of an experimental use exemption from patent infringement liability by comparing the rationales behind promoting technological progress through granting exclusive patent rights in inventions with competing arguments for promoting scientific progress by allowing all investigators to enjoy free access to the discoveries of other scientists. I begin by reviewing key features of the patent laws and theoretical justifications for granting patent monopolies in order to clarify the implications of existing patent doctrine and theory for an experimental use exemption. I then look to the literature in the sociology, history, and philosophy of …
Models For A Gorbachev Constitution Of The U.S.S.R., John N. Hazard
Models For A Gorbachev Constitution Of The U.S.S.R., John N. Hazard
Michigan Journal of International Law
Western Sovietologists were startled when Secretary General Mikhail S. Gorbachev set his craftsmen to work in the Summer of 1988 to prepare a revised structure for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ("U.S.S.R."). While some hint of what was to come had been given by publications prior to the 19th Communist Party Conference, and while some of these appeared in the theses to be debated at the Conference, Westerners expected little more than a call from the tribune for change in attitudes. Basic State structures established by Leonid Brezhnev in his 1977 Constitution had not previously been questioned. Critics levelled …
Treaties In A Constitutional Democracy, Louis Henkin
Treaties In A Constitutional Democracy, Louis Henkin
Michigan Journal of International Law
This essay is an adaptation of one of the Cooley Lectures delivered at the University of Michigan Law School, Nov. 14-16, 1988, on the theme "Constitutionalism, Democracy and Foreign Affairs," due to be published by Columbia University Press in 1990.