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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Critical Approach To Section 1983 With Special Attention To Sources Of Law, Jack M. Beermann
A Critical Approach To Section 1983 With Special Attention To Sources Of Law, Jack M. Beermann
Faculty Scholarship
The Civil Rights Act of 18711 ("§ 1983") establishes a tort-like remedy for persons deprived of federally protected rights "under color of law."'2 While the statute's broad language provides a remedy for violations of federal constitutional and statutory rights, the statute itself provides little or no guidance regarding important subjects such as the measure of damages, the availability of punitive damages, the requirements for equitable relief, the statute of limitations, survival of claims, proper parties, and immunities from suit.3...
...The first part of this article examines the narrowly "legal" analysis of § 1983 in the cases …
Interpreting An Unwritten Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda
Interpreting An Unwritten Constitution, Ronald D. Rotunda
Law Faculty Articles and Research
No abstract provided.
Bad Judicial Activism And Liberal Federal-Courts Doctrine: A Comment On Professor Doernberg And Professor Redish, Jack M. Beermann
Bad Judicial Activism And Liberal Federal-Courts Doctrine: A Comment On Professor Doernberg And Professor Redish, Jack M. Beermann
Faculty Scholarship
JUDUCIAL ACTIVISM IS often portrayed as a liberal vice. This perception is wrong both historically and, as Professor Redish argues, 3 currently as well. The federal judiciary has been and still is an activist institution, working with both substantive law and jurisdictional rules to achieve its own policy goals. It has done this in statutory, constitutional, and common-law matters. Specifically, the Supreme Court of the United States has actively-shaped the jurisdiction of the federal courts in a restrictive and generally conservative manner.
Professors Doernberg4 and Redish attack this last form of activism by the federal courts, activism in shaping …
Taking The Framers Seriously, William Michael Treanor
Taking The Framers Seriously, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article reviews Taking the Constitution Seriously by Walter Berns (1987).
This review focuses on three of the key historical points that Walter Berns makes: his arguments that the Declaration of Independence is a Lockean document; that the Constitution encapsulates the political philosophy of the Declaration; and that the framers viewed the commercialization of society as a salutary development and were unambivalent champions of the right to property. Examination of these issues suggests that the ideological universe of the framers was far more complex than Berns indicates. While the revolutionary era witnessed a new concern with individual rights and a …
Memorandum Regarding Judicial Philosophy Of Robert Bork [1987], Anonymous
Memorandum Regarding Judicial Philosophy Of Robert Bork [1987], Anonymous
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Memorandum Concerning Robert Bork [1987], Anonymous
Memorandum Concerning Robert Bork [1987], Anonymous
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Memo From Peter J. Wallison To President Reagan Regarding Rehnquist And Scalia [1986], Peter J. Wallison
Memo From Peter J. Wallison To President Reagan Regarding Rehnquist And Scalia [1986], Peter J. Wallison
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Letter From Peter J. Wallison To President Reagan Regarding Questions To Ask Rehnquist And Scalia [1986], Peter J. Wallison
Letter From Peter J. Wallison To President Reagan Regarding Questions To Ask Rehnquist And Scalia [1986], Peter J. Wallison
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Raul Memorandum Regarding Antonin Scalia, Alan Charles Raul
Raul Memorandum Regarding Antonin Scalia, Alan Charles Raul
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Biographical Information Regarding Anthony Kennedy From White House Supreme Court Nominee Binder, Anonymous
Biographical Information Regarding Anthony Kennedy From White House Supreme Court Nominee Binder, Anonymous
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Memorandum Regarding Robert Bork As A Possible Supreme Court Nominee [1986], Anonymous
Memorandum Regarding Robert Bork As A Possible Supreme Court Nominee [1986], Anonymous
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Comment On Professor Van Alstyne's Paper, Henry P. Monaghan
Comment On Professor Van Alstyne's Paper, Henry P. Monaghan
Faculty Scholarship
My major difficulty with Professor Van Alstyne's paper is its incomplete character. In the end, he makes only two points: first, judges are authorized to apply "this Constitution," not to do justice; and second, judges should not lie about what they are doing. The danger is that after a while the first point sounds somewhat empty, while the actual content of the second point seems entirely parasitic on the first.
Buchanan Letter Regarding Supreme Court July 1985, Patrick J. Buchanan
Buchanan Letter Regarding Supreme Court July 1985, Patrick J. Buchanan
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
The Supreme Court And The Constitution: The Continuing Debate On Judicial Review, Donald P. Kommers
The Supreme Court And The Constitution: The Continuing Debate On Judicial Review, Donald P. Kommers
Journal Articles
The three books reviewed in this essay are recent contributions to the growing literature of constitutional theory (Michael J. Perry, The Constitution, the Courts, and Human Rights (New Ha- ven: Yale University Press, 1982); Sotirios A. Barber, On What the Constitution Means (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984); and John Agresto, The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984). They explore important questions about the role of the Supreme Court and the meaning of the Constitution.
The Intellectual Development Of The American Doctrine Of Judicial Review, Pnina Lahav
The Intellectual Development Of The American Doctrine Of Judicial Review, Pnina Lahav
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Error Correction, Lawmaking, And The Supreme Court’S Exercise Of Discretionary Review, Arthur D. Hellman
Error Correction, Lawmaking, And The Supreme Court’S Exercise Of Discretionary Review, Arthur D. Hellman
Articles
Controversies involving the United States Supreme Court generally center on the content of Court’s decisions, but in recent years, much attention has focused on the Court’s processes – in particular, two very different aspects of the Court’s modes of doing business. At one end of the spectrum, the number of cases receiving plenary consideration – full briefing, oral argument, and (almost invariably) a signed opinion – has shrunk to levels lower than any since the Civil War. At the other end, the Court has effectively resolved many high-profile disputes through unexplained orders granting or denying emergency relief in cases in …
Book Review: Earl Warren: A Public Life, By G. Edward White, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Book Review: Earl Warren: A Public Life, By G. Edward White, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen
Nineteenth Century Interpretations Of The Federal Contract Clause: The Transformation From Vested To Substantive Rights Against The State , James L. Kainen
Faculty Scholarship
During the early nineteenth century, the contract clause served as the fundamental source of federally protected rights against the state. Yet the Supreme Court gradually eased many of the restrictions on state power enforced in the contract clause cases while developing the doctrine of substantive due process after the Civil War. By the end of the nineteenth century, the due process clause had usurped the place of the contract clause as the centerpiece in litigation about individual rights. Most analyses of the history of federally protected rights against the state have emphasized the rise of substantive due process to the …
Memorandum Regarding Selection Of Sandra Day O'Connor As Supreme Court Nominee, William French Smith
Memorandum Regarding Selection Of Sandra Day O'Connor As Supreme Court Nominee, William French Smith
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Short List Of Candidates For Supreme Court [1981], Anonymous
Short List Of Candidates For Supreme Court [1981], Anonymous
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Democracy And Distrust: A Theory Of Judicial Review, Gerard E. Lynch
Democracy And Distrust: A Theory Of Judicial Review, Gerard E. Lynch
Faculty Scholarship
John Hart Ely's Democracy and Distrust is an ambitious attempt to create a new theory of judicial review, breaking away from both "interpretivism" and "noninterpretivism" – a division Professor Ely regards as a "false dichotomy" (p. vii). The book is brilliant and provocative, so much so that one fears less that its faults will be obscured – there is little danger that polemic critics will fail to pounce on them – than that the flash of Professor Ely's reasoning and the controversy it generates will distract us from the genuine importance of the insight that powers his analysis.
Memoranda, Etc., For/By Justice Harry Blackmun Re: Smith V. Maryland, Harry Blackmun
Memoranda, Etc., For/By Justice Harry Blackmun Re: Smith V. Maryland, Harry Blackmun
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
The Business Of The Supreme Court Under The Judiciary Act Of 1925: The Plenary Docket In The 1970'S, Arthur D. Hellman
The Business Of The Supreme Court Under The Judiciary Act Of 1925: The Plenary Docket In The 1970'S, Arthur D. Hellman
Articles
During the last decade, the Supreme Court has been deciding 65 to 70 cases a Term after oral argument. That represents a sharp decline from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the Burger Court, when the Court was deciding about 150 cases a Term. The Burger Court’s docket, in turn, reflected a shift from the 1960s, when the docket was smaller. In short, what is “normal” for the plenary docket varies from one era to another. The period of the Burger Court retains a special interest in that regard because that was the only period after World War II …
Florida's Legislative Response To Furman: An Exercise In Futility?, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Harold Levinson
Florida's Legislative Response To Furman: An Exercise In Futility?, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Harold Levinson
Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
The Future Of Capital Punishment In Florida: Analysis And Recommendations, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Phillip A. Hubbart, Harold Levinson, William Mckinley Smiley, Thomas A. Wills
The Future Of Capital Punishment In Florida: Analysis And Recommendations, Charles W. Ehrhardt, Phillip A. Hubbart, Harold Levinson, William Mckinley Smiley, Thomas A. Wills
Scholarly Publications
The Supreme Court's decision abolishing the death penalty, at least as it existed in most jurisdictions, hardly represents the final resolution of the controversy over capital punishment. Given substantial public sentiment which apparently favors capital punishment in some form-voiced, for example, in the results of the recent referendum in California-various legislative bodies will face the question of whether capital punishment can and should be legislatively reinstated. In December 1972 the State of Florida became the first jurisdiction to pass judgment on this question. The legislature enacted a bill allowing imposition of the death penalty in certain circumstances. The two articles …
Searching For The Intent Of The Framers Of Fourteenth Amendment , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Searching For The Intent Of The Framers Of Fourteenth Amendment , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
IN 1946 JUSTICE HUGO BLACK DECLARED that one of the objects of the fourteenth amendment was to apply the Bill of Rights to the States. He was confident that an analysis of the intent of the framers of the amendment would support his assertion. A few years later the Supreme Court requested such an investigation, but when the analysis was made and the results presented to it, the Supreme Court concluded that the framers' intent could not be determined. The uncertainty surrounding the intent of the framers of the fourteenth amendment has had profound implications on the application of that …
Memorandum From William O. Douglas To Law Clerks Regarding Death Penalty [1971], William O. Douglas
Memorandum From William O. Douglas To Law Clerks Regarding Death Penalty [1971], William O. Douglas
Historical and Topical Legal Documents
No abstract provided.
Foreword: Waiver Of Constitutional Rights: Disquiet In The Citadel, Michael E. Tigar
Foreword: Waiver Of Constitutional Rights: Disquiet In The Citadel, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
Foreword to Harvard Law Review review of Supreme Court 1969 Term
Book Review, William W. Van Alstyne
Book Review, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Scholarship
This review champions the editor’s use of Mr. Justice Black’s own opinions in showcasing his emphasis of the emancipating aspects of the Constitution. This work cautions the reader to avoid relying on this compilation as an accurate depiction of the state of the law, especially considering that most of the included opinions are dissents.