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Full-Text Articles in Law
On Critical Legal Studies As Guerilla Warfare, Guyora Binder
On Critical Legal Studies As Guerilla Warfare, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
This sardonic 1987 essay defended Critical Legal Studies (CLS) against alarmist attacks from the right, claiming that CLS was dangerously subversive of the rule of law, and seemingly contradictory attacks from the left dismissing CLS as empty theorizing lacking any practical implications for reform. The essay responded that while CLS lacked proposals for legislative reform, it favored a highly participatory process of reform, drawn from experience in the student movements of the 1960’s. It distrusted state power and bureaucracy as engines of change, and favored community organization, civil society, and popular mobilization.
The Evolution Of Law: Continued, Alan Watson
The Evolution Of Law: Continued, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
In my book The Evolution of Law I sought to give a general theory of legal evolution based on detailed legal examples from which generalizations could be drawn, offering as few examples as were consistent with my case in order to present as clear a picture as possible. I was well aware as I was writing that some critics would regard the examples as mere isolated aberrations and for them and for other readers who, whether convinced of the thesis or not, would like further evidence, I want here to bring forward a few extra significant examples.
The Costs Of Complexity, Stephen B. Burbank
The Costs Of Complexity, Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Rose By Any Other Word: Mutual Mistake In Sherwood V. Walker, Robert Birmingham
A Rose By Any Other Word: Mutual Mistake In Sherwood V. Walker, Robert Birmingham
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Securing Justice: A Response To William Bradford Reynolds, Michael A. Middleton
Securing Justice: A Response To William Bradford Reynolds, Michael A. Middleton
Faculty Publications
I doubt that William Bradford Reynolds would disagree that the self evident truths the Framers of the Declaration of Independence spoke about are as applicable today in the 1980's as they were over 200 years ago. I also doubt that Mr. Reynolds would disagree that despite the fact that black people were not considered human beings when the Constitution was framed, the fourteenth amendment to that great document was intended to bring them within the ambit of its protections. On these two basic propositions, I suspect, Mr. Reynolds and I would agree. Beyond that however, Mr. Reynolds advances a fundamentally …
Taking Liberties: Privacy, Private Choice, And Social Contract Theory, Anita L. Allen
Taking Liberties: Privacy, Private Choice, And Social Contract Theory, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Law And Morality: A Kantian Perspective, George P. Fletcher
Law And Morality: A Kantian Perspective, George P. Fletcher
Faculty Scholarship
The relationship between law and morality has emerged as the central question in the jurisprudential reflection of our time. Those who call themselves positivists hold with H.L.A. Hart that calling a statute or a judicial decision "law" need not carry any implications about the morality of that statute or decision. Valid laws might be immoral or unjust. Those who resist this reduction of law to valid enactments sometimes argue, with Lon Fuller, that moral acceptability is a necessary condition for holding that a statute is law; or, with Ronald Dworkin, that moral principles supplement valid enactments as components of the …
A Government By Judges: An Historical Re-View, Michael Henry Davis
A Government By Judges: An Historical Re-View, Michael Henry Davis
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In 1921, Edouard Lambert, a professor of law at Lyon specializing in comparative studies and founder of an Institute of Comparative Law there, published a book, Le Gouvernement des judges et la lutte contra la legislation sociale aux Etats-Unis, thus singlehandedly creating the phrase, a "government of judges", to denote a truly unconstrained system of judicial review which could not be limited even by constitutional amendment. The phrase quickly entered the parlance of French public law and even that of popular culture, deriving much of its force, no doubt, from the historical French aversion to a strong judiciary, eventually becoming …
Rationalism In Constitutional Law, Robert F. Nagel
Fish V. Zapp: The Case Of The Relatively Autonomous Self, Pierre Schlag
Fish V. Zapp: The Case Of The Relatively Autonomous Self, Pierre Schlag
Publications
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Book Review. Virtue, Commerce, And History: Essays On Political Thought And History, Chiefly In The Eighteenth Century By J.G.A. Pocock, Stephen A. Conrad
Book Review. Virtue, Commerce, And History: Essays On Political Thought And History, Chiefly In The Eighteenth Century By J.G.A. Pocock, Stephen A. Conrad
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Use Of Evolution Theory In Law, M. B. W. Sinclair
The Use Of Evolution Theory In Law, M. B. W. Sinclair
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Legality And Empathy, Lynne N. Henderson
Legality And Empathy, Lynne N. Henderson
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Adjudication Is Not Interpretation: Some Reservations About The Law-As-Literature Movement, Robin West
Adjudication Is Not Interpretation: Some Reservations About The Law-As-Literature Movement, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Among other achievements, the modern law-as-literature movement has prompted increasing numbers of legal scholars to embrace the claim that adjudication is interpretation, and more specifically, that constitutional adjudication is interpretation of the Constitution. That adjudication is interpretation -- that an adjudicative act is an interpretive act -- more than any other central commitment, unifies the otherwise diverse strands of the legal and constitutional theory of the late twentieth century.
In this article, I will argue in this article against both modern forms of interpretivism. The analogue of law to literature, on which much of modern interpretivism is based, although fruitful, …
On The Indeterminacy Crisis: Critiquing Critical Dogma, Lawrence B. Solum
On The Indeterminacy Crisis: Critiquing Critical Dogma, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Critical legal scholarship challenges the liberal claim that modern western societies are characterized by "the rule of law." The liberal conception of the rule of law, critical scholars contend, serves to mystify and legitimate the legal system and thereby obscure the real issues behind individual cases as well as the real nature of the legal system. Frequently, the claim that legal rules are indeterminate is the starting point for such a critique of the rule of law. What I call the indeterminacy thesis goes roughly like this: the existing body of legal doctrines-statutes, administrative regulations, and court decisions-permits a judge …
Do The United States Sentencing Guidelines Deprive Defendants Of Due Process?, Bradford Mank
Do The United States Sentencing Guidelines Deprive Defendants Of Due Process?, Bradford Mank
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
It is difficult to determine whether due process requires individualized sentencing because sentencing goals and practices have varied greatly during the course of this nation's history. A court applying Judge Bork's original intent doctrine of constitutional interpretation would probably reach a result different from that reached by a court employing a more liberal view of due process protections.1o It is likely that liberals and conservatives on the current Supreme Court would disagree on whether the Guidelines violate due process.
This article argues that the Guidelines can be saved and can satisfy due process requirements if the Supreme Court interprets the …
Dworkin And The Legal Process Tradition: The Legacy Of Hart & Sacks, Vincent A. Wellman
Dworkin And The Legal Process Tradition: The Legacy Of Hart & Sacks, Vincent A. Wellman
Law Faculty Research Publications
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Strict Constructionism And The Strike Zone, Douglas O. Linder
Strict Constructionism And The Strike Zone, Douglas O. Linder
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel
The Brilliant, The Curious, And The Wrong, Pierre Schlag
The Brilliant, The Curious, And The Wrong, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
On Reason And Authority In Law's Empire, John M. Finnis
On Reason And Authority In Law's Empire, John M. Finnis
Journal Articles
Law's Empire will shape jurisprudence by its admirably resourceful attention to understanding a community's law "internally". It promotes reflective understanding of the practical argumentation constitutive of the attitude(s) in which that law subsists. But the book neglects some of practical understanding's resources of political and moral theory, and overestimates practical reasoning's power to identify options as the best and the right)
The Activity Of Being A Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit Of Implications And Possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele
The Activity Of Being A Lawyer: The Imaginative Pursuit Of Implications And Possibilities, Thomas D. Eisele
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
If law as an activity emerged naively and unpremeditated, as a direction of attention pursued without premonition of what it would lead to, then by now it has hollowed out a character for itself, as Oakeshott says, and has become specified in a "practice." Having acquired this firmness of character, as Oakeshott further says, law may present itself as a puzzle, thus provoking reflection. Thinking about law in this manner or mood is something that I wish to call "philosophy of law," and this is itself an honorable activity with a character and mannerisms of its own.2 In law school, …
Rethinking The Rules Against Corporate Privacy Rights: Some Conceptual Quandries For The Common Law, Anita L. Allen
Rethinking The Rules Against Corporate Privacy Rights: Some Conceptual Quandries For The Common Law, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Legality And Empathy, Lynne Henderson
Critical Legal Studies: The Death Of Transcendence And The Rise Of The New Langdells, Joan C. Williams
Critical Legal Studies: The Death Of Transcendence And The Rise Of The New Langdells, Joan C. Williams
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Legal Fiction, James Boyle