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The Trajectory Of (Corporate Law) Scholarship, Brian R. Cheffins

ExpressO

While considerable attention is devoted to legal scholarship, little has been written on the process by which academic writing on law evolves. This paper departs from the existing pattern and examines five potential trajectories for legal scholarship. One is based on the idea that knowledge “accumulates” as part of “progress” towards a better understanding of the matters under study. The second is the concept of the “paradigm”, derived from work done on the history and sociology of science. The third focuses on the idea that academic endeavor concerning law yields useful ideas since market forces are at work. The fourth …

A Era Pós-Napster, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

O artigo analisa questões referentes à divugação não autorizada de obras artísticas pela internet e os problemas enfrentados pela indústria fonográfica, contrastando o direito ao acesso à informação, controle e seu papel fundamental na construção de uma democracia. The article examines issues relating to unauthorized disclosure of artistic works on the Internet and the problems faced by the music industry, opposed by the access to information rights, control and its fundamental role in the building of a democracy.

Controle Judicial Das Medidas Provisórias, Ivo T. Gico

Ivo Teixeira Gico Jr.

Neste artigo, o autor analisa os pressupostos constitucionais do controle abstrato de medidas provisórias quanto aos seus requisitos de necessidade, utilidade e conveniência de sua edição, confrontando a execução de políticas públicas com as prerrogativas do Estado de Direito.

In this article, the author examines the Provisional Executive Acts abstract constitutional control assumptions in their necessity, utility and convenience editing requirements, confronting the execution of public policies with the State of Law prerogatives.

As I Was Saying....A Selection Of Lectures And Informal Talks On Law And Universities And The Communities That Usually Tolerate And Sometimes Support Them, William Burnett Harvey

Historic Documents

A 349 page collection of talks and recollections compiled by former Indiana University School of Law Dean, William Burnett Harvey. The collection is broken down into four parts: Reflections on the Rule of Law, The African Experience, Reflections on Education, Universities and Law, and Miscellaneous Musings.

Two appendixes are included. The first is a bibliography, and the second is two narrative accounts of Harvey's time in Ghana and his final years at Indiana University during the turbulent 1960s.

Idea Of A Law School, Charles S. Desmond

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Address To Graduating Class January, 1949, D. Gordon Baker

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.