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The Never-Ending Struggle For Reproductive Rights, Stephanie Toti
The Never-Ending Struggle For Reproductive Rights, Stephanie Toti
Michigan Law Review
For me, the annual Book Review issue is a time for reflection. It provides an opportunity to take stock of scholarly trends, reassess conventional wisdom, and gather new insights to apply to the practice of law. The reviews contained in this year’s issue address a wide range of subjects, including the history of public defenders, the use of bigotry rhetoric in conflicts over marriage and civil rights law, the role of cost-benefit analysis in federal policymaking, and racial inequities in tax policy. This impressive commentary on an astute and varied collection of books about the law will inspire many of …
Some Effects Of Identity-Based Social Movements On Constitutional Law In The Twentieth Century, William N. Eskridge Jr.
Some Effects Of Identity-Based Social Movements On Constitutional Law In The Twentieth Century, William N. Eskridge Jr.
Michigan Law Review
What motivated big changes in constitutional law doctrine during the twentieth century? Rarely did important constitutional doctrine or theory change because of formal amendments to the document's text, and rarer still because scholars or judges "discovered" new information about the Constitution's original meaning. Precedent and common law reasoning were the mechanisms by which changes occurred rather than their driving force. My thesis is that most twentieth century changes in the constitutional protection of individual rights were driven by or in response to the great identity-based social movements ("IBSMs") of the twentieth century. Race, sex, and sexual orientation were markers of …
The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Davis
The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Davis
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. by David J. Garrow
A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin
A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer
"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer
Michigan Law Review
In a prior article, I addressed the problem of extraterritorial abortions under the assumption that the federal constitutional right of reproductive choice would be repudiated by the Supreme Court on Justice Scalia's theory that such rights lack sufficiently deep roots in the history and traditions surrounding the framing of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. I argued there that a constitutional methodology that relied on traditions and expectations of the Framers would provide a strong basis for concluding that the Constitution imposes severe limits on states' power to project their moralities extraterritorially. If Justice Scalia is serious about a regard …
Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman
Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman
Michigan Law Review
This colloquy was organized around the unpleasant hypothesis that the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade and that Congress would not fill the resulting void with federal legislation. The abortion debate would then move to the states, where local majorities could enact their own resolutions. If the local majorities were large enough, they could even write their local resolutions into their state constitutions. The contrasting state constitutions that could result might then replicate the comparativists' current juxtaposition between the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of Germany and Ireland. In some states, prohibition of abortion would be constitutionally required, while …
Abortion And The Law: A Problem Without A Solution?, Robert F. Drinan S.J.
Abortion And The Law: A Problem Without A Solution?, Robert F. Drinan S.J.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by Laurence H. Tribe
The Law Giveth…Legal Aspects Of The Abortion Controversy, Michigan Law Review
The Law Giveth…Legal Aspects Of The Abortion Controversy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Law Giveth…Legal Aspects of the Abortion Controversy by Barbara Milbauer
Abortion, Politics, And The Courts: Roe V. Wade And Its Aftermath, Michigan Law Review
Abortion, Politics, And The Courts: Roe V. Wade And Its Aftermath, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Abortion, Politics, and the Courts: Roe v. Wade and Its Aftermath by Eva R. Rubin
Roe V. Wade And The Lesson Of The Pre-Roe Case Law, Richard Gregory Morgan
Roe V. Wade And The Lesson Of The Pre-Roe Case Law, Richard Gregory Morgan
Michigan Law Review
The politically unsettled and judicially confused law of abortion in 1971 and 1972, when the Court twice heard arguments and deliberated Roe, should have warned it not to decide the case. By doing so; the Court thrust itself into a political debate and stunted the development of a thoughtful lower-court case law. If the Court did perceive the warnings but continued toward a decision anyway, perhaps trusting that its own considerable wits would devise an answer the lower courts had not, the result suggests that the judicial system's axioms deserve more respect than they received. This Article, by showing …