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Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Michigan Law Review
There are a number of good biographies of judges, but very few of individual legal academics; indeed, so far as American legal academics are concerned, the only one of note that comes to mind is William Twining's life of Karl Llewellyn. Llewellyn was, of course, a major figure in the evolution of American law, and his unusual life was a further advantage for his biographer. In this biography, Nicola Lace has taken as her subject an English academic who also had an unusual career, one whose contribution was principally not to the evolution of the English legal system but to …
Jus Non Scriptum And The Reliance Principle, Stanley L. Paulson
Jus Non Scriptum And The Reliance Principle, Stanley L. Paulson
Michigan Law Review
On the Continent, a general theory of customary law has been developed-what I term the Continental theory; it identifies formation and validity as the central issues in the analysis of custom and customary law. Yet the Continental theory, notwithstanding its longevity and continuing favorable reception among international lawyers, is ridden with problems. In particular, as I argue in the following section, the theory fails for want of a coherent position on the formation issue. In the course of my argument, I suggest a classification of the norms of customary law in terms of a generic category broader in scope than …
Wu: Fountain Of Justice, Thomas E. Davitt S.J.
Wu: Fountain Of Justice, Thomas E. Davitt S.J.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Fountain of Justice. By John C.H. Wu.
Custom As A Source Of English Law, E. K. Braybroolte,
Custom As A Source Of English Law, E. K. Braybroolte,
Michigan Law Review
When writers on jurisprudence assert that custom is a source of law their primary meaning seems to be that in any given case a course of conduct persisted in by all or most of the members of a society engenders a rule of law enjoining the continuance of that course of conduct. This, for example, appears to be the burden of Dr. C. K. Allen's discussion of custom in his Law in the Making. He sums up the operation of custom in this sphere by saying that "the thing done" (semble, by all or most members of …