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Judicial Election Questions Left Unanswered By Justices, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1988

Judicial Election Questions Left Unanswered By Justices, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Pro-Lifers Should Appeal To Constitution's Heart, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Pro-Lifers Should Appeal To Constitution's Heart, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence,, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence,, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”


Is '88 Supreme Court Election Permissible Under Pa. Law?, Bruce Ledewitz May 1988

Is '88 Supreme Court Election Permissible Under Pa. Law?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 1988

Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Is The Death Penalty Good For Us?, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1988

Is The Death Penalty Good For Us?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


To Do Justice Between Man And Man, (Tribute To Judge Robert Taylor), Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1988

To Do Justice Between Man And Man, (Tribute To Judge Robert Taylor), Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Social Control: Analytical Tool Or Analytical Quagmire?, Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Dorothy E. Chunn Jan 1988

Social Control: Analytical Tool Or Analytical Quagmire?, Shelley A. M. Gavigan, Dorothy E. Chunn

Articles & Book Chapters

There is probably no concept which is used more widely and with less precision than that of 'social control'. Given the lack of agreement about what 'social control' is, researchers usually employ the term in one of two ways. Either they assume that its meaning is obvious and requires no clarification, or, they begin with a perfunctory acknowledgment of the definitional problems associated with the concept and proceed to use it anyway. The eclecticism of the latter approach has stimulated attempts over the years to produce a universally applicable definition of 'social control' that could be empioyed both systematically and …


The Dialogue Of Heart And Head, Lynne N. Henderson Jan 1988

The Dialogue Of Heart And Head, Lynne N. Henderson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Holmes And Brandeis: Libertarian And Republican Justifications For Free Speech, Pnina Lahav Jan 1988

Holmes And Brandeis: Libertarian And Republican Justifications For Free Speech, Pnina Lahav

Faculty Scholarship

Writing The Name of the Rose, observed Umberto Eco, made him aware of the "echoes of intertextuality." He discovered what "Homer, Rabelais and Cervantes have always known: . . .books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told."' The same applies to political and legal theories: they weave the past into the present. Thus, in articulating justifications for freedom of speech, one may look to modern works such as Milton or John Stuart Mill, or one may reach farther back to Aristotle, Plato or Pericles. The choice of intellectual sources as …


The Rule Of Recognition And The Constitution, Kent Greenawalt Jan 1988

The Rule Of Recognition And The Constitution, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

This essay is about ultimate standards of law in the United States. Not surprisingly, our federal Constitution figures prominently in any account of our ultimate standards of law, and a discussion of its place is an apt jurisprudential endeavor for the bicentennial of the constitutional convention. Although in passing I offer some comments on constitutional principles, this essay is not about how the Constitution, or indeed other legal materials, should be understood and interpreted. Rather, it attempts to discern the jurisprudential implications of widespread practices involving the Constitution and other standards of law.