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Harry Potter And The Half-Crazed Bureaucracy, Benjamin H. Barton May 2006

Harry Potter And The Half-Crazed Bureaucracy, Benjamin H. Barton

Michigan Law Review

What would you think of a government that engaged in this list of tyrannical activities: tortured children for lying; designed its prison specifically to suck all life and hope out of the inmates; placed citizens in that prison without a hearing; ordered the death penalty without a trial; allowed the powerful, rich, or famous to control policy; selectively prosecuted crimes (the powerful. go unpunished and the unpopular face trumped-up charges); conducted criminal trials without defense counsel; used truth serum to force confessions; maintained constant surveillance over all citizens; offered no elections and no democratic lawmaking process; and controlled the press? …


Howe: Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence Of Mr. Justice Holmes And Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935, John C. H. Wu Apr 1953

Howe: Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence Of Mr. Justice Holmes And Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935, John C. H. Wu

Michigan Law Review

A Review of HOLMES-LASKI LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. JUSTICE HOLMES AND HAROLD J. LASKI, 1916-1935. Edited by Mark DeWolfe Howe.


Horsky: The Washington Lawyer, Richard D. Rohr Jan 1953

Horsky: The Washington Lawyer, Richard D. Rohr

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE WASHINGTON LAWYER. By Charles A. Horsky.


Soviet Civil Law: A Review, Roscoe Pound Nov 1951

Soviet Civil Law: A Review, Roscoe Pound

Michigan Law Review

Here is an excellent and much needed book. Although the enthusiastic wishful thinking about things Russian, fashionable not so long ago, has for the most part abated, the rise of a new social and economic order on a great scale must call for careful study by lawyers and law-makers no less than by historians and economists and students of politics. Now that a generation has been at work constructively since the destructive era of militant communism after the revolution, we need accurate and objectively presented and interpreted information as to how the administration of justice goes on under "the dictatorship …


Powell: Real Property, Allan F. Smith Dec 1950

Powell: Real Property, Allan F. Smith

Michigan Law Review

A Review of REAL PROPERTY. Vol. 1. By Richard R. Powell.


Dulles: War Or Peace, Michigan Law Review Jun 1950

Dulles: War Or Peace, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of WAR OR PEACE. By John Foster Dulles.


Tourtellot: An Anatomy Of American Politics, Michigan Law Review Jun 1950

Tourtellot: An Anatomy Of American Politics, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of AN ANATOMY OF AMERICAN POLITICS. By Arthur Bernon Tourtellot.


Lilienthal: This I Do Believe, Michigan Law Review Mar 1950

Lilienthal: This I Do Believe, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THIS I DO BELIEVE. By David E. Lilienthal.


The Struggle For Democracy In Germany, Michigan Law Review Jun 1949

The Struggle For Democracy In Germany, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY. Edited by Gabriel A. Almond.


Pashukanis And Vyshinsky: A Study In The Development Of Marxian Legal Theory, Lon L. Fuller Jun 1949

Pashukanis And Vyshinsky: A Study In The Development Of Marxian Legal Theory, Lon L. Fuller

Michigan Law Review

Reading Andrei Y. Vyshinsky's The Law of the Soviet Union ought to be a stimulating and rewarding experience. It is an exposition. of Soviet legal philosophy and of the theory and practice of Soviet public or "state" law. Throughout it purports to compare the premises that underlie Soviet law with those on which ''bourgeois" legal systems are based. Vyshinsky, a famous world figure and the present minister for foreign affairs of the U.S.S.R., wrote part of the book and supervised compiliation of the remainder. The decision of the American Council of Learned Societies to sponsor a translation of the work …


Public Opinion And Foreign Policy, Michigan Law Review Jun 1949

Public Opinion And Foreign Policy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of PUBLIC OPINION AND FOREIGN POLICY Edited by Lester Markel.


Weigert, Stefansson And Harrison: New Compass Of The World, Michigan Law Review Apr 1949

Weigert, Stefansson And Harrison: New Compass Of The World, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of NEW COMPASS OF THE WORLD. Edited by Hans W. Weigert, Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Richard E. Harrison.


Recent Books, Michigan Law Review May 1948

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department undertakes to note or review briefly current books on law and matters closely related thereto.


Ginzberg: The Labor Leader, Michigan Law Review Apr 1948

Ginzberg: The Labor Leader, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE LABOR LEADER, By Eli Ginzberg.


Lehman: Thomas Jefferson, American Humanist, Michigan Law Review Apr 1948

Lehman: Thomas Jefferson, American Humanist, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THOMAS JEFFERSON, AMERICAN HUMANIST. By Karl Lehman


Thomas: Portrait For Posterity, Michigan Law Review Mar 1948

Thomas: Portrait For Posterity, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of PORTRAIT FOR POSTERITY. By Benjamin P. Thomas.


Doan: The La Follettes And The Wisconsin Idea, Michigan Law Review Mar 1948

Doan: The La Follettes And The Wisconsin Idea, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE LA FOLLETTES AND THE WISCONSIN IDEA By Edward N. Doan.


Finer: America's Destiny, Michigan Law Review Feb 1948

Finer: America's Destiny, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of AMERICA'S DESTINY. By Herman Finer.


Patterson: Presidential Government In The United States. The Unwritten Constitution, Michigan Law Review Jan 1948

Patterson: Presidential Government In The United States. The Unwritten Constitution, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of PRESIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. THE UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION. By C. Perry Patterson


Ewing: Congressional Elections 1896-1944, Michigan Law Review Dec 1947

Ewing: Congressional Elections 1896-1944, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS 1896-1944. Cortez A. M. Ewing.


Jessup: The International Problem Of Governing Mankind, John E. Grosboll S.Ed. Nov 1947

Jessup: The International Problem Of Governing Mankind, John E. Grosboll S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM OF GOVERNING MANKIND. Phillip C. Jessup.


Spotlight On Congress: A Review Of Six Recent Books, John W. Lederle Feb 1946

Spotlight On Congress: A Review Of Six Recent Books, John W. Lederle

Michigan Law Review

Many books on Congress have appeared recently. Perhaps no period in our history has seen the printing of as many books bearing on Congress. This review is directed to a consideration of six of these which have come out during the last three years. Some of these volumes are broader in scope and deal with other topics than Congress. It will be appreciated that this review is restricted to the subject matter dealing with the legislative branch of government.


Niemeyer On Law Without Force, Josef L. Kunz Jun 1941

Niemeyer On Law Without Force, Josef L. Kunz

Michigan Law Review

Whereas Lauterpacht tried to determine the function of law in the international community, Niemeyer investigates the function of politics in international law. His book is on politics, but it is theoretical in its treatment and not political. The book not only represents an ambitious work, but is certainly interesting and stimulating. As to his ideas, Niemeyer derives from Herman Heller, to whom the book is dedicated. Heller's theory of the States is not a legal, but a sociological, a functional theory of the modern, occidental State as it developed since the Renaissance, a theory which stands halfway between Kelsen's "pure …


Review: The Public And Its Government. By Professor Felix Frankfurter, Forrest Revere Black Mar 1931

Review: The Public And Its Government. By Professor Felix Frankfurter, Forrest Revere Black

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE PUBLIC AND ITS GOVERNMENT By Professor Felix Frankfurter.


Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law Nov 1930

Review: Edward Coke, Oracle Of The Law

Michigan Law Review

A Review of EDWARD COKE, ORACLE OF THE LAW By Hastings Lyon and Herman Block.