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Section 9: The Court And Politics, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
Section 9: The Court And Politics, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School
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Court-Gazing, Stephen F. Williams
Court-Gazing, Stephen F. Williams
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court by David G. Savage and Deciding To Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court by H.W. Perry, Jr.
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
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The apex of American legal thought is embodied in two types of writings: the federal appellate opinion and the law review article. In this Article, the author criticizes the whole enterprise of doctrinal constitutional law scholarship, using a recent U.S. Supreme Court case and a Harvard Law Review article as quintessential examples of the dominant genre. In a rhetorical tour de force, the author argues that most of modern constitutional scholarship is really advocacy in the guise of scholarship. Such an approach to legal scholarship may have some merit as a strategic move towards a political end; however, it has …
Silence And The Word, Paul Campos