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Reconceptualizing Criminal Law Defenses, Victoria Nourse
Reconceptualizing Criminal Law Defenses, Victoria Nourse
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 1933, one of the leading theorists of the criminal law, Jerome Michael, wrote openly of the criminal law "as an instrument of the state." Today, criminal law is largely allergic to claims of political theory; commentators obsess about theories of deterrence and retribution, and the technical details of model codes and sentencing grids, but rarely speak of institutional effects or political commitments. In this article, the author aims to change that emphasis and to examine the criminal law as a tool for governance. Her approach is explicitly constructive: it accepts the criminal law that we have, places it in …
Rex E. Lee Conference On The Office Of The Solicitor General Of The United States: Panel For Former Solicitors General, Seth P. Waxman, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Kenneth W. Starr, Charles Fried, Drew S. Days Iii
Rex E. Lee Conference On The Office Of The Solicitor General Of The United States: Panel For Former Solicitors General, Seth P. Waxman, Walter E. Dellinger Iii, Kenneth W. Starr, Charles Fried, Drew S. Days Iii
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
I agree entirely that the chain of command is clear and that the Framers managed to make it all the way through all the articles of the Constitution without even conceiving of a solicitor general, let alone bothering to mention an attorney general. It is important nonetheless to distinguish between those things the solicitor general does pursuant to the longstanding notice-and-comment regulation, and the other things a solicitor general may do pursuant to his (and, someday, her!) statutory obligation to be of general assistance to the attorney general.
Civil Rights And Civil Liberties: Whose “Rule Of Law”?, William W. Van Alstyne
Civil Rights And Civil Liberties: Whose “Rule Of Law”?, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Traditional Equity And Contemporary Procedure, Thomas O. Main
Traditional Equity And Contemporary Procedure, Thomas O. Main
Scholarly Works
This Article offers extensive background on the development and eventual merger of the regimes of law and equity, and suggests that the procedural infrastructure of a unified system must be sufficiently elastic to accommodate the traditional jurisdiction of equity. As the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure become increasingly more elaborate and technical, strict application of those procedural rules can generate mischievous results and hardship. This Article suggests that equity remains a source of authority for district judges to avoid the application of a procedural rule when technical compliance would produce an inequitable result. A separate system of equity provided a …
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Scholarly Works
This concise book explores the origins and early history of the Cook County Juvenile Court, the world’s first such court. The court, which opened on July 3, 1899, in Chicago, reflected its founders’ profound faith both in science to solve social problems and the power of the state to provide for the best interests of its children. Yet, as Getis argues, the juvenile court did not live up to its initial promise, and “instead of a place of experimentation and reform—which it could have been—or a place of individualized justice guided by science—perhaps an unattainable goal—the court became an institution …
Review Of Peter Cane, Responsibility In Law And Morality (2002), Leslie C. Griffin
Review Of Peter Cane, Responsibility In Law And Morality (2002), Leslie C. Griffin
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Defeating Class Certification In Securities Fraud Actions, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
Defeating Class Certification In Securities Fraud Actions, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Before And After: Temporal Anomalies In Legal Doctrine, Leo Katz
Before And After: Temporal Anomalies In Legal Doctrine, Leo Katz
All Faculty Scholarship
Legal doctrine exhibits some striking temporal anomalies, previously not much adverted to. Wrongdoing looked at before it has occurred, and after is has occurred, is apt to look very different. I take up the two key components of wrongdoing seriatim, the harm-portion and the misconduct-portion: the "damage" part and the "liability" part. We tend to look at harm in a harm-agnifying way before it has occurred, and in a harm-inimizing way afterwards. We thus tend to think about negligence and the harm it wreaks in seemingly inconsistent ways. I examine and reject some possible explanations of this. Misconduct too looks …
The Monumental Legacy Of The Antiquities Act Of 1906, Mark Squillace
The Monumental Legacy Of The Antiquities Act Of 1906, Mark Squillace
Publications
The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorizes the President of the United States "to declare by public proclamation, historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon [federal] lands . . . to be national monuments . . . " The law was passed during the Theodore Roosevelt administration, and Roosevelt quickly set about designating a wide range of lands and resources as national monuments, including notably, the 800,000 acre Grand Canyon National Monument. Roosevelt's expansive interpretation of the law was embraced by later presidents and ultimately by the Supreme Court. In …
What Do We Mean By "Judicial Independence"?, Stephen B. Burbank
What Do We Mean By "Judicial Independence"?, Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
In this article, the author argues that the concept of "judicial independence" has served more as an object of rhetoric than it has of sustained study. He views the scholarly literatures that treat it as ships passing in the night, each subject to weaknesses that reflect the needs and fashions of the discipline, but all tending to ignore courts other than the Supreme Court of the United States. Seeking both greater rigor and greater flexibility than one usually finds in public policy debates about, and in the legal and political science literatures on, judicial independence, the author attributes much of …
Harm, History, And Counterfactuals, Stephen R. Perry
Harm, History, And Counterfactuals, Stephen R. Perry
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Converted Or Unconverted: To Whom Do We Preach?, Amy L. Wax
Converted Or Unconverted: To Whom Do We Preach?, Amy L. Wax
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Serpent Beguiled Me: A History Of The Entrapment Defense, Rebecca Roiphe
The Serpent Beguiled Me: A History Of The Entrapment Defense, Rebecca Roiphe
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Designing Judicial Review: A Comment On Schauer, Emily Sherwin
Designing Judicial Review: A Comment On Schauer, Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In his characteristically lucid paper, Neutrality and Judicial Review, Frederick Schauer revisits the meaning and plausibility of Herbert Wechsler’s argument for neutral principles in constitutional adjudication. Unlike some critics, Schauer takes the argument seriously, on its own terms, and does an excellent job of sorting through the different ideas that lie behind it. Schauer identifies four different versions of the argument for neutrality. At least three of these are drawn from Wechsler’s 1959 article. Schauer is particularly interested in a fourth version, which favors neutrality in the design and management of the institution of judicial review.
Deception In Morality And Law, Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin
Deception In Morality And Law, Larry Alexander, Emily Sherwin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Pope John Paul Ii And The Dignity Of The Human Being, John J. Coughlin
Pope John Paul Ii And The Dignity Of The Human Being, John J. Coughlin
Journal Articles
Since his election in 1978 as the Successor to the Apostle Peter, His Holiness Pope John Paul II has remained one of the principal protagonists on the global stage for the dignity and value of every human being. Although the popular press and media sometimes have been slow to recognize this message, an online search of the Holy Father's copious encyclicals, addresses, and homilies reveals that he has advocated human dignity literally hundreds of times during the course of his twenty-five year pontificate. In fact, long before his election as Pope, Karol Wojtyla was developing his understanding of the dignity …
A Brief History Of Author-Publisher Relations And The Outlook For The 21st Century, Maureen A. O'Rourke
A Brief History Of Author-Publisher Relations And The Outlook For The 21st Century, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Faculty Scholarship
The Fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. provides a particularly appropriate forum in which to discuss the current state of the copyright system. By some accounts, U.S. copyright law has been fabulously successful, encouraging the growth of industries whose copyrighted products both enrich American culture and contribute significant value to the economy.
A Cultural Tour Of The Legal Landscape: Reflections On Cardinal George's Law And Culture, Charles E. Rice
A Cultural Tour Of The Legal Landscape: Reflections On Cardinal George's Law And Culture, Charles E. Rice
Journal Articles
When a ruling of the supreme court meets with Congressional disfavor there are several remedies available to Congress. If the decision is not on a constitutional level, a later statutory enactment will suffice to reverse or modify the ruling. If, however, the Court's decision is an interpretation of a constitutional mandate, such as the requirement of the fourteenth amendment that legislative districts be apportioned according to population, then a statute could not reverse the decision because the statute itself would be subject to that constitutional mandate as defined by the Court.
The obvious method of reversing a Supreme Court interpretation …
Law And Judicial Duty, Philip A. Hamburger
Law And Judicial Duty, Philip A. Hamburger
Faculty Scholarship
Two hundred years ago, in Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice Marshall delivered an opinion that has come to dominate modern discussions of constitutional law. Faced with a conflict between an act of Congress and the U.S. Constitution, he explained what today is known as "judicial review." Marshall described judicial review in terms of a particular type of "superior law" and a particular type of "judicial duty." Rather than speak generally about the hierarchy within law, he focused on "written constitutions."
He declared that the U.S. Constitution is "a superior, paramount law" and that if "the constitution is superior to any …
The Implications Of Transition Theory For Stare Decisis, Jill E. Fisch
The Implications Of Transition Theory For Stare Decisis, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Exhaustion Under The Prison Litigation Reform Act: The Consequence Of Procedural Error, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
Exhaustion Under The Prison Litigation Reform Act: The Consequence Of Procedural Error, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Light From Dead Stars: The Procedural Adequate And Independent State Ground Reconsidered, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
Light From Dead Stars: The Procedural Adequate And Independent State Ground Reconsidered, Kermit Roosevelt Iii
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Regionalization Of International Criminal Law Enforcement: A Preliminary Exploration, William W. Burke-White
Regionalization Of International Criminal Law Enforcement: A Preliminary Exploration, William W. Burke-White
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Law And What I Truly Should Decide, John M. Finnis
Law And What I Truly Should Decide, John M. Finnis
Journal Articles
Suppose we tried to think about law without trying first to describe it or to work out what the concept of it is. Suppose we asked instead whether, and if so why, and when, we-or more precisely each one of us-should favor introducing, having, endorsing, maintaining, complying with and enforcing it. We would be trying to think about law, about something not limited to our own time and town, but as something that people of any time and place of which we are aware would, as we can understand, have the same or similar need for and reasons to comply …
Lawyers And Biblical Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer
Lawyers And Biblical Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
This is part of a broader exploration of the suggestion that the biblical prophets-Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos, Nathan, and the others-are sources of ethical reflection and moral example for modern American lawyers. The suggestion appears to be unusual; I am not sure why.
The Prophets were, more than anything else, lawyers-as their successors, the Rabbis of the Talmud, were. They were neither teachers nor bureaucrats, not elected officials or priests or preachers. And the comparison is not an ancient curiosity:
Much of what admirable lawyer-heroes have done in modern America has been prophetic in the biblical sense-that is, what they …
The Making Of The Second Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Analysis, Thomas W. Merrill
The Making Of The Second Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Analysis, Thomas W. Merrill
Faculty Scholarship
The Supreme Court is implicitly assumed to have a certain unity of character under each Chief Justice. Hence, we refer to the "Marshall Court," the "Warren Court," and the "Rehnquist Court." A closer look at history reveals that this assumption of a natural Court defined by the tenure of each Chief Justice is often misleading. The Marshall Court had a different character late in its life than it did in its early years. Similarly, the Warren Court became distinctively more liberal and activist after 1962 when Felix Frankfurter retired and was replaced by Arthur Goldberg.
Although the Rehnquist Court is …
Lawyers As Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer
Lawyers As Prophets, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
Legal ethics is about injustice. My effort here is part of the broad, modern academic enterprise, and of the broad, modern professional enterprise now usually called professional responsibility. Both date from the Watergate scandal in the administration of President Richard M. Nixon, and the rejection, by legal academics and practicing lawyers, of the behavior of the President and other lawyers in that affair. Our modern enterprise, like the biblical Exodus, was born in outrage at the abuse of legal power.
In university law schools such as this one, legal ethics is now a discipline characterized by schools of thought on …
Direct And Collateral Federal Court Review Of The Adequacy Of State Procedural Rules, Catherine T. Struve
Direct And Collateral Federal Court Review Of The Adequacy Of State Procedural Rules, Catherine T. Struve
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Re-Imagining Justice, Robin West
Re-Imagining Justice, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
What do we mean by legal justice, as opposed to distributive, or social, or political justice; what is the justice, that is, we hope law promotes? What is the justice that lawyers and judges, peculiarly, are professionally committed to pursue? What is the virtue around which, arguably, this profession, and the individuals within it, have defined their public lives?
Justice -- and more particularly legal justice -- is a badly under-theorized topic in jurisprudence; perhaps surprisingly, there is little written on it. The paucity of writing of course has a history. It can be traced to the turn of the …
Re-Imagining Justice: Progressive Interpretations Of Formal Equality, Rights, And The Rule Of Law, Robin West
Re-Imagining Justice: Progressive Interpretations Of Formal Equality, Rights, And The Rule Of Law, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Resurrecting the neglected question of what we mean by legal justice, this book seeks to re-imagine rather than simply critique contemporary notions of the rule of law, rights and legal equality. A work of reconstruction, it offers a progressive and egalitarian approach to concepts that have become overly associated with the idea of limited government and social conservatism. Focusing on the necessary conditions of cooperative community life, the book presents a vision of law that facilitates rather than frustrates politics, an analysis of rights that boosts our capacities for caring, and an idea of equality that captures a cosmopolitan vision …