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The Journal: After A Decade, Alexander R. Domanskis

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Our legal institutions must have the flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing conditions. Often, laws are passed and implemented at a time when changed circumstances make them outmoded or unworkable. The legal community thus faces an enormous and important challenge: law reform. Legislatures, the framers of policies and the makers of law, need suggestions for law reform. Courts, the interpreters of the laws and the arbiters of private and public disputes, need guidance in dealing with new situations and new statutes. Administrative agencies, the delegated experts carrying out the legislative mandate, need guidance in defining their functions and roles. Suggestions …

Defamatory Opinions And The Restatement (Second) Of Torts, George C. Christie

Michigan Law Review

This Article will focus on one important aspect of the Institute's work: the question of whether opinion, including ridicule, can be an independent basis of an action for defamation. Before undertaking that inquiry, however, some basic concepts regarding defamatory opinions must be understood. First, a statement of opinion can, of course, often be reasonably construed to imply the existence of facts that would justify the opinion. If a direct statement of those facts would be defamatory, then the statement of an opinion that implies the existence of those false facts would be defamatory and capable of supporting an action for …

Using A Prediction Model In Forecasting Appeals, Paul A. Rake

IUSTITIA

Following the 1972 reorganization of the Indiana Court of Appeals into three panels serving defined geographical districts, the Court soon found itself floundering with too many unevenly distributed cases. Lacking a sufficient base of statistical data from which to formulate a plan to cope with the problem, various proposals, including redistricting the court, adding more judges, and developing a more sophisticated staff research, could not be measured for effectiveness or advisability.

In response to these problems, the Court developed a project to deal with the future caseload by constructing a regression model to predict appeals. This model generated estimates of …

Law Library Consortium Data Base Components And Standards Study Group Report, George S. Grossman, Dan F. Henke, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

The Data Base Components and Standards Committee of the Law Library Consortium recommends the establishment of a national law data base to meet the multi-faceted needs of the legal community for legal and law-related information. The scope of the Report includes bibliographic description and control, as well as subject and full-text access to Anglo-American, foreign, comparative, and international law materials in monographs, serials, non-book media including audio-visual and computerized information, computerassisted instruction, confidential data control and resource persons. Standardsf or inputting information are suggested.

Book Review: Graglia, Disaster By Decree, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

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House Bill No. 92. Private Acts Of The Tennessee 99th General Assembly, Tennessee General Assembly

Establishment of Washington County Cooperative Law Collection

Passed in May 19, 1977, House Bill no.92 of the 99th General Assembly provides ongoing funding from Washington County, Tennessee for the establishment and maintenance of the Washington County Cooperative Law Library. Located in East Tennessee State University's Sherrod Library, the Cooperative Law Collection provides an openly accessible and free law library to the citizens of Northeast Tennessee.

Review: Cramton, Currie And Kay, Cases On Conflict Of Laws, Robert Allen Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Secondary Legal Sources: A Selected Subject Bibliography Of Treatises, Looseleaf Services And Form Books, Peter C. Schanck, Leah M. Gunn, Janet Wishinsky, Frances M. Gardner

Law Library Publications

This bibliography is a selected subject list of secondary American and international law sources in this Library, consisting primarily of textbooks and treatises, but also including form books and looseleaf services. We have selected those books which we deem to be of most use to law students conducting research on the current law. In no respect should this bibliography be construed as a substitute for the Card Catalog. Consultation of the Catalog will be necessary on any substantial research problem.

Virtually all the volumes listed here either describe, explain, summarize, interpret or analyze the law and are directed at law …

Employment Discrimination Law, Cynthia Mertens

Faculty Publications

Employment Discrimination Law must be on the desk of every practitioner in this field and in all law libraries. The volume is also an excellent teaching tool. There is no question that the authors' two primary objectives have been met; the book is of "significant and equal value to practitioner and student and of substantial value to the sophisticated non-lawyer," and is "balanced and non-partisan.

Fred E. Inbau: 'The Importance Of Being Guilty', Yale Kamisar

Articles

As fate would have it, Fred Inbau graduated from law school in 1932, the very year that, "for practical purposes the modern law of constitutional criminal procedure [began], with the decision in the great case of Powell v. Alabama."1 In "the 'stone age' of American criminal procedure,"2 Inbau began his long fight to shape or to retain rules that "make sense in the light of a policeman's task,"3 more aware than most that so long as the rules do so, "we will be in a stronger position to insist that [the officer] obey them."4

Book Review. Cumulative Subject Index To The Public Affairs Information Service Annual Bulletins, 1915-1974, Colleen Kristl Pauwels

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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If We Can't Teach Our Students To Write... Let's Examine Some Alternatives That May Have A Chance To Work, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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The Supreme Court In Current Literature, Jenni Parrish, Roy Mersky

Faculty Scholarship

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