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Comment On Frederick Schauer's Prediction And Particularity Comment, Gerald F. Leonard
Comment On Frederick Schauer's Prediction And Particularity Comment, Gerald F. Leonard
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Ignorance of the law is generally no excuse. I say generally because the century since the publication of The Path of the Law has brought a small but increasing number of exceptions to the rule. In Oliver Wendell Holmes's day, however, exceptions to the rule were nearly nonexistent, much to Holmes's satisfaction.1 In The Common Law, Holmes said that the law requires persons "at their peril to know the teachings of common experience, just as it requires them to know the law." 2 He did not, of course, actually think that common experience was perfectly knowable or judicial interpretation perfectly …
Memorial Tributes For Professor Elizabeth B. Clark In Memoriam, Pnina Lahav
Memorial Tributes For Professor Elizabeth B. Clark In Memoriam, Pnina Lahav
Faculty Scholarship
I leave to others to talk about Betsy's scholarship. Let me only say that she had a remarkable ability to interest others in her projects. When she gave papers or workshops, she spoke softly but with such enthusiasm and engagement that she drew others into her topics and interests effortlessly. Her listeners would lean forward and intently follow her sometimes complex and nuanced train of thought. I have often wondered at this gift-I think it has something to do with her approach to her audience, her ability to be respectful and inclusive rather than distanced and formal. Despite doing painstaking …