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No Easy Answers, Dana Neacsu
No Easy Answers, Dana Neacsu
Law Faculty Publications
In his essay “No Exit” (March 20), David Greenberg dutifully points out some old and recent books whose endings seem “unpersuasive and unsupported by what came before.” And I disagree with his characterization of Walter Lippmann and his 1922 treatise “Public Opinion.”
Political Satire And Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting Or Both? The Case Of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (Tds), Dana Neacsu
Law Faculty Publications
For the last decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS), a (Comedy Central) cable comedy show, has been increasingly seen as an informative, new, even revolutionary, form of journalism. A substantial body of literature appeared, adopting this view. On closer inspection, it became clear that this view was tenable only in specific circumstances. It assumed that the comedic structure of the show, TDS' primary text, promoted cognitive polysemy, a textual ambiguity which encouraged critical inquiry, and that TDS' audiences perceived it accordingly. As a result I analyzed, through a dual - encoding/decoding - analytical approach, whether TDS' comedic discourse …
Stones Of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights To Challenge Global Poverty. Edited By Lucie E. White And Jeremy Perelman. Stanford, Ca:Stanford University Press, 2010 [Book Review], Dana Neacsu
Law Faculty Publications
This is a book review of Stones of Hope: How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty. Lucie E. White and Jeremy Perelman (eds.). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. PP.280. ISBN 9780804769198. US$70.00 International Journal of Legal Information, 39, pp. 101-103.
The Modern History Of Probable Cause, Wesley Macneil Oliver
The Modern History Of Probable Cause, Wesley Macneil Oliver
Law Faculty Publications
We often assume that those who wrote the Constitution understood its terms in a way that bears at least some similarity to the way we understand those terms today. This assumption is essential to the legitimacy of using Framing Era sources to inform the meaning of Constitutional provisions that regulate this system. This assumption is incorrect for one of the most important terms in criminal procedure. Probable cause meant something very different to the Framers than it means to modem lawyers. Probable cause was, as a practical matter, often nothing more than a pleading requirement for victims or officers who …
The Present And Future Of Plea Bargaining: A Look At Missouri V. Frye And Lafler V. Cooper, Wesley Macneil Oliver
The Present And Future Of Plea Bargaining: A Look At Missouri V. Frye And Lafler V. Cooper, Wesley Macneil Oliver
Law Faculty Publications
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