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Full-Text Articles in Law
Rehabilitating Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky
Rehabilitating Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism by Samuel H. Beer
The Inherent Power In Mapping Ownership, Michael P. Conzen
The Inherent Power In Mapping Ownership, Michael P. Conzen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping by Roger J.P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent
"Am I, By Law, The Lord Of The World?": How The Juristic Response To Frederick Barbarossa's Curiosity Helped Shape Western Constitutionalism, Charles J. Reid Jr.
"Am I, By Law, The Lord Of The World?": How The Juristic Response To Frederick Barbarossa's Curiosity Helped Shape Western Constitutionalism, Charles J. Reid Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition by Kenneth Pennington
A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner
A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America by Larry D. Eldridge
The Constitution Besieged: The Rise And Demise Of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, C. Ian Anderson
The Constitution Besieged: The Rise And Demise Of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, C. Ian Anderson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence by Howard Gillman
Executive Detention In Time Of War, Richard A. Posner
Executive Detention In Time Of War, Richard A. Posner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain by A.W. Brian Simpson
Taking The Fifth: Reconsidering The Origins Of The Constitutional Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Eben Moglen
Taking The Fifth: Reconsidering The Origins Of The Constitutional Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Eben Moglen
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this essay is to cast doubt on two basic elements of the received historical wisdom concerning the privilege as it applies to British North America and the early United States. First, early American criminal procedure reflected less tenderness toward the silence of the criminal accused than the received wisdom has claimed. The system could more reasonably be said to have depended on self-incrimination than to have eschewed it, and this dependence increased rather than decreased during the provincial period for reasons intimately connected with the economic and social context of the criminal trial in colonial America.
Second, …
The Historical Origins Of The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination At Common Law, John H. Langbein
The Historical Origins Of The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination At Common Law, John H. Langbein
Michigan Law Review
This essay explains that the true origins of the common law privilege are to be found not in the high politics of the English revolutions, but in the rise of adversary criminal procedure at the end of the eighteenth century. The privilege against self-incrimination at common law was the work of defense counsel.
Part I of this essay discusses the several attributes of early modem criminal procedure that combined, until the end of the eighteenth century, to prevent the development of the common law privilege. Part II explains how prior scholarship went astray in locating the common law privilege against …