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Misreading The Williams Act, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
Misreading The Williams Act, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
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Missing The Point About State Takeover Statutes, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
Missing The Point About State Takeover Statutes, Lyman P.Q. Johnson, David K. Millon
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Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
Positivism In The Historiography Of The Common Law, David K. Millon
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A great deal of important legal historical scholarship is doctrinal in focus, its objective being to chart the history of substantive common law rules. In this Article, Professor Millon suggests that doctrinal legal history is based implicitly on the modern positivist theory of law as a system of state-endorsed rules designed to resolve disputes in a consistent, predictable manner. He questions the validity of efforts to write the history of the premodern common law from this theoretical point of view.
Focusing on pre-seventeenth century civil cases, he finds that trial procedure seems to have allowed or even encouraged juries to …
On Ripeness And 'Pragmatism' In Admininstrative Law, Brian C. Murchison
On Ripeness And 'Pragmatism' In Admininstrative Law, Brian C. Murchison
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