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Representing Nazism: Advocacy And Identity At The Trial Of Klaus Barbie, Guyora Binder

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Noting the enormous media interest in the war crimes trial of Klaus Barbie, and the surprising emphasis of this coverage on its cultural significance, this essay provides a literary reading of the trial as a contest over identity. More specifically, it treats the trial and its coverage as a struggle among competing groups - including the French state, various strands of the French left, the French right, resistance veterans, holocaust survivors, Zionists, Arabs, anti-colonialists - for the power to represent Nazism. All of these groups sought to define Nazism so as to claim a privileged identity as essential victims or …

Mastery, Slavery, And Emancipation, Guyora Binder

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Hegel's dialectic of master and slave in the Phenomenology of Mind portrays a master unable to win genuine recognition from a slave because unwilling to confer it. The dialectic implies that freedom has to be conceived as association based on mutual respect, rather than independence. This article offers a communitarian interpretation of emancipation inspired by Hegel's dialectic of master and slave. It proceeds from an account of slave society which, like Hegel's dialectic, equates slavery with the denial of social recognition. This account argues that the experience of slave society led both the masters and the slaves to conceive of …

Property And Suffrage In The Early American Republic, Robert J. Steinfeld

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Confrontation As Rejoinder To Compromise: Reflections On The Little Rock Desegregation Crisis, Raymond T. Diamond

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No Call To Glory: Thurgood Marshall's Thesis On The Intent Of A Pro-Slavery Constitution, Raymond T. Diamond

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Looking Toward The Future: Feminism And Reproductive Technologies, Isabel Marcus, Rhonda Copelon, Ruth Hubbard, Barbara Katz Rothman, Barbara Omolade

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Womens' Experience In Legal Education: Silencing And Alienation, Lucinda M. Finley

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Report Of The State Bar Of Arizona Corporate, Banking, And Business Law Section Subcommittee On Rendering Legal Opinions In Business Transactions, February 1, 1989, N. Gregory Smith, Robert T. Bailes, Stephen A. Benson, Marcia J. Busching, Jon Cohen, Douglas R. Chandler, Fred Fathe, Diane K. Geimer, Michael J. Ivens, Richard Lieberman, Michelle M. Matiski, Jared Mchatton, James Mcmahon, John M. Mcvey, Kevin L. Olson, E. Elizabeth Perlman, Robert P. Robinson, Morton Scult, Jeffrey H. Verbin, Matthew J. Yingling

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The Jurisprudence Of Prevention: The Right Of Societal Self-Defense Against Dangerous Individuals, Edward P. Richards

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Book Review - A Guide To Legal Research In Virginia (Edited By John D. Eure), Steven D. Hinckley

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Review of A Guide to Legal Research in Virginia, edited by John D. Eure. Charlottesville, VA: Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Virginia Law Foundation, 1989.

Qualified Immunity In Section 1983 Cases: The Unanswered Questions, Kit Kinports

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Part I of this Article describes the general policies underlying qualified immunity and the Court's decisions defining the scope of the defense. Part II then addresses two answered questions concerning Harlow v. Fitzgerald's impact on the substantive content of the qualified immunity defense: Is immunity available to the defendant who actually knows that her conduct is infringing the plaintiff's constitutional rights, even if the law governing those rights is not yet clearly established? And should a court take into account the nature of the defendant's governmental responsibilities and other circumstances surrounding her conduct in determining whether the right she …

Reaganist Realism Comes To Detriot, Stephen F. Ross

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Part I of this article discusses Detroit Newspapers and explains how in deferring to the Attorney General's interpretation of the Newspaper Preservation Act, Judge Silberman disregarded every applicable technique of statutory interpretation typically used to resolve the issue. Indeed, each of these techniques suggests that Attorney General Meese's interpretation of the Act was incorrect. This part of the article also demonstrates why deference to Meese was particularly inappropriate in light of the generally accepted justifications for judicial deference to administrative interpretations of statutes.

Part II explains that Detroit Newspapers is one of several opinions by conservative Reagan judicial appointees that …

Monopoly Sports Leagues, Stephen F. Ross

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This Article argues that the government should break up both Major League Baseball and the NFL to provide for competing economic entities in each sport. Part I details the harm monopoly sports leagues cause in several different markets and explains why a competitive league structure can correct such harms. Part II discusses why regulatory solutions are poor substitutes for competition as a means of redressing these harms. Part III explains why neither baseball nor football is a "natural monopoly" and argues that no persuasive evidence suggests that rival leagues cannot exist in those sports. Part IV examines how the antitrust …

Locked In And Locked Out: Reflections In The History Of Divorce Law Reform In New York State, Isabel Marcus

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"As Best To Subserve Their Own Interests": Lemuel Shaw, Labor Conspiracy, And Fellow Servants, Alfred S. Konefsky

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A Judge Shapes And Manages Institutional Reform: School Desegregation In Buffalo, Judy Scales-Trent

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The Legal Community And The Transformation Of Disputes: The Settlement Of Injunction Actions, James B. Atleson

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Lawyers in cases involving injunctions against picketing represent clients in situations of great immediacy. A significant number of injunction actions are settled with reductions in picketing despite a seemingly restrictive statute and a highly organized workforce. This study of legal culture examines the role of lawyers in striving to create predictability, especially in regard to judges and the police, and in transforming conflicts of value into disputes over interests that can be resolved without resort to formal adjudication.

Black Women And The Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights, Judy Scales-Trent

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A Break In The Silence: Including Women's Issues In A Torts Course, Lucinda M. Finley

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Federal Labor Rights And Access To Private Property: The Nlrb And The Right To Exclude, Dianne Avery

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A Republican Agenda For Hobbesian America?, Elizabeth B. Mensch, Alan Freeman

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Breaking Women's Silence In Law: The Dilemma Of The Gendered Nature Of Legal Reasoning, Lucinda M. Finley

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The Professional Ethics Of Individualism And Tragedy In Martin Arrowsmith's Expedition To St. Hubert, Thomas L. Shaffer

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Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was a resolute critic of pretension in American business and in the professions. His only hero story is the story of a physician and research scientist, Arrowsmith (1925).' It is a story that puts up for examination Lewis's prescription for a moral life in the professions in America and, beyond that, it shows what professional life is like. I want to argue here that (1) although the story is useful for lawyers and for legal ethics, Lewis's principal moral prescription, a brief for individualism in professional life, is incoherent. The ethic of individualism, as Lewis grounds it, …

The Constitutional Theory Of The Fourth Amendment, Gerard V. Bradley

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This Article will, in large part, present its thesis regarding fourth amendment doctrine by employing, as an illustration, a recent application of the current approach by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In United States v. Torres, the Seventh Circuit held video surveillance constitutional and further found that the judiciary had the authority to issue warrants for such a technique. Although welcomed by prosecutors and law enforcement officials, this decision highlights the absurdity of the current interpretation of the reasonableness clause. Moreover, Torres provides a vehicle through which this Article's historical interpretation can be brought into focus under the cold …

Aspects Of The English Legal System, Geoffrey J. Bennett

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The object of this article is to point out some of the more obvious features of the English legal system for the benefit of people with no legal training. Teachers, school governors, and parents are all increasingly called upon to have some insight into the way the law affects their activ­ities, but the natural tendency is perhaps to concentrate only on those discrete areas that are of immediate concern. Sometimes, however, a broader perspective on how the parts articulate with the whole is essential to understanding what can be done with the system or why a certain result or procedure …

Negotiation Theory And The Law Of Collective Bargaining, Barbara J. Fick

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This Article focuses on the procedural aspects developed under the National Labor Relations Act in defining the concept of collective bargaining and discusses their applicability to a general theory of negotiation.

Natural Law And Justice (Book Review), Robert E. Rodes

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Professor Weinreb's aim in this thoughtful and thought-provoking book is a drastic overhaul of the ongoing debate about natural law. Natural law as he sees it is not a mere theory about the relation of law and morality: it is a comprehensive theory about the place of human beings in the cosmos. As such, it has a profound bearing on legal questions, but not in the way its current proponents have in mind. By recasting the fundamental question of natural law, Weinreb sheds light on many subsidiary questions of legal theory. This is a difficult book, because it is closely …

The Pervasive Method Of Teaching Ethics, David T. Link

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The law school curriculum at Notre Dame is based on a two-faceted mission statement that the faculty developed in 1974. Moral values are central to both facets: (1) to be an outstanding teaching school that prepares competent and compassionate attorneys whose decisions are guided by the values and morality that Notre Dame represents; (2) to promote leading contributions to the development of the law, the system of justice, the legal profession, and legal education, through faculty scholarship and institutional projects that embody important qualities of the Notre Dame value system. We intend to dedicate as much intensity to sensitizing our …

Peer Review: I'Ll Give You My Opinion If You Don't Tell Anyone What It Is: An Analysis Of University Of Pennsylvania V. Eeoc, Barbara J. Fick

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This article previews the Supreme Court case University of Pennsylvania v. EEOC, 493 U.S. 192 (1990). The author expected the Court to decide whether the EEOC may subpeopna peer review documents submitted to a university tenure committee when investigating charges that the committee engaged in impermissible discrimination when denying tenure to an associate professor.

Who Pays The Piper If You Cut Into The Dance? An Analysis Of Independent Federation Of Flight Attendants V. Zipes, Barbara J. Fick

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This article previews the Supreme Court case Indpendent Federation of Flight Attendants v. Zipes, 491 U.S. 754 (1989). The author expected the Court to address what standard the courts should apply in deciding whether to assess attorney's fees against an unsuccessful intervenor in federal employment discrimination cases.