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Book Review | Adding Commercial Fundamentals, Terms And Transactions To Contract And Commercial Law, Harold R. Weinberg
Book Review | Adding Commercial Fundamentals, Terms And Transactions To Contract And Commercial Law, Harold R. Weinberg
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Book review of the following two resources: (a) John F. Dolan, Fundamentals of Commercial Activity: A Lawyer’s Guide (1991) and (b) John F. Dolan, Uniform Commercial Code: Terms and Transactions in Commercial Law (1991).
Confessions Of An Ethics Chairman, Richard H. Underwood
Confessions Of An Ethics Chairman, Richard H. Underwood
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This article responds to the critics of state bar ethics committees. Indirectly, it raises some questions about the need, or at least the extent of the need, for yet another law-related cottage industry (the for hire legal ethics consultant). It also provides some friendly advice for those well-meaning types in every jurisdiction who are perennially "reforming" or "energizing" their bar associations and demanding for the "membership" a dazzling new array of services. It discusses practical problems that have gone unmentioned in the limited literature, just as it takes issue with many of the assertions that have been made in that …
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Possibly the most unsettling phenomenon in the Supreme Court's 1988 term was Justice White's decision to vote contrary to his own exhaustively stated reasoning in Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co. His unexplained decision to vote against the result of his own analysis lends support to those who argue that law, or at least constitutional law, is fundamentally indeterminate. Proponents of the indeterminacy argument sometimes base their position on the allegedly inescapable inconsistency of decisions made by a multi-member court. There is an answer to the inconsistency argument, but it founders if justices sometimes vote, without explanation, on the basis of …