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Beyond Candor, Scott Altman Nov 1990

Beyond Candor, Scott Altman

Michigan Law Review

In Part I, I consider whether judges might hold inaccurate beliefs that make them more candid and constrained. I suggest that even if theories of neutral decisionmaking are incomplete and inaccurate, a legal system in which judges hold these beliefs about their own behavior could have advantages. If many judges believe that they can, should, and do decide almost all cases by following the law, they might behave differently than they would if they held more accurate beliefs. They might behave so as to facilitate repression and denial, because their self-esteem depends on maintaining the belief that they decide as …


The Child Sexual Abuse Literature: A Call For Greater Objectivity, John E.B. Myers May 1990

The Child Sexual Abuse Literature: A Call For Greater Objectivity, John E.B. Myers

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse by Hollida Wakefield and Ralph Underwager., The Battle and the Backlash: The Child Sexual Abuse War by David Hechler., On Trial: America's Courts and Their Treatment of Sexually Abused Children by Billie Wright Dziech and Chales B. Schudson.


Hating Criminals: How Can Something That Feels So Good Be Wrong?, Joshua Dressler May 1990

Hating Criminals: How Can Something That Feels So Good Be Wrong?, Joshua Dressler

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Forgiveness and Mercy by Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton


Crimes Of Obedience: Toward Social Psychology Of Authority And Responsibility, Michael Kenneth Isenman May 1990

Crimes Of Obedience: Toward Social Psychology Of Authority And Responsibility, Michael Kenneth Isenman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Crimes of Obedience: Toward Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility by Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton


Feminism And Post-Structuralism, Joan C. Williams May 1990

Feminism And Post-Structuralism, Joan C. Williams

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Female Body and the Law by Zillah R. Eisenstein


Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen May 1990

Of Literature, Politics, And Crime, Francis A. Allen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil