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Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky
Michigan Law Review
This wonderful collection of reviews of leading recent books about law provides the occasion to ask a basic question: why should law professors write? There are many things that law professors could do with the time they spend writing books and law review articles. More time and attention could be paid to students and to instructional materials. More professors could do pro bono legal work of all sorts. In fact, if law professors wrote much less, teaching loads could increase, faculties could decrease in size, and tuition could decrease substantially. The answer to the question "why write" is neither intuitive …
Mickey, Can You Spare A Dime? Disneywar, Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, And Business Law Pedagogy, Kenneth M. Rosen
Mickey, Can You Spare A Dime? Disneywar, Executive Compensation, Corporate Governance, And Business Law Pedagogy, Kenneth M. Rosen
Michigan Law Review
American business executives are under fire. Recent, notorious difficulties at companies such as the Enron Corporation brought attention to these individuals. Notwithstanding the conclusion of the trials of some of those top executives, skepticism remains about the inner workings of U.S. corporations and the quality of corporate governance. Drawing special scrutiny from some quarters is the compensation granted to corporate officers and directors. For instance, the timing of certain stock option grants, a key component of some compensation packages, raised ire because of those options' supposed backdating and fortuitous proximity to increases in share prices. Further, some questioned more generally …
The Multistate Bar Exam As A Theory Of Law, Daniel J. Solove
The Multistate Bar Exam As A Theory Of Law, Daniel J. Solove
Michigan Law Review
What is the most widely read work of jurisprudence by those in the legal system? Is it H.L.A. Hart's The Concept of Law? Ronald Dworkin's Law's Empire? No. It is actually the Multistate Bar Exam ("Bar Exam"). Perhaps no other work on law has been so widely read by those in the legal profession. Although the precise text of the Bar Exam is different every year, it presents a jurisprudence that transcends the specific language of its text. Each year, thousands of lawyers-to-be ponder over it, learning its profound teachings on the meaning of the law. They study …
Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Herbert Hart Elucidated, A. W. Brian Simpson
Michigan Law Review
There are a number of good biographies of judges, but very few of individual legal academics; indeed, so far as American legal academics are concerned, the only one of note that comes to mind is William Twining's life of Karl Llewellyn. Llewellyn was, of course, a major figure in the evolution of American law, and his unusual life was a further advantage for his biographer. In this biography, Nicola Lace has taken as her subject an English academic who also had an unusual career, one whose contribution was principally not to the evolution of the English legal system but to …
What Nobody Knows, John C. P. Goldberg
What Nobody Knows, John C. P. Goldberg
Michigan Law Review
By meditating on displays of cunning in literature, history, and current events, Don Herzog in his new book isolates and probes difficult puzzles concerning how to understand and evaluate human conduct. The point of the exercise is not to offer a system or framework for resolving these puzzles. Quite the opposite, Cunning aims to discomfit its academic audience in two ways. First, it sets out to show that some of the central dichotomies of modem thought-those between means and ends, reason and desire, self-interest and morality, fact and value, virtue and vice, knowledge and politics, authenticity and artifice, and appearance …
Law School: A Survivor's Guide, Benjamin C. Bair
Law School: A Survivor's Guide, Benjamin C. Bair
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law School: A Survivor's Guide by James D. Gordon III
Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman
Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of JURISPRUDENCE-ITS AMERICAN PROPHETS. A Survey of Taught Jurisprudence. By Harold Gill Reuschlein.
Law Books Of The Year (1943-44), Hobart R. Coffey
Law Books Of The Year (1943-44), Hobart R. Coffey
Michigan Law Review
Contrary to my inclination and somewhat against my better judgment I have been prevailed upon by the editor to repeat the experiment begun last year, viz., to produce a sort of running account of some of the more important legal publications which have appeared in the last twelve months. It goes almost without saying that a competent review of a single serious work requires both considerable time and space. An adequate critical review of fifty or sixty works would be quite out of the question for anyone who had anything else to do. In my comments on the books which …
The Law Books Of The Year, Hobart R. Coffey
The Law Books Of The Year, Hobart R. Coffey
Michigan Law Review
The war has had its effects on the law publishing business, with the result that the output has declined in both quantity and quality. Authors are doubtless turning their minds to other things, and publishers, quite understandably; may be reluctant to launch a new work. Whatever the reason may be, the law book crop for the academic year 1942-43 is rather meagre.
The Story Of A County Prosecutor: A Review, Henry M. Bates
The Story Of A County Prosecutor: A Review, Henry M. Bates
Michigan Law Review
During the later years of the last century the writing about law began to undergo a profound change. Generally speaking, prior to the period indicated it had been largely a statement of what the law was supposed to be as found in legislation and, in Anglo-American countries particularly, in the decisions and opinions of courts. Relatively, it was dogmatic, technical, often too general to be of much use in particular cases and gave a very imperfect picture of the law as actually administered.
If Men Were Angels: A Review, E. Blythe Stason
If Men Were Angels: A Review, E. Blythe Stason
Michigan Law Review
Occasionally one encounters a new book that is genuinely interesting because of the refreshing vigor with which it attacks an important and timely problem. Such a book is Jerome Frank's new volume, If Men Were Angels. Indeed in some of its chapters its vigor approaches violence, a fact which adds spice to the reading.
Michigan Legal Studies: A Review, Max Rheinstein
Michigan Legal Studies: A Review, Max Rheinstein
Michigan Law Review
To the knowledge of this reviewer, the relation between printers' wages and the development of the law has not yet been investigated. This problem is by no means so absurd as it may sound. The very principle of stare decisis presupposes the existence of the printing press, a high development of the art of indexing, a well-organized book trade and a price level under which reports and search books are accessible to the members of the legal profession. Treatises and other learned discussions cannot influence legal developments where printing costs are prohibitive. Yet, the extent to which a legal system …
Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy
Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy
Michigan Law Review
In 1887 John Henry Wigmore graduated from Harvard Law School. Only four years later, in 1891, there came from his pen an article in the Harvard Law Review entitled "Nemo Tenetur Seipsum Prodere," which showed to the profession that there had arrived at the bar a writer who was not only a deep student of legal history and knew his law of evidence, but who had no hesitation in smashing images, regardless of how sacredly they had theretofore been worshiped.
The Contracts Restatement, Grover C. Grismore
The Contracts Restatement, Grover C. Grismore
Michigan Law Review
A book review of OF THE LAW OF CONTRACTS. By the American Law Institute.
An Important Study Of The Interstate Commerce Commission
An Important Study Of The Interstate Commerce Commission
Michigan Law Review
A review of THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION - A STUDY IN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE. By I. L. Sharfman
A Valuable Handbook, John B. Waite
A Valuable Handbook, John B. Waite
Michigan Law Review
A review of VOLD ON SALES. (Hornback Series) By Lawrence Vold.
A Casebook On Corporation Finance
A Casebook On Corporation Finance
Michigan Law Review
A review of CASES AND MATERIALS ON THE LAW OF CORPORATION FINANCE. By Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
A Law Book By An Engineer
Michigan Law Review
A review of THE LEGAL ELEMENTS OF BOUNDARIES AND ADJACENT PROPERTIES. By Ray Hamilton Skelton, C.E.
A Book Of Little Value, Ralph W. Aigler
A Book Of Little Value, Ralph W. Aigler
Michigan Law Review
The former edition of this textbook appeared in 1922, before the Negotiable Instruments Law had been adopted by all of the states. The changes in the present edition are numerous. Part III of the two former editions has hen eliminated by placing the citations to the Negotiable Instruments Law in the footnotes. Many new sections have been added. The chapter on Guaranty and Suretyship has been eliminated. The introductory chapter is essentially new, and a chapter on Amount of Recovery has been added. The chapter on Conflict of Laws has been rewritten. The author has incorporated the proposed amendments to …
Review Of A Review, Charles E. Clark
Review Of A Review, Charles E. Clark
Michigan Law Review
In an interesting review of WALSH ON EQUITY, in 29 MICH. L. REV. I I 22 (June 1931 ), Professor Clarence D. Laylin appears to ascribe to me parenthood for some pleading concepts set forth in that excellent treatise ( of which I heartily approve; compare my review in 8 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW QUARTERLY REVIEW 521, March, 1931). Although these ideas have been supported by able writers and courts for some time, I should not object to the honor but for the fact that Professor Laylin also seems to assume premises which in my opinion are most inimical to …
Review: Cases On Constitutional Law, Thomas C. Lavery
Review: Cases On Constitutional Law, Thomas C. Lavery
Michigan Law Review
A Review of: CASES ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW By Dudley O. McGovney.
Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd
Cases On Pleadings And Procedure, Mason Ladd
Michigan Law Review
A review of CASES ON PLEADINGS AND PROCEDURE By Charles E. Clark.
The Case Method Of Studying Law, Henry Rottschaefer
The Case Method Of Studying Law, Henry Rottschaefer
Michigan Law Review
A review of THE CASE METHOD OF STUDYING LAW By Jacob Henry Landman.
The Book Of English Law
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE BOOK OF ENGLISH LAW By Edward Jenks.
Cases On International Law, Hector G. Spaulding
Cases On International Law, Hector G. Spaulding
Michigan Law Review
A Review of CASES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW By Manley O. Hudson.
The Money Value Of A Man
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE MONEY VALUE OF A MAN By Louis I. Dublin and Alfred J. Lotka.
Automobile Insurance
Michigan Law Review
A Review of AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE By Charles A. Sunderlin.
The Laws And Liberties Of Massachusetts, Randolph G. Adams
The Laws And Liberties Of Massachusetts, Randolph G. Adams
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE LAWS AND LIBERTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS reprinted from the copy of the 1648 edition in the Henry E. Huntington Library, with an Introduction by Max Farrand.
Review: Selected Cases On The Law Of Taxation
Review: Selected Cases On The Law Of Taxation
Michigan Law Review
A review of SELECTED CASES ON THE LAW OF TAXATION By Henry Rottschaefer.
Review: Annual Survey Of English Law, 1928 And State Law Index-An Index And Digest To The Legislation Of The United States Enacted During Ths Biennium 1925-1926.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of ANNUAL SURVEY OF ENGLISH LAW, 1928. By the London School of Economics and Political Science., and STATE LAW INDEX-AN INDEX AND DIGEST TO THE LEGISLATION OF THE UNITED STATES ENACTED DURING THS BIENNIUM 1925-1926. By the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress.