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Right V. Might: International Law And The Use Of Force, Craig T. Smith

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Right v. Might: International Law and the Use of Force Edited by The Council on Foreign Relations

Coup De Grace For Personal Injury Torts?, Alfred F. Conard

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing Away with Personal Injury Law: New Compensation Mechanisms for Victims, Consumers and Business by Stephen D. Sugarman

"Aliens Are Coming! Drain The Pool", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish. And Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation by Richard A. Posner

Can Rights Move Left?, Jeremy Paul

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Right to Private Property by Jeremy Waldron

The Pull Of The Mainstream, Martti Koskenniemi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law by Theodor Meron

Original Intent: "With Friends Like These…", Thomas Gibbs Gee

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Original Intent and the Framer's Constitution by Leonard W. Levy

Shattered Mirrors: Our Search For Identity And Community In The Aids Era, William J. Aseltyne

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Shattered Mirrors: Our Search for Identity and Community in the AIDS Era by Monroe E. Price

The Privilege To Keep And Bear Arms: The Second Amendment And Its Interpretation, William A. Walker

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Privilege to Keep and Bear Arms: The Second Amendment and Its Interpretation by Warren Freedman

The Law's Secrets, Gary T. Marx

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legal Secrets: Equality and Efficiency in the Common Law by Kim Lane Scheppele

Critical Legal Studies, Michael F. Colosi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Critical Legal Studies by Allan C. Hutchinson

Judicial Discretion: Is One More Of A Good Thing Too Much?, David B. Sentelle

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Judicial Discretion by Aharon Barak

The Supreme Court In Politics, Terrance Sandalow

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America by Ethan Bronner

Political Consensus, Constitutional Formulae, And The Rationale For Judicial Review, Martin H. Redish

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutional Cultures; The Mentality and Consequences of Judicial Review by Robert Nagel

Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson

Moralistic Liberalism And Legal Moralism, Robert P. George

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Harmless Wrongdoing: The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law by Joel Feinberg

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

Michigan Law Review

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

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.

Women And Contracts: No New Deal, Elizabeth S. Anderson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman

The New Politics Of Pornography, René L. Todd

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The New Politics of Pornography by Donald A. Downs

Lawyer's Justice, William A. Edmundson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study by David Luban, and The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers: Case Studies by Philip B. Heymann and Lance Liebman

Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects And Limitations On The Use Of Modern Darwinism Throughout The Legal Process, Steven Kasten

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Evolutionary Jurisprudence: Prospects and Limitations on the Use of Modern Darwinism Throughout the Legal Process by John H. Beckstrom

Making It And Breaking It: The Fate Of Public Interest Commitment During Law School, Laura M. Schachter

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Making It and Breaking It: The Fate of Public Interest Commitment During Law School by Robert V. Stover

History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage

Vol. 40, No. 12, April 11, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Cook Lecturer Stresses Historical Method •Former Prime Minister Discusses European Future •Baker Reacts to Dean's Letter •Parting Remarks •A Failing Community •Farewell to Michigan Law School •Intellectual Property's Disappearance Inexcusable •Classifieds •How We Can Help the Homeless •Review of Fall 1989 Courses •Fall 1989 Grade Curves •Cubs to Win NL Pennant •Class Tapes Add to Grade Controversy •The Big Goodbye •Law in the Raw

Vol. 40, No. 11, April 4, 1990, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Students Object to Fall Course Offerings •LSSS to Hold New Elections •Registration Hell •Earth Day, Every Day •Senate is Visible •A Call to Arms •Classifieds •News Notes •M. D. Martin Wins Another Darn RG Contest •Law in the Raw

Family Support Of The Disabled: A Legislative Proposal To Create Incentives To Support Disabled Family Members, Judith G. Mcmullen

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Several authorities in the field of estate planning have examined in great detail the options currently available to the parents of disabled children. The options are limited. Ideally, laws should address the concerns of the families of disabled children while providing those families with the incentive to help bear the financial costs of providing for their children. New legislation is needed to achieve this dual objective. This legislation must establish a method by which parents can improve meaningfully the quality of a surviving disabled child's life without substantially increasing the social cost of supporting that disabled child. This Article proposes …

Do Jurors Understand Criminal Jury Instructions? Analyzing The Results Of The Michigan Juror Comprehension Project, Geoffrey P. Kramer, Dorean M. Koenig

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The Juror Comprehension Project ("the Project") sought to determine whether jurors understand judicial instructions. This Article reports the results of an empirical study growing out of that Project. The Project investigated how well 600 actual jurors in Michigan understood criminal jury instructions in actual trials. Part I describes the history of the study and explains the procedures and materials used in the study. Part II presents the results of the study, first analyzing juror comprehension of selected concepts, then discussing general factors that influence juror comprehension. Part III concludes that the results show a mixed juror understanding of complex judicial …

Concerned Readers V. Judicial Opinion Writers, Erik Paul Belt

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this action, Plaintiffs sought a writ of mandamus compelling the offending judges to write better, but the court below denied the writ. Plaintiffs then petitioned for relief from poor writing. Because some judges do, in fact, write clear and effective opinions, we have granted certiorari to resolve the differences between the various courts. The issue before us, then, is whether judges and clerks have abused their discretion by writing weak opinions and, if so, how they can improve their writing. Because stronger writing greatly eases the reader's job and makes opinions more effective, we hold that judges and clerks …

Protecting Nonshareholder Interests In The Market For Corporate Control: A Role For State Takeover Statutes, Frank J. Garcia

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note describes a phenomenon of modern corporate activity first identified over fifty years ago as the "separation of ownership and control." This separation gives rise to the need for a governing corporate norm; recognizing the normative aspect of this phenomenon has direct implications for the takeover debate.

Part II analyzes the problem of a target board's fiduciary duty as the modern version of the fundamental normative issue of corporate law. It argues that the norm of shareholder wealth maximization, assumed as the starting point by those most in favor of an active and minimally regulated control …

Toward An Expanded Conception Of Law Reform: Sexual Harassment Law And The Reconstruction Of Facts, Holly B. Fechner

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note uses feminist reform of sexual harassment law to show how the reconstruction of factual descriptions can lead to change in the law. Part I describes the feminist methodology of consciousness raising and analyzes Catharine MacKinnon's Sexual Harassment of Working Women as an example of a successful consciousness-raising tool. Part II discusses sexual harassment doctrine and presents a case study illustrating how changing the way legal decision makers think about facts can lead to law reform. Part III discusses how social construction theory aids understanding of changes in sexual harassment law.