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Full-Text Articles in Law
Continuity And The Declaration Of Independence, Darrell A. H. Miller
Continuity And The Declaration Of Independence, Darrell A. H. Miller
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Habermas, The Public Sphere, And The Creation Of A Racial Counterpublic, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Habermas, The Public Sphere, And The Creation Of A Racial Counterpublic, Guy-Uriel Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
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In The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, Jürgen Habermas documented the historical emergence and fall of what he called the bourgeois public sphere, which he defined as “[a] sphere of private people come together as a public . . . to engage [public authorities] in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.” This was a space where individuals gathered to discuss with each other, and sometimes with public officials, matters of shared concern. The aim of these gatherings was not simply discourse; these gatherings …
A Jurisprudence Of Insurgency: Lawyers As Companions Of Unimagined Change, Michael E. Tigar
A Jurisprudence Of Insurgency: Lawyers As Companions Of Unimagined Change, Michael E. Tigar
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Happiness And Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan Masur
Happiness And Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan Masur
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This Article continues our project of applying new findings in the behavioral psychology of human happiness to some of the most deeply analyzed questions in law. When a state decides how to punish criminal offenders, at least one important consideration is the amount of harm any given punishment is likely to inflict. It would be undesirable, for example, to impose greater harm on those who commit less serious crimes or to impose harm that rises to the level of cruelty. Our penal system fits punishments to crimes primarily by adjusting the size of monetary fines and the length of prison …
Revisiting "The Need For Negro Lawyers": Are Today's Black Corporate Lawyers Houstonian Social Engineers?, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
Revisiting "The Need For Negro Lawyers": Are Today's Black Corporate Lawyers Houstonian Social Engineers?, H. Timothy Lovelace Jr.
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You Can Take Them To Water But You Can’T Make Them Drink: Black Legal Scholarship And White Legal Scholars, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
You Can Take Them To Water But You Can’T Make Them Drink: Black Legal Scholarship And White Legal Scholars, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
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Pure Comparative Law And Legal Science In A Mixed Legal System, Lawrence G. Baxter
Pure Comparative Law And Legal Science In A Mixed Legal System, Lawrence G. Baxter
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Lawyer's Role In Resistance, Michael E. Tigar
Lawyer's Role In Resistance, Michael E. Tigar
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