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Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese May 1990

Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information As A Positive Influence In Political Insitutions, Michael A. Fitts Apr 1990

Can Ignorance Be Bliss? Imperfect Information As A Positive Influence In Political Insitutions, Michael A. Fitts

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Courts Busy With Challenges To Pennsylvania's Insurance Laws, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1990

Courts Busy With Challenges To Pennsylvania's Insurance Laws, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Court Lifts Amortization Ban On Pa. Non-Conforming Uses, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1990

Court Lifts Amortization Ban On Pa. Non-Conforming Uses, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Of Persons And Property: The Politics Of Legal Taxonomy, David S. Cohen Jan 1990

Of Persons And Property: The Politics Of Legal Taxonomy, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The essay falls into three major parts. In the first part, we explain and describe what we believe to be the core idea of law - that it represents a discursive and taxonomic economy which is used to give meaning to the world by creating a particular and partial reality. The concepts and language lawyers use, the way those media are deployed, the argumentative devices relied upon, and the values inculcated combine in conscious and unconscious ways to constitute law and a legal style of life. In part two, we tell two stories. One involves the Supreme Court's treatment of …


Civil Disobedience, Injunctions, And The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1990

Civil Disobedience, Injunctions, And The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Just A Bigger Fish (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens Jan 1990

Just A Bigger Fish (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

Shark Tank: Greed, Politics, and the Collapse of Finley, Kumble, One of America’s Largest Law Firms is a non-fiction potboiler written by Kim Isaac Eisler. The story is generally about the decline and fall of an institution instrumental to capitalism that prospered during much of the 1980s. In particular, it is about the decline and fall of men whose hubris and greed make the decline and fall so satisfying to read.

While it would be easy to dismiss the demise of Finley, Kumble, because it was not an old, established “white shoe” law firm, or to analogize it to the …


Advice, Consent, And Influence, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1990

Advice, Consent, And Influence, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.