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Articles 1 - 19 of 19
Full-Text Articles in Law
Justice Brennan's Gender Jurisprudence, Rebecca Korzec
Justice Brennan's Gender Jurisprudence, Rebecca Korzec
All Faculty Scholarship
During his thirty-four year tenure on the Supreme Court, Justice William Joseph Brennan, Jr. demonstrated unparalleled sensitivity to the protection of individual rights. Justice Brennan's landmark opinions included Baker v. Carr, Goldberg v. Kelly, and New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. before Brennan, Supreme Court jurisprudence exalted judicial passivity by employing techniques for avoiding constitutional issues, such as abstention, comity, exhaustion of remedies and the political question doctrine.
Against this background, Brennan became an active judicial voice in a series of innovative landmark cases, including decisions requiring federal officials to pay damages for violation of citizens' constitutional rights; authorizing federal …
The Supreme Court And The Bill Of Rights, Robert A. Sedler
The Supreme Court And The Bill Of Rights, Robert A. Sedler
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
"The Right To Bear Arms": Two Views, Lee Fisher, David C. Tryon
"The Right To Bear Arms": Two Views, Lee Fisher, David C. Tryon
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The authors provide varying opinions on the Second Amendment.
Copyrights And State Liability, Beryl R. Jones-Woodin
Copyrights And State Liability, Beryl R. Jones-Woodin
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Enduring Example Of John Marshall Harlan: "Virtue As Practice" In The Supreme Court, William W. Van Alstyne
The Enduring Example Of John Marshall Harlan: "Virtue As Practice" In The Supreme Court, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
One Hundred Years Of Influence On National Jurisprudence: Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Decisions Reviewed By The United States Supreme Court, Roger J. Miner '56
One Hundred Years Of Influence On National Jurisprudence: Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Decisions Reviewed By The United States Supreme Court, Roger J. Miner '56
Endowed/named Lectures and Keynote Addresses
No abstract provided.
Justice Harlan And The Bill Of Rights: A Model For How A Classic Conservative Court Would Enforce The Bill Of Rights, Nadine Strossen
Justice Harlan And The Bill Of Rights: A Model For How A Classic Conservative Court Would Enforce The Bill Of Rights, Nadine Strossen
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Thurgood Marshall And The Administrative State, Jonathan Weinberg
Thurgood Marshall And The Administrative State, Jonathan Weinberg
Law Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Dutiful Justice (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Dutiful Justice (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens
Faculty Articles
Sheldon Novick’s biography, Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, is a traditional biography of one of the most important public figures in the United States since the Civil War.
Although the author disclaims it, Honorable Justice is a defense of Holmes. Novick writes of some of Holmes’ faults, but too often Holmes’ human imperfections are defended as strengths. It appears that Novick was trying hard to defend Holmes from late twentieth century critiques. This defense of Holmes seems a misguided attempt to re(de)ify Holmes to a group of readers which will likely include a large proportion of skeptical, …
Review Of Cardozo: A Study In Reputation, By R. Posner, Richard D. Friedman
Review Of Cardozo: A Study In Reputation, By R. Posner, Richard D. Friedman
Reviews
Judge Richard Posner has written a genial book about one of our greatest judicial icons, Benjamin N. Cardozo.1 He seeks not only to assess the merits of Cardozo's writings, both on and off the bench, but also to measure, and determine the causes of, Cardozo's reputation. The book is an outgrowth of a lecture series,2 and it reveals its origins in at least two ways. First, the book attempts to reach a mixed audience, composed of both lawyers and laypeople, and in this aspect it is very successful. Nonlawyers, I believe, will have little difficulty following Judge Posner's essential arguments, …
O'Connor: A Dual Role - An Introduction, Stephen Wermiel
O'Connor: A Dual Role - An Introduction, Stephen Wermiel
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Foreword: The New York Law School Centennial Conference In Honor Of Justice John Marshall Harlan, James F. Simon
Foreword: The New York Law School Centennial Conference In Honor Of Justice John Marshall Harlan, James F. Simon
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
Waiver Of Rights In The Interrogation Room: The Court's Dilemma, William T. Pizzi
Waiver Of Rights In The Interrogation Room: The Court's Dilemma, William T. Pizzi
Publications
No abstract provided.
Prisoners' Rights, Timothy Zick
To Tell What We Know Or Wait For Godot?, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
To Tell What We Know Or Wait For Godot?, Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Articles
Professor Elliott raises two questions about the American Psychological Association's practice of submitting amicus briefs to the courts. First, are our data sufficiently valid, consistent, and generalizable to be applicable to the real world issues? Second, are amicus briefs adequate to communicate scientific findings? The first of these is not a general question, but must be addressed anew each time the Association considers a new issue. An evaluation of the quality and sufficiency of scientific knowledge about racial discrimination, for example, tells us nothing at all about the quality and sufficiency of scientific knowledge about sexual abuse. "Are the data …
Putting The Dormancy Doctrine Out Of Its Misery, Richard D. Friedman
Putting The Dormancy Doctrine Out Of Its Misery, Richard D. Friedman
Articles
Justice Antonin Scalia has put on the academic table the question of whether the doctrine of the dormant commerce clause should be abandoned. That is a significant contribution, for this is an issue that should be debated thoroughly. But Justice Scalia's campaign against the doctrine has been notably ambivalent. On the one hand, he argues that the doctrine lacks justification in constitutional text, history, and theory.1 On the other hand, assertedly feeling the pressure of stare decisis,2 he has gone along with, and even led, applications of the doctrine, although within narrow limits.3 In this essay, I argue that Justice …
Absolute Priority And New Value, James J. White
Absolute Priority And New Value, James J. White
Articles
This paper is based on a lecture given on December 6, 1990 ast the Second Annual Robert E. Krinock Lecture. The absolute priority rule is a specific application of the broader doctrine that reorganization plans must be "fair and equitable." Both have their origins in the railroad reorganization cases of the early 20th century. The general doctrine is now codified in section 1129(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code and the rule is codified in subsection 1129(b)(2)(B)(ii) which provides that the debtor must pay a nonconsenting class of unsecured creditors in full or "the holder of any claim or interest that is …
Ex Proprio Vigore, James J. White
Ex Proprio Vigore, James J. White
Articles
The National Conference of the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) is a legislature in every way but one. It drafts uniform acts, debates them, passes them, and promulgates them, but that passage and promulgation do not make these uniform acts law over any citizen of any state. These acts become the law of the various states only ex proprio vigore - only if their own vitality influences the legislators of the various states to pass them.
When Is There A Constitutional 'Right To Die'? When Is There No Constitutional 'Right To Live'?, Yale Kamisar
When Is There A Constitutional 'Right To Die'? When Is There No Constitutional 'Right To Live'?, Yale Kamisar
Articles
When I am invited to participate in conferences on the "right to die," I suspect that the organizers of such gatherings expect me to fill what might be called the " 'slippery slope' slot" on the program or, more generally, to articulate the "conservative" position on this controversial matter. These expectations are hardly surprising. The "right to die" is a euphemism for what almost everybody used to call a form of euthanasia-" passive" or "negative" or "indirect" euthanasia-and some thirty years ago, in the course of raising various objections to proposed euthanasia legislation, I advanced the "thin edge of the …