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It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1993

It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


False Witness: A Lawyer's History Of The Law Of Perjury, Richard H. Underwood Oct 1993

False Witness: A Lawyer's History Of The Law Of Perjury, Richard H. Underwood

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

From Cain to Potiphar's Wife to the pig and chicken laws of the Lex Salica of Clovis I, Professor Underwood examines the role of the false witness throughout history. Take a voyage extraordinaire and encounter some of history's most notorious perjurers.


Navajo Nation’S Department Of Water Resources Management, Teresa M. Showa Jun 1993

Navajo Nation’S Department Of Water Resources Management, Teresa M. Showa

Water Organizations in a Changing West (Summer Conference, June 14-16)

13 pages (includes illustrations and 1 map).


Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz May 1993

Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


Mishandling The Current Crisis, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993

Mishandling The Current Crisis, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


The Role Of Executive Clemency In Modern Death Penalty Cases, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993

The Role Of Executive Clemency In Modern Death Penalty Cases, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


Reflections On The American And Talmudic Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993

Reflections On The American And Talmudic Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


No Punishment Without Cruelty, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993

No Punishment Without Cruelty, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


Could The Death Penalty Be A Cruel Punishment?, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1993

Could The Death Penalty Be A Cruel Punishment?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


Interest, Principle, And Beyond: American Understandings Of Conflict, Don Herzog Jan 1993

Interest, Principle, And Beyond: American Understandings Of Conflict, Don Herzog

Book Chapters

To understand U.S. foreign policy, we need to understand the concepts and categories that Americans bring to bear. After all, we see the world through our concepts and categories. They identify what's possible, what's desirable, indeed what's visible in the first place. There is simply no possibility of junking all our concepts, stepping outside them, and gaining an unmediated grasp of the world. Here, I offer a sketch of American understandings of conflict. Understandings, not understanding: even in the realm of foreign policy, Americans have long brought intriguingly different categories to bear, categories whose richness isn't captured by some standard …


Social Justice And Fundamental Law: A Comment On Sager's Constitution, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1993

Social Justice And Fundamental Law: A Comment On Sager's Constitution, Terrance Sandalow

Articles

Professor Sager begins his very interesting paper by identifying what he considers a puzzling phenomenon: the Constitution, as interpreted by courts, is not coextensive with "political justice." "This moral shortfall," as he refers to it, represents not merely a failure of achievement, but a failure of aspiration: as customarily interpreted, the Constitution does not even address the full range of issues that are the subject of political justice. Sager regards that failure as surprising-so surprising that, in his words, it "begs for explanation."'


Land Of Fire, Land Of Conquest: The Colorado Plateau And Some Questions For Its Future, Charles F. Wilkinson Jan 1993

Land Of Fire, Land Of Conquest: The Colorado Plateau And Some Questions For Its Future, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Romance Of Revenge: Capital Punishment In America, Samuel R. Gross Jan 1993

The Romance Of Revenge: Capital Punishment In America, Samuel R. Gross

Articles

On February 17, 1992, Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to 15 consecutive terms of life imprisonment for killing and dismembering 15 young men and boys (Associated Press 1992a). Dahmer had been arrested six months earlier, on July 22, 1991. On January 13 he pled guilty to the fifteen murder counts against him, leaving open only the issue of his sanity. Jury selection began two weeks later, and the trial proper started on January 30. The jury heard two weeks of testimony about murder, mutilation and necrophilia; they deliberated for 5 hours before finding that Dahmer was sane when he committed these …


Confirming The Constitution: The Role Of The Senate Judiciary Committee, Stephen Wermiel Jan 1993

Confirming The Constitution: The Role Of The Senate Judiciary Committee, Stephen Wermiel

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

No abstract provided.


Remembering Jefferson, Paul D. Carrington Jan 1993

Remembering Jefferson, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.