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Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, and Sonja Goldstein
The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein
The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein
Michigan Law Review
The main purpose of this article is to sound a pair of themes about the ways in which these great changes in the nature of wealth have become associated with changes of perhaps comparable magnitude in the timing and in the character of family wealth transmission. My first theme, developed in Part II, concerns human capital. Whereas of old, wealth transmission from parents to children tended to center upon major items of patrimony such as the family farm or the family firm, today for the broad middle classes, wealth transmission centers on a radically different kind of asset: the investment …
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl E. Schneider
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl E. Schneider
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Hard cases, they say, make bad law. Hard cases, we know, can also make revealing law. Hard cases identify the problems we have not found a way of solving. They reveal ways the law's goals conflict. They force us to articulate our assumptions and to examine our modes of discourse and reasoning. If there was ever a hard case for the law, it is the question of whether, how, and by whom it should be decided to allow newborn children who are severely retarded mentally or severely damaged physically to die. For many years, the law has not had to …
When The Teachers And Parents Can't Agree, Who Really Decides - Burdens Of Proof And Standards Of Review Under The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, Thomas F. Guernsey
When The Teachers And Parents Can't Agree, Who Really Decides - Burdens Of Proof And Standards Of Review Under The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, Thomas F. Guernsey
Cleveland State Law Review
Burdens of proof and standards of review can have a significant impact on the outcome of proceedings brought under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act and deserve a more consistently thoughtful approach than has been provided to date. Any confusion that exists may well be the result of courts, including the United States Supreme Court, failing to distinguish the various parts of the administrative process. The simple step of looking realistically at the administrative process (rather than lumping together Local Education Authorities, State Education Authorities, local due process hearings, and state administrative appeals, as the Supreme Court did in …