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The Thin Blue Line: Art Or Trial In The Fact-Finding Process?, Bennett L. Gershman
The Thin Blue Line: Art Or Trial In The Fact-Finding Process?, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Part I of this Commentary objectively analyzes The Thin Blue Line, focusing on the film’s monologues, dramatizations, and exhibits. The film's organizational structure roughly parallels the stages of the criminal justice process, from the investigation and arrest of Adams to his trial, conviction, sentence, and post-conviction litigation. The prologue and epilogue unify the story. Part II attempts to explain the bizarre judicial result, focusing on the prosecutor's dominant role in the criminal justice process. It concludes, as does the film, that one of the fundamental features of our legal system - the intrinsic ability of the adversary process to discover …
Conflict Resolution In Industrial Relations, Theodore J. St. Antoine
Conflict Resolution In Industrial Relations, Theodore J. St. Antoine
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Only about one-fifth of the American labor force is unionized. With certain important exceptions, therefore, no formal machinery exists to resolve the various disputes that arise between a majority of the country's workers and their employers. The exception, which will not be treated in detail in this study, relate to (1) the right to organize into unions, which has been protected in most of the private sector since 1935 by the National Labor Relations Act and in the public sector since the 1960s by federal law and regulation covering U.S. Government employees and by statutes in about thirty states covering …