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Race, Family, And Obligation, Rodney C. Roberts
Race, Family, And Obligation, Rodney C. Roberts
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Lecture Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, January 16, 1995.
Workshop Draft For Reading The Mind Of The Private Law - 1995, Wendy J. Gordon
Workshop Draft For Reading The Mind Of The Private Law - 1995, Wendy J. Gordon
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Eventually, I hope to produce an article or book called "Reading the Mind of the Private Law." In this project I hope to do three connected things: to simplify the underlying patterns of the common law and associated statutes to make them more comprehensible to newcomers; to provide a more accurately descriptive and more normatively attractive' story' than Posner's notion of value-maximization; and to make sophisticated lawyers' understanding of legal patterns more complete by including an explicit focus on benefits. (Traditional jurisprudence focuses more on harms than on benefits; even the practitioners of economic analysis, which technically speaking should be …
Two Papers On Environmentalism Ii: Resources And Environmental Policy, Jan Narveson
Two Papers On Environmentalism Ii: Resources And Environmental Policy, Jan Narveson
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethlcs in Society - November 21, 1994.
Two Papers On Environmentalism - I: Environmental Ethics And Value In The World, John Post
Two Papers On Environmentalism - I: Environmental Ethics And Value In The World, John Post
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Presented to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - November 14, 1994.
The Return Of Lost Property According To Jewish & Common Law: A Comparison, Michael J. Broyde, Michael Hecht
The Return Of Lost Property According To Jewish & Common Law: A Comparison, Michael J. Broyde, Michael Hecht
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This article compares the legal rules and jurisprudence of the American common law and Jewish law in the area of finding and returning lost or abandoned property, illustrating the interplay between the purely legal and ethical components of the respective legal systems. Surprisingly enough, the differences between the two systems are not usually significant; they follow the same basic legal principles, and typically lead to the same results. There are, however, two major exceptions: Jewish law imposes a duty to rescue the lost property of one's neighbor, while the common law does not require that one initiate the process by …
What's Wrong With Exploitation?, Justin Schwartz
What's Wrong With Exploitation?, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
Abstract: Marx thinks that capitalism is exploitative, and that is a major basis for his objections to it. But what's wrong with exploitation, as Marx sees it? (The paper is exegetical in character: my object is to understand what Marx believed,) The received view, held by Norman Geras, G.A. Cohen, and others, is that Marx thought that capitalism was unjust, because in the crudest sense, capitalists robbed labor of property that was rightfully the workers' because the workers and not the capitalists produced it. This view depends on a Labor Theory of Property (LTP), that property rights are based ultimately …
In Defence Of Exploitation, Justin Schwartz
In Defence Of Exploitation, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
The concept of exploitation is thought to be central to Marx's Critique of capitalism. John Roemer, an analytical (then-) Marxist economist now at Yale, attacked this idea in a series of papers and books in the 1970s-1990s, arguing that Marxists should be concerned with inequality rather than exploitation -- with distribution rather than production, precisely the opposite of what Marx urged in The Critique of the Gotha Progam.
This paper expounds and criticizes Roemer's objections and his alternative inequality based theory of exploitation, while accepting some of his criticisms. It may be viewed as a companion paper to my What's …
Michigan's Deadlocked Commission On Death And Dying: A Lesson In Politics And Legalism, Joseph Ellin
Michigan's Deadlocked Commission On Death And Dying: A Lesson In Politics And Legalism, Joseph Ellin
Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers
Based on a presentation made to the WMU Center for the Study of Ethics in Society - September 21, 1994.
Changing Notions Of State Agency In International Law: The Case Of Paul Touvier, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Changing Notions Of State Agency In International Law: The Case Of Paul Touvier, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
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No abstract provided.
Regulating Violence On Television, Harry T. Edwards, Mitchell N. Berman
Regulating Violence On Television, Harry T. Edwards, Mitchell N. Berman
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Religious Particularity, Religious Metaphor, And Religious Truth: Listening To Tom Shaffer, Howard Lesnick
Religious Particularity, Religious Metaphor, And Religious Truth: Listening To Tom Shaffer, Howard Lesnick
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Making Motions: The Embodiment Of Law In Gestures, Bernard J. Hibbitts
Making Motions: The Embodiment Of Law In Gestures, Bernard J. Hibbitts
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In contemporary America, the locus of legal meaning is habitually deemed to be the written word. This article pushes our conception of law’s “text” beyond its traditional inscripted bounds by focusing on physical gesture as a legal instrumentality. The few studies of legal gesture undertaken to date have explained its prominence in various legal systems and cultural environments, the significance of specific legal gestures in specific historic contexts, and the depiction of legal gestures in particular manuscripts or other specific physical settings, but no one has considered the general functions of legal gesture as a modality.
In an effort to …
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
Justice, Liability, And Blame: Community Views And The Criminal Law, Paul H. Robinson, John M. Darley
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This book reports empirical studies on 18 different areas of substantive criminal law in which the study results showing ordinary people’s judgments of justice are compared to the governing legal doctrine to highlight points of agreement and disagreement. The book also identifies trends and patterns in agreement and disagreement and discusses the implications for the formulation of criminal law. The chapters include:
Chapter 1. Community Views and the Criminal Law (Introduction; An Overview; Why Community Views Should Matter; Research Methods)
Chapter 2. Doctrines of Criminalization: What Conduct Should Be Criminal? (Objective Requirements of Attempt (Study 1); Creating a Criminal Risk …
Disquiet On The Eastern Front: Liberal Agendas, Domestic Legal Orders, And The Role Of International Law After The Cold War And Amid Resurgent Cultural Identities, Jacques Delisle
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The Unrealized Power Of Mother, Dorothy E. Roberts
The Unrealized Power Of Mother, Dorothy E. Roberts
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The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
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Does Pro-Choice Mean Pro-Kevorkian? An Essay On Roe, Casey, And The Right To Die, Seth F. Kreimer
Does Pro-Choice Mean Pro-Kevorkian? An Essay On Roe, Casey, And The Right To Die, Seth F. Kreimer
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Cross-Cultural Commerce In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anita L. Allen, Michael R. Seidl
Cross-Cultural Commerce In Shakespeare's The Merchant Of Venice, Anita L. Allen, Michael R. Seidl
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Duress: A Philosophical Account Of The Defense In Law, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Duress: A Philosophical Account Of The Defense In Law, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
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