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Full-Text Articles in Law
A Content Analysis Of Judicial Decision-Making - How Judges Use The Primary Caretaker Standard To Make A Custody Determination, Kathryn L. Mercer
A Content Analysis Of Judicial Decision-Making - How Judges Use The Primary Caretaker Standard To Make A Custody Determination, Kathryn L. Mercer
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Managed Care And Managed Sentencing — A Tale Of Two Systems, Ronald Weich
Managed Care And Managed Sentencing — A Tale Of Two Systems, Ronald Weich
All Faculty Scholarship
The daily injustices mount. The front line professionals who administer the system cry out for more discretion to depart from the rigid rules that bind them, Congress finally hears their call, and is poised to enact sweeping reforms.
Are improvements in federal sentencing law on the way? Probably not in the near future. But the new Congress will surely take up proposals to regulate the managed health care industry, and the impending debate over a proposed "Patients' Bill of Rights" law offers important lessons for federal sentencing policy.
At first blush, sentencing reform and health care reform have about as …
Why Bankruptcy Judges Need Not And Should Not Be Article Iii Judges, Thomas E. Plank
Why Bankruptcy Judges Need Not And Should Not Be Article Iii Judges, Thomas E. Plank
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Judicial Discipline And Judicial Independence, Steven Lubet
Judicial Discipline And Judicial Independence, Steven Lubet
Law and Contemporary Problems
The question of judicial accountability and independence arises primarily in the context of state courts. When it comes to accountability, it is state judges who must be concerned about threates to their independence.
Separating Judicial Power, David P. Currie
Separating Judicial Power, David P. Currie
Law and Contemporary Problems
Currie outlines the development of the status of judges in England and in the US, with a brief reference to the German system. He also discusses some of the more important controversies over judicial independence and accountability that have arisen under the US Constitution.
Comment: Liberty, Prosperity, And A Strong Judicial Institution, Stephen G. Breyer
Comment: Liberty, Prosperity, And A Strong Judicial Institution, Stephen G. Breyer
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Comment On Frederick Schauer's Prediction And Particularity Comment, Gerald F. Leonard
Comment On Frederick Schauer's Prediction And Particularity Comment, Gerald F. Leonard
Faculty Scholarship
Ignorance of the law is generally no excuse. I say generally because the century since the publication of The Path of the Law has brought a small but increasing number of exceptions to the rule. In Oliver Wendell Holmes's day, however, exceptions to the rule were nearly nonexistent, much to Holmes's satisfaction.1 In The Common Law, Holmes said that the law requires persons "at their peril to know the teachings of common experience, just as it requires them to know the law." 2 He did not, of course, actually think that common experience was perfectly knowable or judicial interpretation perfectly …
In Memoriam: Donald Stuart Russell, John C. Moylan Iii
In Memoriam: Donald Stuart Russell, John C. Moylan Iii
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
John Marshall And The Rule Of Law, John V. Orth
John Marshall And The Rule Of Law, John V. Orth
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Newgarth Revisited: Mrs. Robinson's Case, Alexander M. Sanders Jr.
Newgarth Revisited: Mrs. Robinson's Case, Alexander M. Sanders Jr.
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
R. V. R.D.S.: A Political Science Perspective, Jennifer Smith
R. V. R.D.S.: A Political Science Perspective, Jennifer Smith
Dalhousie Law Journal
Political scientists, including those who study Canadian government and politics, regard the judiciary as a component of the system of governance as a whole. They view it as an institution in relation to other institutions. Thus in The Judiciary in Canada: The Third Branch of Government, Peter Russell examines such issues as the structure of the judiciary in the federal system, the separation of powers and judicial independence, and the appointment, promotion and removal of judges.' As well, political scientists follow the development of the law itself, in areas of peculiar relevance to political life, like electoral law, or of …
No Dichotomies: Reflections On Equality Forafrican Canadians In R. V. R.D.S., April Burey
No Dichotomies: Reflections On Equality Forafrican Canadians In R. V. R.D.S., April Burey
Dalhousie Law Journal
The contrasts, in form and substance, were stark. In form, I was a black woman in a wheelchair, pleading before an all-white, able-bodied and almost all-male Supreme Court of Canada. The usually empty public galleries in the Ottawa courtroom were filled with people of colour, who had come from across the country to witness the hearing of this landmark case. On their entrance, the nine white judges, dressed in their staid, black robes made an almost audible gasp as they were met with this colourfully clad, intently silent band of people of colour.
What's The Difference? Interpretation, Identity And R. V. R.D.S., Allan Hutchinson, Kathleen Strachan
What's The Difference? Interpretation, Identity And R. V. R.D.S., Allan Hutchinson, Kathleen Strachan
Dalhousie Law Journal
Lawyers hanker after authority. Whether it be in enforcing the law or justifying law's institutional power, there is an almost desperate yearning to establish and maintain the legitimacy of law and, therefore, of themselves, in a social world in which the whole notion of authority is challenged and undermined. When it comes to matters of legal interpretation, jurists and judges still crave some method that will ground or trace back an interpretation to a foundational or ultimate source that can confer authority on one particular interpretation over another. However, recent jurisprudential debate has done fatal damage to the notion that …
Remembering The Fourth Circuit Judges: A History From 1941 To 1998
Remembering The Fourth Circuit Judges: A History From 1941 To 1998
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Father Chief Justice": E. D. White And The Constitution, A Play, Paul R. Baier
"Father Chief Justice": E. D. White And The Constitution, A Play, Paul R. Baier
Louisiana Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Matter Of Power: Structural Federalism And Separation Doctrine In The Present, Frances Howell Rudko
A Matter Of Power: Structural Federalism And Separation Doctrine In The Present, Frances Howell Rudko
Faculty Publications
Public reaction to the 1823 Supreme Court decision in Green v. Biddle prompted John Marshall’s letter to Henry Clay, who had argued the case as amicus curiae for the defendant. The letter is significant because Marshall, who had been a legislator himself, candidly expresses not only his personal dissatisfaction with the congressional assault on the 1823 decision but also the constitutional basis for his opinion. The significance of Marshall’s extrajudicial opinion becomes more apparent when it is considered in the aftermath of the recent tug-of-war between Congress and the Court which culminated in the decision in City of Boerne v. …
Similarities And Differences Between Judges In The Judicial Branch And The Executive Branch: The Further Evolution Of Executive Adjudications Under The Administrative Central Panel, Chris Mcneil
Christopher B. McNeil, J.D., Ph.D.
No abstract provided.
Introduction: Symposium On Constitutional Elitism, Robert F. Nagel
Introduction: Symposium On Constitutional Elitism, Robert F. Nagel
Publications
No abstract provided.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Judges But Were Afraid To Ask, Alexander M. Sanders Jr.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Judges But Were Afraid To Ask, Alexander M. Sanders Jr.
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
"Batson" For The Bench? Regulating The Peremptory Challenge Of Judges, Nancy J. King
"Batson" For The Bench? Regulating The Peremptory Challenge Of Judges, Nancy J. King
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The choice of whether to adopt or preserve judicial peremptories should not turn on the resolution of one issue. The risk that such challenges will be used to discriminate between judges on the basis of race must be considered along with the other disadvantages of the challenge and weighed against its potential benefits. Nevertheless, if there is one lesson to be learned from the last few decades of scrutiny of the criminal justice system, it is that discretion can and will be used to discriminate. This difficulty weighs heavily against injecting into our justice system additional discretionary opportunities for litigants …
The Religious Dimension Of Judicial Decision Making And The Defacto Disestablishment, Mark C. Modak-Truran
The Religious Dimension Of Judicial Decision Making And The Defacto Disestablishment, Mark C. Modak-Truran
Journal Articles
Despite the de facto disestablishment of religion, I will try to illustrate the centrality of religion as a resource for understanding judicial decision making. The central question for this inquiry is: What, if any, is the role of religious beliefs in judicial decision making?
Authorizing Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
Unmet Expectations: Undue Restriction Of The Reasonable Expectations Approach And The Misleading Mythology Of Judicial Role, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Unmet Expectations: Undue Restriction Of The Reasonable Expectations Approach And The Misleading Mythology Of Judicial Role, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
A complete and open embrace of the pure version of the doctrine as enunciated in Judge Keeton's famous article--which expressly provides for finding coverage consistent with the objectively reasonable expectations of the policyholder even where those expectations are contradicted by apparently clear policy language --is viewed by much of the legal and political mainstream as too inconsistent with the prevailing American paradigm of judicial restraint, strict construction of disputed texts, and minimal government involvement in market activity. Some of this resistance to reasonable expectations is the product of an unrealistic reification of the prevailing American politico-legal philosophy of judicial restraint. …
A More Complete Look At Complexity, Jeffrey W. Stempel
A More Complete Look At Complexity, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The ability of courts to successfully resolve complex cases has been a matter of contentious debate, not only for the last quarter-century, but for most of the twentieth century. This debate has been part of the legal landscape at least since Judge Jerome Frank's polemic book from which this Symposium derives its title, and probably since Roscoe Pound's famous address to the American Bar Association. During the 1980s and 1990s in particular, the battlelines of the pro-and anti-court debate have been brightly drawn. Some commentators, most reliably successful plaintiffs' counsel and politically liberal academics, defend the judicial track record in …
The American "Adversary System"?, William T. Pizzi