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The Scope Of Precedent, Randy J. Kozel
The Scope Of Precedent, Randy J. Kozel
Michigan Law Review
The scope of Supreme Court precedent is capacious. Justices of the Court commonly defer to sweeping rationales and elaborate doctrinal frameworks articulated by their predecessors. This practice infuses judicial precedent with the prescriptive power of enacted constitutional and statutory text. The lower federal courts follow suit, regularly abiding by the Supreme Court’s broad pronouncements. These phenomena cannot be explained by—and, indeed, oftentimes subvert—the classic distinction between binding holdings and dispensable dicta. This Article connects the scope of precedent with recurring and foundational debates about the proper ends of judicial interpretation. A precedent’s forward- looking effect should not depend on the …
Taking States (And Metaphysics) Seriously, Sanford Levinson
Taking States (And Metaphysics) Seriously, Sanford Levinson
Michigan Law Review
Sotirios A. Barber has written many incisive and important books, in addition to coediting an especially interesting casebook on constitutional law and interpretation. He is also a political theorist. An important part of his overall approach to constitutional theory is his philosophical commitment to “moral realism.” He believes in the metaphysical reality of moral and political truths, the most important of which, for any constitutional theorist, involve the meanings of justice and the common good. He not only believes in the ontological reality of such truths — that is, that these truths are more than mere human conventions or social …
The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag
The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag
Michigan Law Review
American liberal thinkers are fascinated with the justification of the liberal state. It is this question of justification that inspires and organizes the work of such leading liberal thinkers as John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Frank Michelman, and Bruce Ackerman. The manifest import and prevalence of the question of justification among liberal thinkers makes it possible to speak here of a certain "practice of liberal justification." This practice displays a certain order and certain recursive characteristics. It is composed of a common ontology and a common narrative. It poses for itself a series of recursive intellectual problems answered with a stock …
Progress And Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel
Progress And Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Robin West, Progressive Constitutionalism: Reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment
Words That Bind: Judicial Review And The Grounds Of Modern Constitutional Theory, John A. Drennan
Words That Bind: Judicial Review And The Grounds Of Modern Constitutional Theory, John A. Drennan
Michigan Law Review
A Review of John Arthur, Words That Bind: Judicial Review and the Grounds of Modern Constitutional Theory
Moral Foundations Of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, Arthur J. Burke
Moral Foundations Of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, Arthur J. Burke
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects by Graham Walker
Beyond The Constitution, Christopher J. Peters
Beyond The Constitution, Christopher J. Peters
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Beyond the Constitution by Hadley Arkes
The Rule Of Recognition And The Constitution, Kent Greenawalt
The Rule Of Recognition And The Constitution, Kent Greenawalt
Michigan Law Review
This essay is about ultimate standards of law in the United States. Not surprisingly, our federal Constitution figures prominently in any account of our ultimate standards of law, and a discussion of its place is an apt jurisprudential endeavor for the bicentennial of the constitutional convention. Although in passing I offer some comments on constitutional principles, this essay is not about how the Constitution, or indeed other legal materials, should be understood and interpreted. Rather, it attempts to discern the jurisprudential implications of widespread practices involving the Constitution and other standards of law.
The Dilemmas Of Individualism: Status, Liberty, And American Constitutional Law, Michigan Law Review
The Dilemmas Of Individualism: Status, Liberty, And American Constitutional Law, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Dilemmas of Individualism: Status, Liberty, and American Constitutional Law by Michael J. Phillips
America's Unwritten Constitution: Science, Religion, And Political Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
America's Unwritten Constitution: Science, Religion, And Political Responsibility, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of America's Unwritten Constitution: Science, Religion, and Political Responsibility by Don K. Price
Judicial Review In Europe, Gottfried Dietze
Judicial Review In Europe, Gottfried Dietze
Michigan Law Review
The years following the Second World War witnessed a wave of constitution making in Europe. In East and West alike, popular government was instituted through new basic laws. But whereas the constitutions of Eastern Europe established a Rousseauistic form. of democracy through the creation of an omnipotent legislature, those of the West, while reflecting a belief in parliamentary government, to a larger or smaller degree limited the power of the legislature through the introduction of judicial review. This acceptance of judicial review can be attributed mainly to two factors. It sprung from a distrust of a parliamentarism under which, during …
Copyright And Morals, Edward S. Rogers
Copyright And Morals, Edward S. Rogers
Michigan Law Review
The basis for national copyright legislation in this country is Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution: "The Congress shall have power * * * to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."