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The Tenuous Case For Conscience, Steven D. Smith
The Tenuous Case For Conscience, Steven D. Smith
Steven D. Smith
If there is any single theme that has provided the foundation of modern liberalism and has infused our more specific constitutional commitments to freedom of religion and freedom of speech, that theme is probably “freedom of conscience.” But some observers also perceive a progressive cheapening of conscience– even a sort of degradation. Such criticisms suggest the need for a contemporary rethinking of conscience. When we reverently invoke “conscience,” do we have any idea what we are talking about? Or are we just exploiting a venerable theme for rhetorical purposes without any clear sense of what “conscience” is or why it …
Pignus In Causa Iudicati Captum And Execution Of Judgment According To Post-Classical Roman Law, Alexey Rudakov
Pignus In Causa Iudicati Captum And Execution Of Judgment According To Post-Classical Roman Law, Alexey Rudakov
Alexey Rudakov
No abstract provided.
Emerging Models For Alternatives To Marriage, Sanford N. Katz
Emerging Models For Alternatives To Marriage, Sanford N. Katz
Sanford N. Katz
Perhaps one of the most important changes in family law in the past thirty years has been the inclusion of certain kinds of friendships in the range of relationships from which rights and responsibilities can flow. Domestic partnership laws, a phenomenon of the 1990s, may be seen as a natural development from the judicial recognition of contract cohabitation and the legislative and judicial response to same-sex couples who, unable to meet statutory requirements for marriage, have sought official recognition of their relationships. This essay discusses an aspect of certain kinds of domestic partnership laws-their formal requirements and the extent to …
Immigrant Laws, Obstacle Preemption And The Lost Legacy Of Mcculloch, Lauren Gilbert
Immigrant Laws, Obstacle Preemption And The Lost Legacy Of Mcculloch, Lauren Gilbert
Lauren Gilbert
Using Congress’ perceived failure to enforce the immigration laws as a backdrop, this paper will explore how the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Chamber of Commerce v.Whiting upholding the Legal Arizona Workers Act exposes some of the tensions and contradictions in modern preemption doctrine. Examining the relationship among express, field, impossibility and obstacle preemption, I explore three emerging trends, all evident in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting. The first is an increasing reluctance of the Court to find implied obstacle preemption. The second related trend is an inclination to expand the scope of impossibility preemption beyond the physical impossibility cases. …
Restoring The Natural Law: Copyright As Labor And Possession, Alfred C. Yen
Restoring The Natural Law: Copyright As Labor And Possession, Alfred C. Yen
Alfred C. Yen
In this Article, Professor Yen explores the problems associated with viewing copyright solely as a tool for achieving economic efficiency and advocates for the restoration of natural law to copyright jurisprudence. The Article demonstrates that economics has not been solely responsible for copyright’s development and basic structure, but has rather developed along lines suggested by neutral law, despite modern copyright jurisprudence. The Article considers the consequences of extinguishing copyright’s natural law facets in favor of the blind pursuit of efficiency and concludes by exploring the implications of restoring natural law thinking to copyright jurisprudence.
The Development Of Charity: Anti-Poverty Measures Of Ancient Jewish Law & Jurisprudence, William H. Byrnes Iv
The Development Of Charity: Anti-Poverty Measures Of Ancient Jewish Law & Jurisprudence, William H. Byrnes Iv
William H Byrnes IV
This article describes the ancient Jewish practices, codified in Biblical law and later legal commentary, to protect the needy. The Jews’ anti-poverty measures - including regulation of agriculture, loans, working conditions, and customs for sharing at feasts - were a significant development in the jurisprudence of charity. The first half begins with a brief history of ancient Jewish civilization, providing context for the development of charity by exploring the living conditions of the poor. The second half concludes with a description of the Jewish laws, Mishnah and Talmudic commentary, as well as the practice and codification of Rabbinical teaching that …
The Legal Education Of A Patriot: Josiah Quincy Jr.'S Law Commonplace (1763), Daniel R. Coquillette
The Legal Education Of A Patriot: Josiah Quincy Jr.'S Law Commonplace (1763), Daniel R. Coquillette
Daniel R. Coquillette
This article is based on the exciting discovery of a never before printed Law Commonplace, written by the 18th-century lawyer and patriot, Josiah Quincy, Junior. Quincy was co-counsel with Adams in the famous Boston Massacre Trial, a leader of Committee on Correspondence and the Sons of Liberty, and author of the first American law reports. His Law Commonplace provides an exceptional window into the political, racial and gender controversies of the evolving American legal system, and profoundly challenges our conventional views on the origin of American legal education. In certain areas, particularly jury trial, it also has present constitutional significance, …
"The Purer Fountains": Bacon And Legal Education, Daniel R. Coquillette
"The Purer Fountains": Bacon And Legal Education, Daniel R. Coquillette
Daniel R. Coquillette
Today, the classical underpinnings of American legal education are under intense critical review. The dominant pedagogy, the case book and the Socratic method, were established by Christopher Columbus Langdell (1806-1906) at Harvard Law School more than a century ago. Together with Langdell's first year curriculum, which was exclusively focused on Anglo-American common law doctrine, and his emphasis on a competitive, anonymous graded meritocracy, this system still exercises an incredible grip on elite American law schools. But Langdell's 19th Century model has now been challenged by many rivals, including critical legal studies, law and economics empiricism, global curriculums, and clinical instruction. …
Review Of Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship And Business Organization, 1720-1844, James S. Rogers
Review Of Industrializing English Law: Entrepreneurship And Business Organization, 1720-1844, James S. Rogers
James S. Rogers
No abstract provided.
Save The Economy: Break Up The Big Banks And Shape Up The Regulators, Charles W. Murdock
Save The Economy: Break Up The Big Banks And Shape Up The Regulators, Charles W. Murdock
Charles W. Murdock
Save the Economy: Break Up the Big Banks and Shape Up the Regulators
The U.S. economy is still reeling from the financial crisis that exploded in the fall of 2008. This article asserts that the big banks were major culprits in causing the crisis, by funding the non-bank lenders that created the toxic mortgages which the big banks securitized and sold to unwary investors. Paradoxically, banks which were then too big to fail are even larger today.
The article briefly reviews the history of banking from the Founding Fathers to the deregulatory mindset that has been present since 1980. It …
Dora And William Donner Were Busy People, Richard H. Maloy
Dora And William Donner Were Busy People, Richard H. Maloy
Richard Maloy
No abstract provided.
Private Rights Or Public Wrongs? The Crime Victims Rights Act Of 2004 In Historical Context, Christopher J. Truxler
Private Rights Or Public Wrongs? The Crime Victims Rights Act Of 2004 In Historical Context, Christopher J. Truxler
Christopher J. Truxler
Historically, crime victims served as policemen, investigators, and private prosecutors, and were regarded as law enforcement’s most dependable catalyst. The Crime Victim’s Rights Act of 2004 grants crime victims eight substantive and procedural rights and breathes new life into the common law idea that crime is both a public wrong and a private injury. The Act has, however, elicited ardent criticism. Opponents contend that the Act is both bad policy and, most likely, unconstitutional. Without commenting on the Act’s policy or constitutionality, this article places the Crime Victims’ Rights Act within a broader historical context where victims’ needs can be …
From Barbarity To Regularity: A Case Study Of Unnecesarean Malpractice Claims, Jamie Abrams
From Barbarity To Regularity: A Case Study Of Unnecesarean Malpractice Claims, Jamie Abrams
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Checking The Staats: How Long Is Too Long To Give Adequate Public Notice In Broadening Reissue Patent Applications?, David M. Longo
Checking The Staats: How Long Is Too Long To Give Adequate Public Notice In Broadening Reissue Patent Applications?, David M. Longo
David M. Longo
No abstract provided.
Copyrighting Shakespeare: Jacob Tonson, Eighteenth Century English Copyright And The Birth Of Shakespeare Scholarship, Jeffrey M. Gaba
Copyrighting Shakespeare: Jacob Tonson, Eighteenth Century English Copyright And The Birth Of Shakespeare Scholarship, Jeffrey M. Gaba
Jeffrey M. Gaba
In 1709, Jacob Tonson, the most significant publisher of his age, purchased the “copyright” to Shakespeare. Tonson and his family over the next fifty years went on to publish some of the most significant editions of the collected works of Shakespeare, edited by the likes of Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson. In many ways, the Tonsons were responsible for the growth of Shakespeare’s popularity and the critical study of his work. This article discusses the significance of copyright to the Tonsons’ publication decisions. It suggests that the Tonson copyright did not significantly “encourage” their contributions to Shakespeare scholarship. …
Popular Originalism? The Tea Party And Constitutional Theory, Rebecca Zietlow
Popular Originalism? The Tea Party And Constitutional Theory, Rebecca Zietlow
Rebecca E Zietlow
The United States Constitution is currently the subject of a heated political debate. Tea Party activists have invoked the constitution as the foundation of their conservative political philosophy. These activists are engaged in “popular originalism,” using popular constitutionalism, constitutional interpretation outside of the courts, to invoke originalism as constitutional method. The Tea Party movement thus provides an excellent heuristic to explore the relationship between originalism and popular constitutionalism, two prominent trends in constitutional theory. Both originalists and popular constitutionalists study legal history to illuminate constitutional meaning, but the two schools of thought draw diverging lessons from that history. Originalists look …
Popular Originalism? The Tea Party And Constitutional Theory, Rebecca Zietlow
Popular Originalism? The Tea Party And Constitutional Theory, Rebecca Zietlow
Rebecca E Zietlow
The United States Constitution is currently the subject of a heated political debate. Tea Party activists have invoked the constitution as the foundation of their conservative political philosophy. These activists are engaged in “popular originalism,” using popular constitutionalism, constitutional interpretation outside of the courts, to invoke originalism as constitutional method. The Tea Party movement thus provides an excellent heuristic to explore the relationship between originalism and popular constitutionalism, two prominent trends in constitutional theory. Both originalists and popular constitutionalists study legal history to illuminate constitutional meaning, but the two schools of thought draw diverging lessons from that history. Originalists look …
Puritanism, Godliness, And Political Development In Boston & The General Court (1630-1640), Peter Mazzacano
Puritanism, Godliness, And Political Development In Boston & The General Court (1630-1640), Peter Mazzacano
Peter Mazzacano
The goal of this article is to examine the degree to which Puritanism influenced early American political culture. That is, how did Puritan values and practices facilitate the development of an exceptional political culture during the formative years of Massachusetts Bay? Utilizing a case-study method of analysis, this article examines the political developments in the General Court and the town of Boston during the decade 1630 to 1640. The research methods used are primarily the writings of leading Puritans, and concomitant town, church, and colonial records. The main finding is that the Puritans paid little heed to notions of democracy, …
Committing Crimes One Bill At A Time; From The White House To The Jail House, Enacting Rational Laws In An Irrational World, Lanessa Owens
Committing Crimes One Bill At A Time; From The White House To The Jail House, Enacting Rational Laws In An Irrational World, Lanessa Owens
Lanessa L. owens
Committing Crimes One Bill At Time; From The White House To The Jail House, Enacting Rational Laws In An Irrational World.
From Masters’ and Slaves’, to Gays’ and Straights’, you think they are different; I will convince you they are the same. I will demonstrate how legislatures have historically and continually abused their power to enact laws. Under the disguise of some governmental interest, legislatures continue to create, enact, and enforce bias laws. This article imports Criminal Procedure into Constitutional Law to create a proactive solution to the ongoing problem of law making. It is this author contention that the …
From Racial Discrimination To Separate But Equal: The Common Law Impact Of The Thirteenth Amendment, David S. Bogen
From Racial Discrimination To Separate But Equal: The Common Law Impact Of The Thirteenth Amendment, David S. Bogen
David S. Bogen
Many forces produced the shift in the United States from the acceptance of slavery and racial inequality to the doctrine of separate but equal. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and authorized legislation to enforce that abolition, but these well-known direct effects are only part of the story. This paper examines the Amendment’s indirect impact on racial discrimination – furthering a standard of equality in public relationships without threatening the existing racial separation. The Amendment is evidence of a change in values that justified overturning prior decisions, and abolition created a new context for legislation and common law decisions. It reinforced …
Schneckloth V. Bustamonte: History’S Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly, Brian Gallini
Schneckloth V. Bustamonte: History’S Unspoken Fourth Amendment Anomaly, Brian Gallini
Brian Gallini
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
“You’Re Creating New Categories:” Anglo-American Radical Feminism’S Constitutionalism In The Streets, Yxta M. Murray
Yxta M. Murray
In "You’re Creating New Categories:" Anglo-American Radical Feminism’s Constitutionalism in the Streets, I examine the constitutional meaning of two political protests: The 1968 Miss America protest by New York Radical Women and the 1970 British radical feminist protest of the Miss World competition in London. Using the work of Reva Siegel, Jack Balkin, and Lynda G. Dodd as a foundation for my inquiry into how these social movement protests influenced constitutional culture concerning women's rights, I first engage in historical and social analyses of the protests themselves. In particular, I study the different approaches the U.S. and British feminists had …
Getting Away With Murder (Most Of The Time): A Sesquicentennial Analysis Of Civil War Era Homicide Cases In Boone County, Missouri, Frank O. Bowman Iii
Getting Away With Murder (Most Of The Time): A Sesquicentennial Analysis Of Civil War Era Homicide Cases In Boone County, Missouri, Frank O. Bowman Iii
Frank O. Bowman III
In the quarter century centered on the Civil War, 1850-1875, fifty-three homicide cases came before the courts of Boone County, Missouri, of which Columbia, home of the University of Missouri, is the county seat. To remarkable degree, the story of these killings, told in this article, is a chronicle of the place and period.
The article’s method might be described as “murder as social history.” Its narrative thread is an effort to explain the remarkable fact that only twelve of the fifty-three defendants charged with murder were ever convicted of any form of criminal homicide. The explanation requires an introduction …
Individual Mandates: A Founder-Approved Means Under The Necessary And Proper Clause, Eli Alcaraz
Individual Mandates: A Founder-Approved Means Under The Necessary And Proper Clause, Eli Alcaraz
Eli A Alcaraz
The Affordable Health Care Act’s (“ACA”) individual mandate requiring most Americans to purchase healthcare was challenged as unconstitutional even before the ACA was passed. Challengers to the ACA assert that the federal government has never been allowed to force an individual to make a purchase from a private entity and that the ACA’s requirement that an individual do so is unconstitutional. This Comment takes issue with those asserting that an “individual mandate” is a contemporary invention and unconstitutional. As a matter of fact, there is at least one historical example where the federal government has forced individuals to makes purchases …
The Marginalist Revolution In Corporate Finance: 1880-1965, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
The Marginalist Revolution In Corporate Finance: 1880-1965, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries fundamental changes in economic thought revolutionized the theory of corporate finance, leading to changes in its legal regulation. The changes were massive, and this branch of financial analysis and law became virtually unrecognizable to those who had practiced it earlier. The source of this revision was the marginalist, or neoclassical, revolution in economic thought. The classical theory had seen corporate finance as an historical, relatively self-executing inquiry based on the classical theory of value and administered by common law courts. By contrast, neoclassical value theory was forward looking and as a result …
Justice Holmes At The Intersection Of Philosophical And Legal Pragmatism, Seth C. Vannatta
Justice Holmes At The Intersection Of Philosophical And Legal Pragmatism, Seth C. Vannatta
Seth C Vannatta
Because of the prolific scholarship on legal theory by Judge Richard Posner, especially since his turn away from law and economics toward “pragmatism,” legal scholars began reading “legal pragmatism” as references to Posner’s thought alone. My present task is part of a larger process of rethinking Posner’s version of legal pragmatism. Posner’s inspiration for his turn toward pragmatism can be attributed, in large measure, to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Posner buys into three central insights of legal pragmatism, whose origins lie in the work of Holmes, anti-formalism, the prediction theory of the law, and a modicum of indeterminacy in judicial …
Saturday Night With Elliot Richardson And Robert Bork: A Case Study In Exemplary Executive Branch Lawyering, Jason S. Harrow
Saturday Night With Elliot Richardson And Robert Bork: A Case Study In Exemplary Executive Branch Lawyering, Jason S. Harrow
Jason S Harrow
In the wake of both the “torture memos” written by the Bush Administration’s Office of Legal Counsel and the U.S. Attorney scandal that led to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, a large literature appeared criticizing the performance of high-ranking Bush-era executive branch lawyers. But there is very literature highlighting incidents of good executive branch lawyering — especially under trying circumstances.
In this article, I try to buck this trend by examining the events surrounding the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre”: the extraordinary evening in October of 1973 when President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate Special …
“Health Laws Of Every Description”: John Marshall’S Ruling On A Federal Health Care Law, David B. Kopel, Robert G. Natelson
“Health Laws Of Every Description”: John Marshall’S Ruling On A Federal Health Care Law, David B. Kopel, Robert G. Natelson
David B Kopel
If John Marshall, the greatest of Chief Justices, were to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, how would he rule? Would the nationalist justice who, according to the New Deal Supreme Court, “described the Federal commerce power with a breadth never yet exceeded,” agree that federal control of health care was within that power?
In the fictional opinion below, Marshall rules on the constitutionality of a bill similar to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
We constructed this opinion chiefly from direct quotation and paraphrases of Marshall’s own words, …
The Kennedy-Hoffa Showdown: Why Congressional Investigations Need Greater Powers And Procedural Leeway Than Prosecutions, Nicholas C. Stewart
The Kennedy-Hoffa Showdown: Why Congressional Investigations Need Greater Powers And Procedural Leeway Than Prosecutions, Nicholas C. Stewart
Nicholas C Stewart
ABSTRACT:
This 9,400-word article uses the feud between Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa as a case study to examine how and why congressional investigations differ from criminal prosecutions. It begins with a discussion of the 1950s congressional investigation into labor racketeering. Armed with this illustrative example, the article explores the relationship among (1) the purposes of congressional investigations (namely lawmaking), (2) the powers enjoyed by committees to achieve these purposes, and (3) the protections afforded committee witnesses. Highlighting the dangers inherent in congressional investigations, this article concludes that the ultimate goal of passing or amending laws presents unique challenges that …
A Brief History Of Fruit And Vegetable Juice Regulation In The United States, Ryan A. Ward
A Brief History Of Fruit And Vegetable Juice Regulation In The United States, Ryan A. Ward
Ryan A Ward
This Paper chronicles the interesting history behind fruit and vegetable juice regulation in the United States. Part I discusses the use of tariffs and standards of identity to regulate juice from the early 1900s until the 1970s. Part II traces the history of labeling regulations for both 100 percent juices and diluted juice beverages — focusing on the 1974 diluted-juice proposal that was stalled for nearly fifteen years. Part III briefly describes the current label-focused approach adopted by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Part IV concludes.