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Full-Text Articles in Law
Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz
Structural Labor Rights, Hiba Hafiz
Michigan Law Review
American labor law was designed to ensure equal bargaining power between workers and employers. But workers’ collective power against increasingly dominant employers has disintegrated. With union density at an abysmal 6.2 percent in the private sector—a level unequaled since the Great Depression— the vast majority of workers depend only on individual negotiations with employers to lift stagnant wages and ensure upward economic mobility. But decentralized, individual bargaining is not enough. Economists and legal scholars increasingly agree that, absent regulation to protect workers’ collective rights, labor markets naturally strengthen employers’ bargaining power over workers. Existing labor and antitrust law have failed …
Purple Haze, Clare Huntington
Purple Haze, Clare Huntington
Michigan Law Review
It takes only a glance at the headlines every political season-with battles over issues ranging from abortion and abstinence-only education to same-sex marriage and single parenthood-to see that the culture wars have become a fixed feature of the American political landscape. The real puzzle is why these divides continue to resonate so powerfully. In Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture, Naomi Cahn and June Carbone offer an ambitious addition to our understanding of this puzzle, illustrating pointedly why it is so hard to talk across the political divide. In a telling anecdote in the …
Comparative Constitutionalism In A New Key, Paul W. Kahn
Comparative Constitutionalism In A New Key, Paul W. Kahn
Michigan Law Review
Law is a symbolic system that structures the political imagination. The "rule of law" is a shorthand expression for a cultural practice that constructs a particular understanding of time and space, of subjects and groups, as well as of authority and legitimacy. It is a way of projecting, maintaining, and discovering meaning in the world of historical events and political possibilities. The rule of law - as opposed to the techniques of lawyering - is not the possession of lawyers. It is a characterization of the polity, which operates both descriptively and normatively in public perception. Ours, we believe, is …
Constitutional Fact And Theory: A Response To Chief Judge Posner, Deborah Jones Merritt
Constitutional Fact And Theory: A Response To Chief Judge Posner, Deborah Jones Merritt
Michigan Law Review
In his James Madison Lecture on Constitutional Law, Chief Judge Richard Posner chides both professors and judges for devoting too much attention to constitutional theory and too little time to empiricism. Although I agree with Judge Posner's endorsement of empiricism, I dispute the roles he assigns empiricism and theory. Social science matters when interpreting the Constitution, but not in the way Posner posits. Facts cannot replace constitutional theories, nor can they mechanically resolve questions posed by theory. Instead, empirical knowledge is most useful in unmasking the theoretical assumptions that undergird constitutional law, in focusing those theories, and in contributing to …
Reflecting On The Subject: A Critique Of The Social Influence Conception Of Deterrence, The Broken Windows Theory, And Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style, Bernard E. Harcourt
Reflecting On The Subject: A Critique Of The Social Influence Conception Of Deterrence, The Broken Windows Theory, And Order-Maintenance Policing New York Style, Bernard E. Harcourt
Michigan Law Review
In 1993, New York City began implementing the quality-of-life initiative, an order-maintenance policing strategy targeting minor misdemeanor offenses like turnstile jumping, aggressive panhandling, and public drinking. The policing initiative is premised on the broken windows theory of deterrence, namely the hypothesis that minor physical and social disorder, if left unattended in a neighborhood, causes serious crime. New York City's new policing strategy has met with overwhelming support in the press and among public officials, policymakers, sociologists, criminologists and political scientists. The media describe the "famous" Broken Windows essay as "the bible of policing" and "the blueprint for community policing." Order-maintenance …
Gossip And Metaphysics: The Personal Turn In Jurisprudential Writing, Michael Ansaldi
Gossip And Metaphysics: The Personal Turn In Jurisprudential Writing, Michael Ansaldi
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Neil Duxbury, Patterns of American Jurisprudence and John Henry Schlegel American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science
Law And Rhetoric, Richard H. Weisberg
Law And Rhetoric, Richard H. Weisberg
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law by James Boyd White
Law And Social Science, Richard D. Schwartz
Law And Social Science, Richard D. Schwartz
Michigan Law Review
A Review of An Invitation to Law and Social Science: Desert, Disputes, and Distribution by Richard Lempert and Joseph Sanders
Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg
Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Inside the Jury by Reid Hastie, Steven Penrod and Nancy Pennington
A New Theory Of Social Control, Charles R. Tittle
A New Theory Of Social Control, Charles R. Tittle
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Norms, Deviance, and Social Control: Conceptual Matters by Jack P. Gibbs
The Use/Nonuse/Misuse Of Applied Social Research In The Courts, Michigan Law Review
The Use/Nonuse/Misuse Of Applied Social Research In The Courts, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Use/Nonuse/Misuse of Applied Social Research in the Courts edited by Michael J. Saks and Charles H. Baron
Judgment Non Obstantibus Datis, Reid Hastie
Judgment Non Obstantibus Datis, Reid Hastie
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Jury Trials by John Baldwin and Michael McConville
Nagel: The Legal Process From A Behavioral Perspective, G. Theodore Mitau
Nagel: The Legal Process From A Behavioral Perspective, G. Theodore Mitau
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Legal Process from a Behavioral Perspective by Stuart S. Nagel
Predicting Court Cases Quantitatively, Stuart Nagel
Predicting Court Cases Quantitatively, Stuart Nagel
Michigan Law Review
This article illustrates and systematically compares three methods for quantitatively predicting case outcomes. The three methods are correlation, regression, and discriminant analysis, all of which involve standard social science research techniques. Two prior articles have generated requests for a study dealing with the problems involved in handling a larger number of cases and predictive variables. The present article is also designed to provide such a study. It does not presuppose that the reader has read the earlier articles, although such a reading might help to clarify further some of the points made here. The cases used to illustrate the methods …
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope and Limitations . By Samuel I. Shuman
Social Scientists Take The Stand: A Review And Appraisal Of Their Testimony In Litigation, Jack Greenberg
Social Scientists Take The Stand: A Review And Appraisal Of Their Testimony In Litigation, Jack Greenberg
Michigan Law Review
"How to inform the judicial mind, as you know, is one of the most complicated problems,'' said Justice Frankfurter during argument of the school segregation cases. And as law deals more and more with issues of great public consequence the judiciary's need for knowledge increases. Much of this knowledge is within the realm of what are called the social sciences.
Although jurisprudents and social scientists have long complained of a gulf between law and social science, little notice has been given to the recent, recurrent collaboration between the two at the trial level. In a variety of cases social scientists' …
Bailey, Simon, Dahl, Snyder, De Grazia, Moos, David & Truman: Research Frontiers In Politics And Government. Brookings Lectures, 1955, Henry L. Bretton
Bailey, Simon, Dahl, Snyder, De Grazia, Moos, David & Truman: Research Frontiers In Politics And Government. Brookings Lectures, 1955, Henry L. Bretton
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Research Frontiers in Politics and Government. Brookings Lectures, 1955. By Stephen K. Bailey, Herbert A. Simon, Robert A. Dahl, Richard C. Snyder, Alfred de Grazia, Malcolm Moos, Paul T. David and David B. Truman