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Full-Text Articles in Judges
Brandeis, Michigan Law Review
Brandeis, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brandeis by Lewis J. Paper
Is The Burger Court Really Like The Warren Court?, Paul Bender
Is The Burger Court Really Like The Warren Court?, Paul Bender
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't by Vincent Blasi
Does Doctrine Matter?, Frederick Schauer
Does Doctrine Matter?, Frederick Schauer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution That Wasn't by Vincent Blasi
Toward Increased Judicial Activism: The Political Role Of The Supreme Court, Michigan Law Review
Toward Increased Judicial Activism: The Political Role Of The Supreme Court, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Toward Increased Judicial Activism: The Political Role of the Supreme Court by Arthur Selwyn Miller
Legal Theory And The Obligation Of A Judge: The Hart/Dworkin Dispute, Philip Soper
Legal Theory And The Obligation Of A Judge: The Hart/Dworkin Dispute, Philip Soper
Book Chapters
Confronted with standards beyond those obvious in purpose and rule, the positivist, says Dworkin, has two choices. He must either claim that such standards are only discretionary and hence not legally binding, or he may concede their binding status and argue that he identifies them as legal standards through reference, in some more complex way, to his theoretical master test.
There is, however, a third possibility. The positivist might admit that some standards bind judges but explain that they play a role in the legal system sufficiently different from that of ordinary rules and principles to justify excluding them from …
Rethinking The Substantive Rules For Custody Disputes In Divorce, David L. Chambers
Rethinking The Substantive Rules For Custody Disputes In Divorce, David L. Chambers
Articles
A few states, mostly in the West and South, still retain a preference in custody disputes for placing young children with their mothers. In most other states, legislatures or courts have replaced the maternal presumption with a rule directing courts to be guided solely by the child's "welfare" or "best interests." A few legislatures have created a new preference for joint custody, directing courts to consider favorably requests by a parent for such arrangements, even over the objection of the other parent. This Article argues that the trend away from the maternal presumption is sensible, but that the current best-interests …
The Judicial Opinion And The Poem: Ways Of Reading, Ways Of Life, James Boyd White
The Judicial Opinion And The Poem: Ways Of Reading, Ways Of Life, James Boyd White
Michigan Law Review
This paper is an essay in what I want to call the poetics of the law. I begin with a largely autobiographical account of what seems to me a striking similarity in the ways in which poetry and law once were taught - and to some degree still are taught, though perhaps less comfortably so. My first object is to suggest some connections: between these two kinds of thought and expression; between the ways in which we are habituated to read texts of each sort; and between the dilemmas that confront readers and critics in each field. In doing these …