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Practical Legal Studies And Critical Legal Studies, Jay M. Feinman
Practical Legal Studies And Critical Legal Studies, Jay M. Feinman
Michigan Law Review
The basic questions that Practical Legal Studies confronts are how judges decide cases and how judges should decide cases. The traditional analytic response to these questions has been that judges apply formal methods of legal reasoning, and the formal methods sufficiently comport with the courts' role in the political structure to provide legitimacy. That response has been untenable for a generation or more; thus PLS has moved to informal legal reasoning as a description of adjudication and as a source of legitimacy.
Posner presents a two-part response to the questions. First, judges can relatively easily arrive at the correct decision …
Judge Posner's Jurisprudence Of Skepticism, Steven J. Burton
Judge Posner's Jurisprudence Of Skepticism, Steven J. Burton
Michigan Law Review
This essay suggests that there is an instructive incompleteness in Judge Posner's transition from scientific observer to legal actor. His legal skepticism should be understood as a legacy of his days as an inquiring economist, observing and forming beliefs about law and the judicial process from the academy. His affirmation of judicial practices stems from his new respect for practical reason, which seems to result from the experience of performing judicial duties. This essay will argue that a more complete assimilation of the practical perspective of the legal actor would undercut Judge Posner's arguments for legal skepticism.
Agenda: Natural Resource Development In Indian Country, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Natural Resource Development In Indian Country, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Natural Resource Development in Indian Country (Summer Conference, June 8-10)
Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Charles F. Wilkinson, Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Richard B. Collins.
Indian reservations constitute about 2.5% of all land in the country and 5% of all land in the American West. During the last two decades, Indian natural resources issues have moved to the forefront as tribal governments have dramatically expanded their regulatory programs, judicial systems. and resource development activities. This major symposium will address current developments and assess likely future directions in the areas of tribal, federal, and state regulation; tribal-state intergovernmental agreements; financing; mineral …
Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Law, Science, And History: Reflections Upon In The Best Interests Of The Child, Peggy C. Davis
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, Albert J. Solnit, and Sonja Goldstein