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Marissa Jackson Sow’S “Whiteness As Contract”, Marissa Jackson Sow
Marissa Jackson Sow’S “Whiteness As Contract”, Marissa Jackson Sow
Seattle University Law Review
Marissa Jackson Sow’s “Whiteness as Contract.”
Closing Remarks, Dontay Proctor-Mills
The Deans' Roundtable, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean Danielle Conway, Dean Tamara Lawson, Dean Mario Barnes, Dean L. Song Richardson
The Deans' Roundtable, Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean Danielle Conway, Dean Tamara Lawson, Dean Mario Barnes, Dean L. Song Richardson
Seattle University Law Review
The Deans' Roundtable.
Introductory Remarks, Michael Rogers, Hannah Hamley, Rayshaun D. Williams
Introductory Remarks, Michael Rogers, Hannah Hamley, Rayshaun D. Williams
Seattle University Law Review
Introductory Remarks.
Foreword, Seattle University Law Review
Moral Foundation Theory And The Law, Colin Prince
Moral Foundation Theory And The Law, Colin Prince
Seattle University Law Review
Moral foundation theory argues that there are five basic moral foundations: (1) harm/care, (2) fairness/reciprocity, (3) ingroup/loyalty, (4) authority/respect, and (5) purity/sanctity. These five foundations comprise the building blocks of morality, regardless of the culture. In other words, while every society constructs its own morality, it is the varying weights that each society allots to these five universal foundations that create the variety. Haidt likens moral foundation theory to an “audio equalizer,” with each culture adjusting the sliders differently. The researchers, however, were not content to simply categorize moral foundations—they have tied the foundations to political leanings. And it is …
Judging The Judges: A Case Study In Judicial Responsibility, Maximilian J.B. Welker, Jr.
Judging The Judges: A Case Study In Judicial Responsibility, Maximilian J.B. Welker, Jr.
Seattle University Law Review
Scholarly and professional perceptions of the role of the judiciary, and hence of the responsibility of judges, have undergone radical change since the early 1900's, and judicial opinions have both reflected and been influenced by those perceptions. At the turn of the century, conceptual abstraction and logical consistency held sway. Formalism, however, gave way to Legal Realism in the 1920's and 30's. Of the many important contributions that Realism made to the way we think about law, the most fundamental was its recognition that formal rules do not mechanically govern the resolution of legal disputes. Under this conception, the dominant …