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Articles 1 - 30 of 38
Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
Practical Polyphony: Theories Of The State And Feminist Jurisprudence, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Roman Law And English Law: Two Patterns Of Legal Development, Alan Watson
Roman Law And English Law: Two Patterns Of Legal Development, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
It is commonplace among scholars to link in thought the growth of Roman law and of English law. S.F.C. Milsom begins his distinguished Historical Foundations of the Common Law with the words: "It has happened twice only that the customs of European peoples were worked up into intellectual systems of law; and much of the world today is governed by laws derived from the one or the other." More strikingly, some scholars see an essential similarity in legal approaches in the two systems. Fritz Pringsheim entitled a well-known article The Inner Relationship Between English and Roman Law. W.W. Buckland and …
Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese
Democracy And Its Critics, Cary Coglianese
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Rawls On Political Community And Principles Of Justice, James W. Nickel
Rawls On Political Community And Principles Of Justice, James W. Nickel
Articles
No abstract provided.
The Corporate Entity In An Era Of Multinational Corporations, Phillip Blumberg
The Corporate Entity In An Era Of Multinational Corporations, Phillip Blumberg
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
The Corporate Personality In American Law: A Summary Review, Phillip Blumberg
The Corporate Personality In American Law: A Summary Review, Phillip Blumberg
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
The Epistemology Of Judging: Wittgenstein And Deliberative Practices, Thomas Morawetz
The Epistemology Of Judging: Wittgenstein And Deliberative Practices, Thomas Morawetz
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Jurisprudential Oaks From Mythical Acorns: The Hart‐Dworkin Debate Revisited, Andrew B.L. Phang
Jurisprudential Oaks From Mythical Acorns: The Hart‐Dworkin Debate Revisited, Andrew B.L. Phang
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
This article attempts to demonstrate, via the famous Hart-Dworkin debate on the nature and functions of judicial discretion, that substantial jurisprudential disputes as well as theories can, and do, arise from misconceived critiques, whether intended or otherwise. It also seeks to show that, whilst Dworkin's initial critique of Hart was misconceived, his theory of adjudication that arose as a result of responses to his initial views is a positive contribution to learning, although I argue that Dworkin's views are not, in the final analysis, sufficiently persuasive to constitute a radical departure from Hart's own views.
A Need For Clarity: Toward A New Standard For Preliminary Injunctions, Lea B. Vaughn
A Need For Clarity: Toward A New Standard For Preliminary Injunctions, Lea B. Vaughn
Articles
This Article examines the various standards for preliminary injunctions and demonstrates the ways in which the standards have become confused by irrelevant layers of meaning. Those layers of meaning are analyzed; nonfunctional accretions are discarded, and legitimate modem meanings are developed. The discussion is conducted against a background of assumptions about what makes a good standard, for example, accessibility and comprehensiveness. By modernizing the standard, the parties and the courts will frankly and openly discuss the underlying legal issues and values. This, in turn, should lead to more legitimate decisions.
Under a modernized standard, a court should redress immediate pretrial …
The First Amendment In An Age Of Paratroopers, David Skover, Ronald Collins
The First Amendment In An Age Of Paratroopers, David Skover, Ronald Collins
Faculty Articles
As the lead piece in a Colloquy entitled The First Amendment and the Paratroopers' Paradox, this article argues that today's free speech theory is largely grounded in 18th Century fears of government's tyrannical censorship. This theory is ill-equipped to deal with a distinct tyranny in 21st Century America, a tyranny playing upon the public's insatiable appetite for amusement. Those who venture to develop free speech principles to suit a new cultural environment are the First Amendment paratroopers of our time, the ones who realize that we cannot retain our old constitutional prerogatives in a transformed world. The Paratroopers' Paradox: To …
Natural Law As Practical Methodology: A Finnisian Analysis Of City Of Richmond V. Croson, David R. Barnhizer
Natural Law As Practical Methodology: A Finnisian Analysis Of City Of Richmond V. Croson, David R. Barnhizer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The first part of this article examines some of the main features of Finnis's theory of natural law. It suggests that Finnis offers a "soft" theory of natural law anchored in a richer and more realistic conception of human nature than has generally characterized natural law theory. The article's second part briefly describes some methodological aspects of Finnis's theory. The third part seeks to apply Finnis's principles to Justice O'Connor's opinion in City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co., a decision that makes it extremely difficult for state and local governments to combat the subtle devises and consequences of …
The Rule Of Law And The Rule Of Laws, David F. Forte
The Rule Of Law And The Rule Of Laws, David F. Forte
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The thesis of this article is that, for the Rule of Law to be maintained in a modern technological society, the legal system must affirmatively tolerate a range of justifiable non-compliance. I begin with a rather strong definition of the Rule of Law, one that encompasses not merely the procedural desiderata of Lon Fuller (which John Finnis accepts), but also the notion that the Rule of Law has a substantive content (the common good) and that it necessarily binds the rulers as well as the ruled. I posit as an opposite phenomenon to the Rule of Law, the rule of …
Falling Off The Vine: Legal Fictions And The Doctrine Of Substituted Judgment, Louise Harmon
Falling Off The Vine: Legal Fictions And The Doctrine Of Substituted Judgment, Louise Harmon
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Form And Function In The Administration Of Justice: The Bill Of Rights And Federal Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle
Form And Function In The Administration Of Justice: The Bill Of Rights And Federal Habeas Corpus, Larry Yackle
Faculty Scholarship
Part I critiques the Report's insistence that accurate fact finding exhausts, or nearly exhausts, the objectives of criminal justice, identifies the fundamental role of the Bill of Rights in the American political order, and situates federal habeas corpus within that framework. Part II traces the Report's historical review of the federal habeas jurisdiction and critiques the Report's too-convenient reliance on selected materials that, on examination, fail to undermine conventional understandings of the writ's development as a postconviction remedy. Part III responds to the Report's complaints regarding current habeas corpus practice and refutes contentions that the habeas jurisdiction overburdens federal dockets …
Whose Nature? Practical Reason And Patriarchy, Lynne Henderson
Whose Nature? Practical Reason And Patriarchy, Lynne Henderson
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Reasons, Authority, And The Meaning Of 'Obey': Further Thoughts On Raz And Obedience To Law, Donald H. Regan
Reasons, Authority, And The Meaning Of 'Obey': Further Thoughts On Raz And Obedience To Law, Donald H. Regan
Articles
I recently published a long article' discussing a variety of topics from Joseph Raz's The Morality of Freedom.2 The article was part of a symposium on Raz's work in the Southern California Law Review. Raz responded' to the articles in that symposium, including my own. From a perspective which surveys the whole range of views on political philosophy, Raz's view and mine look very similar. Even so, we find many things to disagree about, which neither of us would regard as merely matters of detail. For the most part, we at least share a common understanding of our disagreements. But …
The Natural Law Of Rhythm And Equality, John W. Ragsdale Jr
The Natural Law Of Rhythm And Equality, John W. Ragsdale Jr
Faculty Works
The quest for natural law can easily seem futile to the secularist, and the legal terrain beyond human institutions has often been abandoned to the theologians and the supernaturalists. Most contemporary legal philosophers tend to focus on law as process, on legal positivism and legal realism, on the relativity of values or on the legal masking of class, race or gender interests. This piece will not do direct battle with these philosophies, all of which may have internal integrity and legitimacy within their chosen spheres. Instead, this piece will reexplore the possibility and propriety of linking the reality of law …
Retaining The Rule Of Law In A Chevron World, Michael A. Fitts
Retaining The Rule Of Law In A Chevron World, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Alive And Well: Religious Freedom In The Welfare State, Anita L. Allen
Alive And Well: Religious Freedom In The Welfare State, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Allocating Risks And Suffering: Some Hidden Traps, John M. Finnis
Allocating Risks And Suffering: Some Hidden Traps, John M. Finnis
Journal Articles
The economic analysis of which Adam Smith is a principal founder is helpful in practical reasoning about problems of justice precisely insofar as it systematically calls attention to the side-effects of individual choices and actions and behavior. Still, it would be a mistake to conclude that we need only a more adequate account of the benefits and burdens up for distribution or allocation by those responsible for the common good or general fate. We need also to bear in mind what Smith did not forget and what economics does not comprehend, the requirements of commutative justice. To see this, we …
Surrogacy, Slavery, And The Ownership Of Life, Anita L. Allen
Surrogacy, Slavery, And The Ownership Of Life, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Justice Scalia And The Elusive Idea Of Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce, Richard B. Collins
Justice Scalia And The Elusive Idea Of Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce, Richard B. Collins
Publications
No abstract provided.
Normative And Nowhere To Go, Pierre Schlag
"Le Hors De Texte, C'Est Moi": The Politics Of Form And The Domestication Of Deconstruction, Pierre Schlag
"Le Hors De Texte, C'Est Moi": The Politics Of Form And The Domestication Of Deconstruction, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
Preface, Charles F. Wilkinson
Meeting The Enemy, Robert F. Nagel
Maintaining Consistency In The Law Of The Large Circuit: The Origins And Operation Of The Ninth Circuit's Limited En Banc Court, Arthur D. Hellman
Maintaining Consistency In The Law Of The Large Circuit: The Origins And Operation Of The Ninth Circuit's Limited En Banc Court, Arthur D. Hellman
Book Chapters
Once again, Congress is considering legislation to divide the largest of the federal judicial circuits, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit extends over nine western states, including California, and it has 29 active judges, almost twice the number of the next-largest circuit. Much of the debate over proposals for restructuring focuses on a feature unique to the Ninth Circuit, the limited en banc court (LEBC). In all of the other circuits, when the court of appeals grants rehearing en banc, the case is heard by all active judges. In the Ninth Circuit, the en banc court is …
Scots Law In Post-Revolutionary And Nineteenth-Century America: The Neglected Jurisprudence, C. Paul Rogers Iii
Scots Law In Post-Revolutionary And Nineteenth-Century America: The Neglected Jurisprudence, C. Paul Rogers Iii
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
The Meaning Of Equality And The Interpretive Turn, Robin West
The Meaning Of Equality And The Interpretive Turn, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The turn to hermeneutics and interpretation in contemporary legal theory has contributed at least two central ideas to modern jurisprudential thought: first, that the "meaning" of a text is invariably indeterminate -- what might be called the indeterminacy claim -- and second, that the unavoidably malleable essence of texts -- their essential inessentiality -- entails that interpreting a text is a necessary part of the process of creating the text's meaning. These insights have generated both considerable angst, and considerable excitement among traditional constitutional scholars, primarily because at least on first blush these two claims seem to inescapably imply a …
The Legal Culture Of The Formative Period In Sherman Act Jurisprudence, William P. Lapiana
The Legal Culture Of The Formative Period In Sherman Act Jurisprudence, William P. Lapiana
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.