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The Logic Of Judicial Decisions - Two Items Of Greater Or Lesser Interest, Michael S. Moore, W. Barton Leach, David J. Agatstein
The Logic Of Judicial Decisions - Two Items Of Greater Or Lesser Interest, Michael S. Moore, W. Barton Leach, David J. Agatstein
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
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Social Justice And The Warren Court: A Preliminary Examination, Arthur S. Miller
Social Justice And The Warren Court: A Preliminary Examination, Arthur S. Miller
Pepperdine Law Review
Whether courts should attempt to advance social justice is a much debated topic in American jurisprudence. The conventional wisdom about the judicial process is to the contrary. In this article, Professor Arthur S. Miller suggests that the Supreme Court's innovative civil rights and civil liberties decisions during Chief Justice Earl Warren's tenure had the ultimate effect of helping to preserve the status quo of the social order. Its decisions, coming at a time of economic abundance, were a means of siphoning off discontent from disadvantaged groups at minimum social cost to the established order. The "activist" decisions under Warren were …
Precedent: What It Is And What It Isn't; When Do We Kiss It And When Do We Kill It?, Ruggero J. Aldisert
Precedent: What It Is And What It Isn't; When Do We Kiss It And When Do We Kill It?, Ruggero J. Aldisert
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bewitched By Language: Wittgenstein And The Practice Of Law, Bruce A. Markell
Bewitched By Language: Wittgenstein And The Practice Of Law, Bruce A. Markell
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Is There Anything To Fear In Transnationalist Development Of Law? The Australian Experience, Paul Von Nessen
Is There Anything To Fear In Transnationalist Development Of Law? The Australian Experience, Paul Von Nessen
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why It Matters Whether There Is A Higher Law Or Not, Dallas Willard
Why It Matters Whether There Is A Higher Law Or Not, Dallas Willard
Pepperdine Law Review
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Law, Higher Law, And Human Making, William S. Brewbaker Iii
Law, Higher Law, And Human Making, William S. Brewbaker Iii
Pepperdine Law Review
This paper is a preliminary investigation of what Christian theology might teach us about the nature of human creative activity and its relationship to judging and lawmaking. Rather than attempt to survey and synthesize multiple theological accounts of human making, it focuses on just one - Dorothy Sayers' The Mind of the Maker. The foundational analogy that drives Sayers' account of human creativity is the relation between God's creative activity and that of human beings made in his image. Sayers argues that human creative activity has a Trinitarian structure, which she identifies as Idea, Energy and Power. These three elements …