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Introduction To The Symposium: The Stakes For Critical Legal Theory, Elizabeth S. Anker, Justin Desautels-Stein
Introduction To The Symposium: The Stakes For Critical Legal Theory, Elizabeth S. Anker, Justin Desautels-Stein
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Women’S Votes, Women’S Voices, And The Limits Of Criminal Justice Reform, 1911–1950, Carolyn B. Ramsey
Women’S Votes, Women’S Voices, And The Limits Of Criminal Justice Reform, 1911–1950, Carolyn B. Ramsey
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Deriving its vigor from the work of grassroots organizations at the state and local levels, the League of Women Voters (LWV) sought, in the first half of the twentieth century, to provide newly enfranchised women with a political education to strengthen their voice in public affairs. Local branches like the San Francisco Center learned from experience—through practical involvement in a variety of social welfare and criminal justice initiatives. This Article, written for a symposium commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, assesses the role of LWV leaders in California and especially San Francisco in reforming three aspects of the criminal …
Mens Rea Reform And Its Discontents, Benjamin Levin
Mens Rea Reform And Its Discontents, Benjamin Levin
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This Article examines the debates over recent proposals for “mens rea reform.” The substantive criminal law has expanded dramatically, and legislators have criminalized a great deal of common conduct. Often, new criminal laws do not require that defendants know they are acting unlawfully. Mens rea reform proposals seek to address the problems of overcriminalization and unintentional offending by increasing the burden on prosecutors to prove a defendant’s culpable mental state. These proposals have been a staple of conservative-backed bills on criminal justice reform. Many on the left remain skeptical of mens rea reform and view it as a deregulatory vehicle …
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
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Pragmatic Liberalism: The Outlook Of The Dead, Justin Desautels-Stein
Pragmatic Liberalism: The Outlook Of The Dead, Justin Desautels-Stein
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the legal profession was rocked in a storm of reform. Among the sparks of change was the view that "law in the books" had drifted too far from the "law in action." This popular slogan reflected the broader postwar suspicion that the legal profession needed to be more realistic, more effective, and more in touch with the social needs of the time. A hundred years later, we face a similarly urgent demand for change. Across the blogs and journals stretches a thread of anxieties about the lack of fit between legal education and …
Renegotiating The Social Contract, Jennifer S. Hendricks
Renegotiating The Social Contract, Jennifer S. Hendricks
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This review of The Supportive State: Families, Government and America’s Political Ideals highlights Maxine Eichner’s important theoretical contributions to both liberal political theory and feminist theory, applauding her success in reforming liberalism to account for dependency, vulnerability, and families. The review then considers some implications of Eichner’s proposals and their likely reception among feminists. It concludes that The Supportive State is a sound and inspiring response to recent calls that feminist theory move from being strictly a school of criticism to developing a theory of governance.
A Distributive Theory Of Criminal Law, Aya Gruber
A Distributive Theory Of Criminal Law, Aya Gruber
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In criminal law circles, the accepted wisdom is that there are two and only two true justifications of punishment-retributivism and utilitarianism. The multitude of moral claims about punishment may thus be reduced to two propositions: (1) punishment should be imposed because defendants deserve it, and (2) punishment should be imposed because it makes society safer. At the same time, most penal scholars notice the trend in criminal law to de-emphasize intent, centralize harm, and focus on victims, but they largely write off this trend as an irrational return to antiquated notions of vengeance. This Article asserts that there is in …
Formalism And Realism In Ruins (Mapping The Logics Of Collapse), Pierre Schlag
Formalism And Realism In Ruins (Mapping The Logics Of Collapse), Pierre Schlag
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After laying out a conventional account of the formalism vs. realism debates, this Article argues that formalism and realism are at once impossible and entrenched. To say they are impossible is to say that they are not as represented--that they cannot deliver their promised goods. To say that they are entrenched is to say that these forms of thought are sedimented as thought and practice throughout law's empire. We live thus amidst the ruins of formalism and realism. The disputes between these two great determinations of American law continue today, but usually in more localized or circumscribed forms. We see …
A Reply--The Missing Portion, Pierre Schlag
Justice White And Judicial Review, Philip J. Weiser
Justice White And Judicial Review, Philip J. Weiser
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Politics And Denial, Pierre Schlag
Authorizing Interpretation, Pierre Schlag
The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag
The Empty Circles Of Liberal Justification, Pierre Schlag
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Progress And Constitutionalism, Robert F. Nagel
A Text Is Just A Text, Paul F. Campos
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
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Forty Years In The Desert, Paul F. Campos
Forty Years In The Desert, Paul F. Campos
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The author uses Brown v. Board of Education and the volumes of commentary it has provoked to illustrate that coherent constitutional interpretation is a useless exercise. He argues that the decision should be accepted as political reality and moral necessity and that we should cease debating its merit as constitutional interpretation.
Secular Fundamentalism, Paul F. Campos
Silence And The Word, Paul Campos
How To Do Things With The First Amendment, Pierre Schlag
How To Do Things With The First Amendment, Pierre Schlag
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Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
Advocacy And Scholarship, Paul F. Campos
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The apex of American legal thought is embodied in two types of writings: the federal appellate opinion and the law review article. In this Article, the author criticizes the whole enterprise of doctrinal constitutional law scholarship, using a recent U.S. Supreme Court case and a Harvard Law Review article as quintessential examples of the dominant genre. In a rhetorical tour de force, the author argues that most of modern constitutional scholarship is really advocacy in the guise of scholarship. Such an approach to legal scholarship may have some merit as a strategic move towards a political end; however, it has …
Name-Calling And The Clear Error Rule, Robert F. Nagel
Name-Calling And The Clear Error Rule, Robert F. Nagel
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Disagreement And Interpretation, Robert F. Nagel
Book Review, Paul Campos
That Obscure Object Of Desire: Hermeneutics And The Autonomous Legal Text, Paul Campos
That Obscure Object Of Desire: Hermeneutics And The Autonomous Legal Text, Paul Campos
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Foreword: Postmodernism And Law, Pierre Schlag
Meeting The Enemy, Robert F. Nagel
Political Law, Legalistic Politics: A Recent History Of The Political Question Doctrine, Robert F. Nagel
Political Law, Legalistic Politics: A Recent History Of The Political Question Doctrine, Robert F. Nagel
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Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel
Rationalism In Constitutional Law, Robert F. Nagel