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The Study Of Jurisprudence-A Letter To A Hostile Student, Samuel Mermin Nov 1950

The Study Of Jurisprudence-A Letter To A Hostile Student, Samuel Mermin

Michigan Law Review

The value to the law student of a course in jurisprudence has long been a question mark-and to the teachers as well as the students. The students have not been prompted by self-interest, as the teachers have, to come up with plausible erasures of the question mark. Most students, as you did, find the course esoteric, murky and impractical. The teachers, however, many of whom are mercifully unaware of the student reaction, have found sufficient justification for the course on various grounds which I think I can briefly summarize.


Faces On The Court House Steps, A. F. Neumann Jun 1950

Faces On The Court House Steps, A. F. Neumann

Michigan Law Review

Judge Frank may one day write a book which it will be possible to take or leave, but I doubt it. Few writers, with his ability and insight in the field of administration of justice, I suppose, succeed in evoking in their readers the spirited reactions that his writings produce. This is the highest praise that any reader can bestow-even though his reaction be a spirited disagreement.

In his most recent book, Courts on Trial, he has attempted to· destroy what he calls "myths" in legal thinking describing the fact-finding process just as he did for the rule determination …


Cbiminal Law--Humanitarian Motive As A Defense To Homicide--State V. Sander, (N.H. 1950)., Theodore Sachs Jun 1950

Cbiminal Law--Humanitarian Motive As A Defense To Homicide--State V. Sander, (N.H. 1950)., Theodore Sachs

Michigan Law Review

It has been uniformly accepted in Anglo-American jurisprudence that motive is neither an element of a crime, nor a defense to its existence.


Levi: An Introduction To Legal Reasoning, Michigan Law Review May 1950

Levi: An Introduction To Legal Reasoning, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of AN INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL REASONING. By Edward H. Levi.


Hall: Living Law Of Democratic Society, Michigan Law Review Apr 1950

Hall: Living Law Of Democratic Society, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of LIVING LAW OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. By Jerome Hall.