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Articles 1 - 16 of 16
Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
The Study Of Jurisprudence-A Letter To A Hostile Student, Samuel Mermin
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.
Minimum Standards Of Judicial Administration, By Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Louden L. Bomberger
Minimum Standards Of Judicial Administration, By Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Louden L. Bomberger
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Law-As I See It, E. Barrett Prettyman
The Law-As I See It, E. Barrett Prettyman
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cbiminal Law--Humanitarian Motive As A Defense To Homicide--State V. Sander, (N.H. 1950)., Theodore Sachs
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.
Faces On The Court House Steps, A. F. Neumann
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 …
Levi: An Introduction To Legal Reasoning, Michigan Law Review
Levi: An Introduction To Legal Reasoning, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of AN INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL REASONING. By Edward H. Levi.
Statutory Construction In Resolving Conflicts Between State And Local Legislation, Charles S. Rhyne
Statutory Construction In Resolving Conflicts Between State And Local Legislation, Charles S. Rhyne
Vanderbilt Law Review
My contribution to this symposium will consist of the advancement of one main thesis and four subordinate and supporting ones. My main thesis is simple indeed. Procedural rules must be viewed as grants or creations of judicial power. My subordinate theses then indicate certain complications showing that in practice the matter cannot be thus wholly disposed of. Though too much reform has so assumed, it turns out that telling a court it has power does not guarantee exercise of that power. Judicial inertia, prece- dent-mindedness, love of technical niceties-all play their part in halting procedural improvement. So does, even more, …
The Position Of Statutory Construction In Present Day Law Practice, John W. Macdonald
The Position Of Statutory Construction In Present Day Law Practice, John W. Macdonald
Vanderbilt Law Review
Even the title assigned to this article emphasizes a point of view. We will consider the position of statutory construction not from the aspect of judges, appellate or trial, who must decide cases. Instead we are to look at the subject from the point of view of the practitioner, the lawyer himself. The practice of law is of course varied. And there are many fields of knowledge which control that practice. Some of these obviously do not involve law at all. The lawyer is a litigator, an advocate in court or before quasi-judicial bodies. He is also a counsellor, an …
Remarks On The Theory Of Appellate Decision And The Rules Or Canons About How Statutes Are To Be Construed, Karl N. Llewellyn
Remarks On The Theory Of Appellate Decision And The Rules Or Canons About How Statutes Are To Be Construed, Karl N. Llewellyn
Vanderbilt Law Review
If a statute is to make sense, it must be read in the light of some assumed purpose. A statute merely declaring a rule, with no purpose or objective, is nonsense. If a statute is to be merged into a going system of law, moreover, the court must do the merging, and must in so doing take account of the policy of the statute-or else substitute its own version of such policy. Creative re- shaping of the net result is thus inevitable. But the policy of a statute is of two wholly different kinds-each kind somewhat limited in effect by …
The Interpretation Of Statutes In Modern British Law, W. Friedmann
The Interpretation Of Statutes In Modern British Law, W. Friedmann
Vanderbilt Law Review
Mr. Justice Frankfurter recently said that the number of cases coming before the Supreme Court of the United States which were not based on statutes was "reduced almost to zero." This growth of statutory as against pure case law is, of course, not confined to the United States. It inevitably accompanies the social welfare state and the increase in government which every modern industrial society has experienced and which two world wars, with their need for the total mobilization of resources, have further stimulated. Apart from these sociological factors which affect states with the most different legal systems, it is …
Trends In The Use Of Extrinsic Aids In Statutory Interpretation, Glendon M. Fisher Jr., William J. Harbison
Trends In The Use Of Extrinsic Aids In Statutory Interpretation, Glendon M. Fisher Jr., William J. Harbison
Vanderbilt Law Review
As evidenced by the increasing numbers of court decisions which involve statutes,' and by the large and continually growing literature in the field, the subject of statutory interpretation is one of the most important in modern law. Although it is a field in which exact rules of automatic application can very seldom be formulated, only recently a member of the Supreme Court pointed out the great need for a set of "consistently accepted principles of interpretation." Since the primary purpose of all statutory interpretation is to ascertain the meaning and to effectuate the purposes of the legislature, and since words …
Remarks On The Theory Of Appellate Decision And The Rules Or Canons About How Statutes Are To Be Construed, Karl N. Llwellyn
Remarks On The Theory Of Appellate Decision And The Rules Or Canons About How Statutes Are To Be Construed, Karl N. Llwellyn
Vanderbilt Law Review
One does not progress far into legal life without learning that there is no single right and accurate way of reading one case, or of reading a bunch of cases. For
(1) Impeccable and correct doctrine makes clear that a case "holds"with authority only so much of what the opinion says as is absolutely necessary to sustain the judgment. Anything else is unnecessary and "distinguishable" and noncontrolling for the future. Indeed, if the judgment rests on two, three or four rulings, any of them can be rightly and righteously knocked out, for the future, as being thus "unnecessary." Moreover, any …
Cooperative Action For Improved Statutory Interpretation, Frank E. Horack Jr.
Cooperative Action For Improved Statutory Interpretation, Frank E. Horack Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
During the past quarter century there has been a constant acceleration in legal periodical comment concerning statutory construction. Judges, practicing attorneys and law professors all have echoed basic dissatisfaction with the operation and application of the rules of statutory interpretation. Some would return to the "safe old ground" of literal interpretation; others would find relief in an expanded use of extrinsic aids; all find the process in a state of confusion and disintegration.
Hall: Living Law Of Democratic Society, Michigan Law Review
Hall: Living Law Of Democratic Society, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of LIVING LAW OF DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. By Jerome Hall.
Book Review. Cohen, M. R., Reason And Law, Jerome Hall
Book Review. Cohen, M. R., Reason And Law, Jerome Hall
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Factors Influencing Judges In Interpreting Statutes, Arthur W. Phelps
Factors Influencing Judges In Interpreting Statutes, Arthur W. Phelps
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.