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Full-Text Articles in Jurisprudence
Vested Patents And Equal Justice, Adam Macleod
Vested Patents And Equal Justice, Adam Macleod
Catholic University Law Review
In a time of renewed interest in equal justice, the vested patent right may be timely again. Vested patent rights helped marginalized Americans to secure equal justice earlier in American history. And they helped to make sense of the law. Vested patent rights can perform those tasks again today.
The concept of vested rights render patent law coherent. And it explains patent law’s interactions with other areas of law, such as property, administrative, and constitutional law. The vested rights doctrine also can serve the requirements of equal justice, as it has several times in American history. Vested rights secure justice …
The Consequence Of Final Causality: Competing Views Of Legal Teleology, Jonathan M. Dumdei
The Consequence Of Final Causality: Competing Views Of Legal Teleology, Jonathan M. Dumdei
Liberty University Journal of Statesmanship & Public Policy
Philosophy of law and legal jurisprudence have received recent attention in the United States due to the significant change in the makeup of the Supreme Court. Historical understanding of the legal philosophies that have influenced the U.S. and the ancient principles upon which they are built must of necessity be properly assessed. This thesis proposes that Aquinas’s conception of Natural Law as the basis for legal teleology provides a superior grounding for American jurisprudence than the theories of legal positivism and critical legal theory due to the superiority of Natural Law’s integration of ultimate final causes. Through a survey of …
Extending Graham's Interpretive Theory Into Common Law: A Multiple-Case Study, Chris Hayes
Extending Graham's Interpretive Theory Into Common Law: A Multiple-Case Study, Chris Hayes
Master of Studies in Law Research Papers Repository
What determines the outcome of judicial decisions? A traditional answer to this question is that it involves a complex application of rules derived from the reasons for judgment of analogous common law decisions and applicable statutes under the doctrine of stare decisis. This answer is problematic. One significant problem of this answer is its inability to explain the outcome of cases where the judgment does not appear to be based on these traditionally recognized sources. An alternative answer, provided by a particular field of legal scholarship, Legal Realism, posits that “other” factors make a significant impact on the outcome …
Reassessing Corporate Personhood In The Wake Of Occupy Wall Street, Nick J. Sciullo
Reassessing Corporate Personhood In The Wake Of Occupy Wall Street, Nick J. Sciullo
Nick J. Sciullo
This article is about corporate personhood, discussed on the backdrop of class consciousness and criticisms of capital generated, in large part, by the recent and continuing Occupy Movements. I am at first concerned with articulating the evolving jurisprudence of corporate personhood as developed in the Supreme Court of the United States. Combined with this doctrinal approach, I offer a Marxist criticism of corporate personhood jurisprudence that culminates in a discussion of the Occupy Movements' logic of resistance to corporate domination in the United States' law and policy. First, I discuss the role Marxist criticism has played in legal discourse and …
The Praise Of Silly: Critical Legal Studies And The Roberts Court, James F. Lucarello
The Praise Of Silly: Critical Legal Studies And The Roberts Court, James F. Lucarello
Touro Law Review
This Comment demonstrates that the Supreme Court is lying to you in its opinions. Why is it lying? The short answer to this question is quite simple: It is being silly.
There is nothing inherently wrong with being silly. In fact, some praise silliness, as a heightened and healthy understanding of the indeterminate world that incorporates our reality. Silliness, how ever, is only praise-worthy when it is understood and utilized purposefully. The silliness of most of the Justices on the Supreme Court, on the other hand, is a product of self-delusion and fundamentalism, which makes their silliness not silly at …
Race As A Legal Concept, Justin Desautels-Stein
Race As A Legal Concept, Justin Desautels-Stein
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Race is a legal concept, and like all legal concepts, it is a matrix of rules. Although the legal conception of race has shifted over time, up from slavery and to the present, one element in the matrix has remained the same: the background rules of race have always taken a view of racial identity as a natural aspect of human biology. To be sure, characterizations of the rule have oftentimes kept pace with developments in race science, and the original invention of race as a rationale for the subordination of certain human populations is now a rationale with little …
The Corporation As God, Douglas Litowitz
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
As kids we called it having to use the old noodle: needing to think real hard about something that was real hard to think about. It was the kind of thinking that would cause your face to get all scrunched up, and if you didn't stop or if someone didn't stop you - it would eventually make your head hurt. The expression came from our families when we figured something out: that's using your old noodle, they'd tell us. The noodle we eventually understood to be our brains, which, we reckon, do look something like noodles, though we were quite …
Acknowledgments, Jeremy Paul, Pierre Schlag
Acknowledgments, Jeremy Paul, Pierre Schlag
Publications
CLS 2001 Symposium - Critical Legal Studies (Debut de Siecle): A Symposium on Duncan Kennedy's A Critique of Adjudication: Fin de Siècle (1997).
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Thinking Critically About Equality: Government Can Make Us Equal, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Robert L. Hayman
No abstract provided.
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
Addressing the future of radical politics at the end of the cold war, this article offers a reconstruction of radical theory around the goal of enabling collaborative self-realization through participatory democratic politics. It offers an interpretation of the radical tradition as defined by a view of human nature as a cultural artifact, and a conception of liberation as the self-conscious transformation of human nature. It proceeds to critique radical theory’s traditional focus on revolution as the means of radical transformation. Distinguishing instrumental and self-expressive conceptions of transformation it critiques revolutionary processes as tending to reproduce instrumental culture. It offers democratic …
Missing Pieces: A Cognitive Approach To Law, Pierre Schlag
Missing Pieces: A Cognitive Approach To Law, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
On Critical Legal Studies As Guerilla Warfare, Guyora Binder
On Critical Legal Studies As Guerilla Warfare, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
This sardonic 1987 essay defended Critical Legal Studies (CLS) against alarmist attacks from the right, claiming that CLS was dangerously subversive of the rule of law, and seemingly contradictory attacks from the left dismissing CLS as empty theorizing lacking any practical implications for reform. The essay responded that while CLS lacked proposals for legislative reform, it favored a highly participatory process of reform, drawn from experience in the student movements of the 1960’s. It distrusted state power and bureaucracy as engines of change, and favored community organization, civil society, and popular mobilization.
"Of Law And The River," And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Peter W. Martin
"Of Law And The River," And Of Nihilism And Academic Freedom, Peter W. Martin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Correspondence provoked by the publication of Dean Paul D. Carrington's article, "Of Law and the River," 34 J. Legal Educ. 222 (1984).