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Rereading "The Federal Courts": Revising The Domain Of Federal Courts Jurisprudence At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Judith Resnik May 1994

Rereading "The Federal Courts": Revising The Domain Of Federal Courts Jurisprudence At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Judith Resnik

Vanderbilt Law Review

A first enterprise in understanding and reframing Federal Courts jurisprudence is to locate, descriptively, "the Federal Courts." This activity-identifying the topic-may seem too obvious for comment, but I hope to show its utility. One must start with a bit of history, going back to the "beginning" of this body of jurisprudence. The relevant date is 1928, when Felix Frankfurter and James Landis, who began this conversation, published their book, The Business of the Supreme Court: A Study in the Federal Judicial System. Three years later, in 1931, Felix Frankfurter, then joined by Wilber G. Katz (and later by Harry Shulman), …


The Sanist Lives Of Jurors In Death Penalty Cases: The Puzzling Role Of Mitigating Mental Disability Evidence, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1994

The Sanist Lives Of Jurors In Death Penalty Cases: The Puzzling Role Of Mitigating Mental Disability Evidence, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

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Domination, Justice And The Cult Of Violence, Stephen P. Wink Jan 1994

Domination, Justice And The Cult Of Violence, Stephen P. Wink

Stephen P Wink

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Values, Pierre Schlag Jan 1994

Values, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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The Irish Abortion Debate: Substantive Rights And Affecting Commerce Jurisprudential Models, Anne M. Hilbert Jan 1994

The Irish Abortion Debate: Substantive Rights And Affecting Commerce Jurisprudential Models, Anne M. Hilbert

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Note examines the balance of power between the European Community and its Member States through the window of the Irish abortion debate. The framework for that debate has been shaped largely by two judicial bodies: the Irish judiciary and the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the judicial arm of the European Community. The Irish judiciary has approached the abortion question through an analysis of the content of substantive individual rights protected by the Irish Constitution. The ECJ, on the other hand, has addressed abortion from the standpoint of the European Community's goal of uninhibited commerce between Member States. These …


Straightening The "Timber": Toward A New Paradigm Of International Law, Louis R. Beres Jan 1994

Straightening The "Timber": Toward A New Paradigm Of International Law, Louis R. Beres

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Immanuel Kant once remarked: " Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made, nothing entirely straight can be built." Understood in terms of international law, this philosopher's wisdom points toward a far-reaching departure from traditional emphases on structures of global power and authority. Newly aware that structural alterations of international law are always epiphenomenal, ignoring root causes of international crimes in favor of their symptomatic expressions, we could craft from this departure a new and promising jurisprudence. Acknowledging that human transformations must lie at the heart of all world-order reform, we could build upon the knowledge …


Pilgrim Law, Robert E. Rodes Jan 1994

Pilgrim Law, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

A people's laws are deeply imbedded in its culture. They embody its collective moral reflection, its common understanding of the terms on which human beings are to live together, its customs, its historical experience, and its aspirations for the future. It is perhaps to be expected that Americans should enshrine their constitutional documents, build courthouses like temples, deploy their laws with ruthless practicality, and not take kindly to the suggestion that their laws are less practical than they think. Or that Italians should maintain a legal system like an old palazzo, with imposing staircases you can lose you. breath climbing, …


Book Review Of The Constitution Besieged, By Howard Gillman, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 1994

Book Review Of The Constitution Besieged, By Howard Gillman, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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A Heterodox Catechism, Paul Campos Jan 1994

A Heterodox Catechism, Paul Campos

Publications

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The Limits Of Preference-Based Legal Policy, Herbert J. Hovenkamp Jan 1994

The Limits Of Preference-Based Legal Policy, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

America's political institutions are built on the principle that individual preferences are central to the formation of policy. The two most important institutions in our system, democracy and the market, make individual preference decisive in the formation of policy and the allocation of resources. American legal traditions have always reflected the centrality of preference in policy determination. In private law, the importance of preference is reflected mainly in the development and persistence of common-law rules, which are intended to facilitate private transactions over legal entitlements. In constitutional law, the centrality of preference is reflected in the high position we assign …


On A New Theory Of Justice, William Ewald Jan 1994

On A New Theory Of Justice, William Ewald

All Faculty Scholarship

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Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris Dec 1993

Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

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