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Rhetoric Of Silence: Some Reflections On Law, Literature, And Social Violence, James A. Epstein
Rhetoric Of Silence: Some Reflections On Law, Literature, And Social Violence, James A. Epstein
Vanderbilt Law Review
Martha Minow suggests the importance of looking outside of court-rooms and the law to find ways of speaking about social and family violence. Her article underscores the difficulties of breaking silence, and yet the power to impose silence is integral to violence itself. We are called upon, however, not only to speak, but to listen. Respectful listening indeed may be a prerequisite to attempting to frame words and actions of intervention and resistance. We are called upon to speak, but we are hard pressed to summon public language that does justice to private pain and anguish.
Robert Cover, in his …
Domestic Relations -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, William J. Harbison
Domestic Relations -- 1954 Tennessee Survey, William J. Harbison
Vanderbilt Law Review
An important case dealing with testamentary restraint upon adoptions was decided by the Tennessee Supreme Court during the survey period.' The case was one of first impression in this jurisdiction and appears to be one of the few decisions upon the subject in the United States. In his will testator created a trust for his granddaughter, the child of his deceased son. He imposed a condition that if the child were adopted before her eighteenth birthday by someone outside testator's immediate family, and if her name were changed, then the trust should terminate and the corpus be distributed to other …