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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Marshall Court And The Writing Of Law And History (Review Of G. Edward White, The Marshall Court And Cultural Change, 1815-35, Vols. 3 And 4. The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History Of The Supreme Court Of The United States), Alfred S. Konefsky
Book Reviews
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Balancing Law And Politics: Senate Oversight Of The Attorney General Office, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 151 (1990), Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Balancing Law And Politics: Senate Oversight Of The Attorney General Office, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 151 (1990), Joseph R. Biden Jr.
UIC Law Review
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Separation Of Powers Under The Texas Constitution, Harold H. Bruff
Separation Of Powers Under The Texas Constitution, Harold H. Bruff
Publications
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Common-Law Background Of Nineteenth-Century Tort Law, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Common-Law Background Of Nineteenth-Century Tort Law, The , Robert J. Kaczorowski
Faculty Scholarship
A century ago Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., examined the history of negligence in search of a general theory of tort. He concluded that from the earliest times in England, the basis of tort liability was fault, or the failure to exercise due care. Liability for an injury to another arose whenever the defendant failed "to use such care as a prudent man would use under the circumstances.” A decade ago Morton J. Horwitz reexamined the history of negligence for the same purpose and concluded that negligence was not originally understood as carelessness or fault. Rather, negligence meant "neglect or failure …
Alive And Well: Religious Freedom In The Welfare State, Anita L. Allen
Alive And Well: Religious Freedom In The Welfare State, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
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The Public Domain, Jessica D. Litman
The Public Domain, Jessica D. Litman
Articles
This article examines the public domain by looking at the gulf between what authors really do and the way the law perceives them. Part I outlines the basics of copyright as a species of property and introduces the public domain's place within the copyright scheme. Copyright grants authors" ' rights modeled on real property in order to encourage authorship by providing authors with markets in which they can seek compensation for their creations. Because parcels of authorship are intangible, however, the law faces *problems in determining the ownership and boundaries of its property grants. In particular, the concept of "originality," …