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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Capograssi, Imperdonabile, Andrew J. Cecchinato
Capograssi, Imperdonabile, Andrew J. Cecchinato
Fellow, Adjunct, Lecturer, and Research Scholar Works
When reviewing the history of early twentieth century thought, it is not uncommon to read reflections concerning the crisis of contemporary states. Less frequent – but not unheard of – is coming across meditations regarding the very end of the state. Among the latter, those of Giuseppe Capograssi (1889-1956) stand out like a lightning flash, for the eschatological meaning they flare upon the relationship between statehood and the law. «All true research on the state is a profound meditation on its ending», he writes concluding the introduction of his first book in 1918. Like a seal yet to be broken, …
Reflections On Freedom And Criminal Responsibility In Late Twentieth Century American Legal Thought, Thomas A. Green, Merrill Catharine Hodnefield
Reflections On Freedom And Criminal Responsibility In Late Twentieth Century American Legal Thought, Thomas A. Green, Merrill Catharine Hodnefield
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It is now a commonplace among historians that American criminal jurisprudence underwent a dramatic change something like two-thirds to three-quarters into the last century. Roughly, this development is understood as a shift (or drift) from a more-or-less pure consequentialism to a "mixed theory" wherein retributivism played a major-at times, dominant-role. As the new paradigm remains intact, now approaching a half-century, the development qualifies as a significant historical fact. The fact applies not only to the history of justification for punishment but also to conceptions of the underlying principle of (basis for) responsibility. The two are rightly distinguished: for many scholars …
Theorizing American Freedom, Anthony O'Rourke
Theorizing American Freedom, Anthony O'Rourke
Michigan Law Review
Some intellectual concepts once central to America's constitutional discourse are, for better and worse, no longer part of our political language. These concepts may be so alien to us that they would remain invisible without carefully reexamining the past to challenge the received narratives of America's constitutional development. Should constitutional theorists undertake this kind of historical reexamination? If so, to what extent should they be willing to stray from the disciplinary norms that govern intellectual history? And what normative aims can they reasonably expect to achieve by exploring ideas in our past that are no longer reflected in the Constitution's …
Review Of Explaining The English Revolution: Hobbes And His Contemporaries, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of Explaining The English Revolution: Hobbes And His Contemporaries, Donald J. Herzog
Reviews
The explosion of primary texts from seven- teenth-century England continues to trigger an explosion of scholarly treatments today. For good reason, too: Lots of the primary texts are amazing, and not just those tired old warhors- es, Hobbes's Leviathan and Locke's Second Treatise. As fun and challenging as the primary texts are, you are forgiven a touch of skepticism if you wonder just what the latest author has to add to our understanding. You might redouble your skepticism if you just glance at Mark Stephen Jendrysik's table of contents, offering chapters on Winstanley, Milton, Cromwell, Filmer, and Hobbes, and zeroing …
Positivism, Emergent And Triumphant, Vincent A. Wellman
Positivism, Emergent And Triumphant, Vincent A. Wellman
Michigan Law Review
Positivism is one of those words that triggers passionate and often contradictory responses. For some, positivism is a pejorative. Lon Fuller, perhaps more than anyone, charged that positivism was confused about the nature of law, blind to law's inherent morality, and morally corrupting to boot. He even suggested, in different ways, that positivism helped promote the rise of fascism in Europe. Others, in contrast, have treated positivism as a modest and undeniable truth about law. Law, they argued, is morally fallible, and accordingly, the existence and validity of law is a matter of social fact rather than moral necessity. H.L.A. …
Review Of Reason And Rhetoric In The Philosophy Of Hobbes, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of Reason And Rhetoric In The Philosophy Of Hobbes, Donald J. Herzog
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In the 1960s, Quentin Skinner wrote a series of polemical if terse papers arguing that the conventional approach to the history of political theory was confused. Using Hobbes as something of a vehicle for his position, Skinner enunciated what is now well known as the "Cambridge" approach to political theory. He urged that we situate authors in their intellectual contexts so that we can isolate what is distinctive, perhaps subversive, in their use of language: only then, he argued, can we have any valid historical understanding on what they are doing in writing these weird books in the first place. …
The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White
The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White
Michigan Law Review
As the number of issues perceived as having First Amendment implications continues to grow, and the coterie of potential beneficiaries of First Amendment protection continues to widen - including not only the traditional oppressed mavericks and despised dissenters but some rich and powerful members from the circles of political and economic orthodoxy - alarms have been sounded. Another period of stocktaking for free speech theory appears to be dawning, and some recent commentators have proposed a retrenchment from the long twentieth- century progression of increasingly speech-protective interpretations of the First Amendment. At the heart of the retrenchment literature lies the …
Review Of Political Discourse In Early Modern Britain, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of Political Discourse In Early Modern Britain, Donald J. Herzog
Reviews
This is a festschrift for the indefatigable J. G. A. Pocock (indefatigable indeed: the volume closes with a daunting nine-page bibliography of Pococks work to date, a veritable flood of erudition that shows no signs of ebbing). The essays are better than what usually end up stuck in such volumes: better as a simple matter of scholarly quality, but better too as exemplary models of what is distinctive in Pocock's approach. I suppose that at this price, no one will consider asking impoverished graduate students to purchase the volume. But there are always reserve desks, not to mention xerox machines …
Moral Foundations Of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, Arthur J. Burke
Moral Foundations Of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, Arthur J. Burke
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects by Graham Walker
Review Of Transforming Political Discourse, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of Transforming Political Discourse, Donald J. Herzog
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Political theorists are almost always fond of giving each other home- work assignments but not generally fond of completing them. The opening salvo in a promised three-volume campaign to redefine the tasks of political theory, Transforming Political Discourse might seem to invite more weary shrugs. Surely, we have too many manifestos already. Well, yes -but this one, happily, is modest, sensible, and mercifully brief. Better yet, its brevity is positively austere in sketching the metadescription of what the promised land looks like. The argument actually hangs on a series of show-and-tell exercises, which are supposed to be applications of the …
Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof
Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson
Critical Legal Studies, Michael F. Colosi
Critical Legal Studies, Michael F. Colosi
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Critical Legal Studies by Allan C. Hutchinson
The Constitution's Accommodation Of Social Change, Philip A. Hamburger
The Constitution's Accommodation Of Social Change, Philip A. Hamburger
Michigan Law Review
Did the framers and ratifiers of the United States Constitution think that changes in American society would require changes in the text or interpretation of the Constitution? If those who created the Constitution understood or even anticipated the possibility of major social alterations, how did they expect constitutional law - text and interpretation - to accommodate such developments?
The effect of social change upon constitutional law was an issue the framers and ratifiers frequently discussed. For example, when AntiFederalists complained of the Constitution's failure to protect the jury trial in civil cases, Federalists responded that a change of circumstances might, …
Legal Realism At Yale, 1927-1960, Karin M. Wentz
Legal Realism At Yale, 1927-1960, Karin M. Wentz
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 by Laura Kalman
One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Philosophy of the American Revolution by Morton White
The Comity Doctrine, Hessel E. Yntema
The Comity Doctrine, Hessel E. Yntema
Michigan Law Review
The doctrine of comity, as developed in the Netherlands during the last quarter of the Seventeenth Century, for the first time posed in stark simplicity the basic dilemma of conflicts law in modem times to mediate between the pretensions of territorial sovereignty and the needs of international commerce. As Ulrik Huber, the most influential exponent of the doctrine, observed: "Exempla, quibus utemur, ad juris privati species maxime quidem pertinebunt, sed judicium de illis unice juris publici rationibus constat, & exinde definiri debent.'' ["The examples which we shall use belong principally to the category of private law but their treatment …
Haines: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Edwin W. Tucker
Haines: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Edwin W. Tucker
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Revival of Natural Law Concepts by Charles Grove Haines
Hurst: Law And Social Process In United States History, Robert S. Hunt
Hurst: Law And Social Process In United States History, Robert S. Hunt
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Social Process in United States History. By James Willard Hurst.
Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee
Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee
Michigan Law Review
It is perhaps axiomatic to state that law is more than an instrument for the settlement of disputes and punishment of wrongdoers; it is, more importantly, a reflection of the way of life and the philosophy of the people that live under it. Self-evident though the above may be, it bears repeating here, for there is a much greater need for understanding Chinese law now than ever before. China's growing ideological, political, economic, and military impact on the rest of the world would alone serve as a powerful motivation for the study of its law. Certainly, we could not even …
The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey
The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey
Michigan Law Review
Events of the past two decades have made imperative a fundamental re-examination of the basis of government and the legal order. The gross inhumanities of the German and Japanese regimes during the Second World War are fresh in our memories. In many areas of the world today, the force of law is being used for the systematic suppression of claims to freedom and human dignity. The revolutionary ferment of the post-war years has brought into existence new governments with the task of determining their fundamental orientation and the direction of their legal orders.
The Prospet Of Liberty Or The View From Saint-Remy, Ralph M. Carson
The Prospet Of Liberty Or The View From Saint-Remy, Ralph M. Carson
Michigan Law Review
This celebration of the first century of the Michigan Law School recalls the vain endeavor of the Holy Roman Empire to keep the craft of the law out of the Americas. Que no passasen abogados ni procuradores a las Indias was a clause inserted by the Emperor Charles V into the capitulation of 1540 with Alvar Nunez which sanctioned the exploration of the River Plate. Perhaps it was the futility of lawyers which prompted the Imperial veto. Twenty years before, when the Governor of Cuba sought to halt Cortez with decrees of outlawry from Spain, his cunning captain Sandoval evaded …
Friedrich: The Philosophy Of Law In Historical Perspective, Edgar Bodenheimer
Friedrich: The Philosophy Of Law In Historical Perspective, Edgar Bodenheimer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective. By C. J. Friedrich.
Constitutional Law - Citizenship - Power Of Congress To Effect Involuntary Expatriation, Robert J. Hoerner S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Citizenship - Power Of Congress To Effect Involuntary Expatriation, Robert J. Hoerner S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In four recent cases the United States Supreme Court has dealt with the power of Congress to effect the denationalization of native-born citizens without their consent. Three cases, Perez v. Brownell, Trop v. Dulles, and Mendoza-Martinez v. Mackey dealt with the constitutionality of sections 401(e), 401(g) and 401(j), respectively, of the Nationality Act of 1940. The fourth case, Nishikawa v. Dulles dealt only with the burden of proof when duress is alleged under section 401(c), but contained one opinion of constitutional significance. The purpose of this comment is to analyze and evaluate these decisions.
Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema
Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema
Michigan Law Review
Despite this risk and without limiting discussion of comparative legal research to a Platonic theory of knowledge-to which I for one would not accede-the text prompts first the inquiry, unavoidable in a constructive discussion of the matter, whether contemporary legal study in the United States is concerned with shadows in an intellectual cave-or in other words, whether it is true, as I was told years ago, partly perhaps in jest, by a late distinguished member of the Supreme Court, then Attorney General, when, encountering me on a visit to the Department of Justice, he kindly asked what I was looking …
Lawson: A Common Lawyer Looks At The Civil Law, F. S. C. Northrop
Lawson: A Common Lawyer Looks At The Civil Law, F. S. C. Northrop
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Common Lawyer Looks at the Civil Law. By F. H. Lawson.
Corwin: The "Higher Law" Background Of American Constitutional Law, Charles M. Whelan S.J.
Corwin: The "Higher Law" Background Of American Constitutional Law, Charles M. Whelan S.J.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law. By Edward S. Corwin.
Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman
Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of JURISPRUDENCE-ITS AMERICAN PROPHETS. A Survey of Taught Jurisprudence. By Harold Gill Reuschlein.
White: The Federalists, Michigan Law Review
White: The Federalists, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of THE FEDERALISTS. By Leonard D. White.
Just War-A Legal Concept?, Arthur Nussbaum
Just War-A Legal Concept?, Arthur Nussbaum
Michigan Law Review
During the century preceding the First World War the topic of "just war," frequently and intensely treated in earlier periods, had almost disappeared from the writings on international relations. Since the end of the war, however, the issue has been revived by writers within and without the legal profession. The present article purports, principally by an inquiry into its historical background, to determine its legal relevance.
The Popularization Of Law, Huntington Cairns
The Popularization Of Law, Huntington Cairns
Michigan Law Review
Law has been a major interest of the Western, and particularly the European, mind. Like physics it has provided a subject matter upon which many of the resources of the human intellect may be tested. It has yielded to many methods and, as a specialty with a circumscribed body of material, it has demanded the formulation of clear ideas so that interconnections are manifest and irrelevancies eliminated. Its great reward is the bestowal of the sense for style, which Whitehead has termed the ultimate morality of mind, and which is the product of specialization alone.