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What Is Remembered, Alice Ristroph May 2020

What Is Remembered, Alice Ristroph

Michigan Law Review

Review of Sarah A. Seo's Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom.


Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson Jan 1964

Freedom Of Navigation For International Rivers: What Does It Mean?, Ralph W. Johnson

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this paper will be to analyze the origin of the concept, trace its (their) development, point out the most commonly used meanings, and then demonstrate the substantial irrelevance of the concept, by any of these definitions, to present-day river navigation and trade problems.


Hunt: Law And Locomotives: The Impact Of The Railroad On Wisconsin Law In The Nineteenth Century, Alan N. Polasky Jun 1959

Hunt: Law And Locomotives: The Impact Of The Railroad On Wisconsin Law In The Nineteenth Century, Alan N. Polasky

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Locomotives: The Impact of the Railroad on Wisconsin Law in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert S. Hunt.


The Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933, Edwin C. Goddard Jun 1933

The Emergency Railroad Transportation Act, 1933, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

From Munn v. Illinois to the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933 has been a long journey traveled by the public and the public utilities, notably the largest public utility, the railroads. In 1876 the very term "public utility" was unknown. The idea that the public could break in on laissez faire and regulate any business was to the persons regulated, and to their lawyers, odious. With them agreed Justices Field, Brewer, Peckham, and many another, who predicted that the public would not long tolerate such interference with business. But prophecy is hazardous, and these prophets were wrong.


Interstate Ferries And The Commerce Clause, C. M. Kneier Apr 1928

Interstate Ferries And The Commerce Clause, C. M. Kneier

Michigan Law Review

The Constitution of the United States confers upon Congress the power to regulate commerce among the several states; the transportation of passengers and freight across a navigable river from one state to another by ferryboat, however short the distance traversed, or frequent the trips made, is interstate commerce. It is the purpose of this study to point out what action Congress has taken under the power thus conferred upon it relative to interstate ferries and to determine the relative spheres of authority of the states and of the National Government over this subject.