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Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond
Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond
Celeste M. Hammond
No abstract provided.
Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond
Foreword: Kratovil Symposium Issue Of The John Marshall Law Review, 38 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (2004), Celeste M. Hammond
Celeste M. Hammond
No abstract provided.
Magna Carta Then And Now: A Symbol Of Freedom And Equal Rights For All, Eugene K B Tan, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Magna Carta Then And Now: A Symbol Of Freedom And Equal Rights For All, Eugene K B Tan, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee
Jack Tsen-Ta LEE
Magna Carta became applicable to Singapore in 1826 when a court system administering English law was established in the Straits Settlements. This remained the case through Singapore’s evolution from Crown colony to independent republic. The Great Charter only ceased to apply in 1993, when Parliament enacted the Application of English Law Act to clarify which colonial laws were still part of Singapore law. Nonetheless, Magna Carta’s legacy in Singapore continues in a number of ways. Principles such as due process of law and the supremacy of law are cornerstones of the rule of law, vital to the success, stability and …
Temporary Insanity: The Strange Life And Times Of The Perfect Defense, Russell D. Covey
Temporary Insanity: The Strange Life And Times Of The Perfect Defense, Russell D. Covey
Russell D. Covey
The temporary insanity defense has a prominent place in the mythology of criminal law. Because it seems to permit factually guilty defendants to escape both punishment and institutionalization, some imagine it as the “perfect defense.” In fact, the defense has been invoked in a dizzying variety of contexts and, at times, has proven highly successful. Successful or not, the temporary insanity defense has always been accompanied by a storm of controversy, in part because it is often most successful in cases where the defendant’s basic claim is that honor, revenge, or tragic circumstance – not mental illness in its more …
Memorial: Nancy P. Johnson (1949-2014), Kristina L. Niedringhaus
Memorial: Nancy P. Johnson (1949-2014), Kristina L. Niedringhaus
Kristina L Niedringhaus
No abstract provided.
Book Review: The Once And Future King: The Rise Of Crown Government In America, Ronald D. Rotunda
Book Review: The Once And Future King: The Rise Of Crown Government In America, Ronald D. Rotunda
Ronald D. Rotunda
If you want to understand your own language, learn a foreign tongue. Similarly, if you want to understand the American system of government, learn what our intellectual kin—Great Britain and Canada—have done. As Professor F.H. Buckley notes, “He who knows only his own country knows little enough of that.” He is one of the few people who has thoroughly mastered the legal structure and history of all three countries.
Session Ii: Historical Perspectives On Privacy In American Law, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 319 (2012), Steven D. Schwinn, Alberto Bernabe, Kathryn Kolbert, Adam D. Moore, Marc Rotenberg
Session Ii: Historical Perspectives On Privacy In American Law, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 319 (2012), Steven D. Schwinn, Alberto Bernabe, Kathryn Kolbert, Adam D. Moore, Marc Rotenberg
Alberto Bernabe
No abstract provided.
Response To Nicholas Boyle, O. Carter Snead
Response To Nicholas Boyle, O. Carter Snead
O. Carter Snead
Response to Nicholas Boyle’s talk “God, Sex, and America: From Decline of the Common Morality to the Emergence of a Global Ethical Life” at The Catholic University of America Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture’s Symposium “A Common Morality for the Global Age: In Gratitude for What We Are Given.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., And The American Civil War, Catharine P. Wells
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., And The American Civil War, Catharine P. Wells
Catharine P. Wells
Archival Research In The History Of The Law: A User's Perspective, Douglas Hay
Archival Research In The History Of The Law: A User's Perspective, Douglas Hay
Douglas C. Hay
Legal history and the social history of law have become very active fields of research in Britain, the United States, and Canada in the past ten years. Moreover, they have begun to affect each other, so that social historians are now much more sensitive to doctrinal changes, shifts in legal rules, and legal concepts, while legal historians increasingly appreciate that explaining legal change – or the lack of it – may require extensive research outside the law library. In short, lawyers and historians are beginning to meet not only in law libraries, but also in archives. And, like all users, …
Hustle And Flow: A Social Network Analysis Of The American Federal Judiciary, Daniel Martin Katz
Hustle And Flow: A Social Network Analysis Of The American Federal Judiciary, Daniel Martin Katz
Daniel M Katz
No abstract provided.
The Descent Of Political Theory And The Limitations Of Legal Tolerance, Charles W. Collier
The Descent Of Political Theory And The Limitations Of Legal Tolerance, Charles W. Collier
Charles W. Collier
No abstract provided.
Intellectual Authority And Institutional Authority, Charles W. Collier
Intellectual Authority And Institutional Authority, Charles W. Collier
Charles W. Collier
This is an essay about the power of ideas and the influence of institutions. What Gibbon termed the pure. "force of persuasion," unaided and unhindered by institutional context, I refer to as "intellectual authority." This has been defined as "the authority exerted by arguments that make their way simply by virtue of a superior rationality and do not depend for their impact on the lines of power and influence operating in an institution." The contrastive notion of "institutional authority" refers to the nonintellectual influence exerted by social, political, cultural, historical, legal, literary, educational, religious, and other institutions. The nonintellectual influence …
No Right To Respect: Dred Scott And The Southern Honor Culture, 42 New Eng. L. Rev. 79 (2007), Cecil J. Hunt Ii
No Right To Respect: Dred Scott And The Southern Honor Culture, 42 New Eng. L. Rev. 79 (2007), Cecil J. Hunt Ii
Cecil J. Hunt II
This Article reflects on the infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857), in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the constitutionality of slavery. This Article considers this infamous case and the distance the nation has come since it was decided as well as its continuing legacy on the contemporary American struggle for racial equality. In Dred Scott the Court held that slavery was constitutional because it was consistent with the intent of the Framers and because black people were "a subordinate and inferior class of beings who... whether emancipated or not.., …
The Emergence Of Classical American Patent Law, Herbert Hovenkamp
The Emergence Of Classical American Patent Law, Herbert Hovenkamp
Herbert Hovenkamp
The Emergence of Classical Patent Law
Abstract
One enduring historical debate concerns whether the American Constitution was intended to be "classical" -- referring to a theory of statecraft that maximizes the role of private markets and minimizes the role of government in economic affairs. The most central and powerful proposition of classical constitutionalism is that the government's role in economic development should be minimal. First, private rights in property and contract exist prior to any community needs for development. Second, if a particular project is worthwhile the market itself will make it occur. Third, when the government attempts to induce …
The Trial Of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rodney A. Smolla
A Postcolonial Theory Of Spousal Rape: The Carribean And Beyond, Stacy-Ann Elvy
A Postcolonial Theory Of Spousal Rape: The Carribean And Beyond, Stacy-Ann Elvy
Stacy-Ann Elvy
Many postcolonial states in the Caribbean continue to struggle to comply with their international treaty obligations to protect women from sexual violence. Reports from various United Nations programs, including UNICEF, and the annual U.S. State Department Country Reports on Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia (“Commonwealth Countries”), indicate that sexual violence against women, including spousal abuse, is a significant problem in the Caribbean. Despite ratification of various international instruments intended to eliminate sexual violence against women, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Commonwealth Countries have retained the …
The 20th Belle R. And Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium: The Development Of Privacy Law From Brandeis To Today: Opening Remarks, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 279 (2012), Ralph Ruebner, Leslie Ann Reis, David E. Sorkin
The 20th Belle R. And Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium: The Development Of Privacy Law From Brandeis To Today: Opening Remarks, 29 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 279 (2012), Ralph Ruebner, Leslie Ann Reis, David E. Sorkin
David E. Sorkin
No abstract provided.
Abusive Tax Practices: The 100-Year Onslaught On The Tax Code, 17 Barry L. Rev. 179 (2012), Arthur Acevedo
Abusive Tax Practices: The 100-Year Onslaught On The Tax Code, 17 Barry L. Rev. 179 (2012), Arthur Acevedo
Arthur Acevedo
This article explores the actions taken by tax protesters and aggressive tax planners, and the response by Congress. It also examines whether Congress has taken sufficient action to curb abusive taxpayer practices. The thesis of the article is that Congress's faint-hearted responses to abusive taxpayer conduct are untimely, inefficient, and ineffective. Congress's weak responses since the inception of the Code have contributed to a culture of income tax avoidance and a growing sense of taxpayer frustration with income tax laws. Part II examines the culture of tax avoidance in the U.S. and how this attitude has manifested itself in our …
Responsible Profitability - Not On My Balance Sheet, 61 Cath. U. L. Rev. 651 (2012), Arthur Acevedo
Responsible Profitability - Not On My Balance Sheet, 61 Cath. U. L. Rev. 651 (2012), Arthur Acevedo
Arthur Acevedo
Many free-market capitalists believe in the syllogism that if a free market results in progress, and if progress is good, then by definition a free market must be good. Two hundred years of economic development support this proposition. The capitalist model, which is premised on free-market ideology, is credited with producing many of the riches enjoyed by society as a whole. Indeed, the pursuit of economic freedom ranks among the primary motivations for the founding of the United States. The corporation has enabled that pursuit and can be credited with greatly contributing to the advancement of free-market capitalism.
Proponents of …
A Gospel Of Law, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1039 (1997), Kevin L. Hopkins
A Gospel Of Law, 30 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1039 (1997), Kevin L. Hopkins
Kevin L. Hopkins
No abstract provided.
Forgive U.S. Our Debts? Righting The Wrongs Of Slavery, 89 Geo. L.J. 2531 (2001), Kevin Hopkins
Forgive U.S. Our Debts? Righting The Wrongs Of Slavery, 89 Geo. L.J. 2531 (2001), Kevin Hopkins
Kevin L. Hopkins
No abstract provided.
Copy Game For High Score: The First Video Game Lawsuit, 20 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2012), William K. Ford
Copy Game For High Score: The First Video Game Lawsuit, 20 J. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2012), William K. Ford
William K. Ford
Commentators and industry historians generally agree that the multi-billion dollar video game industry began forty years ago in November 1972 with Atari's release of Pong. Pong is among the simplest of video games: a version of ping pong or tennis requiring little more to play than a ball, two paddles, a scoring indicator, and a couple of memorable sounds. While it was not the first video game, Pong was the first video game hit. With unauthorized copying of a successful product occurring, it is not surprising that a lawsuit resulted in the fall of 1973, one that predates the more …
The Phantom Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation Of Legal Interpretation, Jason J. Czarnezki, William K. Ford
The Phantom Philosophy? An Empirical Investigation Of Legal Interpretation, Jason J. Czarnezki, William K. Ford
William K. Ford
No abstract provided.
The Forgotten Jurisprudential Debate: Catholic Legal Thought’S Response To Legal Realism, John M. Breen, Lee J. Strang
The Forgotten Jurisprudential Debate: Catholic Legal Thought’S Response To Legal Realism, John M. Breen, Lee J. Strang
John M. Breen
No abstract provided.
Charting The Influences On The Judicial Mind: An Empirical Study Of Judicial Reasoning, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise, Andrew P. Morriss
Charting The Influences On The Judicial Mind: An Empirical Study Of Judicial Reasoning, Gregory C. Sisk, Michael Heise, Andrew P. Morriss
Andrew P. Morriss
In 1988, hundreds of federal district judges were suddenly confronted with the need to render a decision on the constitutionality of the Sentencing Reform Act and the newly promulgated criminal Sentencing Guidelines. Never before has a question of such importance and involving such significant issues of constitutional law mandated the immediate and simultaneous attention of such a large segment of the federal trial bench. Accordingly, this event provides an archetypal model for exploring the influence of social background, ideology, judicial role and institution, and other factors on judicial decisionmaking. Based upon a unique set of written decisions involving an identical …
Incest In A Thousdand Acres: Cheap Trick Or Feminist Re-Vision, Susan Ayres
Incest In A Thousdand Acres: Cheap Trick Or Feminist Re-Vision, Susan Ayres
Susan Ayres
This article ultimately argues that the plot changes are not a cheap trick intended to manipulate the reader's emotions, but a feminist re-vision, which succeeds or not depending on the reader's critical feminist perspective. Thus, Part Two delineates several feminist stances, such as liberal feminism, radical feminism, social feminism, and postmodern feminism, and summarizes the plot changes Smiley has imposed on King Lear. Part Three considers one major plot change - the longing for the mother - in terms of patriarchy's suppression of a maternal genealogy and feminine language. This part argues that the novel successfully demonstrates the difficulty in …
Hadley V. Baxendale And Other Common Law Borrowings From The Civil Law, Wayne Barnes
Hadley V. Baxendale And Other Common Law Borrowings From The Civil Law, Wayne Barnes
Wayne R. Barnes
In 1854, the English Exchequer Court delivered the landmark case of Hadley v. Baxendale. That case provided, for the first time in the common law, a defined rule regarding the limitations on recovery of damages for breach of contract. It has been widely celebrated as a landmark in the law of contracts, and more widely as a triumph of the common law system. A little over a decade after it was decided, it had already become highly regarded, for Chief Baron Pollock stated in 1866: “[A] more extensive and accurate knowledge of decisions in our law books, and a more …
In The Wake Of Thoreau: Four Morden Legal Philosophers And The Theory Of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Stephen R. Alton
In The Wake Of Thoreau: Four Morden Legal Philosophers And The Theory Of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, Stephen R. Alton
Stephen Alton
No abstract provided.
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Roll Over Langdell, Tell Llewellyn The News: A Brief History Of American Legal Education, Stephen R. Alton
Stephen Alton
The origin of this essay is a presentation the author made at the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Texas on December 10, 2008. This essay is derived from the author's presentation, which originally was entitled "A Brief and Highly Selective History of American Legal Education and Jurisprudence. " In this essay, the author provides an overview of the history and development of legal education in America, emphasizing the establishment and evolution of the case method of instruction in American law schools and focusing on the influence of American jurisprudence on the development of legal education in …