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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Law As Text: A Response To Professor Michael Ryan, Robert N. Covington
Law As Text: A Response To Professor Michael Ryan, Robert N. Covington
Vanderbilt Law Review
Law, Professor Michael Ryan reminds us by his emphasis on law as legitimating representation, is also text. This is the most telling of the many points he sets out in his provocative and thoughtful article; for those of us called to the bar, it is an important reminder. For us lawyers, after all, law is not so much text as it is process, not so much noun as verb. It is not that we disregard the fact that law is in part a pen-and-ink affair. Our shelves sag with books; in academic life, few divisions of a university spend so …
Law Faculty Developments At Calgary, 1984-1989, Margaret E. Hughes
Law Faculty Developments At Calgary, 1984-1989, Margaret E. Hughes
Dalhousie Law Journal
The Calgary Law Faculty is the youngest of the Canadian Law Schools, having been established in 1976. During the period under review the Faculty tackled developmental challenges that older Canadian law schools had faced years ago in generally less stringent economic times.
While Equity Slumbered: Creditor Advantage, A Capitalist Land Market, And Upper Canada's Missing Court, John C. Weaver
While Equity Slumbered: Creditor Advantage, A Capitalist Land Market, And Upper Canada's Missing Court, John C. Weaver
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
Until 1837, Upper Canada had no Court of Chancery. This omission forced stop-gap measures which in the area of mortgages produced a muddle. The confusion introduced into the land market led to protracted controversies among politicians and jurists during the 1820s and 1830s. The many complex principles and motives raised by the lack of an equitable jurisdiction generated much legislative controversy and experimentation. John Beverley Robinson often was central to vital discussions where he revealed both his intelligence and social biases favouring gentlemen of capital. Extremely complicated issues have deflected attention from the central issue: whether the colony needed equity, …
Mélanges. Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Marcel Joyal
Mélanges. Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Marcel Joyal
Dalhousie Law Journal
This is a collection of legal articles put together at the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, of the University of Ottawa under the direction of Professor Ernest Caparros.
The Reunification Of Germany: Comments On A Legal Maze, Jutta Brunnée
The Reunification Of Germany: Comments On A Legal Maze, Jutta Brunnée
Dalhousie Law Journal
In its Preamble, the Basic Law - the constitution - of the Federal Republic of Germany declares itself a transitional order put in place until all Germans can freely decide to live in a reunified Germany. The Preamble is evidence of both history and aspirations of the western part of Germany that emerged from the Second World War. It is now one of the legal foundations for an event that only a year ago few thought was possible: the merging of the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany into one German state. In its preamble and in …
Beethoven And The Law: The Case Of The Nephew, Elliot M. Abramson
Beethoven And The Law: The Case Of The Nephew, Elliot M. Abramson
Florida State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Doorkeepers: Legal Education In The Territories And Alberta, 1885-1928, Peter M. Sibenik
Doorkeepers: Legal Education In The Territories And Alberta, 1885-1928, Peter M. Sibenik
Dalhousie Law Journal
Legal education has been subjected to greater scrutiny in common law jurisdictions since the publication of Lawyers and the Courts in 1967.2 Most of the recent literature has addressed the issue of who received a legal education and became entitled to practise law. It has also examined how a conservative-minded profession regenerated itself, and whether it equipped new recruits with the proper tools to meet the challenges of a changing society.
Newfoundland And Dominion Status, Christine Boyle
Newfoundland And Dominion Status, Christine Boyle
Dalhousie Law Journal
The relationship between Canada and Newfoundland was under stress for a number of different reasons during the eighties. There was a dispute over off-shore mineral rights' as well as concern over French fishing rights.2 For those interested in the relationship, Dr. Gilmore's book, Newfoundland and Dominion3 Status, subtitled The External Affairs Competence and International Law Status of Newfoundland, 1855-1934, therefore provides a useful historical background as well as fascinating information about the constitutional development of Newfoundland. This may be of interest as well to constitutional and international scholars generally as well as to Newfoundland's neighbours in the Maritimes.
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
"His Whole Life Was One Of Continual Warfare": John Thomas Bulmer, Lawyer, Librarian And Social Reformer, Philip Girard
"His Whole Life Was One Of Continual Warfare": John Thomas Bulmer, Lawyer, Librarian And Social Reformer, Philip Girard
Dalhousie Law Journal
There is a small secondary literature on Bulmer. D.C. Harvey provides an authoritative account of his career as Provincial Librarian, while Bulmer's friend Benjamin Russell concentrates on his legal career in a biographical tribute published three decades after his death.4 Aside from passing references to his devotion to the cause of prohibition, however, no one has investigated Bulmer's career as a social reformer. An over-emphasis on Bulmer's admittedly extraordinary personality has prevented a full appreciation of the complexity of this multi-faceted individual; and this gap in turn has tended to obscure an important chapter in Nova Scotian social history. This …
Of Persons And Property: The Politics Of Legal Taxonomy, David Cohen, Allan C. Hutchinson
Of Persons And Property: The Politics Of Legal Taxonomy, David Cohen, Allan C. Hutchinson
Dalhousie Law Journal
To talk of law without politics or history is nonsensical. All lawyers must concede that what they do takes place in historical circumstances and has political consequences. Every piece of law-making and law-application is a governmental act; it relies on political authority and claims binding force. Moreover, all legal activity occurs within a particular historical context; it is intended to respond to or influence a past, existing or anticipated state of affairs. This means that the study of law must concern itself with politics and history generally: it must not confine itself to only the politics and history of law. …
The Faculty Of Law, University Of Manitoba 1964-1989, D T. Anderson
The Faculty Of Law, University Of Manitoba 1964-1989, D T. Anderson
Dalhousie Law Journal
The purpose of this brief, informal, note is to continue the account of the work and development of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, 1966-1984, given by C.H.C. Edwards and J.R. London in (1984), 9 Dalhousie Law Journal 166, through 1989.
The National Law Programme At Mcgill: Origins, Establishment, Prospects, Roderick A. Macdonald
The National Law Programme At Mcgill: Origins, Establishment, Prospects, Roderick A. Macdonald
Dalhousie Law Journal
This article is about the history of an idea, and about the curriculum of a Faculty of Law within which that idea has been pursued for more than a century. Its purpose is to explore the intellectual origins of the current National Programme of legal education at McGill University, to review the circumstances of its establishment agd evolution over the past two decades, and to evaluate its prospects as the Faculty's sesquicentennial celebrations approach.
The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario 1923-1957, W R. Lederman
The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario 1923-1957, W R. Lederman
Dalhousie Law Journal
In the dozen years after the end of the Second World War, long-standing conflicts about the nature of education for the legal profession in Ontario became especially acute. Fortunately, climax and successful compromise came in 1957. In that year the Law Society of Upper Canada, which had controlled legal education and admission to practice from the early days of the Colony of Upper Canada, gave up its monopoly of legal education and conceded an equal position in this respect to Ontario universities willing and able to enter the field. Several were, and promptly did so. Indeed the University of Toronto …
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
History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder
History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage
The Hohfeldian Approach To Law And Semiotics, J. M. Balkin
The Hohfeldian Approach To Law And Semiotics, J. M. Balkin
University of Miami Law Review
No abstract provided.
Why Holmes?, Mathias Reimann
Why Holmes?, Mathias Reimann
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick
Invasion Of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Laura J. Hines
Invasion Of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Laura J. Hines
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Invasion of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Patricia Nassif Acton
Classical Republicanism And The American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood
Classical Republicanism And The American Revolution, Gordon S. Wood
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In his Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution, Professor Wood outlines the evolution of republicanism from antiquity to the eighteenth century and notes the ensuing evolution of American politics away from even this late republicanism.
The Revolutionary Idea Of University Legal Education, Paul D. Carrington
The Revolutionary Idea Of University Legal Education, Paul D. Carrington
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Women, Mothers, And The Law Of Fright: A History, Martha Chamallas, Linda K. Kerber
Women, Mothers, And The Law Of Fright: A History, Martha Chamallas, Linda K. Kerber
Michigan Law Review
This article presents a gendered history of the law's treatment of fright-based physical injuries. Our goal is to connect the law of fright to the changing cultural and intellectual forces of the twentieth century. Through a feminist lens, we reexamine the accounts of the legal treatment of fright-based injuries offered by Victorian-erajurists, traditionalist legal scholars of the first two decades of the twentieth century, a legal realist in the 1930s, and a Freudian medical-legal commentator from the 1940s, all of whom helped to shape present-day tort doctrine. We conclude with an account of Dillon v. Legg, in which the …
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
No abstract provided.
Our Nation's Energy And Resources - Decision Making In Conflict, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 197 (1990), Wallace H. Johnson
Our Nation's Energy And Resources - Decision Making In Conflict, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 197 (1990), Wallace H. Johnson
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Brief Argument For Greater Control Of Litigation Discretion - The Public Interest And Public Choice Contexts, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 215 (1990), Walter J. Kendall Iii
A Brief Argument For Greater Control Of Litigation Discretion - The Public Interest And Public Choice Contexts, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 215 (1990), Walter J. Kendall Iii
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
On The Steadfastness And Courage Of Government Lawyers, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 165 (1990), Roger C. Cramton
On The Steadfastness And Courage Of Government Lawyers, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 165 (1990), Roger C. Cramton
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Incommensurable Values, Rational Choice, And Moral Absolutes, David Luban
Incommensurable Values, Rational Choice, And Moral Absolutes, David Luban
Cleveland State Law Review
My comments in this paper are directed to just one argument, or rather one cluster of arguments, deployed by John Finnis in just three pages of Natural Law and Legal Reasoning. I am referring to Finnis's argument that the goods and bad at stake in legal, moral and political choice are incommensurable, and to the conclusions he draws from this argument. I will argue that while the incommensurability thesis is true, that is so for reasons somewhat different than those Finnis advances (section I); that in its most common form the incommensurability thesis does not in all cases imply the …
The Virtues Of Redundancy In Legal Thought, Randy E. Barnett
The Virtues Of Redundancy In Legal Thought, Randy E. Barnett
Cleveland State Law Review
Redundancy has a bad reputation among legal intellectuals. My interest in the virtues of redundancy grows out of my interest in the social function of the liberal conception of justice and the rule of law. In this essay, I propose that legal theorists pay serious attention to the concept of redundancy used by engineers. I explain how redundancy-in this special sense-is essential to any intellectual enterprise in which we try to reach action-guiding conclusions, including the enterprise of law. I will describe the virtues of redundancy in legal thought. I want to explain why it is useful to rely on …
Survey - Developments In Maryland Law, 1988-89
Survey - Developments In Maryland Law, 1988-89
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Promulgating The Marriage Contract, Lynn A. Baker
Promulgating The Marriage Contract, Lynn A. Baker
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
I begin Part I of this Article by positing several logically necessary, but insufficient, conditions that precede a state's decision to promulgate a law more aggressively than usual. I then show that each of these conditions was met with regard to the economic terms of the marriage contract in virtually all states by 1975. In Part II, I explore what Louisiana's unusually aggressive promulgation of certain terms of the marriage contract reveals about the legal system's conception of the marital relationship as of 1975. In Part III, I discuss what is added to that conception of the modern marital relationship …