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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Doing Good And Getting Worse: The Dilemma Of Social Policy, Gerald N. Grob
Doing Good And Getting Worse: The Dilemma Of Social Policy, Gerald N. Grob
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Doing Good: The Limits of Benevolence by Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, and David J. Rothman
Trials Without End: Some Comments And Reviews On The Sacco-Vanzetti, Rosenberg, And Hiss Cases, Terry A. Cooney
Trials Without End: Some Comments And Reviews On The Sacco-Vanzetti, Rosenberg, And Hiss Cases, Terry A. Cooney
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Porter: The Never-Ending Wrong, and Meeropol & Meeropol: We Are Your Sons: The Legacy of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and Weinstein:Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case
Essays On Problems And Prospects In Southern Legal History, Kermit L. Hall
Essays On Problems And Prospects In Southern Legal History, Kermit L. Hall
Vanderbilt Law Review
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once urged historians to study the law because it offered a magic mirror whose reflections divulged fundamental social values.' Holmes' plea on behalf of the utility of legal history has relevance for southerners intrigued by the possibility of their historical distinctiveness. Without a basis of comparison, however, the search for southern exceptionality becomes a quest after the arcane. As C. Vann Woodward observed,southern history ought to tell all Americans, not southerners alone,something about their common pasts. Woodward argued that attaining this goal was entirely feasible, since certain aspects of the southern past, such as slavery …
The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau
The Implicit Teaching Of Utopian Speculations: Rousseau's Contribution To The Natural Law Tradition, Thomas E. Carbonneau
Seattle University Law Review
Legal philosophers, especially of the positivist variety, traditionally have assumed that the proponents of natural law theory present too facile an answer to the vexed question of whether an unjust law can be said to exist when it is duly sanctioned by legal and political authority. If not disappointed by the answer itself, they have been most unhappy with the explanation that accompanies it and, indeed, are prepared to challenge the very foundations of a theory of law which pays so little heed—either empirically or in terms of pure logic—to the actual operations of existing legal systems. Kant initiated the …
Editorial Privilege And The Scope Of Discovery In Sullivan Rule Libel Actions, Howard Hunter
Editorial Privilege And The Scope Of Discovery In Sullivan Rule Libel Actions, Howard Hunter
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
The war in Vietnam was the source of a great deal of social, political, and legal controversy. The impact of that war on our society was significant and substantial, but most students of the experience would probably not have predicted that the war's events would produce a lawsuit that could have a significant effect on the common law tort of defamation. The intriguing saga of Lt. Colonel Anthony Herbert, however, set the stage for the decision of a case that was almost as important to libel litigants as New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.