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What Causes Fundamental Legal Ideas? Marital Property In England And France In The Thirteenth Century, Charles Donahue Jr. Nov 1979

What Causes Fundamental Legal Ideas? Marital Property In England And France In The Thirteenth Century, Charles Donahue Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Categorizing broadly, the marital property systems of the Western nations today are divided into two types: those in which husband and wife own all property separately except those items that they have expressly agreed to hold jointly (in a nontechnical sense) and those in which husband and wife own a substantial portion or even all of their property jointly unless they have expressly agreed to hold it separately. The system of separate property is the "common law" system, in force in most jurisdictions where the Anglo-American common law is in force. The system of joint property is the community property …


Untangling The Strands Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Ira C. Lupu Apr 1979

Untangling The Strands Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Ira C. Lupu

Michigan Law Review

This Article explores such trends in the context of several recent cases and in the broader context of established patterns of constitutional law. Section II shows how the different strains of fourteenth amendment activism over the past century have tangled the strands of the fourteenth amendment in a thick, almost impenetrable knot. Section ill studies the tangle's reflection in three cases raising fundamental rights problems - Maher v. Roe, Moore v. City of East Cleveland, and Zablocki v. Redhail. Finally, Section N offers what Sections II and III suggest is missing from fourteenth amendment case law- a theory, abstract …


The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider Mar 1979

The Rise Of Prisons And The Origins Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Carl E. Schneider

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic by David J. Rothman


Doing Good And Getting Worse: The Dilemma Of Social Policy, Gerald N. Grob Mar 1979

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


One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin Mar 1979

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 Greek Concept Of Justice, Michigan Law Review Mar 1979

The Greek Concept Of Justice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Greek Concept of Justice by Eric A. Havelock


Legal Realism And Historical Method: J. Willard Hurst And American Legal History, Stephen Diamond Mar 1979

Legal Realism And Historical Method: J. Willard Hurst And American Legal History, Stephen Diamond

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Social Order in the United States by James Willard Hurst


The Declaration Of Independence: The Reality Behind The Myth, Gerald F. Moran Mar 1979

The Declaration Of Independence: The Reality Behind The Myth, Gerald F. Moran

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills


Trials Without End: Some Comments And Reviews On The Sacco-Vanzetti, Rosenberg, And Hiss Cases, Terry A. Cooney Mar 1979

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


Racial Prejudice And Scholarly Prejudice: New Confrontations At The Selma Bridge, J. Mills Thornton Iii Mar 1979

Racial Prejudice And Scholarly Prejudice: New Confrontations At The Selma Bridge, J. Mills Thornton Iii

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by David J. Garrow


The Cardinal's Court: The Impact Of Thomas Wolsey In Star Chamber, Michigan Law Review Mar 1979

The Cardinal's Court: The Impact Of Thomas Wolsey In Star Chamber, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Cardinal's Court: The Impact of Thomas Wolsey in Star Chamber by John A. Guy