Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Legal history (2)
- American west (1)
- Civil rights (1)
- Climatic changes (1)
- Colonialism (1)
-
- Community and society studies (1)
- Consensus (1)
- Environmental ethics (1)
- Environmental policy (1)
- Expansion (1)
- Gender and law (1)
- George washington law review (1)
- Government (1)
- Historiography (1)
- Immigration (1)
- Judges (1)
- Judicial review (1)
- Judiciary branch (1)
- Law (1)
- Law and society (1)
- Politics (1)
- Race (1)
- Settler (1)
- Willard Hurst (1)
- Women's travel (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Politics Of Nature: Climate Change, Environmental Law, And Democracy, Jedediah Purdy
The Politics Of Nature: Climate Change, Environmental Law, And Democracy, Jedediah Purdy
Faculty Scholarship
Legal scholars’ discussions of climate change assume that the issue is one mainly of engineering incentives, and that “environmental values” are too weak, vague, or both to spur political action to address the emerging crisis. This Article gives reason to believe otherwise. The major natural resource and environmental statutes, from the acts creating national forests and parks to the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, have emerged from precisely the activity that discussions of climate change neglect: democratic argument over the value of the natural world and its role in competing ideas of citizenship, national purpose, and the role and …
A Tale Of Two Paradigms: Judicial Review And Judicial Duty, Philip A. Hamburger
A Tale Of Two Paradigms: Judicial Review And Judicial Duty, Philip A. Hamburger
Faculty Scholarship
What is the role of judges in holding government acts unconstitutional? The conventional paradigm is "judicial review." From this perspective, judges have a distinct power to review statutes and other government acts for their constitutionality. The historical evidence, however, reveals another paradigm, that of judicial duty. From this point of view, presented in my book Law and Judicial Duty, a judge has an office or duty, in all decisions, to exercise judgment in accord with the law of the land. On this understanding, there is no distinct power to review acts for their constitutionality, and what is called "judicial review" …
Go West Young Woman!: The Mercer Girls And Legal Historiography, Kristin Collins
Go West Young Woman!: The Mercer Girls And Legal Historiography, Kristin Collins
Faculty Scholarship
This essay is a response to Professor Kerry Abrams’s article The Hidden Dimension of Nineteenth-Century Immigration Law, published in Vanderbilt Law Review. The Hidden Dimension tells the story of Washington Territory’s entrepreneurial Asa Shinn Mercer, who endeavored to bring hundreds of young women from the East Coast to the tiny frontier town of Seattle as prospective brides for white men who had settled there. Abrams locates the story of the Mercer Girls, as they were called, in the history of American immigration law. My response locates The Hidden Dimension in American legal historiography, both that branch of American legal historiography …