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Whiteness As Innocence, David Simson Jan 2019

Whiteness As Innocence, David Simson

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Current antidiscrimination law is exceedingly hostile to the project of race-conscious remediation—the conscious use of race to mitigate America’s persistent racial hierarchy. This Article argues that this broad hostility can be traced in significant part to what I call “Whiteness as Innocence” ideology. This ideology is a system of legal reasoning by which the formal principle of equality is filled with the substantive principle of white racial dominance via invocations of white innocence. That is, under this ideology, ideas about white innocence influence legal decisions on who is “alike” and “unalike” and what constitutes “alike” and “unalike” treatment in race-conscious …


Judicial Activism In Trial Courts, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2019

Judicial Activism In Trial Courts, Bruce Green, Rebecca Roiphe

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The Historical Significance Of Judge Learned Hand: What Endures And Why, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2018

The Historical Significance Of Judge Learned Hand: What Endures And Why, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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The 100th anniversary of Judge Learned Hand's opinion in Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten' invites us to look back on its author's long career and to consider his contributions to American law and his significance in the nation's history. Spanning more than fifty years from the presidency of William Howard Taft to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, Hand's judicial career presents an exceptionally rich subject for such reflection.


What Changes In American Constitutional Law And What Does Not, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2017

What Changes In American Constitutional Law And What Does Not, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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The Judicial Legacy Of Louis Brandeis And The Nature Of American Constitutionalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2017

The Judicial Legacy Of Louis Brandeis And The Nature Of American Constitutionalism, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Vital Tissues Of The Spirit: Constitutional Emotions In The Antebellum United States, Doni Gewirtzman Jan 2017

Vital Tissues Of The Spirit: Constitutional Emotions In The Antebellum United States, Doni Gewirtzman

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This Chapter provides a framework for examining the ambivalent and reciprocal relationship between emotions and constitutional law through three interrelated lenses: text, instrument, and symbol. In the years before the Civil War, discourse about feelings impacted institutional struggles for interpretive supremacy over the constitutional text, affected the Constitution’s ability to function as a legal mechanism for emotion management, and shaped its status as a national symbol.


Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2017

Exploring The Origins Of America's Adversarial Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Law And The Modern Mind: Consciousness And Responsibility In American Legal Culture (Book Review), Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2017

Law And The Modern Mind: Consciousness And Responsibility In American Legal Culture (Book Review), Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Book Review Of Law And The Modern Mind: Consciousness And Responsibility In American Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr Jan 2017

Book Review Of Law And The Modern Mind: Consciousness And Responsibility In American Legal Culture, Edward A. Purcell Jr

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Fighting To Lose The Vote: How The Solider Voting Acts Of 1942 And 1944 Disenfranchised America's Armed Forces, Molly Guptill Manning Jan 2016

Fighting To Lose The Vote: How The Solider Voting Acts Of 1942 And 1944 Disenfranchised America's Armed Forces, Molly Guptill Manning

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Ancient And Comely Order: The Use And Disuse Of Arbitration By New York Quakers, F. Peter Philips Jan 2016

Ancient And Comely Order: The Use And Disuse Of Arbitration By New York Quakers, F. Peter Philips

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From the late 17th century, the Religious Society of Friends (“Quakers”) observed a method of resolving disputes arising within congregations that was scripturally based, and culminated in final and binding arbitration. The practice of Quaker arbitration gradually disappeared during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and few modern Quakers are even aware of it. This article traces that decline and notes similarities with mercantile arbitration. In both religious and mercantile arbitration, a defined community valued the goal of avoiding group disruption more than the goal of vindicating individual legal rights. In both cases, members of the community applied distinct …


The Quest For Constitutionalism: South Africa Since 1994, Penelope Andrews Jan 2016

The Quest For Constitutionalism: South Africa Since 1994, Penelope Andrews

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Book Review Of Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet's "What Is A Fair International Society? International Law Between Development And Recognition, Ruti G. Teitel Jan 2014

Book Review Of Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet's "What Is A Fair International Society? International Law Between Development And Recognition, Ruti G. Teitel

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Globalization Through The Lens Of Palace Wars: What Elite Lawyers' Careers Can And Cannot Tell Us About Globalization Of Law, Frank W. Munger Jan 2012

Globalization Through The Lens Of Palace Wars: What Elite Lawyers' Careers Can And Cannot Tell Us About Globalization Of Law, Frank W. Munger

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Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth's three studies-Dealing in Virtue (1996), The Internationalization of Palace Wars (2002), Asian Legal Revivals (2010)-trace the globalization of law through "palace wars" among elites for positions in the "fields of state power." They conclude that globalization occurs through links among elites engaged in their domestic palace wars, which independently establish the symbolic power of law in each state. The article argues that while Dezalay and Garth provide an invaluable new starting point for further research, they do not adequately consider an emerging field of research documenting alternative pathways of legal development pursued by local activists …


Book Review Of Melvin I. Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2010

Book Review Of Melvin I. Urofsky's Louis D. Brandeis: A Life, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana Jan 2009

Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana

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Professor Ross Sandler has contributed a full review of Fighting for the City to this symposium issue. This short comment is meant to supplement that review by emphasizing topics that are of particular interest to an historian of the American legal profession, and of American legal education in particular and New York City in general. It is also meant to draw some connections between Fighting for the City and two of Professor William Nelson's other works: In Pursuit of Right and Justice, his biography of Edward Weinfeld, a lawyer and judge of the District Court for theSouthern District of New …


The Rise Of The American Adversary System: America Before England, Randolph N. Jonakait Jan 2009

The Rise Of The American Adversary System: America Before England, Randolph N. Jonakait

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The standard versions of the adversary system's development show that as more lawyers participated in English criminal trials in eighteenth century England criminal procedure became increasingly adversary. Those versions largely ignore American history which shows that the colonies and early America did not simply adopt the English adversary system but moved to an adversary system in advance of England. This article discusses data and developments indicating America's early adoption of an adversary system, including the American guarantee of a right of counsel, the routine presence of counsel in criminal cases in the colonies and the new United States, the American …


Book Review Of Dalia Mitchell’S Architect Of Justice: Felix S. Cohen And The Founding Of American Pluralism, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2008

Book Review Of Dalia Mitchell’S Architect Of Justice: Felix S. Cohen And The Founding Of American Pluralism, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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Lost In Translation: Some Brief Notes On Writing About Law For The Layperson, Brandt Goldstein Jan 2008

Lost In Translation: Some Brief Notes On Writing About Law For The Layperson, Brandt Goldstein

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The (Futile) Search For A Common Law Right Of Confrontation: Beyond Brasier's Irrelevance To (Perhaps) Relevant American Cases, Randolph N. Jonakait Jan 2007

The (Futile) Search For A Common Law Right Of Confrontation: Beyond Brasier's Irrelevance To (Perhaps) Relevant American Cases, Randolph N. Jonakait

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After Crawford v. Washington asserted that the Confrontation Clause constitutionalized the common law right of confrontation, cases have been suggested that illustrate that right. This short essay considers whether the 1779 English case Rex v. Brasier is such a decision, as some contend. The essay concludes that Brasier says nothing about the right of confrontation and points to a comparable framing-era, American case that indicates that general rules about hearsay and confrontation were not at issue. The essay maintains that if the historical understandings of the right of confrontation and hearsay are to control the Confrontation Clause, then framing-era, American …


Learning To Love After Learning To Harm: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Gender Equality And Cultural Values, Penelope Andrews Jan 2007

Learning To Love After Learning To Harm: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Gender Equality And Cultural Values, Penelope Andrews

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The question that the Jacob Zuma rape trial and its aftermath raised was how a country like South Africa, with such a wonderful Constitution and expansive Bill of Rights, could generate such negative and retrogressive attitudes towards women. In line with this inquiry, this article raises three issues: The first focuses on the legacy of apartheid violence and specifically the cultures of masculinity, the underbelly of apartheid violence. Second, the article explores the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), a vital part of the post-apartheid transformation agenda, to examine how the TRC pursued violations of women's human rights. …


Book Review Of Steven Harmon Wilson’S The Rise Of Judicial Management In The U.S. District Court, Southern District Of Texas, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 2005

Book Review Of Steven Harmon Wilson’S The Rise Of Judicial Management In The U.S. District Court, Southern District Of Texas, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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The Death Penalty As Delineated By The Old Testament: From Adam And Eve To Cain And Abel To Noah And The Flood To Abraham And Sodom To Moses And The Ten Commandments, Biblical Passages Trace The Roots For How Modern Society Deals With The Execution Of Killers, Robert Blecker Nov 2004

The Death Penalty As Delineated By The Old Testament: From Adam And Eve To Cain And Abel To Noah And The Flood To Abraham And Sodom To Moses And The Ten Commandments, Biblical Passages Trace The Roots For How Modern Society Deals With The Execution Of Killers, Robert Blecker

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A Brief History Of Gender Law Journals: The Heritage Of Myra Bradwell's Chicago Legal News, Richard H. Chused Jan 2003

A Brief History Of Gender Law Journals: The Heritage Of Myra Bradwell's Chicago Legal News, Richard H. Chused

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The Serpent Beguiled Me: A History Of The Entrapment Defense, Rebecca Roiphe Jan 2003

The Serpent Beguiled Me: A History Of The Entrapment Defense, Rebecca Roiphe

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Book #23, Roger J. Miner '56 Jan 2001

Book #23, Roger J. Miner '56

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Making Room For Critical Race Theory In International Law: Some Practical Pointers, Penelope Andrews Jan 2000

Making Room For Critical Race Theory In International Law: Some Practical Pointers, Penelope Andrews

Articles & Chapters

In addition to assessing the pertinence of critical race theory in unmasking international law's colonial, racist and patriarchal underpinnings, this paper attempts to suggest practical ways in which a critical race theoryapproach can enrich the international legal system, by giving a voice to the voiceless and by addressing the conditions of marginality in which much of the developing world is trapped.

This paper will do three things. First, it will peruse the contemporary global situation with respect to international law and human rights. Second, it will assess the contribution of critical race theory in advancing an understanding of, and solution …


Foreword: The One-Hundredth Anniversary Of The Charter Of The City Of New York (Symposium: One-Hundredth Anniversary Of The Charter Of The City Of New York: Past, Present, And Future, 1898–1998), Ross Sandler Jan 1998

Foreword: The One-Hundredth Anniversary Of The Charter Of The City Of New York (Symposium: One-Hundredth Anniversary Of The Charter Of The City Of New York: Past, Present, And Future, 1898–1998), Ross Sandler

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Book Review Of Silencing The Opposition: Government Strategies Of Suppression Of Freedom Of Expression, By Craig R. Smith, Jethro K. Lieberman Jan 1997

Book Review Of Silencing The Opposition: Government Strategies Of Suppression Of Freedom Of Expression, By Craig R. Smith, Jethro K. Lieberman

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Book Review Of American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science, By John Henry Schlegel, Edward A. Purcell Jr. Jan 1996

Book Review Of American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science, By John Henry Schlegel, Edward A. Purcell Jr.

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