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The Unwritten Law And Its Writers, Frederick J. Moreau
The Unwritten Law And Its Writers, Frederick J. Moreau
Pepperdine Law Review
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The Case For "Higher Law", John Warwick Montgomery
The Case For "Higher Law", John Warwick Montgomery
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Social Justice And The Warren Court: A Preliminary Examination, Arthur S. Miller
Social Justice And The Warren Court: A Preliminary Examination, Arthur S. Miller
Pepperdine Law Review
Whether courts should attempt to advance social justice is a much debated topic in American jurisprudence. The conventional wisdom about the judicial process is to the contrary. In this article, Professor Arthur S. Miller suggests that the Supreme Court's innovative civil rights and civil liberties decisions during Chief Justice Earl Warren's tenure had the ultimate effect of helping to preserve the status quo of the social order. Its decisions, coming at a time of economic abundance, were a means of siphoning off discontent from disadvantaged groups at minimum social cost to the established order. The "activist" decisions under Warren were …