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What The Actions Of Abe Lincoln Continue To Teach Us Today, Michael Slinger
What The Actions Of Abe Lincoln Continue To Teach Us Today, Michael Slinger
Michael J. Slinger
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Book Review, Christian G. Samito (Ed.). Changes In Law And Society During The Civil War And Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. 352 Pages. $29.50 (Paper), Thomas Reed
Thomas J Reed
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Shaping The Disclosure Tort: A History Of Scholars' Early Importance And Modern Impotence, Jared A. Wilkerson
Shaping The Disclosure Tort: A History Of Scholars' Early Importance And Modern Impotence, Jared A. Wilkerson
Jared A. Wilkerson
Legal scholars have rarely encountered an area such as common law privacy, in which they had a guiding hand over the course of seventy-five years (1890–1965). Since then, however, scholars’ attempts to modify Prosser’s disclosure tort have failed. This article chronicles the early and potent scholarly influence from Warren and Brandeis to Hand, Pound, and Prosser. It continues with recent academic attempts to modify the disclosure tort, none of which has affected the narrow cause of action last touched by Prosser in the Restatement (Second). The article shows that, notwithstanding enormous efforts by some of America’s most respected scholars, would-be …
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction In Medieval England, David Millon
Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction In Medieval England, David Millon
David K. Millon
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