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The Citation Practices Of The New York Court Of Appeals, 1850-1993, William H. Manz Apr 1995

The Citation Practices Of The New York Court Of Appeals, 1850-1993, William H. Manz

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Original Intent: The Judicial Uses Of History And Constitutional Interpretation In Australia And The United States, Stephen A. James Sep 1992

Original Intent: The Judicial Uses Of History And Constitutional Interpretation In Australia And The United States, Stephen A. James

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


Reproduction With Technology: The New Eugenics, Margaret Phillips Apr 1991

Reproduction With Technology: The New Eugenics, Margaret Phillips

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


Locked In And Locked Out: Reflections On The History Of Divorce Law Reform In New York State, Isabel Marcus Apr 1988

Locked In And Locked Out: Reflections On The History Of Divorce Law Reform In New York State, Isabel Marcus

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Public Rights And The Federal Judicial Power: From Murray's Lessee Through Crowell To Schor, Gordon G. Young Oct 1986

Public Rights And The Federal Judicial Power: From Murray's Lessee Through Crowell To Schor, Gordon G. Young

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Angels And Infidels: Hierarchy And Historicism In Medieval Legal History, Guyora Binder Apr 1986

Angels And Infidels: Hierarchy And Historicism In Medieval Legal History, Guyora Binder

Buffalo Law Review

In Law and Revolution, author Harold Berman argued that our society’s commitment to law’s autonomy and to law’s efficacy for social change are persuasively synthesized in an idea of legal science originally developed by medieval canon lawyers to justify the centralization of authority under the Pope. According to Berman, this idea of progress through law became the model for the modern state and inspired progressive social change. This essay challenges these claims. It argues that medieval scholasticism had a static view of history and that Berman systematically misreads synchronic representations of hierarchy and dominion in scholastic thought as diachronic representations …


Daniel Webster And The Modernization Of American Law, R. Kent Newmyer Oct 1983

Daniel Webster And The Modernization Of American Law, R. Kent Newmyer

Buffalo Law Review

Book review of Alfred S. Konefsky & Andrew J. King's The Papers of Daniel Webster: Legal Papers


Property Forfeiture In The Era Of National Prohibition: A Study Of Judicial Response To Legislative Reform, Kenneth A. Murchison Apr 1983

Property Forfeiture In The Era Of National Prohibition: A Study Of Judicial Response To Legislative Reform, Kenneth A. Murchison

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Image Of Justice And Reform Of The Criminal Law In Early Nineteenth-Century England, Randall Mcgowen Jan 1983

The Image Of Justice And Reform Of The Criminal Law In Early Nineteenth-Century England, Randall Mcgowen

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Colonial Origins Of Liberal Property Rights, Elizabeth V. Mensch Oct 1982

The Colonial Origins Of Liberal Property Rights, Elizabeth V. Mensch

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


W. Howard Mann: An Appreciation, Philip B. Kurland Jan 1982

W. Howard Mann: An Appreciation, Philip B. Kurland

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Encouraging Excellence, Marjorie Girth Jan 1982

Encouraging Excellence, Marjorie Girth

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Tribute To W. Howard Mann, Philip Shuchman Jan 1982

A Tribute To W. Howard Mann, Philip Shuchman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Private Use Of Public Authority: Sovereignty And Associations In The Common Law, Arthur J. Jacobson Oct 1980

The Private Use Of Public Authority: Sovereignty And Associations In The Common Law, Arthur J. Jacobson

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Equal Protection Clause In The Supreme Court 1873-1903, Richard S. Kay Oct 1980

The Equal Protection Clause In The Supreme Court 1873-1903, Richard S. Kay

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Not Socrates, But Protagoras: The Sophistic Basis Of Legal Education, William C. Heffernan Jul 1980

Not Socrates, But Protagoras: The Sophistic Basis Of Legal Education, William C. Heffernan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: The Singular Case Of Underhill Moore, John Henry Schlegel Apr 1980

American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: The Singular Case Of Underhill Moore, John Henry Schlegel

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The New Property Of The Nineteenth Century: The Development Of The Modern Concept Of Property, Kenneth J. Vandevelde Apr 1980

The New Property Of The Nineteenth Century: The Development Of The Modern Concept Of Property, Kenneth J. Vandevelde

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Oliver Wendell Holmes And External Standards Of Criminal And Tort Liability: Application Of Theory On The Massachusetts Bench, William A. Lundquist Jul 1979

Oliver Wendell Holmes And External Standards Of Criminal And Tort Liability: Application Of Theory On The Massachusetts Bench, William A. Lundquist

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel Jul 1979

American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science: From The Yale Experience, John Henry Schlegel

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy Apr 1979

The Structure Of Blackstone's Commentaries, Duncan Kennedy

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Because All The World Was Not New York City: Governance, Property Rights, And The State In The Changing Definition Of A Corporation, 1730-1860, Hendrik Hartog Jan 1979

Because All The World Was Not New York City: Governance, Property Rights, And The State In The Changing Definition Of A Corporation, 1730-1860, Hendrik Hartog

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Aboriginal Title In The Common Law: A Stony Path Through Feudal Doctrine, Gordon I. Bennett Oct 1978

Aboriginal Title In The Common Law: A Stony Path Through Feudal Doctrine, Gordon I. Bennett

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Concept Of Aboriginal Rights In The Early Legal History Of The United States, Howard R. Berman Oct 1978

The Concept Of Aboriginal Rights In The Early Legal History Of The United States, Howard R. Berman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Law In Modern Society: Toward A Criticism Of Social Theory. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger., Richard D. Schwartz Jul 1977

Law In Modern Society: Toward A Criticism Of Social Theory. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger., Richard D. Schwartz

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Eighth Amendment, Beccaria, And The Enlightenment: An Historical Justification For The Weems V. United States Excessive Punishment Doctrine, Deborah A. Schwartz, Jay Wishingrad Apr 1975

The Eighth Amendment, Beccaria, And The Enlightenment: An Historical Justification For The Weems V. United States Excessive Punishment Doctrine, Deborah A. Schwartz, Jay Wishingrad

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contribution To An Explication Of The Activity Of The Warren Majority Of The Supreme Court, Mitchell Franklin Apr 1975

Contribution To An Explication Of The Activity Of The Warren Majority Of The Supreme Court, Mitchell Franklin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Origins Of Law Reform: The Social Significance Of The Nineteenth-Century Codification Movement And Its Contribution To The Passage Of The Early Married Women's Property Acts, Peggy Rabkin Apr 1975

The Origins Of Law Reform: The Social Significance Of The Nineteenth-Century Codification Movement And Its Contribution To The Passage Of The Early Married Women's Property Acts, Peggy Rabkin

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Notes Toward A History Of American Justice, Lawrence M. Friedman Oct 1974

Notes Toward A History Of American Justice, Lawrence M. Friedman

Buffalo Law Review

Adapted from the Mitchell lecture delivered by the author at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law on October 17, 1973


Remarks At The Dedication Of John Lord O'Brian Hall, Charles A. Horsky Aug 1974

Remarks At The Dedication Of John Lord O'Brian Hall, Charles A. Horsky

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.