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Articles 1 - 14 of 14
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Updating Statutory Interpretation, T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Updating Statutory Interpretation, T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Michigan Law Review
This month the Supreme Court will hear reargument in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union on the question of whether section 1981 prohibits discrimination by private parties. Professor Aleinikoff examines in depth the first issue raised by Professor Farber. Using metaphors of the archeological and the nautical Professor Aleinikoff describes theories of originalism and their application to statutory interpretation. Concluding that there are nonoriginalist (or nonarcheological) elements implicit in these theories, he proceeds to consider how an explicitly nonoriginalist (or nautical) theory of interpretation might work He concludes by commenting on the application of such a theory to Patterson.
The Naacp's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, Robert L. Carter
The Naacp's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, Robert L. Carter
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 by Mark Tushnet
The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective, Robert F. Drinan
The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective, Robert F. Drinan
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective by Jethro K. Lieberman
Reconstituting "Original Intent": A Constitutional Law Encyclopedia For The Next Century, David M. Skover
Reconstituting "Original Intent": A Constitutional Law Encyclopedia For The Next Century, David M. Skover
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Encyclopedia of the American Constitution by Leonard Levy, Kenneth Karst and Dennis Mahoney
Constitutional Opinions: Aspects Of The Bill Of Rights, Kenneth F. Sparks
Constitutional Opinions: Aspects Of The Bill Of Rights, Kenneth F. Sparks
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Constitutional Opinions: Aspects of the Bill of Rights by Leonard W. Levy
The Settlement Of Disputes In Early Medieval Europe, David A. Westrup
The Settlement Of Disputes In Early Medieval Europe, David A. Westrup
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Settlement of Disputes in Early Medieval Europe Edited by Wendy Davies and Paul Fouracre
Human Rights And International Relations, Sandip Bhattacharji
Human Rights And International Relations, Sandip Bhattacharji
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Human Rights and International Relations by R.J. Vincent
New Deal Labor Policy And The American Industrial Economy, Patrick T. Connors
New Deal Labor Policy And The American Industrial Economy, Patrick T. Connors
Michigan Law Review
A Review of New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy by Stanley Vittoz
The Believer And The Powers That Are, Elizabeth Ferguson
The Believer And The Powers That Are, Elizabeth Ferguson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Believer and the Powers That Are by John T. Noonan, Jr.
Promise Fulfilled And Principle Betrayed, James J. White
Promise Fulfilled And Principle Betrayed, James J. White
Articles
My responsibility in this paper is to address three questions. (1) How has the legal realist body of thought affected contract law and its application? (2) How will contract law and its application be affected in the future by realist thinking? (3) If the realist viewpoint were fully accepted, what kind of system would result and how would contract law be affected? Because my focus is upon a principal legislative monument to realism, Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code (the "U.C.C."), and upon its drafter, Karl Llewellyn, I will not answer any of the three questions explicitly. By focusing …
Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller
Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller
Articles
There has been much, mostly inconclusive, discussion about how to define the household in a manner suitable for comparative purposes. Certain conventional criteria are not very useful in the Icelandic context, where it appears that a person could be attached to more than one household, where the laws suggest it was possible for more than one household to be resident in the same uncompartmentalised farmhouse; and where headship might often be shared. Definitions, for example, based on co residence or on commensalism do not jibe all that well with the pastoral transhumance practised by the Icelanders. Sheep were tended and …
A Retrospective On The Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, Thomas A. Green
A Retrospective On The Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, Thomas A. Green
Book Chapters
My recent book provided an overview of the history of the institutional aspects of the English criminal trial jury upon which all of the contributors to this volume have, tacitly or otherwise, commented. That tentative institutional background was intended both to stand on its own terms and to provide a framework for the studies on the relationship between law and society and on the history of ideas regarding the jury that made up the larger part of the volume. The two aspects of my book were joined: the socio-legal analysis and the history of ideas were to a large extent …
Ordeal In Iceland, William I. Miller
Ordeal In Iceland, William I. Miller
Articles
Ordeal holds a strange fascination with us. It appalls and intrigues. We marvel at the mentality of those cultures that officialize it; we feel a sense of horror as we imagine ourselves intimately involved with boiling water or glowing irons. And we don't feel up to it. So our terror and cowardice becomes their brutality and irrationality. I am not about to urge to reinstitution of ordeals, although most practicing lawyers will tell you that that is still what going to law is, a crapshoot they say. What I want to do is call attention to the difficulty of not …
Beating Up On Women And Old Men And Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry Into Literary Sources, William I. Miller
Beating Up On Women And Old Men And Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry Into Literary Sources, William I. Miller
Articles
The Icelandic sagas, besides being one of the most impressive literatures existing in any language, preserve detailed accounts of feud and legal action, and describe with intelligence and care the general techniques and strategies of dispute processing. They also contain, incidental to the narrative, information about values and law, marriage and death, householding arrangements and the systems of exchange, naming patterns, and so on, for those who care to coax such information from the texts.