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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.


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 …


Book Review: Mapping Legal History’S Middle Ground, Richard B. Bernstein Jan 1993

Book Review: Mapping Legal History’S Middle Ground, Richard B. Bernstein

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