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The Devil And The One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans, And The U.S. Census, Christine B. Hickman
The Devil And The One Drop Rule: Racial Categories, African Americans, And The U.S. Census, Christine B. Hickman
Michigan Law Review
For generations, the boundaries of the African-American race have been formed by a rule, informally known as the "one drop rule," which, in its colloquial definition, provides that one drop of Black blood makes a person Black. In more formal, sociological circles, the rule is known as a form of "hypodescent" and its meaning remains basically the same: anyone with a known Black ancestor is considered Black. Over the generations, this rule has not only shaped countless lives, it has created the African-American race as we know it today, and it has defined not just the history of this race …
Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri
Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri
Michigan Law Review
So much depends upon a rope in Mobile, Alabama. To hang Michael Donald, Henry Hays and James "Tiger" Knowles tied up "a piece of nylon rope about twenty feet long, yellow nylon." They borrowed the rope from Frank Cox, Hays's brother-in-law. Cox "went out in the back" of his mother's "boatshed, or something like that, maybe it was in the lodge." He "got a rope," climbed into the front seat of Hays's Buick Wildcat, and handed it to Knowles sitting in the back seat. So much depends upon a noose. Knowles "made a hangman's noose out of the rope," thirteen …
The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White
The First Amendment Comes Of Age: The Emergence Of Free Speech In Twentieth-Century America, G. Edward White
Michigan Law Review
As the number of issues perceived as having First Amendment implications continues to grow, and the coterie of potential beneficiaries of First Amendment protection continues to widen - including not only the traditional oppressed mavericks and despised dissenters but some rich and powerful members from the circles of political and economic orthodoxy - alarms have been sounded. Another period of stocktaking for free speech theory appears to be dawning, and some recent commentators have proposed a retrenchment from the long twentieth- century progression of increasingly speech-protective interpretations of the First Amendment. At the heart of the retrenchment literature lies the …
Securing Russia's Future: A Plea For Reform In Russian Secured Transactions Law, Jason J. Kilborn
Securing Russia's Future: A Plea For Reform In Russian Secured Transactions Law, Jason J. Kilborn
Michigan Law Review
After many turbulent years of uneasy transition to a market economy, Russia is finally "open for business." Nonetheless, the transitional period remains far from over, and Russian enterprises are still starved for capital that they desperately need for retooling to convert from military to consumer production, for acquiring new equipment to replace old and worn machinery, and for undertaking new and lucrative projects. While Russian financial institutions may provide significant funding, their reserves are limited; they could not hope to finance independently the multitude of existing and potential enterprises within the expansive Russian territory. Therefore, much of the financing for …
Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen
Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
Stories About Property, William W. Fisher Iii
Stories About Property, William W. Fisher Iii
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Carol M. Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownership
Cabining The Constitutional History Of The New Deal In Time, G. Edward White
Cabining The Constitutional History Of The New Deal In Time, G. Edward White
Michigan Law Review
A Review of William E, Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt
The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
The Constitution's Forgotten Cover Letter: An Essay On The New Federalism And The Original Understanding, Daniel A. Farber
Michigan Law Review
At the end of the summer of 1787, the Philadelphia Convention issued two documents. One was the Constitution itself. The other document, now almost forgotten even by constitutional historians, was an official letter to Congress, signed by George Washington on behalf of the Convention. Congress responded with a resolution that the Constitution and "letter accompanying the same" be sent to the state legislatures for submission to conventions in each state.
The Washington letter lacks the detail and depth of some other evidence of original intent. Being a cover letter, it was designed only to introduce the accompanying document rather than …
Cook And The Corporate Shareholder: A Belated Review Of William W. Cook's Publications On Corporations, Alfred F. Conard
Cook And The Corporate Shareholder: A Belated Review Of William W. Cook's Publications On Corporations, Alfred F. Conard
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Treatise on the Law of Stock and Stockholders, as Applicable to Railroad, Banking, Insurance, Manufacturing, Commercial, Business, Turnpike, Bridge, Canal, and Other Private Corporations by William W. Cook
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution by Jack Greenberg.
The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon
The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education by William P. LaPiana
It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins Of The Right To Arms, David B. Kopel
It Isn't About Duck Hunting: The British Origins Of The Right To Arms, David B. Kopel
Michigan Law Review
A Review of To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis
History's Stories, Stephan Landsman
History's Stories, Stephan Landsman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman
English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove
English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove
Michigan Law Review
A Review of English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law by Robert C. Palmer
Executive Detention In Time Of War, Richard A. Posner
Executive Detention In Time Of War, Richard A. Posner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain by A.W. Brian Simpson
Rehabilitating Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky
Rehabilitating Federalism, Erwin Chemerinsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism by Samuel H. Beer
The Constitution Besieged: The Rise And Demise Of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, C. Ian Anderson
The Constitution Besieged: The Rise And Demise Of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, C. Ian Anderson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Constitution Besieged: The Rise and Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence by Howard Gillman
The Inherent Power In Mapping Ownership, Michael P. Conzen
The Inherent Power In Mapping Ownership, Michael P. Conzen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping by Roger J.P. Kain and Elizabeth Baigent
"Am I, By Law, The Lord Of The World?": How The Juristic Response To Frederick Barbarossa's Curiosity Helped Shape Western Constitutionalism, Charles J. Reid Jr.
"Am I, By Law, The Lord Of The World?": How The Juristic Response To Frederick Barbarossa's Curiosity Helped Shape Western Constitutionalism, Charles J. Reid Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Prince and the Law, 1200-1600: Sovereignty and Rights in the Western Legal Tradition by Kenneth Pennington
A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner
A Distant Heritage: The Growth Of Free Speech In Early America, Jim Greiner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Distant Heritage: The Growth of Free Speech in Early America by Larry D. Eldridge
Taking The Fifth: Reconsidering The Origins Of The Constitutional Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Eben Moglen
Taking The Fifth: Reconsidering The Origins Of The Constitutional Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, Eben Moglen
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this essay is to cast doubt on two basic elements of the received historical wisdom concerning the privilege as it applies to British North America and the early United States. First, early American criminal procedure reflected less tenderness toward the silence of the criminal accused than the received wisdom has claimed. The system could more reasonably be said to have depended on self-incrimination than to have eschewed it, and this dependence increased rather than decreased during the provincial period for reasons intimately connected with the economic and social context of the criminal trial in colonial America.
Second, …
The Historical Origins Of The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination At Common Law, John H. Langbein
The Historical Origins Of The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination At Common Law, John H. Langbein
Michigan Law Review
This essay explains that the true origins of the common law privilege are to be found not in the high politics of the English revolutions, but in the rise of adversary criminal procedure at the end of the eighteenth century. The privilege against self-incrimination at common law was the work of defense counsel.
Part I of this essay discusses the several attributes of early modem criminal procedure that combined, until the end of the eighteenth century, to prevent the development of the common law privilege. Part II explains how prior scholarship went astray in locating the common law privilege against …
"Take This Job And Shove It": The Rise Of Free Labor, Jonathan A. Bush
"Take This Job And Shove It": The Rise Of Free Labor, Jonathan A. Bush
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870 by Robert J. Steinfeld
Repossession: Of History, Poverty, And Dissent, Martha Minow
Repossession: Of History, Poverty, And Dissent, Martha Minow
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present by Jacqueline Jones
Transforming History In The Postmodern Era, G. Edward White
Transforming History In The Postmodern Era, G. Edward White
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy by Morton J. Horwitz
A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose
A Tale Of Two Rivers, Carol M. Rose
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Green Cathedral: Sustainable Development of Amazonia by Juan de Onis and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England by Theodore Steinberg
Strangers On A Train, Peirre N. Leval
Strangers On A Train, Peirre N. Leval
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment by Anthony Lewis
Civil Liberties And Civil War: The Great Emancipator As Civil Libertarian, Paul Finkelman
Civil Liberties And Civil War: The Great Emancipator As Civil Libertarian, Paul Finkelman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Intellectual History, Probability, And The Law Of Evidence, Peter Tillers
Intellectual History, Probability, And The Law Of Evidence, Peter Tillers
Michigan Law Review
A Review of "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" ad "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence by Barbara J. Shapiro