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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
'Dred Scott V. Sandford' Analysis, Sarah E. Roessler
'Dred Scott V. Sandford' Analysis, Sarah E. Roessler
Student Publications
The Scott v. Sandford decision will forever be known as a dark moment in America's history. The Supreme Court chose to rule on a controversial issue, and they made the wrong decision. Scott v. Sandford is an example of what can happen when the Court chooses to side with personal opinion instead of what is right.
Coase, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
Coase, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
This brief essay considers the career, contributions, and influence of Ronald Coase, who passed away in September, 2013. Comments are welcome.
Review Of Prigg V. Pennsylvania: Slavery, The Supreme Court, And The Ambivalent Constitution, Susan David Demaine
Review Of Prigg V. Pennsylvania: Slavery, The Supreme Court, And The Ambivalent Constitution, Susan David Demaine
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In 1842, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Prigg v. Pennsylvania, resolving a dispute about fugitive slave rendition that had raged between the states for decades. H. Robert Baker’s analysis of the decision and the events that led up to it is the first book-length work to investigate Prigg and its place in American history. Baker traces the development of fugitive slave laws and recounts the heart-wrenching story that lies behind Prigg to shed light on the Supreme Court’s decision and the gradual clarification of American federalism.
'In The Time Of A Woman, Which Sex Was Not Capable Of Mature Deliberation': Late Tudor Parliamentary Relations And Their Early Stuart Discontents, Josh Chafetz
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The English Civil War is one of the seminal events in Anglo-American constitutional history. Oceans of ink have been spilled in debating its causes, and historians have pointed to a number of salient divisions along economic, social, political, and religious lines. But a related, and equally important, question has gone largely ignored: what allowed the House of Commons, for the first time in English history, to play the lead role in opposing the Crown? How did the lower house of Parliament develop the constitutional self-confidence that would allow it to organize the rebellion against Charles I?
This Article argues that …
The Wires Go To War: The U.S. Experiment With Government Ownership Of The Telephone System During World War I, Michael A. Janson, Christopher S. Yoo
The Wires Go To War: The U.S. Experiment With Government Ownership Of The Telephone System During World War I, Michael A. Janson, Christopher S. Yoo
All Faculty Scholarship
One of the most distinctive characteristics of the U.S. telephone system is that it has always been privately owned, in stark contrast to the pattern of government ownership followed by virtually every other nation. What is not widely known is how close the United States came to falling in line with the rest of the world. For the one-year period following July 31, 1918, the exigencies of World War I led the federal government to take over the U.S. telephone system. A close examination of this episode sheds new light into a number of current policy issues. The history confirms …
A Phenomenological Exploration Of Black Male Law Enforcement Officers' Perspectives Of Racial Profiling And Their Law Enforcement Career Exploration And Commitment, Gregory A. Salters
A Phenomenological Exploration Of Black Male Law Enforcement Officers' Perspectives Of Racial Profiling And Their Law Enforcement Career Exploration And Commitment, Gregory A. Salters
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This phenomenological study explored Black male law enforcement officers’ perspectives of how racial profiling shaped their decisions to explore and commit to a law enforcement career. Criterion and snow ball sampling was used to obtain the 17 participants for this study. Super’s (1990) archway model was used as the theoretical framework. The archway model “is designed to bring out the segmented but unified and developmental nature of career development, to highlight the segments, and to make their origin clear” (Super, 1990, p. 201).
Interview data were analyzed using inductive, deductive, and comparative analyses. Three themes emerged from the inductive analysis …
The Classical American State And The Regulation Of Morals, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
The Classical American State And The Regulation Of Morals, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
The United States has a strong tradition of state regulation that stretches back to the Commonwealth ideal of Revolutionary times and grew steadily throughout the nineteenth century. But regulation also had more than its share of critics. A core principle of Jacksonian democracy was that too much regulation was for the benefit of special interests, mainly wealthier and propertied classes. The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment after the Civil War provided the lever that laissez faire legal writers used to make a more coherent Constitutional case against increasing regulation. How much they actually succeeded has always been subject to dispute. …
Criminal Procedure And The Supreme Court - Then And Now, David Rudstein
Criminal Procedure And The Supreme Court - Then And Now, David Rudstein
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
John Montgomery Ward: The Lawyer Who Took On Baseball, Christopher W. Schmidt
John Montgomery Ward: The Lawyer Who Took On Baseball, Christopher W. Schmidt
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
125 Years Of Law Books, 1888-2013, Keith Ann Stiverson
125 Years Of Law Books, 1888-2013, Keith Ann Stiverson
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
Inventing Legal Aid: Women And Lay Lawyering, Felice Batlan
Inventing Legal Aid: Women And Lay Lawyering, Felice Batlan
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
The Rookery Building And Chicago-Kent, A. Dan Tarlock
The Rookery Building And Chicago-Kent, A. Dan Tarlock
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
Privacy And Technology: A 125-Year Review, Lori B. Andrews
Privacy And Technology: A 125-Year Review, Lori B. Andrews
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
U.S. Antitrust: From Shot In The Dark To Global Leadership, David J. Gerber
U.S. Antitrust: From Shot In The Dark To Global Leadership, David J. Gerber
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
The Changing Composition Of The American Jury, Nancy S. Marder
The Changing Composition Of The American Jury, Nancy S. Marder
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
What's A Telegram?, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
What's A Telegram?, Henry H. Perritt Jr.
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
A "Progressive Contraction Of Jurisdiction": The Making Of The Modern Supreme Court, Carolyn Shapiro
A "Progressive Contraction Of Jurisdiction": The Making Of The Modern Supreme Court, Carolyn Shapiro
125th Anniversary Materials
The Supreme Court in 1888 was in crisis. Its overall structure and responsibilities, created a century earlier by the Judiciary Act of 1789, were no longer adequate or appropriate. The Court had no control over its own docket - at the beginning of the 1888 term, there were 1,563 cases pending - and the justices’ responsibilities, which included circuit riding, were impossible to meet. Shaped as it was by a law almost as old as the country itself, the Supreme Court in 1888 - and the federal judicial system as a whole - would be barely recognizable to many today. …
Chicago's "Great Boodle Trial", Todd Haugh
Chicago's "Great Boodle Trial", Todd Haugh
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
Chicago-Kent: 125 Years And Counting, Ralph L. Brill
Chicago-Kent: 125 Years And Counting, Ralph L. Brill
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
Then & Now: Stories Of Law And Progress, Lori B. Andrews, Sarah K. Harding
Then & Now: Stories Of Law And Progress, Lori B. Andrews, Sarah K. Harding
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
The Legacy Of In Re Neagle, Harold J. Krent
The Legacy Of In Re Neagle, Harold J. Krent
125th Anniversary Materials
No abstract provided.
Becoming A Fruitful Tree: Christ And The Limits Of Legal Thinking, Elizabeth A. Clark
Becoming A Fruitful Tree: Christ And The Limits Of Legal Thinking, Elizabeth A. Clark
Vol. 3: Religious Conviction
This essay is adapted from a Spirit of the Law address given at BYU Law School on March 5, 2002.
The Loeb And Leopold Trial, Daniel Hanson
The Loeb And Leopold Trial, Daniel Hanson
A with Honors Projects
In 1924, Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, two privileged and intelligent students from the University of Chicago, initiated a plan to kidnap and hold for ransom a boy from a wealthy neighboring family, all the while intending to kill him. The sensational trial that followed, in which Clarence Darrow delivered a 12-hour closing argument for life imprisonment rather than the death penalty, would have implications far broader than the crime itself. This trial became the focus of the nascent culture war brewing in the 1920’s, a culture war that pitted radically different philosophies against each other in a battle …
Unprotected Sex: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act At 35, Deborah L. Brake, Joanna L. Grossman
Unprotected Sex: The Pregnancy Discrimination Act At 35, Deborah L. Brake, Joanna L. Grossman
Articles
Thirty-five years ago, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act to overturn a Supreme Court decision refusing to recognize pregnancy discrimination as a form of discrimination based on sex. Now, three and a half decades later, women whose work lives are impacted by pregnancy are again finding themselves unprotected from discrimination. Lower court rulings have eviscerated the Act’s protections at the same time that an expansion of worker rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act should redound to the benefit of pregnant women by expanding the pool of comparators who receive accommodations. By following trends in discrimination law generally - equating …
Pluralistic Nonoriginalism And The Combinability Problem, Mitchell N. Berman
Pluralistic Nonoriginalism And The Combinability Problem, Mitchell N. Berman
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Pauli Murray And The Twentieth-Century Quest For Legal And Social Equality, Serena Mayeri
Pauli Murray And The Twentieth-Century Quest For Legal And Social Equality, Serena Mayeri
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
On What Distinguishes New Originalism From Old: A Jurisprudential Take, Mitchell N. Berman
On What Distinguishes New Originalism From Old: A Jurisprudential Take, Mitchell N. Berman
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.