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The Opinion Volume 31 Number 8 – November 20, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion newspaper issue dated November 20, 1990. Misidentified as Number 7.

The Opinion Volume 31 Number 7 – November 6, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion newspaper issue dated November 6, 1990

Clark Memorandum: Fall 1990, J. Reuben Clark Law Society, J. Reuben Clark Law School

The Clark Memorandum

• Acquired by Character, Not by Money (Kenneth W. Starr)
• Fundamentals and Initiatives (Elder Russell M. Nelson)
• Christ and the Code (Joseph G. Allegretti)
• Truth: a Shield to Memory (Elder Marion D. Hanks)

Law As Text: A Response To Professor Michael Ryan, Robert N. Covington

Vanderbilt Law Review

Law, Professor Michael Ryan reminds us by his emphasis on law as legitimating representation, is also text. This is the most telling of the many points he sets out in his provocative and thoughtful article; for those of us called to the bar, it is an important reminder. For us lawyers, after all, law is not so much text as it is process, not so much noun as verb. It is not that we disregard the fact that law is in part a pen-and-ink affair. Our shelves sag with books; in academic life, few divisions of a university spend so …

The Opinion Volume 31 Number 6 – October 23, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion Volume 31 Number 5 – October 9, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion newspaper issue dated October 9, 1990

While Equity Slumbered: Creditor Advantage, A Capitalist Land Market, And Upper Canada's Missing Court, John C. Weaver

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Until 1837, Upper Canada had no Court of Chancery. This omission forced stop-gap measures which in the area of mortgages produced a muddle. The confusion introduced into the land market led to protracted controversies among politicians and jurists during the 1820s and 1830s. The many complex principles and motives raised by the lack of an equitable jurisdiction generated much legislative controversy and experimentation. John Beverley Robinson often was central to vital discussions where he revealed both his intelligence and social biases favouring gentlemen of capital. Extremely complicated issues have deflected attention from the central issue: whether the colony needed equity, …

Law Faculty Developments At Calgary, 1984-1989, Margaret E. Hughes

Dalhousie Law Journal

The Calgary Law Faculty is the youngest of the Canadian Law Schools, having been established in 1976. During the period under review the Faculty tackled developmental challenges that older Canadian law schools had faced years ago in generally less stringent economic times.

The Reunification Of Germany: Comments On A Legal Maze, Jutta Brunnée

Dalhousie Law Journal

In its Preamble, the Basic Law - the constitution - of the Federal Republic of Germany declares itself a transitional order put in place until all Germans can freely decide to live in a reunified Germany. The Preamble is evidence of both history and aspirations of the western part of Germany that emerged from the Second World War. It is now one of the legal foundations for an event that only a year ago few thought was possible: the merging of the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany into one German state. In its preamble and in …

Mélanges. Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Marcel Joyal

Dalhousie Law Journal

This is a collection of legal articles put together at the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, of the University of Ottawa under the direction of Professor Ernest Caparros.

The Opinion Volume 31 Number 4 – September 25, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion newspaper issue dated September 25, 1990

The Opinion Volume 31 Number 3 – September 11, 1990, The Opinion

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The Opinion Volume 31 Number 2 – August 24, 1990, The Opinion

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Talking About Difference: Meanings And Metaphors Of Individuality, Gregory S. Alexander

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This paper discusses the relationship between communitarianism and difference theory. Specifically, it focuses on the rhetorical practices that have created an apparent conflict between difference theory and communitarianism. My purpose is to suggest why this conflict dissolves when community and difference are understood as strategic rhetorics that share a common political vision.

Beethoven And The Law: The Case Of The Nephew, Elliot M. Abramson

Florida State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Roman Law And English Law: Two Patterns Of Legal Development, Alan Watson

Scholarly Works

It is commonplace among scholars to link in thought the growth of Roman law and of English law. S.F.C. Milsom begins his distinguished Historical Foundations of the Common Law with the words: "It has happened twice only that the customs of European peoples were worked up into intellectual systems of law; and much of the world today is governed by laws derived from the one or the other." More strikingly, some scholars see an essential similarity in legal approaches in the two systems. Fritz Pringsheim entitled a well-known article The Inner Relationship Between English and Roman Law. W.W. Buckland and …

The Hohfeldian Approach To Law And Semiotics, J. M. Balkin

University of Miami Law Review

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Doorkeepers: Legal Education In The Territories And Alberta, 1885-1928, Peter M. Sibenik

Dalhousie Law Journal

Legal education has been subjected to greater scrutiny in common law jurisdictions since the publication of Lawyers and the Courts in 1967.2 Most of the recent literature has addressed the issue of who received a legal education and became entitled to practise law. It has also examined how a conservative-minded profession regenerated itself, and whether it equipped new recruits with the proper tools to meet the challenges of a changing society.

"His Whole Life Was One Of Continual Warfare": John Thomas Bulmer, Lawyer, Librarian And Social Reformer, Philip Girard

Dalhousie Law Journal

There is a small secondary literature on Bulmer. D.C. Harvey provides an authoritative account of his career as Provincial Librarian, while Bulmer's friend Benjamin Russell concentrates on his legal career in a biographical tribute published three decades after his death.4 Aside from passing references to his devotion to the cause of prohibition, however, no one has investigated Bulmer's career as a social reformer. An over-emphasis on Bulmer's admittedly extraordinary personality has prevented a full appreciation of the complexity of this multi-faceted individual; and this gap in turn has tended to obscure an important chapter in Nova Scotian social history. This …

Of Persons And Property: The Politics Of Legal Taxonomy, David Cohen, Allan C. Hutchinson

Dalhousie Law Journal

To talk of law without politics or history is nonsensical. All lawyers must concede that what they do takes place in historical circumstances and has political consequences. Every piece of law-making and law-application is a governmental act; it relies on political authority and claims binding force. Moreover, all legal activity occurs within a particular historical context; it is intended to respond to or influence a past, existing or anticipated state of affairs. This means that the study of law must concern itself with politics and history generally: it must not confine itself to only the politics and history of law. …

The Faculty Of Law, University Of Manitoba 1964-1989, D T. Anderson

Dalhousie Law Journal

The purpose of this brief, informal, note is to continue the account of the work and development of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, 1966-1984, given by C.H.C. Edwards and J.R. London in (1984), 9 Dalhousie Law Journal 166, through 1989.

The National Law Programme At Mcgill: Origins, Establishment, Prospects, Roderick A. Macdonald

Dalhousie Law Journal

This article is about the history of an idea, and about the curriculum of a Faculty of Law within which that idea has been pursued for more than a century. Its purpose is to explore the intellectual origins of the current National Programme of legal education at McGill University, to review the circumstances of its establishment agd evolution over the past two decades, and to evaluate its prospects as the Faculty's sesquicentennial celebrations approach.

The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario 1923-1957, W R. Lederman

Dalhousie Law Journal

In the dozen years after the end of the Second World War, long-standing conflicts about the nature of education for the legal profession in Ontario became especially acute. Fortunately, climax and successful compromise came in 1957. In that year the Law Society of Upper Canada, which had controlled legal education and admission to practice from the early days of the Colony of Upper Canada, gave up its monopoly of legal education and conceded an equal position in this respect to Ontario universities willing and able to enter the field. Several were, and promptly did so. Indeed the University of Toronto …

Newfoundland And Dominion Status, Christine Boyle

Dalhousie Law Journal

The relationship between Canada and Newfoundland was under stress for a number of different reasons during the eighties. There was a dispute over off-shore mineral rights' as well as concern over French fishing rights.2 For those interested in the relationship, Dr. Gilmore's book, Newfoundland and Dominion3 Status, subtitled The External Affairs Competence and International Law Status of Newfoundland, 1855-1934, therefore provides a useful historical background as well as fascinating information about the constitutional development of Newfoundland. This may be of interest as well to constitutional and international scholars generally as well as to Newfoundland's neighbours in the Maritimes.

Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson

Critical Legal Studies, Michael F. Colosi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Critical Legal Studies by Allan C. Hutchinson

History's Challenge To Feminism, Jeanne L. Schroeder

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe by James A. Brundage

Why Holmes?, Mathias Reimann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Sheldon M. Novick

Invasion Of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Laura J. Hines

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Invasion of Privacy: The Cross Creek Trial of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings by Patricia Nassif Acton