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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
“The Prophet Stumbles”: Brandies, The Bill Of Rights, And Prohibition, Natalie Wexler
“The Prophet Stumbles”: Brandies, The Bill Of Rights, And Prohibition, Natalie Wexler
Cardozo Law Review
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Tradition, Precedent, And Justice Scalia, David A. Strauss
Tradition, Precedent, And Justice Scalia, David A. Strauss
Cardozo Law Review
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Comment: Legal Process And Judges In The Real World, Peter L. Strauss
Comment: Legal Process And Judges In The Real World, Peter L. Strauss
Cardozo Law Review
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Judging In The Good Society: A Comment On The Jurisprudence Of Justice Scalia, Stephen Wizner
Judging In The Good Society: A Comment On The Jurisprudence Of Justice Scalia, Stephen Wizner
Cardozo Law Review
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The Use Of Legislative History In Treaty Interpretation: The Dual Treaty Approach, Malvina Halberstam
The Use Of Legislative History In Treaty Interpretation: The Dual Treaty Approach, Malvina Halberstam
Cardozo Law Review
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The Genesis Of The Canadian Criminal Code Of 1892, Keith Jobson
The Genesis Of The Canadian Criminal Code Of 1892, Keith Jobson
Dalhousie Law Journal
Brown gives an interesting and readable account of the background of the 1892 Code and its genesis in the politics of the day. His preface and six short chapters are followed by an epilogue, a short biographical note and footnotes. Chapter One deals with the ambiguity of the term "code". Clearly, the 1892 Code was not a codification in the civilian tradition as exemplified, for example, in the Napoleonic Code, nor was it even a code such as Bentham might have drafted. It was a "code" only in the loose sense in which.the word was used by English and Canadian …
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Reviews
David Lieberman's lucid and sure-footed reinterpretationof late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century jurisprudence is original, thoughtful, analytically acute, and a pleasure to read. Lieberman argues that Bentham's law reform ideas must be viewed in relation to earlier (and contemporary) reform traditions. Bentham's views were more complex than the long-held myth would have it, partly because they were more derivative, at least in his early enterprises, combining as they did a reception of earlier notions with the novelty for which he is usually credited. Blackstone and Mansfield, on this account, were not the match stick figures they are sometimes made out to be; the …