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Interview With Judge Harvey Bartle, Shirin Heidary, Harvey Bartle Iii, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Harvey Bartle III (L '65) is a senior judge of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He served as chief judge of that court from 2006 to 2011.

Interview With Allen D. Black, Isaac E. Dweck, Allen D. Black, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Allen D. Black (L '66) practices in the areas of commercial law and antitrust, specializing in complex litigation. He has been a member of the American Law Institute since 1976 and a member of the ALI Council since 1994. Prof. Steven Burbank has called him "quite simply one of the best and most thoughtful lawyers in the country, a highly successful litigator and important contributor to numerous law reform efforts."

Interview With Jerome J. Shestack, Mark Malcoun, Jerome J. Shestack, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Jerome J. Shestack practiced law in Philadelphia from 1955 until his death in 2011. He was active in Democratic politics and in civil rights and international human rights. He served as president of the American Bar Association in 1997/1998. In 1980 Penn Law School named him an Honorary Fellow; his address to that year's graduating class appeared in the Fall 1980 Penn Law Journal (http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=plj).

Interview With Leslie Reid Price, Daniel Gennatto, Leslie Reid Price, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Leslie Reid Price (L'72) practices real state and commercial law. She worked as in-house counsel to Philadelphia area real estate developer Rouse & Associates, now known as Liberty Property Trust.

Interview With Sherrie R. Savett, Sherrie R. Savett, Lisa Tahk, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Sherrie R. Savett (L'73) is a leading practitioner in the areas of securities litigation and consumer litigation with the firm of Berger Montague, where she has served as Chair Emeritus of the firm, Chair of the Securities Litigation Department and of the Qui Tam/False Claims Act Department.

Interview With Judith Bernstein-Baker, Irene Barbarena, Judith Bernstein-Baker, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Judith Bernstein-Baker was the first director of Penn Law's public service program, from 1990 to 1998. Subsequently she served as executive director of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Pennsylvania until her retirement in 2016.

Interview With Frank Carano, Joanna Lee Levine, Frank Carano, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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James Carano (L '33) practiced law in his native Philadelphia for almost seventy years. He was active in the Philadelphia Bar Association and in the Italian-American community. In 2002 he endowed the Frank Carano Professorship of Law, currently held by Leo Katz.

Interview With Mary Catherine Roper, Christine Docherty, Mary Catherine Roper, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Mary Catherine Roper (L '93) is the deputy legal director at the ACLU of Pennsylvania, where she coordinates litigation on a broad range of civil liberties issues, including freedom of speech, religious liberty, racial and ethnic justice, equality for lesbians and gay men, student rights, privacy, prisoners’ rights, and police misconduct. Prior to joining the ACLU, Mary Catherine was a partner in the firm of Drinker Biddle and Reath, where she was well known for her commitment to pro bono work. After law school, she clerked …

Interview With Arthur Makadon, Marjorie A. George, Arthur Makadon, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Arthur Makadon (L '68) was a major figure in the Philadelphia bar and in Philadelphia politics. Most of his legal career was spent at Ballard Spahr, where he served as chair from 2002 to 2011. The Arthur Makadon Appellate Advocacy Program at the Law School was established in his honor by Ballard Spahr. He died in 2013.

The Floodgates Of Strict Liability: Bursting Reservoirs And The Adoption Of Fletcher V. Rylands In The Guided Age, Jed Handelsman Shugerman

Faculty Scholarship

Part I presents an overview of Rylands v. Fletcher and then discusses the phases of the American response: the initial acceptance; the Northeastern rejections in the 1870s, which have been the basis for the erroneous scholarly conclusions; and the overlooked tide of acceptances across the country, beginning in the late 1880s and increasing in the 1890s. Part II places this wave of acceptance in its historical context of changing social forces, although these brief sketches are not the primary emphasis of this Note. First, during a period of rapid urbanization, a small number of courts sought to protect residential areas …

Interview With Donald Millinger, José A. Gregory, Donald M. Millinger, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Legal Oral History Project

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Donald M. Millinger (L'79) practiced business and commercial law in the Philadelphia area and served on a number of non-profit boards. He is married to Gary Clinton, former Dean of Student Affairs at Penn Law School. In 2017 they established the Clinton-Millinger Scholarship program.

Interview With Justice Randy J. Holland, Katie Harrison, Randy J. Holland, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Randy J. Holland (L '72) served as a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from 1986 until his retirement in 2017. At the time of his appointment he was the youngest person ever to serve on that court.

Professor Waller's Un-American Approach To Antitrust, Robert H. Lande

All Faculty Scholarship

Professor Waller asks an un-American question - what can the United States antitrust program learn from the rest of the world? This question is un-American because we in the United States rarely look to others for advice. Besides, we invented antitrust and we were practically alone in the world in enforcing antitrust for almost a century. Only during the current generation have many other nations had active and vigorous antitrust programs. Moreover, the United States is in the business of exporting our accumulated century of antitrust wisdom through a wide variety of methods, and we revel in playing this role. …

The Remarkable Career Of Joe Grano, Robert A. Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Where Hannah Arendt Went Wrong, David Abraham

Articles

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Madison's Hope: Virtue, Self-Interest, And The Design Of Electoral Systems, James A. Gardner

Journal Articles

In recent years, perhaps no institution of American governance has been so thoroughly and consistently excoriated by legal theorists as the familiar American system of winner-take-all elections. The winner-take-all system is said to waste votes, lead to majority monopolization of political power, and cause the under representation and consequent social and economic subordination of political minorities. Some political scientists have attempted to defend winner-take-all systems on the ground that they perform better than PR in maximizing long-term collective and social interests. This article argues, in contrast, that winner-take-all electoral systems rest upon, and can be adequately defended, if at all, …

Grade Distribution - Fall Semester 2000, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

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Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet

UF Law Faculty Publications

As a matter of law, Puerto Rico has been a colony for an uninterrupted period of over five hundred years. In modern times, colonialism—the status of a polity with a definable territory that lacks sovereignty because legal/political authority is exercised by a peoples distinguishable from the inhabitants of the colonized region—is the only legal status that the isla (island) has known. This Article posits that Puerto Rico's colonial status—particularly its intrinsic legal and social constructs of second-class citizenship for Puerto Ricans—is incompatible with contemporary law or a sensible theory of justice and morality.

Puerto Ricans, as United States citizens by …

An Ethnography Of Abstractions?, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Legal Institutions In Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Fostering Equity And Diversity In The Nova Scotia Legal Profession, Douglas G. Ruck, Craig M. Garson, Robert G. Mackeigan, Carol A. Aylward, Innis Christie, Cora States, Candy Palmater, Douglas Keefe, Margaret Macdonald, Burnley A. (Rocky) Jones, Heidi Marshall, Heather Mcneill, Kelvin Gilpin, Judith Ferguson

Innis Christie Collection

The Province of Nova Scotia has, for many years, attempted, through a variety of means, to address issues of diversity and affirmative action. However, despite the lessons of history there are still those who question the need for programs and policies that promote, encourage and enforce equality. Even though significant advances have been made on many fronts Nova Scotia continues to struggle with issues of inequality. As with many problems faced by society acknowledging the existence of the problem is the first step towards developing solutions.

Law, Business, And Politics: Liability For Accidents In Georgia, 1846-1880, James L. Hunt

Articles

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John Marshall, Mcculloch V. Maryland, And The Southern States' Rights Tradition, R. Kent Newmyer

Faculty Articles and Papers

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The Persistent Problem Of Obligation In International Law, Eduardo M. Peñalver

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Editor's Observations: The 2001 Economic Crime Package: A Legislative History, Frank O. Bowman Iii

Faculty Publications

On April 6, 2001, the U.S. Sentencing Commission approved a group of amendments to guidelines governing the sentencing of economic crimes. These measures, collectively known to as the “economic crime package,” are the culmination of some six years of deliberations by both the Conaboy and Murphy Sentencing Commissions working together with interested outside groups such as the defense bar, the Justice Department, probation officers, and the Criminal Law Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference, The package contains three basic components. First, the now-separate theft and fraud guidelines, Sections 2B1.1 and 2F1.1, will be consolidated into a single guideline. Second, the …

My Lai: An American Tragedy, William G. Eckhardt

Faculty Works

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“Gay Rights” For “Gay Whites”?: Race, Sexual Identity, And Equal Protection Discourse, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

UF Law Faculty Publications

While the resolution of the problem of gay and lesbian inequality will ultimately turn on a host of social, legal, political, and ideological variables, this Article argues that the success or failure of efforts to achieve legal equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals will depend in large part on how scholars and activists in this field address questions of racial identity and racial subjugation. Commonly, these scholars and activists currently discuss race by use of analogies between “racial discrimination” and “sexual orientation discrimination,” or between “people of color” and “gays and lesbians.” On one level, the “comparative approach” …

Literature And The Arts As Antisubordination Praxis: Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet

UF Law Faculty Publications

I attend LatCrit conferences to be educated on what I regard as the most exciting legal scholarship being produced today. Therefore, I naturally jumped at the opportunity to help organize the Fourth Annual LatCrit Conference and to chair one of its Plenary Panels. I have penned this Essay for the purpose not only of joining Critical Race Theory ("CRT") discourse, but also to create a recorded history of LatCrit travels.

In Part I of this Essay, I will describe the process that led the Planning Committee to include the Literature and Arts as Antisubordination Praxis: LatCrit Theory and Cultural Production …

Christians And The Military, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Aba And Mdps: Context, History, And Process, Charles W. Wolfram

Cornell Law Faculty Publications