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1994 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Awards And Law Conference Dinner Invitation Sep 1994

1994 Academy Of Law Alumni Fellows Awards And Law Conference Dinner Invitation

Academy of Law Alumni Fellows

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Power From The People, Milner S. Ball May 1994

Power From The People, Milner S. Ball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice by Gerald P. López


Practicing Community (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1994

Practicing Community (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri

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Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles Jan 1994

Representing In-Between: Law, Anthropology, And The Rhetoric Of Interdisciplinarity, Annelise Riles

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article considers how lawyers and nonlawyers discuss the contribution of interdisciplinary scholarship to the law as a means of rethinking the relationship between these differences. The article first examines the arguments of the nineteenth-century lawyer Henry Maine and of the twentieth-century anthropologist Edmund Leach on the subject, and notes the difference between Maine's emphasis on "movement" from one theoretical discovery to another and Leach's emphasis on creating relationships between disciplines by exploiting a "space in between" the two. Then, turning to contemporary scholarship in legal anthropology, "Law and Society," and the sociology of law, the article critiques the rigid …


Delivery Of Legal Services To Ordinary Americans, Roger C. Cramton Jan 1994

Delivery Of Legal Services To Ordinary Americans, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick Jan 1994

Why Pro Bono In Law Schools, Howard Lesnick

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Word On Trial, Robin West Jan 1994

The Word On Trial, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Milner Ball's extraordinary book, The Word and the Law, begins with a narrative account of "seven practices in law." The seven practitioners Ball brings to life for the reader share two powerful traits: they all, in quite different ways, use law to lessen the multiple sufferings of various communities of poor people, and they all, by doing so, strengthen the communities within which and for which they labor. The reader gains from these accounts not only a sympathetic understanding of the lives of seven lawyers, but a renewed sense of the possibilities their practices present. This can be put any …


Authority, Credibility, And Pre-Understanding: A Defense Of Outsider Narratives In Legal Scholarship, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1994

Authority, Credibility, And Pre-Understanding: A Defense Of Outsider Narratives In Legal Scholarship, Marc A. Fajer

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