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Full-Text Articles in Legal Profession
Introduction: "Plus Ca Change...?", Stephen B. Burbank
Introduction: "Plus Ca Change...?", Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Redesigning The Spouse's Forced Share: A Proposal, John H. Langbein, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Redesigning The Spouse's Forced Share: A Proposal, John H. Langbein, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)
The following article is adapted from Langbein and Waggoner, Redesigning the Spouse's Forced Share, 22 Real Property, Probate & Trust Journal 303 (1987). The Joint Editorial Board for the Uniform Probate Code recently accepted in principle the idea for redesigning the elective share presented in that article. Legislative language incorporating the authors' proposals has been approved by the Joint Editorial Board and will soon be submitted to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for official inclusion in the Uniform Probate Code.
Conflicts Of Law And Morality, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 691 (1988), Todd Volker
Conflicts Of Law And Morality, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 691 (1988), Todd Volker
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bench Memorandum, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 940 (1988), Mark A. Absher
Bench Memorandum, 21 J. Marshall L. Rev. 940 (1988), Mark A. Absher
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger
Articles & Chapters
This article examines the theory and empirical methods of recent studies of law and litigation. It argues that the recent interest in longitudinal studies of trial court dockets proceeds from a deeply rooted functionalist theoretical tradition in empirical work on courts. Functionalist theory, through its sophisticated application in the work of James Willard Hurst, is described as the direct or indirect source of theory for longitudinal litigation studies. Though there are many reasons for suspecting that fuctionalist theory is inadequate, it has seldom been rejected through proper empirical testing of its hypotheses. The theory, often poorly conceptualized, is discussed here …
Introductory Comment: A Historical Introduction To The Securities Act Of 1933 And The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, Elisabeth Keller
Introductory Comment: A Historical Introduction To The Securities Act Of 1933 And The Securities Exchange Act Of 1934, Elisabeth Keller
Elisabeth Keller
No abstract provided.