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The Formulaic Constitution, Robert F. Nagel Nov 1985

The Formulaic Constitution, Robert F. Nagel

Michigan Law Review

This essay explores the ways in which the formulaic style is different from other, older forms of constitutional doctrine. It argues that the modern style affects the content that the Court finds in the Constitution and that it illuminates the current interpretive functions of the judiciary. Perhaps most importantly, the formulaic style establishes an identifiable relationship between the Court and the public and thus constrains how the Court's version of the Constitution bears upon the larger political culture.


Citation Sources And The New York Court Of Appeals, Mary Anne Bobinski Oct 1985

Citation Sources And The New York Court Of Appeals, Mary Anne Bobinski

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Next Step: Definition, Generalization, And Theory In American Family Law, Carl E. Schneider Jun 1985

The Next Step: Definition, Generalization, And Theory In American Family Law, Carl E. Schneider

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The Journal of Law Reform's Symposium on Family Law comes opportunely, in legal scholarship's spring of hope, its winter of despair, at a time when we have everything before us, when we have nothing before us. As is natural in such an epoch, reflection about legal scholarship, about its history, purposes, and methods, has flourished. This Symposium invites us to extend that reflection to family law, and this essay attempts, tentatively and speculatively, to accept the invitation.


A New List Of Recommended Reading For Prospective Law Students, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

A New List Of Recommended Reading For Prospective Law Students, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List Compiled from the Recommendations of the Faculty of the Michigan Law School


Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen Jan 1985

Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.

Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.

Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …


Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen Jan 1985

Point/Counterpoint: A Debate On Irony And Interpretation, Richard Lempert, Peter Westen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Can irony play a role in the construction of statutes? In the following articles, legal scholars Richard Lempert and Peter Westen debate the point, taking, as their context, the Supreme Court decision in United Steelworkers v. Weber, a 1979 affirmative action case that brings to the fore the moral dilemmas posed by such programs.

Professor Lempert's initial article originally appeared in Ethics 95 (October 1984), published by the University of Chicago Press. Professor Westen's response, and Lempert's rejoinder to it, were written especially for Law Quadrangle Notes.

Richard Lempert is a graduate of Oberlin College and the University of …


Foreign Investment In The United States: A Survey Of Current Legal Literature, Igor L. Kavass Jan 1985

Foreign Investment In The United States: A Survey Of Current Legal Literature, Igor L. Kavass

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

This Survey is limited to law and law-related writings on the subject of foreign investments in the United States which attorneys and legal scholars may find useful to consult for the purposes of conducting research and performing professional work. The Survey contains information about books, articles, notes, government reports and surveys, and Congressional hearings, reports, and papers published from about 1970 through the early part of 1985. The publications it describes can be divided into four major categories:

(1) investigative and policy-oriented monographs and articles;

(2) practical law manuals and guides either in the form of books or articles written …


Brief For Respondent Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1079 (1985), Brooke F. Kocab, Sharon Winklhofer Jan 1985

Brief For Respondent Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1079 (1985), Brooke F. Kocab, Sharon Winklhofer

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Brief For The Petitioner Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1033 (1985), Janet Clark Holmgren, Sheila M. O'Bryan Jan 1985

Brief For The Petitioner Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1033 (1985), Janet Clark Holmgren, Sheila M. O'Bryan

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents Jan 1985

Table Of Contents

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Practice, And Politics And The Constitution In The History Of The United States, Ronald J. Bacigal, Donald O. Dewey Jan 1985

Criminal Practice, And Politics And The Constitution In The History Of The United States, Ronald J. Bacigal, Donald O. Dewey

University of Richmond Law Review

When John Lowe asked me to review his book, I confess that I was surprised. Having just authored two books on Virginia Criminal Procedure, I considered John and myself to be competitors. However, after examining his book I now understand that our books serve different purposes and in fact complement each other.


Virginia Circuit Court Opinions, Harrison On Wills And Administration In Virginia And West Virginia, T. S. Ellis Iii, Dennis I. Belcher Jan 1985

Virginia Circuit Court Opinions, Harrison On Wills And Administration In Virginia And West Virginia, T. S. Ellis Iii, Dennis I. Belcher

University of Richmond Law Review

Jesse Root. Nathaniel Chipman. George Caines. Ephraim Kirby. Most lawyers will not recognize these names. More familiar, perhaps, are Alexander Dallas, Henry Wheaton, and Richard Peters. In fact, all belong to the same distinguished group: compilers and reporters of America's early judicial decisions. With the publication of Volumes One and Two of the Virginia Circuit Court Opinions (hereinafter "Opinions"), Professor Hamilton Bryson bids fair to join this distinguished group.


Bench Memorandum Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1017 (1985), George B. Trubow, Ralph Ruebner, Kenneth Michaels Jan 1985

Bench Memorandum Third Annual Benton National Moot Court Competition Briefs, 18 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1017 (1985), George B. Trubow, Ralph Ruebner, Kenneth Michaels

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Virginia Torts Case Finder, Paul J. Zwier Jan 1985

Virginia Torts Case Finder, Paul J. Zwier

University of Richmond Law Review

Brien Roche's Virginia Torts Case Finder ("Case Finder") provides a useful research aid for the students and practitioners of tort law in this state. This Case Finder, as the name implies, is a digest-like research tool for tort cases found in the Virginia Reports.


Address, Harry A. Blackmun Jan 1985

Address, Harry A. Blackmun

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.