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Method In Philosophic Inquiry For Christian Education, Elmer L. Towns Jan 1972

Method In Philosophic Inquiry For Christian Education, Elmer L. Towns

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The Place Of Professional Education In The Life Of The University, Edward Hirsch Levi Jan 1972

The Place Of Professional Education In The Life Of The University, Edward Hirsch Levi

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The Waning Of The American Jury, Hans Zeisel Jan 1972

The Waning Of The American Jury, Hans Zeisel

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A Theory Of Negligence, Richard A. Posner Jan 1972

A Theory Of Negligence, Richard A. Posner

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Negligence--the failure to exercise the care of an ordinarily prudent and careful man-has been the dominant standard of civil liability for accidents for the last 150 years or so, in this as in most countries of the world; and accident cases, mainly negligence cases, constitute the largest item of business on the civil side of the nation's trial courts. Yet we lack a theory to explain the social function of the negligence concept and of the fault system of accident liability that is built upon it. This article attempts to formulate and test such a theory, primarily through a sample …


The Problem Of Social Cost Revisited, Donald H. Regan Jan 1972

The Problem Of Social Cost Revisited, Donald H. Regan

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SOME years ago, in a paper entitled "The Problem of Social Cost," Professor Ronald Coase asserted and argued for a proposition which has since acquired the convenient sobriquet "the Coase Theorem." The proposition is: That in a world of perfect competition, perfect information, and zero transaction costs, the allocation of resources in the economy will be efficient and will be unaffected by legal rules regarding the initial impact of costs resulting from externalities. Note that there are two claims being made, which it is well to separate for purposes of discussion. The first claim is that, under the conditions described, …


Law School Grading: An Experiment With Pass-Fail, Richard O. Lempert Jan 1972

Law School Grading: An Experiment With Pass-Fail, Richard O. Lempert

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The story is told about a graduate of an Ivy League institution who, when asked by a law school admissions officer whether he was in the top half of his class responded quickly, "No sir, I'm one of those who make the top half possible." For better or worse, most students, once in law school, do not take low grade averages with such equanimity. Among the objects of their displeasure are they themselves, their instructors, course content, and the grading system which makes a top and bottom half possible. It is conceivable that high average students direct displeasure at the …


How To Use, Abuse—And Fight Back With—Crime Statistics, Yale Kamisar Jan 1972

How To Use, Abuse—And Fight Back With—Crime Statistics, Yale Kamisar

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Statistics have an almost magical appeal in a "fact"-minded culture such as ours, among a people conditioned and accustomed to watch for-and attach great significance to-even the smallest fluctuations in say, the unemployment rate. Hence, as Darrell Huff graphically demonstrated in his famous little book, How to Lie with Statistics (1954), they can be-and have been-manipulated to terrorize or calm, inflate or depreciate, and above all, to sensationalize and over simplify. As Harvard criminologist Lloyd Ohlin noted recently, statistics are especially potent when "they give a sense of solid reality (usually false) to something people vaguely apprehend and when they …


International Assistance To Civilian Populations In Armed Conflicts, Gidon A. G. Gottlieb Dec 1971

International Assistance To Civilian Populations In Armed Conflicts, Gidon A. G. Gottlieb

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Siting Power Plants In Washington State, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Oct 1971

Siting Power Plants In Washington State, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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An Historical Analysis Of The 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 1971

An Historical Analysis Of The 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

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Hugo Lafayette Black: In Memoriam, Philip B. Kurland Jan 1971

Hugo Lafayette Black: In Memoriam, Philip B. Kurland

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Regulatory Aspects Of National Health Insurance Plans, Richard A. Posner Jan 1971

Regulatory Aspects Of National Health Insurance Plans, Richard A. Posner

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And Then There Were None: The Diminution Of The Federal Jury, Hans Zeisel Jan 1971

And Then There Were None: The Diminution Of The Federal Jury, Hans Zeisel

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Canonical Defamation In Medieval England, Richard H. Helmholz Jan 1971

Canonical Defamation In Medieval England, Richard H. Helmholz

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An Historical Analysis Of The 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 1971

An Historical Analysis Of The 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

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Equal Rights Amendment: Some Problems Of Construction, Philip B. Kurland Jan 1971

Equal Rights Amendment: Some Problems Of Construction, Philip B. Kurland

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Local Government In Sweden, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1971

Local Government In Sweden, Terrance Sandalow

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Ever since the publication of Marquis Childs' The Middle Way, Americans of liberal persuasion have tended to point to Sweden as a model, a nation which simultaneously has achieved rapid economic growth, eliminated poverty, and maintained individual and political freedom. Swedish cities, and especially Stockholm, are reputed to be among the best planned in the world. Yet, for all the admiration that has been expressed, there has been surprisingly little investigation by Americans of the legal and governmental framework within which the Swedes have accomplished so much. The modest aim of this paper is to report the major outlines of …


The Basic Course—A Mild Dissent, Whitmore Gray Jan 1971

The Basic Course—A Mild Dissent, Whitmore Gray

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Perhaps it is unusual to start a discussion of a topic with a dissent from the assumption underlying its choice, but I think that in the present case this may be justified. The present topic was no doubt selected because for many years teachers have viewed the course in "comparative law" as a basic course, leading subsequently to specialized courses or research in various subject matters or geographical areas. In fact, the other two speakers on this afternoon's program, Professors Rudolf Schlesinger of Cornell and Arthur von Mehren of Harvard, are both on record in the form of their casebooks …


Legal Education In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, Whitmore Gray Jan 1971

Legal Education In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, Whitmore Gray

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The following notes are based on interviews with law professors, law students and lawyers during a brief trip in 1970 to Moscow, Budapest and Prague. On previous visits in 1959 and 1965 the writer had visited law schools in Kiev, Baku, Tbilisi, Alma Ata, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw, and had sat in on lectures, recitation sections, and examinations.1 In looking this time for changes, the writer was particularly interested in whether there was some reflection there of the general student malaise which the United States has been experiencing, manifested in American law schools in student pressure for "relevant" courses and …


Discrete Analysis Of A Composite Video Signal, Frank F. Carden, William P. Osborne, Alton L. Gilbert Nov 1970

Discrete Analysis Of A Composite Video Signal, Frank F. Carden, William P. Osborne, Alton L. Gilbert

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In this paper the problem of representing the composite video signal for monochromatic T. V. transmission is examined and a method for computing the required spectral bandwidth is devised suitable for computer applications. The results obtained numerically are compared to measured results and to analytical solutions for a determinate signal for special cases. Comparison is made with some "maximum horizontal resolution" methods with a resulting decrease in bandwidth requirements for most applications.


Federal Organization For Control Of Weather Modification, Ralph W. Johnson Apr 1970

Federal Organization For Control Of Weather Modification, Ralph W. Johnson

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This article is designed to explore the optimal institutional structures that might be adopted by the federal government to manage weather modification. Should all federal weather modification activities be managed by a new department? Should these activities be carried out by one of the existing mission agencies, or by a new one? Should the various weather modification functions of research, operations, data collection, monitoring, coordination, comprehensive planning, project review, regulation, licensing, and indemnification all be carried by one federal agency, or should they be scattered among a variety of agencies? Should some be assigned to new entities not yet created? …


The Persistent Problem Of The Persistent Pesticides: A Lesson In Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Apr 1970

The Persistent Problem Of The Persistent Pesticides: A Lesson In Environmental Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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This article will present an interpretation and criticism of the Commission on Pesticides and Their Relationship to Environmental Health's conclusions, with a special emphasis on the treatment and relevance of the DDT issue. Each of the fourteen recommendations will be reviewed where relevant to the four major goals set forth above. The crucial and often decisive role of the law as a lever for reform, as a catalyst for transmitting scientific information to the political decision-maker and as a medium for planning to protect against the effects of pesticides pollution on the environment and the population will be emphasized. Obstacles …


John Wesley And Religious Education, Elmer L. Towns Jan 1970

John Wesley And Religious Education, Elmer L. Towns

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Of Social Science Research Methods And Competency For Lawyers Therein Social Research And The Law: Techniques And Methods, Hans Zeisel Jan 1970

Of Social Science Research Methods And Competency For Lawyers Therein Social Research And The Law: Techniques And Methods, Hans Zeisel

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A Program For The Antitrust Division, Richard A. Posner Jan 1970

A Program For The Antitrust Division, Richard A. Posner

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Book Review (Reviewing Guido Calabresi, The Cost Of Accidents: A Legal And Economic Analysis (1970)), Richard A. Posner Jan 1970

Book Review (Reviewing Guido Calabresi, The Cost Of Accidents: A Legal And Economic Analysis (1970)), Richard A. Posner

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Scholarship On Soviet Family Law In Perspective, Whitmore Gray Jan 1970

Scholarship On Soviet Family Law In Perspective, Whitmore Gray

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The radical changes in the norms of Soviet family law over the past fifty years have reflected the convulsions of Soviet society as well as the revisions of Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism. This paper is a commentary on the writing in this field by Americans in particular, and by other non-Soviets in general. In view of the volume of writing in this field, it has been necessary to limit discussion in the text to a few representative articles illustrating a few of the subject matters treated and various typical approaches employed. The topic is a particularly timely one, for new, comprehensive Principles of …


A Study Of The California Penalty Jury In First-Degree-Murder Cases, Harry Kalven Jr. May 1969

A Study Of The California Penalty Jury In First-Degree-Murder Cases, Harry Kalven Jr.

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Preface To The Stanford Law Review Of The California Penalty Jury In First Degree-Murder Cases, Harry Kalven Jr. May 1969

Preface To The Stanford Law Review Of The California Penalty Jury In First Degree-Murder Cases, Harry Kalven Jr.

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The Biblical Attitude Toward Violence, Elmer L. Towns Jan 1969

The Biblical Attitude Toward Violence, Elmer L. Towns

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