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Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, And The Racial Self, D. Marvin Jones Jan 1993

Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, And The Racial Self, D. Marvin Jones

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Where Environmental Law And Biology Meet: Of Pandas' Thumbs, Statutory Sleepers, And Effective Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr. Jan 1993

Where Environmental Law And Biology Meet: Of Pandas' Thumbs, Statutory Sleepers, And Effective Law, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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The purpose of this article is to introduce some of the recent findings of evolutionary biology to the legal community and to urge their consideration in developing a more effective law. As background, Part II of this article will present a brief evolutionary history of our own species.

Part III offers a primer on Darwin's theory of natural selection and the concept of adaptation, with special attention to the elaboration of altruism as it is known in modern biology. Part IV discusses maladaptation as a counterpoise to adaptation and underscores the notion with some stories from natural history on subjects …


Catharine's Wheel: Mackinnon's Pornography Analysis As A Return To Traditional Christian Sexual Theory, Jeanne L. Schroeder Jan 1993

Catharine's Wheel: Mackinnon's Pornography Analysis As A Return To Traditional Christian Sexual Theory, Jeanne L. Schroeder

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The article argues that Catharine MacKinnon's analysis of pornography and sexuality, while presented as radical feminist theory, ultimately incorporates traditional elements from Christian sexual theory and modern liberalism. MacKinnon's critique of pornography as a mechanism of gender subordination aligns with Augustine's view of sexuality as a loss of subjectivity, where involuntary sexual desire symbolizes the Fall's consequences. Despite her sociopolitical analysis, MacKinnon's failure to recognize these influences and her lack of a positive vision for female subjectivity limit her critique's transformative potential.


The Taming Of The Shrew: The Liberal Attempt To Mainstream Radical Feminist Theory, Jeanne L. Schroeder Oct 1992

The Taming Of The Shrew: The Liberal Attempt To Mainstream Radical Feminist Theory, Jeanne L. Schroeder

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The article critically examines the opposing views of Cass Sunstein and Catharine MacKinnon on pornography and its legal implications, highlighting their divergent definitions and approaches. Sunstein advocates for a narrow, violence-focused antipornography legislation, while MacKinnon pushes for a broader definition that encompasses gender subordination. The analysis reveals how Sunstein's critique of MacKinnon unintentionally weakens feminist challenges to masculinism by separating sexuality from power dynamics. MacKinnon's theory, rooted in a premodern Christian view of sexuality, posits that pornography constructs women as objects, reinforcing gender inequality. The article underscores the tension between legal reform and the deeper structural changes needed to address …


State-Interest Analysis And The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider Sep 1992

State-Interest Analysis And The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider

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I want to develop some themes I advanced in my article entitled State-Interest Analysis in Fourteenth Amendment "Privacy" Law: An Essay on the Constitutionalization of Social issues. In that article I noted that while courts and commentators have lavished effort on the fundamental-rights side of privacy law, they have scanted the state-interest side, thereby producing crucial weaknesses in that law. I felt that state~interest discussions in privacy cases often seemed to me unsatisfying. This is an attempt to see why. A major difficulty is that states tend to advance and courts tend to accept quite narrow specifications of a statute's …


The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider Apr 1992

The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider

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On an occasion such as this, we are called to step back from our daily work to seek what Justice Holmes called a "liberal view" of our subject. Today, I propose to do so by exploring a function of family law that I believe is basic, that underlies much of family law, that resonates with the deepest purposes of culture but that is rarely addressed expressly-namely, what I call the "channelling function." As I will soon explain at length, in the channelling function the law recruits, builds, shapes, sustains; and promotes social institutions. My exploration of this topic will have …


Heat Of Passion And Wife Killing: Men Who Batter/Men Who Kill, Donna Coker Jan 1992

Heat Of Passion And Wife Killing: Men Who Batter/Men Who Kill, Donna Coker

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Autopoiesis In America, Stephen M. Diamond Jan 1992

Autopoiesis In America, Stephen M. Diamond

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Gender Is For Nouns, Richard A. Epstein Jan 1992

Gender Is For Nouns, Richard A. Epstein

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Relative Preferences, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 1992

Relative Preferences, Richard H. Mcadams

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The Deprofessionalization Of Legal Teaching And Scholarship, Richard A. Posner Jan 1992

The Deprofessionalization Of Legal Teaching And Scholarship, Richard A. Posner

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Intellectual Voyeurism In Legal Scholarship, Brian Leiter Jan 1992

Intellectual Voyeurism In Legal Scholarship, Brian Leiter

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Enterprise And American Law: 1836-1937. By Herbert Hovenkamp (Book Review), Kunal Parker Jan 1992

Enterprise And American Law: 1836-1937. By Herbert Hovenkamp (Book Review), Kunal Parker

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Outsider Scholarship: The Law Review Stories, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1992

Outsider Scholarship: The Law Review Stories, Mary I. Coombs

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The Politics Of Women's Wrongs And The Bill Of 'Rights': A Bicentennial Perspective, Mary E. Becker Jan 1992

The Politics Of Women's Wrongs And The Bill Of 'Rights': A Bicentennial Perspective, Mary E. Becker

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Stances, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1992

Stances, Anthony V. Alfieri

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The Death Of The Employer: Image, Text, And Title Vii, D. Marvin Jones Jan 1992

The Death Of The Employer: Image, Text, And Title Vii, D. Marvin Jones

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Disabled Clients, Disabling Lawyers, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1992

Disabled Clients, Disabling Lawyers, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Rodrigo's Second Chronicle: The Economics And Politics Of Race 1993 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law, Richard Delgado Jan 1992

Rodrigo's Second Chronicle: The Economics And Politics Of Race 1993 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law, Richard Delgado

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The Inward Turn In Outsider Jurisprudence, Richard Delgado Jan 1992

The Inward Turn In Outsider Jurisprudence, Richard Delgado

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United States V. United States: When Can The Federal Government Sue Itself?, Michael E. Herz Jul 1991

United States V. United States: When Can The Federal Government Sue Itself?, Michael E. Herz

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The Law And Economics Of Racial Discrimination In Employment: The Case For Numerical Standards, David A. Strauss Jan 1991

The Law And Economics Of Racial Discrimination In Employment: The Case For Numerical Standards, David A. Strauss

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Deconcentrating The Inner City Poor, Michael H. Schill Jan 1991

Deconcentrating The Inner City Poor, Michael H. Schill

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Justice By Geography: Urban, Suburban, And Rural Variations In Juvenile Justice Administration, Barry C. Feld Jan 1991

Justice By Geography: Urban, Suburban, And Rural Variations In Juvenile Justice Administration, Barry C. Feld

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Despite statutes and rules of statewide applicability, juvenile justice administration varies consistently with urban, suburban, and rural social structure and context. In urban counties, which are more heterogenous and diverse, juvenile justice intervention is more formal, bureaucratized, and due process-oriented. Formality is associated with greater severity in pre-trial detention and sentencing practices. By contrast, in more homogeneous and stable rural counties, juvenile courts are procedurally less formal and sentence youths more leniently. The Article explores the implications of "justice by geography" for juvenile justice policy.


Public Prosecution And Hydro-Engineering, Michael Tonry Jan 1991

Public Prosecution And Hydro-Engineering, Michael Tonry

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There are inherent tensions between conceptions of public prosecutors as elected officials who respond to public intolerance of crime and criminals and as officers of the court who answer to normative injunctions of fairness and dispassion. Discussion of prosecutors' roles has progressed little beyond recognition of inherent tensions. There is no literature on prosecutorial strategies. The empirical literature on prosecutorial operations is scant.


A Reminiscence About The Uniform Marriage And Divorce Act - Some Reflections About Its Critics And Its Policies, Robert Levy Jan 1991

A Reminiscence About The Uniform Marriage And Divorce Act - Some Reflections About Its Critics And Its Policies, Robert Levy

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Legal Education: An Illusion, Judith T. Younger Jan 1991

Legal Education: An Illusion, Judith T. Younger

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The Transformation Of The Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld Jan 1991

The Transformation Of The Juvenile Court, Barry C. Feld

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Ideological changes in the cultural conception of children and in strategies of social control during the nineteenth century led to the creation of the juvenile court. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Progressive reformers applied the new theories of social control to the new ideas about childhood and created a social welfare alternative to criminal courts to treat criminal and noncriminal misconduct by youth.


Competitive Deregulation Of Financial Services Activity In Europe After 1992, Caroline Bradley Jan 1991

Competitive Deregulation Of Financial Services Activity In Europe After 1992, Caroline Bradley

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Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney Jan 1991

Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney

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