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Operation Of Joint Wills In Texas, Bertel M. Sparks

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Warren Court And Criminal Procedure, A. Kenneth Pye

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The New Jersey Estoppel Statute In Subdivision Control Administration, Leo M. Romero

Faculty Scholarship

Subdivision control statutes allow a municipality to supervise the subdivision of land in the public interest. As part of the subdivision approval process, state enabling acts authorize municipalities to require the developer to install paved streets, drainage and sewage facilities, water supplies, and other improvements that are necessary to the development. While emphasizing the necessity of protecting the public by requiring these necessary improvements, courts and legislatures have neglected to give the developer the assurance of certainty that these requirements, once imposed, will not later be changed. This assurance is necessary, as the developer must be able to rely on …

The Federal Air Pollution Program, Leo M. Romero

Faculty Scholarship

An awareness of the awesome threat-both to our health and to our economy-posed by a polluted atmosphere has long been widespread. Only recently, however, has concern been translated into conduct on the part of those whose initiative is essential if we are to meet one of the most technical challenges of our industrial society.

Duke Law School, 1868-1968: A Sketch, W. Bryan Bolich

Faculty Scholarship

This paper constitutes the somewhat revised text of an address by the author at the Law Alumni Association Annual Luncheon Meeting and Duke Law School Centennial Observance, April 20, 1968.

Book Review, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Presumption Of Innocence In The Soviet Union, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

The presumption of innocence is a curious item in the baggage of Western legal rhetoric. Revered today here and abroad, it has become a standard clause in international testimonials to the rights of man. Yet, at first blush, it seems conceptually anomalous and irrelevant in practice. It is hardly a presumption of fact – a distillation of common experience; statistics betray the suggestion that men indicted on criminal charges are likely to be innocent. Nor is it a legal rule masquerading as an irrebuttable presumption; it is rebuttable by proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant's guilt. Further, it …

Two Kinds Of Legal Rules: A Comparative Study Of Burden-Of-Persuasion Practices In Criminal Cases, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

Good men everywhere praise the presumption of innocence. And be they Frenchmen, Germans, or Americans, they agree on the demand of the presumption in practice. Both here and abroad, the state's invocation of criminal sanctions demands a high degree of proof that the accused has committed the offense charged. To express the requisite standard of proof, common lawyers speak of the prosecutor's duty to prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt. And Continental lawyers invoke the maxim in dubio pro reo – a precept requiring triers of fact to acquit in cases of doubt.

The French speak of the presomption …

Language And Law In Ethiopia, Fassil Abebe, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to introduce our readers to the problems of legal terminology in Ethiopia's codes and to explain what the Faculty of Law has been attempting to achieve in this area; second, to give some specific examples, drawn from the procedural codes, of these language problem.

Georgia’S Urgent Need For A Modern Corporation Statute, F. Hodge O'Neal

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Prolonging Life, George P. Fletcher

Faculty Scholarship

A physician decides not to prolong the life of a terminal patient. What are the legal consequences? Is it murder, akin to a gunman's pulling the trigger? Or is the law more sensitive? Professor Fletcher proposes that a decision to interrupt life-sustaining therapy, such as that to turn off a mechanical respirator, should be classified as an omission, not an act. He arrives at this conclusion by analyzing the common sense usages of "cause" and "permit." If the decision is an omission then the law must focus on the doctor-patient relationship to define legal consequences, allowing customary standards of the …

The Heart Cases In Workmen’S Compensation: An Analysis And Suggested Solution, Arthur Larson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Limitations On Contract Termination Rights—Franchise Cancellations, Ernest Gellhorn

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Compensation For Victims Of Violent Crimes: An Analysis, Robert E. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

Spurred by the implementation of plans in Great Britain, New Zealand, and California; and by various other federal and state proposals, the concept of state compensation to victims of violent crimes has recently become the subject of wide public interest and intensive legal debate. In essence, the concept envisages some scheme by which the victims of crimes of violence can be compensated for any losses resulting from their criminally inflicted injuries.

Before any proposals based on this conception are adopted they should be shown to have a valid theoretical framework, supported by sound legal principles, with an effective and efficient …

The Individual And The Public Service Enterprise In The New Industrial State, Joseph R. Grodin, Matthew O. Tobriner

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Review Of H.L.A. Hart, The Morality Of The Criminal Law, Oxford University Press (1965), Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

This slim volume contains the text of two lectures given by Professor Hart at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964. The first lecture, "Changing Conceptions of Responsibility," expresses concern at the turn in which the "liberal" criminal law reform movement in England has taken in connection with the law of criminal responsibility. Professor Hart takes issue with the stand of a leading reformer, Lady Wootton, who advocates abolition of the mens rea prerequisite to penal liability. In her view, the mental state of a harm-doer is relevant not to determining his penal liability (conviction), but only to the decision …

The Public Responsibility Of The Historian, James Hood

Faculty Scholarship

Transcript of a faculty lecture, The Public Responsibility of the Historian.

Developments In Contract Liability Of Trusts And Trustees, John D. Johnston Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Legal Professions Of Italy, Joseph Perillo

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

An Introduction To Commercial Law, Frederick M. Hart, William F. Willier

Faculty Scholarship

These materials are designed as a short introductory text on Commercial Law. Difficult problems are intentionally avoided, as are references to cases and legal periodicals. The bibliography contains a selection of texts that explore the Code more thoroughly and offer an avenue into the case law that is quickly developing under the Uniform Commercial Code. This introductory text should be useful to the student who is approaching Commercial Law for the first time and as a quick reference (or quick review) for those who have had experience with the subject. This text is used by the authors to complement a …

Constitutional Law, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

In the last thirty years, the equal protection clause has been largely transformed. Once a point of reference for courts striking down schemes of economic regulation which they regarded as unreasonable or unwise, it is now primarily a source of constitutional standards in the areas of civil rights, reapportionment, and rights of indigents accused of crime. These standards are of immense legal and social consequence. Since the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Educ. their development-characterized by Professor Philip B. Kurland as "the rise of egalitarianism" – has been paralleled by an increasing attention to the claims of equality …

Criminal Law And Procedure, Henry Paul Monaghan

Faculty Scholarship

§12.1 Introduction. The recent decisions of the United States Supreme Court in the area of criminal procedure have begun to have a considerable impact upon litigation in the Massachusetts courts; indeed, for at least the second successive year the major emphasis of the Supreme Judicial Court's criminal law opinions centered upon considerations of "criminal due process." On the whole, the Court demonstrated an admirable concern for protecting the requirements of a fair trial. However, in at least two significant areas its decisions are open to considerable question: (1) in a series of opinions the Court confined the admittedly unclear …

Involuntary Confessions And Article 35, Criminal Procedure Code, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

Improper methods of police interrogation are known to every country in the world. And everywhere, it is agreed that an accused's confession of guilt which has been procured through physical violence, psychological intimidation, or improper inducements or promises cannot be considered in evidence against him at trial. The primary reason why involuntary confessions are excluded from evidence is that they are unreliable indices of truth; men have been known to admit crimes of which they are innocent, simply to escape the pain of torture or to obtain an irresistible benefit.

Some Aspects Of Ethiopian Arrest Law: The Eclectic Approach To Codification, Stanley Z. Fisher

Faculty Scholarship

The Criminal Procedure Code of 1961 is one of Ethiopia's most recent codes, and one of the least "developed" in terms of published commentary and reported cases. In contrast to the "introduced" and "explained" Penal and Civil Codes, the Criminal Procedure Code has apparently been disowned by its drafters, none of whom have written a word of commentary on it. Its origins remain obscure, and at first glance it is difficult to see which, if any, "system" was its inspiration. In fact, it seems, the Code has roots in no single system, nor even in any single "family" of systems. …

Errico V. Immigration And Naturalization Serv., J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Article 9: Secured Transactions (Comment) Of Uniform Commercial Code Annotations, Robert J. Desiderio, Samuel L. Black, Alan S. Goldberg, Richard G. Kotarba

Faculty Scholarship

Review of SCHLEIMER V. ARROWHEAD GARAGE, INC. 260 N.Y.S.2d 271 (Civ. Ct. 1965)

Article 1: General Provisions (Comment) Of Uniform Commercial Code Annotations, Robert J. Desiderio, Samuel L. Black, Alan S. Goldberg, Richard G. Kotarba

Faculty Scholarship

Review of:

• KORESKA V. UNITED CARGO CORP. 258 N.Y.S.2d 432 (App. Div. 1965)
• GREATER LOUISVILLE AUTO AUCTION, INC. V. OGLE BUICK, INC. 387 S.W.2d 17 (Ky. 1965)
• IN RE KING FURNITURE CITY, INC. 240 F. Supp. 453 (E.D. Ark. 1965)
• IN THE MATTER OF WHEATLAND ELEC. PROD, Co. 237 F. Supp. 820 (W.D. Pa. 1965)

Criminal Law - Habeas Corpus - Prematurity, John L. Gedid

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Contracts (1965), Frederick M. Hart

Faculty Scholarship

§6.1. General. The most important development of the decade in contract law has been the gradual acceptance of the Uniform Commercial Code. Now, as over forty states have adopted the Code, another significant task is being undertaken: a revision of the Restatement of Contracts. A hurried reading of the first hundred-odd sections prompts a few general and tentative observations.

Automatic Extinction Of Cross-Demands: Compensation From Rome To California, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.