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The First Slave (And Why He Matters), Jonathan A. Bush

Cardozo Law Review

This Article has two purposes. The narrower, straight historical purpose is to explore in further detail the status of blacks in the earliest years of Britain's colonies in the New World. The second, more legal aim is to explore what is, for many of us, still the hardest question in American legal history: namely, to understand the route by which slavery came to be legal in the early seventeenth century, in a culture that had long rejected unfree status and that seemed to retain that view.

Is It Inside Or Out? - A Proposal To Clarify The Misappropriation Theory Of Unlawful Trading, Lawrence A. Rosenbloom

Cardozo Law Review

Insider trading - the very mention of the words conjures up images of evildoers on Wall Street committing deceptive and underhanded acts at the expense of "mom and pop" investors. During the 1980s, the issue came to the forefront with high profile prosecutions and motion pictures depicting powerful corporate raiders proclaiming that "if you're not inside, you're outside."

…Of Cabbages And Kings. November, 1996, Emeriti Society, University Of The Pacific

Emeriti Newsletter: "...Of Cabbages and Kings"

"...Of Cabbages and Kings" is the newsletter of the University of the Pacific Emeriti Society. Read more about the Emeriti Society of Pacific by clicking here.

Domestic Relations, Barry B. Mcgough

Mercer Law Review

The survey period' produced sixty-one appellate decisions. Of that group, fourteen are digested here. The cases included clearly focus on issues of children. Moreover, the Georgia General Assembly tightened-up the child support guidelines and added new teeth for enforcement of support orders. Finally, new legislation prohibiting same sex and common law marriages was enacted.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1996, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1996 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1996.

The Portland Region: Where City And Suburbs Talk To Each Other ... And Sometimes Agree, Carl Abbott

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Portland, OR, is often cited as an example of successful regional governance and planning. The metropolitan area appears to match many of the precepts of the popular "compact city" model of urban growth and to demonstrate the capacity of local and state government to shape growing metropolitan regions. Given this reputation, it is important to evaluate the relevance of the Portland experience for other communities, distinguishing unique local circumstances form generalizable characteristics. This analysis explores the spatial character of metropolitan Portland in the 1990s, summarizes the politics of regional planning, examines weaknesses in the Portland approach, and offers suggestions for …

Evaluating The Consumption Tax Proposals: Changes In The Taxation Of Interspousal Transactions, Use Of Trusts, And Revising The Meaning Of "Tax Planning", Lester B. Snyder, Roger J. Higgins

San Diego Law Review

This Article focuses on two proposals to revise the federal income tax system: the Armey flat tax and the USA tax. It compares these tax reform measures with the current Internal Revenue Code for income tax in three areas: (1) corporate stock redemptions and divorce; (2) the use of alimony trusts; and (3) nonqualified deferred compensation (so-called "rabbi") trusts. In assessing the proposed changes, the Article also addresses the amount of simplification that will be achieved, the possible undertaxation of recipients of profits, tax avoidance, and the extent to which one must cast aside conventional tax planning and tax policy …

Foreword: First Thing We Do, Let's Kill All The Defense Lawyers, Stanley A. Goldman

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Plan To Preserve An Endangered Species: The Zealous Criminal Defense Lawyer, Raymond M. Brown

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

How Can You Defend Those People, Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

On A Level Playing Field, Michael J. Lightfoot

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Stumbling Down Tobacco Road: Media Self-Censorship And Corporate Capitulation In The War On The Cigarette Industry, Clay Calvert

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Racism Reconsidered, Lynn E. Blais

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Critical Care Research And Informed Consent, Richard S. Saver

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Terminate, Then Retaliate: Title Vii Section 704(A) And Robinson V. Shell Oil Co., Todd Mitchell

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Title Page, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Board Of Editors, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Comments/Notes, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Four-Fermion Production In E+E- Collisions At Centre-Of-Mass Energies Of 130 And 136 Gev, D. Buskulic, Manoj Thulasidas

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Four-fermion events have been selected in a data sample of 5.8 pb−1 collected with the aleph detector at centre-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV. The final states ℓ+ℓ−qq, ℓ+ℓ−ℓ+ℓ−, ννqq, and ννℓ+ℓ− have been examined. Five events are observed in the data, in agreement with the Standard Model predictions of 6.67±0.38 events from four-fermion processes and 0.14−0.05+0.19 from background processes.

The Hilltop 11-1-1996, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 1990-2000

No abstract provided.

Catholic Deaf Newsletter, November 1996

Catholic Deaf Newsletter

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Harford, CT

Catholic Deaf Newsletter Finding Aid

Newsletter Catholic Deaf Of Detroit, November 1996

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Detroit, MI

Newsletter Catholic Deaf of Detroit Finding Aid

Table Of Contents - Cardozo Law Review, Volume 18, Issue 2

Cardozo Law Review

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“Like Master, Like Man”: Constructing Whiteness In The Commercial Law Of Slavery, 1800-1861, Ariela J. Gross

Cardozo Law Review

In 1836, Leonard Wideman bought a slave named Charles from Jonathan Johnson, paying in part with a $100 note. Not long after, Johnson sued Wideman in the Circuit Court of Abbeville, South Carolina for failing to pay his note. In defense, Wideman argued that he should not have to pay Charles's price because Johnson had fraudulently represented Charles to be sober, honest, and humble, when, in fact, he was insubordinate, vicious, a drunkard, and a runaway. The trial turned not only on Charles's character, but also on the character of his masters: Johnson, Wideman, and others who had previously owned …

Gender In The Law Of Slavery In The Antebellum United States, Andrew T. Fede

Cardozo Law Review

In her thought-provoking paper Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property, Cheryl I. Harris explores the connections between slavery, race, and gender in the law of the antebellum United States. Harris acknowledges that slaves alone were defined as property at law, and, therefore,*the legal status of slaves differed from free white women and free black women. She also acknowledges that "white women" were allowed property rights on "male-defined terms" but asserts, nevertheless, that free women could be considered as a form of property.

Property, Parenthood, And Peonage: Reflections On The Return To Status Quo Antebellum, Margaret A. Burnham

Cardozo Law Review

Cheryl Harris demonstrates how intertwining racial and gender boundaries, whose shadows are long, longstanding, and ominous, were initially constructed around the legal principle of human chattel as personal property. She insightfully argues that slavery inextricably linked the concepts of race and property in the American legal imagination; that property originates from rules that are "racially coded" and determined. Cheryl Harris's contribution to this Symposium is a continuation of her project of illuminating how law ratifies and implements a racialized conception of property. This comment considers the application of Professor Harris's argument, that property, in the context of race-based slavery, is …

Comment On Hans Baade’S The Gens De Couleur Of Louisiana: Comparative Slave Law In Microcosm, Morris S. Arnold

Cardozo Law Review

Hans Baade invented colonial Louisiana legal history. Before he started doing research in the eighteenth-century records in New Orleans and elsewhere, virtually no serious historical work involving the judicial and notarial archives of colonial Louisiana had ever been done. Professor Baade also undertook years ago to trace the various French and Spanish statutory enactments that bore on Louisiana legal history, and this proved to be a virtually impenetrable mare's nest. Before Professor Baade began his work, most of what had been written about Louisiana's colonial legal past was both amateurish and antiquated. It should therefore come as no surprise that …

Comment On Judith Schafer’S “Under The Present Mode Of Trial, Improper Verdicts Are Very Often Given”: Criminal Procedure In The Trials Of Slaves In Antebellum Louisiana, Peter Westen

Cardozo Law Review

This Response to Professor Schafer's essay, "Under the Present Mode of Trial, Improper Verdicts are Very Often Given": Criminal Procedure Trials of Slaves in Antebellum Louisiana, is divided into two parts. First, it raises some questions about the three things Professor Schafer attempts to do in her essay. Second, this Response discusses an issue that several commentators have remarked upon over the years-namely, that criminal procedure is the area of Southern slave law that has come closest to according slaves the same protections accorded to free persons.

“Doubly Condemned”: Adjustments To The Crime And Punishment Regime In The Late Slavery Period In The British Caribbean Colonies, Anthony De V. Phillips

Cardozo Law Review

Several good reasons must have led Michael Craton to choose the title for his very useful work, Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica. In the area of slavery and criminal sanctions, however, there is great difficulty with the idea of the "invisibility" of black people. Blacks were, in fact, "evervisible." Indeed, in view of their numbers and ubiquity, the slaves were at the forefront of the minds and concerns of all white people. This was especially true for the dominant political elite who made the laws and controlled the system of the administration of …

Outlawing Outcasts: Comparative Perspectives On The Differing Functions Of The Criminal Law Of Slavery In The Americas, Robert J. Cottrol

Cardozo Law Review

This is a commentary on some issues raised by Anthony De V. Phillips's "Doubly Condemned": Adjustments to the Crime and Punishment Regime in the Late Slavery Period in the British Caribbean Colonies and Judith K. Schafer's "Under the Present Mode of Trial, Improper Verdicts are Very Often Given": Criminal Procedure Trials of Slaves in Antebellum Louisiana, both of which appear in this volume. Both discussions highlight the role of criminal law, procedure, and punishment in helping to sustain systems of African and Afro-American chattel slavery in New World societies. They provide interesting contrasts between civil and common law approaches to …