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0495: Savage Grant Land Surveys And Huntington-Kenova Land Company Deeds, 1754-1889, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of two volumes: one containing deeds and wills related to the Savage land grant and its legacy, and the other contains a detailed description of plots found within the grant, both compiled by George S. Wallace. These items are of uncertain provenance, but appear to be from the early 19th century.

Prisons, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

American penitentiaries developed in two distinct phases, and southern states participated in both. Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Georgia built prisons before 1820, and between 1829 and 1842 new or newly reorganized institutions were established in Maryland, Tennessee, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Only the Carolinas and Florida resisted the penitentiary before the Civil War.

Do Professors Need Professional Ethics As Much As Doctors And Lawyers?, James W. Nickel

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Papers Published by the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, Western Michigan University.

Letter To Dr. Saffy Inviting Her To Serve On The Board Of Directors For Leadership Jacksonville Alumni Inc., Kevin E. Loftin

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

An invitation to serve on the Board of Directors for Leadership Jacksonville Alumni Inc., a not-for-profit corporation to support the Leadership Jacksonville Program.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 31 Number 2, Winter 1989, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - MANUFACTURED MOTHERHOOD A Catholic theologian looks at reproductive technology.

16 - ELECTION '88 Will Bush put a new face on Uncle Sam?

20 - IN THE FACE OF AIDS What alumna Sharon Kugler '81 learned hel ping AIDS sufferers.

23 - ON A ROLL New York's hottest director is SCU's Ron Lagomarsino '73.

25 - DO JOBS AND COLLEGE MIX? Alumni and students tell how they fit part-time jobs into their schedules/

Women Of The Tudor Court, 1501-1568, Carol De Witte Bowles

Dissertations and Theses

Writing the history of Tudor women is a difficult task. "Women's lives from the 16th century can rarely be constructed except when these women have had influential connections with notable men.This is no less true for the court women of Tudor England than for other women of the time.

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss some of the more memorable court women of Tudor England who served the queens of Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I, 2 and to determine what impact, if any, they had on their contemporary times and to evaluate their roles in Tudor …

Portland Student Services, Inc. : The Establishment Of Student-Run Housing In Portland, Oregon, 1969-1971, Michael Keith Brewin

Dissertations and Theses

Portland student Services, Inc. (PSS), a non-profit student housing corporation, was created under circumstances that were especially arduous. Although thousands of students attending Portland State University in the late 1960s needed housing, state law prohibited the university from providing residential facilities . Many students lived in dilapidated apartment buildings in downtown Portland and faced dislocation from urban renewal programs initiated by the Portland Development Commission. Activists who set out to establish student-run housing also faced hostility from policymakers who resented student-led initiatives in politics and university governance.

However, these dedicated student activists aligned with members of the Portland business community …

Education And Linguistic Security In The Charter, Denise Réaume, Leslie Green

Articles & Book Chapters

The authors provide an interpretive framework for minority language education rights as guaranteed in Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They argue that the purpose of such rights is to protect linguistic security. Attending to that value and to the text of the Charter, they seek to explain he nature and ground of the limitation which confines application of the right to circumstances in which numbers warrant. In doing so, they critically discuss a number of judgments bearing on the content of the right, the relevance of cost in securing the right, and the appropriate judicial …

The Antitrust Movement And The Rise Of Industrial Organization, Herbert J. Hovenkamp

All Faculty Scholarship

The modern science of industrial organization grew out of a debate among lawyers and economists in the waning years of the nineteenth century. For Americans, the emergent business "trust" provoked a dialogue about how the law should respond. Many of the formal theories of industrial organization, such as the ruinous competition doctrine, the potential competition doctrine, and the post-classical concern about vertical integration, were actually borrowed from the law.

Anglo-American and European economists disputed the proper domain of theory and description in economic analysis. The British approach was exemplified Alfred and Mary Paley Marshall's Economics of Industry, published in …

Mark Tushnet On Liberal Constitutional Theory: Mission Impossible, Frank Goodman

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Equality And Private Choice, Anita L. Allen

All Faculty Scholarship

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Second-Order Reasons, Uncertainty And Legal Theory, Stephen R. Perry

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Government "Largesse" And Constitutional Rights: Some Paths Through And Around The Swamp, Seth F. Kreimer

All Faculty Scholarship

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Conviction According To Conscience: The Medieval Jurists' Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion And The Law Of Proof, Richard M. Fraher

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Review. The Origins Of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia And Bologna, 850-1150 By Charles M. Radding, Richard M. Fraher

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Review. The Political Theology Of Abbo Of Fleury: A Study Of The Ideas About Society And Law Of The Tenth-Century Monasic Reform Movement By Marco Mostert, Richard M. Fraher

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Hold The Corks: A Comment On Paul Carrington's "Substance" And "Procedure" In The Rules Enabling Act, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

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Introducing Criminal Law, Stephen J. Morse

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Transformation Of American Civil Procedure: The Example Of Rule 11, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundheim, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Corporate Debt Relationships: Legal Theory In A Time Of Restructuring, William W. Bratton

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Defamation: An Arkansas Primer, Lisa Pruitt

Lisa R Pruitt

This article is a mini-treatise on the law of defamation in Arkansas.