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Full-Text Articles in Law
Approaching The Constitution, Don Herzog
Approaching The Constitution, Don Herzog
Reviews
These are sumptuously produced, oversized volumes: one pictures them, as I suspect some shrewd accountant at the press did, decorating the shelves of lawyers' offices. Their pages are crammed full of primary texts, two columns on each page, in an alarmingly small but somehow readable typeface. Some texts are bare snippets; others wind on luxuriantly for many pages. The editors have set a cutoff point: no text from after 1835 appears. Like much else about these volumes, that decision reflects a set of theoretical commitments about the Constitution that I want to question. Not that these volumes are explicitly cast …
Is "Internal Consistency" Foolish?: Reflections On An Emerging Commerce Clause Restraint On State Taxation, Walter Hellerstein
Is "Internal Consistency" Foolish?: Reflections On An Emerging Commerce Clause Restraint On State Taxation, Walter Hellerstein
Michigan Law Review
Whatever role "internal consistency" may come to play in the Court's commerce clause jurisprudence, it has already emerged as a doctrine that warrants our attention. This article traces the development of the doctrine, explores its implications, and considers its defensibility as a limitation on state taxing power. The article suggests that the results the Court reaches under the "internal consistency" doctrine could be reached by rigorous application of a more familiar commerce clause principle - one to which the Court has been less than faithful.
Neutral Principles In The 1950'S, Gary Peller
Neutral Principles In The 1950'S, Gary Peller
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
In this Essay, I explore the intellectual setting within which Wechsler believed that defending freedom also required defending the legality of racial domination. I argue that the key to understanding this apparent paradox is to grasp the ideological/ cultural complex of the 1950's within which mainstream American intellectuals in law and in other disciplines came to terms with the disintegration of the traditional, "old order" paradigms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by means of an intense and overriding distinction between controversial issues of values and noncontroversial questions of framework and structure within which substantive conflict would take …
Territoriality And The Perils Of Formalism, Mark P. Gergen
Territoriality And The Perils Of Formalism, Mark P. Gergen
Michigan Law Review
Recently in this journal Donald Regan published a pair of essays on CTS Corp. v. Dynamics Corp. of America. Much of the first essay elaborates his theory that what the Supreme Court should be doing and what it is doing under the dormant commerce clause is checking state laws adopted with a substantial protectionist purpose. The rest of the first essay and all of the second essay develop a different check on state lawmaking power in interstate affairs: a rule that states may not regulate conduct beyond their borders. He calls this the extraterritoriality principle. Elsewhere I have questioned …
The Shadow Of Natural Rights, Or A Guide From The Perplexed, Hadley Arkes
The Shadow Of Natural Rights, Or A Guide From The Perplexed, Hadley Arkes
Michigan Law Review
A Review of American Constitutional Interpretation by Walter Murphy, James Fleming and William Harris, II
Constitutional Opinions: Aspects Of The Bill Of Rights, Kenneth F. Sparks
Constitutional Opinions: Aspects Of The Bill Of Rights, Kenneth F. Sparks
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Constitutional Opinions: Aspects of the Bill of Rights by Leonard W. Levy
Reconstituting "Original Intent": A Constitutional Law Encyclopedia For The Next Century, David M. Skover
Reconstituting "Original Intent": A Constitutional Law Encyclopedia For The Next Century, David M. Skover
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Encyclopedia of the American Constitution by Leonard Levy, Kenneth Karst and Dennis Mahoney
Capital Punishment And The American Agenda, John Pierce Stimson
Capital Punishment And The American Agenda, John Pierce Stimson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Capital Punishment and the American Agenda by Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins
The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective, Robert F. Drinan
The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective, Robert F. Drinan
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Enduring Constitution: A Bicentennial Perspective by Jethro K. Lieberman
The Believer And The Powers That Are, Elizabeth Ferguson
The Believer And The Powers That Are, Elizabeth Ferguson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Believer and the Powers That Are by John T. Noonan, Jr.
The Role Of State Supreme Courts In The New Judicial Federalism, Jonathan T. Foot
The Role Of State Supreme Courts In The New Judicial Federalism, Jonathan T. Foot
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Role of State Supreme Courts in the new Judicial Federalism by Susan P. Fino
Why We Lost The Era, Judith L. Hudson
Why We Lost The Era, Judith L. Hudson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Why We Lost the ERA
Constitutional Policymaking In The Burger Years, Joel B. Grossman
Constitutional Policymaking In The Burger Years, Joel B. Grossman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Burger Years: Rights and Wrongs in the Supreme Court 1969-1986 by Herman Schwartz
Clearing The Roadblocks To Sobriety Checkpoints, Mark R. Soble
Clearing The Roadblocks To Sobriety Checkpoints, Mark R. Soble
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note examines the constitutional and policy implications of sobriety checkpoints. Part I discusses the competing interests involved in implementing sobriety checkpoints. Part II presents an appropriate constitutional standard for judging sobriety checkpoints. Part III proposes reform-oriented measures that conform to constitutional guidelines. This Note concludes that properly conducted sobriety checkpoints are constitutional.
Preclusion And Procedural Due Process In Rule 23(B)(2) Class Actions, Mark C. Weber
Preclusion And Procedural Due Process In Rule 23(B)(2) Class Actions, Mark C. Weber
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Article examines whether Rule 23(b)(2) violates the procedural due process rights of absent class members by binding them to the judgment in a class case without notice of the suit. It concludes that the Rule almost certainly violates due process and proposes a reform that would permit nonbinding class actions similar to the old "spurious" class suits.
A Job For The Judges: The Judiciary And The Constitution In A Massive And Complex Society, Neil K. Komesar
A Job For The Judges: The Judiciary And The Constitution In A Massive And Complex Society, Neil K. Komesar
Michigan Law Review
This article attempts that task by exploring the elements of institutional choice in constitutional law. Part I takes an overview of the general division of decisionmaking responsibility between the political processes and the courts. It also examines the failures of existing theories to take account of this division of responsibility. Part II identifies two theories of political malfunction - those circumstances in which political processes are subject to significant doubt or distrust and, therefore, prime candidates for judicial review. Part III examines the characteristics - limits, biases, and abilities - of the judiciary and the potential for judicial response to …
Some Modest Proposals On The Vice-Presidency, Richard D. Friedman
Some Modest Proposals On The Vice-Presidency, Richard D. Friedman
Articles
There are many good things in the Constitution, but the vice-presidency isn't one of them. In Part I of this essay, I will argue that there are three basic problems with the vice-presidency: the method of nomination, the method of election, and the office itself. That just about covers the waterfront.' If we had to do it all over again, we almost certainly would not" create the system we currently have. We cannot undo history, but we do have a very strong incentive to develop a better system of succession to the presidency. Whom we choose as vice-president is a …
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl E. Schneider
Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl E. Schneider
Articles
Hard cases, they say, make bad law. Hard cases, we know, can also make revealing law. Hard cases identify the problems we have not found a way of solving. They reveal ways the law's goals conflict. They force us to articulate our assumptions and to examine our modes of discourse and reasoning. If there was ever a hard case for the law, it is the question of whether, how, and by whom it should be decided to allow newborn children who are severely retarded mentally or severely damaged physically to die. For many years, the law has not had to …