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Harmonizing Plural Societies: The Cases Of Lasallians, Families, Schools – And The Poor, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Harmonizing Plural Societies: The Cases Of Lasallians, Families, Schools – And The Poor, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
The modern state characteristically assumes or asserts a monopoly over “group persons” and their right to exist; group persons are said to exist at the pleasure or concession of the state. According to Catholic social teaching, by contrast, these unities of order -- such as church and family, as well as corporations and schools and the like -- are, at least in potency, ontologically prior to the state. Such group persons both constitute conditions of the possibility of human flourishing and, correlatively, impose limitations on the “sovereign” state. Such group persons are not mere concessions of an unbounded state: They …
A Quandary In Law? A (Qualified) Catholic Denial, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
A Quandary In Law? A (Qualified) Catholic Denial, Patrick Mckinley Brennan
Working Paper Series
A contribution to the second law review symposium dedicated to Steven Smith’s Law’s Quandary (Harvard 2004), this paper asks whether the “quandary” in which Smith finds modern law and jurisprudence is not, at least in part, the consequence of misunderstanding the classical natural law jurisprudence. The paper advances an interpretation of natural law according to which the natural law is the human person’s “participation” in the eternal law itself, with literally cosmic consequences for how we understand the ends and measures of human lawmaking. Mounting an argument against Justice Scalia’s thesis that “God applies the natural law,” the paper goes …
The Jurisprudence Of Colliding First Amendment Interests: From The Dead End Of Neutrality To The Open Road Of Participation Enhancing Review, Gregory P. Magarian
The Jurisprudence Of Colliding First Amendment Interests: From The Dead End Of Neutrality To The Open Road Of Participation Enhancing Review, Gregory P. Magarian
Working Paper Series
No abstract provided.
A Sign Of Contradiction, David F. Forte
A Sign Of Contradiction, David F. Forte
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Hadley Arkes offers a brilliant manifesto for natural law. In it, he suggests that judges do not pay enough attention to reason, that their realm of reason is too circumscribed—and he levels the criticism at both modern liberal and conservative judges. He urges them to reach out specifically to the principles of the natural law. Yet the judges resist the invitation. They seem always to have resisted the invitation. Why is that so? Why are natural law reasons resisted?, Arkes asks. Why do judges not seek a proper grounding of their judgment in natural law?
The Future Of Footnote Four, Dan T. Coenen
The Future Of Footnote Four, Dan T. Coenen
Scholarly Works
The Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Carolene Products Co. generated the most famous footnote-and perhaps the most famous passage-in all of the American Judiciary's treatment of constitutional law. Among other things, Footnote Four suggested that "prejudice against discrete and insular minorities may be a special condition, which tends seriously to curtail the operation of those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities, and which may call for a correspondingly more searching judicial inquiry." The importance of this principle cannot be overstated. It pervaded the work of the Warren Court and has played a prominent role …
Judicial Activism: An Empirical Examination Of Voting Behavior On The Rehnquist Natural Court, Lori A. Ringhand
Judicial Activism: An Empirical Examination Of Voting Behavior On The Rehnquist Natural Court, Lori A. Ringhand
Scholarly Works
This paper attempts to quantify one of the most deeply contested terms in constitutional law: “judicial activism.” Most discussions of “judicial activism” define activism either in reference to a particular political ideology (such as complaints about “liberal activist judges”) or a particular method of constitutional interpretation (such as assertions that a decision was “activist” because it was not based on the original meaning of the Constitution). This paper sidesteps those debates, focusing instead on an empirical examination of how recent U.S. Supreme Court justices have in fact exercised their judicial power. I do this by examining the voting records of …
The Non-Problem Of Free Will In Forensic Psychiatry And Psychology, Stephen J. Morse
The Non-Problem Of Free Will In Forensic Psychiatry And Psychology, Stephen J. Morse
All Faculty Scholarship
This article demonstrates that there is no free will problem in forensic psychiatry by showing that free will or its lack is not a criterion for any legal doctrine and it is not an underlying general foundation for legal responsibility doctrines and practices. There is a genuine metaphysical free will problem, but the article explains why it is not relevant to forensic practice. Forensic practitioners are urged to avoid all usage of free will in their forensic thinking and work product because it is irrelevant and spawns confusion.
On Logic In The Law: Something, But Not All, Susan Haack
On Logic In The Law: Something, But Not All, Susan Haack
Articles
In 1880, when Oliver Wendell Holmes (later to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) criticized the "logical theology" of law articulated by Christopher Columbus Langdell (the first Dean of Harvard Law School), neither Holmes nor Langdell was aware of the revolution in logic that had begun, the year before, with Frege's Begriffsschrift. But there is an important element of truth in Holmes's insistence that a legal system cannot be adequately understood as a system of "axioms and corollaries"; and this element of truth is not obviated by the more powerful logical techniques that are now available.
Comments On The Comments, Robert S. Summers
Comments On The Comments, Robert S. Summers
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The paper replies to Bix and Soper (Bix 2007; Soper 2007). Bix’s paper raises methodological questions, especially whether a form-theorist merely needs to reflect on form from the arm-chair so to speak. A variety of methods is called for, including conceptual analysis, study of usage, “education in the obvious,” general reflection on the nature of specific functional legal units, empirical research on their operation and effects, and still more. Further methodological remarks are made in response to Soper’s paper. Soper suggests the possibility of substituting “form v. substance” of a unit as the central contrast here rather than form v. …
Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award - Post-Verdict Haircuts In Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003, David A. Hyman, Bernard S. Black, Kathryn Zeiler, Charles Silver, William M. Sage
Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award - Post-Verdict Haircuts In Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003, David A. Hyman, Bernard S. Black, Kathryn Zeiler, Charles Silver, William M. Sage
Faculty Scholarship
Legal scholars, legislators, policy advocates, and the news media frequently use jury verdicts to draw conclusions about the performance of the tort system. However actual payouts can differ greatly from verdicts. We report evidence on post-verdict payouts from the most comprehensive longitudinal study of matched jury verdicts and payouts. Using data on all insured medical malpractice claims in Texas from 1988-2003 in which the plaintiff received at least $25,000 (in 1988 dollars) following a jury trial, we find that most jury awards received "haircuts." Seventy-five percent of plaintiffs received a payout less than the adjusted verdict (jury verdict plus pre-judgment …
Petitioner's Observations (February 2007) For The Redress Of Violations Of Human Rights Guaranteed By The American Declaration Of The Rights And Duties Of Man, Inter-American Commission On Human Rights, Jeffrey C. Tuomala
Faculty Publications and Presentations
No abstract provided.
An Rsvp To Professor Wexler's Warm Therapeutic Jurisprudence Invitation To The Criminal Defense Bar: Unable To Join You, Already (Somewhat Similarly) Engaged, Mae C. Quinn
Journal Articles
This Article responds to Professor David 13. Wexler's recent suggestion that adopting Therapeutic Jurisprudence ("V) principles to create a new type of "rehabilitative" defense lawyer could improve the criminal defense bar. Contrary to the empirical foundation of the therapeutic justice movement, many of his proposed changes seem unsubstantiated. Others, such as calls for creative plea bargaining, are already part of the practice of quality defense attorneys. The "rehabilitative," -Pi defense lawyer may be overly paternalistic, imposing his interpretation of the facts and his standards of appropriate behavior on the accused; such a lawyer also may not comport with express ethical …
Americans And The Quest For An Ethical International Law, Mark Weston Janis
Americans And The Quest For An Ethical International Law, Mark Weston Janis
Faculty Articles and Papers
Foreign critics sometimes accuse Americans of taking a hypocritical stance on international law. They say we preach an ethical international law to others, but practice a selfishly utilitarian international law ourselves. Here is the remarkable opinion, given just last year, of a leading European international lawyer. Martti Koskenniemi, a distinguished Finnish scholar, is Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and a Global Professor of Law at New York University. Koskenniemi believes that the Europeans speak the language of universal international law, but: How differently the Americans see the world! Legalization, is just a policy choice, a matter …
Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray
Devilry, Complicity, And Greed: Transitional Justice And Odious Debt, David C. Gray
Faculty Scholarship
The doctrine of odious debts came into its full in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century to deal with the financial injustices of colonialism and its stalking horse, despotism. The basic rule, as articulated by Alexander Sack in 1927, is that debts incurred by an illegitimate regime that neither benefit nor have the consent of the people of a territory are personal to the regime and are subject to unilateral recision by a successor government. While the traditional doctrine focused on the nature and circumstances of individual debts, it has been expanded in recent years, moving the focus from the …
Why Justice Scalia Should Be A Constitutional Comparativist ... Sometimes, David C. Gray
Why Justice Scalia Should Be A Constitutional Comparativist ... Sometimes, David C. Gray
Faculty Scholarship
The burgeoning literature on transjudicialism and constitutional comparativism generally reaffirms the familiar lines of contest between textualists and those more inclined to read the Constitution as a living document. As a consequence, it tends to be politicized, if not polemic. This article begins to shift the debate toward a more rigorous focus on first principles. In particular, it argues that full faith to the basic commitments of originalism, as advanced in Justice Scalia's writings, opinions, and speeches, requires domestic courts to consult contemporary foreign sources when interpreting universalist language found in the Constitution. While the article does not propose a …
The Trial Judge's Equitable Discretion Following Ebay V. Mercexchange, Doug Rendleman
The Trial Judge's Equitable Discretion Following Ebay V. Mercexchange, Doug Rendleman
Scholarly Articles
None available.
Bush V. Gore And The Uses Of 'Limiting', Chad Flanders
Bush V. Gore And The Uses Of 'Limiting', Chad Flanders
All Faculty Scholarship
My comment looks at the debate in the 6th Circuit case Stewart v. Blackwell in light of the history of the use of "limiting language" by the Supreme Court. I catalog the Court's past uses of limiting language, and distinguish between the Court's several uses of limiting language. Against those who defend the limiting language of Bush v. Gore as simply an example of innocuous minimalism, I report my findings that "limiting" is always used by the Court to nullify a principle that decided a previous case. Additionally, the Court has never, prior to Bush, used limiting language to limit …
The Canon Of American Legal Thought, Robert E. Rodes
The Canon Of American Legal Thought, Robert E. Rodes
Journal Articles
Professors Kennedy and Fisher have put together a book containing twenty essays, most of them first published in law reviews. They are elegantly presented, and each is preceded by an introductory essay by one of the editors, which provides background information on the author, analyzes the piece lucidly and succinctly, and situates it in the development of American legal thought. Each piece is also preceded by a bibliography, which further situates it by describing the rest of the author's work and summarizing the commentary it has evoked. All the works are given in full, adding considerably to what can be …
The Anxiety Of The Law Student At The Socratic Impasse - An Essay On Reductionism In Legal Education, Pierre Schlag
The Anxiety Of The Law Student At The Socratic Impasse - An Essay On Reductionism In Legal Education, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
Moiwana Village V. Suriname: A Portal Into Recent Jurisprudential Developments Of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights, Thomas Antkowiak
Moiwana Village V. Suriname: A Portal Into Recent Jurisprudential Developments Of The Inter-American Court Of Human Rights, Thomas Antkowiak
Faculty Articles
On June 15, 2005, the Inter-American Court issued its judgment in Moiwana Village v. Suriname, which held Suriname responsible for numerous human rights violations and ordered several remedial measures. In a separate opinion, one of the Tribunal's veteran judges, Ant¿nio Can¿ado-Trindade, wrote that the case "raises issues of great transcendence." Certainly, the decision illustrates several of the Court's latest jurisprudential developments, and navigates a few rising socio-political tides in South and Central America. This brief essay seeks to demonstrate how the Moiwana case: a) presents factual situations that are increasingly common before the Court; b) continues to develop key legal …
The Existentialist And The River: An Essay In The Memory Of Robert Popper, Dean Of The Umkc Law School, John W. Ragsdale Jr
The Existentialist And The River: An Essay In The Memory Of Robert Popper, Dean Of The Umkc Law School, John W. Ragsdale Jr
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
Process Theory, Majoritarianism, And The Original Understanding, William Michael Treanor
Process Theory, Majoritarianism, And The Original Understanding, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In Radicals in Robes, Cass Sunstein posits that there are four primary approaches to constitutional interpretation: perfectionism, majoritarianism, minimalism, and fundamentalism.' The purpose of his eloquent and compelling book is twofold: Sunstein argues for minimalism, an approach that he contends makes most sense for America today; and with even greater force, Sunstein argues against fundamentalism, which he finds "wrong, dangerous, radical, and occasionally hypocritical."' The "Radicals in Robes" who are the targets of Sunstein's book are judges who embrace fundamentalism, which, in his view, embodies "the views of the extreme wing of [the] Republican Party."'
In Securing Constitutional Democracy: The …
At War With The Eclectics: Mapping Pragmatism In Contemporary Legal Analysis, Justin Desautels-Stein
At War With The Eclectics: Mapping Pragmatism In Contemporary Legal Analysis, Justin Desautels-Stein
Publications
This Article has two primary goals. The first is descriptive and seeks to respond to what appears to be an increasing degree of confusion over the word "pragmatism," especially as it is used in a good deal of legal literature. This descriptive aim begins by separating out three general categories of pragmatism: (1) the so-called "everyday" pragmatism familiar to the American vernacular, (2) the classical philosophy of the early pragmatist authors like William James and John Dewey, and (3) pragmatism as understood in the context of law. The majority of the Article is subsequently concerned with exploring this last category, …
Nebraska Probation Revocation: A Primer (2007 Revision), Alan G. Gless
Nebraska Probation Revocation: A Primer (2007 Revision), Alan G. Gless
State of Nebraska Judicial Branch
The law of probation revocation developed rapidly over the eighteen years preceding this article’s 1989 appearance. While its development has slowed substantially since then, it continues to evolve. The overall field of Nebraska probation revocation remains essentially unchanged from the way it was in 1989 when this article first appeared. The case law has neither burgeoned dramatically nor altered the scenery in major ways, although, it has added a few refinements. But important procedural and substantive wrinkles have appeared through 2003 statutory amendments to the steps probation officers must take in responding to probationers’ violations of the conditions of their …
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – Selected Criminal Law Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2007-2008 Term, And A Look Ahead, Charles D. Weisselberg
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – Selected Criminal Law Cases In The Supreme Court’S 2007-2008 Term, And A Look Ahead, Charles D. Weisselberg
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2007 Term had a substantial and notable criminal docket. There were very significant Second, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment decisions as well as important rulings relating to basic habeas corpus principles and federal statutes. This article provides a selected overview of the Term with a heavy emphasis on those cases that may have the greatest impact upon the states. The article also suggests some questions left open by the Court’s opinions and provides some preliminary indications of how several decisions are being received in state and federal courts. It concludes with a preview of some cases …
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – Resource Page
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – Resource Page
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Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – President’S Column, Tam Schumann
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 3 – President’S Column, Tam Schumann
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
In every issue of Court Review, some new members of the American Judges Association are introduced to the AJA through this column. Others turn here for an update. As the AJA’s new president, my first column is a good time to look both backwards at recent activities and forward at the next year’s work.
The AJA today has more than 2,000 members, including judges at all levels of the judiciary—-trial and appellate judges, general-jurisdiction and limited-jurisdiction trial judges, and judges in both the United States and Canada. In fact, we have 150 Canadian members, something that greatly enriches the interchange …
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Adding Color To The White Paper: Time For A Robust Reciprocal Relationship Between Procedural Justice And Therapeutic Jurisprudence, David B. Wexler
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Judges Kevin Burke and Steve Leben, in Procedural Fairness: A Key Ingredient in Public Satisfaction, have produced a most impressive White Paper. It is handy, brief, crisp, readable, and immensely practical.
The document draws on, and makes most accessible, the research on procedural justice, demonstrating convincingly the importance of judges understanding and implementing in their courtrooms concepts such as “voice” and “respect.” Judges Burke and Leben claim procedural justice to be “the” critical element in public trust and confidence regarding the court system. They note, too, the role procedural fairness likely plays in increased compliance with court orders and even …
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Children And Procedural Justice, Victoria Weisz, Twila Wingrove, April Faith-Slaker
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Children And Procedural Justice, Victoria Weisz, Twila Wingrove, April Faith-Slaker
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
The American Judges Association’s White Paper that forms the centerpiece of this issue begins with the recognition that even first graders have an understanding of procedural fairness. Developmental research has indeed established that young children are able to evaluate the fairness of activities and that they have a more positive perception of activities they deem to be more fair. Until recently, however, there has been little concern in the U.S. regarding children’s experiences of legal processes and procedures. In fact, children were not generally expected or encouraged to directly participate in most legal processes, even those where they were a …
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Table Of Contents
Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Table Of Contents
Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association
Table of Contents:
Procedural Fairness: A Key Ingredient in Public Satisfaction by Kevin Burke and Steve Leben
Procedural Justice and the Courts By Tom R. Tyler
Procedural Fairness as a Court Reform Agenda by David B. Rottman
Children and Procedural Justice by Victoria Weisz, Twila Wingrove, and April Faith-Slaker
Procedural Fairness in the California Courts by Douglas Denton
The Perceptions of Self-Represented Tenants in a Community-Based Housing Court by Rashida Abuwala and Donald J. Farole
Decision Makers and Decision Recipients: Understanding Disparities in the Meaning of Fairness by Diane Sivasubramaniam and Larry Heuer
Fair Procedures, Yes. But We Dare Not …