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Judicial Notice: An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding, E.F. Robert Oct 1986

Judicial Notice: An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding, E.F. Robert

Washington Law Review

Articles limning the law pertaining to judicial notice are legion, and the footnotes which have been cite checked by generations of law review editors must number in the thousands. These articles assume that reason, properly employed, produces correct answers. They assume that disagreements can be resolved by reason, because it is self-evident that any problem, once identified, can be solved. Reflected here are the presuppositions of lawyers brought up in the Western legal tradition. What if one were to doubt that reason necessarily governed the behavior of lawyers? What if one doubted as well that all problems were susceptible to …

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Comments On Carlson's Comments, John L. Hanks Oct 1986

Comments On Carlson's Comments, John L. Hanks

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Controversy Concerning The Sotheby Sale, J. David Bleich Oct 1986

The Controversy Concerning The Sotheby Sale, J. David Bleich

Cardozo Law Review

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Social Science "Theory" And The Legal Decision-Making Process: A Response To Professor Keith 0. Hawkins, Emory Kimbrough, Jr. Sep 1986

Social Science "Theory" And The Legal Decision-Making Process: A Response To Professor Keith 0. Hawkins, Emory Kimbrough, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Social Reality And Social Organization Of Natural Decision-Making, Peter K. Manning Sep 1986

The Social Reality And Social Organization Of Natural Decision-Making, Peter K. Manning

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Interpretive Method In The Study Of Legal Decision-Making, John M. Thomas Sep 1986

The Interpretive Method In The Study Of Legal Decision-Making, John M. Thomas

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Idea Of The "Private": A Discussion Of Stateaction Doctrine And Separate Sphere Ideology, Hester Lessard Sep 1986

The Idea Of The "Private": A Discussion Of Stateaction Doctrine And Separate Sphere Ideology, Hester Lessard

Dalhousie Law Journal

This essay is a discussion of the formalization in law of a dichotomy between a natural, private order on the one hand, and a public sphere of state action and citizenship on the other. The discussion takes place in the context of equality rights and of the philosophical tensions that underlie the delineation of rights in general. Two legal phenomena are examined: state action doctrine as it has developed in American equal protection jurisprudence under the Fourteenth Amendment and separate sphere ideology as a rationalization for sexual discrimination. Under each doctrine, judicial denial of relief is predicated on a pre-ordained …

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Almost An Age Of Justice, Steve Gey Jul 1986

Almost An Age Of Justice, Steve Gey

Florida State University Law Review

THE UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS OF THE WARREN COURT. By Bernard Schwartz. New York: Oxford University Press. 1985. Pp. 470 . $29.95

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Natural Law And Natural Laws, David F. Forte Jul 1986

Natural Law And Natural Laws, David F. Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Modern science has developed the notion of "natural laws" to describe the apparent sequential patterns of the most complex parts of the physical world. But it cannot tell us what we ought to do about arms production, or human sexuality or abortion or race, or death. Non-teleological science can no more tell us that nuclear fusion is immoral than it can tell us what is the natural purpose of the solar system. Natural Law, however, can tell us what ought to be done in light of the nature of law. If indeed the nature of law is that it is …

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Text Into Theory: A Literary Approach To The Constitution, Richard H. Weisberg Jul 1986

Text Into Theory: A Literary Approach To The Constitution, Richard H. Weisberg

Articles

The article explores the evolving dialogue between legal scholars and literary theorists, particularly focusing on how judicial opinions can be viewed as narrative fictions. It challenges traditional notions of textual autonomy in legal interpretation, suggesting that meaning is not fixed but is shaped by subjective readings. The analysis critiques the dichotomy between interpretivism and noninterpretivism, arguing that both approaches are inherently subjective. Drawing on historical and structural interpretations of the Constitution, the article advocates for a balanced approach that considers both textual integrity and communal values, emphasizing that constitutional truths are embedded within societal ideas rather than being strictly majoritarian …

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Up From Feudalism: Harold Berman On The Canonical Origins Of Western Law (Review Of Berman: Law And Revolution: The Formation Of The Western Legal Tradition. Reviewed By Richard E. Rubenstein, Richard E. Rubenstein Jun 1986

Up From Feudalism: Harold Berman On The Canonical Origins Of Western Law (Review Of Berman: Law And Revolution: The Formation Of The Western Legal Tradition. Reviewed By Richard E. Rubenstein, Richard E. Rubenstein

Antioch Law Journal

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Summary Judgment, Motions To Dismiss, And Other Examples Of Equilibrating Tendencies In The Antitrust System, Stephen Calkins Apr 1986

Summary Judgment, Motions To Dismiss, And Other Examples Of Equilibrating Tendencies In The Antitrust System, Stephen Calkins

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Jurisprudence: A Descriptive And Normative Analysis Of Law, Christopher P. Portman Apr 1986

Jurisprudence: A Descriptive And Normative Analysis Of Law, Christopher P. Portman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Jurisprudence: A Descriptive and Normative Analysis of Law by Anthony D'Amato

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A Heresy In The Ordinary Religion: Jurisprudence In The First Year Curriculum, Thomas P. Huff Mar 1986

A Heresy In The Ordinary Religion: Jurisprudence In The First Year Curriculum, Thomas P. Huff

Journal of Legal Education

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The Moral Dilemma Of Positivism, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1986

The Moral Dilemma Of Positivism, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

I think there has been an advance in positivist thinking, and that advance consists of the recognition by MacCormick, a positivist, that positivism needs to be justified morally (and not just as an apparent scientific and objective fact about legal systems). But the justification that is required cannot consist in labelling "sovereignty of conscience" as a moral principle, nor in compounding the confusion by claiming that positivism minimally and hence necessarily promotes sovereignty of conscience. We need, from the positivists, a more logical and coherent argument than that. Until one comes along, I continue to believe that positivists inherently have …

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Kennan And Human Rights, Gordon A. Christenson Jan 1986

Kennan And Human Rights, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This essay seeks understanding of his view of normative thinking in foreign policy, whether moral or legal, and the implications from the perspective of human rights in an unfriendly world. It criticizes his conceptual presuppositions to gain clarity, posing paradoxes and dilemmas regarding their normative quality within the present structure of international relations.

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The Ninth Amendment: Source Of A Substantive Right To Privacy, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 959 (1986), Gerald G. Watson Jan 1986

The Ninth Amendment: Source Of A Substantive Right To Privacy, 19 J. Marshall L. Rev. 959 (1986), Gerald G. Watson

UIC Law Review

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Law's Halo, Donald H. Regan Jan 1986

Law's Halo, Donald H. Regan

Articles

Like many people these days, I believe there is no general moral obligation to obey the law. I shall explain why there is no such moral obligation - and I shall clarify what I mean when I say there is no moral obligation to obey the law - as we proceed. But also like many people, I am unhappy with a position that would say there was no moral obligation to obey the law and then say no more about the law's moral significance. In our thinking about law in a reasonably just society, we have a strong inclination to …

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Ownership Of Developed Water: A Property Right Threatened., Frank R. Booth Jan 1986

Ownership Of Developed Water: A Property Right Threatened., Frank R. Booth

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

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The Historical Background Of Texas Water Law - A Tribute To Jack Pope., Hans W. Baade Jan 1986

The Historical Background Of Texas Water Law - A Tribute To Jack Pope., Hans W. Baade

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

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Article 38.071 Of The Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure: A Legislative Response To The Needs Of Children In The Courtroom Comment., Beth Mcallister Jan 1986

Article 38.071 Of The Texas Code Of Criminal Procedure: A Legislative Response To The Needs Of Children In The Courtroom Comment., Beth Mcallister

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

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Protecting The Record For Appeal: A Reference Guide In Texas Civil Cases., David E. Keltner, Melinda R. Burke Jan 1986

Protecting The Record For Appeal: A Reference Guide In Texas Civil Cases., David E. Keltner, Melinda R. Burke

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

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Take-Or-Pay Provisions: Major Problems For The Natural Gas Industry Comment., David L. Roland Jan 1986

Take-Or-Pay Provisions: Major Problems For The Natural Gas Industry Comment., David L. Roland

St. Mary's Law Journal

A prompt solution to the take-or-pay problem is vital to the survival of the natural gas industry. Due to the increasingly turbulent and unpredictable natural gas market, most natural gas producers include a take-or-pay provision in their gas purchase contracts. Take-or-pay provisions require a pipeline company to either take an amount of natural gas from the producer or the company must pay for the specified amount. The market, however, has changed and the demand for natural gas declined. The demand can be partly attributed to the energy crisis of a decade ago. As a result of the crisis, consumers are …

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The Law/Politics Distinction, The French Conseil Constitutionnel, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Michael H. Davis Jan 1986

The Law/Politics Distinction, The French Conseil Constitutionnel, And The U.S. Supreme Court, Michael H. Davis

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

A dispute burns across the landscape of French constitutional law regarding the juridical nature of the French constitutional "Supreme Court", the Conseil constitutionnel: is it a court? Both French and American scholars have claimed that, despite superficial similarities between the U.S. Supreme Court and the French Conseil constitutionnel, the American system of judicial review "can have no counterpart in the French system", that French legal and political theory is inconstistent with an effective supreme court, that there is "no possibility" that the French and American systems could surmount this "major difference", and that the Conseil is simply not a "true …

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Constraints Of Power: The Constitutional Opinions Of Judges Scalia, Bork, Posner, Easterbrook, And Winter, James G. Wilson Jan 1986

Constraints Of Power: The Constitutional Opinions Of Judges Scalia, Bork, Posner, Easterbrook, And Winter, James G. Wilson

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This article completes a two-part series studying the constitutional jurisprudence of Judges Antonin Scalia, Richard Posner, Robert Bork, Frank Easterbrook, and Ralph Winter Jr., five conservative academics appointed by President Reagan to the United States Court of Appeals. Judge Scalia has recently been appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. In a previous article, published in the last issue of the University of Miami Law Review, I evaluated these five jurists' constitutional scholarship by contrasting their views with those of Edmund Burke, the originator of political conservative theory. That article tested Burke's wariness of political abstractions and his …

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The Changing Course: The Use Of Precedent In The District Of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald Jan 1986

The Changing Course: The Use Of Precedent In The District Of Columbia Circuit, Patricia M. Wald

Cleveland State Law Review

An article by my colleague Judge Edwards uses a series of computer runs from the court's 1983 term to make out a statistical case that our members mostly agree with each other and do not fall into predictable "conservative," “liberal," or even "moderate," voting blocs; labels that the press so dearly loves to pin on us. I agree that our votes in a large number of cases, particularly administrative law cases, do not so easily typecast us. I do, however, think that in the high visibility cases, involving controversial social or "moral" issues, our differences in judicial philosophy, on the …

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Mini In Banc Proceedings: A Survey Of Circuit Practices, Steven Bennett, Christine Pembroke Jan 1986

Mini In Banc Proceedings: A Survey Of Circuit Practices, Steven Bennett, Christine Pembroke

Cleveland State Law Review

In banc review was originally intended to resolve conflicts in circuit precedent. Full-scale in banc proceedings, however, are cumbersome, costly and time-consuming. In determining whether to proceed with in banc review, courts appear to weigh the costs of in banc review against its potential benefits. Employing this calculus, courts often forgo in banc review in conflict cases that would otherwise receive such treatment. One solution to this problem is to reduce the cost and delay of in banc proceedings by streamlining the procedure. Recently, several federal circuit courts of appeals have adopted abbreviated forms of in banc review. The purpose …

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Intergenerational Condemnation, Donald H. Gjerdingen Jan 1986

Intergenerational Condemnation, Donald H. Gjerdingen

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Justice between generations is a growing concern in land use, particularly in the areas of environmental and historic preservation. In this Article, Professor Gerdingen addresses the effect of this development on contemporary takings clause doctrine. He argues that conventional takings doctrine is comprised of four different "causes of action" that merely focus on intragenerational conflicts over the use of resources. As a result, part of the reason why the law generates so many hard cases in the area of environmental and historic preservation is that the conventional takings doctrine is unable to accommodate the justice between generations component of preservation …

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What A Sensible Natural Lawyer And A Sensible Utilitarian Agree About And Disagree About: Comments On Finnis, Donald H. Regan Jan 1986

What A Sensible Natural Lawyer And A Sensible Utilitarian Agree About And Disagree About: Comments On Finnis, Donald H. Regan

Articles

Before I start, let me say two things. First of all, to the extent that John Finnis is entering a plea for more attention to what is a relatively neglected tradition (in the narrow his message a hundred percent. And you courd learning about the natural law tradition than by reading his book, Natural Law and Natural Rights. My second introductory observation is that Finnis and I agree about many more things than you might expect if you just think of him as a natural law theorist and me as a utilitarian. I am very eccentric as a utilitarian. He …

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Alternative Methodologies In Contemporary Jurisprudence: Comments On Dworkin, Philip E. Soper Jan 1986

Alternative Methodologies In Contemporary Jurisprudence: Comments On Dworkin, Philip E. Soper

Articles

I have two brief points to make. Both involve recent developments in jurisprudence, by which I mean by and large the subject that Ronald Dworkin has just been discussing. Indeed, the first point is little more than an acknowledgement of the debt that is owed to Dworkin, not only for his specific contributions to this field, but for the implications of his work for law teaching generally.

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