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Wild Dreamers: Meditations On The Admissibiity Of Dream Talk, Louise Harmon
Wild Dreamers: Meditations On The Admissibiity Of Dream Talk, Louise Harmon
Washington Law Review
This article presents a mosaic of interrelated meditations on how judges have dealt with the admissibility of dream talk, interspersed with short digressions on the meaning of dreams from a variety of historical and cultural perspectives. In Part I, I begin with theories about dreams from Aristotle, Hobbes, and others. I then tell the story of O.J. Simpson, wild dreamer extraordinaire, interrupted by a Freudian interlude and a speculation about the theories that the jurors may have silently applied to Simpson's dreams of killing his wife. In Part II, I present three wild dreamers from family court: a husband who …
The End Of Technology: A Polemic, Louis E. Wolcher
The End Of Technology: A Polemic, Louis E. Wolcher
Washington Law Review
This essay is a philosophical polemic against the essence of modern technology. The piece does not advance a Luddite's agenda, however, since it describes modern technology's essence as technological thinking, rather than as the manifold of technical instruments and processes. Technological thinking is not just careful planning towards well thought-out ends. Rather, it is an entire orientation to life, and as such it is a monstrosity: it relentlessly and heartlessly transforms the world's beings, including human beings, into measurable units of production and consumption that are constantly being judged for their contributions to "productivity." Nature is thus made into a …
Towards A Theory Of Legitimate Access: Morally Legitimate Authority And The Right Of Citizens To Access The Civil Justice System, Kenneth Einar Himma
Towards A Theory Of Legitimate Access: Morally Legitimate Authority And The Right Of Citizens To Access The Civil Justice System, Kenneth Einar Himma
Washington Law Review
This Article considers the issue of what the state is morally obligated to provide by way of citizen access to the civil justice system. It begins by describing the general problem of morally legitimate authority and how it bears on the problem of access to the civil justice system. It then identifies three different approaches to the general problem of morally legitimate authority and argues that none of these approaches warrants thinking that the state is morally obligated to provide each citizen with perfectly equal access to the civil justice system. The argument concludes that the three approaches to legitimacy …