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The Collateral Consequences Of A Criminal Conviction, Thomas R. Mccoy
The Collateral Consequences Of A Criminal Conviction, Thomas R. Mccoy
Vanderbilt Law Review
As a general matter [civil disability law] has simply not been rationally designed to accommodate the varied interests of society and the individual convicted person. There has been little effort to evaluate the whole system of disabilities and disqualifications that has grown up. ...As a result, convicted persons are generally subjected to numerous disabilities and disqualifications which have little relation to the crime committed, the person committing it or,consequently, the protection of society. They are often harsh out of all proportion to the crime committed.
Book Reviews, Maurice H. Merrill, Tom C. Clark, Anthony Platt
Book Reviews, Maurice H. Merrill, Tom C. Clark, Anthony Platt
Vanderbilt Law Review
Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry
By Kenneth Culp Davis Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1969. Pp. xii,233. $8.50
reviewer: Maurice H. Merrill
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Gambling and Organized Crime
By Rufus King Washington:Public Affairs Press, 1969. Pp. viii, 239. $6.00
reviewer: Tom C. Clark
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The Throwaway Children
By Lisa Aversa Richette New York:J.B. Lippincott, 1969. Pp. x, 342. $6.95
reviewer: Anthony Platt
The Lawyer's Response To The Demand For Both Stability And Change Through Law, Orison S. Marden
The Lawyer's Response To The Demand For Both Stability And Change Through Law, Orison S. Marden
Vanderbilt Law Review
We need not worry about the lawyer's response to the need for stability in the law. The average lawyer is a conservative chap who does not favor change unless the need for it has been proved to the hilt.Nor need we tender full apologies for this hardheaded attitude, for,as Judge Cardozo once said, "certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly to be sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct upon the faith of the pronouncement." At times, however, we have allowed these considerations, important as they are, to outweigh even more compelling reasons for …