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The Ballad Of Hicks Carmichael: Law, Music, And Popular Justice In Urban Appalachia, William Davenport Mercer
The Ballad Of Hicks Carmichael: Law, Music, And Popular Justice In Urban Appalachia, William Davenport Mercer
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This article examines a rare folk ballad to revisit an 1888 Tennessee trial that newspapers referred to as the fastest in the country in which the death penalty was involved. If we look at this event using court records and newspapers, it tells a regrettably common story of a court under pressure from the populace skirting the protections of law. However, if we consider the trial as a performative endeavor, we can rightly consider other performative events, like folk songs, not as reflective of official events but as equivalents that help provide insight into the larger motives behind the court’s …
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law, Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
Symposium: Bob Dylan And The Law, Foreword, Samuel J. Levine
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Lord Of The Flies: The Development Of Rules Within An Adolescent Culture, Nancy B. Rapoport
Lord Of The Flies: The Development Of Rules Within An Adolescent Culture, Nancy B. Rapoport
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This essay, included in the book SCREENING JUSTICE--THE CINEMA OF LAW: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice (Rennard Strickland, Teree E. Foster & Tauyna Lovell Banks, eds., William S. Hein & Co. 2006), discusses the development of the law in Goldman's Lord of the Flies and raises the question of whether an island populated by a mix of boys and girls - or an island populated by only girls - would have developed a different law.
Toward A New Student Insurgency: A Critical Epistolary, Rachel J. Anderson, Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, Stephen Lee
Toward A New Student Insurgency: A Critical Epistolary, Rachel J. Anderson, Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez, Stephen Lee
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Taking the form of an epistolary (a collection of letters), this law review article explores the relationship between law and social change in the context of student activism at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law formerly Boalt). The author’s contribution to this essay examines the simultaneously linear and circular history of social justice activism at Berkeley Law and discusses the relationship between social crises and resurging waves of activism, focusing on student activism in the sphere of legal scholarship.
Society's Choice And Legal Change, Alan Watson
Society's Choice And Legal Change, Alan Watson
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This Article is one of a continuing series of writings by the author on both the connection between a society and the legal rules and institutions that operate within it and on the forces that control legal change. My aim is to express more clearly than I have previously the role of lawyers and the legal tradition in changing the law, and the implications of this role for social choice theory in the realm of law.