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Paradoxes In Law Enforcement, E. F. Roberts Aug 1961

Paradoxes In Law Enforcement, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Law And Literature: The Contemporary Image Of The Lawyer, Henry B. Cushing, E. F. Roberts Jul 1961

Law And Literature: The Contemporary Image Of The Lawyer, Henry B. Cushing, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Moment Of Truth: Probability Theory And Standards Of Proof, V. C. Ball Jun 1961

The Moment Of Truth: Probability Theory And Standards Of Proof, V. C. Ball

Vanderbilt Law Review

Specialists in all the fields involved agree that the process of proof and persuasion in judicial proceedings presents problems in the application of probability theory and communication theory. When the broader term "information" is used, the problems coalesce, both in judicial trials and in other human affairs. In jury trials, one focus of this coalescence is the formulation for the jury of issues of fact to be decided by them, and their progress to verdict or disagreement.

Although Cicero asserted that probability is the very guide of life,and Thomas Jefferson thought mathematical reasoning and deductions were a fine preparation for …


International Commission Of Jurists: The Rule Of Law In A Free Society: A Report On The International Congress Of Jurists, William B. Harvey Jun 1961

International Commission Of Jurists: The Rule Of Law In A Free Society: A Report On The International Congress Of Jurists, William B. Harvey

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Rule of Law in a Free Society: a Report on the International Congress of Jurists. Geneva, Switzerland: International Commission of Jurists, 1960.


Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Racial Discrimination And The Role Of The State, William C. Griffith S.Ed. May 1961

Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Racial Discrimination And The Role Of The State, William C. Griffith S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Constitutional history from the 1857 Dred Scott decision to the 1954 Brown decision records "a movement from status to contract" for the American Negro. Although uncertainty clouds the definition of "state action," the civil rights of the Negro under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment have been clearly established. The Negro citizen has arrived; the Negro minority group remains one of the gravest social problems of twentieth century America. De facto school segregation, limited economic opportunity, and inadequate housing are problems not solved by invocation of the fourteenth amendment or incantation of the Declaration of Independence. Solution, …


The Need To Know The Truth About Communism, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Mar 1961

The Need To Know The Truth About Communism, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Speeches

Notes for lecture to Senior Government Classes, George Wythe High School, Richmond, Virginia


Program From The Thirteenth Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 1961

Program From The Thirteenth Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, University Of Michigan Law School

Cooley Lecture Materials

The program from the thirteenth Thomas M. Cooley lectures, held October 18-25, 1961, at the University of Michigan Law School. The lecture series was "Towards Administrative Justice" by H. W. R. Wade.


Program From The Tenth William W. Cook Lectures, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 1961

Program From The Tenth William W. Cook Lectures, University Of Michigan Law School

Cook Lecture Materials

The program from the tenth William W. Cook lectures, held March 6-10, 1961, at the University of Michigan. The lecture series was "The Metropolitan Problem & American Governmental Ideas" by Luther Gulick.


The Sociological Jurisprudence Of Roscoe Pound (Part I), James A. Gardner Jan 1961

The Sociological Jurisprudence Of Roscoe Pound (Part I), James A. Gardner

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


De Facto Public School Segregation, Will Maslow Jan 1961

De Facto Public School Segregation, Will Maslow

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Sociological Jurisprudence Of Roscoe Pound (Part Ii), James A. Gardner Jan 1961

The Sociological Jurisprudence Of Roscoe Pound (Part Ii), James A. Gardner

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.