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Lessons Of Watergate, Roger C. Cramton Jan 1975

Lessons Of Watergate, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Why, Where And How Of Broadened Public Participation In The Administrative Process, Roger C. Cramton Feb 1972

The Why, Where And How Of Broadened Public Participation In The Administrative Process, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The actions of federal administrative agencies – rules, orders, licenses, loans, grants, contracts, and the like – have enormous effects on individuals and groups. Yet affected persons and groups are not always accorded the opportunity to participate in decision making procedures that affect them. Mr. Cramton argues that broadened public participation will improve administrative decisions and give them greater legitimacy and acceptance. After discussing the types of proceedings in which public participation is desirable and the limitations that should be placed upon it, Mr. Cramton evaluates various proposals for assuring the desired degree of public participation.

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The Technique Element In Law, Robert S. Summers May 1971

The Technique Element In Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Driver Behavior And Legal Sanctions: A Study Of Deterrence, Roger C. Cramton Jan 1969

Driver Behavior And Legal Sanctions: A Study Of Deterrence, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

What are the consequences of the application of legal sanctions? How can these consequences be determined? This Article attempts to explore these questions in the limited field of highway safety, examining the available evidence and indicating areas where further investigation is essential. Although conclusions with respect to the general deterrent effect of traffic laws do not emerge, the parameters of the problem are defined and plausible hypotheses suggested.

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The Problem Of The Drinking Driver, Roger C. Cramton Oct 1968

The Problem Of The Drinking Driver, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Everyone talks about the drinking driver, and everyone thinks he knows what to do about him. But, Professor Cramton says, the scientifically reliable knowledge we now are acquiring indicates that our legal approaches of deterrence and punishment fail to strike at the heart of the problem and are ineffective. He offers some suggestions for a new course.

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From Common Law Logic-Chopper To Land-Use Planner: Eulogy For The Lawyer As Social Engineer, E. F. Roberts Jul 1968

From Common Law Logic-Chopper To Land-Use Planner: Eulogy For The Lawyer As Social Engineer, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Natural Law Demythologized: A Functional Theory Of Norms For A Revolutionary Epoch, E. F. Roberts Jan 1966

Natural Law Demythologized: A Functional Theory Of Norms For A Revolutionary Epoch, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Jurisprudence can afford us some insight into whether a particular system is functioning effectively. To do this jurisprudes must extrapolate the aims of the society and then evaluate how effectively its legal system functions to structure social activity so that those aims are realized in an orderly fashion. Jurisprudence is seen, therefore, to be a form of time and motion study on a grand scale. Judgments about the ultimate worth of a given society’s aims are excluded from jurisprudence, however, on the ground that such emotionally charged and ethically relative conclusions cannot be proved by any empirically verifiable scale of …

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Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers Oct 1963