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Moral Discourse And Family Law, Lee E. Teitelbaum Dec 1985

Moral Discourse And Family Law, Lee E. Teitelbaum

Michigan Law Review

It seems appropriate in the early stages of an experiment in legal publishing to say something about it, if only because few forms have been as resistant to innovation as the law review. The creation of a section for correspondence regarding recent articles provides a medium for conducting just the national discourse which scholarship aspires to provoke and which does occur in private conversations or letters and, occasionally, in panels at professional meetings. To talk in print about a colleague's work - to praise it, qualify it, pursue suggested or alternate lines of thought - is not only an enjoyable …


Moral Discourse And The Transformation Of American Family Law, Carl E. Schneider Aug 1985

Moral Discourse And The Transformation Of American Family Law, Carl E. Schneider

Michigan Law Review

Family law has undergone momentous change in recent decades. In this Article, Professor Schneider proposes that the transformation in family law can be understood as a diminution in the law's discourse in moral terms about the relations between family members and as a transfer of moral decisions from the law to the people the law once regulated. Professor Schneider identifies countertrends and limits to the changes he describes, and then investigates the reasons for the changes. He hypothesizes that four forces helped change family law and moral discourse within family law: the legal tradition of noninterference in family affairs; the …


Two New Books On Guns, Franklin E. Zimring Feb 1985

Two New Books On Guns, Franklin E. Zimring

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Under The Gun: Weapons, Crime and Violence in America by James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi and Kathleen Daly and Firearms and Violence: Issues of Public Policy edited by Don B. Kates, Jr.


Dimensions Of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Dimensions Of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Dimensions of Tolerance: What Americans Believe About Civil Liberties by Herbert McClosky and Alida Brill


Worlds Beyond Theory: Toward The Expression Of An Integrative Ethic For Self And Culture, Peter Read Teachout Feb 1985

Worlds Beyond Theory: Toward The Expression Of An Integrative Ethic For Self And Culture, Peter Read Teachout

Michigan Law Review

A Review of When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community by James Boyd White


Just And Painful: A Case For The Corporal Punishment Of Criminals, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Just And Painful: A Case For The Corporal Punishment Of Criminals, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals by Graeme Newman


Our Endangered Rights: The Aclu Report On Civil Liberties Today, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Our Endangered Rights: The Aclu Report On Civil Liberties Today, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Our Endangered Rights: The ACLU Report on Civil Liberties Today by Norman Dorsen


Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki Feb 1985

Capital Punishment: For Or Against, Jan Gorecki

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Death Penalty -- A Debate by Ernest van den Haag and John Conrad


Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Black Police, White Society, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Black Police, White Society by Stephen Leinen


The Heroin Solution, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

The Heroin Solution, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Heroin Solution by Arnold S. Trebach


Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg Feb 1985

Understanding The Jury With The Help Of Social Science, Stephen Saltzburg

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Inside the Jury by Reid Hastie, Steven Penrod and Nancy Pennington


Lawyers And Lawmaking, Frederick Schauer Feb 1985

Lawyers And Lawmaking, Frederick Schauer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Reconstructing American Law by Bruce A. Ackerman


Money And Justice: Who Owns The Courts?, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Money And Justice: Who Owns The Courts?, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Money and Justice: Who Owns the Courts? by Lois G. Forer