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Cyber Mobs, Disinformation, And Death Videos: The Internet As It Is (And As It Should Be), Danielle Keats Citron May 2020

Cyber Mobs, Disinformation, And Death Videos: The Internet As It Is (And As It Should Be), Danielle Keats Citron

Michigan Law Review

Review of Nick Drnaso's Sabrina.


Stark Karst, Richard Delgado May 1995

Stark Karst, Richard Delgado

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law's Promise, Law's Expression: Visions of Power in the Politics of Race, Gender, and Religion by Kenneth L. Karst


On Humiliation, Jeremy Waldron May 1995

On Humiliation, Jeremy Waldron

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Humiliation, and Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence by William Ian Miller


The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, And Culture, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr. Aug 1994

The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, And Culture, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.

Michigan Law Review

This chronicle is in tribute to the work of Derrick Bell, past, present, and future. I have borrowed his character Geneva Crenshaw as part of that tribute, and I hope she helps me raise some of the issues that he has taught us are important.

All characters in this chronicle are fictional, including Professor Culp and Professor Bell. Any relationship they may have to the real Professor Bell and Professor Culp is dictated by the requirements of creativity and the extent to which reality and fiction necessarily merge. I know that the real Derrick Bell is wiser than the one …


Shame, Culture, And American Criminal Law, Toni M. Massaro Jun 1991

Shame, Culture, And American Criminal Law, Toni M. Massaro

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this Article is to analyze whether this link is one that American criminal court judges can, or should, exploit. I begin with a description of the new shaming sanctions and the possible justifications for this type of penalty. I then identify both psychological and anthropological aspects of the phenomenon of shame, or "losing face." I describe several cultures in which shaming practices are, or were, significant means of sanctioning behavior, and outline the shared features of these cultures.

These psychological and anthropological materials, taken together, suggest that shaming practices are most effective and meaningful when five conditions …


Harmony, Law, And Anthropology, Daniel H. Levine May 1991

Harmony, Law, And Anthropology, Daniel H. Levine

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village by Laura Nader


The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls Of Today's Students, Maureen P. Taylor May 1988

The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls Of Today's Students, Maureen P. Taylor

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students/em by Allan Bloom


The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer May 1987

The Very Idea Of "Law And Literature", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Failure of the Word: The Protagonist as Lawyer in Modern Fiction by Richard Weisberg


Suing The Press: Libel, The Media, And Power, Michael L. Chidester May 1987

Suing The Press: Libel, The Media, And Power, Michael L. Chidester

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Suing the Press: Libel, the Media, and Power by Rodney A. Smolla


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


Turning Away From Law?, David M. Trubek Feb 1984

Turning Away From Law?, David M. Trubek

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Politics of Informal Justice, Volume 1: The American Experience; Volume 2: Comparative Studies by Richard L. Abel and Justice Without Law? by Jerold S. Auerbach


Where Two Worlds Meet: A Time For Reassessment In The Anthropology Of Law, Simon Roberts Mar 1981

Where Two Worlds Meet: A Time For Reassessment In The Anthropology Of Law, Simon Roberts

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Disputes and Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by P.H. Gulliver, and The Disputing Process--Law In ten Societies edited by Laura Nader and Harry F. Todd Jr., and The Imposition of Law edited by Sandra B. Burman and Barbara E. Harrell-Bond


Organizing The Ethnography Of Negotiations, William L.F. Felstiner Mar 1981

Organizing The Ethnography Of Negotiations, William L.F. Felstiner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Disputes and Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by P.H. Gulliver


The Law As A Path To The World, Francis A. Allen Dec 1978

The Law As A Path To The World, Francis A. Allen

Michigan Law Review

Many years ago the late Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes observed: "The law is a small subject (though ... it leads to all things) .... " The comments that follow are an elaboration of Justice Holmes's theme. It will be asserted that one characteristic of legal studies, properly pursued, is that they lead to a fuller understanding of the larger world of which the law and its institutions are a part. Because the law leads to a larger world of persons, events, and ideas, it claims the attention even of those possessing no interest in acquiring professional legal skills. This …


Reich: The Greening Of American And Skinner: Beyond Freedom And Dignity, Donald H.J. Hermann Dec 1971

Reich: The Greening Of American And Skinner: Beyond Freedom And Dignity, Donald H.J. Hermann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Greening of American by Charles A. Reich and Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner