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Full-Text Articles in Law
Burning Down The House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted By Delusion And Greed (Book Review), Julie Tedjeske Crane
Burning Down The House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted By Delusion And Greed (Book Review), Julie Tedjeske Crane
Faculty Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Franklin L. Runge
Keeping Up With New Legal Titles, Franklin L. Runge
Library Scholarship
This review examines Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, a new book by Alec Karakatsanis.
De-Democratizing Criminal Law, Benjamin Levin
So You Want To Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo, Nicole P. Dyszlewski
So You Want To Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo, Nicole P. Dyszlewski
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Daniel Amsterdam's Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign For A Civic Welfare State, Laura Phillips Sawyer
Daniel Amsterdam's Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen's Campaign For A Civic Welfare State, Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholarly Works
Daniel Amsterdam’s Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State challenges the conventional narrative of early twentieth-century American businessmen as promoting laissezfaire or antistatist politics. Instead, as Amsterdam argues, elite business leaders campaigned vigorously for greater municipal spending on civic welfare projects, which included building and improving public schools, public health infrastructure, parks and playgrounds, libraries, and museums. Rather than focus on national-level business in- government, his narrative traverses multiple cities (Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta) to demonstrate both the diversity of political challenges and institutional constraints that civic-minded reformers faced as well as the striking convergence of civic welfare …
Narratives Of Self Government In Making The Case, Benjamin Berger
Narratives Of Self Government In Making The Case, Benjamin Berger
Articles & Book Chapters
This is a book about persuasion. In Making the Case: The Art of the Judicial Opinion, Paul Kahn draws the judicial opinion into the centre of our field of vision and invites us to join him in inquiring into the role that it plays shaping our legal and political communities, and in seeking to understand how it does its work. Ultimately, he shows that persuasion is at the heart of the judicial opinion and, with that, at the heart of the rule of law.
Pressing Charges, Zohra Ahmed
Pressing Charges, Zohra Ahmed
Scholarly Works
There is a prosecutor in Manhattan Criminal Court who wears a Black Lives Matter button on the job. One day, a group of public defenders, myself included, found him alone in a courtroom where only quality of life offenses are heard, authorizing plea bargains more lenient than the standard recommendations of the New York County District Attorney’s office: reducing fines, reducing community service, even avoiding convictions. The button seemed a puzzling appropriation for a prosecutor. At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2015, after all, public defenders had worn the same pins in court only to face …
Can John Coffee Rescue The Private Attorney General? Lessons From The Credit Card Wars, Myriam E. Gilles
Can John Coffee Rescue The Private Attorney General? Lessons From The Credit Card Wars, Myriam E. Gilles
Articles
Partisans on one side of the class action debates argue that the class device is a critical enforcement tool that increases much-needed access to justice. Combatants on the other side scoff that class actions are tools for shaking down corporations for settlement payments and attorneys’ fees in unmeritorious cases. In his most recent book, Entrepreneurial Litigation: Its Rise, Fall and Future, John C. Coffee puts both sides in their place, providing an account that, he aptly tells us, “has long been missing in the literature, in large part because academics writing in this area either have been so ideologically committed …
The Role Of The Courts In Creating Racial Identity In Early New Orleans, Jack M. Beermann
The Role Of The Courts In Creating Racial Identity In Early New Orleans, Jack M. Beermann
Faculty Scholarship
Reviewing Kenneth R. Aslakson, Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans (New York University Press 2014).
The racial history of New Orleans is unique among American cities, as is Louisiana's among the history of American states. In the antebellum period, there were more free people of color in New Orleans than in any other city in the South, and free people of color lived, and often prospered, throughout Louisiana. The presence of so many free people of color in New Orleans, and Louisiana more generally, arose from many factors, including the consequences …
Resistance Songs: Mobilizing The Law And Politics Of Community, Anthony V. Alfieri
Resistance Songs: Mobilizing The Law And Politics Of Community, Anthony V. Alfieri
Articles
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Paul D. Moreno's The American State From The Civil War To The New Deal: The Twilight Of Constitutionalism And The Triumph Of Progressivism, Laura Phillips Sawyer
Paul D. Moreno's The American State From The Civil War To The New Deal: The Twilight Of Constitutionalism And The Triumph Of Progressivism, Laura Phillips Sawyer
Scholarly Works
Paul Moreno, the Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History at Hillsdale College, sets out to explain how the natural rights constitutionalism of the Founders was replaced by an ‘entitlement-based welfare state of modern liberalism’ by the late 1930s. The book is an ‘analytic narrative’, drawing on both constitutional theory and current ‘public choice’ law and economics, and contributes to recent scholarship by libertarian-minded legal scholars, such as David Bernstein and David Mayer, among others.
Book Review Of Michelle Oberman’S And Cheryl L. Meyer’S “When Mothers Kill: Interviews From Prison”, Michael L. Perlin
Book Review Of Michelle Oberman’S And Cheryl L. Meyer’S “When Mothers Kill: Interviews From Prison”, Michael L. Perlin
Other Publications
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Depriving Law Reform Of Its Potential? New Perspectives On The Public-Private Divide Law Commission Of Canada, Ed. (Vancouver: University Of British Columbia Press, 2003), Richard Devlin Frsc
Depriving Law Reform Of Its Potential? New Perspectives On The Public-Private Divide Law Commission Of Canada, Ed. (Vancouver: University Of British Columbia Press, 2003), Richard Devlin Frsc
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
New Perspectives on the Public-Private Divide is the second installment in a new series, Legal Dimensions, sponsored by the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Canadian Council of Law Deans and the Law Commission of Canada. The ambitions of this series are large: to "examine various issues of law reform form a multidisciplinary perspective [and]... to advance our knowledge about law and society through the analysis of fundamental aspects of law."
The focus on the public-private divide is an excellent choice for the Legal Dimensions Series for no matter how one conceptualizes the relationship, …
Aliens In Our Midst Post-9/11: Legislating Outsider-Ness Within The Borders, Sylvia R. Lazos, Raquel E. Aldana
Aliens In Our Midst Post-9/11: Legislating Outsider-Ness Within The Borders, Sylvia R. Lazos, Raquel E. Aldana
Scholarly Works
Three recent books written by Professors Bill Ong Hing, Kevin R. Johnson, and Victor C. Romero provide skillfully crafted roadmaps with which to understand the key emerging issues that will shape immigration law well into the next decade: the relationship of immigration control to national security. This Review captures the insights provided by these three authors to examine the restrictive laws and policies aimed at noncitizens in the name of national security as highlighted by the current efforts to federalize driver’s licenses. As this Review explains, these three books map the current antagonistic attitudes towards noncitizens post 9/11, and serve …
Book Review: Bachrach And Turner, Sugar’S Life In The Hood: A Story Of A Former Welfare Mother, Frank W. Munger
Book Review: Bachrach And Turner, Sugar’S Life In The Hood: A Story Of A Former Welfare Mother, Frank W. Munger
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
"A Fascination Without Scruples": American Popular Culture And Its Corrosive Impact On The Law (Reviewing Richard K. Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law And Popular Culture (2000))., Robert F. Blomquist
Law Faculty Publications
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The Reading Wars: Understanding The Debate Over How Best To Teach Children To Read, Kenneth Anderson
The Reading Wars: Understanding The Debate Over How Best To Teach Children To Read, Kenneth Anderson
Book Reviews
Review essay on National Reading Panel, Teaching Children to Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction; G. Coles, Reading Lessons: The Debate Over Literacy; G. Coles, Misreading Reading: The Bad Science That Hurts Children; M. Stout, The Feel-Good Curriculum: The Dumbing Down of America's Kids in the Name of Self-Esteem; D. McGuinness, Why Our Children Can't Read and What We Can Do About It. What is it about teaching reading that arouses such passions in Americans? Shall we have phonics or whole language or both? Why this debate should be …
Critical Race Theory And Autobiography: Can A Popular Genre Make A Serious Academic Contribution?, Sylvia R. Lazos
Critical Race Theory And Autobiography: Can A Popular Genre Make A Serious Academic Contribution?, Sylvia R. Lazos
Scholarly Works
This Essay reviews “Notes of a Racial Caste Baby, Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action” by Bryan K. Fair, “How Did You Get to Be a Mexican? a White/Brown Man's Search for Identity” by Kevin R. Johnson, and “To be an American: Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation” by Bill Ong Hing. This Essay examines the potential contributions each book makes to legal scholarship and the popular press. The Essay first describes how each author uses the autobiographical narrative and what these narratives accomplish. The Essay examines each book's legal agenda and assesses how well each author achieves …
Calling To Account, Stephen Ellmann
Liberalism And Abortion, Robin West
Liberalism And Abortion, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
First in a groundbreaking book, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent, published in 1996, then in various public fora, from academic conference panels to Christian radio call-in shows, and now in a major law review article entitled My Body, My Consent: Securing the Constitutional Right to Abortion Funding, Eileen McDonagh has sought to redefine drastically our understanding of the still deeply contested right to an abortion, and hence, of the nature of the constitutional protections which in her view this embattled right deserves. Her argument is complicated and subtle, but its basic thrust can be readily …
The Zealous Advocacy Of Justice In A Less Than Ideal Legal World, Robin West
The Zealous Advocacy Of Justice In A Less Than Ideal Legal World, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In The Practice of Justice, William Simon addresses a widely recognized dilemma -- the moral degradation of the legal profession that seems to be the unpleasant by-product of an adversarial system of resolving disputes -- with a bold claim: Lawyers involved in either the representation of private rights or the public interest should be zealous advocates of justice, rather than their clients' interests. If lawyers were to do what this reorientation of their basic identity would dictate -- that is, if lawyers were to zealously pursue justice according to law, rather than zealously pursue through all marginally lawful means whatever …
Law And Fancy, Robin West
Law And Fancy, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Martha Nussbaum's graceful book Poetic Justice is an elegant brief for the importance of our capacity for imaginative "fancy" to our moral and legal lives. Imaginative fancy, Nussbaum argues, allows us to know the internal substance and quality of the lives of others. It allows us to come to appreciate, to understand, to share, and ultimately to resist others' suffering. It is, in short, the means by which we come to care about the fate and happiness of others. It is a part, but not the whole, of our capacity to transcend a narcissistic and infantile egoism. It is therefore …
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
This Could Be Your Culture--Junk Speech In A Time Of Decadence, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Fictions And Meritocratic Success Stories, Robin West
Constitutional Fictions And Meritocratic Success Stories, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
L.H. LaRue demonstrates in his book, Constitutional Law as Fiction, that, at least in the realm of constitutional law, there is no simple correspondence between fiction and falsehood, or fact and truth. Partial or fictive accounts of our constitutional history, even when they are riddled with inaccuracies, may state deep truths about our world, and accurate recitations of historical events may be either intentionally or unintentionally misleading in the extreme. According to LaRue, the Supreme Court engages in a form of storytelling or myth-making that goes beyond the inevitably partial narratives of fact and precedent. The Supreme Court also tells …
The Constitution Of Reasons, Robin West
The Constitution Of Reasons, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Cass Sunstein's book, The Partial Constitution, brings together a number of his constitutional law essays from the last ten years. During that time, Sunstein has argued, powerfully, for the unconstitutionality of regulatory constraints on access to abortion; for the constitutionality of and the need for regulation of violent pornography; for the constitutionality of limits on both campaign spending and congressional control over public broadcasting; for the deep consistency, conventional wisdom to the contrary notwithstanding, of the Court's repudiation of Lochner in 1937 with its 1974 decision in Roe v. Wade; for the view that we should accord far less deference …
Making America Competitive, Mark J. Loewenstein
Review Of Families And The Gravely Ill: Roles, Rules, And Rights, Vanessa Merton
Review Of Families And The Gravely Ill: Roles, Rules, And Rights, Vanessa Merton
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Lempert And Sanders, Invitation To Law And Social Science, Frank W. Munger
Book Review: Lempert And Sanders, Invitation To Law And Social Science, Frank W. Munger
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel
Freedom Of Speech As Therapy, Pierre Schlag