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Dangerousness And Criminal Justice, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Michigan Law Review

The first section of this paper surveys some recent writings on the topic of dangerousness for major inconsistencies, which we regard as illuminating the special problem of dangerousness in the jurisprudence of criminal sentencing.

The second section describes the "special problem of dangerousness," for, we believe, the first time. The special problem is the fear that any admission of calculations of dangerousness into sentencing decisions will lead to an overuse of dangerousness, which may be worse than the inefficiencies and hypocrisies we confront when denying that future dangerousness is relevant to decisions about prisons.

The third section attempts to reorganize …

Normative And Interpretive Conceptions Of Human Conduct: Decision-Making, Criminal Justice, And Parole , David R. Novack

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

On Legal Decision-Making, Keith Hawkins

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Interpretive Method In The Study Of Legal Decision-Making, John M. Thomas

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Social Science "Theory" And The Legal Decision-Making Process: A Response To Professor Keith 0. Hawkins, Emory Kimbrough, Jr.

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Social Reality And Social Organization Of Natural Decision-Making, Peter K. Manning

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constituting Communities Through Words That Bind: Reflections On Loyalty Oaths, Sanford Levinson

Michigan Law Review

Preparation of this essay has not served to resolve my own ambivalences about what, after all, Duncan Kennedy once named the "fundamental contradiction" of all social life, the tension between "individual freedom" and the coercive communal life with "[o]thers (family, friends, bureaucrats, cultural figures, the state)" that is "necessary if we are to become persons at all - they provide us the stuff of our selves and protect us ,in crucial ways against destruction." It should not be surprising if something so fundamental does not prove amenable to resolution. In any case, the reader should not expect to find a …

Law, Legalism, And Community Before The American Revolution, Bruce H. Mann

Michigan Law Review

The connections between law and community are difficult to identify, let alone explain. It may be best to begin by seeing how law and the ways people used it changed, and then attempt to relate those changes to the surrounding economy and society. One must, of course, be wary of finding what one looks for. Nonetheless, as with objects against a dark background, it is sometimes easier to see things when they move than when they remain still. To illustrate the interactive nature of legal change and community, I will draw on examples from Connecticut before the Revolution - not …

Community, Citizenship, And The Search For National Identity, Frederick Schauer

Michigan Law Review

As a test of this proposition, I want to explore the issue of alienage restrictions. Under what circumstances is it justifiable to draw lines based on whether a person is a citizen? Lines drawn on the basis of citizenship are a useful test of how seriously we take the idea of the nation as a relevant community and, more tangentially, of how seriously we take the idea of community itself. To the extent that we are skeptical of such lines, our concerns are to that extent individual-oriented, primarily focused on the adverse consequences of excluding some people from benefits or …

An Empirical Analysis Of The Medical And Legal Professions' Experiences And Perceptions Of Medical And Legal Malpractice, J. Douglas Peters, Steven K. Nord, R. Donald Woodson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The purpose of this study is to describe the general perceptions of doctors and lawyers regarding medical and legal malpractice. The study does not purport to draw conclusions about the statistical significance of the presented numbers and percentages. In addition, the results presented should be interpreted in light of the methodology and response rate obtained in the survey.

A Capacity To Punish: The Ecology Of Crime And Punishment, Samuel M. Hill

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment by Henry N. Pontell

The Glittering Eye Of Law, Geoffrey P. Miller

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Authoritative and the Authoritarian by Joseph Vining

Kitsch And Community, Kathryn Abrams

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Habits of the Heart by Robert Bellah, Richard Madsden, William Sullivan, Ann Swidler and Steven Tipton, and Strong Democracy by Benjamin Barber, Exodus and Revolution by Michael Walzer

Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, And Theology, Jon M. Lipshultz

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology by Milner S. Ball

In The Jungle Of Cities, Anthony Chase

Michigan Law Review

A Review of American Violence and Public Policy: An Update of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence by Lynn A. Curtis and The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn

Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target Of Justice, Elizabeth T. Lear

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Dangerous Offenders: The Elusive Target of Justice by Mark H. Moore, Susan Estrich, Daniel McGillis, and William Spelman

When Justice Fails, Stephan Landsman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich

Juries On Trial: Faces Of American Justice, Nancy J. King

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Juries on Trial: Faces of American Justice by Paula DiPerna

Evaluating Unions: Labor Economics And The Law, Michael J. Goldberg

Michigan Law Review

A Review ofWhat Do Unions Do? by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff

Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

West's Law & Commercial Dictionary in Five Languages

West Publishing Company, 1985. Pp. xvi, 885, 899.

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Flags of Convenience

By B.N. Metaxes

Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vermont

Gower Publishing Company, 1985. Pp.x, 107.

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External Debt Management

Edited by Hassanali Mehran

Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1985. Pp. v, 322.

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Adjustment, Conditionality, and International Financing

Edited by Joaquin Muns

Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1984. Pp. xi, 214.

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Non-Appearance Before the International Court of Justice

By H.W.A. Thirlway

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. v, 184.

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William Sheppard, Cromwell's Law Reformer

By Nancy L. Matthews

London: …

In What Vision Of The Constitution Must The Law Be Color-Blind, 20 J. Marshall L. Rev. 201 (1986), Laurence H. Tribe

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Alphabet Book (Incomplete), Or: Elements Of A Legal Philosophy, Warren Lehman

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Destruction Of Community, Richard Lewis

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Defending Miranda: A Reply To Professor Caplan, Welsh S. White

Vanderbilt Law Review

Professor Caplan yearns for the good old days "when the police enjoyed greater public confidence" and, in accordance with the tactics recommended in the police manuals, it was acceptable "for an investigator to talk sharply to the suspect or glare at him or sit too closely or withhold cigarettes, or, from the opposite vantage, to pretend to be a sympathetic friend or a concerned coreligionist."'Thus, Professor Caplan attacks the Miranda decision on the ground that "by introducing novel conceptions of the proper relationship between the suspect and authority," Miranda operates to subvert the principal function of the criminal process, the …

Thinking About Federal Jurisdiction - Of Serpents And Swallows., Thomas E. Baker

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act (Rico) - Maintenance Of A Private Civil Rico Action Does Not Require A Showing That The Defendant Has Been Criminally Convicted Of The Predicate Acts Nor That The Plaintiff Has Sustained A Racketeering Injury Distinct From The Alleged Predicate Acts., Ruth E. Greenfield

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Premises Liability In Texas - Time For A Reasonable Change., Kathryn E. Eriksen

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Reversal Due To Fundamental Error In The Jury Charge Requires A Showing Of Egregious Harm To The Accused If The Error Is Not Objected To At Trial., Michael H. Bassett

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Judgment Granting Equitable Relief Cannot Support Award Of Punitive Damages Where Actual Damages Are Not Also Recovered., Beth Mcallister

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Hospital Liability May Be Based On Either Doctrine Of Ostensible Agency Or Doctrine Of Corporate Negligence., Gregory T. Perkes

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.