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Contract Law, Default Rules, And The Philosophy Of Promising, Richard Craswell
Contract Law, Default Rules, And The Philosophy Of Promising, Richard Craswell
Michigan Law Review
Among the topics addressed by moral philosophy is the obligation to keep one's promises. To many philosophers, there is something strange (or, at least, something calling for explanatie1n) in the idea that moral obligations can be created simply by an individual's saying so yet this is what seems to happen when a person makes a promise. Consequently, there is by now a large body of literature attempting to identify the exact source and nature of this moral obligation.
Part I of this article presents a more detailed survey of recent philosophical writings about promises, for the benefit of legal readers …
The Constitution's Accommodation Of Social Change, Philip A. Hamburger
The Constitution's Accommodation Of Social Change, Philip A. Hamburger
Michigan Law Review
Did the framers and ratifiers of the United States Constitution think that changes in American society would require changes in the text or interpretation of the Constitution? If those who created the Constitution understood or even anticipated the possibility of major social alterations, how did they expect constitutional law - text and interpretation - to accommodate such developments?
The effect of social change upon constitutional law was an issue the framers and ratifiers frequently discussed. For example, when AntiFederalists complained of the Constitution's failure to protect the jury trial in civil cases, Federalists responded that a change of circumstances might, …
The Final Report: Harvard's Affirmative Action Allegory, Derrick Bell
The Final Report: Harvard's Affirmative Action Allegory, Derrick Bell
Michigan Law Review
Harvard's affirmative action allegory written for this symposium.
The Obliging Shell: An Informal Essay On Formal Equal Opportunity, Patricia Williams
The Obliging Shell: An Informal Essay On Formal Equal Opportunity, Patricia Williams
Michigan Law Review
I am struck by the Court's use of the word "equality" in the last line of its holding. It seems an extraordinarily narrow use of "equality," when it excludes from consideration so much clear inequality. It, again, resembles the process by which the Parol Evidence Rule limits the meaning of documents or words by placing beyond the bounds of reference anything that is inconsistent, or, depending on the circumstances, even that which is supplementary. It is this lawyerly language game of exclusion and omission that is the subject of the rest of this essay.
Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative, Richard Delgado
Storytelling For Oppositionists And Others: A Plea For Narrative, Richard Delgado
Michigan Law Review
This essay examines the use of stories in the struggle for racial reform. Part I shows how we construct social reality by devising and passing on stories - interpretive structures by which we impose order on experience and it on us. To illustrate how stories structure reality, I choose a single race-tinged event and tell it in the form of five stories or narratives. Each account is followed by analysis, showing what the story includes and leaves out and how it perpetuates one version of social reality rather than another. Part II deals with counterstories, competing versions that can be …
A Tale Of Two Clients: Thinking About Law As Language, Clark D. Cunningham
A Tale Of Two Clients: Thinking About Law As Language, Clark D. Cunningham
Michigan Law Review
This is a true story. It is actually three true stories. The article taken as a whole tells a story of my personal search for a new way of talking about the experience of being a lawyer, a quest which is leading me to think more and more about law as a kind of language and lawyering as a form of translation. Rather like a medieval romance, embedded within this story of a quest are two tales, about clients I have represented in the course of my clinical teaching.
As much as possible, both levels of narrative are presented in …
Foreword: Telling Stories, Kim Lane Schepple
Foreword: Telling Stories, Kim Lane Schepple
Michigan Law Review
Why is there such a rush to storytelling? Why has narrative become such an important and recurring theme in legal scholarship these days?
This issue testifies to the attractiveness of, and limits to, storytelling as a force in law. But whose stories are told? Who listens? And who responds? This symposium explores these questions, challenging traditional practices and exploring new ones in the telling of stories in the law. One important lesson that can be learned from this issue is that narrative is a way of organizing, coping with, even acting on the world. Stories carry power because they have …
Empathy, Legal Storytelling, And The Rule Of Law: New Words, Old Wounds?, Toni M. Massaro
Empathy, Legal Storytelling, And The Rule Of Law: New Words, Old Wounds?, Toni M. Massaro
Michigan Law Review
The legal storytelling theme that is the focus of this symposium is part of a larger, ongoing intellectual movement. American legal scholarship of the past several decades has revealed deep dissatisfaction with the abstract and collective focus of law and legal discourse. The rebellion against abstraction has, of late, been characterized by a "call to context." One strand of this complex body of thought argues that law should concern itself more with the concrete lives of persons affected by it. One key word in the dialogue is the term "empathy," which appears frequently in the work of critical legal studies, …
The Cognitive Dimension Of The Agon Between Legal Power And Narrative Meaning, Steven L. Winter
The Cognitive Dimension Of The Agon Between Legal Power And Narrative Meaning, Steven L. Winter
Michigan Law Review
In Part II, I first provide a brief description of what we are learning about the grounded and imaginative nature of the cognitive process. I then elaborate the cognitive structure of the concept narrative and consider the manner in which we employ that concept in recognizing, understanding, and constructing narratives of all types - from folktales like the midrash to avant-garde literature like Waiting for Godot. In Part III, I employ this information about the cognitive and narrative processes to explore the secondary role of narrative in the institutionalization of legal and social meaning. I will identify the cognitive …
Public Response To Racist Speech: Considering The Victim's Story, Mari J. Matsuda
Public Response To Racist Speech: Considering The Victim's Story, Mari J. Matsuda
Michigan Law Review
The threat of hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi skinheads goes beyond their repeated acts of illegal violence. Their presence and the active dissemination of racist propaganda means that citizens are denied personal security and liberty as they go about their daily lives. Professor Richard Delgado recognized the harm of racist speech in his breakthrough article, Words That Wound, in which he suggested a tort remedy for injury from racist words. This Article takes inspiration from Professor Delgado's position, and makes the further suggestion that formal criminal and administrative sanction - public as opposed to private …
Hardly The Trial Of The Century, Franklin E. Zimring
Hardly The Trial Of The Century, Franklin E. Zimring
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Crime of Self-Defense: Bernhard Goetz and the Law on Trial by George P. Fletcher
Contradiction And Denial, Pierre Schlag
Contradiction And Denial, Pierre Schlag
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Guide to Critical Legal Studies by Mark Kelman
Foundering On The Seas Of Hopelessness, Mary C. Dunlap
Foundering On The Seas Of Hopelessness, Mary C. Dunlap
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society, and Law by Richard D. Mohn
Law And Disputing In Commercializing Early America, Cornelia Dayton
Law And Disputing In Commercializing Early America, Cornelia Dayton
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut by Bruce H. Mann
Trial By Ordeal, Robert C. Palmer
Trial By Ordeal, Robert C. Palmer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Trial by Fire and Water: The Medieval Judicial Ordeal by Robert Bartlett
Transfers Of Property In Eleventh-Century Norman Law, William John Gallagher
Transfers Of Property In Eleventh-Century Norman Law, William John Gallagher
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Transfers of Property in Eleventh-Century Norman Law by Emily Zack Tabuteau
The Politics Of Victimization Makes Strange Bedfellows, Jennifer L. Hochschild
The Politics Of Victimization Makes Strange Bedfellows, Jennifer L. Hochschild
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims by Kristin Bumiller, and Plural But Equal: Blacks and Minorities in America's Plural Society by Harold Cruse
Protection Of Civil Rights: A Constitutional Mandate For The Federal Government, Julius Chambers
Protection Of Civil Rights: A Constitutional Mandate For The Federal Government, Julius Chambers
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South by Michal Belknap
Privacy In A Public Society: Human Rights In Conflict, David Clark Esseks
Privacy In A Public Society: Human Rights In Conflict, David Clark Esseks
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Privacy in a Public Society: Human Rights in Conflict by Richard F. Hixson
Deconstructing Gender, Joan C. Williams
Deconstructing Gender, Joan C. Williams
Michigan Law Review
I start out, as have many others, from the deep split among American feminists between "sameness" and "difference." The driving force behind the mid-twentieth-century resurgence of American feminism was an insistence on the fundamental similarity of men and women and, hence, their essential equality.
I begin in Part I by challenging the widely influential description of gender advocated by Carol Gilligan. While Part I challenges the description of gender differences offered by Gilligan feminists, it does not deny the existence of gender differences. The chief strength of the feminism of difference is its challenge to what have been called male …
Damages For Emotional Distress In Fraud Litigation: Dignitary Torts In A Commercial Society, Andrew L. Merritt
Damages For Emotional Distress In Fraud Litigation: Dignitary Torts In A Commercial Society, Andrew L. Merritt
Vanderbilt Law Review
One of the most dynamic developments in modern tort law has been the increased focus on damages for emotional distress. During the past few decades courts have fashioned several new tort theories to allow recovery of emotional distress damages as independent causes of action. At the same time, lobbyists and legislators have attacked these damages for contributing to "runaway" jury verdicts. As a result of these attacks, a growing number of states are enacting statutes that limit recovery of emotional distress damages in traditional tort are as such as medical malpractice. Thus, damages for emotional distress are at a crossroads …
Cultural Neutrality: A Prerequisite To Arbitral Justice, Giorgio Bernini
Cultural Neutrality: A Prerequisite To Arbitral Justice, Giorgio Bernini
Michigan Journal of International Law
In common parlance, neutrality is often equated with impartiality. Any such assimilation, however, would be incorrect, since neutrality and impartiality are intrinsically different. At the risk of oversimplification, neutrality may be defined as an objective status, i.e. the likelihood that the arbitrator will be, and remain, wholly equidistant in thought and action throughout the arbitral proceedings. Impartiality, on the contrary, partakes more of a subjective status, to be tested in the context of the concrete relations existing between the arbitrator(s) and each individual party. It follows that one can be impartial without being neutral; and conversely, that no arbitrator may …
Summary Judgments In Texas., David Hittner, Lynne Liberato
Summary Judgments In Texas., David Hittner, Lynne Liberato
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Toxic Waste: Who Pays The Piper - A Private Party's Federal And Texas Rights To Recovery Of Voluntary Cleanup Costs Of Toxic Waste., Barbara Hanson Nellermoe
Toxic Waste: Who Pays The Piper - A Private Party's Federal And Texas Rights To Recovery Of Voluntary Cleanup Costs Of Toxic Waste., Barbara Hanson Nellermoe
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Private Retirement Benefits Earned During Marriage Characterized As Community Property And Do Not Automatically Remain Property Of Surviving Spouse., Darryl J. Silvera
Private Retirement Benefits Earned During Marriage Characterized As Community Property And Do Not Automatically Remain Property Of Surviving Spouse., Darryl J. Silvera
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
$500,000 Cap On Non-Economic Damages For Medical Malpractice Inconsistent With Open Courts Guarantee In Texas Constitution., Kathryn Kase
$500,000 Cap On Non-Economic Damages For Medical Malpractice Inconsistent With Open Courts Guarantee In Texas Constitution., Kathryn Kase
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Government Action Does Not Violate Free Exercise Clause Of First Amendment When It Neither Coerces Action Contrary To Religious Beliefs Nor Prohibits Access To Practice Those Beliefs, But Merely Imposes An Incidental Burden On Religious Practice., Joani S. Harrison
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Fundamental Error When Rule Against Misjoinder Violated By Charging More Than One Non-Property Offense In Same Indictment Resulting In Multiple Convictions., Virginia Coyle
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
A Consumer Update: Recent Developments Under The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act., Richard M. Alderman, Melanie P. Rosenthal
A Consumer Update: Recent Developments Under The Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act., Richard M. Alderman, Melanie P. Rosenthal
St. Mary's Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Statutory Claims For Unfair Insurance Settlement Practices - Vail V. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company., Joseph G. Chumlea
Statutory Claims For Unfair Insurance Settlement Practices - Vail V. Texas Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company., Joseph G. Chumlea
St. Mary's Law Journal
No abstract provided.