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Satirical Legal Studies: From The Legists To The Lizard, Peter Goodrich Jan 2004

Satirical Legal Studies: From The Legists To The Lizard, Peter Goodrich

Michigan Law Review

In Part I, I expand on the distinction between the Horatian and the Menippean forms of satire and then suggest that a similarly bold division can be used to map satirical legal studies. In support of that argument, I use the example of the earliest surviving satirical legal poem within the Western tradition. My analysis of this exemplary satirical legal artifact delineates four principal modes of legal satire that will organize the ensuing discussion of more contemporary examples of the genre. In Part II, I will address the currently popular and yet somewhat novel mode of ad hominem or nominate …


Contradiction And Denial, Pierre Schlag May 1989

Contradiction And Denial, Pierre Schlag

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Guide to Critical Legal Studies by Mark Kelman


Values And Assumptions In American Labor Law, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Values And Assumptions In American Labor Law, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law by James B. Atleson