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The Changing Market For Criminal Law Casebooks, Jens David Ohlin Apr 2016

The Changing Market For Criminal Law Casebooks, Jens David Ohlin

Michigan Law Review

Criminal law is a nasty business. The field takes as its point of departure the indignities that human beings visit upon each other—each one worse than the one before. A book or article about criminal law often reads like a parade of horribles, an indictment of humanity’s descent into moral weakness. For those who teach criminal law, everything else pales in comparison. Neither the business disputes of contract law nor the physical injuries described in a torts casebook can compare with the depravity of what we teach in criminal law. Criminal law professors are often addicted to their subject. Nothing …


Trusts-Restated And Rewritten, Harry W. Vanneman Jun 1936

Trusts-Restated And Rewritten, Harry W. Vanneman

Michigan Law Review

Two books were published during the past year which are of the greatest importance to those of the legal profession who are interested in the law of trusts. Professor Bogert's seven volumes appeared first, followed shortly by The Restatement of the Law of Trusts by the American Law Institute, of which Professor Scott, of the Harvard Law School, was the reporter. Professor Bogert, of the University of Chicago Law School, was a member of the Institute's Committee on Trusts. Since 1927, therefore, when the Institute began work on the Restatement of Trusts, Professor Bogert apparently has been working …


The Contracts Restatement, Grover C. Grismore Mar 1933

The Contracts Restatement, Grover C. Grismore

Michigan Law Review

A book review of OF THE LAW OF CONTRACTS. By the American Law Institute.


A Letter To The Lawyers Club, William W. Cook Jun 1929

A Letter To The Lawyers Club, William W. Cook

Michigan Law Review

The scope and purposes of the law schools will in my opinion rapidly expand. And the first expansion will be the inauguration of legal research. You have led the way. You have the first and so far the only research professorship. Professor Sunderland has blazed the trail and is hewing a road through the wilderness. And I think he is laying out the right route.


The Law Institute And The Teacher Of Law, Herbert F. Goodrich Feb 1928

The Law Institute And The Teacher Of Law, Herbert F. Goodrich

Michigan Law Review

The American Law Institute will soon be five years old. It is not necessary here to describe its aims and purposes; every law teacher knows of the state of our law that brought the Institute into being, and of the high hopes which are entertained of its influence and accomplishments. Beginnings have been made in Trusts and Property. Substantial progress has been shown in Agency, Contracts, Conflict of Laws, and Torts, as well as the code of criminal procedure. We have by this time an appreciable amount of the product of the body which is restating our law. How can …