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The Crisis In Modern Contract Theory, Robert A. Hillman Nov 1988

The Crisis In Modern Contract Theory, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Family Court: An Historical Survey, Merril Sobie Jul 1988

The Family Court: An Historical Survey, Merril Sobie

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The New York Family Court this year celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary. Hailed as an "experimental" tribunal, designed to resolve society's most intractable problems, including family dissolution, delinquency and child neglect, the court has been perceived as a radical development which altered the then existing legal rules governing family affairs. The Family Court Act indeed incorporates several creative provisions. But the court's foundations were built upon solid jurisprudential underpinnings, principles which had evolved over the course of the preceding century. Establishment of the court was neither radical nor experimental; in reality, Family Court represents the latest increment in the development of …


A Framework For Evaluating The Antitrust Legacy Of The Reagan Administration, Robert H. Lande Jun 1988

A Framework For Evaluating The Antitrust Legacy Of The Reagan Administration, Robert H. Lande

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Law And Culture In Antebellum Boston (Review Essay), Alfred S. Konefsky Apr 1988

Law And Culture In Antebellum Boston (Review Essay), Alfred S. Konefsky

Book Reviews

Review of Robert A. Ferguson, Law and Letters in American Culture; R. Kent Newmeyer, Supreme Court Justice joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic; and William H. Pease & Jane H. Pease, The Web of Progress: Private Values and Public Syles in Boston and Charleston.


Review, Imperial Appeal: The Debate On The Appeal To The Privy Council, 1833-1986, Richard Kay Jan 1988

Review, Imperial Appeal: The Debate On The Appeal To The Privy Council, 1833-1986, Richard Kay

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Rare Book And Special Collections Bibliography, Beatrice S. Citron Jan 1988

Rare Book And Special Collections Bibliography, Beatrice S. Citron

Rare Books and Special Collections

No abstract provided.


Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller Jan 1988

Some Aspects Of Householding In The Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth, William I. Miller

Articles

There has been much, mostly inconclusive, discussion about how to define the household in a manner suitable for comparative purposes. Certain conventional criteria are not very useful in the Icelandic context, where it appears that a person could be attached to more than one household, where the laws suggest it was possible for more than one household to be resident in the same uncompartmentalised farmhouse; and where headship might often be shared. Definitions, for example, based on co residence or on commensalism do not jibe all that well with the pastoral transhumance practised by the Icelanders. Sheep were tended and …


Constitutional Values And The Literature Of The Early Republic, Maxwell Bloomfield Jan 1988

Constitutional Values And The Literature Of The Early Republic, Maxwell Bloomfield

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


A Retrospective On The Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, Thomas A. Green Jan 1988

A Retrospective On The Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800, Thomas A. Green

Book Chapters

My recent book provided an overview of the history of the institutional aspects of the English criminal trial jury upon which all of the contributors to this volume have, tacitly or otherwise, commented. That tentative institutional background was intended both to stand on its own terms and to provide a framework for the studies on the relationship between law and society and on the history of ideas regarding the jury that made up the larger part of the volume. The two aspects of my book were joined: the socio-legal analysis and the history of ideas were to a large extent …


Promise Fulfilled And Principle Betrayed, James J. White Jan 1988

Promise Fulfilled And Principle Betrayed, James J. White

Articles

My responsibility in this paper is to address three questions. (1) How has the legal realist body of thought affected contract law and its application? (2) How will contract law and its application be affected in the future by realist thinking? (3) If the realist viewpoint were fully accepted, what kind of system would result and how would contract law be affected? Because my focus is upon a principal legislative monument to realism, Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code (the "U.C.C."), and upon its drafter, Karl Llewellyn, I will not answer any of the three questions explicitly. By focusing …


The Line Between History And Casenote, John Henry Schlegel Jan 1988

The Line Between History And Casenote, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.


Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1988

Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Book Review. The Constitutionalism Of "The Common-Law Mind", Stephen A. Conrad Jan 1988

Book Review. The Constitutionalism Of "The Common-Law Mind", Stephen A. Conrad

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This essay reviews the following: Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: The Authority of Rights by John Phillip Reid and Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 by Jack P. Greene.


Metaphor And Imagination In James Wilson's Theory Of Federal Union, Stephen A. Conrad Jan 1988

Metaphor And Imagination In James Wilson's Theory Of Federal Union, Stephen A. Conrad

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Legal History And Social Science: Friedman's History Of American Law, The Second Time Around, Michael Grossberg Jan 1988

Legal History And Social Science: Friedman's History Of American Law, The Second Time Around, Michael Grossberg

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Toward A General Theory Of The Establishment Clause, Daniel O. Conkle Jan 1988

Toward A General Theory Of The Establishment Clause, Daniel O. Conkle

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Comment On Fikentscher's Paper -- Modes Of Thought In Law And Justice -- A Preliminary Report On A Study In Legal Anthropology, Jerome Hall Jan 1988

Comment On Fikentscher's Paper -- Modes Of Thought In Law And Justice -- A Preliminary Report On A Study In Legal Anthropology, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Criminal Defense As Narrative: Storytelling And Royal Pardons In Renaissance France, Richard M. Fraher Jan 1988

Book Review. Criminal Defense As Narrative: Storytelling And Royal Pardons In Renaissance France, Richard M. Fraher

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Economic Union As A Constitutional Value, Richard B. Collins Jan 1988

Economic Union As A Constitutional Value, Richard B. Collins

Publications

Professor Collins presents an in-depth defense of the dormant commerce power doctrine. He maintains that the text of the commerce clause, the original intent behind it, and a century of congressional acquiescence to broad judicial enforcement of the dormant commerce power lend sufficient legitimacy to the doctrine to support its continued existence. After examining the textual and historical bases for the doctrine, Professor Collins concludes that the primary purpose behind the commerce clause is the promotion of economic integration and interstate harmony. Based upon his discussion of the doctrine's origins and development, he contends that critics of the doctrine who …


Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski Jan 1988

Enforcement Provisions Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1866: A Legislative History In Light Of Runyon V. Mccrary, The Review Essay And Comments: Reconstructing Reconstruction, Robert J. Kaczorowski

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this Comment is to examine the history of the enactment and early enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 from the perspective of the remedies Congress sought to provide to meet the problems that necessitated the legislation. Its main foci are the statute's enforcement provisions and their early implementation, an aspect of the history of the statute that has not been fully considered in relation to section one, the provision that has received the most scholarly attention. The occasion of this study is the Supreme Court's reconsideration of Runyon v. McCrary' in Patterson v. McLean Credit …


Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds Jan 1988

Luther Martin, Maryland And The Constitution, William L. Reynolds

Faculty Scholarship

Reviews the life and contributions of Maryland lawyer and scholar Luther Martin (1748-1826).


The Chancellor's Boot, Stephen B. Burbank Jan 1988

The Chancellor's Boot, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Ordeal In Iceland, William I. Miller Jan 1988

Ordeal In Iceland, William I. Miller

Articles

Ordeal holds a strange fascination with us. It appalls and intrigues. We marvel at the mentality of those cultures that officialize it; we feel a sense of horror as we imagine ourselves intimately involved with boiling water or glowing irons. And we don't feel up to it. So our terror and cowardice becomes their brutality and irrationality. I am not about to urge to reinstitution of ordeals, although most practicing lawyers will tell you that that is still what going to law is, a crapshoot they say. What I want to do is call attention to the difficulty of not …


Beating Up On Women And Old Men And Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry Into Literary Sources, William I. Miller Jan 1988

Beating Up On Women And Old Men And Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry Into Literary Sources, William I. Miller

Articles

The Icelandic sagas, besides being one of the most impressive literatures existing in any language, preserve detailed accounts of feud and legal action, and describe with intelligence and care the general techniques and strategies of dispute processing. They also contain, incidental to the narrative, information about values and law, marriage and death, householding arrangements and the systems of exchange, naming patterns, and so on, for those who care to coax such information from the texts.


The Authoritarian Impulse In Constitutional Law, Robin West Jan 1988

The Authoritarian Impulse In Constitutional Law, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Should there be greater participation by legislators and citizens in constitutional debate, theory, and decision-making? An increasing number of legal theorists from otherwise divergent perspectives have recently argued against what Paul Brest calls the "principle of judicial exclusivity" in our constitutional processes. These theorists contend that because issues of public morality in our culture either are, or tend to become, constitutional issues, all political actors, and most notably legislators and citizens, should consider the constitutional implications of the moral issues of the day. Because constitutional questions are essentially moral questions about how active and responsible citizens should constitute themselves, we …


Jurisprudence And Gender, Robin West Jan 1988

Jurisprudence And Gender, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What is a human being? Legal theorists must, perforce, answer this question: jurisprudence, after all, is about human beings. The task has not proven to be divisive. In fact, virtually all modern American legal theorists, like most modern moral and political philosophers, either explicitly or implicitly embrace what I will call the "separation thesis" about what it means to be a human being: a "human being," whatever else he is, is physically separate from all other human beings. I am one human being and you are another, and that distinction between you and me is central to the meaning of …


Law And The American West: The Search For An Ethic Of Place, Charles F. Wilkinson Jan 1988

Law And The American West: The Search For An Ethic Of Place, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

No abstract provided.


Civil Liberties Guarantees When Indian Tribes Act As Majority Societies: The Case Of The Winnebago Retrocession, Charles F. Wilkinson Jan 1988

Civil Liberties Guarantees When Indian Tribes Act As Majority Societies: The Case Of The Winnebago Retrocession, Charles F. Wilkinson

Publications

No abstract provided.


Reply To Cornel West, William Ewald Jan 1988

Reply To Cornel West, William Ewald

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Treating Crazy People Less Specially, Stephen J. Morse Jan 1988

Treating Crazy People Less Specially, Stephen J. Morse

All Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.