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Distant Voices Then And Now: The Impact Of Isolation On The Courtroom Narratives Of Slave Ship Captives And Asylum Seekers, Tara Patel
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
Part I compares the nineteenth century cases of the Antelope and the Amistad to identify why they resulted in different outcomes despite having similar fact patterns. The Antelope concerned the fate of approximately 280 African captives discovered on a slave trade ship upon its interception by a U.S. revenue cutter. Since the slave trade in the United States was illegal at the time, the captives were transported to Savannah for trial through which their status—free or slave—would be determined. After a lengthy trial and appeals process in which Spain and Portugal laid claim to the captives, the Supreme Court determined …
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Poverty Lawyering In The Golden Age, Matthew Diller
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 by Martha F. Davis
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
De Jure Revolution?, Margaret M. Russell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Failed Revolutions: Social Reform and the Limits of Legal Imagination by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution by Jack Greenberg.
Law And Letters In American Culture, Lee W. Brooks
Law And Letters In American Culture, Lee W. Brooks
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Letters in American Culture by Robert A. Ferguson
The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review
The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The New Deal Lawyers by Peter H. Irons