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On Misreading John Bingham And The Fourteenth Amendment, Richard L. Aynes
On Misreading John Bingham And The Fourteenth Amendment, Richard L. Aynes
Akron Law Faculty Publications
Nearly fifty years ago, Professor Charles Fairman published his seminal article, Does the Fourteenth Amendment Incorporate the Bill of Rights? According to Fairman, it does not. Fairman's analysis of the congressional debates and other historical data on the Fourteenth Amendment led him to conclude that the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Amendment does not make the Bill of Rights applicable to the states. Instead, Fairman argued that the intent of the Amendment's framers is most nearly realized by the use of the Due Process Clause to enforce against the states only those rights “ ‘implicit in the concept of …
False Witness: A Lawyer's History Of The Law Of Perjury, Richard H. Underwood
False Witness: A Lawyer's History Of The Law Of Perjury, Richard H. Underwood
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
From Cain to Potiphar's Wife to the pig and chicken laws of the Lex Salica of Clovis I, Professor Underwood examines the role of the false witness throughout history. Take a voyage extraordinaire and encounter some of history's most notorious perjurers.
Baseline Problems In Assessing Chapter 11, Theodore Eisenberg
Baseline Problems In Assessing Chapter 11, Theodore Eisenberg
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Dealing with failing businesses is like dealing with failing marriages. It is messy. The bigger the business the messier the process is likely to be. Many big business failures in the United States go through their death throes or cure their ills in reorganizations under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act. As the vehicle in which big business messes travel, Chapter 11 is viewed as unnecessarily complex, time-consuming, and costly. The justification for Chapter 11's very existence has been challenged.
This article suggests that we are blaming the vehicle for the mess that it carries. Much of what is problematic …
The Booth Cases: Final Step To The Civil War, Jenni Parrish
The Booth Cases: Final Step To The Civil War, Jenni Parrish
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
A Tasty Tidbit (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
A Tasty Tidbit (Review Essay), John Henry Schlegel
Book Reviews
Reviewing Martin J. Horwitz, The Transformation of American Law 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy (1992).
South Carolina's Largest Slave Auctioneering Firm, Thomas D. Russell
South Carolina's Largest Slave Auctioneering Firm, Thomas D. Russell
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
This article presents the original finding that South Carolina's legal system conducted a majority of the state's slave auctions during the antebellum years.Courts conducted slave auctions in several circumstances. Sheriffs sold the property of debtors; and courts also conducted or supervised sales in order to divide estates. Drawing upon extensive empirical analysis of primary sources in various South Carolina archives, this article compares the total number of slaves sold at court-ordered or court-supervised sales with the best empirical estimates for private slave sales - whether at auction or not. The conclusion is that the courts acted as the state's greatest …
Did The First Justice Harlan Have A Black Brother?, James W. Gordon
Did The First Justice Harlan Have A Black Brother?, James W. Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
This Article summarizes the careers of James, John, and Robert Harlan. It then examines the evidence of the blood relationship between Robert Harlan and James Harlan, and speculates on the influence that John Harlan's contact with Robert Harlan might have had in shaping John's views on race. Finally, the Article reflects on the implications of the careers of John and Robert Harlan for our understanding of race in late nineteenth century America.
Imagining Justice: Aesthetics And Public Executions In Late Eighteenth-Century England, Steven Wilf
Imagining Justice: Aesthetics And Public Executions In Late Eighteenth-Century England, Steven Wilf
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Charles Evans Hughes And The Blaisdell Decision: A Historical Study Of Contract Clause Jurisprudence, 72 Or. L. Rev. 513 (1993), Samuel R. Olken
Charles Evans Hughes And The Blaisdell Decision: A Historical Study Of Contract Clause Jurisprudence, 72 Or. L. Rev. 513 (1993), Samuel R. Olken
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Historical Framework For Reviving Constitutional Protection For Property And Contract Rights , James L. Kainen
Historical Framework For Reviving Constitutional Protection For Property And Contract Rights , James L. Kainen
Faculty Scholarship
Post-New Deal constitutionalism is in search of a theory that justifies judicial intervention on behalf of individual rights while simultaneously avoiding the charge of "Lochnerism."' The dominant historical view dismisses post-bellum substantive due process as an anomalous development in the American constitutional tradition. Under this approach, Lochner represents unbounded protection for economic rights that permitted the judiciary to read laissez faire, pro-business policy preferences into the constitutional text. Today's revisionists have mounted a substantial challenge to the dismissive views of traditionalists. Indeed, some claim Lochner reached the right result, but for the wrong reason. The revisionists characterize substantive due process …
Caesar Would Have Arbitrated, Hugh D. Spitzer
Caesar Would Have Arbitrated, Hugh D. Spitzer
Articles
With the recent increase in mandatory arbitration for small civil disputes and voluntary arbitration for much larger cases, it is easy to suppose that dispute resolution by someone other than a government- appointed judge is a novel, imaginative creation of the modern legal system.
But for the Romans who lived in Julius Caesar's time, indeed from several hundred years B.C. to at least 300 A.D., most civil matters never went to an official "judge." Instead, almost all such disputes were resolved by a lay arbitrator under a remarkably flexible and enduring system of civil procedure that worked as effectively as …
A Contemporary Definition Of The International Norm Of Self-Determination, S. James Anaya
A Contemporary Definition Of The International Norm Of Self-Determination, S. James Anaya
Publications
No abstract provided.
Confirming The Constitution: The Role Of The Senate Judiciary Committee, Stephen Wermiel
Confirming The Constitution: The Role Of The Senate Judiciary Committee, Stephen Wermiel
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Legal Realism And The Social Contract: Fuller’S Public Jurisprudence Of Form, Private Jurisprudence Of Substance, James Boyle
Legal Realism And The Social Contract: Fuller’S Public Jurisprudence Of Form, Private Jurisprudence Of Substance, James Boyle
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Federalist Papers: The Framers Construct An Orrery, Harold H. Bruff
The Federalist Papers: The Framers Construct An Orrery, Harold H. Bruff
Publications
No abstract provided.
Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements With American Indian Tribes As Models For Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government, David H. Getches
Negotiated Sovereignty: Intergovernmental Agreements With American Indian Tribes As Models For Expanding First Nations’ Self-Government, David H. Getches
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Constitutional issues related to First Nations sovereignty have dominated Aboriginal affairs in Canada for a considerable period. The constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal self-government has, however, received a setback with the recent failure of the Charlottetown Accord in October of 1992. Nonetheless, day-to-day issues must be accommodated, even while this more fundamental constitutional question remains unresolved. This paper illustrates the American experience with negotiated intergovernmental agreements between tribes and individual states. These agreements have, for example, resolved jurisdictional disputes over taxation, solid waste disposal, and law enforcement between state governments and tribal authorities. The author suggests that these intergovernmental agreements in …
Land Of Fire, Land Of Conquest: The Colorado Plateau And Some Questions For Its Future, Charles F. Wilkinson
Land Of Fire, Land Of Conquest: The Colorado Plateau And Some Questions For Its Future, Charles F. Wilkinson
Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Utopianism, Epistemology, And Feminist Theory, Susan H. Williams
Book Review. Utopianism, Epistemology, And Feminist Theory, Susan H. Williams
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Margery Hunter Brown: Teacher, Scholar, And First Citizen Of Montana, Charles F. Wilkinson
Margery Hunter Brown: Teacher, Scholar, And First Citizen Of Montana, Charles F. Wilkinson
Publications
No abstract provided.
From Askhabad, To Wellton-Mohawk, To Los Angeles: The Drought In Water Policy, David H. Getches
From Askhabad, To Wellton-Mohawk, To Los Angeles: The Drought In Water Policy, David H. Getches
Publications
No abstract provided.
Using Comparative Fault To Replace The All-Or-Nothing Lottery Imposed In Intentional Torts Suits In Which Both Plaintiff And Defendant Are At Fault , Gail D. Hollister
Using Comparative Fault To Replace The All-Or-Nothing Lottery Imposed In Intentional Torts Suits In Which Both Plaintiff And Defendant Are At Fault , Gail D. Hollister
Faculty Scholarship
All or nothing. For years this idea of absolutes has been a hallmark of tort law despite the inequities it has caused. Plaintiffs must either win a total victory or suffer total defeat. In recent years courts and legislatures have begun to recognize the injustice of the all-or-nothing approach and to replace it with rules that permit partial recoveries that are more equitably tailored to the particular facts of each case. The most dramatic example of this more equitable approach is the nearly universal rejection of contributory negligence in favor of comparative fault in negligence cases. Almost all jurisdictions, however, …
Thinking Property At Rome, Alan Watson
Thinking Property At Rome, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
It is a commonplace among writers on slavery that there is an inherent contradiction or a necessary confusion in regarding slaves as both human beings and things. In law there is no such contradiction or confusion. Slaves are both property and human beings. Their humanity is not denied but (in general) they are refused legal personality, a very different matter.
Things as property may be classed in various ways, and the classification may then have an impact on owners' rights and duties. A thing may be corporeal or incorporeal, immoveable or moveable. Some moveables may be classed as res se …
Foreword: The Law Of Federal Judicial Discipline And The Lessons Of Social Science, Stephen B. Burbank, Sheldon Jay Plager
Foreword: The Law Of Federal Judicial Discipline And The Lessons Of Social Science, Stephen B. Burbank, Sheldon Jay Plager
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory And Practice, Edited By G. Leyh, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Book Review Of Legal Hermeneutics: History, Theory And Practice, Edited By G. Leyh, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts
Motherhood And Crime, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Seventeenth-Century Jurists, Roman Law, And The Law Of Slavery, Alan Watson
Seventeenth-Century Jurists, Roman Law, And The Law Of Slavery, Alan Watson
Scholarly Works
Issues of slavery and slave law were of considerable theoretical interest to continental European jurists in the seventeenth century. They lived in a different world from American colonists of European descent because they had no direct experience of slave holding and no immediate financial involvement. Their interest stemmed from the fact that their education was in Roman law; and not only was Roman law the most revered system, but slaves were prominent in it. For the jurists' attitudes we must remember that, at least in theory, there were no slaves in territories such as the Dutch Republic, Germany, or France. …
Feminist Legal Epistemology, Susan H. Williams
Feminist Legal Epistemology, Susan H. Williams
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
The Aspirational Constitution, Robin West
The Aspirational Constitution, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Firmly embedded in every theory of judicial decisionmaking lies an important set of assumptions about the way government is supposed to work. Sometimes these theories about government are made explicit. More often they are not. Moreover, deeply embedded in every theory of government is a theory of human nature. Although these assumptions about human nature generally remain latent within the larger theory, because they provide the underpinnings for our ideas about the way government is supposed to work, they drive our notions about judicial decisionmaking. For example, the theory of government reflected in the United States Constitution reveals what one …
Prospective Overruling And The Revival Of ‘Unconstitutional' Statutes, William Michael Treanor, Gene B. Sperling
Prospective Overruling And The Revival Of ‘Unconstitutional' Statutes, William Michael Treanor, Gene B. Sperling
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey reshaped the law of abortion in this country. The Court overturned two of its previous decisions invalidating state restrictions on abortions, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, and it abandoned the trimester analytic framework established in Roe v. Wade. At the time Casey was handed down, twenty states had restrictive abortion statutes on the books that were in conflict with Akron or Thornburgh and which were unenforced. In six of these states, courts had held the statutes unconstitutional. Almost …
Natural Law Ambiguities, Robin West
Natural Law Ambiguities, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
I share with Fred Schauer the relatively unpopular belief that the positivist insistence that we keep separate the legal "is" from the legal "ought" is a logical prerequisite to meaningful legal criticism, and therefore, in the constitutional context, is a logical prerequisite to meaningful criticism of the Constitution. As Schauer argues, despite the modern inclination to associate positivism with conservatism, the positivist "separation thesis," properly understood, facilitates legal criticism and legal reform, not reactionary acquiescence. If we want to improve law, we must resist the urge to see it through the proverbial rose-colored glasses; we must be clear that a …