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Legal Certainty And Legal Methods: A European Alternative To American Legal Indeterminacy?, James Maxeiner
Legal Certainty And Legal Methods: A European Alternative To American Legal Indeterminacy?, James Maxeiner
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Americans are resigned to a high level of legal indeterminacy. This Article shows that Europeans do not accept legal indeterminacy and instead have made legal certainty a general principle of their law. This Article uses the example of the German legal system to show how German legal methods strive to realize this general European principle. It suggests that these methods are opportunities for Americans to develop their own system to reduce legal indeterminacy and to increase legal certainty.
Challenges In Law Making In Mass Societies, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Challenges In Law Making In Mass Societies, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
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Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, The Senate And The Bombing Of Cambodia, Joel K. Goldstein
Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, The Senate And The Bombing Of Cambodia, Joel K. Goldstein
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The past has a way of repeating itself. Events may not reoccur in the precise manner previously experienced; yet, the pattern often is sufficiently familiar to resemble one encountered before. For those who experienced the Vietnam years, the war in Iraq carries some feeling of “déjà vu all over again.”[1] There are differences, to be sure, yet a familiar pattern emerges—a failed discretionary war on foreign shores, executive use of manipulated intelligence to build support, the parade of shifting rationales offered to replace those exposed as unconvincing, the presidential deceit and dissembling, the legislative abdication.
Thomas F. Eagleton spent the …
Foreword, Joel K. Goldstein
Foreword, Joel K. Goldstein
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Thomas F. Eagleton was an original. Many found him to be one of the most compelling and admirable people they had ever encountered. That was certainly my experience as I came to know him during the last few years of his life. And he certainly made a strong, favorable impression on the students we taught together at Saint Louis University School of Law in our seminar on the Presidency and the Constitution.
Reply Of Professor Rudovsky To Professor Stephen I. Vladeck, "The Field Theory: Martial Law, The Suspension Power, And The Insurrection Act, David Rudovsky
Reply Of Professor Rudovsky To Professor Stephen I. Vladeck, "The Field Theory: Martial Law, The Suspension Power, And The Insurrection Act, David Rudovsky
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