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Extemporaneous Comment, Michael S. Baram Jan 1970

Extemporaneous Comment, Michael S. Baram

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Well, I think today we have heard two ideas which are intuitive to the emerging role of the law school. One is Arthur Miller's idea of creating centers of policy analysis and the other is what several other speakers have suggested about interdisciplinary and clinical interdisciplinary programs. I would like to speak against the former and for the latter.


Once More Into The Breach: Promissory Estoppel And Traditional Damage Doctrine, Theodore S. Sims Jan 1970

Once More Into The Breach: Promissory Estoppel And Traditional Damage Doctrine, Theodore S. Sims

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When, in the absence of traditional contract formalities, a promise is enforced because the promisee has acted in reliance upon it, both courts and commentators have disagreed over the proper measure of damages. Early in the debate, two positions could be discerned. Advocates of the one favored enforcing the promise according to its terms and awarding the promisee full contractual damages.This measure of recovery has come to be called the expectation interest and is an attempt to put the promisee in the same position as he would have been had the promise been fulfilled. Advocates of the other position would …


Criminal Procedure For Juvenile Offenders In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher Jan 1970

Criminal Procedure For Juvenile Offenders In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher

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The purpose of this article is to set out, in summary fashion, the law concerning juvenile offenders in Ethiopia. Our focus will be on procedural rather than substantive aspects-insofar as it is possible to separate the two-and particularly upon the enforcement of constitutional guarantees in the process.


The Social Control Of Science And Technology, Michael S. Baram Jan 1970

The Social Control Of Science And Technology, Michael S. Baram

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Science and technology increasingly work changes in the complex matrix of society. These changes pervade our ecological systems and our physical and psychic health. Less perceptibly, they pervade our culture, our values, and our value based institutions such as the law. In turn, our values and institutions shape the progress and utilization of science and technology.

As we know, science and technology have provided society with enormous material benefits and a higher standard of living and health. But we now realize that this process has been accompanied by alarming rates of resource consumption and many new hazards to ecological systems …