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The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government, R. B. Bernstein
The Law Professor As Public Intellectual: Felix Frankfurter And The Public And Its Government, R. B. Bernstein
Touro Law Review
Professor R.B. Bernstein was a legal historian with a J.D. from Harvard Law School who taught at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at City College of New York and New York Law School. He presented the paper below on Professor Felix Frankfurter’s The Public and Its Government, published in 1930. A little more than two months after the conference, sadly, Professor Bernstein passed. His brother Steven Bernstein provided the Touro Law Review with the draft of the paper that Professor Bernstein was preparing to submit for publication. We have added footnotes and made only minor revisions. …
Lost In The Thicket, Brad Snyder
Lost In The Thicket, Brad Snyder
Touro Law Review
As part of a symposium on his biography of Felix Frankfurter, Democratic Justice, Brad Snyder revisits Baker v. Carr and explores the contrasts between Justice William Brennan’s judicially supremacist majority opinion and Frankfurter’s departmentalist dissent and unheeded warnings about empowering the judiciary. As Frankfurter wrote in his Baker dissent, he placed more faith in the U.S. Congress, as opposed to the judiciary, to protect democracy.
Partnership, Democracy, And Self-Rule In Jewish Law, Daniel J.H. Greenwood
Partnership, Democracy, And Self-Rule In Jewish Law, Daniel J.H. Greenwood
Touro Law Review
Liberal political theory has long relied on a metaphor of contract: autonomous adults coming together to agree, by unanimous consent, on the basic structure of a just society. But contract is a strange metaphor with which to explain society. Contract law is based on a morality of strangers acting at arms-length. In contrast, decent societies and the governments they set for themselves must be based on a commitment of mutual responsibility. What makes us fellow citizens—fellows of any variety—is accepting that we are all in this together. Jewish legal and midrashic traditions can be a useful corrective to the atomistic …
Keeping Faith With Nomos, Steven L. Winter
Sunlight And Shadows: Louis D. Brandeis On Privacy, Publicity, And Free Expression In American Democracy, Erin Coyle
Sunlight And Shadows: Louis D. Brandeis On Privacy, Publicity, And Free Expression In American Democracy, Erin Coyle
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Can The Constitutional Court Of The Russian Federation Lead The Way To The Creation Of A True Democratic Society In The New Russian In The 21st Century?, Shawn S. Cullinane
Can The Constitutional Court Of The Russian Federation Lead The Way To The Creation Of A True Democratic Society In The New Russian In The 21st Century?, Shawn S. Cullinane
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Week After, Lawrence K. Karlton
Structural Models Of Religion And State In Jewish And Democratic Political Thought: Inevitable Contradiction? The Challenge For Israel, Elazar Nachalon
Structural Models Of Religion And State In Jewish And Democratic Political Thought: Inevitable Contradiction? The Challenge For Israel, Elazar Nachalon
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Campaign Finance And Political Gerrymandering Decisions In The October 2005 Term, Burt Neuborne
Campaign Finance And Political Gerrymandering Decisions In The October 2005 Term, Burt Neuborne
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Bruce Ledewitz, American Religious Democracy: Coming To Terms With The End Of Secular Politics, Thomas A. Schweitzer
Bruce Ledewitz, American Religious Democracy: Coming To Terms With The End Of Secular Politics, Thomas A. Schweitzer
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.