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The Problems Of Yesteryear -- Commerce And Due Process, Robert L. Stern
The Problems Of Yesteryear -- Commerce And Due Process, Robert L. Stern
Vanderbilt Law Review
Less than fifteen years ago, there were constitutional problems important enough to stir the country, to threaten the sanctity of the Supreme Court. These were the culmination of at least three decades of judicial controversy, in which the pressure of events brought criticism of the Court's decisions, both in noteworthy dissenting opinions and outside, to a new height. Fifteen years later, there still are difficult and important constitutional problems, and there still is criticism of the Supreme Court's decisions--though on a relatively minor scale. But the issues which rocked more than the legal world in the 1930's and in the …
Recent Constitutional Developments On Personal Jurisdiction Of Courts, Virginia B. Cowan
Recent Constitutional Developments On Personal Jurisdiction Of Courts, Virginia B. Cowan
Vanderbilt Law Review
In strict logic, the concept of the power of courts to deal in personam with controversies is said to be a constant and the extension of jurisdiction merely an appropriation of pre-existing power. More realistically, it is obvious that, as institutions and citizens become increasingly mobile and migratory, the courts are obliged to keep their jurisdictional machinery abreast of the times in order that legal processes may continue to be the effective arbiter of disputes in our society. Regardless of what terms are used to describe the source of the power, it is traditionally conceived to be limited by the …