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What We Can Predict And Affect, Jill Fraley
Stealth Constitutional Change And The Geography Of Law, Jill M. Fraley
Stealth Constitutional Change And The Geography Of Law, Jill M. Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
Bruce Ackerman's recent book, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic, is a sudden shift from his previous scholarship on constitutional moments and the ability of social movements to generate minor revolutions. By acknowledging how constitutional change did not fit into his model of deliberate, deeply debated movements, Ackerman has shifted the scholarly lens to unintentional and unanticipated structural variations. Ackerman focuses his book on the political processes and events that have fostered potentially illegitimate constitutional remodeling. He acknowledges that certain features of legal scholarship have contributed to a lack of awareness of slow, structural drift, but he does …
Scaled Legislation & The Legal History Of The Common Good, Jill M. Fraley
Scaled Legislation & The Legal History Of The Common Good, Jill M. Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
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Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Finding Possession: Labor, Waste And The Evolution Of Property, Jill M. Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
Although possession has long been intimately linked to labor, recent historical work on land claims during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries suggests that the clash of divergent legal cultures of possession drove the two apart. This clash yielded an American concept of possession much more deeply connected to industrialization than the traditional understanding of labor. By providing evidence of how our concept of labor was industrialized, this article questions the outcomes in modem possession cases, particularly as they impact development and environmental preservation in rural areas.
Book Review, Sara Gregg, Managing The Mountains: Land Use Planning, The New Deal, And The Creation Of A Federal Landscape In Appalachia (2013), Jill Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
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Invisible Histories And The Failure Of The Protected Classes, Jill Fraley
Invisible Histories And The Failure Of The Protected Classes, Jill Fraley
Jill M. Fraley
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