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Willard Hurst's Unpublished Manuscript On Law, Technology, And Regulation, Bj Ard, William J. Novak Jan 2022

Willard Hurst's Unpublished Manuscript On Law, Technology, And Regulation, Bj Ard, William J. Novak

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It is with a great deal of excitement ( and with thanks to so many contributing colleagues and collaborators over the years ) that we are able to present to the public for the first time a newly published work by one of the great originators of modem legal history and law and society scholarship-James Willard Hurst. Hurst published his last two books, Law and Markets in United States History and Dealing with Statutes, in 1982. And, fittingly, he published his last substantive article--.-a very short comment on "The Use of Case Histories"-in the Wisconsin Law Review in 1992. In …


The Law On Christmas, Daniel A. Crane Dec 2021

The Law On Christmas, Daniel A. Crane

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As every jurist knows, there is a vast body of law about Christmas. For instance, every municipal bureaucrat knows that it’s quite alright to display the Holy Child en crèche so long as He’s adequately trivialized by “Santa’s sleigh; a live 40–foot Christmas tree strung with lights; statues of carolers in old-fashioned dress; candy-striped poles; a ‘talking’ wishing well; a large banner proclaiming ‘SEASONS GREETINGS’; a miniature ‘village’ with several houses and a church; and various ‘cut-out’ figures, including those of a clown, a dancing elephant, a robot, and a teddy bear.” There are cases about dangerous Christmas ornaments, whether …


Family Separation And The Triumph Of Cruelty, Richard A. Primus Jul 2018

Family Separation And The Triumph Of Cruelty, Richard A. Primus

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Sometime in 1940, an 11-year-old refugee named Yudita Nisse reached the United States on a boat from Japan. Her Latvian-Jewish family had fled Nazi Germany east across the Soviet Union; the trip to North America was to have completed their escape. But the family had no legal authorization to enter the United States, so on arrival in Seattle they were locked up as illegal immigrants. They were eventually released, and Yudita later Anglicized her first name, becoming Judith. A second name change when she married made her Judith Shklar, and by that name she became the first woman ever to …


Peril And Possibility: Strikes, Rights, And Legal Change In The Era Of Trump, Kate Andrias Apr 2018

Peril And Possibility: Strikes, Rights, And Legal Change In The Era Of Trump, Kate Andrias

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Everyone in this audience is well aware of the problems plaguing reiterating. The wealthiest one percent of Americans takes home nearly a quarter of our national income and owns forty percent of the nation's wealth.


Did The Pyeongchang Games Prove The Olympics Can Still Broker Peace?, Robert Blecker Jan 2018

Did The Pyeongchang Games Prove The Olympics Can Still Broker Peace?, Robert Blecker

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Book Review Of Re-Understanding The Child's Right To Identity: On Belonging, Responsiveness And Hope, By Ya'ir Ronen, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2016

Book Review Of Re-Understanding The Child's Right To Identity: On Belonging, Responsiveness And Hope, By Ya'ir Ronen, Michael L. Perlin

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Life Sentence Doesn't Deliver Punishment, Robert Blecker Jan 2013

Life Sentence Doesn't Deliver Punishment, Robert Blecker

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Book Review Of Michelle Oberman’S And Cheryl L. Meyer’S “When Mothers Kill: Interviews From Prison”, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2011

Book Review Of Michelle Oberman’S And Cheryl L. Meyer’S “When Mothers Kill: Interviews From Prison”, Michael L. Perlin

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Behaviorally Informed Financial Services Regulation, Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir Jan 2008

Behaviorally Informed Financial Services Regulation, Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

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Financial services decisions can have enourmous consequences for household well-being. Households need a range of financial services - to conduct basic transactions, such as receiving their income, storing it, and paying bills; to save for emergency needs and long-term goals; to access credit; and to insure against life's key risks. But the financial services system is exceedingly complicated and often not well-designed to optimize house-hold behavior. In response to the complexity of out financial system, there has been a long running debate about the appropriate role and form of regulation. Regulation is largely stuck in two competing models - disclosure, …


Commentary: Mental Health Legislation, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2006

Commentary: Mental Health Legislation, Michael L. Perlin

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Tax Filing Experiences And Withholding Preferences Of Low- And Moderate-Income Households Preliminary Evidence From A New Survey, Michael S. Barr, Jane Dokko Jan 2006

Tax Filing Experiences And Withholding Preferences Of Low- And Moderate-Income Households Preliminary Evidence From A New Survey, Michael S. Barr, Jane Dokko

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The United States Federal income tax code has an enormous potential to shape the economic and financial decisions of taxpaying households. Tax rates, compliance laws, and the withholding system create incentives, as do the methods by which the Treasury collects tax receipts and disburses tax refunds. The role of third party service providers in this incentive structure is less well understood, even though tax preparation firms play important roles in our tax system. Nationally, more than half of taxpayers use paid preparers to submit their tax returns. Low- and moderate-income (LMI) households are among those who use the paid tax …


Book Review: Bachrach And Turner, Sugar’S Life In The Hood: A Story Of A Former Welfare Mother, Frank W. Munger Jan 2003

Book Review: Bachrach And Turner, Sugar’S Life In The Hood: A Story Of A Former Welfare Mother, Frank W. Munger

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Calling To Account, Stephen Ellmann Jan 1999

Calling To Account, Stephen Ellmann

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Does Time Make Ancient Good Uncouth?, John W. Reed Jan 1997

Does Time Make Ancient Good Uncouth?, John W. Reed

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The somewhat arch title of my remarks, which I'll explain later, came to me at the end of December, when all forms of the media were filled with references to the fast approaching turn of the calendar when we shall greet a twenty-first century and a third millennium. Whether it comes in with the year 2000, as popularly believed, or, more properly, the year 2001, it will be a time for reflection, for taking stock of ourselves and our world. Predictably, we already are inundated with pronouncements from pundits and politicians, from scientists and seers, from philosophers and fools. I …


A Conversation Between Milner Ball And James Boyd White, Milner S. Ball, James Boyd White Jan 1996

A Conversation Between Milner Ball And James Boyd White, Milner S. Ball, James Boyd White

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The editors of the Journal invited me to review James Boyd White's Acts of Hope. In response I proposed inviting Professor White to join me in a conversation about his work. First the editors and then he accepted the proposal. Professor White and I agreed that we might call a halt to this experiment at any time because we would not subvert our friendship in the attempt to enact an instance of it in print. The editors accepted the risk that we might at last have no pages for them. - MSB


Law, Literature, And The Humanities: Panel Discussion, James Boyd White, Nancy L. Cook, Judy M. Cornett, Clark D. Cunningham, Thomas D. Eisele, L. H. Larue, David Ray Papke Jan 1994

Law, Literature, And The Humanities: Panel Discussion, James Boyd White, Nancy L. Cook, Judy M. Cornett, Clark D. Cunningham, Thomas D. Eisele, L. H. Larue, David Ray Papke

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This panel discussion took place on April 21, 1994, as part of the University of Cincinnati College of Law's 1994 Robert S. Marx Lecture presented by Professor James Boyd White: The Authority of Law and Philosophy in Plato's Crito.


Spousal Probate Rights In A Multiple-Marriage Society, Lawrence W. Waggoner Jan 1990

Spousal Probate Rights In A Multiple-Marriage Society, Lawrence W. Waggoner

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Nearly everyone knows about the transformation of the American family that has taken place over the last couple of decades. The changes comprise one of the great events of our age-from the latter half of the 1970's into the present. Articles on one aspect or another of the phenomenon frequent the popular press, and a special edition of Newsweek was recently devoted to the topic. The traditional "Leave It To Beaver" family no longer prevails in American marriage behavior. To be sure, the wage-earning husband, the homemaking and child-rearing wife, and their two joint children-this type of family still exists. …


Book Review: Lempert And Sanders, Invitation To Law And Social Science, Frank W. Munger Jan 1988

Book Review: Lempert And Sanders, Invitation To Law And Social Science, Frank W. Munger

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Instructions On Death: Guiding The Jury’S Sentencing Discretion In Capital Cases, Stephen Ellmann Jan 1986

Instructions On Death: Guiding The Jury’S Sentencing Discretion In Capital Cases, Stephen Ellmann

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Book Review, The Politics Of Informal Justice. Vol. 1: The American Experience. Vol. 2: Comparative Studies., Frank W. Munger Jan 1984

Book Review, The Politics Of Informal Justice. Vol. 1: The American Experience. Vol. 2: Comparative Studies., Frank W. Munger

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The Anatomy Of A Clinical Law Course, James J. White Jan 1970

The Anatomy Of A Clinical Law Course, James J. White

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Since the summer of 1965 when the Michigan Supreme Court first authorized law student practice on the behalf of indigent persons, students at the University of Michigan Law School have been engaged in extensive practice on behalf of indigent persons in Washtenaw County. Between 75 and 125 second and third year students at the University of Michigan Law School each semester have worked at the Washtenaw County Legal Aid Clinic under the direction of the OEO Staff attorneys. Students receive neither credit nor pay for such work and their activities are not directly supervised by the faculty. That volunteer experience …


Consumer Credit In The Ghetto: Ucc Free Entry Provisions And The Federal Trade Commission Study (Business In The Ghetto), James J. White Jan 1969

Consumer Credit In The Ghetto: Ucc Free Entry Provisions And The Federal Trade Commission Study (Business In The Ghetto), James J. White

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Like the former speakers, I will not speak on the topic for which I was scheduled. Instead I am going to talk about two things which are not closely related to one another but which are both related to the profitability of the retail sale of goods and credit in the ghetto. I propose to leave the law on consumer credit to Mr. Dostert and Professor Hogan. First I wish to say a word on the so-called "free entry" aspects of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code; then I will comment on the Federal Trade Commission study.


The Law In Its Relation To Religion And Morals, Edwin C. Goddard Jan 1911

The Law In Its Relation To Religion And Morals, Edwin C. Goddard

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Man is a religious being. To him, everywhere and always, religion and religious institutions have been and will be of prime concern. Now, and in this United States, not less than in ages past and in other parts of the world, is this a fundamental fact. He who, without a recognition of this, would study either religion or government, would quite fail to comprehend his problem. Man is also a social being. As such he has always found it necessary to live in an organized society, under some form of government. The world depicted with such irresistible genius by Rosseau …


Address By Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, And Poem By D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., On The Dedication Of The Law Lecture Hall Of The Michigan University, Thomas M. Cooley, D. Bethune Duffield Dec 1862

Address By Hon. Thomas M. Cooley, And Poem By D. Bethune Duffield, Esq., On The Dedication Of The Law Lecture Hall Of The Michigan University, Thomas M. Cooley, D. Bethune Duffield

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A stirring address by Professor Cooley upon the occasion of the dedication of the Law Lecture Hall of the first Law School Building. He begins: "Students in the Department of Law: While Michigan was yet a wilderness, only feeling along its borders the advancing tread of civilization, and only hearing here and there the sound of the woodman's axe, the wisdom of American statesmen made provision for the establishment in the territory of a great University...."