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Caudill V. Consolidation Coal Company, Penny White Nov 1995

Caudill V. Consolidation Coal Company, Penny White

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Pinpointing The Beginning And Ending Of A Temporary Regulatory Taking, Gregory M. Stein Oct 1995

Pinpointing The Beginning And Ending Of A Temporary Regulatory Taking, Gregory M. Stein

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Disciplinary Differences, Dwight Aarons Oct 1995

Disciplinary Differences, Dwight Aarons

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Culture Clash: Law And Science In America, Glenn Harlan Reynolds Apr 1995

Culture Clash: Law And Science In America, Glenn Harlan Reynolds

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Counsel's Corner, George Kuney Apr 1995

Counsel's Corner, George Kuney

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The Constitution Of Belarus: A Good First Step Towards The Rule Of Law, Gary M. Shaw Jan 1995

The Constitution Of Belarus: A Good First Step Towards The Rule Of Law, Gary M. Shaw

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Substance Above All: The Utopian Vision Of Modern Natural Law Constitutionalists, Thomas B. Mcaffee Jan 1995

Substance Above All: The Utopian Vision Of Modern Natural Law Constitutionalists, Thomas B. Mcaffee

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Modern natural law constitutionalists assert that the Constitution, properly understood, includes a kind of general trump card in the form of a moral reality which provides (or is, at any rate, thought to provide) a measure of all positive legal acts--whether framed in terms of the values of natural equality, natural rights, or “simple justice.”

This article explores why “trump card” natural law constitutionalism cannot by its nature adequately confront crucial issues of institutional design and democratic theory. In thus putting questions of moral substance ahead of crucial issues of authority, natural law constitutionalism appears to rest on a naive, …


Freeing Property Owners From The Rap Trap: Tennessee Adopts The Uniform, Amy Morris Hess Jan 1995

Freeing Property Owners From The Rap Trap: Tennessee Adopts The Uniform, Amy Morris Hess

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Regulatory Takings And Ripeness In The Federal Courts, Gregory M. Stein Jan 1995

Regulatory Takings And Ripeness In The Federal Courts, Gregory M. Stein

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The Supreme Court held in 1987 that compensation is required automatically whenever a municipality takes property by regulation. The Court has also held repeatedly that federal courts cannot even hear such claims until the landowner meets a demanding ripeness test. Landowners are often unable to survive the protracted ripening period even though their claims might ultimately have proved to be valid. And the occasional municipality that loses a takings case may be liable for a huge award that reflects the lengthy ripening period. Federal courts have persistently refused to acknowledge this tension between takings law and takings procedure. This Article …


The Gulf Of Mexico, The Academy, And Me, Fran Ansley Jan 1995

The Gulf Of Mexico, The Academy, And Me, Fran Ansley

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