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In Search Of Themis: Toward The Meaning Of The Ideal Legislator--Senator Edmund S. Muskie And The Early Development Of Modern American Environmental Law, 1965-1968, Robert F. Blomquist Jan 2004

In Search Of Themis: Toward The Meaning Of The Ideal Legislator--Senator Edmund S. Muskie And The Early Development Of Modern American Environmental Law, 1965-1968, Robert F. Blomquist

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Self-Organizing Legal Systems: Precedent And Variation In Bankruptcy, Bernard Trujillo Jan 2004

Self-Organizing Legal Systems: Precedent And Variation In Bankruptcy, Bernard Trujillo

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Models of legal ordering are frequently hierarchical. These models do not explain two prominent realities: (1) variation in the content of a legal system, and (2) patterns of non-hierarchical ordering that we observe. As a supplement to hierarchical explanations of legal order, this Article, drawing from physical and social science research on complex systems, offers a self-organizing model. The self-organizing model focuses on variation in the content of legal systems and attempts to explain the relationship between that variation and patterns of ordering. The self-organizing model demonstrates that variation and ordering are not opposite categories, but rather constitute one continuous …


The Presidential Oath, The American National Interest And A Call For Presiprudence, Robert F. Blomquist Jan 2004

The Presidential Oath, The American National Interest And A Call For Presiprudence, Robert F. Blomquist

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