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Something To Remember, Something To Celebrate: Women At Columbia Law School In, Barbara Aronstein Black
Something To Remember, Something To Celebrate: Women At Columbia Law School In, Barbara Aronstein Black
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In this issue the Columbia Law Review joins in the celebration the 75th anniversary of the admission of women to the Columbia Law School. I am grateful to the editors of the Review for inviting me to contribute, and for the open-endedness of the invitation (or, in other words, what follows is my fault, not theirs). This has been an opportunity for me to do some research, some recalling and some reflection (and to tell a few stories). My research is incomplete, one might say sketchy, but I trust reliable as far as it goes. My recollections may well not …
The Contested Right To Vote, Richard Briffault
The Contested Right To Vote, Richard Briffault
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For those who believe the United States is a representative democracy with a government elected by the people, the events of late 2000must have been more than a little disconcerting. In the election for our most important public office – our only truly national office – the candidate who received the most popular votes was declared the loser while his second place opponent, who had received some 540,000 fewer votes, was the winner. This result turned on the outcome in Florida, where approximately 150,000 ballots cast were found not to contain valid votes. Further, due to flaws in ballot design, …
Remembering Gary – And Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher
Remembering Gary – And Tort Theory, George P. Fletcher
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Tort theory has had a brief but wondrous history. Los Angeles and the UCLA School of Law lie at the core of that history – much more, I am sure, than is likely to be remembered.