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Class Of 1986 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1986 Five Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This report summarizes the findings of a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni five years after graduation.
Class Of 1986 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
Class Of 1986 Five Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School
UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports
This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
Doctrine In A Vacuum: Reflections On What A Law School Ought (And Ought Not) To Be, James Boyd White
Articles
I have written earlier in these pages about the expectations-the fears and hopes-that one can appropriately bring to law school. In this paper I speak to those who are immersed in the process of legal education, on one side of the podium or the other, and wish to say something of what I think it is, and can be, all about.
Styles Of Law And The Attainment Of Social Justice, Richard O. Lempert, Joseph Sanders
Styles Of Law And The Attainment Of Social Justice, Richard O. Lempert, Joseph Sanders
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In the last chapter we focused on the meaning of legal autonomy and on the constituent elements of the ideal type. We noted two requisites for the autonomous application of law: judicial formalism and equal competence. But we also argued that the autonomous application of law does not guarantee that the law as applied will not perpetuate or advance socioeconomic differences. For applied law to be autonomous in this further sense, legal norms, in addition, must be status neutral, and the distribution of welfare in society must be such that the neutral norms do not disproportionately benefit some people. These …
Judicial Criticism, James Boyd White
Judicial Criticism, James Boyd White
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Today I shall talk about the criticism of judicial opinions, especially of constitutional opinions. This may at first seem to have rather little to do with our larger topic, "The Constitution and Human Values," but I hope that by the end I will be seen to be talking about that subject too. In fact I hope to show that in what I call our "criticism" our "values" are defined and made actual in most important ways.