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Eric Stein, William W. Bishop Jr.
Eric Stein -- A Tribute, Joseph H.H. Weiler
Eric Stein -- A Tribute, Joseph H.H. Weiler
Michigan Law Review
A tribute to Eric Stein
A Commentary On American Legal Scholarship Concerning The Admission Of Migrants, James A.R. Nafziger
A Commentary On American Legal Scholarship Concerning The Admission Of Migrants, James A.R. Nafziger
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
The following essay will focus attention on American legal scholarship concerning the admission of migrants. This topic is instructive and practical because of its impact on both municipal and global law. An eminent international jurist observed that greater foresight by scholars twenty-five years ago could have averted many current problems of migration. Today, these problems arise from such sources as the population explosion, periodic droughts, the pull factor of opportunities in advanced economies, and massive political unrest in the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, and elsewhere. Migrants are knocking at the gates of sovereignty, even crashing some …
Personality As A Criterion For Faculty Tenure: The Enemy It Is Us, Perry A. Zirkel
Personality As A Criterion For Faculty Tenure: The Enemy It Is Us, Perry A. Zirkel
Cleveland State Law Review
Faculty tenure has been the subject of continuing concern and controversy in American higher education. Problems in this area, including the lack of definitive standards for evaluating tenure candidates, have been highlighted by the recent downturn in the economy and the resultant decline in both enrollment and employment in colleges and universities. This trend is actively demonstrated by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Mayberry v. Dees. This Article advocates and proposes a more exacting judicial review of faculty tenure cases that are based on collegiality or other such personality criteria. Initially, the operational context of faculty tenure …
Critical Legal Studies Versus Critical Legal Theory: A Comment On Method, Frank W. Munger, Carroll Seron
Critical Legal Studies Versus Critical Legal Theory: A Comment On Method, Frank W. Munger, Carroll Seron
Articles & Chapters
Over the last decade the Conference on Critical Legal Studies (CCLS) has rekindled an important debate about the study of legal ideologies. The work by scholars within this movement is provocative because it demands that we take seriously the contradictory needs and ideological parameters of liberal legalism. The growing body of work associated with this movement has not, however, included a criticism of the ideological underpinnings of legal methods in general and doctrinal analysis in particular. We begin with the premise that scholarship must include a self-critical method. In Part I-The Political-Economic Constraints of Liberal Legal Scholarship-we explore why questions …