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The Future Of Liberal Legal Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover Oct 1988

The Future Of Liberal Legal Scholarship, Ronald K.L. Collins, David M. Skover

Michigan Law Review

Earl Warren is dead.

A generation of liberal legal scholars continues, nevertheless, to act as if the man and his Court preside over the present. While this romanticism is understandable, it exacts a high price in a world transformed.

The following commentary is a reconstructive criticism written from the perspective of two liberals concerned about the future of "legal liberalism." We present our views as a commentary to emphasize their preliminary character; they represent our current assessment of where liberals stand and where they might redirect their energies.


Corporations And Society: Power And Responsibility, Sara Anne Engle May 1988

Corporations And Society: Power And Responsibility, Sara Anne Engle

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Corporations and Society: Power and Responsibility edited by Warren J. Samuels and Arthur S. Miller


The Public Defender, Robert R. Kimball May 1988

The Public Defender, Robert R. Kimball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Public Defender by Lisa J. McIntyre


Crimewarps: The Future Of Crime In America, Brandon D. Lawniczak May 1988

Crimewarps: The Future Of Crime In America, Brandon D. Lawniczak

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America by Georgette Bennett


A Need For Caring, Judith Areen May 1988

A Need For Caring, Judith Areen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public edited by Harlon L. Dalton, Scott Burris and the Yale AIDS Law Project


Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider May 1988

Legislatures And Legal Change: The Reform Of Divorce Law, Carl E. Schneider

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Silent Revolution: Routine Policy Making and the Transformation of Divorce Law in the United States by Herbert Jacob


And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice, Kevin Edward Kennedy May 1988

And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest For Racial Justice, Kevin Edward Kennedy

Michigan Law Review

A Review of And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick A. Bell


The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls Of Today's Students, Maureen P. Taylor May 1988

The Closing Of The American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy And Impoverished The Souls Of Today's Students, Maureen P. Taylor

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students/em by Allan Bloom


Democratic Education, Jonathan Marks May 1988

Democratic Education, Jonathan Marks

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Democratic Education by Amy Gutmann


Questioning Broadcast Regulation, Jonathan Weinberg May 1988

Questioning Broadcast Regulation, Jonathan Weinberg

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Seven Dirty Words and Six Other Stories: Controlling the Content of Print and Broadcast by Matthew L. Spitzer


Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater May 1988

Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater

Michigan Law Review

A Review Real Rape by Susan Estrich


Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love May 1988

Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Rights, Restitution, & Risk: Essays in Moral Theory by Judith Jarvis Thomson, edited by William Parent


Abortion And Divorce In Western Law, Sara J. Vance May 1988

Abortion And Divorce In Western Law, Sara J. Vance

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Abortion and Divorce in Western Law by Mary A. Glendon


Rummaging Through The Emperor's Wardrobe, Don Herzog May 1988

Rummaging Through The Emperor's Wardrobe, Don Herzog

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory. 3 Volumes by Roberto Mangabeira Unger


The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein Feb 1988

The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Family Wealth Transmission, John H. Langbein

Michigan Law Review

The main purpose of this article is to sound a pair of themes about the ways in which these great changes in the nature of wealth have become associated with changes of perhaps comparable magnitude in the timing and in the character of family wealth transmission. My first theme, developed in Part II, concerns human capital. Whereas of old, wealth transmission from parents to children tended to center upon major items of patrimony such as the family farm or the family firm, today for the broad middle classes, wealth transmission centers on a radically different kind of asset: the investment …