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Full-Text Articles in Law
Tribe's Judicious Feminism, Anita L. Allen
Tribe's Judicious Feminism, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
What's Left?, Guyora Binder
Journal Articles
Addressing the future of radical politics at the end of the cold war, this article offers a reconstruction of radical theory around the goal of enabling collaborative self-realization through participatory democratic politics. It offers an interpretation of the radical tradition as defined by a view of human nature as a cultural artifact, and a conception of liberation as the self-conscious transformation of human nature. It proceeds to critique radical theory’s traditional focus on revolution as the means of radical transformation. Distinguishing instrumental and self-expressive conceptions of transformation it critiques revolutionary processes as tending to reproduce instrumental culture. It offers democratic …
"The Right To Bear Arms": Two Views, Lee Fisher, David C. Tryon
"The Right To Bear Arms": Two Views, Lee Fisher, David C. Tryon
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The authors provide varying opinions on the Second Amendment.
The World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank
The World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Rehnquist Court, Statutory Interpretation, Inertial Burdens, And A Misleading Version Of Democracy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
The Rehnquist Court, Statutory Interpretation, Inertial Burdens, And A Misleading Version Of Democracy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
No one theory or school of thought consistently dominates judicial application of statutes, but the basic methodology employed by courts seems well-established if not always well-defined. Most mainstream judges and lawyers faced with a statutory construction task will look at (although with varying emphasis) the text of the statute, the legislative history of the provision, the context of the enactment, evident congressional purpose, and applicable agency interpretations, often employing the canons of construction for assistance. Although orthodox judicial thought suggests that the judge's role is confined to discerning textual meaning or directives of the enacting legislature, courts also often examine …
Reconsidering The Employment Contract Exclusion In Section 1 Of The Federal Arbitration Act: Correcting The Judiciary's Failure Of Statutory Vision, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Reconsidering The Employment Contract Exclusion In Section 1 Of The Federal Arbitration Act: Correcting The Judiciary's Failure Of Statutory Vision, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
The Federal Arbitration Act (the Act), seeks to eliminate centuries of perceived judicial hostility toward arbitration agreements. The Act made written arbitration agreements involving interstate commerce specifically enforceable. It also provided a procedural structure for enforcing awards, which were protected through deferential judicial review. The Act intended to have a wide reach, employing a broad definition of commerce that has presumably grown in breadth along with the expansion of judicial notions of commerce. Although courts applied the Act in tentative and cautious fashion until the 1960's, arbitration gained momentum during the 1970's and the 1980's. Despite growing judicial enthusiasm for …
Eroding The Myth Of Discretionary Justice In Family Law: The Child Support Experiment, Jane C. Murphy
Eroding The Myth Of Discretionary Justice In Family Law: The Child Support Experiment, Jane C. Murphy
All Faculty Scholarship
Reliance on judicial discretion to resolve disputes is one of the most fundamental characteristics of the American legal system. Nowhere have judges exercised more unfettered discretion than in family law. Judicial discretion in this area, however, is not without its critics. In this Article Professor Jane Murphy recommends limiting the use of judicial discretion in family law matters. Professor Murphy argues that the lack of predictability which flows from discretionary decisions undermines our confidence in the equity of decisions and encourages protracted litigation.
Professor Murphy reviews the developing consensus that fixed rules are necessary to guide judges' discretion in divorce …
Feminist Jurisprudence: The 1990 Myra Bradwell Day Panel, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Lucinda M. Finley, Carin Clauss, Joan Bertin
Feminist Jurisprudence: The 1990 Myra Bradwell Day Panel, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Lucinda M. Finley, Carin Clauss, Joan Bertin
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Will There Be A Science Of Law In The Twenty-First Century?, Richard Stith
Will There Be A Science Of Law In The Twenty-First Century?, Richard Stith
Law Faculty Publications
The skepticism of the American Legal Realists and their heirs threatens to make a politically neutral science of law impossible and thus to undermine the liberal polity which needs such a science. Ronald Dworkin attempts to refute the skeptics and defend both legal theory and liberalism. However, the author points out, Dworkin and liberalism are themselves skeptics when it comes to moral principles, and, therefore, they cannot wholly escape from similar skepticism with regard to legal principles. Both Anglo-American and Continental legal history are examined in the course of these arguments.
Generosity: A Duty Without A Right, Richard Stith
Generosity: A Duty Without A Right, Richard Stith
Law Faculty Publications
The rhetoric of rights permeates and dominates the American legal thought today. Even ethics is often considered to involve fundamentally a mutual respect for "moral rights." Understanding human rights is taken to be a sufficient condition for knowing how we do and should order our life together.
Bats And Owls And The Insane Moon: The Search For The Republic's Unwritten Constitution, E. F. Roberts
Bats And Owls And The Insane Moon: The Search For The Republic's Unwritten Constitution, E. F. Roberts
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Sex, Lies And Videotape: The Pornographer As Censor, Marianne Wesson
Sex, Lies And Videotape: The Pornographer As Censor, Marianne Wesson
Publications
The legal branch of the women's movement, although of one mind on some subjects, is divided on the proper approach to pornography. Some feminists oppose the imposition of any legal burdens on pornography because they fear that feminist speech will be caught in the general suppression, and others believe that any such burdens must violate the first amendment. Professor Wesson suggests that pornography should be defined to include only those materials that equate sexual pleasure with the infliction of violence or pain, and imply approval of conduct that generates the actor's arousal or satisfaction through this infliction. So defined, pornography …
A Tribute To Peter S. Popovich, James F. Hogg
A Tribute To Peter S. Popovich, James F. Hogg
Faculty Scholarship
A tribute to Peter S. Popovich, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court 1989-1990 and William Mitchell College of Law alumni.
Re-Examining Hearsay Under The Federal Rules: Some Method For The Madness, Paul S. Milich
Re-Examining Hearsay Under The Federal Rules: Some Method For The Madness, Paul S. Milich
Faculty Publications By Year
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Review Of The Province Of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory In Eighteenth-Century Britain, Thomas A. Green
Reviews
David Lieberman's lucid and sure-footed reinterpretationof late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century jurisprudence is original, thoughtful, analytically acute, and a pleasure to read. Lieberman argues that Bentham's law reform ideas must be viewed in relation to earlier (and contemporary) reform traditions. Bentham's views were more complex than the long-held myth would have it, partly because they were more derivative, at least in his early enterprises, combining as they did a reception of earlier notions with the novelty for which he is usually credited. Blackstone and Mansfield, on this account, were not the match stick figures they are sometimes made out to be; the …
The Problem Of The Subject, Pierre Schlag
Stances, Pierre Schlag
Rehnquist Or Rorty?, Carl W. Tobias
Rehnquist Or Rorty?, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
A postmodern response to Gene Shreve, Eighteen Feet of Clay: Thoughts on Phantom Rule 4(m), 67 Ind. L.J. 85 (1991).
Foreword: Postmodernism And Law, Pierre Schlag
Normativity And The Politics Of Form, Pierre Schlag
Normativity And The Politics Of Form, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson
Authoritarianism And The Rule Of Law, Lynne Henderson
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Rewriting History: The Propriety Of Eradicating Prior Decisional Law Through Settlement And Vacatur, Jill E. Fisch
Rewriting History: The Propriety Of Eradicating Prior Decisional Law Through Settlement And Vacatur, Jill E. Fisch
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Great Writ In Action: Empirical Light On The Federal Habeas Corpus Debate, Larry Yackle
The Great Writ In Action: Empirical Light On The Federal Habeas Corpus Debate, Larry Yackle
Faculty Scholarship
The national debate regarding federal habeas corpus for state prisoners is fueled in the main by ideology. To some, the authority of the federal courts to entertain constitutional challenges to state criminal convictions is the embodiment of all that was right about the Warren Court and the vision that Court offered of a meaningful system of American liberty, underwritten by independent federal tribunals willing and able to check the coercive power of government. By this account, the Bill of Rights is the protean source of safeguards for individual freedom - commanding generous, imaginative, and insightful elaboration by federal courts at …
The Exclusionary Rule And Confession Evidence: Some Perspectives On Evolving Practices And Policies In The United States And England And Wales, Mark Berger
Faculty Works
No abstract provided.
The Canons Of Construction In Georgia: "Anachronisms" In Action, R. Perry Sentell Jr.
The Canons Of Construction In Georgia: "Anachronisms" In Action, R. Perry Sentell Jr.
Scholarly Works
Two initial observations may be tendered concerning the canons of interpretations: The literature, almost uniformly, discredits them; the courts, almost uniformly, employ them. The purpose of this effort is to reflect some sense of background, and illustratively to marshal the Georgia experiences with what are perhaps the three most famous canons of interpretation.
Redefining Radicalism: A Historical Perspective, Walter J. Walsh
Redefining Radicalism: A Historical Perspective, Walter J. Walsh
Articles
This Essay suggests that Unger's attack on formalism and objectivism is not so new. After noting the early contributions of Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham, it does so by particular reference to the critique of William Sampson (1764-1836), the banished Irish civil rights lawyer and political activist, who led an intellectual charge upon the American common law more than a century and a half ago. It also suggests that by depicting the common law as incompatible with the egalitarian ideal of a democratic republic, Sampson sowed the seeds of a distinct radical tradition of which the critical legal studies movement …
The Power Of Private Facts, Anita L. Allen
The Power Of Private Facts, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
Articles & Book Chapters
This paper argues that there is a close connection between basic human rights and communal bonds. It criticizes the philosophical views of Alan Gewirth and Alasdair MacIntyre, which in differing ways deny this connection.
Feminist Jurisprudence, Christina B. Whitman
Feminist Jurisprudence, Christina B. Whitman
Book Chapters
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of ''women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upon the precedent made in race cases, precedent which assumed that the appropriate goal for social change was equality and defined equality as the similar treatment of similarly situated individuals. The key to the early legal victories …
The Wellsprings Of Legal Responses To Inequality: A Perspective On Perspectives, Howard Lesnick
The Wellsprings Of Legal Responses To Inequality: A Perspective On Perspectives, Howard Lesnick
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.