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An Interpretive History Of Modern Equal Protection, Michael Klarman
An Interpretive History Of Modern Equal Protection, Michael Klarman
Michigan Law Review
My enterprise here is to write a limited history of modem equal protection - one that will facilitate understanding of the important conceptual shifts that have occurred over time. By "modem" I mean the period following the switch-in-time in 1937 that signaled the demise of the Lochner era. By "limited" I mean an account that falls substantially short of a full-scale history of equal protection, which would, for example, necessarily encompass a good deal of political and social history. My aim here, rather, is to tell a story about the evolution of equal protection as a legal concept; I shall, …
A Rule Unvanquished: The New Value Exception To The Absolute Priority Rule, Clifford S. Harris
A Rule Unvanquished: The New Value Exception To The Absolute Priority Rule, Clifford S. Harris
Michigan Law Review
This Note examines whether the new value exception remains part of the revised Bankruptcy Code. Part I discusses the background of the new value exception. Part II traces the development of the conflict concerning the survival of the new value exception subsequent to the adoption of the Code. It then discusses the Supreme Court's opinions in Mid/antic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and its progeny, which established the methodology for determining the impact of the revised Bankruptcy Code on preexisting bankruptcy law. Based on an analysis of the Midlantic doctrine, Part II concludes that Congress did …
Actual Malice: Twenty-Five Years After Times V. Sullivan, David G. Wille
Actual Malice: Twenty-Five Years After Times V. Sullivan, David G. Wille
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Actual Malice: Twenty-Five Years After Times v. Sullivan. by W. Wat Hopkins
Abe Fortas: A Biography, Michael F. Colosi
Abe Fortas: A Biography, Michael F. Colosi
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Abe Fortas: A Biography by Laura Kalman
Judicial Power And Reform Politics: The Anatomy Of Lochner V. New York, Charles A. Beineman
Judicial Power And Reform Politics: The Anatomy Of Lochner V. New York, Charles A. Beineman
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Judicial Power and Reform Politics: The Anatomy of Lochner v. New York. By Paul Kens
Structural Free Exercise, Mary Ann Glendon, Raul F. Yanes
Structural Free Exercise, Mary Ann Glendon, Raul F. Yanes
Michigan Law Review
In Part I of this article, we analyze the development of case law interpreting the religious freedom language of the First Amendment from the 1940s to the eve of the rights revolution as a casualty of the piecemeal approach to incorporation, compounded by a series of judicial lapses and oversights. Part II deals with the fate of the Religion Clause in the era of the rights revolution, when the free exercise and establishment provisions were deployed in the service of a constitutional agenda to which they were, in themselves, largely peripheral. The current period of doctrinal change is the subject …