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Full-Text Articles in Law
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 World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank
The World In Our Courts, Stephen B. Burbank
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
No abstract provided.
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.
The Concept Of Offensiveness In Establishment And Free Exercise Jurisprudence, William P. Marshall
The Concept Of Offensiveness In Establishment And Free Exercise Jurisprudence, William P. Marshall
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Stances, Pierre Schlag
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
"I Vote This Way Because I'M Wrong": The Supreme Court Justice As Epimenides, John M. Rogers
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Possibly the most unsettling phenomenon in the Supreme Court's 1988 term was Justice White's decision to vote contrary to his own exhaustively stated reasoning in Pennsylvania v. Union Gas Co. His unexplained decision to vote against the result of his own analysis lends support to those who argue that law, or at least constitutional law, is fundamentally indeterminate. Proponents of the indeterminacy argument sometimes base their position on the allegedly inescapable inconsistency of decisions made by a multi-member court. There is an answer to the inconsistency argument, but it founders if justices sometimes vote, without explanation, on the basis of …
Foreword: Postmodernism And Law, Pierre Schlag
The Problem Of The Subject, Pierre Schlag
Normativity And The Politics Of Form, Pierre Schlag
Normativity And The Politics Of Form, Pierre Schlag
Publications
No abstract provided.
A Comparative Study, United States/France, Of The Impact Of Functionalism As A New Choice Of Law Process To Determine The Law Governing International Contracts, Anne Schiellein
LLM Theses and Essays
This thesis compares the evolution of law theory in the United States and France, focusing the notions of functionalism and conceptualism respectively. There is an emphasis on the independent development of both approaches originating from a need to resolve issues pertaining to conflicting law problems and societal needs. The thesis also highlights that the continual practice of both theories is not independent and summarizes the notion that “functionalism can be an answer where conceptualism fails to provide a solution” to establish that comparing the impact of functionalism as a new choice of law process to determine the law governing international …
The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West
The Ideal Of Liberty: A Comment On Michael H. V. Gerald D., Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
What is the meaning and content of the "liberty" protected by the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment? In Michael H. v. Gerald D. Justices Brennan and Scalia spelled out what at first blush appear to be sharply contrasting understandings of the meaning of liberty and of the substantive limits liberty imposes on state action. Justice Scalia argued that the "liberty" protected by a substantive interpretation of due process is only the liberty to engage in activities historically protected against state intervention by firmly entrenched societal traditions. I will sometimes call this the "traditionalist" interpretation of liberty. Justice Brennan, …
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.
Suicide And Justice, Arthur J. Jacobson
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 …
Derrida, Law, Violence And The Paradox Of Justice, Michel Rosenfeld
Derrida, Law, Violence And The Paradox Of Justice, Michel Rosenfeld
Articles
No abstract provided.
Foreword, David Rudenstine
Sinaitic And Noahide Law: Legal Pluralism In Jewish Law, Suzanne Last Stone
Sinaitic And Noahide Law: Legal Pluralism In Jewish Law, Suzanne Last Stone
Articles
No abstract provided.