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"We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anyone.", Jennifer S. Hendricks
"We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To Anyone.", Jennifer S. Hendricks
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This essay is based on remarks at the 2008 teaching conference of the Society of American Law Teachers, on the theme Teaching for Social Change When You're Not Preaching to the Choir. It reflects on my experience as a liberal/progressive teaching constitutional law in a conservative southern state. It also explores the importance of not just training students in the skills of a junior lawyer but also preparing them for their long-term obligations as citizens and members of the bar.
The Courts Under President Obama, Scott A. Moss
Formalism And Realism In Ruins (Mapping The Logics Of Collapse), Pierre Schlag
Formalism And Realism In Ruins (Mapping The Logics Of Collapse), Pierre Schlag
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After laying out a conventional account of the formalism vs. realism debates, this Article argues that formalism and realism are at once impossible and entrenched. To say they are impossible is to say that they are not as represented--that they cannot deliver their promised goods. To say that they are entrenched is to say that these forms of thought are sedimented as thought and practice throughout law's empire. We live thus amidst the ruins of formalism and realism. The disputes between these two great determinations of American law continue today, but usually in more localized or circumscribed forms. We see …