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Government Lawyers And The New Deal, Neal Devins
Government Lawyers And The New Deal, Neal Devins
Faculty Publications
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Book Review Of American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science, By John Henry Schlegel, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
Book Review Of American Legal Realism And Empirical Social Science, By John Henry Schlegel, Edward A. Purcell Jr.
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Constitutional Fictions And Meritocratic Success Stories, Robin West
Constitutional Fictions And Meritocratic Success Stories, Robin West
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
L.H. LaRue demonstrates in his book, Constitutional Law as Fiction, that, at least in the realm of constitutional law, there is no simple correspondence between fiction and falsehood, or fact and truth. Partial or fictive accounts of our constitutional history, even when they are riddled with inaccuracies, may state deep truths about our world, and accurate recitations of historical events may be either intentionally or unintentionally misleading in the extreme. According to LaRue, the Supreme Court engages in a form of storytelling or myth-making that goes beyond the inevitably partial narratives of fact and precedent. The Supreme Court also tells …