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Book Review: Social Media And Democracy: The State Of The Field And Prospects For Reform, Cynthia W. Bassett Apr 2021

Book Review: Social Media And Democracy: The State Of The Field And Prospects For Reform, Cynthia W. Bassett

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Social Media and Democracy illuminates the empirical social science research done to date to tease apart the effects social media has had on representative democracies. It is a collection of essays by academic social scientists researching the intersection of social media and democracy from a variety of angles.


Book Review: Abortion Rights: For And Against, Michelle Oberman, Julia D. Hejduk Jan 2019

Book Review: Abortion Rights: For And Against, Michelle Oberman, Julia D. Hejduk

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Book Review: Divergent Paths: The Academy And The Judiciary, S. I. Strong Jan 2017

Book Review: Divergent Paths: The Academy And The Judiciary, S. I. Strong

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Judge Richard Posner's most recent book, Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary touches on a number of important issues, but the most revolutionary element involves Judge Posner's discussion of how the legal academy can assist with the education of current and future judges.


Book Review: Private International Law In English Courts, S. I. Strong Apr 2015

Book Review: Private International Law In English Courts, S. I. Strong

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Although debates about cooperation versus competition make for good scholarly fodder, this issue actually has an important practical component, as demonstrated by Professor Adrian Briggs of the University of Oxford in his masterful new book, Private International Law in English Courts. Like all truly superlative texts, Professor Briggs's book is deceptively accessible. The prose is not only elegant and eloquent, it is peppered with the dry wit one would expect from an Oxford don.


Review Essay: Bilingual Legal Education In The United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, S. I. Strong Jan 2014

Review Essay: Bilingual Legal Education In The United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, S. I. Strong

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The long-standing and close connection among law, language and the state has traditionally led law schools to provide legal education in a single language. Indeed, bilingual legal education could in some cases be viewed as potentially contrary to state interests, given that "[t]he main instrument of nation-building is the imposition of a common state language. Indeed, bilingual legal education could in some cases be viewed as potentially contrary to state interests, given that "[t]he main instrument of nation-building is the imposition of a common state language."' However, the historical model of monolingual legal education may be in jeopardy. For example, …


Constitutional Conundrums In Arbitration: Book Review Of Arbitration And The Constitution, S. I. Strong Oct 2013

Constitutional Conundrums In Arbitration: Book Review Of Arbitration And The Constitution, S. I. Strong

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The combination of arbitration and constitutional law is the topic of Professor Peter Rutledge's new book, and the focus of this review essay, which will consider, among other things, whether these two subjects are compatible.


Book Review: Reviewing Part Iii Of Innovation For The 21st Century: Harnessing The Power Of Intellectual Property And Antitrust Law, Dennis D. Crouch Jan 2010

Book Review: Reviewing Part Iii Of Innovation For The 21st Century: Harnessing The Power Of Intellectual Property And Antitrust Law, Dennis D. Crouch

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I have very much enjoyed reading Professor Michael Carrier's important new book on the intersection of law and innovation, and greatly appreciate his contributions to the field. In this short essay, I will focus my discussion on my sole area of expertise—patent law. Carrier takes-on the subject of patents in Part III of his book. I agree with most of what Carrier writes. To make this essay more interesting, I focus on some of our areas of apparent disagreement.


Book Review Of Cause Lawyering For People With Disabilites, Michael Ashley Stein, Michael E. Waterstone, David B. Wilkins Jan 2010

Book Review Of Cause Lawyering For People With Disabilites, Michael Ashley Stein, Michael E. Waterstone, David B. Wilkins

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The "Middle Ground" Perspective On The Expropriation Of Indian Lands, Eric Kades Jul 2008

The "Middle Ground" Perspective On The Expropriation Of Indian Lands, Eric Kades

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A Windfall For The Magnates: The Development Of Woodland Ownership In Denmark, Eric Kades Apr 2007

A Windfall For The Magnates: The Development Of Woodland Ownership In Denmark, Eric Kades

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Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas Jan 2007

Book Review Of Faiths Of The Founding Fathers, Davison M. Douglas

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The D'Oh! Of Popular Constiutitonalism, Neal Devins Jan 2007

The D'Oh! Of Popular Constiutitonalism, Neal Devins

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Book Review Of Can Might Make Rights? Building The Rule Of Law After Military Interventions, Lan Cao Jan 2007

Book Review Of Can Might Make Rights? Building The Rule Of Law After Military Interventions, Lan Cao

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Book Review To In Harm's Way: The Sinking Of The Uss Indianapolis And The Extraordinary Story Of Its Survivors, Eric R. Carpenter Jan 2005

Book Review To In Harm's Way: The Sinking Of The Uss Indianapolis And The Extraordinary Story Of Its Survivors, Eric R. Carpenter

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Unity And Pluralism In Contract Law, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2005

Unity And Pluralism In Contract Law, Nathan B. Oman

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Book Review: Law And Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes In World History, 1400-1900, Sam F. Halabi Jul 2004

Book Review: Law And Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes In World History, 1400-1900, Sam F. Halabi

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Challenging scholars of both colonial history and globalization, Lauren Benton's Law and Colonial Cultures argues that state-centered legal orders emerged as a result of the presence of colonial powers, both European and non-European. She describes how the colonial state developed through jurisdictional conflicts between native judicial systems and colonial legal systems.


Review Of The Hanging Of Ephraim Wheeler : A Story Of Rape, Incest, And Justice In Early America, Michael F. Russo May 2003

Review Of The Hanging Of Ephraim Wheeler : A Story Of Rape, Incest, And Justice In Early America, Michael F. Russo

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The Unruliness Of Rules, Peter A. Alces Jan 2003

The Unruliness Of Rules, Peter A. Alces

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Book Review: Law And Religion: Current Legal Issues 2001 - Volume 4, S. I. Strong Nov 2002

Book Review: Law And Religion: Current Legal Issues 2001 - Volume 4, S. I. Strong

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As volume four of Current Legal Issues demonstrates, commentary on the interplay between law and religion in the UK is growing, although the subject still attracts nowhere near the level of attention it does in other countries. The newest addition to the literature constitutes a welcome advance to lawyers working or interested in the field. For example, many existing collections of essays on law and religion focus primarily on sociological issues. This compilation, on the other hand, contains many essays that stress truly legal dilemmas, although sociological, philosophical and other approaches to the question are still well represented among the …


The End Of The Hudson Valley's Peculiar Institution: The Anti-Rent Movement's Politics, Social Relations, & Economics, Eric Kades Oct 2002

The End Of The Hudson Valley's Peculiar Institution: The Anti-Rent Movement's Politics, Social Relations, & Economics, Eric Kades

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Predicting Defection, Elmer J. Schaefer May 2002

Predicting Defection, Elmer J. Schaefer

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Contract Rights And Civil Rights, Davison M. Douglas Jan 2002

Contract Rights And Civil Rights, Davison M. Douglas

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Is The Republic Circling The Drain?, W. Taylor Reveley Iii Jan 2002

Is The Republic Circling The Drain?, W. Taylor Reveley Iii

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Book Review: Legal Traditions Of The World: Sustainable Diversity In Law, S. I. Strong Jul 2001

Book Review: Legal Traditions Of The World: Sustainable Diversity In Law, S. I. Strong

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Combining a historically accurate analysis with a distinctly contemporary sensibility, H. Patrick Glenn invokes not only jurisprudential concepts as he explains the different legal traditions, but religious and sociological ideas as well.


Book Review: The Business Of Judging, S. I. Strong Jul 2001

Book Review: The Business Of Judging, S. I. Strong

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Lord Bingham of Cornhill is no stranger to the business of judging. Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, former Lord Chief Justice of England, former Master of the Rolls, he has been sitting on the bench in one capacity or another for the last twenty years - twenty-five if one counts his tenure as a recorder. Although he began his career at the bar in 1959 as a commercial and civil lawyer, his appointment in 1996 as Lord Chief Justice placed him at the apex of the criminal justice system. In becoming senior Law Lord, Lord Bingham has expanded his …


Book Review: Faith In Law: Essays In Legal Theory, S. I. Strong Mar 2001

Book Review: Faith In Law: Essays In Legal Theory, S. I. Strong

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The essays collected in this book arise out of a series of seminars exploring the relationship between law and faith, broadly defined, and investigate "the many varied links between law and faith", particularly as those links relate to legal theory. While the editors intended to demonstrate the diversity of ways in which the topic can be viewed, this very diversity causes some problems for the reader.


International Criminal Jurisprudence Comes Of Age: The Substance And Procedure Of An Emerging Discipline, Nancy Amoury Combs Jan 2001

International Criminal Jurisprudence Comes Of Age: The Substance And Procedure Of An Emerging Discipline, Nancy Amoury Combs

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Hardball, Politics, And The Nlrb, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2001

Hardball, Politics, And The Nlrb, Michael Ashley Stein

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Book Review: We The People: The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, S. I. Strong Nov 2000

Book Review: We The People: The Fourteenth Amendment And The Supreme Court, S. I. Strong

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Never one to shirk a challenge, Michael Perry has taken on the difficult task of investigating whether, as charged by a number of prominent social and legal commentators, "the modern Supreme Court, in the name of the Fourteenth Amendment [to the US Constitution], [has] usurped prerogatives and made choices that properly belong to the electorally accountable representatives of the American people," and if so, to what extent (p. 8). Perry makes no attempt to address every facet of Fourteenth Amendment doctrine, but instead focuses his discussion on some of the most controversial topics: racial segregation, affirmative action, discrimination on the …


Book Review Of Kosovo: How Myths And Truths Started A War, Linda A. Malone Apr 2000

Book Review Of Kosovo: How Myths And Truths Started A War, Linda A. Malone

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