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Review Of Judging Credentials: Nonlawyer Judges And The Politics Of Professionalism By Doris Marie Provine, William T. Gallagher

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Doris Marie Provine's Judging Credentials is a provocative work that draws on and furthers the critical approach to the study of professions. The book is a study of judges in lower courts of limited jurisdiction who are not lawyers, a group of considerable size. There are over 13,000 of them in the United States. In this work Provine examines the legal profession's assertion that these judges are inferior to judges who are lawyers. Contrary to both professional claims and popular belief, Provine argues that lay judges in America's lower courts perform as well as their lawyer counterparts. Her conclusions derive …

Book Reviews: "Antitrust Law And Economics": Responding To An Ivory Tower Critique, Robert H. Lande

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The Politics Of Law (Teaching) (Book Review), Michael S. Ariens

Faculty Articles

The satiric novel, as a “message” novel, can provide unvarnished truths about the object of satire. Institutions of higher learning, particularly law schools, and the denizens of those institutions, are prime subjects for satire because they take themselves so seriously. Unfortunately, though, The Socratic Method by Michael Levin takes itself as seriously as the law school it is criticizing.

One of the hazards of the satiric novel is that the message may overwhelm the plot and characterization. Levin, in his zeal to awaken the reader to the torture of the law school, and particularly the torture of the law school …

Gender Justice And Its Critics, Neal Devins

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Book Review: Lempert And Sanders, Invitation To Law And Social Science, Frank W. Munger

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The Constitution Between Friends, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

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Book Review Of The Law Of War, Linda A. Malone

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Book Review: Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Defender Of Liberty And Law By Donald L. Smith, Lynne Wilson

Seattle University Law Review

This review's purpose is to fill the void in Professor Smith's book by proposing that the central problem with Chafee's free speech ideas, and perhaps one problem with the "clear and present danger" test itself, lies in Chafee's reliance on common law and equity balancing concepts, rather than political theory.

Book Review: Malice And Falsehood: Six Issues Of The New York Weekly Journal, 1733-34, William P. Lapiana

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