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Book Review Index To Volume Three, Risk Editorial Board Sep 1992

Book Review Index To Volume Three, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Index to book reviews published in Volume Three (1992) of the journal Risk: Issues in Health and Safety.


Book Review Of Federal Courts And The International Human Rights Paradigm And World Justice? U.S. Courts And International Human Rights, Linda A. Malone Jul 1992

Book Review Of Federal Courts And The International Human Rights Paradigm And World Justice? U.S. Courts And International Human Rights, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Personal Narratives And Racial Distinctiveness In The Legal Academy, Maria O'Brien Jul 1992

Personal Narratives And Racial Distinctiveness In The Legal Academy, Maria O'Brien

Faculty Scholarship

A small group of legal academicians is embroiled in yet another debate that, to the uninitiated at least, appears to have little or nothing to do with "the law." 1 This time the issue is the ideology of legal writing style-that is, does a growing, unique body of legal scholarship that draws on the personal experiences of minority faculty and, arguably, reflects the racial oppression these scholars have suffered, produce "distinct normative insights?" 2 Professor Patricia Williams of the University of Wisconsin clearly believes that it does.

In her new book, The Alchemy of Race and Rights,3 which is …


Book Review Of Clement Haynsworth, The Senate, And The Supreme Court, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1992

Book Review Of Clement Haynsworth, The Senate, And The Supreme Court, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Judicial Matters, Neal Devins Jan 1992

Judicial Matters, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Judging By Reputation, Marc M. Arkin Jan 1992

Judging By Reputation, Marc M. Arkin

Fordham Law Review

Cardozo: A Study in Reputation. By Richard A. Posner. The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Pp. 156. $18.95


The Constitution And Capital Sentencing: Pursuing Justice And Equality, Scott W. Howe Jan 1992

The Constitution And Capital Sentencing: Pursuing Justice And Equality, Scott W. Howe

Fordham Law Review

Equal Justice and The Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis. By David C. Baldus, George Woodworth and Charles Pulaski, Jr. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1990. Pp. Vii, 689. $65.00


The Rationalist Tradition At Trial, James L. Kainen Jan 1992

The Rationalist Tradition At Trial, James L. Kainen

Fordham Law Review

Analysis of Evidence: How to Do Things With Facts Based On Wigmore's Science of Judicial Proof, By Terrence Anderson and William Twining (with an Appendix on Probablity and Proof by Philip Dawid). Little, Brown and Company, and London: George Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Ltd., 1991. Pp. 457. $22.00. (Teacher's Manual. Pp. 181)


Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West Jan 1992

Murdering The Spirit: Racism, Rights, And Commerce, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Patricia Williams' The Alchemy of Race and Rights: The Diary of a Law Professor, is an eloquent, profoundly original, and often brilliant collection of interdisciplinary essays and stories concerning the impact of racism and poverty on the human spirit; the historic and continuing role of law and legal institutions in defining, facilitating, and perpetuating those harms; and the possibilities and dangers imminent in the attempt to use law to effect a remedy for them. This is a book that we should celebrate: it reminds us that books are occasionally very, very important, that reading can be transformative, and that writing …


Asian Traditions And English Law, Geoffrey J. Bennett Jan 1992

Asian Traditions And English Law, Geoffrey J. Bennett

Journal Articles

Sebastian Poulter's book deals with a whole range of issues raised by the interplay of English law and Asian traditions. The areas covered include marriage, employment, children, and inheritance. In other words, all those topics are likely to affect most people in their everyday legal dealings.­