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The Changing Market For Criminal Law Casebooks, Jens David Ohlin Apr 2016

The Changing Market For Criminal Law Casebooks, Jens David Ohlin

Michigan Law Review

Criminal law is a nasty business. The field takes as its point of departure the indignities that human beings visit upon each other—each one worse than the one before. A book or article about criminal law often reads like a parade of horribles, an indictment of humanity’s descent into moral weakness. For those who teach criminal law, everything else pales in comparison. Neither the business disputes of contract law nor the physical injuries described in a torts casebook can compare with the depravity of what we teach in criminal law. Criminal law professors are often addicted to their subject. Nothing …


What Is Criminal Law About?, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg Apr 2016

What Is Criminal Law About?, Guyora Binder, Robert Weisberg

Michigan Law Review

In “The Changing Market for Criminal Casebooks,” Jens David Ohlin offers an appreciative, but nevertheless critical review of established criminal law casebooks. He then introduces his own offering by describing “a vision for a new casebook” that will better serve the needs and wants of contemporary students. Ohlin begins with the arresting claim that criminal law professors are passionate about their subject because they are fascinated by human depravity. Then, throughout his essay, he stresses efficient, consumer-focused delivery of doctrinal instruction as the defining task of a successful casebook. Moreover, he argues, casebooks should devote less attention to academic theories …


Explaining The Importance Of Public Choice For Law, D. Daniel Sokol Apr 2011

Explaining The Importance Of Public Choice For Law, D. Daniel Sokol

Michigan Law Review

The next generation of government officials, business leaders, and members of civil society likely will draw from the current pool of law school students. These students often lack a foundation of the theoretical and analytical tools necessary to understand law's interplay with government. This highlights the importance of public choice analysis. By framing issues through a public choice lens, these students will learn the dynamics of effective decision making within various institutional settings. Filling the void of how to explain the decision-making process of institutional actors in legal settings is Public Choice Concepts and Applications in Law by Maxwell Steams …


Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky Apr 2009

Why Write?, Erwin Chemerinsky

Michigan Law Review

This wonderful collection of reviews of leading recent books about law provides the occasion to ask a basic question: why should law professors write? There are many things that law professors could do with the time they spend writing books and law review articles. More time and attention could be paid to students and to instructional materials. More professors could do pro bono legal work of all sorts. In fact, if law professors wrote much less, teaching loads could increase, faculties could decrease in size, and tuition could decrease substantially. The answer to the question "why write" is neither intuitive …


Microeconomics Made (Too) Easy: A Casebook Approach To Teaching Law And Economics, Gregory S. Crespi May 1993

Microeconomics Made (Too) Easy: A Casebook Approach To Teaching Law And Economics, Gregory S. Crespi

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Cases and Materials on Law and Economics by David W. Barnes and Lynn A. Stout


Training Tomorrow's Banking Lawyers, John D. Hawke Jr., Melanie L. Fein May 1993

Training Tomorrow's Banking Lawyers, John D. Hawke Jr., Melanie L. Fein

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Banking Law and Regulation by Jonathan R. Macey and Geoffrey P. Miller


Teaching Conflicts, Improving The Odds, Gene R. Shreve May 1992

Teaching Conflicts, Improving The Odds, Gene R. Shreve

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Conflict of Laws: Cases, Materials and Problems by David H. Vernon, Louise Weinberg, William L. Reynolds, and William M. Richman


Insurance Law Out Of The Shadows, Kent D. Syverud May 1991

Insurance Law Out Of The Shadows, Kent D. Syverud

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Insurance Law and Regulation: Cases and Materials by Kenneth S. Abraham


God, Metaprocedure, And Metarealism At Yale, Linda S. Mullenix May 1989

God, Metaprocedure, And Metarealism At Yale, Linda S. Mullenix

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Procedure by Robert M. Cover, Owen M. Fiss, and Judith F. Resnik


The Shadow Of Natural Rights, Or A Guide From The Perplexed, Hadley Arkes May 1988

The Shadow Of Natural Rights, Or A Guide From The Perplexed, Hadley Arkes

Michigan Law Review

A Review of American Constitutional Interpretation by Walter Murphy, James Fleming and William Harris, II


Intergenerationalism And Constitutional Law, Ira C. Lupu May 1987

Intergenerationalism And Constitutional Law, Ira C. Lupu

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutional Law by Geoffrey R. Stone, Louis M. Seidman, Cass R. Sunstein and Mark V. Tushnet and Constitutional Law: Cases -- Comments -- Questions by William B. Lockhart, Yale Kamisar, Jesse H. Choper, and Steven H. Shiffrin


Contracts Scholarship In The Age Of Anthology, E. Allan Farnsworth May 1987

Contracts Scholarship In The Age Of Anthology, E. Allan Farnsworth

Michigan Law Review

In the first part of this article, I trace the history of the Age. I observe that for nearly forty years, from 1881 to the time of World War I, there was a significant decline in contracts scholarship and conclude that the principal explanation for these lean years lies in the shift in scholars' focus from an audience of practitioners to one of students that resulted from the introduction of the case method. In the second part of the article, I look at the way in which the anthologists wielded the considerable influence that each had when only a few …


The Costs Of Complexity, Stephen B. Burbank May 1987

The Costs Of Complexity, Stephen B. Burbank

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Complex Litigation: Cases and Materials on Advanced Civil Procedure by Richard L. Marcus and Edward F. Sherman


Studying Immigration: A Border Crossed, Lynda S. Zengerle Apr 1986

Studying Immigration: A Border Crossed, Lynda S. Zengerle

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Immigration: Process and Policy by Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff and David A. Martin


A New View Of The Legislative And Administrative Process, Abner J. Mikva Mar 1982

A New View Of The Legislative And Administrative Process, Abner J. Mikva

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legislative and Administrative Processes by Hans A. Linde, George Bunn, Fredericka Paff, and W. Lawrence Church


Constitutional Law Casebooks: A View From The Podium, Robert A. Sedler Mar 1981

Constitutional Law Casebooks: A View From The Podium, Robert A. Sedler

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials by Edward L. Barrett, and Constitutional Law: Principles and Policy by Jerome A. Barron and C. Thomas Dienes, and The Process of Constitutional Decisionmaking by Paul Brest, and Constitutional Law--Cases ad Other Problems by Paul A. Freund, Arthur F. Sutherland, Mark DeWolf Howe and Ernest J. Brown, and Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials by Gerald Gunther, and Constitutional Law: Case and Materials b Paul Kauper and Francis Beytagh, and Constitutional Law: Cases--Comments--Questions by William B. Lockhart, Yale Kamisar, and Jesse H. Choper.


Casebook Criteria: On First Looking Into Haar And Liebman's Property And Law, Samuel Bassett Abbott Mar 1979

Casebook Criteria: On First Looking Into Haar And Liebman's Property And Law, Samuel Bassett Abbott

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Property and Law by Charles M. Haar and Lance Liebman


Supercharger: Igniting Interest In Corporate Tax, Edward J. Martineck Mar 1979

Supercharger: Igniting Interest In Corporate Tax, Edward J. Martineck

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Corporate Taxation and Taxation of Partnerships and Partners by Douglas A. Kahn and Pamela B. Gann


Contracts, Capability, And The Classroom, James C. Oldham Mar 1979

Contracts, Capability, And The Classroom, James C. Oldham

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Capability Problem in Contract Law by Richard Danzig


Casebooks On The Conflict Of Laws: Reflections Upon The Publication Of A New Book, Robert Allen Sedler Mar 1979

Casebooks On The Conflict Of Laws: Reflections Upon The Publication Of A New Book, Robert Allen Sedler

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Conflict of Laws: Cases and Materials by James A. Martin


Federal Taxation Of Gifts, Trusts And Estates, John L. Peschel Jan 1978

Federal Taxation Of Gifts, Trusts And Estates, John L. Peschel

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Federal Taxation of Gifts, Trusts and Estates by Douglas A. Kahn and Lawrence W. Waggoner


A Modern Approach To Evidence, Kenneth S. Brown Dec 1977

A Modern Approach To Evidence, Kenneth S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Modern Approach to Evidence by Richard O. Lempert and Stephen A. Saltzburg


European Community Law And Institutions In Perspective: Text, Cases And Readings, Alfred P. Rubin Dec 1977

European Community Law And Institutions In Perspective: Text, Cases And Readings, Alfred P. Rubin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of European Community Law and Institutions in Perspective: Text, Cases and Readings/em by Eric Stein, Peter Hay and Michel Waelbroeck


Jurisprudence, Robert S. Summers Nov 1975

Jurisprudence, Robert S. Summers

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Jurisprudence by George C. Christie


Book Review, Arthur H. Sherry Mar 1975

Book Review, Arthur H. Sherry

Michigan Law Review

A book review of Criminal Procedure by Abraham S. Goldstein and Leonard Orland, and Cases and Comments on Criminal Procedure by Fred E. Inbau, James R. Thompson, James B. Haddad, James B. Zagel and Gary L. Starkman, Modern Criminal Procedure, 4ht Ed by Yale Kamisar, Wayne R. LaFave, and Jerold H. Israel, The Process of Criminal Justice: Investigation by H. Richard Uviller, Criminal Process, 2nd Ed by Lloyd L. Weinreb


Cases And Materials On Property: An Introduction To The Concept And The Institution, Lillian R. Bevier Jan 1975

Cases And Materials On Property: An Introduction To The Concept And The Institution, Lillian R. Bevier

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Cases and Materials on Property: An Introduction to the Concept and the Institution by Charles Donahue, Jr., Thomas E. Kauper, and Peter W. Martin


Fulda & Schwartz: Regulation Of International Trade And Investment, Cases And Materials, Sigmund Timberg Mar 1972

Fulda & Schwartz: Regulation Of International Trade And Investment, Cases And Materials, Sigmund Timberg

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Regulation of International Trade and Investment, Cases and Materials by Carl H. Fulda and Warren F. Schwartz


Gillmor & Barron: Mass Communications Law: Cases And Comment, Nicholas Johnson Jun 1970

Gillmor & Barron: Mass Communications Law: Cases And Comment, Nicholas Johnson

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Mass Communications Law: Cases and Comment by Donald M. Gillmor and Jerome A. Barron


Carrington: Civil Procedure: Cases And Comments On The Process Of Adjudication, Jerome A. Barron Apr 1970

Carrington: Civil Procedure: Cases And Comments On The Process Of Adjudication, Jerome A. Barron

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Civil Procedure: Cases and Comments on the Process of Adjudication by Paul D. Carrington


Chayes, Ehrlich, Lowenfeld: International Legal Process: Materials For An Introductory Course, John J. Costonis Dec 1969

Chayes, Ehrlich, Lowenfeld: International Legal Process: Materials For An Introductory Course, John J. Costonis

Michigan Law Review

A Review of International Legal Process: Materials for an Introductory Course (2 vols. with supp.) by Abram Chayes, Thomas Ehrlich, and Andreas Lowenfeld