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The Meaning Of Deserved Punishment: An Essay On Choice, Character, And Responsibility, Samuel H. Pillsbury

Indiana Law Journal

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The Democratic Intellect: The State In The Work Of Madame Justice Wilson, Philip L. Bryden

Dalhousie Law Journal

It is a great honour to have been asked to provide an essay for this volume of reflections on the contribution Madame Justice Bertha Wilson has made to the development of law in Canada. To a certain extent, this is a matter of pride in finding my own name associated with that of the very learned and respected individuals who have set out their thoughts in this collection of articles. In the main, however, the honour comes from the opportunity to make a public statement of my own respect and admiration for Madame Justice Wilson and the significant role that …

An Integrated Jurisprudence And Its Influence In Fighting Poverty, Kevin L. O'Shea

University of the District of Columbia Law Review

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Incommensurability As A Jurisprudential Puzzle, Richard Warner

All Faculty Scholarship

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Improving One's Situation: Some Pragmatic Reflections On The Art Of Judging, Catharine Pierce Wells

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Jurisprudence Of Genetics, Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Dorothy Nelkin

Vanderbilt Law Review

In recent years, genetic research has ascended the list of national research priorities. From among the many weighty claims on the fisc, Congress has chosen to provide significant federal support for the Human Genome Initiative, a project aimed at mapping the complete set of genetic instructions that form the structure of inherited attributes. Geneticists anticipate that the project will disclose important new in- formation on human development and disease. Some go further. One influential scientist remarked that this work is "the ultimate answer to the commandment 'Know thyself.' ""

The decision to fund this Initiative, the largest biology project in …

Medicaid, State Cost-Containment Measures, And Section 1983 Provider Actions Under "Wilder V. Virginia Hospital Association", Michael D. Daneker

Vanderbilt Law Review

After the Civil War, Congress enacted a statutory private right of action to ensure the protection of an individual's federal civil rights." This right of action, now codified at Title 42, Section 1983 of the United States Code, creates liability for anyone who, acting under a state law, program, or policy, infringes on an individual's federal rights. Although the authors of Section 1983 intended the statute to serve primarily as a mechanism for the protection of federal constitutional rights, the United States Supreme Court has recognized that Section 1983 is a valid tool for enforcing a wide variety of statutorily …

Hegel And The Problem Of Slavery, Steven B. Smith

Cardozo Law Review

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Operational Closure And Structural Coupling: The Differentiation Of The Legal System, Niklas Luhmann

Cardozo Law Review

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The Two Faces Of Janus: Rethinking Legal Pluralism, Gunther Teubner

Cardozo Law Review

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Interpretation Versus Understanding Systems, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Cardozo Law Review

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The Relevance Of Time To The Relationship Between The Philosophy Of The Limit And Systems Theory, Drucilla Cornell

Cardozo Law Review

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Law, Morality, And Autopoiesis In Niklas Luhmann: Comment On Drucilla Cornell’S Time, Deconstruction, And The Challenge To Legal Positivism: The Call For Judicial Responsibility, Charles Larmore

Cardozo Law Review

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Law As Discourse, George P. Fletcher

Cardozo Law Review

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Open Justice In A Closed Legal System?, Bernhard Schlink

Cardozo Law Review

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Sociological Theory In The Absence Of People: The Limits Of Luhmann’S Systems Theory, Alan Wolfe

Cardozo Law Review

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Autopoiesis In America, Stephen Diamond

Cardozo Law Review

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Aristotle On Political Justice (Symposium), Steven J. Heyman

All Faculty Scholarship

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Conviction Without Imposition: A Response To Professor Greenawalt, Samuel W. Calhoun

Scholarly Articles

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Objectivity And Democracy, David K. Millon

Scholarly Articles

As a response to skepticism about the possibility of objectivity in legal decisionmaking conventionalism posits the shared understandings of the legal profession (about method and the implications of doctrine) as the source of constraint in legal interpretation. In this Article, Professor Millon argues that conventionalism's proponents have failed to offer an adequate account of interpretive constraint, but that conventionalism properly understood can nevertheless provide a useful perspective on the possibility of objectivity in legal interpretation. This account locates interpretive constraint in the practices of the legal profession as a whole, acting as an "interpretive community" or constituting a distinctive "language-game" …

The Value Of Friendship In Law And Literature, Michael J. Kaufman

Fordham Law Review

Once thought to be indespensible to a good life, the value of friendship has been swept away by the most recent trends in philosophical, literary, and legal thought. After tracing the subtle decline in the value of friendship, this Article employs these very trends to redefine and resurrect that value, particularly within American law. A good work of art is one which elevates its own art-form by successfully channeling the anxiety of influence created by competing art forms. A good judicial opinion, therefore, is one which elevates the art of judging above strong competing arts such as philosophy and literature. …

Symposium: Brown V. Board Of Education And Its Legacy: A Tribute To Justice Thurgood Marshall, The Limitless Horizons Of Brown V. Board Of Education, Louis H. Pollack

Fordham Law Review

Judge Pollak discusses the impact of Brown on Supreme Court jurisprudence. He begins by recounting Morgan v. Virginia--a significant Supreme Court decision that foreshadowed the holding of Brown. The remainder of Judge Pollak's speech highlights Brown's impact on, inter alia, First Amendment jurisprudence and international law.

Locke As The Key: A Unifying And Coherent Theory Of In Personam Jurisdiction, Richard B. Cappalli

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Law, Order And Democracy: An Analysis Of The Judiciary In A Progressive State--The Saskatchewan Experience, David S. Cohen

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Current legal debates on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada have focused on the apparent shift in the location of power from elected representatives to the judiciary since 1982. In this paper, I take an historical perspective on that issue. I will explore the relationship of political power, as exercised by the judiciary through the interpretation of legislation, with concepts of parliamentary supremacy in Saskatchewan during the fist half of this century.

The paper first describes the political character of the judiciary in Saskatchewan from 1905 until 1941, and then describes the political movements which gave rise to …

The Jurisprudence Of Affirmative Action: Equality In Abstraction And Application, Alec Anthony Izzo

St. Thomas Law Review

Analyzing the results in affirmative action cases decided in the last fourteen years tends to invite specious observations. For example, it is true that only 50% of the affirmative action plans reviewed by the Supreme Court withstand constitutional attack, while 80% withstand federal statutory attack. Additionally, more than half of the Court's affirmative action opinions have been authored by Justice Brennan and in each case the challenged plan has been approved. Further, two cases evaluating the constitutional merits of affirmative action were written by Justice Powell, whose opinions resulted in findings of unconstitutionality, and whose language echoes long beyond his …

The Internalization Paradox And Workers' Compensation, Keith N. Hylton, Steven E. Laymon

Hofstra Law Review

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The Myth Of Retributive Justice, Brian Slattery

Articles & Book Chapters

In fairy tales, villains usually come to a bad end, snared in a trap of their own making, or visited with a disaster nicely suited to their particular villainy. Read a story of this kind to children and you will be struck by the profound satisfaction with which this predictable of events is greeted. Yet, if children cheer when the villain is done in, they are just as satisfied when the hero manages to get the villain by the throat but takes pity and spares him. These tales of retribution and mercy, even reduced to their barest bones, seem to …

The Last Emperor?, Allan C. Hutchinson

Articles & Book Chapters

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Post-Modern Hearsay Reform: The Importance Of Complexity, Christopher B. Mueller

Publications

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South Carolina Whistleblower Protection: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Craig Berman

South Carolina Law Review

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