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Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone Aug 2017

Teaching Gender As A Core Value In The Firstyear Contracts Class, Kerri Lynn Stone

Kerri Stone

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Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho Apr 2017

Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho

Faculty Publications

Our conceptions of law affect how we objectify the law and ultimately how we study it. Despite a century’s worth of theoretical progress in American law—from legal realism to critical legal studies movements and postmodernism—the formalist conception of “law as science,” as promulgated by Christopher Langdell at Harvard Law School in the late-nineteenth century, still influences methodologies in American legal education. Subsequent movements of legal thought, however, have revealed that the law is neither scientific nor “objective” in the way the Langdellian formalists once envisioned. After all, the Langdellian scientific objectivity of law itself reflected the dominant class, gender, power, …


A Review Of The Scientific Literature Regarding Reservations In International Law, N. Fayzullaeva Jan 2017

A Review Of The Scientific Literature Regarding Reservations In International Law, N. Fayzullaeva

International Relations: Politics, Economics, Law

The main principle of the participance of Uzbekistan in international agreements is based on the defence of interest of the country and its position. In this regard the right to use reservations in international agreements is very important. So that it is neccessary to research main trends in the use of reservations, their implementation in national regime in the view of cooperation of Uzbekistan in international organizations.


Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho Jan 2017

Law As Instrumentality, Jeremiah A. Ho

All Faculty Scholarship

Our conceptions of law affect how we objectify the law and ultimately how we study it. Despite a century’s worth of theoretical progress in American law—from legal realism to critical legal studies movements and postmodernism—the formalist conception of “law as science,” as promulgated by Christopher Langdell at Harvard Law School in the late-nineteenth century, still influences methodologies in American legal education. Subsequent movements of legal thought, however, have revealed that the law is neither scientific nor “objective” in the way the Langdellian formalists once envisioned. After all, the Langdellian scientific objectivity of law itself reflected the dominant class, gender, power, …