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Litigation Abuse And The Law Schools, John W. Reed Jan 1983

Litigation Abuse And The Law Schools, John W. Reed

Articles

At the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in July, 1983, one session was devoted to a discussion of "Excessive Discovery: A Symptom of Litigation Abuse." (Without knowing, I would guess that a similar title appeared on just about every judicial conference program this year-and last year, and the one before that.) Frank Rothman, President of MGM/United Artists, addressed the subject from the point of view of a corporate client, and his remarks are printed in this issue, beginning at page 342. Judges and trial lawyers expressed their views. And I was asked to comment on the extent to which the law …


The Japanese Law In English: Some Thoughts On Scope And Method, Dan F. Henderson Jan 1983

The Japanese Law In English: Some Thoughts On Scope And Method, Dan F. Henderson

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Japanese law is a fledgling topic of comparative law in this country. The rapid growth of bilateral business and the integration of the United States and Japanese economies in recent years suggest the need for increased attention to this area. This Article first examines the prewar antecedents and the postwar developments of Japanese law in English in this country. It then reviews the present law school environment for the study of Japanese law as a comparative law subject. Finally, it briefly addresses three key issues basic to the development of this subject.


Samuel E. Thorne And Legal History In Law Schools, Delloyd J. Guth Mar 1982

Samuel E. Thorne And Legal History In Law Schools, Delloyd J. Guth

Michigan Law Review

A Review of On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne edited by Morris S. Arnold, Thomas A. Green, Sally A. Scully and Stephen D. White


The Use Of Comparative Law In Teaching American Civil Procedure, Sidney B. Jacoby Jan 1976

The Use Of Comparative Law In Teaching American Civil Procedure, Sidney B. Jacoby

Cleveland State Law Review

The use of comparative law can enhance the teaching of American civil procedure, especially by a comparison of foreign form book material with American forms. In this way, with some basic knowledge of comparative civil procedure, the student will better appreciate our own concepts and will also understand some fundamental principles of the civil procedure of civil law countries when he is confronted with them in private practice


Student Participation In University And Law School Governance, George P. Smith Ii Jan 1976

Student Participation In University And Law School Governance, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

To gain a better perspective for analysis of the present extent of student participation in university governance, it will be helpful to examine the experiences of several countries in Western Europe. This Article will examine the means by which American law schools have permitted reasonable student participation without threatening the academic freedom of law school faculties, a threat which the European experience reminds us is very real.


The Basic Course—A Mild Dissent, Whitmore Gray Jan 1971

The Basic Course—A Mild Dissent, Whitmore Gray

Articles

Perhaps it is unusual to start a discussion of a topic with a dissent from the assumption underlying its choice, but I think that in the present case this may be justified. The present topic was no doubt selected because for many years teachers have viewed the course in "comparative law" as a basic course, leading subsequently to specialized courses or research in various subject matters or geographical areas. In fact, the other two speakers on this afternoon's program, Professors Rudolf Schlesinger of Cornell and Arthur von Mehren of Harvard, are both on record in the form of their casebooks …


Legal Education In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, Whitmore Gray Jan 1971

Legal Education In The Soviet Union And Eastern Europe, Whitmore Gray

Articles

The following notes are based on interviews with law professors, law students and lawyers during a brief trip in 1970 to Moscow, Budapest and Prague. On previous visits in 1959 and 1965 the writer had visited law schools in Kiev, Baku, Tbilisi, Alma Ata, Leningrad, Prague and Warsaw, and had sat in on lectures, recitation sections, and examinations.1 In looking this time for changes, the writer was particularly interested in whether there was some reflection there of the general student malaise which the United States has been experiencing, manifested in American law schools in student pressure for "relevant" courses and …


Comments. Roundtable On Taxation, Association Of American Law Schools, 1968 Conference, William D. Popkin Jan 1970

Comments. Roundtable On Taxation, Association Of American Law Schools, 1968 Conference, William D. Popkin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Roundtable On Administrative Law: Proceedings, William Burnett Harvey Jan 1970

Roundtable On Administrative Law: Proceedings, William Burnett Harvey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Jefferson B. Fordham: Legal Education And Scholarship In Africa, William Burnett Harvey Jan 1970

Jefferson B. Fordham: Legal Education And Scholarship In Africa, William Burnett Harvey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


The Reform Of Legal Education In Brazil, Keith S. Rosenn Jan 1969

The Reform Of Legal Education In Brazil, Keith S. Rosenn

Articles

No abstract provided.


Hessel E. Yntema, Michigan Law Review Apr 1966

Hessel E. Yntema, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Memorial Tribute for Hessel E. Yntema


Comparative Law And Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall Jan 1966

Comparative Law And Jurisprudence, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Reappraising American Legal Education Through A Comparative Study, Stanley A. Samad Jan 1964

Reappraising American Legal Education Through A Comparative Study, Stanley A. Samad

Cleveland State Law Review

The current ferment in American legal education has been stimulated mainly by the American realists and a recent offshoot of that school, called policy science. The thrust of their reproof is that law to be studied is not to be found in the casebook and the law library, but is to be found in "law in action" in the context of economic, moral, political, psychological and social forces that shape law and the process of decision. Some have stressed the role of the lawyer as policy maker, or as counsel or adviser to policy makers, and have developed a suggested …


A Value Analysis Of Ghanaian Legal Development Since Independence, William Burnett Harvey Jan 1964

A Value Analysis Of Ghanaian Legal Development Since Independence, William Burnett Harvey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee Feb 1962

Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee

Michigan Law Review

It is perhaps axiomatic to state that law is more than an instrument for the settlement of disputes and punishment of wrongdoers; it is, more importantly, a reflection of the way of life and the philosophy of the people that live under it. Self-evident though the above may be, it bears repeating here, for there is a much greater need for understanding Chinese law now than ever before. China's growing ideological, political, economic, and military impact on the rest of the world would alone serve as a powerful motivation for the study of its law. Certainly, we could not even …


A Latin American Lecture-Conference Tour, Jerome Hall Jan 1961

A Latin American Lecture-Conference Tour, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Book Review. Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials By R. B. Schlesinger, Wencelas J. Wagner Jan 1960

Book Review. Comparative Law: Cases, Text, Materials By R. B. Schlesinger, Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Schlesinger: Comparative Law: Cases-Text-Materials (Second Edition), Spencer L. Kimball Jan 1959

Schlesinger: Comparative Law: Cases-Text-Materials (Second Edition), Spencer L. Kimball

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Comparative Law: Cases-Text-Materials (Second Edition). By Rudolf B. Schlesinger


English And American Legal Education, Erwin N. Griswold Jun 1958

English And American Legal Education, Erwin N. Griswold

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


A Law Teacher's Tour Around The World, Jerome Hall Jan 1958

A Law Teacher's Tour Around The World, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


International Law And The United Nations, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 1957

International Law And The United Nations, University Of Michigan Law School

Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law

In June, 1955, the University of Michigan Law School held a six-day Summer Institute dealing with problems of international law and of the United Nations. This was the eighth in the series of annual Summer Institutes dealing with important problems in areas of public concern, often with particular emphasis upon the comparative or international law aspects involved. The 1955 Institute came at the time of the tenth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter on June 26, 1945, and approximately a decade after the termination of hostilities in World War II. The growth of the United Nations during …


"Appropriate And Just": Section 24 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms And The Question Of Judicial Legitimacy, W A. Bogart Jun 1956

"Appropriate And Just": Section 24 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms And The Question Of Judicial Legitimacy, W A. Bogart

Dalhousie Law Journal

At the heart of procedural law lie questions concerning the role of courts in a liberal democratic state. What is the essence of their function? What is the proper relationship between the judiciary and other governmental institutions? What is the well-spring for values with which courts can make law? The questions are perennials and will be asked so long as there is interest in the workings and malfunctions of all aspects of government. Courts, like all institutions of government, are continually being assessed on their own terms and in relation to other branches. In Canada this examination has received a …


Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema May 1956

Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema

Michigan Law Review

Despite this risk and without limiting discussion of comparative legal research to a Platonic theory of knowledge-to which I for one would not accede-the text prompts first the inquiry, unavoidable in a constructive discussion of the matter, whether contemporary legal study in the United States is concerned with shadows in an intellectual cave-or in other words, whether it is true, as I was told years ago, partly perhaps in jest, by a late distinguished member of the Supreme Court, then Attorney General, when, encountering me on a visit to the Department of Justice, he kindly asked what I was looking …


Fifth Series Of Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, Michigan Law Review Mar 1952

Fifth Series Of Thomas M. Cooley Lectures, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The fifth series of Thomas M. Cooley Lectures will be given on April 15, 16, and 17 at 4:15 p.m. in Room 120, Hutchins Hall, University of Michigan Law School. The lecturer will be Professor Hessel E. Yntema of the University of Michigan Law School faculty. He will speak on the general subject, "Perspectives in Conflicts Law."


Book Reviews, Elliott E. Cheatham, I. Beverly Lake, Thomas Clifford Billig, Frederick W. Whiteside Jr., Carl H. Fulda, A. Ladru Jensen, Paul Sayre, Charles H. Livengood Jr., Thomas A. Cowan, Clyde W. Summers Dec 1950

Book Reviews, Elliott E. Cheatham, I. Beverly Lake, Thomas Clifford Billig, Frederick W. Whiteside Jr., Carl H. Fulda, A. Ladru Jensen, Paul Sayre, Charles H. Livengood Jr., Thomas A. Cowan, Clyde W. Summers

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.


The Law School 1947-1948, E. Blythe Stason Nov 1947

The Law School 1947-1948, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

The academic year 1947-1948 opened with the largest student enrollment in the history of the University of Michigan Law School, overflowing the Law Quadrangle and making the year notable for large classes and keen competition. The 417 beginning students, 329 second-year students, 345 seniors, 10 candidates for advanced degrees in law, and 6 special students, all add up to a grand total of 1107 prospective lawyers. This figure compares with an enrollment of 956 at a corresponding time in the fall semester a year ago, and 641 in the pre-war year 1940-1941.


Clovis Bevilaqua And The Brazilian Civil Code, Anyda Marchant Apr 1945

Clovis Bevilaqua And The Brazilian Civil Code, Anyda Marchant

Michigan Law Review

Clovis Bevilaqua is a monument in the history of Brazilian law. His death on July 26, 1944, closed the door on an epoch. When he began his career in the eighties, Brazilian law, with the exception of the commercial code, was uncoordinated and outmoded. Now. Brazil is in a period of very active work on the recodification of its laws and their adaptation to the needs of modern life. Not all of this change is the work of one man, but Bevilaqua was the principal lingering representative, among the lawyers, of the intellectual movement that accompanied the setting up of …


Research In Inter-American Law At The University Of Michigan, Hessel E. Yntema Dec 1944

Research In Inter-American Law At The University Of Michigan, Hessel E. Yntema

Michigan Law Review

In the Americas, the historic trade routes have run east and west, more than north and south. Geographic necessity has decreed that, subject to possible reorientation with the future development of aviation, the dominant factor influencing the course of commerce with this hemisphere should be the open sea. Westward across the Atlantic, came the explorers, the conquistadors, the pioneers, succeeded by wave after wave of immigration to the New World, seaborne on argosies that, laden with the fabulous spoils and profits of empire, returned to the homelands the tribute of the New to the Old World. Achievement in the Nineteenth …


Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff Apr 1944

Civil Justice In Germany, Burke Shartel, Hans Julius Wolff

Michigan Law Review

Our aim in preparing this paper is to develop for American lawyers a picture of the functioning of German civil justice. This aim, as well as the paper itself, is an outgrowth of a series of lectures on the German legal system delivered by the authors as background in the law of military occupation for the Judge Advocate General's School of the United States Army in Ann Arbor. That part of these lectures which concerns the operation of German civil justice seems to us of sufficient intrinsic interest to warrant publication.