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Justifiably Punishing The Justified, Heidi M. Hurd Aug 1992

Justifiably Punishing The Justified, Heidi M. Hurd

Michigan Law Review

Contemporary moral philosophy, political theory, and jurisprudence have converged to create a quite baffling dilemma. This dilemma is generated by the apparent incompatibility of three principles, each of which grounds features of our system of law and government, and each of which carries substantial normative weight. The first I shall call the punishment principle - a moral principle, doctrinally entrenched in American criminal and civil law, which holds that individuals who are morally justified in their actions ought not to be blamed or punished for those actions. The second is the principle of the rule of law - a complex …


The Casey Conundrum, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 1992

The Casey Conundrum, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Abstract Democracy: A Review Of Ackerman's We The People, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1992

Abstract Democracy: A Review Of Ackerman's We The People, Terrance Sandalow

Reviews

We the People: Foundations is an ambitious book, the first of three volumes in which Professor Ackerman proposes to recast conventional understanding of and contemporary debate about American constitutional law. Unfortunately, the book's rhetoricinflated, self-important, and self-congratulatory-impedes the effort to come to terms with its argument. How, for example, does one respond to a book that opens by asking whether the reader will have "the strength" to accept its thesis? Or that announces the author's intention of "engaging" two of the most influential works of intellectual history of the past several decades-and then discusses one in two and one-half pages …


A Moderate Anti-Abortion View, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 1991

A Moderate Anti-Abortion View, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Passport Photos And Stays Of Execution, Bruce Ledewitz Nov 1991

Passport Photos And Stays Of Execution, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Recent Decisions, United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. V. City Of Philadelphia, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 1991

Recent Decisions, United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. V. City Of Philadelphia, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Victims Of The Law, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 1991

Victims Of The Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Foreign Affairs Law And Democracy, Phillip R. Trimble May 1991

Foreign Affairs Law And Democracy, Phillip R. Trimble

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Constitutionalism, Democracy, and Foreign Affairs by Louis Henkin


One Year After Blackwell Many Questions Still Exist, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

One Year After Blackwell Many Questions Still Exist, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Habeas Corpus As A Safety Valve For Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

Habeas Corpus As A Safety Valve For Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


The Morality Of Capital Punishment: An Exchange, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

The Morality Of Capital Punishment: An Exchange, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Sources Of Injustice In Death Penalty Practice, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

Sources Of Injustice In Death Penalty Practice, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


The Challenge Of, And Judicial Response To, Environmental Provisions In State Constitutions, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

The Challenge Of, And Judicial Response To, Environmental Provisions In State Constitutions, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


The Morality Of Capital Punishment: An Exchange, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1991

The Morality Of Capital Punishment: An Exchange, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Courts Busy With Challenges To Pennsylvania's Insurance Laws, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1990

Courts Busy With Challenges To Pennsylvania's Insurance Laws, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Court Lifts Amortization Ban On Pa. Non-Conforming Uses, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1990

Court Lifts Amortization Ban On Pa. Non-Conforming Uses, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Civil Disobedience, Injunctions, And The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1990

Civil Disobedience, Injunctions, And The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.


Shortened Judicial Term May Prove To Be Lucky, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1989

Shortened Judicial Term May Prove To Be Lucky, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Tax Reform Held Hostage By Constitutional Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 1989

Tax Reform Held Hostage By Constitutional Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Debating A Paralyzing Objectivity, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 1989

Debating A Paralyzing Objectivity, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Governor Can Still Appoint Replacement For Justice Stout, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 1989

Governor Can Still Appoint Replacement For Justice Stout, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Abolition Then And Now, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 1989

Abolition Then And Now, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”


Is Doing Your Job A Sufficient Justification For Doing Something Wrong, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1989

Is Doing Your Job A Sufficient Justification For Doing Something Wrong, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”


Judicial Election Questions Left Unanswered By Justices, Bruce Ledewitz Dec 1988

Judicial Election Questions Left Unanswered By Justices, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Pro-Lifers Should Appeal To Constitution's Heart, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Pro-Lifers Should Appeal To Constitution's Heart, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence,, Bruce Ledewitz Sep 1988

Procedural Default In Death Penalty Cases: Fundamental Miscarriage Of Justice And Actual Innocence,, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”


The Virtues And Vices Of Democracy In Conducting Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Hodgson, Irving Kristol, Gordon Tullock Sep 1988

The Virtues And Vices Of Democracy In Conducting Foreign Affairs, Godfrey Hodgson, Irving Kristol, Gordon Tullock

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Is '88 Supreme Court Election Permissible Under Pa. Law?, Bruce Ledewitz May 1988

Is '88 Supreme Court Election Permissible Under Pa. Law?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals


Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz Apr 1988

Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals