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Press Privacy And Malice: Reflections On New York Times Co. V. Sullivan, Irving R. Kaufman Jan 1984

Press Privacy And Malice: Reflections On New York Times Co. V. Sullivan, Irving R. Kaufman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Right To A Jury Trial For Jurisdictional Issues, Steven Kessler Jan 1984

The Right To A Jury Trial For Jurisdictional Issues, Steven Kessler

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


On Complaining About The Burger Court, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1984

On Complaining About The Burger Court, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.


Toward A Critical Jurisprudence-A First Step By Way Of The Public-Private Distinction In Constitutional Law, Kenneth M. Casebeer Sep 1983

Toward A Critical Jurisprudence-A First Step By Way Of The Public-Private Distinction In Constitutional Law, Kenneth M. Casebeer

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.


Equal Divisions In The Supreme Court: History, Problems, And Proposals, William L. Reynolds, Gordon G. Young Jan 1983

Equal Divisions In The Supreme Court: History, Problems, And Proposals, William L. Reynolds, Gordon G. Young

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Interpretation In Law - Toward A Reconstruction Of The Current Debate, Dennis M. Patterson Jan 1983

Interpretation In Law - Toward A Reconstruction Of The Current Debate, Dennis M. Patterson

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


An Attack On Categorical Approaches To Freedom Of Speech, Pierre J. Schlag Jan 1983

An Attack On Categorical Approaches To Freedom Of Speech, Pierre J. Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Iranian Litigation: Implications For American Business Interests, Charles G. Labella Jan 1982

The Iranian Litigation: Implications For American Business Interests, Charles G. Labella

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Assaults On The Exclusionary Rule: Good Faith Limitations And Damage Remedies, Pierre J. Schlag Jan 1982

Assaults On The Exclusionary Rule: Good Faith Limitations And Damage Remedies, Pierre J. Schlag

Publications

No abstract provided.


"Property Rights" In Constitutional Analysis Today, James L. Oakes Nov 1981

"Property Rights" In Constitutional Analysis Today, James L. Oakes

Washington Law Review

The concept of "property rights" in Supreme Court constitutional analysis today is in flux. It has been and is undergoing change—a change more rapid than those of us who have concentrated our attention on other personal rights can imagine. That this process of change raises anew some fundamental issues of justice is not surprising; the institution of property has always done so. Perhaps the change is simply a swing of the pendulum, as the quote from Justice Frankfurter suggests: individual "property rights" assume greater importance as a state moves toward a laissez-faire economy or away from a regulated one; they …


"Property Rights" In Constitutional Analysis Today, James L. Oakes Nov 1981

"Property Rights" In Constitutional Analysis Today, James L. Oakes

Washington Law Review

The concept of "property rights" in Supreme Court constitutional analysis today is in flux. It has been and is undergoing change—a change more rapid than those of us who have concentrated our attention on other personal rights can imagine. That this process of change raises anew some fundamental issues of justice is not surprising; the institution of property has always done so. Perhaps the change is simply a swing of the pendulum, as the quote from Justice Frankfurter suggests: individual "property rights" assume greater importance as a state moves toward a laissez-faire economy or away from a regulated one; they …


The Paradoxes Of Judicial Review In A Constitutional Democracy, Russell L. Caplan Jul 1981

The Paradoxes Of Judicial Review In A Constitutional Democracy, Russell L. Caplan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Uses Of Human Rights Norms To Inform Constitutional Interpretation, Gordon A. Christenson Jan 1981

The Uses Of Human Rights Norms To Inform Constitutional Interpretation, Gordon A. Christenson

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

Recent federal court of appeals decisions have relied on fundamental human rights norms to inform constitutional interpretation. This comment reviews the reasoning in those cases to identify possible constitutional uses of fundamental human rights norms and to suggest some conceptual framework for their use. The need for such a framework is illustrated by the cases themselves, which seem disparate and disjointed, with no discernible coherent philosophy, though each makes good sense when considered alone.


Process And Property In Constitutional Theory, Frank I. Michelman Jan 1981

Process And Property In Constitutional Theory, Frank I. Michelman

Cleveland State Law Review

Could property be a "process right?" "Property" does denote, among other things, a class or cluster of legal rights. In appropriate contexts, it plainly means a class or cluster of constitutional rights. But could the constitutional right of property possibly be a "process," as opposed to a "substantive," right?


A Comment On The Burger Court And "Judicial Activism", Robert F. Nagel Jan 1981

A Comment On The Burger Court And "Judicial Activism", Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Equal Protection Clause In The Supreme Court 1873-1903, Richard S. Kay Oct 1980

The Equal Protection Clause In The Supreme Court 1873-1903, Richard S. Kay

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Roe V. Wade And The Lesson Of The Pre-Roe Case Law, Richard Gregory Morgan Aug 1979

Roe V. Wade And The Lesson Of The Pre-Roe Case Law, Richard Gregory Morgan

Michigan Law Review

The politically unsettled and judicially confused law of abortion in 1971 and 1972, when the Court twice heard arguments and deliberated Roe, should have warned it not to decide the case. By doing so; the Court thrust itself into a political debate and stunted the development of a thoughtful lower-court case law. If the Court did perceive the warnings but continued toward a decision anyway, perhaps trusting that its own considerable wits would devise an answer the lower courts had not, the result suggests that the judicial system's axioms deserve more respect than they received. This Article, by showing …


Territorial Due Process: Analysis Of An Emergent Doctrine, James Audley Mclaughlin Apr 1979

Territorial Due Process: Analysis Of An Emergent Doctrine, James Audley Mclaughlin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Parent-Child Privilege: Constitutional Right Or Specious Analogy?, Donald Cofer Jan 1979

Parent-Child Privilege: Constitutional Right Or Specious Analogy?, Donald Cofer

Seattle University Law Review

To avoid reaching incorrect verdicts as a result of insufficient evidence, courts generally require witnesses to testify to all relevant facts within their knowledge. Two important exceptions to this general rule, incompetency and privilege, rest on very different rationales. Developed at common law to exclude unreliable evidence, rules of competency disqualify certain untrustworthy witnesses from testifying. To promote extrinsic public policies, however, privileges excuse competent witnesses from providing what may be highly probative and reliable evidence. In the past decade there have been calls for legislative or judicial recognition of a parent-child privilege, similar to the marital privilege, that would …


Ideology And History, David F. Forte Jan 1979

Ideology And History, David F. Forte

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

I do not dispute the philosophical validity of the theory of natural rights. Indeed, I support much, if not most, of the principles embodied in that theory. What I wish to discuss is that to which Dr. Vieira claims to have limited his discussion, viz., the belief that history, specifically American constitutional history, provides a sufficient base to support a natural rights theory. His attempt to find historical support is an instructive example of how ideology can distort the data of history and cause it to be portrayed in a strange and unreal light. Beyond that, Vieira's historical method also …


In Their Own Image: The Reframing Of The Due Process Clause By The United States Supreme Court, J. Ralph Beaird Jan 1979

In Their Own Image: The Reframing Of The Due Process Clause By The United States Supreme Court, J. Ralph Beaird

Scholarly Works

A distinguished constitutional scholar recently pointed out that "many of the important decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are not based on law in the popular sense of that term." It is true, he noted, that "the court endeavors to identify Constitutional clauses upon which to hang its pronouncements." "[S]ome key words and phrases in the Constitution," however, "are so highly indeterminate that they cannot really qualify as law in any usual sense." Rather, he said, "they are semantic blanks--verbal vacuums that may be filled readily with any one of many possible meanings." Thus, it is not …


The Eighteenth-Century Background Of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence, William E. Nelson May 1978

The Eighteenth-Century Background Of John Marshall's Constitutional Jurisprudence, William E. Nelson

Michigan Law Review

This analysis of Marshall's constitutional jurisprudence avoids the pitfalls of previous theories. It does not see the Federalist political program as the source of Marshall's constitutional doctrines and thus does not need to explain how Marshall qualified his political principles or how he convinced non-Federalist judges to accept them. Instead, this essay argues that legal, not political, principles underlay Marshall's jurisprudence, but it attempts to understand those principles in a manner consistent with the unavoidable twentieth-century assumption that law is a body of flexible rules responsive to social reality rather than a series of immutable, unambiguous doctrines derived from a …


Justice Story's Doctrine Of Judicial Supremacy And The Uncertain Search For A Neutral Principle In The Charles River Bridge Case, C. Lee Mangas Jan 1977

Justice Story's Doctrine Of Judicial Supremacy And The Uncertain Search For A Neutral Principle In The Charles River Bridge Case, C. Lee Mangas

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Federal Courts, Injunctions, Declaratory Judgments, And State Law: The Supreme Court Has Finally Fashioned A Workable Abstention Doctrine, Clair E. Dickinson Jan 1976

Federal Courts, Injunctions, Declaratory Judgments, And State Law: The Supreme Court Has Finally Fashioned A Workable Abstention Doctrine, Clair E. Dickinson

Cleveland State Law Review

The American judicial system is founded on several policies which act as guideposts for the courts. Among these is the policy that states should be as free from federal control as possible. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the view that federal courts have a duty to protect individuals from violations of their constitutional rights. These policies meet, and seemingly clash, when a plaintiff enters a federal court either to request a declaratory judgment that a state statute is unconstitutional or to seek an injunction against the enforcement of the statute. The balancing of these competing interests has …


Politics And Jurisprudence In West Germany: State Financing Of Political Parties, Donald P. Kommers Jan 1971

Politics And Jurisprudence In West Germany: State Financing Of Political Parties, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

The relationship between political parties and representative government has been an important consideration in the constitutional jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Federal Constitutional Court has gone further than any other constitutional tribunal in the West to promote a free and competitive party system, and the Court’s decisions affecting the status of parties under the Basic Law, especially those having to do with party finance, are a marvelous illustration of the interplay between politics and law. The Federal Constitutional Court’s decision in 1966 to invalidate a federal plan for subsidizing political parties is a good example of the …


The Neutrality Of Adherence To Precedent, Robert L. Birmingham Jan 1971

The Neutrality Of Adherence To Precedent, Robert L. Birmingham

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1970

Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

One of the most singular pieces of legislation in American constitutional history passed the Massachusetts legislature in 1970, and was signed into law. It provided that, except for an emergency, no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that has not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the US Constitution. A conflict between state law and national policy was created.


Unconstitutional Conditions Upon Public Employment: New Departures In The Protection Of First Amendment Rights, Harold H. Bruff Jan 1969

Unconstitutional Conditions Upon Public Employment: New Departures In The Protection Of First Amendment Rights, Harold H. Bruff

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Tentative Emergence Of Student Power In The United States, William W. Van Alstyne Jan 1969

The Tentative Emergence Of Student Power In The United States, William W. Van Alstyne

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


One Civil Libertarian Among Many: The Case Of Mr. Justice Goldberg, Ira H. Carmen Dec 1966

One Civil Libertarian Among Many: The Case Of Mr. Justice Goldberg, Ira H. Carmen

Michigan Law Review

It is common knowledge that in recent times the constitutional issues of greatest magnitude and of greatest public interest lie in the area of civil liberties. These cases almost always call for the delicate balancing of the rights of the individual, allegedly protected by a specific clause in the Constitution, and the duties that state or federal authority can exact from citizens in order that society may maintain a minimum standard of peace and security. It follows, therefore, that it is these often dramatic decisions which will largely color the images we have of participating Justices. Assume a free speech …