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Michigan Law Review

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Blame The Messenger: Summers On Fuller, Paul A. Lebel Feb 1985

Blame The Messenger: Summers On Fuller, Paul A. Lebel

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Lon L. Fuller by Robert S. Summers


The Morality Of Obedience, Joseph Raz Feb 1985

The Morality Of Obedience, Joseph Raz

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Theory of Law by Philip Soper


Sources Of Law, Legal Change, And Ambiguity, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Sources Of Law, Legal Change, And Ambiguity, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity by Alan Watson


Passion: An Essay On Personality, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

Passion: An Essay On Personality, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Passion: An Essay on Personality by Roberto Mangabeira Unger


The Dilemmas Of Individualism: Status, Liberty, And American Constitutional Law, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

The Dilemmas Of Individualism: Status, Liberty, And American Constitutional Law, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The Dilemmas of Individualism: Status, Liberty, and American Constitutional Law by Michael J. Phillips


Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard May 1984

Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard

Michigan Law Review

Federal structures are often established by national founders to manage intractable problems created over generations, if not centuries, by the migration of peoples. Military and economic pressures may stimulate union to assure survival, but ethnic, racial or religious tensions sometimes hamper draftsmen who sense the need for unity. Federation has often been the modem solution to the conflict between the need for unity and the desire for autonomy felt by groups fearing the loss of identity.


Socialist Federation--A Legal Means To The Solution Of The Nationality Problem: A Comparative Study, Viktor Knapp May 1984

Socialist Federation--A Legal Means To The Solution Of The Nationality Problem: A Comparative Study, Viktor Knapp

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The history of federations is both long and short. It is long in that the federation originated with the Swiss Confederation, which dates back to the 1291 defense confederacy of the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden; it is short because the second federation in world history, one that has become a model for many others, did not come into being until almost five centuries later in America.


In Search Of A Free Speech Principle, Mark G. Yudof Feb 1984

In Search Of A Free Speech Principle, Mark G. Yudof

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A Review of Free Speech: A Philosophical Enquiry by Frederick Schauer


How Radical Is Liberalism?, Virginia L. Warren Feb 1984

How Radical Is Liberalism?, Virginia L. Warren

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A Review of Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family by James S. Fishkin


Injustice, Inequality And Ethics, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Injustice, Inequality And Ethics, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Injustice, Inequality, and Ethics by Robin Barrow


Founders And Foundations Of Legal Positivism, David Lyons Feb 1984

Founders And Foundations Of Legal Positivism, David Lyons

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A Review of Essays on Bentham: Studies In Jurisprudence and Political Theory by H.L.A. Hart, and John Austin by W.L. Morison


Defending Equality: A View From The Cave, James S. Fishkin Feb 1984

Defending Equality: A View From The Cave, James S. Fishkin

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A Review of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality by Michael Walzer


Intuition And Security In Moral Philosophy, Stephen R. Munzer Feb 1984

Intuition And Security In Moral Philosophy, Stephen R. Munzer

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A Review of Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method, and Point by R.M. Hare


Legal Right And Social Democracy: Essays In Legal And Political Philosophy, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Legal Right And Social Democracy: Essays In Legal And Political Philosophy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Political Philosophy by Neil MacCormick


Reconstructing Public Philosophy, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Reconstructing Public Philosophy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Reconstructing Public Philosophy by William M. Sullivan


The Unfinished Work Of The Instrumentalists, Willard Hurst Feb 1984

The Unfinished Work Of The Instrumentalists, Willard Hurst

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Instrumentalism and American Legal Theory by Robert Samuel Summers


The Limits Of Obligation, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The Limits Of Obligation, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Limits of Obligation by James S. Fishkin


Promises, Morals, And Law, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Promises, Morals, And Law, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Promises, Morals, and Law by P.S. Atiyah


Contract As Promise: A Theory Of Contractual Obligation, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Contract As Promise: A Theory Of Contractual Obligation, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation by Charles Fried


Laws, Norms And Authority, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Laws, Norms And Authority, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Laws, Norms and Authority by George C. Christie


So Reason Can Rule, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

So Reason Can Rule, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of So Reason Can Rule by Scott Buchanan


Troubling Questions: A Review Of The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Sheldon L. Messinger Mar 1983

Troubling Questions: A Review Of The Decline Of The Rehabilitative Ideal, Sheldon L. Messinger

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A Review of The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal: Penal Policy and Social Purpose by Francis A. Allen


The Meaning Of Equality In Law, Science, Math, And Morals: A Reply, Peter Westen Jan 1983

The Meaning Of Equality In Law, Science, Math, And Morals: A Reply, Peter Westen

Michigan Law Review

I shall set forth my thesis in Part I, using the Declaration of Independence ("all men are created equal") to illustrate that the emptiness of equality inheres in its very meaning, and that the confusions of equality result from neglecting its meaning. In Part II, I respond to Professors Chemerinsky's and D' Amato's reasons for believing that equality has independent normative content of its own. In Part III, I respond to Professor Chemerinsky's separate reasons for believing that equality is rhetorically useful.


In Defense Of Equality: A Reply To Professor Westen, Erwin Chemerinsky Jan 1983

In Defense Of Equality: A Reply To Professor Westen, Erwin Chemerinsky

Michigan Law Review

Part I of this essay analyzes Professor Westen's arguments that the concept of equality is unnecessary. My contention is that Professor Westen never demonstrates that equality is meaningless; his arguments only prove the obvious, that equality by itself is insufficient. Part II argues that equality is a necessary principle: It is the only concept that tells us that different treatment of people does matter. Part III addresses Professor Westen's suggestion that equality is misleading and points out that none of his criticisms of the idea of equality are in any way inherent to that concept. Finally, Part IV demonstrates that …


Is Equality A Totally Empty Idea?, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1983

Is Equality A Totally Empty Idea?, Anthony D'Amato

Michigan Law Review

Professor Peter Westen's essay asserting that the concept of equality has no substantive content whatsoever usefully brushes aside much of the equal-protection rhetoric that, as Westen carefully explains, appropriately belongs to substantive due process. However, his absolutist position is open to challenge. I would like to posit one hypothetical case that I used in my classes when I taught Constitutional Law that I think contradicts Professor Westen's thesis. If it does, then there will be other cases as well, and his position cannot stand as the logically tight construct that he repeatedly asserts that it is.


Reason And Law, George C. Christie Mar 1982

Reason And Law, George C. Christie

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A Review of Justice, Law, and Argument: Essays in Moral and Legal Reasoning by Chaim Perelman


Social Justice In The Liberal State, Michigan Law Review Mar 1982

Social Justice In The Liberal State, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Social Justice in the Liberal State by Bruce A. Ackerman


Utilitarianism Reformed, L. W. Sumner Mar 1982

Utilitarianism Reformed, L. W. Sumner

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Utilitarianism and Co-operation by Donald H. Regan


On Justifying Democracy, Michigan Law Review Mar 1982

On Justifying Democracy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of On Justifying Democracy by William N. Nelson


Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert May 1981

Desert And Deterrence: An Assessment Of The Moral Bases Of The Case For Capital Punishment, Richard O. Lempert

Michigan Law Review

The controversy over the death penalty has generated arguments of two types. The first argument appeals to moral intuitions; the second concerns deterrence. Although both types of argument speak to the morality of systems of capital punishment, the first debate has been dominated by moral philosophers and the second by empirical social scientists. For convenience I shall at times refer to the approach of the moral philosophers as the moral case for (or against) capital punishment or as the argument from morality.