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A Theory Of The Good And The Right, Michigan Law Review
A Theory Of The Good And The Right, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Theory of the Good and the Right by Richard B. Brandt
Philosophy And Law: Some Observations On Maccormick's Legal Reasoning And Legal Theory, Patricia D. White
Philosophy And Law: Some Observations On Maccormick's Legal Reasoning And Legal Theory, Patricia D. White
Michigan Law Review
A review of Legal Reasoning and Legal Theory by Neil MacCormick
Rejoinders To Hart On Rules And Rights, Stanley L. Paulson
Rejoinders To Hart On Rules And Rights, Stanley L. Paulson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law, Morality, and Society: Essays in Honour of H.L.A. Hart by P.M.S. Hacker and J. Raz
Lying: Moral Choice In Public And Private Life, Michigan Law Review
Lying: Moral Choice In Public And Private Life, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life by Sissela Bok
A Review Of A Case Against Blaise Pascal And His Heirs, David A. Schum
A Review Of A Case Against Blaise Pascal And His Heirs, David A. Schum
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Probable and the Provable by L. Jonathan Cohen
Private Standing And Public Values, Michael Boudin
Private Standing And Public Values, Michael Boudin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Legal Identity: The Coming of Age of Public Law by Joseph Vining
Persons And Consequences: Observations On Fried's Right And Wrong, Stephen R. Munzer
Persons And Consequences: Observations On Fried's Right And Wrong, Stephen R. Munzer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Right and Wrong by charles Fried
Philosophical Perspectives On Affirmative Action, Kenneth W. Simons
Philosophical Perspectives On Affirmative Action, Kenneth W. Simons
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Equality and Preferential Treatment: A Philosophy & Public Affairs Reader edited by Marshall Cohen, Thomas Nagel, and Thomas Scanlon
One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
One Philosophy For An American Revolution, Paul K. Conkin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Philosophy of the American Revolution by Morton White
Law, Legitimacy, And Symbols: An Expanded View Of Law And Society In Transition, Malcolm M. Feeley
Law, Legitimacy, And Symbols: An Expanded View Of Law And Society In Transition, Malcolm M. Feeley
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Society in Transition: Toward Responsive Law by Philippe Nonet and Philip Selznick
Knowledge And Politics, Phillip Soper
Knowledge And Politics, Phillip Soper
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Knowledge and Politics by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Legal Theory And The Obligation Of A Judge: The Hart/Dworkin Dispute, E. Philip Soper
Legal Theory And The Obligation Of A Judge: The Hart/Dworkin Dispute, E. Philip Soper
Michigan Law Review
This article offers a review of the Hart-Dworkin dispute and a qualified defense of the positivist's model against Dworkin's attack. The defense is cast primarily in the form of the second possible response to a descriptive theory: Dworkin's attack fails, I suggest, because it involves descriptive claims that can be accommodated to the positivist's conceptual theory regardless of one's view about the plausibility of those claims.
Jus Non Scriptum And The Reliance Principle, Stanley L. Paulson
Jus Non Scriptum And The Reliance Principle, Stanley L. Paulson
Michigan Law Review
On the Continent, a general theory of customary law has been developed-what I term the Continental theory; it identifies formation and validity as the central issues in the analysis of custom and customary law. Yet the Continental theory, notwithstanding its longevity and continuing favorable reception among international lawyers, is ridden with problems. In particular, as I argue in the following section, the theory fails for want of a coherent position on the formation issue. In the course of my argument, I suggest a classification of the norms of customary law in terms of a generic category broader in scope than …
Dworkin's "Rights Thesis", Michigan Law Review
Dworkin's "Rights Thesis", Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Note argues that the rights thesis is untenable. It shows that Dworkin's distinction between arguments of principle and arguments of policy, upon which the rights thesis is based, cannot withstand close scrutiny. The Note questions whether it is sensible to speak of an objectively soundest theory of law, and argues that, even if such a theory is feasible, Dworkin has failed to prove that it will always dictate a unique result (or, put in different words, that the rights thesis is part of the putative soundest theory). If Dworkin's idea of a soundest theory is oppugned, or if the …
H. L. A. Hart On Legal And Moral Obligation, Michigan Law Review
H. L. A. Hart On Legal And Moral Obligation, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
One of the central problems in both moral and legal philosophy has been to offer a satisfactory analysis of the concept of obligation. In ordinary language the word "obligation" is used in several different contexts. It may refer to moral obligation (e.g., "I am morally obligated to keep my promise to help my uncle with his knitting"), legal obligation (e.g., "I am legally obligated to report as income on my tax return whatever funds I embezzle from my employer"), political obligation (e.g., "I am politically obligated to vote"), or social obligation (e.g., …
The Future Of Imprisonment: Toward A Punitive Philosophy, Norval Morris
The Future Of Imprisonment: Toward A Punitive Philosophy, Norval Morris
Michigan Law Review
Proper use of imprisonment as a penal sanction is of primary philosophical and practical importance to the future of society. With the increasing vulnerability of our social organization and the growing complexity and interdependence of governmental structures, reassessment of appropriate limits on the power that society should exercise over its members becomes increasingly important. Perhaps if the "prison problem" is solved, many of the uneasy tensions between freedom and power in postindustrial society will diminish. The effort made here will, I hope, contribute to the solution of the "prison problem" by offering a new model of imprisonment that recognizes fundamental …
Rostow: Is Law Dead?, Francis A. Allen
Rostow: Is Law Dead?, Francis A. Allen
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Is Law Dead? by Eugene V. Rostow
Bayne: Conscience, Obligation, And The Law, E. F. Roberts
Bayne: Conscience, Obligation, And The Law, E. F. Roberts
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Conscience, Obligation, and the Law by David Cowan Bayne
One Civil Libertarian Among Many: The Case Of Mr. Justice Goldberg, Ira H. Carmen
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 …
The Comity Doctrine, Hessel E. Yntema
The Comity Doctrine, Hessel E. Yntema
Michigan Law Review
The doctrine of comity, as developed in the Netherlands during the last quarter of the Seventeenth Century, for the first time posed in stark simplicity the basic dilemma of conflicts law in modem times to mediate between the pretensions of territorial sovereignty and the needs of international commerce. As Ulrik Huber, the most influential exponent of the doctrine, observed: "Exempla, quibus utemur, ad juris privati species maxime quidem pertinebunt, sed judicium de illis unice juris publici rationibus constat, & exinde definiri debent.'' ["The examples which we shall use belong principally to the category of private law but their treatment …
Kant: The Metaphysical Elements Of Justice, Edwin W. Tucker
Kant: The Metaphysical Elements Of Justice, Edwin W. Tucker
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Metaphysical Elements of Justice by Immanuel Kant
Haines: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Edwin W. Tucker
Haines: The Revival Of Natural Law Concepts, Edwin W. Tucker
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Revival of Natural Law Concepts by Charles Grove Haines
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope And Limitations, Edgar Bodenheimer
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Shuman: Legal Positivism: Its Scope and Limitations . By Samuel I. Shuman
Hurst: Law And Social Process In United States History, Robert S. Hunt
Hurst: Law And Social Process In United States History, Robert S. Hunt
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Law and Social Process in United States History. By James Willard Hurst.
Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee
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 …
Concurrent Causation In Insurance Contracts, William Conant Brewer Jr.
Concurrent Causation In Insurance Contracts, William Conant Brewer Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A great deal of work and thought has been devoted to concurrent causation problems in the field of torts. Less attention has been paid to the insurance cases, and no serious effort has been made to formulate the separate rules applicable to them. It is the thesis of this article that concurrent causation problems which arise under an insurance contract must be handled somewhat differently from those which arise in connection with tort litigation, and that the tendency to borrow rules of law from the larger tort field and apply them to the smaller volume of insurance cases can only …
The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey
The Rule Of Law In Historical Perspective, W. Burnett Harvey
Michigan Law Review
Events of the past two decades have made imperative a fundamental re-examination of the basis of government and the legal order. The gross inhumanities of the German and Japanese regimes during the Second World War are fresh in our memories. In many areas of the world today, the force of law is being used for the systematic suppression of claims to freedom and human dignity. The revolutionary ferment of the post-war years has brought into existence new governments with the task of determining their fundamental orientation and the direction of their legal orders.
The Rule Of Law And The Judicial Process, Luke K. Cooperrider
The Rule Of Law And The Judicial Process, Luke K. Cooperrider
Michigan Law Review
An anecdote which I believe I recall from one of Professor Brogan's ·writings concerns a conversation between the archbishop and the chief justice about the relative importance of their respective powers. After the conversation had continued for some time the archbishop sought to administer the coup de grâce. "I have the advantage of you, your lordship, because you see, in the long run, the most you can say to a man is, 'You shall be hanged!' whereas it is within the functions of my office to say, 'You shall be damned!' " To this, after a moment of thought, …
The Challenge Of The Rule Of Law, W. Burnett Harvey
The Challenge Of The Rule Of Law, W. Burnett Harvey
Michigan Law Review
The lecture last week considered the Rule of Law concept in historical perspective. Aside from its possible, highly restricted connotation of public order maintained by the force of politically organized society, three basic meanings or emphases were identified in discussions of the Rule of Law: first, certain constitutional principles, particularly those ascribed by Dicey to 19th-century Britain; second, certain valuable procedural safeguards of a fair trial; and third, those asserted universal and perhaps immutable principles, derived from God or Nature by the rational faculties of man, available to guide and, in some views, to invalidate positive legal action. Without denying …
The Prospet Of Liberty Or The View From Saint-Remy, Ralph M. Carson
The Prospet Of Liberty Or The View From Saint-Remy, Ralph M. Carson
Michigan Law Review
This celebration of the first century of the Michigan Law School recalls the vain endeavor of the Holy Roman Empire to keep the craft of the law out of the Americas. Que no passasen abogados ni procuradores a las Indias was a clause inserted by the Emperor Charles V into the capitulation of 1540 with Alvar Nunez which sanctioned the exploration of the River Plate. Perhaps it was the futility of lawyers which prompted the Imperial veto. Twenty years before, when the Governor of Cuba sought to halt Cortez with decrees of outlawry from Spain, his cunning captain Sandoval evaded …