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Contradiction And Revision: Progressive Feminist Legal Scholars Respond To Mary Joe Frug, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Judi Greenberg, Martha Minow

Faculty Scholarship

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Self-Paternalism In The Marketplace, Bailey Kuklin

Faculty Scholarship

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The Ethics Of Meaning, James Boyd White

Book Chapters

In choosing what I call "the ethics of meaning" as the subject of this chapter I bring together two of the most complex and difficult terms in our language. To begin with "meaning", few things are harder to talk about than the complex and tangled process by which what we say - or do - takes on a meaning for another. Meaning is a mixture of conscious intention and subconscious wish, of expectation and imagination, of varying and often incompatible perceptions of context, and this on the part of both writer and reader. As for "ethics": it involves nothing less …

The Gaps Between The Fingers Of The Invisible Hand, Bailey Kuklin

Faculty Scholarship

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Understanding Disagreement, The Root Issue Of Jurisprudence: Applying Wittgenstein To Positivism, Critical Theory, And Judging, Thomas Morawetz

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Breaking The Deadlock: Toward A Socialist-Confucianist Concept Of Human Rights For China, David E. Christensen

Michigan Journal of International Law

This Note offers an alternative perspective on international human rights that seeks to bypass the dead-end universalist-cultural relativist debate, and proposes a concept of human rights that is harmonious with the modern collectivist and socialist Chinese order. Since human rights protect dignity, this study finds the source of human dignity in China in society, not in nature. This analysis opens the door to the development of a meaningful set of guaranteed individual rights for a socialist state and a Confucian order.

Capitalism And Democracy, Owen M. Fiss

Michigan Journal of International Law

Socialism has collapsed. The long, historic struggle between capitalism and socialism has come to an end, and capitalism has emerged the victor. This turn of events was foreshadowed by the privatization movement of the late 1970s and 1980s that swept England, the United States, and a number of Latin American countries. History still awaited the renunciation of socialism by those who lived it, but that soon came in the form of the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe and in the spiraling chain of events, set in motion by "perestroika," that ultimately led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union …

The Relevance Of Coherence, Joseph Raz

Faculty Scholarship

Coherence is in vogue. Coherence accounts of truth and of knowledge have been in contention for many years. Coherence explanations of morality and of law are a newer breed. I suspect that like so much else in practical philosophy today they owe much of their popularity to John Rawls. His writings on reflective equilibrium, while designed as part of a philosophical strategy which suspends inquiry into the fundamental questions of moral philosophy, had the opposite effect. They inspired much constructive reflection about these questions, largely veering toward coherence as the right interpretation both of reflective equilibrium and of moral philosophy. …

The Question That Killed Critical Legal Studies, Michael Fischl

Faculty Articles and Papers

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A Study After Cardozo: De Cicco V. Schweizer, Noncooperative Games, And Neural Computing, Robert Birmingham

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Pre-Figuration And Evaluation, Pierre Schlag

Publications

In this response to Professor Rubin, Professor Schlag argues that a prescriptive theory of evaluation does not free an evaluator from the bias inherent in his own pre-figurations. On the contrary, the belief that better evaluative criteria will advance the cause of fairer evaluation is itself an effect of flawed and unrationalized pre-figurations of conventional legal thought. Professor Schlag argues that the evaluation question and its attendant disputes arise from a more significant development--the unraveling of the dominant paradigm of legal thought, the decomposition of normative legal thought.

The Paradox Of Punishment, Paul Campos

Publications

Retribution demands reciprocity. In this Essay, Professor Campos contends that classic retributive theory encounters a logical paradox when it attempts to equalize the status of criminal and victim through the institution of punishment. This paradox arises out of a clash between the deontological requirements of equality and justice. He concludes by speculating on the historical relationship between rationalist justifications for vengeance and the elimination of punishment as public spectacle.

Constitutional Theory Beyond Left And Right, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

Hadley Arkes: Beyond the Constitution. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. 288. $24.95.)

Hadley Arkes's latest book is Beyond the Constitution and it is virtually a tour de force. Author of The Philosopher in The City and First Things, in the new work Arkes persuasively criticizes both liberal and conservative constitutionalism as well as their common legal theoretical base, displaying all the while the philosophical astuteness and elegant prose his prior work has accustomed readers to expect. Anyone remotely interested in constitutional law should read this book.

Power/Violence, Peg Birmingham

Cardozo Law Review

Roundtable - The Call to the Ethical: Deconstruction, Justice and the Ethical Relationship - Group 1

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

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

Ledewitz Papers

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Victims Of The Law, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Foreword: On Building Houses, Steven L. Winter

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Upside/Down View Of The Countermajoritarian Difficulty, Steven L. Winter

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Beyond The Constitution, Christopher J. Peters

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Beyond the Constitution by Hadley Arkes

Injustice And The Victim's Voice, Bernard Yack

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Faces of Injustice by Judith Shklar

Moral Foundations Of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects, Arthur J. Burke

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects by Graham Walker

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

Ledewitz Papers

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

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

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

Ledewitz Papers

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

The Morality Of Capital Punishment: An Exchange, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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

Without Privilege, Steven L. Winter

Law Faculty Research Publications

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