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Global Warming: Integrating United States And International Law, Lakshman D. Guruswamy Jan 1990

Global Warming: Integrating United States And International Law, Lakshman D. Guruswamy

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Probing Bork's Judicial Philosophy, Gerard V. Bradley Jan 1990

Probing Bork's Judicial Philosophy, Gerard V. Bradley

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Robert Bork: The Tempting of America. (New York: The Free Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 432. $22.50.)

In the last third of The Tempting of America Robert Bork relives the painful ordeal of his lost nomination to the Supreme Court. Any sentient American then alive already knows that story: the campaign against him was full of half-truths, distortions, and just plain lies. Bork adds some confirming anecdotes, and I congratulate him for telling the tale candidly but without rancor. The loss is ours. In my opinion, Bork would have been among the two or three greatest justices of the last …


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

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Debating A Paralyzing Objectivity, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 1989

Debating A Paralyzing Objectivity, Bruce Ledewitz

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

Governor Can Still Appoint Replacement For Justice Stout, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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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

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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

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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.”


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

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

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

Justices Don't Own The Constitution, Bruce Ledewitz

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Is The Death Penalty Good For Us?, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1988

Is The Death Penalty Good For Us?, Bruce Ledewitz

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To Do Justice Between Man And Man, (Tribute To Judge Robert Taylor), Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1988

To Do Justice Between Man And Man, (Tribute To Judge Robert Taylor), Bruce Ledewitz

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Challenge To The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz Oct 1987

Challenge To The First Amendment, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Debate Over Bork Nomination Misses The Point, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 1987

The Debate Over Bork Nomination Misses The Point, Bruce Ledewitz

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A Conversation Between A Judge And His Friend Concerning Whether The Judge Should Sentence A Defendant To Death, Bruce Ledewitz Jun 1987

A Conversation Between A Judge And His Friend Concerning Whether The Judge Should Sentence A Defendant To Death, Bruce Ledewitz

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Judicial Conscience And Natural Rights: A Reply To Professor Jaffa, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1987

Judicial Conscience And Natural Rights: A Reply To Professor Jaffa, Bruce Ledewitz

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The New Role Of Statutory Aggravating Circumstances In American Death Penalty Law, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1987

The New Role Of Statutory Aggravating Circumstances In American Death Penalty Law, Bruce Ledewitz

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Review Essay: Liberalism And The Supreme Court, Donald P. Kommers Jan 1987

Review Essay: Liberalism And The Supreme Court, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

In Liberalism and American Constitutional Law, Rogers M. Smith of Yale University takes stock of the American liberal tradition and its impact on the Supreme Court's constitutional jurisprudence. It argues that the tradition's political vision lacks philosophical coherence and that our constitutional law, by reflecting this incoherence, has failed to provide the legal community with a public philosophy suited to the needs of American society in the late twentieth century.His goal is to demonstrate the superiority of "rational liberty," both as a philosophical theory and practical guide to constitutional policymaking, over three major competing versions of liberal constitutionalism. To wit: …


The Questions Rehnquist Hasn't Had To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz Aug 1986

The Questions Rehnquist Hasn't Had To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz

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Monzo Raises Taxing Issue, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1986

Monzo Raises Taxing Issue, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1986

The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz

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Tales Of The Donkey-A New Future For The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1986

Tales Of The Donkey-A New Future For The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Paper submitted to the Outreach Program of the Democratic Policy Commission to "identify emerging ideas and policy innovations among Democratic constituency groups, academics, policy experts and public officials." (Appendix D, p. 71) All papers were then reviewed by a group of volunteer policy specialists and their abstracts were subsequently "published and distributed at the appropriate Regional Round tables. All papers submitted were thereby made available to commission members and to other interested parties" (Id.). "Tales of the Donkey - A New Future for the Democratic Party" was submitted to the Democratic Policy Commission on Cross -Cutting Issues Affecting the Democratic …


The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1986

The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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


Con Law Limit Is Eroding, Bruce Ledewitz May 1985

Con Law Limit Is Eroding, Bruce Ledewitz

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Economic Review Is Up To The States, Bruce Ledewitz Mar 1985

Economic Review Is Up To The States, Bruce Ledewitz

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Confession Law Isn't Necessary, Bruce Ledewitz Jan 1985

Confession Law Isn't Necessary, Bruce Ledewitz

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