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Governance, Governmentality, Police, And Justice: A New Science Of Police?, Mireille Hildebrandt

Buffalo Law Review

Review of The New Police Science: The Police Power in Domestic and International Governance, Markus D. Dubber & Mariana Valverde, eds.

Human Rights Ngos In East Africa: Defining The Challenges, Makau Wa Mutua

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 1 in Human Rights NGOS in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions, Makau Mutua, ed.

Law And Economic Change During The Short Twentieth Century, John Henry Schlegel

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 16 in Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume 3: The Twentieth Century and After (1920–), Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins, eds.

The brief recounting of the American economy in the twenties and thirties raises obvious questions about law and economic change. Economic change is the shift from one enacted, in both senses, understanding of economic life to another, in the case of the short twentieth century, from an associationalist economy to an impatient economy. This chapter explicates this economic change, and interrogates it in order to understand the role of law in its occurrence. Despite the …

Katrina's Window: Localism, Resegregation, And Equitable Regionalism, David D. Troutt

Buffalo Law Review

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"Everybody Loves Trees": Policing American Cities Through Street Trees, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

Recently, municipalities have been investing large sums of money as well as much bureaucratic and professional effort into making their cities not only a more "treefull" place, but also a place that surveys, measures, regulates, and manages its trees. This article explores the transformation of the utilitarian discourse on trees, which focuses on the benefits of trees and greenery, into a normative discourse whereby trees are not only considered good but are also represented as if they are or should be loved by everybody. This transformation is not only the result of top-down governmental policies. It is also a consequence …

Governing Certain Things: The Regulation Of Street Trees In Four North American Cities, Irus Braverman

Journal Articles

Most sociolegal studies of the urban street focus on the human element. By focusing on the tree, my Article offers a unique perspective on the interrelations between various actors within the public spaces of modern North American cities. Situated at the intersection of legal geography, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies, this Article demonstrates how natural artifacts function as technologies of governance, thereby masking crucial political interventions behind a natural facade. The tensions between nature and the city, as embedded in both the construction and the regulation of street trees, provide an unusual perspective on the management of urban populations …

Competitive Supragovernmental Regulation: How Could It Be Democratic?, Errol E. Meidinger

Journal Articles

This paper explores the possibility that a developing form of regulatory governance is also sketching out a new form of anticipatory regulatory democracy. 'Competitive supra-governmental regulation' is largely driven by non-state actors and is therefore commonly viewed as suffering a democracy deficit. However, because it stresses broad participation, intensive deliberative procedures, responsiveness to state law and widely accepted norms, and competition among regulatory programs to achieve effective implementation and widespread public acceptance, this form of regulation appears to stand up relatively well under generally understood criteria for democratic governance. Nonetheless, a more satisfactory evaluation will require a much better understanding …

Drawing Back From The Abyss, Or Lessons Learned From Count Von Count, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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Narrative, Disability, And Identity, David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger

Journal Articles

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Cls Wasn't Killed By A Question, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

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"The Refurbishing": Reflections Upon Law And Justice Among The Stages Of Life, Richard O. Brooks

Buffalo Law Review

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Testamentary Incorrectness: A Review Essay, Paul D. Carrington

Buffalo Law Review

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Belief: An Essay In Understanding, Shubha Ghosh

Buffalo Law Review

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Can Direct Democracy Be Made Deliberative, Ethan J. Leib

Buffalo Law Review

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Culture Or Rights Violation? An Examination Of The Role Of Jamaica's Sociopolitical Culture On Women's Rights, Danielle J. Barrett

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

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Law As Communitarian Virtue Ethics, Sherman J. Clark

Buffalo Law Review

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Making Sense Of The Sense Of Justice, Markus Dirk Dubber

Buffalo Law Review

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Giving The Gift Of Public Office, James A. Gardner

Buffalo Law Review

This interpretive essay, written for the Buffalo Law Review's annual essay issue, identifies an increasingly common pathology of American democracy in which voters treat the election of public officials not as an instrumental act designed to influence public policy, but as an opportunity to present public office as a gift to those who have pleased, entertained, or moved them. The reelection of Strom Thurmond to the Senate at age 93 and the election of nearly forty congressional widows to their late husbands' seats exemplify this trend. Although this behavior bears a passing resemblance to eighteenth-century habits of political deference and …

Arnold Schwarzenegger And Our Common Future, Sarah Krakoff

Buffalo Law Review

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Autonomy And End-Of-Life Decision Making: Reflections Of A Lawyer And A Daughter, Ray D. Madoff

Buffalo Law Review

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A New Agenda For The Cultural Study Of Law: Taking On The Technicalities, Annelise Riles

Buffalo Law Review

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Unfortunately, White-Collar Is The Default Setting: Boys And Higher Education, John Henry Schlegel

Buffalo Law Review

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Report Card: Grading The Country's Response To Columbine, Scott R. Simpson

Buffalo Law Review

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The Effect Of Context On Practice, Susan D. Carle

Buffalo Law Review

Book review of Lynn Mather, Craig A. McEwan & Richard J. Maiman's Divorce Lawyers at Work: Varieties of Professionalism in Practice

A Woman's World: What If Care Work Were Socialized And Police And Fire Protection Left To Individual Families?, Richard Michael Fischl

Buffalo Law Review

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The Hidden Victims Of Tort Reform: Women, Children, And The Elderly, Lucinda M. Finley

Journal Articles

I have conducted empirical research from several states on how juries in medical malpractice and other tort suits allocate their damage awards between economic loss damages and noneconomic loss damages. I then compared cases in which men are the victims and cases in which women are the victims. This research demonstrates that while overall men tend to recover greater total damages, juries consistently award women more in noneconomic loss damages than men, and that the noneconomic portion of women's total damage awards is significantly greater than the percentage of men's tort recoveries attributable to noneconomic damages. Consequently, any cap on …

International Poverty Law: A Response To Economic Globalization, Timothy K. Kuhner

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

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Framing The Market: Representations Of Meaning And Value In Law, Markets, And Culture, Robin Paul Malloy

Buffalo Law Review

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Le 'Noble Mensonge' De L'Amérique Après Le 11 Septembre [Written As Constituting A Nation, Making A Home, After September 11th], David A. Westbrook

Journal Articles

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Shopping For Religion: The Change In Everyday Religious Practice And Its Importance To The Law, Rebecca Redwood French

Journal Articles

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