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The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon May 1995

The Case For (And Against) Harvard, Robert W. Gordon

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education by William P. LaPiana


From Homer To Hegel: Ideas Of Law And Culture In The West, John Witte Jr. May 1991

From Homer To Hegel: Ideas Of Law And Culture In The West, John Witte Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Human Measure: Social Thought in the Western Legal Tradition by Donald R. Kelley


Roman Law As A Political Agenda, Mathias Reimann May 1991

Roman Law As A Political Agenda, Mathias Reimann

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era by James Q. Whitman


Where They Are Now: The Story Of The Women Of Harvard Law 1974, Lissa M. Cinat May 1987

Where They Are Now: The Story Of The Women Of Harvard Law 1974, Lissa M. Cinat

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Where They Are Now: The Story of the Women of Harvard Law 1974 by Jill Abramson and Barbara Franklin


Legal Realism At Yale, 1927-1960, Karin M. Wentz May 1987

Legal Realism At Yale, 1927-1960, Karin M. Wentz

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960 by Laura Kalman


Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman Feb 1984

Legal Education: Its Causes And Cure, Marc Feldman, Jay M. Feinman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law School: Legal Education in America From the 1850s to the 1980s by Robert Stevens


Schiller: An American Experience In Roman Law, Charles Donahue Jr. May 1973

Schiller: An American Experience In Roman Law, Charles Donahue Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of An American Experience in Roman Law by A. Arthur Schiller


Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee Feb 1962

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 …


Brown: Legal Education At Michigan. 1859-1959, Louis Quarles Jan 1960

Brown: Legal Education At Michigan. 1859-1959, Louis Quarles

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Legal Education at Michigan. 1859-1959. By Elizabeth Gaspar Brown, in consultation with William Wirt Blume


Trial Of Legal Issues In Injunction Against Tort, Edgar N. Durfee Feb 1959

Trial Of Legal Issues In Injunction Against Tort, Edgar N. Durfee

Michigan Law Review

This essay appeared in a casebook on Equitable Remedies that was used for years in mimeographed form at the University of Michigan Law School. It was never prepared for final publication by Professor Durfee himself, but the numerous changes made in his own personal copy indicate that he had given much thought to the subject. Professor John P. Dawson who had collaborated with Professor Durfee has incorporated these changes in the present text. More changes might have been made by Professor Durfee if he had planned to publish it. The editors believe that as it stands it deserves a wider …


Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema May 1956

Comparative Legal Research, Some Remarks On "Looking Out Of The Cave", Hessel E. Yntema

Michigan Law Review

Despite this risk and without limiting discussion of comparative legal research to a Platonic theory of knowledge-to which I for one would not accede-the text prompts first the inquiry, unavoidable in a constructive discussion of the matter, whether contemporary legal study in the United States is concerned with shadows in an intellectual cave-or in other words, whether it is true, as I was told years ago, partly perhaps in jest, by a late distinguished member of the Supreme Court, then Attorney General, when, encountering me on a visit to the Department of Justice, he kindly asked what I was looking …


Sunderland: History Of The American Bar Association And Its Work, Glenn R. Winters Dec 1953

Sunderland: History Of The American Bar Association And Its Work, Glenn R. Winters

Michigan Law Review

A Review of History of the American Bar Association and its Work . By Edson R. Sunderland.


The Law School 1952-53, E. Blythe Stason Dec 1952

The Law School 1952-53, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

In reporting the current news of the Law School we must first speak of the students without whom the school would not exist. Another year has opened, this time with about a ten per cent reduction below last year in student enrollment, and consequently considerable relief from the rather overwhelming peaks of the earlier postwar years. Lawyers are deemed expendable in a military program, and, accordingly, a large proportion of college students intending to study law have, since the beginning of the Korean "police action" in 1950, been called to duty by their Selective Service boards immediately after graduation from …


The Law Review-Its First Fifty Years, E. Blythe Stason Jun 1952

The Law Review-Its First Fifty Years, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

A memorial issue commemorating fifty years of the Michigan Law Review would not be complete without at least a brief glance at some of the historical record.


Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman Feb 1952

Reuschlein: Jurisprudence-Its American Prophets., S. I. Shuman

Michigan Law Review

A Review of JURISPRUDENCE-ITS AMERICAN PROPHETS. A Survey of Taught Jurisprudence. By Harold Gill Reuschlein.


The Law School 1949-50, E. Blythe Stason Dec 1949

The Law School 1949-50, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

Notwithstanding the fact that the peak of postwar veterans' enrollment is supposed to have subsided, the 1949-50 enrollment in the Law School remains substantially the same as it has been during the past several years. Last year we recorded a total of 1057 students; this year the figure is 1030. The beginning class of 409 students, together with 273 second-year and 328 third-year students, to which must be added 20 graduate students, all add up to the total, 1030. Thirty-three of the total are women, the largest women's enrollment ever recorded in the School. The group of 20 graduate students …


The Law School 1948-1949, E. Blythe Stason Dec 1948

The Law School 1948-1949, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

Oversized enrollment again characterizes the student body of the University of Michigan Law School for the year 1948-49. Somewhat reduced from last year's record of 1107 prospective lawyers, this year the William W. Cook Law Quadrangle is accommodating 1057 future members of the bar. The beginning class of 426 students, together with 279 second year students, 339 seniors, 10 candidates for the graduate degrees, and 3 special students all add up to 1057 total. In the total are included 24 future Portias of the bar. These figures should be compared and contrasted with pre-war enrollments approximating 600-650 students. The demand …


The Law School 1947-1948, E. Blythe Stason Nov 1947

The Law School 1947-1948, E. Blythe Stason

Michigan Law Review

The academic year 1947-1948 opened with the largest student enrollment in the history of the University of Michigan Law School, overflowing the Law Quadrangle and making the year notable for large classes and keen competition. The 417 beginning students, 329 second-year students, 345 seniors, 10 candidates for advanced degrees in law, and 6 special students, all add up to a grand total of 1107 prospective lawyers. This figure compares with an enrollment of 956 at a corresponding time in the fall semester a year ago, and 641 in the pre-war year 1940-1941.


Clovis Bevilaqua And The Brazilian Civil Code, Anyda Marchant Apr 1945

Clovis Bevilaqua And The Brazilian Civil Code, Anyda Marchant

Michigan Law Review

Clovis Bevilaqua is a monument in the history of Brazilian law. His death on July 26, 1944, closed the door on an epoch. When he began his career in the eighties, Brazilian law, with the exception of the commercial code, was uncoordinated and outmoded. Now. Brazil is in a period of very active work on the recodification of its laws and their adaptation to the needs of modern life. Not all of this change is the work of one man, but Bevilaqua was the principal lingering representative, among the lawyers, of the intellectual movement that accompanied the setting up of …


Developments In The Conflict Of Laws, 1902-1942, Ernest G. Lorenzen Apr 1942

Developments In The Conflict Of Laws, 1902-1942, Ernest G. Lorenzen

Michigan Law Review

The writer's interest in the conflict of laws coextends substantially with the life of the Michigan Law Review. This may be some excuse for attempting to trace some of the developments in this field in the intervening years. Let us consider first what has happened in this country and thereupon what has occurred in the rest of the world.


Dean Bates And The Michigan Law School, Edwin C. Goddard Nov 1939

Dean Bates And The Michigan Law School, Edwin C. Goddard

Michigan Law Review

From its opening in October, 1859, the Law School of the University of Michigan has been fortunate in the continuity of the service of the members of its faculty. The original faculty consisted of that remarkable trio, James V. Campbell, Charles I. Walker and Thomas M. Cooley. Instruction was given by lecture, and almost continuously for twenty-five years those three continued to expound the principles of the law to the students who flocked to the school.


The Contribution Of Thomas M. Cooley To Bryce's "American Commonwealth", Everett S. Brown Jan 1933

The Contribution Of Thomas M. Cooley To Bryce's "American Commonwealth", Everett S. Brown

Michigan Law Review

In the preface to The American Commonwealth, James Bryce acknowledged his indebtedness to numerous friends who, in one way or other, aided him in the writing of his book. First on this list is the name of Thomas M. Cooley. An examination of the text and footnotes of The American Commonwealth shows that Bryce was well acquainted with Cooley's published works, especially his Constitutional Limitations and his General Principles of Constitutional Law, which he quoted frequently with approval and respect. Also one finds six references to letters from Judge Cooley or to observations made directly by him to Bryce. But …


The Book Of English Law Dec 1930

The Book Of English Law

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE BOOK OF ENGLISH LAW By Edward Jenks.


The Laws And Liberties Of Massachusetts, Randolph G. Adams Dec 1930

The Laws And Liberties Of Massachusetts, Randolph G. Adams

Michigan Law Review

A Review of THE LAWS AND LIBERTIES OF MASSACHUSETTS reprinted from the copy of the 1648 edition in the Henry E. Huntington Library, with an Introduction by Max Farrand.


Book Reviews, Robert T. Crane, Edwin D. Dickinson, Grover C. Grismore, Henry M. Bates, Joseph H. Drake Jan 1920

Book Reviews, Robert T. Crane, Edwin D. Dickinson, Grover C. Grismore, Henry M. Bates, Joseph H. Drake

Michigan Law Review

Among all the writings that have appeared on the problem of preserving the order of world society, the most searching and the most illuminating is Hart's Bulwarks of Peace. Particularly in connection with any consideration of the plan of the Paris Covenant of the League of Nations, it compellingly arrests attention.


Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review Nov 1903

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The Law School-Changes in the Faculty--Readjustment of Courses of Study; Sir Frederick Pollock's Visit to Michigan; The Second Lecture--The Scales of Justice; The Development of Criminal Law; The Law of Reason; Corporations--railroads--Stockholding Corporations--Combinations in Restraint of Trade and Commerce--consolidation of Parallel and Competing Lines; Constitutional law--Classification--Limit of Judicial Construction;