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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Introduction: Reflections Of Women In Legal Education: Stories From Four Decades Of Section Chairs, Linda Jellum, Nancy Levit
Introduction: Reflections Of Women In Legal Education: Stories From Four Decades Of Section Chairs, Linda Jellum, Nancy Levit
UMKC Law Review
An introduction is presented in which the editors discuss stories of women legal educators, who have served as Chair of the Association of American Law Schools' (AALS) Women in Legal Education Section in the U.S. and what that service meant to them over the years.
Memory Or Imagination: Reflections On The Section On Women In Legal Education, Joyce E. Mcconnell
Memory Or Imagination: Reflections On The Section On Women In Legal Education, Joyce E. Mcconnell
UMKC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Regaining Momentum, Pat K. Chew
An Unexpected Chair, Elizabeth Nowicki
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Lisa R. Pruitt
Aals Section On Women In Legal Education Reflections: 2002-2011, Danne L. Johnson
Aals Section On Women In Legal Education Reflections: 2002-2011, Danne L. Johnson
UMKC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Women In Legal Education Iii, Marina Angel
Women In Legal Education Iii, Marina Angel
UMKC Law Review
Marina Angel shares her experiences with the Association of American Law Schools ("AALS") Section on Women in Legal Education. The first part of this article discusses her experience with the Section prior to becoming Chair, followed by a discussion of her experiences directly related to chairing the Section, and recommendations for future officers of the Section.
The Aals Section On Women In Legal Education: The Past And The Future, Elizabeth M. Schneider
The Aals Section On Women In Legal Education: The Past And The Future, Elizabeth M. Schneider
UMKC Law Review
Elizabeth Schneider discusses her experiences as a member and as chair of the Women in Legal Education Section of the AALS and the importance of reflection on the history of the Section.
Gender Integration And The Legal Academy: The Role Of The Aals Section On Women In Legal Education, Stephanie M. Wildman
Gender Integration And The Legal Academy: The Role Of The Aals Section On Women In Legal Education, Stephanie M. Wildman
UMKC Law Review
No abstract provided.
You Can't Go Holmes Again, Lumen N. Mulligan
You Can't Go Holmes Again, Lumen N. Mulligan
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Under the standard interpretation of 28 U.S.C. § 1331, the so called Holmes test, pleading a federal cause of action is sufficient for finding federal question jurisdiction. In January 2012, the Supreme Court, in Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC, recharacterized this standard test for § 1331 jurisdiction as one that considers whether “federal law creates [both] a private right of action and furnishes the substantive rules of decision.” In this first piece to address the Mims Court’s significant change to the § 1331 canon, I applaud its rights-inclusive holding. I contend that this rights-inclusive view rests upon a firmer …
Values In Transition: The Chiricahua Apache From 1886-1914, John W. Ragsdale Jr
Values In Transition: The Chiricahua Apache From 1886-1914, John W. Ragsdale Jr
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No abstract provided.
Missouri's Public Defender Crisis: Shouldering The Burden Alone, Sean O'Brien
Missouri's Public Defender Crisis: Shouldering The Burden Alone, Sean O'Brien
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No abstract provided.
Mothers And Sons: The Lloyd Schlup Story, Sean O'Brien
Mothers And Sons: The Lloyd Schlup Story, Sean O'Brien
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This article tells the back story of the near-execution of Lloyd Schlup, condemned to die in Missouri for the 1984 murder of fellow Missouri State Penitentiary prisoner Arthur Dade, Jr. Mr. Schlup came within hours of execution before the Supreme Court granted certiorari on his case to decide whether a prisoner who is probably innocent can avail himself of the habeas corpus remedy. Mr. Schlup's and Mr. Dade's mothers played pivotal roles in the ultimate outcome of Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995). Dedicated to the memory of Nancy Slater.
Pedagogic Techniques: Multi-Disciplinary Courses, Annotated Document Review, Collaborative Work & Large Groups, Anthony J. Luppino
Pedagogic Techniques: Multi-Disciplinary Courses, Annotated Document Review, Collaborative Work & Large Groups, Anthony J. Luppino
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No abstract provided.
Jiminy Cricket For The Corporation: Understanding The Corporate Conscience, Colin P. Marks
Jiminy Cricket For The Corporation: Understanding The Corporate Conscience, Colin P. Marks
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Historically, the corporation has evolved since the late eighteenth century from a relative few, specially chartered associations, generally organized to complete projects for the public good to the modern profit-making behemoths of modern America. Along the way, corporations have been subjected to regulation, often in response to public outcry against perceived abuses of power. This corporate evolution has also resulted in a general separation of ownership and control, though that is not to say that corporate mangers act completely free from external pressures such as to make a profit. With regard to the corporate "conscience," though corporations do not have …
The Trial Of Gaius (Or Caius) Verres: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Trial Of Gaius (Or Caius) Verres: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
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The records of the trial of Gaius (sometimes spelled Caius) Verres reveal - far better than any other extant source - the corruption of the last years of the Roman Republic. Through a series of orations and witnesses, Verres's prosecutor, Cicero, presented a powerful story of how the shocking greed and arrogance of a provincial governor wreaked havoc on what had been the breadbasket of the Roman Empire, Sicily. In his successful prosecution of Verres, Cicero both demonstrated the talents that would make him one of Rome's foremost politicians and set in motion events that bring an end to the …
Without Fear Or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton And The Trial Of The 'Scottsboro Boys', Douglas O. Linder
Without Fear Or Favor: Judge James Edwin Horton And The Trial Of The 'Scottsboro Boys', Douglas O. Linder
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One evening, Circuit Judge James Horton, Jr. was having dinner with his family in his antebellum home in central Athens, Alabama; Limestone's county seat. Dinners in the Horton household were an opportunity to discuss events of the day. In early March of 1933, there were plenty of events to discuss. The ringing of their party line phone interrupted the Horton family dinner. The judge excused himself from the table. When he returned a few minutes later, he looked grim. The retrial of the Scottsboro Boys had been transferred to Decatur in neighboring Morgan County. He was to be the presiding …
The Trial Of Leo Frank: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Trial Of Leo Frank: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
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The discovery of the body of a thirteen-year-old girl in the basement of an Atlanta pencil factory where she had gone to collect her pay check shocked the citizens of that crime-ravaged southern city and roused its public officials to find a suspect and secure a conviction. Unfortunately, it now seems, events and the South's anti-Semitism conspired to lead to the conviction of the wrong man, the factory's Jewish superintendent, Leo Frank. The case ultimately drew the attention of the United States Supreme Court and the Governor of Georgia, but neither the Constitution nor a Governor's commutation could spare Frank …
The Evolving Regulation Of The Legal Profession: The Costs Of Indeterminacy And Certainty, Irma S. Russell
The Evolving Regulation Of The Legal Profession: The Costs Of Indeterminacy And Certainty, Irma S. Russell
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This Article examines the incentive systems of the common law and modern rules of lawyer discipline, which combine to form a dual system of lawyer regulation in this country. The Article considers discontinuities between this dual system of regulation created by the common law, which influenced the 1908 Canons of Professional Ethics, and the current disciplinary rules, presented by the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. While the Model Rules form the basis of lawyer discipline in most states, the approach presented in the Canons continues to have force because the common law applies to lawyers through contract and tort law. …
Falwell V. Flynt Trial, 1984, Douglas O. Linder
Falwell V. Flynt Trial, 1984, Douglas O. Linder
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Asked about his first sexual experience by an interviewer, Reverend Jerry Falwell said, "I never really expected to make it with Mom, but then after she showed all the other guys in town such a good time, I thought 'What the hell!'" Falwell went on to describe a a Campari-fueled sexual encounter with his mother in an outhouse near Lynchburg, Virginia. Neither the incestuous sex nor the interview ever happened, of course. They sprang from the imagination of a parody writer for Hustler Magazine. When the Campari parody ad appeared in the November 1983 issue of Hustler, the founder of …
Melting Hearts Of Stone: Clarence Darrow And The Sweet Trials, Douglas O. Linder
Melting Hearts Of Stone: Clarence Darrow And The Sweet Trials, Douglas O. Linder
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Detroit seemed to Dr. Ossian Sweet a good place to launch a medical practice in 1921. Ossian Sweet understood racial violence all too well. Growing up in Orlando, Ossian had witnessed a large crowd of whites running a black boy down a dusty road. Seeing racial hatred in its ugliest forms instilled in Sweet a deep race consciousness and determination not to let bigotry prevent him from achieving his own personal goals. He decided to move into his new home at 2905 Garland, whatever the risks to him and his family. Clarence Darrow associated with many causes over his long …
Patty Hearst Trial (1976), Douglas O. Linder
Patty Hearst Trial (1976), Douglas O. Linder
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On the evening of February 4, 1974, three armed members of a group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) burst into the Berkeley, California apartment shared by Patty Hearst and her fiancé, Steven Weed. Hearst, the daughter of Randolph Hearst (managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner) and the granddaughter of the legendary William Randolph Hearst, screamed when the men assaulting Weed with a wine bottle. The SLA members carried Hearst, clothed in a nightgown, out of her apartment and forced her into the trunk of a white car. Hearst's abductors fired a round of bullets as they sped …
The Amistad Case, Douglas O. Linder
The Amistad Case, Douglas O. Linder
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The improbable voyage of the schooner Amistad and the court proceedings and diplomatic maneuverings that resulted from that voyage form one of the most significant stories of the nineteenth century. When Steven Spielberg chose the Amistad case as the subject of his 1997 feature film, he finally brought it the attention the case had long deserved, but never received. The Amistad case energized the fledgling abolitionist movement and intensified conflict over slavery, prompted a former President to go before the Supreme Court and condemn the policies of a present Administration, soured diplomatic relations between the United States and Spain for …
The Leopold And Loeb Trial: A Brief Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Leopold And Loeb Trial: A Brief Account, Douglas O. Linder
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Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Decades after Clarence Darrow delivered his twelve-hour long plea to save his young clients' lives, his moving summation stands as the most eloquent attack on the death penalty ever delivered in an American courtroom. Mixing poetry and prose, science and emotion, a world-weary cynicism and a dedication to his cause, hatred of bloodlust and love of man, Darrow takes his audience on an oratorical ride that would be unimaginable in a criminal trial today. Even …
The Leonard Peltier Trial, Douglas O. Linder
The Leonard Peltier Trial, Douglas O. Linder
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The American Indian Movement (AIM) was founded in Minnesota in 1968 to promote traditional Native American culture and instill pride in the Native American community. AIM's targets included both the federal government, with whom it had a long list of grievances (especially focused on its record of many broken treaties) and progressive Indians, who they believed undermined native traditions and solidarity. In February 1973, AIM instigated a seventy-one day takeover of the site of a famous 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. The massacre had resulted in the deaths - at the hands of the United States Calvary - …
The Haymarket Riot And Subsequent Trial: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Haymarket Riot And Subsequent Trial: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
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When an anarchist - whose identity remains a mystery even today - tossed a homemade bomb into a great company of Chicago police at 10:20 P.M. on the night of May 4, 1886, he could not have appreciated the far reaching consequences his reckless action would have. His bomb, thrown in a light drizzle as the last speaker at a labor rally climbed down from the speaker's wagon, set off a frenzy of fire from police pistols that would leave eight officers and an unknown number of civilians dead, and scores more injured. It led to the nation's first Red …
The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial, Douglas O. Linder
The Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial, Douglas O. Linder
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What did it all mean? Was the Chicago Seven Trial merely, as one commentator suggested, a monumental non-event? Was it, as others argue, an important battle for the hearts and minds of the American people? Or is it best seen as a symbol of the conflicts of values that characterized the late sixties? These are some of the questions that surround one of the most unusual courtroom spectacles in American history, the 1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Culturally and politically, 1968 was one of the …
The Earp-Holliday Trial: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
The Earp-Holliday Trial: An Account, Douglas O. Linder
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The Old West's most famous gunbattle lasted all of about thirty seconds, but it left three men dead, three other men shot, and enough questions to occupy historians for more than a century. The gunfight also led to criminal charges being filed against the three Earp brothers (Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan) and Doc Holliday who, near the O. K. Corral on October 26, 1881, decided to enforce the law against four notorious cowboys. The hearing that followed the shoot-out considered the question of whether the Earps and Hollidays killed out of a justifiable fear for their own lives or simply …
The Mississippi Burning Trial (U. S. Vs. Price Et Al.), Douglas O. Linder
The Mississippi Burning Trial (U. S. Vs. Price Et Al.), Douglas O. Linder
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It was an old-fashioned lynching, carried out with the help of county officials, that came to symbolize hardcore resistance to integration. Dead were three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. All three shot in the dark of night on a lonely road in Neshoba County, Mississippi. Many people predicted such a tragedy when the Mississippi Summer Project, an effort that would bring hundreds of college-age volunteers to the most totalitarian state in the country was announced in April, 1964. The FBI's all-out search for the conspirators who killed the three young men, depicted in the movie …
The Nuremberg Trials, Douglas O. Linder
The Nuremberg Trials, Douglas O. Linder
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No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. Those who come to the trials expecting to find sadistic monsters are generally disappointed. What is shocking about Nuremberg is the ordinariness of the defendants: men who may be good fathers, kind to animals, even unassuming - yet who committed unspeakable crimes. Years later, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt wrote of the banality of evil. Like Eichmann, most Nuremberg defendants never aspired to be villains. Rather, they over-identified with an ideological cause and …