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Consequences Of Supreme Court Decisions Upholding Individual Constitutional Rights, Jesse H. Choper Oct 1984

Consequences Of Supreme Court Decisions Upholding Individual Constitutional Rights, Jesse H. Choper

Michigan Law Review

The thrust of this Article is to attempt to ascertain just what differences the Court's judgments upholding individual constitutional rights have made for those who fall within the ambit of their protection. It seeks to address such questions as: What were the conditions that existed before the Court's ruling? How many people were subject to the regime that was invalidated by the Justices? Was the Court's mandate successfully implemented? What were the consequences for those affected? At a subjective level, were the repercussions perceived as salutary by those (or at least most of those) who were the beneficiaries of the …


International Law As Law In The United States, Louis Henkin May 1984

International Law As Law In The United States, Louis Henkin

Michigan Law Review

"International law is part of our law." Justice Gray's much-quoted pronouncement in The Paquete Habana was neither new nor controversial when made in 1900, since he was merely restating what had been established principle for the fathers of American jurisprudence and for their British legal ancestors. And Gray's dictum remains unquestioned today. But, after more than two hundred years in our jurisprudence, the import of that principle is still uncertain and disputed. How did, and how does, international law become part of our law? What does it mean that international law is a part of our law? What is the …


From Swift To Erie: An Historical Perspective, Gene R. Shreve Feb 1984

From Swift To Erie: An Historical Perspective, Gene R. Shreve

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Harmony & Dissonance: The Swift & Erie Cases in American Federalism by Tony Freyer


Love Canal: Science, Politics, And People, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Love Canal: Science, Politics, And People, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People by Adeline Gordon Levine


Law On The Installment Plan, Bruce W. Frier Feb 1984

Law On The Installment Plan, Bruce W. Frier

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A Review of Ulpian by Tony Honoré


Criminal Justice In Colonial America, 1606-1660, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Criminal Justice In Colonial America, 1606-1660, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 by Bradley Chapin


Justice At War: The Story Of The Japanese American Internment Cases, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Justice At War: The Story Of The Japanese American Internment Cases, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases by Peter Irons


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


Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Capital Punishment: Criminal Law And Social Evolution, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Capital Punishment: Criminal Law and Social Evolution by Jan Gorecki


In Re Radical Interpretations Of American Law: The Relation Of Law And History, A. E. Keir Nash Nov 1983

In Re Radical Interpretations Of American Law: The Relation Of Law And History, A. E. Keir Nash

Michigan Law Review

This Article centers instead upon assessing two types of legal analysis - non-Marxist radical interpretation and "non-reductionist" Marxist theory - which, despite conspicuous differences, share the belief that understanding the American historical experience is a prerequisite to understanding American law. Both approaches also share two other important convictions. One is that a "consensual" or "liberal pluralist" version of American history has little explanatory validity, at least in regard to such major problems as the political and legal breakdown represented by the Civil War, and the law's role in American economic development. They also agree that historical explanations which downplay discussion …


Habeas Corpus: Its History And Its Future, Charles Alan Wright Mar 1983

Habeas Corpus: Its History And Its Future, Charles Alan Wright

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Constitutional History of Habeas Corpus by William F. Duker


Empty History, Erwin Chermerinsky Mar 1983

Empty History, Erwin Chermerinsky

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Politics and the Constitution in the History of the United States, Volume 3: The Political Background of the Federal Convention by William Winslow Crosskey and William Jeffrey, Jr.


The Promise Of American Law: A Theological, Humanistic View Of Legal Process, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The Promise Of American Law: A Theological, Humanistic View Of Legal Process, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The Promise of American Law: A Theological, Humanistic View of Legal Process by Milner S. Ball


Governmental Secrecy And The Founding Fathers: A Study In Constitutional Controls, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Governmental Secrecy And The Founding Fathers: A Study In Constitutional Controls, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Governmental Secrecy and the Founding Fathers: A Study in Constitutional Controls by Daniel N. Hoffman


The Medieval English County Court, Stephen D. White Mar 1983

The Medieval English County Court, Stephen D. White

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350 by Robert C. Palmer


Law In Colonial America: The Reassessment Of Early American Legal History, Warren M. Billings Mar 1983

Law In Colonial America: The Reassessment Of Early American Legal History, Warren M. Billings

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A Review of Law and Society in Puritan Massachusetts: Essex County, 1629-1692 by David Thomas Konig, and Dispute and Conflict Resolution in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, 1725-1825 by William E. Nelson, and Faithful Magistrates and Republican Lawyers: Creators of Virginia Legal Culture, 1680-1810 by A.G. Roeber


The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The New Deal Lawyers, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The New Deal Lawyers by Peter H. Irons


A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader Mar 1983

A Comparative Perspective On Legal Evolution, Revolution, And Devolution, Laura Nader

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A Review of Courts--A Comparative and Political Analysis by Martin Shapiro, and Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700 by Richard L. Kagan


Roman Law Influence On The Civil Law, Charles Donahue Jr. Mar 1983

Roman Law Influence On The Civil Law, Charles Donahue Jr.

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A Review of The Making of the Civil Law by Alan Watson


Anatomy Of Racism, Damon J. Keith Mar 1983

Anatomy Of Racism, Damon J. Keith

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism From Roosevelt to Reagan by Harry S. Ashmore


Regulation In Perspective: Historical Essays, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Regulation In Perspective: Historical Essays, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Regulation and Perspective: Historical Essays edited by Thomas K. McCraw


The Conduct Of Just And Limited War, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

The Conduct Of Just And Limited War, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The Conduct of Just and Limited War by William V. O'Brien


From Pillory To Penitentiary: The Rise Of Criminal Incarceration In Early Massachusetts, Adam J. Hirsch May 1982

From Pillory To Penitentiary: The Rise Of Criminal Incarceration In Early Massachusetts, Adam J. Hirsch

Michigan Law Review

While the transition from the old forms of criminal sanction to incarceration was perhaps not, as Jeremy Bentham claimed, "one of the most signal improvements that have ever yet been made in our criminal legislation," one does not overstate to call it a signal development in the history of Anglo-American criminal justice - a development, one may add, that still wants adequate examination, much less explanation. This Article attempts to do both for one sample region: Massachusetts. Though the jurisprudential movement from pillory to penitentiary took place throughout the new American republic, as well as much of western Europe, our …


The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology And The Making Of The State Constitutions In The Revolutionary Era, Michigan Law Review Mar 1982

The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology And The Making Of The State Constitutions In The Revolutionary Era, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The First American Constitutions: Republican Ideology and the Making of the State Constitutions in the Revolutionary Era by Willi Paul Adams


Toward A New Theory Of Roman Law, David F. Pugsley Mar 1982

Toward A New Theory Of Roman Law, David F. Pugsley

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome by Bruce W. Frier


Law For The Elephant: Property And Social Behavior On The Overland Trial, Michigan Law Review Mar 1982

Law For The Elephant: Property And Social Behavior On The Overland Trial, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of Law for the Elephant: Property and Social Behavior on the Overland Trial by John Phillip Reid


Legal History And The Law Of Blasphemy, Morris S. Arnold Mar 1982

Legal History And The Law Of Blasphemy, Morris S. Arnold

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Treason Against God: A History of the Offense of Blasphemy by Leonard W. Levy


The Feudal Framework Of English Law, Robert C. Palmer Apr 1981

The Feudal Framework Of English Law, Robert C. Palmer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Legal Framework of English Feudalism by S.F.C, Milsom


Truth And Interpretation In Legal History, G. Edward White Mar 1981

Truth And Interpretation In Legal History, G. Edward White

Michigan Law Review

The essay consists of four sections. Section I discusses the nature of historical explanation, devoting some attention to the roles of "truth," interpretation, and detachment in historical scholarship. Section II continues that discussion by exploring the meaning and the purpose of what I call "interpretive detachment" in the writing of history. Section III considers the theoretical assumptions of Marxist legal historians from the point of view developed in preceding sections. Section IV, taking into account some issues that remain problematic or troublesome, restates my approach.


On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges, And The Rule Of Law, Alfred S. Konefsky Mar 1981

On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges, And The Rule Of Law, Alfred S. Konefsky

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System, 1829-1861 by Kermit L. Hall and Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky 1789-1816 by Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau