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Articles 121 - 143 of 143
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Invalidity Of The Nez Perce Treaty Of 1863 And The Taking Of The Wallowa Valley, John K. Flanagan
The Invalidity Of The Nez Perce Treaty Of 1863 And The Taking Of The Wallowa Valley, John K. Flanagan
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
Imperatives, Normativity, And The Law, Gregory Silverman
Imperatives, Normativity, And The Law, Gregory Silverman
Faculty Articles
In this article Professor Silverman sets out to resolve the problem of legal normativity. Professor Silverman argues that legal scholars have been prevented from transcending the limited conception of law engendered by a key dogma of nineteenth century jurisprudence: the dogma that laws are a species of commands, orders, or imperatives. As a result, even as we enter the twenty-first century, legal scholars have yet to articulate a legal architectonic that properly situates the normative commitments of a society within a post-modern legal system. An adequate theory of law must offer an account of the normativity of law: an account …
Private Ordering At The World's First Futures Exchange, Mark D. West
Private Ordering At The World's First Futures Exchange, Mark D. West
Michigan Law Review
Modern derivative securities - financial instruments whose value is linked to or "derived" from some other asset - are often sophisticated, complex, and subject to a variety of rules and regulations. The same is true of the derivative instruments traded at the world's first organized futures exchange, the Dojima Rice Exchange in Osaka, Japan, where trade flourished for nearly 300 years, from the late seventeenth century until shortly before World War II. This Article analyzes Dojima's organization, efficiency, and amalgam of legal and extralegal rules. In doing so, it contributes to a growing body of literature on commercial self-regulation while …
Caste, Class, And Equal Citizenship, William E. Forbath
Caste, Class, And Equal Citizenship, William E. Forbath
Michigan Law Review
There is a familiar egalitarian constitutional tradition and another we have largely forgotten. The familiar one springs from Brown v. Board of Education; its roots lie in the Reconstruction era. Court-centered and countermajoritarian, it takes aim at caste and racial subordination. The forgotten one also originated with Reconstruction, but it was a majoritarian tradition, addressing its arguments to lawmakers and citizens, not to courts. Aimed against harsh class inequalities, it centered on decent work and livelihoods, social provision, and a measure of economic independence and democracy. Borrowing a phrase from its Progressive Era proponents, I will call it the social …
Gender, Legal Education, And Judicial Philosophy In The Region, Claudio Grossman
Gender, Legal Education, And Judicial Philosophy In The Region, Claudio Grossman
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Legal Doctrine And The Gender Issue In Brazil, Leila Linhares Barsted, Jacqueline Hermann
Legal Doctrine And The Gender Issue In Brazil, Leila Linhares Barsted, Jacqueline Hermann
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Integrating Gender Perspective Into Brazilian Legal Doctrine And Education: Challenges And Possibilities, Flavia Piovesan
Integrating Gender Perspective Into Brazilian Legal Doctrine And Education: Challenges And Possibilities, Flavia Piovesan
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Beyond The Hero Judge: Institutional Reform Litigation As Litigation, Margo Schlanger
Beyond The Hero Judge: Institutional Reform Litigation As Litigation, Margo Schlanger
Reviews
In 1955, in its second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court suggested that federal courts might be called upon to engage in long-term oversight of once-segregated schools. Through the 1960s, southern resistance pushed federal district and appellate judges to turn that possibility into a reality. The impact of this saga on litigation practice extended beyond school desegregation, and even beyond the struggle for African-American equality; through implementation of Brown, the nation’s litigants, lawyers, and judges grew accustomed both to issuance of permanent injunctions against state and local public institutions, and to extended court oversight of compliance. …
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1999, Organizational Session, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.
Journal Of The House Of Representatives Of The Commonwealth Of Kentucky, 1999, Organizational Session, Kentucky. General Assembly. House Of Representatives.
Journals of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
No abstract provided.
Civics 2000: Process Constitutionalism At Yale, Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Civics 2000: Process Constitutionalism At Yale, Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Michigan Law Review
One or another form of historical fidelity has long been in the repetoire of constitutional interpretation, and during the last two decades conservative jurists have searched for the "original intent" of various clauses. Increasingly, however, it is liberal law professors who are turning to history to make sense of American constitutionalism. What they find there is not a document listing eternal rights or duties but rather a multidimensional structure of government, captured as much in practice as on paper, that has metamorphosed over time. It seems we have, in that familiar phrase, a living Constitution. But interest is shifting from …
The Federal Death Penalty: History And Some Thoughts About The Department Of Justice's Role, Rory K. Little
The Federal Death Penalty: History And Some Thoughts About The Department Of Justice's Role, Rory K. Little
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Precedential Cascades: An Appraisal, Eric Talley
Precedential Cascades: An Appraisal, Eric Talley
Faculty Scholarship
About a half century ago, a handful of social scientists began to formalize what was to become the analytical heart of neoclassical economics. Under the broad rubric of "general equilibrium theory," these scholars demonstrated (in varying degrees of mathematical sophistication) the longstanding intuition behind the so-called "invisible hand": that is, that competitive markets could convert apparent disarray and fragmentation into order and harmony. More explicitly, general equilibrium theory demonstrated how a decentralized collection of self-interested individuals could, through competitive market transactions, allocate scarce goods and services in a socially efficient manner. An equally powerful corollary attended this central insight: that …
The Boundaries Of Private Property, Michael A. Heller
The Boundaries Of Private Property, Michael A. Heller
Faculty Scholarship
If your house and fields are worth more separately, divide them; if you want to leave a ring to your child now and grandchild later, split the ownership in a trust. The American law of property encourages owners to subdivide resources freely. Hidden within the law, however, is a boundary principle that limits the right to subdivide private property into wasteful fragments. While people often create wealth when they break up and recombine property in novel ways, owners may make mistakes, or their self-interest may clash with social welfare. Property law responds with diverse doctrines that prevent and abolish excessive …
Introduction: Hong Kong After The Reversion: In Search Of A Post‐Colonial Order, Tuck Hong James Tang
Introduction: Hong Kong After The Reversion: In Search Of A Post‐Colonial Order, Tuck Hong James Tang
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The political handover of Hong Kong on 1 July 1997 turned out to be a non-eventwith little political drama. Emotions ran high when the Union Jack was loweredand was replaced by the Chinese national flag (wuxing hongqi), peacefully endingover one and a half centuries of British colonial rule in Hong Kong. The handovertook place smoothly, despite the heavy rain, without political and social turbulence.The Sino-British disagreement over the abolition of the Legislative Council marredthe occasion, but the swearing-in of a pro-Beijing Provisional Legislative Councilwas largely accepted as a fait accompli.
British Masculinities, Canadian Lawyers, W. Wesley Pue
British Masculinities, Canadian Lawyers, W. Wesley Pue
All Faculty Publications
This paper explores the construction of early twentieth century Canadian legal professionalism as the workings-out of Britishness understood through the lenses of cultural history, cultures of imperialism, and gender relations. It provides a case study in the histories of professionalism in a settler colony.
The Bill Of Rights As An Exclamation Point, Gary S. Lawson
The Bill Of Rights As An Exclamation Point, Gary S. Lawson
Faculty Scholarship
Akhil Amar's The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction ("The Bill of Rights")' is one of the best law books of the twentieth century. That is not surprising, as it grows out of two of the best law review articles of the twentieth century' and was written by one of the century's premier legal scholars. I have been an unabashed Akhil Amar fan ever since our overlapping law school days more than fifteen years ago, and I am thrilled to have my perspicacity and good judgment vindicated by the publication of this remarkable work.
Systems Of Belief In Modern American Law: A View From Century's End, Gerald B. Wetlaufer
Systems Of Belief In Modern American Law: A View From Century's End, Gerald B. Wetlaufer
American University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Chief Justice Holmes On The Science And Art (And Politics) Of Judging, David J. Seipp
Chief Justice Holmes On The Science And Art (And Politics) Of Judging, David J. Seipp
Faculty Scholarship
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), twenty-fifth Chief Justice of Massachusetts, needs no introduction to the readers of this journal. Son and namesake of one of America's most popular writers, he was at twenty-four a Civil War hero wounded three times in battle, and at forty a lawyer-scholar whose book of lectures The Common Law would win him international renown. At sixtyone he began three decades as the Great Dissenter on the U.S. Supreme Court, where he exposed the economic theory underpinning the dominant freedom-of-contract ideology. Between 1882 and 1902-between early promise and later fame-he served on the Supreme Judicial Court …
Natural Law And The Cultivation Of Legal Rhetoric, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Natural Law And The Cultivation Of Legal Rhetoric, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Scholarly Works
This essay appeared in a book celebrating Lon Fuller's contributions to jurisprudence. In it, Professor Mootz argued that Fuller's conception of secular natural law, designated as an "internal morality of law," lends welcome assistance to the effort to articulate a new direction in legal philosophy. He defended Fuller's natural-law approach from the common misinterpretations that it is either a hollow echo of the natural law tradition or an essentialist conception of law at odds with the legal-realist world that he helped to create with his doctrinal scholarship. By reading his famous, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers," in a new …
Law In Flux: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Legal Argumentation And The Natural Law Tradition, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Law In Flux: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Legal Argumentation And The Natural Law Tradition, Francis J. Mootz Iii
Scholarly Works
Peter Goodrich describes the plight of contemporary legal theory with concise accuracy: We have abandoned natural law foundations originally constructed in ecclesiastical venues only to find that the project of developing a secular legal language capable of transforming the management of social conflict into questions of technical rationality is doomed to failure. The ascendancy of analytic legal positivism has purchased conceptual rigor at the cost of separating the analysis of legal validity from moral acceptability, but retreat from this stale conceptualism and a return to traditional natural law precepts appears wildly implausible. The irrelevance of the natural law tradition in …
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Book Review, David S. Tanenhaus
Scholarly Works
After missing an opportunity as a graduate student in the early 1970s to meet the aged Miriam Van Waters, whose distinguished career as a penal reformer spanned from the First World War to the launching of Sputnik, historian Estelle Freedman now attempts to capture her through biography. Freedman’s effort is a valiant one because Van Waters, a student of psychology, struggled with her own identity and sexuality, and repeatedly pushed away anyone who tried to get too close. One can only imagine how the intensely private Van Waters would have reacted to learning that her most personal conflicts would become …
Book Review. Roman Law After The Fall Of Rome, David V. Snyder
Book Review. Roman Law After The Fall Of Rome, David V. Snyder
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Review of: Stein, Peter, Roman Law in European History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
From Group Rights To Individual Liberties: Post-War Labor Law, Liberalism, And The Waning Of Union Strength, Reuel E. Schiller
From Group Rights To Individual Liberties: Post-War Labor Law, Liberalism, And The Waning Of Union Strength, Reuel E. Schiller
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.