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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
The Perils Of "Consensus": Hans Kelsen And The Legal Philosophy Of The United Nations, J. Peter Pham
The Perils Of "Consensus": Hans Kelsen And The Legal Philosophy Of The United Nations, J. Peter Pham
ExpressO
Recently the United States and a number of its traditional allies have clashed over a variety of foreign policy issues that are profoundly juridical: the authority for war and peace, the International Criminal Court, etc. The source of these recent tensions is to be located at a level deeper than that of narrow national interests and specific policies. Rather, they arise from significant differences concerning the nature of "consensus" and, ultimately, legal philosophy. While the United Nations and many other international organizations derive their legal visions from the philosophy of law of Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), one of the most important …
How The Uncharged Misconduct Rule Was Born, Thomas J. Reed
How The Uncharged Misconduct Rule Was Born, Thomas J. Reed
ExpressO
An examination of People v. Molineux a 1901 New York landmark case in evidence which gave rise to what is now Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, the history and background of the common law uncharged misconduct rule, and a legal history of this fascinating criminal prosecution
Harnessing Information Technology To Improve The Environmental Impact Review Process, Michael B. Gerrard, Michael Herz
Harnessing Information Technology To Improve The Environmental Impact Review Process, Michael B. Gerrard, Michael Herz
Articles
No abstract provided.
"Seperation": From Epithet To Constitutional Norm, Marci A. Hamilton
"Seperation": From Epithet To Constitutional Norm, Marci A. Hamilton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Religion, The Rule Of Law, And The Good Of The Whole: A View From The Clergy, Marci A. Hamilton
Religion, The Rule Of Law, And The Good Of The Whole: A View From The Clergy, Marci A. Hamilton
Articles
No abstract provided.
A Re-Evaluation Of The New York Court Of Appeals: The Home, The Market And Labor, 1885-1905, Felice J. Batlan
A Re-Evaluation Of The New York Court Of Appeals: The Home, The Market And Labor, 1885-1905, Felice J. Batlan
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Extending The Revisionist Project, Lewis Grossman
Extending The Revisionist Project, Lewis Grossman
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The Constitution And The New Deal, Richard D. Friedman
The Constitution And The New Deal, Richard D. Friedman
Reviews
The Supreme Court of the New Deal era continues to captivate American lawyers and historians. Constitutional jurisprudence changed rapidly during the period. Moreover, some of the most significant changes appeared - whatever the reality - to result from pressure imposed in 1937 by President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Court with Justices amenable to his programme. The structure of constitutional law that emerged within a few years of Roosevelt's death remains intact in significant respects today.
Intervention In Roman Law: A Case Study In The Hazards Of Legal Scholarship, Peter A. Appel
Intervention In Roman Law: A Case Study In The Hazards Of Legal Scholarship, Peter A. Appel
Scholarly Works
In this Article, I offer a case study of one of the hazards presented by legal scholarship in law reviews as it has evolved over the last century. The standard law review article typically begins with an overview of the author's subject, frequently involving a historical perspective or a chronology of the development of a doctrine. This background section stems from a number of causes, but many attribute it to the fact that most law reviews are student-edited. In order to evaluate an author's argument, students need a brief course in, say, the basics of trade law and pollution control …
Lochner, Liquor, And Longshoremen: A Puzzle In Progressive Era Federalism, Barry Cushman
Lochner, Liquor, And Longshoremen: A Puzzle In Progressive Era Federalism, Barry Cushman
Journal Articles
In 1890, the Supreme Court shocked and thrilled the civilized world with the announcement that dry states could not prohibit the sale of liquor shipped in from outside the state. So long as the out-of-state goods remained in their "original packages," the Court held they retained their character as interstate commerce subject only to federal regulation. The consequences for the cause of local sobriety were, predictably, catastrophic. The proliferation in temperance territory of "original package saloons," at which one could purchase liquor free from the superintendence of local liquor authorities, was appalling to dry eyes. Members of Congress immediately proposed …
The Supreme Court Justice And "Boring" Cases, Neil M. Richards
The Supreme Court Justice And "Boring" Cases, Neil M. Richards
Scholarship@WashULaw
This is a short essay discussing the phenomenon of boring cases at the Supreme Court. It examines two letters written by Supreme Court Justices to sick colleagues–a 1903 letter from Chief Justice E.D. White to William Day, and a 1941 letter from William O. Douglas to Hugo Black. The essay argues that one true and underappreciated measure of the worth of a Supreme Court Justice is not merely their ability to be (or at least appear to be) brilliant in the once-a-decade blockbuster cases. Instead, in selecting Supreme Court Justices, we should look just as much at their ability to …
The Legacy Of Geographical Morality And Colonialism: A Historical Assessment Of The Current Crusade Against Corruption, Padideh Ala'i
The Legacy Of Geographical Morality And Colonialism: A Historical Assessment Of The Current Crusade Against Corruption, Padideh Ala'i
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
This Article examines the legacy of the rule of geographical morality - that is the norm by which a citizen of the country in the North may engage in acts of corruption in any country in the South, including bribery and extortion, without the attachment of any moral condemnation to those acts. Part I of the Article begins by reviewing the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings, who served as Governor General of the Bengal from 1772-1785, on charges of bribery and corruption. It was during that impeachment proceeding when the words "principles of geographical morality" were used by, the prosectuor, …
Rethinking The Penalty Phase, Kyron Huigens
Rethinking The Penalty Phase, Kyron Huigens
Articles
This article argues that the chaos of the US Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence can be sorted with the use of a single point of clarification. That jurisprudence uses the term “culpability” – and similar terms, such as desert, responsibility, and blameworthiness – without regard to a critical ambiguity. We use “culpability” to refer to fault in wrongdoing, as reflected in “culpability elements” such as purpose or recklessness. We also use culpability to refer to eligibility for punishment, which is at issue in the defenses of insanity or minority. Death sentencing is structured around aggravating and mitigating factors, but aggravation …
Lawyers' Duty To Do Justice: A New Look At The History Of The 1908 Canons, Susan Carle
Lawyers' Duty To Do Justice: A New Look At The History Of The 1908 Canons, Susan Carle
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The First Women Members Of The Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, Mary Clark
The First Women Members Of The Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900, Mary Clark
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The Arkansas Supreme Court And The Civil War, L. Scott Stafford
The Arkansas Supreme Court And The Civil War, L. Scott Stafford
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Sixties Shift To Formal Equality And The Courts: An Argument For Pragmatism And Politics, Mary Becker
The Sixties Shift To Formal Equality And The Courts: An Argument For Pragmatism And Politics, Mary Becker
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers
If It Didn't Exist, It Would Have To Be Invented - Reviving The Administrative Conference, Jeffrey Lubbers
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
Justices At Work: An Introduction, Michel Rosenfeld
Justices At Work: An Introduction, Michel Rosenfeld
Cardozo Law Review
"Justices at Work," a day long conference which took place on September 19, 1995 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, brought together Justices and constitutional scholars from seven different countries to consider a hypothetical constitutional case dealing with fundamental rights. This issue of the Law Review includes the facts of the hypothetical case, the applicable hypothetical statute, the briefs submitted to the International Moot Courtall of which were the product of a collaborative effort among the seven scholars involved-as well as a transcript of the proceedings and of the deliberations of the seven Justices: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
Paperwork Redux: The (Stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act Of 1995, Jeffrey Lubbers
Paperwork Redux: The (Stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act Of 1995, Jeffrey Lubbers
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
No abstract provided.
The Constitution's Pragmatic Balance Of Power Between Church And State, Marci A. Hamilton
The Constitution's Pragmatic Balance Of Power Between Church And State, Marci A. Hamilton
Articles
No abstract provided.
Roman Slave Law: An Anglo-American Perspective, Alan Watson
Roman Slave Law: An Anglo-American Perspective, Alan Watson
Cardozo Law Review
The most influential secular system of law in the West has been Roman private law. This is true even of its slave law, which was received not only in states of Europe where slavery survived, but also in European colonies in America, whether those of Spain, Portugal, France, or the Dutch West India Company. Though slavery had died out in France and the Dutch Republic, when slavery appeared in the colonies, recourse was had above all to Roman law.
The First Slave (And Why He Matters), Jonathan A. Bush
The First Slave (And Why He Matters), Jonathan A. Bush
Cardozo Law Review
This Article has two purposes. The narrower, straight historical purpose is to explore in further detail the status of blacks in the earliest years of Britain's colonies in the New World. The second, more legal aim is to explore what is, for many of us, still the hardest question in American legal history: namely, to understand the route by which slavery came to be legal in the early seventeenth century, in a culture that had long rejected unfree status and that seemed to retain that view.
Gender In The Law Of Slavery In The Antebellum United States, Andrew T. Fede
Gender In The Law Of Slavery In The Antebellum United States, Andrew T. Fede
Cardozo Law Review
In her thought-provoking paper Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property, Cheryl I. Harris explores the connections between slavery, race, and gender in the law of the antebellum United States. Harris acknowledges that slaves alone were defined as property at law, and, therefore,*the legal status of slaves differed from free white women and free black women. She also acknowledges that "white women" were allowed property rights on "male-defined terms" but asserts, nevertheless, that free women could be considered as a form of property.
Comment On Hans Baade’S The Gens De Couleur Of Louisiana: Comparative Slave Law In Microcosm, Morris S. Arnold
Comment On Hans Baade’S The Gens De Couleur Of Louisiana: Comparative Slave Law In Microcosm, Morris S. Arnold
Cardozo Law Review
Hans Baade invented colonial Louisiana legal history. Before he started doing research in the eighteenth-century records in New Orleans and elsewhere, virtually no serious historical work involving the judicial and notarial archives of colonial Louisiana had ever been done. Professor Baade also undertook years ago to trace the various French and Spanish statutory enactments that bore on Louisiana legal history, and this proved to be a virtually impenetrable mare's nest. Before Professor Baade began his work, most of what had been written about Louisiana's colonial legal past was both amateurish and antiquated. It should therefore come as no surprise that …
Abolitionist Feminism, Moral Slavery, And The Constitution: “On The Same Platform Of Human Rights”, David A.J. Richards
Abolitionist Feminism, Moral Slavery, And The Constitution: “On The Same Platform Of Human Rights”, David A.J. Richards
Cardozo Law Review
The analogy between race and gender plays an increasingly important role in the interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, interpretive arguments about the analogy make little or no reference to the abolitionist historical background of the Reconstruction Amendments in general and the Fourteenth Amendment in particular. This might make some sense if the only legitimate interpretive appeal to history were Raoul Berger's version of originalism, namely, the specific denoted things (including persons and practices) to which the relevant drafters and ratifiers of the pertinent constitutional text would or would not have applied the language in …
Finding Sojourner’S Truth: Race, Gender, And The Institution Of Property, Cheryl I. Harris
Finding Sojourner’S Truth: Race, Gender, And The Institution Of Property, Cheryl I. Harris
Cardozo Law Review
This Article begins with the signature speech of Sojourner Truth, one of a handful of Black women of the nineteenth century who became an important figure in the abolitionist movement, a national figure in her own time, and an icon of both historical and contemporary feminism. As the emblematic Black woman of her time and as a Black woman that both suffered under and transcended slavery, Sojourner Truth was and is a critically situated subject through which to examine the crosscutting constructions of race and gender forged under slavery.
Comment On The First Slave (And Why He Matters) By Jonathan Bush, Peter Kolchin
Comment On The First Slave (And Why He Matters) By Jonathan Bush, Peter Kolchin
Cardozo Law Review
In his Article The First Slave (And Why He Matters), Professor Jonathan Bush returns to a persistent question in the history of the colonial Chesapeake: the status of blacks in the seventeenth century. He frames this question, however, in a new way. Rather than seeking to determine whether or not blacks were slaves before the codification of slave law-a largely unanswerable question that revolves, at least in part, around what one means by "slaves"-he asks, how could the English have imposed slavery on blacks in America when slavery was non-existent in England and under English law? In response, he …
“So Tall Within” - The Legacy Of Sojourner Truth, Peggy Cooper Davis
“So Tall Within” - The Legacy Of Sojourner Truth, Peggy Cooper Davis
Cardozo Law Review
I take my text from Professor Harris's rich discussion of Sojourner Truth's life narrative. I begin, as Professor Harris began, with Truth's assertion of parental right. When her five-year-old son, Peter, was sent by his owner from New York to Alabama, Truth agonized over the loss of contact between herself and her child. She feared that Peter would lose the opportunity, owed to him under New York law, of liberation at the age of twenty-one. Truth's insistent cry, "I'll have my child again," was initially dismissed by incredulous slaveholders. But it became a theme of struggle as she repeatedly walked …
Property, Parenthood, And Peonage: Reflections On The Return To Status Quo Antebellum, Margaret A. Burnham
Property, Parenthood, And Peonage: Reflections On The Return To Status Quo Antebellum, Margaret A. Burnham
Cardozo Law Review
Cheryl Harris demonstrates how intertwining racial and gender boundaries, whose shadows are long, longstanding, and ominous, were initially constructed around the legal principle of human chattel as personal property. She insightfully argues that slavery inextricably linked the concepts of race and property in the American legal imagination; that property originates from rules that are "racially coded" and determined. Cheryl Harris's contribution to this Symposium is a continuation of her project of illuminating how law ratifies and implements a racialized conception of property. This comment considers the application of Professor Harris's argument, that property, in the context of race-based slavery, is …