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Plain English Statutes And Readability: Pt. 1 - History, The Problem And The Case For A Statute, Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In 1965 Reed Dickerson, Professor of Law at the University of Indiana Law School, wrote the classic Fundamentals of Legal Drafting, published by Little Brown and Co., Boston, a book that has become the most referred to of all books on legal drafting. Little Brown and Co. will soon be publishing Professor Dickerson's Second Edition of Fundamentals of Legal Drafting. With the permission of the author and the publishers, the Michigan Bar Journal and the Plain English Committee are pleased to present excerpts from a chapter in the Second Edition regarding plain English statutes and readability.

Political Asylum Procedure: Time For Reform, T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The statutory asylum process created by the Refugee Act of 1980 has been swamped by an unexpected wave of over 120,000 asylum applications, most of which are still pending. T. Alexander Aleinikoff examines current procedure and asks whether it might not be: Time for Reform

The Emergence Of A General Reformation Doctrine For Wills, Lawrence W. Waggoner, John H. Langbein

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Although it has been axiomatic that our courts do not entertain suits to reform wills on the ground of mistake, appellate courts in New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and California have decided cases within the last several years that may presage the abandonment of the ancient "no-reformation" rule. (In re Snide, 52 N.Y.2d 193, 418 N.E.2d 656, 437 N.Y.S.2d 63 (1981); Estate of Kremlick, 331 N.W.2d 228 (Mich. 1983); Engle v. Siegel, 74 N.J. 287, 377 A.2d 892 (1977); and Estate of Taff, 63 Cal. App. 3d 319, 133 Cal.Rptr. 737 (1976).)

The new cases do not purport to make …

The New York Law School Advocate, September 1982, New York Law School

Student Newspapers

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Dedication Remarks, Terrance Sandalow, Theodore St. Antoine, John Pickering, Rober Nederlander, Gunnar Bickerts, Harold Shapiro, Potter Stewart

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

A selection of speeches given at the dedication of the newly built Law Library.

Panel Discussion: Commenting On Theodore Lowi's "Law, Power, And Knowledge", Francis A. Allen, Theodore J. St. Antoine, Joseph L. Sax, E. Philip Soper

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Commenting on Theodore Lowi's "Law, Power, and Knowledge"

Participants: Professors Francis A. Allen, Theodore J. St. Antoine, Joseph L. Sax, and E. Philip Soper of the University of Michigan Low School

What Do Tax Limitation Votes Mean?, Daniel Rubinfeld, Paul N. Courant, Edward M. Gramlich

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In response to the tax limitation movement which received national attention with the passage of California's Proposition 13 and which gave rise to a slate of tax limitation referends on the Michigan ballot in 1978, we began a theoretical and empirical study of the relationship between the size of state and local governing units and issues in public finance.

Preface: On Natural Resources As An Area Of The Law, David H. Getches

Publications

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Developments, Roger C. Cramton

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The world of legal education---over 180 law schools, 6,000 law teachers, and 125,000 law students--is a large and varied one. The purpose of this department is to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas concerning noteworthy experiments, innovations, and developments in program, curriculum, teaching, scholarship, administration, and the like. Contributions from readers are invited. Those of a longer nature may be published as authored pieces; others will be summarized by the Editor in this space.

Vol. 4, No. 4 (February 6, 1981)

Exordium

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How To Write And Speak More Effectively As Advocate, Negotiator, Or Counselor -- Suggestions To The Budding Lawyer, Arthur R. Landever

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

How best to give you some ideas about legal communication? The traditional approach is to focus narrowly upon a particular type, for example, appellate oral argument. My approach is different. I view communication in its total aspect -- whatever its general nature (e.g. writing or speech), degree of formality (e.g. brief or office negotiation), or audience (e.g. lawyer or layman). My ideas proceed from a fundamental assumption: As a student you can gain insights about the subject, by first studying the broad canvas. As you then reflect upon any particular mode, it can be set against that background. The suggestions …

Clear Legal Drafting: What's Holding Us Back?, F. Reed Dickerson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Legal Opinion Letters And Texas Usury Laws., Albert H. Hiller, G. Christopher Scruggs

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Some Impressions And Reflections On Observing Legal Proceedings In The People's Republic Of China

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Jury Size And The Peremptory Challenge, Richard Lempert

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

The article was orginally submitted jointly with Dr. Jay Schulman as prepared testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Improvement of Judicial Machinery. The subcommittee was considering Senate Bill 2074, an omnibus bill which would have required all United States District Courts to switch from twelve to six member juries in civil cases and would have decreased the number of available peremptory challenges in civil cases from three to two. Upon completion of the hearings on this bill, these provisions were deleted from the version sent to the full Committee. It should be noted that most District Courts by local …

Wanted: Advocates Who Can Argue In Writing, J. Clifford Wallace

Kentucky Law Journal

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Using A Prediction Model In Forecasting Appeals, Paul A. Rake

IUSTITIA

Following the 1972 reorganization of the Indiana Court of Appeals into three panels serving defined geographical districts, the Court soon found itself floundering with too many unevenly distributed cases. Lacking a sufficient base of statistical data from which to formulate a plan to cope with the problem, various proposals, including redistricting the court, adding more judges, and developing a more sophisticated staff research, could not be measured for effectiveness or advisability.

In response to these problems, the Court developed a project to deal with the future caseload by constructing a regression model to predict appeals. This model generated estimates of …

Law Library Consortium Data Base Components And Standards Study Group Report, George S. Grossman, Dan F. Henke, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

The Data Base Components and Standards Committee of the Law Library Consortium recommends the establishment of a national law data base to meet the multi-faceted needs of the legal community for legal and law-related information. The scope of the Report includes bibliographic description and control, as well as subject and full-text access to Anglo-American, foreign, comparative, and international law materials in monographs, serials, non-book media including audio-visual and computerized information, computerassisted instruction, confidential data control and resource persons. Standardsf or inputting information are suggested.

If We Can't Teach Our Students To Write... Let's Examine Some Alternatives That May Have A Chance To Work, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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Um Notes

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

St. Antoine is re-appointed to Law School Deanship; Payton, Whitman join Michigan Law faculty; Allen names AALS head, asks lawyer support; Alumni notes; Professor Peter Steiner elected AAUP head; "Banner year" reported for Law School fund; New clinical program focuses on elderly; "The legal profession" is new course offering; Two 1975 grads selected as Supreme Court clerks; Associate Dean Pierce named to state unit; Dean St. Antoine selected for NLRB Task Force; "Law review" examines rights to information; Harry Edwards joins Harvard Law faculty; Rivera, Borgsdorf leave Assistant Deanships; Recent events

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Mobilizing Private Law, Richard O. Lempert

Book Chapters

The mobilization of law may be thought of as the process by which legal norms are invoked to regulate behavior. In the area of private law, mobilization has two distinct aspects. The first is the process by which existing disputes become engaged in the legal system. In theory this means that disputes are transferred from an arena where their resolution and the enforcement of resolutions depends on the relative power of the parties as enhanced or constrained by non-governmental normative systems to an arena where disputes are resolved by reference to governmental (legal) norms and resolutions enforced by the power …

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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The Medical Malpractice "Crisis", Marcus L. Plant

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Based on a speech before the Committee of Visitors of the University of Michigan Law School, October 24, 1975, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Front Cover

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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Front Matter

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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On The State Of "The Word", Francis A. Allen

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Based on Professo Allen's comments at the dedication of the Baron de Hirsch Meyer Library Addition, University of Miami Law School, Coral Gables, Fla., December 17, 1975.

Back Cover

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

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The Clinical Law Experiment: Goals, Methods, And Problems, Steven D. Pepe

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

In the fall 1975 Law Quadrangle Notes, the first of this series of articles gave an overview of the history and operation of the fieldwork and seminar components of Michigan's Clinical Law I course. This second article on the clinical law experiment will sketch some of the goals of Michigan's clinic, its educational method, and various problems and shortcomings. A future article will describe a special project in the 1974-75 academic year to use the clinical setting more effectively to confront issues of legal ethics and professional responsibility.