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Chapter 10: Pornography, Prostitution And Hate Speech

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Prostitution and Pornography — p. 175

Freedom of Speech — p. 178

Chapter 11: Rape

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 12: Supreme Court Jurisprudence

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 13: Women And The Law

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Law School Diversity — p. 193

Legal Careers — p. 196

Feminist Jurisprudence — p. 200

Crime and Punishment — p. 208

Gender Bias in the Courts — p. 210

Capturing The Literature Of The Bar: A Proposal For Library Package Plans, Georgia Briscoe

Publications

Publications of state and local bar associations are difficult for libraries to acquire and maintain because bar associations' publication activities are often not centralized. Standing orders or package plans will enhance services of bar associations. The American Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association offer models for other states to follow.

Why Legal Research Training Is So Bad: A Response To Howland And Lewis, I. Trotter Hardy

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

New York State Constitutional Decisions: 1990 Compilation

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Books Received

University of Richmond Law Review

With this issue, the Editorial Board of the University of Richmond Law Review renews the publication of books of particular interest to the Virginia practitioner. We hope that this addition to the Annual Survey of Virginia Law will be of benefit to the practitioner as a source of current publications about Virginia law topics.

Generalization In Interpretive Theory, Joseph Vining

Book Chapters

There are arguments at large about the nature of legal interpretation, proceeding from an implicit proposition that interpretation is the same phenomenon or experience whatever its setting. An assumption that there is one phenomenon can be found in discussions among lawyers of interpretation and in discussions among nonlawyers of legal interpretation -- and as often in the work of those who would deny there is any significance to theorizing about interpretation, as of those who think persuasion to a particular theory will have the utmost consequence for law and society.

Proceeding from such a proposition, rather than toward it, raises …

: An Appraisal, Sidney Delong

Faculty Articles

Professor DeLong’s article provides a humorous observation of legal writing. His article on the colon and "colonization" presents a lighter side to the legal subject matters that can often prove to be a struggle to write as well as to read.

Research And Writing About Legal Writing: A Foreword From The Editor, Chris Rideout

Faculty Articles

The growing attention to the quality of legal prose is laudable. Yet more fundamental inquiry into legal writing and its associated activities, research and analysis, is needed as well. Before a more comprehensive attention to legal writing can be offered, we should understand more about what the characteristics of legal writing are, how it is written, and how it is used. This journal calls for the inquiry to begin and offers one forum for publishing the results. The inquiry into legal writing should not be conducted solely in response to perceived needs for reform. Legal prose itself, in its history, …

Review Essay - Feminist Jurisprudence, Christina Whitman

Reviews

In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of "women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upon the precedent made in race cases, precedent which assumed that the appropriate goal for social change was equality and defined equality as the similar treatment of similarly situated individuals. The key to the early legal victories …

Foreword: Law And The Library, Timothy L. Coggins

Law Faculty Publications

A Foreword for the North Carolina Libaries Journal on "Law and the Library."

Books Received, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

List of books received by the Journal.

Our Meanings Can Never Be The Same: Reflections On Language And Law, James Boyd White

Articles

For me it is a starting point in all thought about language that, whatever I say or do with words, my expression will never mean exactly the same thing to you that it does to me; and of course yours will never mean exactly the same thing to me that it does to you. It cannot: each act of expression is a gesture against a context; it derives its meaning largely. perhaps entirely, from its relation to that context; and for each of us the context of every gesture is different, if only because one of us is doing it, …

Just The Facts: The Field Code And The Case Method, William P. Lapiana

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

Interest Group Politics And Judicial Behavior: Macey's Public Choice, Jack M. Beermann

Faculty Scholarship

The economic theory of government has lately gained the acceptance in legal circles that it has long enjoyed in political science and economics. The economic theory, also known as "public choice," analyzes and explains government action and private political activity according to the basic assumption of economics, that individuals respond to economic incentives in their environments in a self-interested manner. The economic theory is thus useful descriptively, to explain diverse political phenomena, and prescriptively, to help formulate reform strategy.

Law Review Correspondence: The View From Way Down Under The Manuscripts, Dale Carpenter

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

No abstract provided.

Refocusing The New Evidence Scholarship : A Comment On Robert S. Thompson's "Decision, Disciplined Inferences And The Adversary Process", Terence J. Anderson

Articles

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

Virginia Law Of Products Liability, Thomas W. Williamson Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

When the history of Twentieth Century America's jurisprudence is chronicled, a prominent chapter will be devoted to the rise of product liability law. At the beginning of the century, a person injured by a defective product usually had no recourse against either the product's seller or manufacturer. By 1970, the barriers obstructing recovery had been dismantled and it was generally accepted that a seller or manufacturer of a product would be strictly liable to anyone injured by the defective condition of the product.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review.

Of Two Minds About Law And Minds, Larry Alexander

Michigan Law Review

Present-oriented interpretation is an interpretive approach to legal texts that assigns them the best meaning, in terms of contemporary social policy, that they could plausibly convey were they written today rather than at the actual times of their enactment. Steven Smith has recently argued that present-oriented interpretation is a view of law in which law is literally "mindless." That is, present-oriented interpretation would have us be ruled by the fortuity of what present meanings the words of a text can bear, whereas, according to Smith, we should be ruled by what the enacting political authorities actually decided furthers the public …

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A list of books received by Michigan Law Review

Academic Freedom: A Bibliography, Janet Sinder

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Legal Education, Feminism, And The "Well-Intentioned Man": A Response To Richard Devlin, Didi Herman

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Getting Dorothy Out Of Kansas: The Importance Of An Advanced Component To Legal Writing Programs, Barbara J. Cox, Mary Barnard Ray

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Joining Hands And Smarts: Teaching Manual Legal Research Through Collaborative Learning Groups, Thomas Michael Mcdonnell

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Law School Legal Research Training Programs, Joan S. Howland, Nancy J. Lewis

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.