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Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review

"Aliens Are Coming! Drain The Pool", John D. Ayer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish. And Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation by Richard A. Posner

The Interpreters, Kenneth L. Karst

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism by James Boyd White

Research In A Changing World Of Law And Technology, Morris L. Cohen

Dalhousie Law Journal

As a long-time friend and admirer of legal education at Dalhousie, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to offer the Read lecture this year. It is particularly warming to have Mrs. Read and the next two generations of Reads here today, since Dean Read was the strongest proponent of the law library's development during his deanship here. One of the designated topics for these lectures has been legal education. With the dedication of the addition to the Weldon Building housing the restored Sir James Dunn Law Library, and the designation of a librarian, for the first time, …

Law Students Make Valid Point With Protest, Jill Miller

Bryant Garth (1986-1987 Acting; 1987-1990)

No abstract provided.

Concerned Readers V. Judicial Opinion Writers, Erik Paul Belt

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this action, Plaintiffs sought a writ of mandamus compelling the offending judges to write better, but the court below denied the writ. Plaintiffs then petitioned for relief from poor writing. Because some judges do, in fact, write clear and effective opinions, we have granted certiorari to resolve the differences between the various courts. The issue before us, then, is whether judges and clerks have abused their discretion by writing weak opinions and, if so, how they can improve their writing. Because stronger writing greatly eases the reader's job and makes opinions more effective, we hold that judges and clerks …

Project Clear's Paper Choice: A Hypertext System For Giving Advice About Legal Research, I. Trotter Hardy

Faculty Publications

Project CLEAR-Computers in Legal Education: Assistance with Research-applies computer techniques to teaching and advising students about legal research. "Hypertext" is a software technique appropriate both for creating information structures that users can browse through, and for creating question-and-answer decision trees that provide specific advice to users. These two hypertext techniques have been put together in Project CLEAR's Paper Choice, a computer program that provides knowledge and gives advice to law students about legal research.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review

From The Bar To The Bar: Prevailing Despite Gender Bias, Nancy Woolley

New England Journal of Public Policy

The report of the Gender Bias Study of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was released in May 1989. After a thorough study of the areas of family law, domestic violence and sexual assault, criminal and juvenile justice, civil damage awards, gender bias in courthouse interactions, and court personnel, the study committee concluded that there was significant gender-based bias in the courts. The following article demonstrates how bias affected one woman and her children, and how, in spite of it and with the help of individuals and institutions in the private sector, she has attained empowerment and …

Scholarship Amok: Excesses In The Pursuit Of Truth And Tenure, Kenneth Lasson

All Faculty Scholarship

In 1937, when Fred Rodell issued his once-famous diatribe, some 150 law-related journals were being published (not to mention thousands of local newspapers and countless full-color comic books). Now there are over eight hundred legal periodicals (not to mention a drastically dwindled number of daily papers, and precious few comics). Both Solomon and Rodell have been all but forgotten. What, indeed, have we wrought? Although Rodell predicted his original panning would have no effect, could he have anticipated the sheer dimensions of this worst-case scenario - that his "professional purveyors of pretentious poppycock" would have spawned so furiously, that the …

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review

With What Must Ethics Begin? Reflections On Benson's Account Of Property And Contract, Richard Dien Winfield

Cardozo Law Review

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Developments In Trademark And Unfair Competition Law: In The Courts, The Patent And Trademark Office And Before The Trademark And Appeal Board, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 1 (1990), Raymond I. Geraldson Jr., Mark V.B. Partridge, Joseph N. Welch

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Revisiting The Rational Basis Of Trademark Protection: Control Of Quality And Dilution - Estranged Bedfellows, 24 J. Marshall L. Rev. 65 (1990), Elizabeth Cutter Bannon

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Banking Law, Penny A. Hazelton

Chapters in Books

• Introduction
• Federal Law
• State Law
• Federal Regulatory Framework
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Federal Home Loan Bank Board
• Office of Thrift Supervision
• State Regulatory Framework
• Additional Research Sources
• Appendices

Selected Bibliography On Europe 1992, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

Bibliography on Europe 1992

Appellate Advocacy From The Viewpoint Of An Appellate Judge, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Practice

No abstract provided.

Remarks, 75th Anniversary Dinner: Cornell Law Review, Roger J. Miner '56

Law Review Addresses

No abstract provided.

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

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

My hypothesis was that a group of law students who research a problem together will learn legal research better than students who work individually. I further hypothesized that if the group research could be undertaken during class time under the direct supervision of the instructor and the teaching assistant, the students would be less intimidated by manual research tools and would be better prepared to work on their own. The following three-step method was employed: (1) the students read about the tool; (2) the instructor discussed the tool in class; and (3) immediately following the discussion, students went to the …

Why Abortion Rights Are Not Justified By Reference To Gender Equality: A Response To Professor Tribe, 23 J. Marshall L. Rev. 621 (1990), David F. Smolin

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Essay Review: The Civil Rights Struggle In Retrospect: Review Of Cruse: Plural But Equal, And Bell: And We Are Not Saved, Robert Allen Sedler

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography Staff, Vol. 5 (1990)

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents - Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography, Vol. 4 (1990)

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Dictionary Developments: Book Review, Daniel H. Foote

Book Reviews

English-Japanese: The Dictionary of Anglo-American Law, published by the University of Tokyo Press, represents a tremendous achievement. Its publication in 1991 culminated a'seven-year effort in which more than fifty leading Japanese scholars actively participated. These included specialists in a wide range of fields, not just professors of Anglo-American law. The effort was overseen-and a heavy share of the work borne by-a seven-member Editorial Committee, which held more than 150 meetings in the process of preparing the dictionary. Based on accounts I have received from many of the professors who participated in the project, however, it is clear that the …

Judging The Judges: Three Opinions, James Boyd White

Articles

For some time I have been working on the problem of judicial criticism, focusing especially on the question: What is it in the work of a judge that leads us to admire a judicial opinion with the result of which we disagree, or to condemn an opinion that "comes out" the way we would do if we were charged with the responsibility of decision? The response I have been making is that this kind of judicial excellence (and its opposite too) lies in the sort of social and intellectual action in which the opinion engages: in the character the court …

Chapter 1: Abortion

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Abortion — p. 1

Roe v. Wade and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services — p. 7

Minor’s Rights — p. 11

Chapter 4: Discrimination

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Affirmative Action — p. 27

Employment, Gender and Racial Discrimination — p. 29

Private Club Discrimination — p. 39

Chapter 3: Child Abuse

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 2: Battered Women

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 6: Gay And Lesbian Issues

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.