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Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

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Table Of Cases

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

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Chapter 4: Gay & Lesbian Issues

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Constitutional Issues — p. 79

Discrimination — p. 82

Miscellaneous — p. 83

Review Essay: Legal Research Books, Manuals, And Guides -- More Than Enough, Fritz Snyder

Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings

This article surveys the current texts of legal research, noting features the author considers important and problems in the approaches of each.

Criteria For The Evaluation Of Law School Examination Papers, Harold See

Law Faculty Scholarship

It is a generally accepted proposition that grades should be determined in a systematic manner based on individual performance. It is hardly more controversial that the criteria by which student performance is judged should be known in advance by the students. Economic analysis of law teaches us that if students behave rationally, their performances will reflect the criteria by which they understand their performances will be evaluated. Analysis of a set of examination papers should reveal the criteria those students believed were to be applied to them. Weighted frequency of occurrence obviously determines the respective weights students believe are assigned …

Law, Change, And Litigation: A Critical Examination Of An Empirical Research Tradition, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

This article examines the theory and empirical methods of recent studies of law and litigation. It argues that the recent interest in longitudinal studies of trial court dockets proceeds from a deeply rooted functionalist theoretical tradition in empirical work on courts. Functionalist theory, through its sophisticated application in the work of James Willard Hurst, is described as the direct or indirect source of theory for longitudinal litigation studies. Though there are many reasons for suspecting that fuctionalist theory is inadequate, it has seldom been rejected through proper empirical testing of its hypotheses. The theory, often poorly conceptualized, is discussed here …

Writing In A Different Voice, Elizabeth Perry Hodges

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Table Of Contents

Touro Law Review

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Table Of Contents

Touro Law Review

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The State Of Legal Writing: Res Ipsa Loquitur, George D. Gopen

Michigan Law Review

There is a glory, it seems, in the mystery of a language that can be deciphered only by initiates of the secret society; there is a great sense of power and an even greater actuality of power in controlling a language that in turn controls the most pressing affairs of individuals and communities; and there is a monopolistic safety in being able to manipulate a language which because it was part of the creation of legal problems must be part of their solutions as well. It was true in 1921, and it is still true sixty-six years later. This essay …

The Burden Of The Liberal Song, Peter R. Teachout

Indiana Law Journal

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Footnotes As Product Differentiation, Arthur D. Austin

Vanderbilt Law Review

When Professor Fred Rodell announced his first Goodbye to Law Reviews in 1936, he established the accepted wisdom for law review criticism. Rodell complained that law review literature had two serious defects-style and content. Subsequent criticism has been persistently harsh; the common theme is that "[the extraordinary proliferation of law reviews, most of them student edited and all but a handful very erratic in quality, has been harmful for the nature, evaluation, and accessibility of legal scholarship."

Having exhausted complaints on substance, critics uncovered another mischievous threat. They discovered that articles are Typhoid Marys of an insidious plague-footnotes. Second-rate style …

Procedure's Magical Number Three: Psychological Bases For Standards Of Decision, Kevin M. Clermont

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

So many procedural doctrines appear, after research and teaching, to trifurcate. An obvious example is that kind of standard of decision known as the standard of proof: what in theory might have been a continuum of standards divides in practice into the three distinct standards of preponderance of the evidence, clear and convincing evidence, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Other examples suggest both that I am not imagining the prominence of three and that more than coincidence is at work.

Part I of this essay describes the role of the number three in procedure, with particular regard to standards …

Calculated Kindness: Refugees And American's Half-Open Door, 1945 To The Present, By Gil Loescher And John A. Scanlan, Arthur C. Helton

Indiana Law Journal

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A Dictionary Of Modern Legal Usage, Lynn Foster

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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"There'll Always Be An England": The Instrumental Ideology Of Evidence, Kenneth W. Graham Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Theories of Evidence: Bentham and Wigmore by William Twining

Basic Citation Forms: Judicial Branch Materials

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Florida Session Laws

Florida State University Law Review

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General Rules Of Style: Capitalization

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Miscellaneous References

Florida State University Law Review

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Florida Style Manual: Table Of Contents

Florida State University Law Review

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General Rules Of Style: Abbreviations

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Bills

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Florida Constitutional Materials

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Executive Branch Materials

Florida State University Law Review

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Florida Style Manual: Introduction, The Editors

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Legislative Materials

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Florida Cases

Florida State University Law Review

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Basic Citation Forms: Florida Statutes

Florida State University Law Review

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The Move To Institutions, David Kennedy

Cardozo Law Review

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