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A New Classification Of Law For A Foreign, Comparative, And International Research Law Library, Jan Stepan

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law seated at Lausanne was established by the federal statute of October 6, 1978. The Institute is envisioned as a center for the "documentation of and research into comparative, foreign, and international law." According to the statute and the implementing decree of December 19, 1979, the Institute serves the following purposes:

(1) to supply federal agencies and the federal administration with material and studies that may be needed for decisions concerning legislation and international treaties; (2) to contribute towards international efforts at the harmonization and unification of law; (3) to provide information and expert opinions …

Antitrust & Local Government, Search And Seizure, Howard Feller, J. Robert Brame Iii, Ronald J. Bacigal

University of Richmond Law Review

The United States Supreme Court's recent decision in Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder has been aptly described as "a lightning bolt with potentially thunderous repercussions." City of Boulder basically established that local government activity is not immune from federal antitrust laws unless it is undertaken pursuant to a clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed state policy to replace competition with regulation or monopoly public service.

Developments, Curtis J. Berger, Francis J. Conte, Marcia L. Gienapp, Albert Brecht, Thomas Barton, Carl J. Schramm, James R. Devine, Robert L. Mennell

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Should Permanent Faculty Teach First-Year Legal Writing? A Debate, Willard H. Pedrick, N. William Hines, William A. Reppy Jr.

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

A Critique Of Lee Loevinger's "Jurimetrics - The Next Step Forward", Bruce Macleod Thompson

Dalhousie Law Journal

In my days as an undergraduate studying history at Mount Allison, a professor from one of the large American universities visited the campus and told us of "Operation Ben Franklin". A group of eminent historians were engaged in a project whose aim was to electronically re-create the great statesman using the scientific method. Using primary sources such as diaries, letters and documents, and secondary sources such as printed books and journals, in short all available data, the group with the aid of computers was collecting and dissecting Franklin's writings. The goal was to produce each step his mind took in …

The Roles Of Lawbooks, Alfred F. Conard

Michigan Law Review

The Michigan Law Review's annual review of books provides us with an informative sample of the recently published books that are available to inform the lawyer's mind. No doubt the sample is biased by the idiosyncracies of the editors' tastes and of the reviewers' receptivity. But these biases are more likely to enhance than to diminish the significance of the selection.

On Describing Legal Research, Steven M. Barkan

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Fundamentals of Legal Research. 2d ed. by J. Myron Jacobstein and Roy M. Mersky

United States Supreme Court Review Of Tenth Circuit Decisions: Community Communications Corporation V. City Of Boulder -- Reversed, Kingsley R. Browne

Law Faculty Research Publications

No abstract provided.

1982 Benton National Moot Court Competition 1982 Benton National Moot Court Competition: Preface, 16 J. Marshall L. Rev. 165 (1982), George B. Trubow

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bellona V. Exurb Media Corp. Bench Memorandum 1982 Benton National Moot Court Competition, 16 J. Marshall L. Rev. 168 (1982), Randy Decker, Audrey Lesuer, Monte Walz

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

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

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

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.

Clarifying Legal Drafting By Well-Structuring It: An Improved Version Of The Plain Language Game, Layman E. Allen

Other Publications

In order to be plain, language should be well-structured. This is the theory upon which the PLAIN LANGUAGE Game is based. It provides those who aspire to be legal drafters with practice in constructing well-structured statements - a useful skill for expressing clear legal norms. You have already encountered the underlining of part of the term 'well-structured', 'PLAIN LANGUAGE' and 'norm', and may be wondering about it The underlining of the first two letters of each word of a term indicates that the term is a defined term and that it is being used in its defined sense. Thus, a …

Appendix Iv, Michigan Journal Of International Law

Michigan Journal of International Law

In this section: • Selected Works on the Rights and Status of Refugees Under United States and International Law, 1960-1980

Current Research Sources In French Law, Claire M. Germain

UF Law Faculty Publications

This article is intended to be a practical guide to current bibliographies and other research sources dealing with French law. It is addressed to both the legal scholar and the law librarian. Some of the sources are acquisition or selection tools; others are guides to the literature.

This guide includes primarily English and French language publications, but a few works in German are noted as well. Recent sources in particular are included so that the bibliography may serve to update some of the excellent French legal research guides already available.

General sources are given first, and then specific sources. Part …

Land-Use Controls: Cases And Materials. By Robert C. Ellickson And A. Dan Tarlock., Robert J. Hopperton

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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.

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.

Anglo-American Legal Citation: Historical Development And Library Implications, Byron D. Cooper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Current Research Sources In French Law, Claire M. Germain

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Evidentiary Foundations, Fundamentals Of Trial Techniques, Thomas F. Guernsey

University of Richmond Law Review

Any lawyering skill should be taught so as to provide the student or lawyer with the opportunity to plan, implement, and reflect on the execution of the skill. In these two books, Professors Imwinkelried and Mauet have accomplished just that. In writing books that are aimed primarily at the law school market, the authors have provided a valuable resource for the student as well as for the beginning trial lawyer.

Copyright Ownership Of Joint Works And Terminations Of Transfers, Harold See

Law Faculty Scholarship

Under the terms of section 24 of the Copyright Act of 1909, the death of Oscar Hammerstein in 1960 resulted in the "partnership" of Richard Rogers and (Mrs.) Oscar Hammerstein (and James and William Hammerstein, and Alice Hammerstein Mathias, his children-the latter two by a previous marriage), in the ownership of such works as Oklahoma, Carousel, and South Pacific. Oscar Hammerstein may have wanted it that way, but want it or not, he was powerless under the Copyright Act to change the arrangement. Numerous works are the product of the combined efforts of more than one author. Such joint authorship …

The Judiciary And Dispute Resolution In Japan: A Survey, Harold See

Law Faculty Scholarship

An overly brief and misleadingly simple history of the evolution of Japanese legal institutions would begin with the proposition that a century and a quarter ago Japan was a feudal society. By "opening" to the West, Japan was forced to "modernize" (Westernize) its laws. As a code system is easier than a common law system to impose wholesale on a society, the continental European civil law countries served as a model for Japan, which patterned its codes primarily on the civil code of Germany and the criminal code of France. After defeat in the Second World War and subsequent occupation …

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

Publications

No abstract provided.

Legal Education In Virginia 1779-1979; Land Use Law: Issues For The Eighties, Lewis T. Booker, Susanne L. Shilling

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Federal Regulation Of Consumer-Creditor Relations, Susan B. English

University of Richmond Law Review

As anyone who has taught or practiced in the area of consumer law knows, there have been no texts written until now which attempt to bring together in a concise manner the many statutes and regulations which govern this rapidly developing area of law. Kenneth R. Redden, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and James McClellan, Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the Subcommittee on the Separation of Powers of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, have taken the first step to fill this gap by providing us with a text in the area of consumer-creditor relations.

In Praise Of Book Reviews, Francis A. Allen

Michigan Law Review

This is the third time in as many years that the Michigan Law Review has presented a substantial canvass of legal and law-relevant literature to its readers. Any institutional practice repeated three times is in a fair way of becoming a tradition, and the tradition of an annual "book-review issue" in this journal seems vigorously alive and well. Accordingly, the present collection of review essays requires no benediction from me. That these remarks are a work of supererogation is even more strongly suggested when one recalls the elegant essay of David Cavers, which helped launch the first collection two years …

Truth And Interpretation In Legal History, G. Edward White

Michigan Law Review

The essay consists of four sections. Section I discusses the nature of historical explanation, devoting some attention to the roles of "truth," interpretation, and detachment in historical scholarship. Section II continues that discussion by exploring the meaning and the purpose of what I call "interpretive detachment" in the writing of history. Section III considers the theoretical assumptions of Marxist legal historians from the point of view developed in preceding sections. Section IV, taking into account some issues that remain problematic or troublesome, restates my approach.