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The Rule Of Law And The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Democracy, Michel Rosenfeld Jul 2001

The Rule Of Law And The Legitimacy Of Constitutional Democracy, Michel Rosenfeld

Articles

The rule of law is a foundational principle of constitutional democracy, requiring the state to govern through publicly promulgated laws, separate legislative and adjudicative functions, and ensure accountability for all. While the rule of law is essential for legitimate governance, its meaning and implementation remain contested, varying significantly across legal traditions such as the Anglo-American rule of law, German Rechtsstaat, and French état de droit. The article argues that while the rule of law in its narrow sense—emphasizing legal predictability and procedural fairness—is insufficient for legitimate constitutional democracy, it must also incorporate democratic accountability and substantive rights protection to address …


The Place Of Form In The Fundamentals Of Law, Robert S. Summers Mar 2001

The Place Of Form In The Fundamentals Of Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The author explains that there is scope for a general theory about the nature and place of form in the fundamentals of law. Form organizes the institutions, rules and other varieties of law, and the system as a whole. All such constructs have non-formal elements, too, but form unifies each construct and provides its criteria of identity. Appropriate form makes a system of law possible. It also tends to beget good content in the law. It is indispensable to the basic needs of a legal system, and when such an end is organizational, as with democracy, liberty, and the rule …


Rule Of Law And The Limits Of Sovereignty: The Private Prison In Jurisprudential Perspective, Ahmed A. White Jan 2001

Rule Of Law And The Limits Of Sovereignty: The Private Prison In Jurisprudential Perspective, Ahmed A. White

Publications

No abstract provided.


Legal Institutions In Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers Aug 2000

Legal Institutions In Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet Jan 2000

Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article articulates a theory of Puerto Rican cultural nationhood that is largely based on ethnicity. In linking ethnicity and citizenship, it is imperative, however, to avoid the evils of ethnic strife and balkanization, while celebrating rather than imposing difference; community consciousness cannot degenerate into fascism.


The Principles Of The Rule Of Law, Robert S. Summers Jun 1999

The Principles Of The Rule Of Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Victims' Rights, Rule Of Law, And The Threat To Liberal Jurisprudence, Ahmed A. White Jan 1999

Victims' Rights, Rule Of Law, And The Threat To Liberal Jurisprudence, Ahmed A. White

Publications

No abstract provided.


Toward A Constitutional Kleptocracy: Civil Forfeiture In America, Stephan B. Herpel May 1998

Toward A Constitutional Kleptocracy: Civil Forfeiture In America, Stephan B. Herpel

Michigan Law Review

Leonard Levy, the legal historian who has written a number of highly regarded historical studies on various provisions of the United States Constitution, has added to his impressive oeuvre a new study of civil and criminal forfeiture. A License to Steal brings together a discussion of English legal history, a review of a number of Nineteenth Century and late Twentieth Century Supreme Court forfeiture decisions, accounts of actual applications of civil and criminal forfeiture, and a summary and critique of legislative proposals that have been made for reform of the civil forfeiture provisions of the federal drug statute. There is …


Justices At Work: An Introduction, Michel Rosenfeld May 1997

Justices At Work: An Introduction, Michel Rosenfeld

Cardozo Law Review

"Justices at Work," a day long conference which took place on September 19, 1995 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, brought together Justices and constitutional scholars from seven different countries to consider a hypothetical constitutional case dealing with fundamental rights. This issue of the Law Review includes the facts of the hypothetical case, the applicable hypothetical statute, the briefs submitted to the International Moot Courtall of which were the product of a collaborative effort among the seven scholars involved-as well as a transcript of the proceedings and of the deliberations of the seven Justices: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg …


Coping With Partiality: Justice, The Rule Of Law, And The Role Of Lawyers, Randy E. Barnett Jan 1997

Coping With Partiality: Justice, The Rule Of Law, And The Role Of Lawyers, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Lawyers help ameliorate a particular instance of what the author calls the problem of interest--the partiality problem. For he believes that it falls to law professors to imbue in their students an understanding of the important role that lawyers play in society, if for no other reason than they will need some emotional armament from the slings and arrows of incessant lawyer jokes and worse. In explaining how the existence of lawyers helps address the problem of partiality, the author also explains how adherence to property rights, freedom of contract, and the rule of law--concepts long disparaged by law professors--help …


Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen May 1996

Revenge For The Condemned, Sara Sun Beale, Paul H. Haagen

Michigan Law Review

A Review of V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868


From Slaves To Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, And Reconstruction, Donald G. Nieman May 1996

From Slaves To Citizens: African-Americans, Rights Consciousness, And Reconstruction, Donald G. Nieman

Cardozo Law Review

Addressing a racially mixed jury selected to try Ku Klux Klansmen in federal circuit court in Columbia, South Carolina in 1871, United States Attorney Daniel T. Corbin highlighted the dramatic changes that the previous decade had witnessed. "Gentlemen," he remarked, "we have lived over a century in the last ten years." Corbin did not exaggerate. The Civil War and Reconstruction years witnessed changes as revolutionary as any the nation has ever experienced. And nowhere were the changes as sweeping as in the realm of constitutional law.


Projecting The Washington College Of Law Into The Future, Claudio Grossman Jan 1996

Projecting The Washington College Of Law Into The Future, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

No abstract provided.


Fictions, Fault, And Forgiveness: Jury Nullification In A New Context, David N. Dorfman, Chris K. Iijima Jun 1995

Fictions, Fault, And Forgiveness: Jury Nullification In A New Context, David N. Dorfman, Chris K. Iijima

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Recently, critics of the Anglo-American jury system have complained that juries in criminal trials have been ignoring the law, in favor of defendants who claim that they lack criminal responsibility because they are afflicted by the various victimization syndromes now popularized in the mass media. In this Article, Professors Dorfman and Iijima counter this characterization of the "runaway" jury and argue that juries are not ignoring the law, but rather, are exercising a primary power of the jury, to nullify the application of the law when such application to a particular defendant is unjust. The Authors trace the development of …


English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove May 1995

English Law In The Age Of The Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation Of Governance And Law, Daniel B. Kosove

Michigan Law Review

A Review of English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law by Robert C. Palmer


Perestroika African Style: One-Party Government And Human Rights In Tanzania, John Quigley Jan 1992

Perestroika African Style: One-Party Government And Human Rights In Tanzania, John Quigley

Michigan Journal of International Law

The one-party systems in Africa have drawn negative reactions from Western States that provide economic aid. The article assesses the one-party system in light of international human rights law and asks whether aid-giving States must consider whether one-party rule in recipient States violates international standards. In this connection, the article asks whether the rights of association and political freedom as developed in Europe can fairly be applied to Africa, given its historical experience.


Justice, Mercy, And Late Medieval Governance, Pat Mccune May 1991

Justice, Mercy, And Late Medieval Governance, Pat Mccune

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Kingship, Law, and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V by Edward Powell


Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, And Writing: Uniform Laws And Saga Iceland, William I. Miller Jan 1991

Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, And Writing: Uniform Laws And Saga Iceland, William I. Miller

Articles

Our word law is a loanword from Old Norse.1 It makes its earliest appearances in Old English manuscripts in the late tenth century. At that time the Old English word for law was, believe it or not, æ, written as a digraph called "ash." Now most readers, myself included, tend to experience anxiety when we confront a ligatured vowel like ae and so we untie it as a prelude to getting rid of it altogether: we turn an aesthete2 into an aesthete before finally humiliating him (or her) as an esthete, all to resolve our nervousness. King Æthelred the Unready …


Particularism And The Struggle For Coherence In The Common Law Literary Tradition, E. P. Krauss Jan 1989

Particularism And The Struggle For Coherence In The Common Law Literary Tradition, E. P. Krauss

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Legality And Empathy, Lynne Henderson Jan 1987

Legality And Empathy, Lynne Henderson

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Governmental Secrecy And The Founding Fathers: A Study In Constitutional Controls, Michigan Law Review Mar 1983

Governmental Secrecy And The Founding Fathers: A Study In Constitutional Controls, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Governmental Secrecy and the Founding Fathers: A Study in Constitutional Controls by Daniel N. Hoffman


Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review Mar 1981

Popular Justice: A History Of American Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice by Samuel Walker


On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky Mar 1981

On The Early History Of Lower Federal Courts, Judges And The Rule Of Law (Review Of Two Titles), Alfred S. Konefsky

Book Reviews

Review of Kermit L. Hall, The Politics of Justice: Lower Federal Judicial Selection and the Second Party System and Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, Federal Courts in the Early Republic: Kentucky 1789-1816.


Constitutional Interpretation, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1981

Constitutional Interpretation, Terrance Sandalow

Articles

"[We] must never forget," Chief Justice Marshall admonished us in a statement pregnant with more than one meaning, "that it is a constitution we are expounding."' Marshall meant that the Constitution should be read as a document "intended to endure for ages.to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."'2 But he meant also that the construction placed upon the document must have regard for its "great outlines" and "important objects."'3 Limits are implied by the very nature of the task. There is not the same freedom in construing the Constitution as in constructing a …


Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tapes 4&5, July 11-12, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler Jul 1975

Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tapes 4&5, July 11-12, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler

Fragile Coalition Interviews

No abstract provided.


Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tapes 2&3, July 11, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler Jul 1975

Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tapes 2&3, July 11, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler

Fragile Coalition Interviews

No abstract provided.


Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tape 1, July 11, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler Jul 1975

Fragile Coalition Interviews - Group - Tape 1, July 11, 1975, M. Caldwell Butler

Fragile Coalition Interviews

No abstract provided.


M. Caldwell Butler Audio Diary - Digest Of Transcripts, July 10,1975, M. Caldwell Butler Jul 1975

M. Caldwell Butler Audio Diary - Digest Of Transcripts, July 10,1975, M. Caldwell Butler

Butler-Woodlief Recordings

No abstract provided.


Fragile Coalition Interviews - Corrected Transcripts - Thornton, M. Caldwell Butler Jan 1975

Fragile Coalition Interviews - Corrected Transcripts - Thornton, M. Caldwell Butler

Fragile Coalition Interviews

No abstract provided.


Fragile Coalition Interviews - Corrected Transcripts - Railsback, M. Caldwell Butler Jan 1975

Fragile Coalition Interviews - Corrected Transcripts - Railsback, M. Caldwell Butler

Fragile Coalition Interviews

No abstract provided.