Article Iii And The Scottish Enlightenment,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Article Iii And The Scottish Enlightenment, James E. Pfander
Faculty Working Papers
Historically-minded scholars and jurists invariably turn to English law and precedents in attempting to recapture the legal world of the framers. Blackstone's famous Commentaries on the Laws of England offers a convenient reference for moderns looking backwards. Yet the generation that framed the Constitution often relied on other sources, including Scottish law and legal institutions. Indeed, the Scottish judicial system provided an important, but overlooked, model for the framing of Article III. Unlike the English system of overlapping jurisdiction, the Scottish judiciary featured a hierarchical, appellate-style judiciary, with one supreme court sitting at the top and an array of inferior …
The Limits Of Legal Realism,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
The Limits Of Legal Realism, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
This article will address some criticisms of legal realism, primarily those of H.L.A. Hart, that have been unanswered in the literature and have appeared to discredit the realist approach to law. The article will also articulate what I believe to be more difficult problems with legal realism.
Legal Uncertainty,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Legal Uncertainty, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
Legal certainty decreases over time. Rules and principles of law become more and more uncertain in content and in application because legal systems are biased in favor of unravelling those rules and principles. In this article I attempt to show what these biases are, and why commentators who have argued that the law tends toward certainty are wrong, then describe various attempts which have been made at restoring certainty, and why these attempts have generally not worked. My conclusion is that these proposals are at best holding actions, and that the tendency toward increasing uncertainty in the law is inexorable.
The "Bad Samaritan" Paradigm,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
The "Bad Samaritan" Paradigm, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
This essay will attempt to show that the disparity between the rule of law and the dictates of morality is itself a product of the paradigmatic way in which the "Bad Samaritan" cases are analyzed. If we examine the cases in an entirely different way, many of the standard problems will dissolve and new alternatives will become apparent. The essay will also show that the "Bad Samaritan" paradigm is part of a larger paradigm linking the law of torts with the criminal law, which also needs to be reexamined. Finally a recommendation for dealing with the "Bad Samaritan" problem legislatively …
Elmer's Rule: A Jurisprudential Dialogue,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Elmer's Rule: A Jurisprudential Dialogue, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
Cardozo wrote of Riggs v. Palmer that this case that two analytical paths pointed in different directions and the judges selected the path that seemed better to lead to "justice". Dworkin has claimed that the case demonstrates the triumph of certain "principles" over what are called "rules of law". Taylor has argued that there was no "law" at all about murderers inheriting from testators before the actual decision in Riggs, and that consequently the decision itself was the only "law" that affected Elmer. All of these suggest that the decision in Riggs was largely unpredictable and therefore must have come …
Judicial Legislation,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Judicial Legislation, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
My argument will be that it is unjust in the broadest view of our legal system for judges to legislate, even if they confine their legislation to the narrowest limits in the closest of cases. To the extent that my argument is successful in diminishing the judicial legislation position, it would tend to serve to corroborate Dworkin's rights thesis.
Is Equality A Totally Empty Idea?,
2010
Northwestern University School of Law
Is Equality A Totally Empty Idea?, Anthony D'Amato
Faculty Working Papers
Comments on Westen article The Empty Idea of Equality. The only way we know what direction to move in making reductions and increases in burdens is to have a concept of equality in mind. The only way we can know that one burden is 'great' and another burden is 'considerably lesser,' to use the words in Westen's standard, is to compare the burdens. But comparison presupposes a measure of equality, for we cannot know that one burden is greater than another unless we first have a concept of when the two burdens are equal. Westen's standard, therefore, is logically posterior …
"The Prejudice Of Caste": The Misreading Of Justice Harlan And The Ascendency Of Anticlassificaiton,
2010
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
"The Prejudice Of Caste": The Misreading Of Justice Harlan And The Ascendency Of Anticlassificaiton, Scott Grinsell
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
This Article reconsiders the familiar reading of Justice Harlan's dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson as standing for the principle of constitutional colorblindness by examining the significance of Harlan's use of the metaphor "caste" in the opinion. By overlooking Harlan's invocation of "caste," it argues that conservative proponents of anticlassification have reclaimed the opinion for "colorblindness," and buried a powerful statement of the antisubordination principle that is at the heart of our equality law. The Article begins by examining the emergence of a reading of the opinion as articulating a view of equality law based in anticlassification. The Article then returns …
Social Justice Feminism,
2010
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Social Justice Feminism, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem, Verna L. Williams
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
For the past three years, women leaders from national groups, grassroots organizations, academia and beyond have gathered to address dissonance in the women's movement, particularly dissatisfaction with the movement's emphasis on women privileged on account of their race, class, or sexuality. At these meetings of the New Women's Movement Initiative (NWMI), advocates who no longer want to do feminism have articulated a desire for social justice feminism. This article analyzes what such a shift might mean for feminist practice and legal theory.
Drawing on history, specifically the work of the women behind the Brandeis brief in the Muller v. Oregon …
"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World,
2010
Western Kentucky University
"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff
History Faculty Publications
"Book abstract: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces …
Watergate, Judge Sirica, And The Rule Of Law,
2010
University of the Pacific
Watergate, Judge Sirica, And The Rule Of Law, Anthony J. Gaughan
McGeorge Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Contradiction: Animal Abuse - Alive And Well, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 209 (2010),
2010
UIC School of Law
The Contradiction: Animal Abuse - Alive And Well, 44 J. Marshall L. Rev. 209 (2010), Katie Galanes
UIC Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ideas, Interests And Institutions And The History Of Canadian Bankruptcy Law 1867-1880,
2010
Western University
Ideas, Interests And Institutions And The History Of Canadian Bankruptcy Law 1867-1880, Thomas G. W. Telfer
Law Publications
Michael Trebilcock's scholarship has long recognized the importance of ideas, interests, and institutions in shaping policy. Taking the same analytical approach that Michael Trebilcock and Ninette Kelley use in their ground-breaking book on the history of Canadian immigration, which focuses on economic interests, contested ideas, and institutions, this article examines the Canadian historical experience to gain an understanding of the ideas, interests, and institutions that have been influential in shaping the evolution of Canadian bankruptcy law. Specifically, the article addresses the rise of Canadian bankruptcy legislation in the early post-Confederation period and its ultimate repeal in 1880. Bankruptcy law represented …
Land Use And Water Supply,
2010
University of New Mexico
Land Use And Water Supply, Susan Kelly, Joanne Hilton
Water Matters!
As New Mexico grows and develops, there is a continuing increase in water demand and the need to provide additional supplies. Recent studies estimate the current population of the State to be about two million people, and the population is expected to grow to approximately 3,400,000 by 2050. Regional water plans project water demands for 16 regions within New Mexico. The total projected new water use associated with population growth—the public water supply and associated commercial sectors, exclusive of agriculture, mining, or other industries—ranges from 280,000 to 380,000 acre-feet per year of new water supply needed in the next 40 …
Philip Hamburger's Law And Judicial Duty: The Origins Of Judicial Review,
2010
University at Buffalo School of Law
Philip Hamburger's Law And Judicial Duty: The Origins Of Judicial Review, Robert J. Steinfeld
Book Reviews
No abstract provided.
Enumerating Old Themes? Berle’S Concept Of Ownership And The Historical Development Of English Company Law In Context,
2010
Seattle University School of Law
Enumerating Old Themes? Berle’S Concept Of Ownership And The Historical Development Of English Company Law In Context, Lorraine E. Talbot
Seattle University Law Review
This paper offers some tentative suggestions as to why Berle’s work has been read and interpreted so selectively in the United Kingdom. I suggest that this must be partly attributable to the historical developments in English company law that entrenched the notion of shareholder ownership claims. Specifically, unincorporated associations’ normative values—that members are owners and there is no distinction between small organizations with no share dispersal and large organizations with wide share dispersal—have a continuing influence on this entrenched notion of shareholder ownership claims. First, I provide an overview of the origins of English company law. Next, I address how …
The Right To Confrontation Compromised: Monolingual Jurists Subjectively Assessing The English-Language Abilities Of Spanish-Dominant Accused,
2010
American University Washington College of Law
The Right To Confrontation Compromised: Monolingual Jurists Subjectively Assessing The English-Language Abilities Of Spanish-Dominant Accused, Lupe S. Salinas, Janelle Martinez
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Shaking Out The Welcome Mat For An Enduring Latcrit Social Movement,
2010
American University Washington College of Law
Shaking Out The Welcome Mat For An Enduring Latcrit Social Movement, Elvia R. Arriola
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Struggling Class: Replacing An Insider White Female Middle Class Dream With Struggling Black Female Reality,
2010
American University Washington College of Law
The Struggling Class: Replacing An Insider White Female Middle Class Dream With Struggling Black Female Reality, Angela Mae Kupenda
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Out Of Many, One People; E Pluribus Unum: An Analysis Of Self-Identity In The Context Of Race, Ethnicity, And Context Of Race,
2010
American University Washington College of Law
Out Of Many, One People; E Pluribus Unum: An Analysis Of Self-Identity In The Context Of Race, Ethnicity, And Context Of Race, Kamille Wolff
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
